Chapter 117 Umekawa Makoto
"Makoto? What's wrong?" Nozaki looked at his exorcist partner and ex-girlfriend Makoto Umekawa.

She was dressed in a punk style, with short golden-pink hair and thick eye shadow. Her hands were lazily stuffed in the pockets of her ultra-short jeans, and her eyes were staring straight at the apartment in front of her.

Seeing that Makoto didn't reply, Nozaki rubbed his hair a little embarrassedly. At this time, Makoto spoke:
"There is a vengeful spirit in this apartment. It's a very powerful one."

Nozaki's expression changed. "Three days ago, the last signal sent by Monk Shinji and Ochiaisuke was in this apartment."

"Let's go! I can't deal with this vengeful spirit." Makoto said, turned around and left the apartment without looking back.

Nozaki stood there in a daze. He didn't expect Makoto to give up. This was the first time in the two years they had known each other that he saw Makoto retreat because of a vengeful spirit.

He quickly chased after him, stopped Makoto and asked in confusion: "Makoto, what happened to you today? What happened?!"

Makoto looked up at Nozaki with a cold face without saying a word. Nozaki also fell silent, stopped stopping Makoto, and stepped aside.

"Excuse me, both of you." A gentle voice came from the side.

Nozaki turned his head and saw a quiet-looking girl with long tied hair wearing a sports suit standing beside them, looking at them with a smile.

"Who are you?" Makoto felt the spiritual power of the girl and looked at her in confusion. She had seen famous exorcists in the spiritual world, and the spiritual power fluctuations of this girl could not be from an unknown person, but she had never seen this girl before.

Miyue looked at Makoto with a smile and said, "My name is Zheng Meiyue. If you two are here because of a monk, you should know me, right?"

Nozaki thought for a moment, frowned, looked at Makoto and said, "In addition to accepting the mission of the slit-mouthed woman, the monk Zhencheng also accepted another mission."

"We are investigating a man who can attract all women. The investigation team believes that he uses evil magic or is cursed. If she is correct, she should be the adopted daughter of that man. More than a month ago, this woman was still studying in Kamakura."

Mitsuki also looked at Makoto and nodded seriously: "He is right, my father is indeed cursed, and the monk who came to investigate three days ago was unable to remove the curse on my father."

"Makoto... Makoto" Nozaki called out twice before Makoto came back to his senses. He looked at Mitsuki in confusion, said "oh", missed Mitsuki and left.

Mitsuki pointed at Makoto and looked at Nozaki in confusion: "What's wrong with her? Is she sick?"

Nozaki shook his head and said to Mitsuki, "Monk Zhencheng can't remove your father's curse?"

Miyue nodded: "Yes, then the man who came with the monk received a phone call, and they left together and have not been here since. Oh, by the way, before he left, the monk said he would come back to visit in a few days."

"I understand. We are colleagues of Monk Zhencheng. Monk Zhencheng has unfortunately met with misfortune. As for your father's curse, we will visit you again. Well, we'll say goodbye first." After Nozaki said to Mizuki, he trotted in the direction where Makoto left.

Mitsuki stood there and watched the two people leave, then turned around and looked at the entire apartment in confusion. Just now, she saw Makoto's expression changed immediately after seeing this apartment, and he was still in a trance even when she approached him to talk.

Shaking her head in confusion, Mitsuki quickly entered the apartment and saw her father when she entered the house: "Dad, I'm back!"

Zheng Wenjie responded: "How do you feel today?"

Miyue poured herself a glass of water and drank it all before lying on the sofa and looking at Zheng Wenjie: "I feel much better today. My body doesn't hurt that much anymore."

Zheng Wenjie nodded and continued in a somewhat long-winded manner: "Exercise more. Although your body is not weak, it cannot withstand such a strong spiritual power. I have already controlled most of the spiritual power. Slowly, after your body adapts to the spiritual power, you will be able to control the spiritual power in your body."

Zheng Wenjie has said similar things many times in the past two days, but Meiyue still enjoys Zheng Wenjie's concern and nodded happily: "I know, father. Oh, by the way, I met two people when I came back from running."

"I heard them talking about the monk, but I could sense that one of the women also had spiritual power. The strange thing is that after she saw the apartment, she became a little abnormal."

"Hmm?" Zheng Wenjie looked at Meiyue: "Is her spiritual power strong?"

"Not strong, about the same as the spiritual power I can control now." Miyue shook her head.

Zheng Wenjie was a little curious. Logically speaking, it was impossible for him to discover the evil spirits in this apartment with this level of spiritual power. "What did the exorcist say?"

"No, that exorcist, whom I heard her companions call Makoto, has been in a daze since she saw the apartment. Her colleagues are pretty normal."

Miyue sat up, did a stretching motion and continued, "By the way, father, her colleague and I said that we had seen the monk, and I also said that you were cursed."

"You're right, this is probably really a curse." Zheng Wenjie said with a smile.

Meiyue came closer to Zheng Wenjie with a curious look on her face: "Father, was what you said that day true? Did you really see the dragon and drink its blood?"

"Then do you think I would lie to two ordinary people?" Zheng Wenjie slapped away Meiyue's hand that was touching his arm: "Okay, after the exercise, go study. When you can communicate with me normally in Chinese, I will go out with you."

Miyue nodded and said "Oh", then went to the bathroom to take a shower before going back to her room, where she opened a thick Chinese dictionary and started studying.

Zheng Wenjie stood up and went to the balcony. Under normal circumstances, Zheng Wenjie would block his five senses to the level of ordinary people, so he did not notice that there was an exorcist who had visited this apartment just now.

According to Mitsuki, the exorcist named Makoto discovered the evil spirit in this apartment and was frightened. Zheng Wenjie smiled and sensed the evil-attracting talisman that Hideki's family upstairs had just put up at home.

This demon-attracting talisman has nothing to do with Zheng Wenjie, it was put there by Hideki himself. But this demon-attracting talisman also has nothing to do with Hideki, it was an exorcism talisman given to Hideki by Tsuda, Hideki's good friend who also cheated on Hideki's wife Kana.

Zheng Wenjie also admired Xiushu's broad-mindedness. He dared to believe and accept the adulterer's words and the things he gave him. He even misunderstood the demon-attracting talisman as an exorcism talisman and posted it on the eaves of the entrance hall so openly.

Zheng Wenjie also understood a little bit. Hideki was also scared and thought that the vengeful spirit had really come... But Zheng Wenjie, who had been watching their family, knew that although the vengeful spirit had been attached to their daughter Saori, it had not harmed them.

This vengeful spirit was actually attracted to Saori. Because it sensed Saori's loneliness and sadness, it attached itself to Saori and has been playing with Saori in her dreams.

Although this vengeful spirit did not have complete intelligence, it still had basic emotions. Because it sensed Saori's mood and the attitudes of Hideki and Kana, it used its resentment to slightly intimidate Hideki, but it only gave him a nightmare.

The scene that really frightened Hideki was not caused by the evil spirit, but by his wife Kana.

Two days ago, Saori was still having a fever. Kana not only had to do the housework but also had to cook and take care of Saori. However, Hideki, who was clearly taking a break and not going to work, didn't care at all about the busy Kana and Saori who was sick with a fever.

This made Kana emotionally broken, and she angrily questioned Hideki whether he was still a father, taking good care of his family in front of outsiders, but actually not caring about his family. Facing the collapsed Kana and the feverish Saori, Hideki just mocked: "I've already married you, what else are you dissatisfied with? I support you, and you just gave birth to a child for me, what's so great about that? People who were raised by that kind of trashy alcoholic mother, do you know what family is? If you do, then you won't cheat!"

Zheng Wenjie felt sorry for Chanel after listening to this. To be honest, the current situation of the family was actually caused by Hideki. He blamed Chanel for cheating, but in fact, he was the one who ignored the family, was irresponsible, and cheated on his wife.

And just yesterday, when Hideki went to work and Kana was alone at home taking care of Saori who had a fever, she really broke down. She couldn't stand Saori's crying, so she also cried and cut off all the amulets, smashed all the furniture, thinking to herself that let the devil in Hideki's dream take him away.

After socializing with colleagues at a pub, I returned home and saw the mess in the house. I saw Kanae huddled in a corner holding Saori and crying without saying a word. I thought the vengeful spirit in my dream had really come.

In fear, he looked everywhere for a lifeline and just put the demon-attracting talisman given by Tsuda, the adulterer of his wife Chana, on it. However, this action really aroused the anger of the vengeful spirit.

Zheng Wenjie could see that the moment Xiushu put on the demon-attracting talisman, the resentment had already truly entangled him.

...

"Makoto! What happened! What happened to you today?" Nozaki stopped Makoto and asked worriedly.

Makoto squatted down and covered her forehead, thinking back to her childhood. She was born into an exorcist family, and all the women in the family were born with the ability to control spiritual power.

She also has an older sister, Kotoko Umekawa, who is now Japan's number one exorcist. They are twins, and compared to her sister's natural powerful spiritual power, Makoto is very weak.

This also resulted in her childhood being overshadowed by her sister Kotoko. Her parents and elders only had eyes for her sister and not her. When her sister was sent away to practice, she was left alone to experience a lonely childhood. The loneliness and sadness attracted a friend to her.

I accompanied her through her childhood. The happiest time for her during that period was dreaming. In her dreams, she had friends and they could play and play games together.

It was not until her sister Kotoko finished her studies and returned home to accompany and take care of her that Makoto felt her sister's love for her. From then on, Makoto never felt the friend she had attracted again.

But today, in that apartment, she felt the familiar feeling again. It was the vengeful spirit Po-ling.

"Makoto..." Nozaki squatted down worriedly and wanted to reach out to touch Makoto, but he took his hand back as soon as he reached out.

"I'm fine." Makoto whispered, then raised his head and looked at Nozaki: "The target of the mission is the slit-mouthed woman, let's go."

Nozaki sighed inwardly and said, "You're not in the right state today. Let's go home first."

Makoto stood up and shook his head coolly: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me."

"However, I'm afraid that the Slit-Mouthed Woman will need help from others. I can only deal with vengeful spirits and ghosts, but the Slit-Mouthed Woman has a human body."

Nozaki touched the gun on his waist and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Makoto: "My sister said that ordinary guns are like fire sticks in the spirit world and have no effect at all."

"But now that Monk Shinji and Ochiaisuke are missing, I'm afraid there won't be many police forces that can help us. What's more... it's not a good idea to let ordinary people get involved."

Makoto suddenly asked, "Who is this girl we just met?"

Nozaki didn't say anything unnecessary and directly told Makoto the information of Mitsuki and Zheng Wenjie.

"That girl has very powerful spiritual power, no weaker than Monk Zhencheng. Let's go and ask her for help. I have never heard of such a powerful exorcist. Let's go and get to know her." After Makoto said this, he turned around and took a step with his long white legs.

...

"You and Saori should have a good rest. I'm going to meet a friend who will definitely be able to help us." Hideki said to Kana as if to encourage himself, then turned and left home, leaving Kana, who seemed to be lost, and Saori standing in the corner.

"Please wait a moment!" Makoto called out to Hideki who had missed them, and looked at him with a frown. She could sense the resentment that the Pokmon had towards Hideki.

An anxious Hideki held the handrail and looked up at Makoto and Nozaki, who looked sad and worried, standing in the middle of the stairs. "What's the matter?"

Makoto looked at the resentment entangled in Hideki with some nostalgia and said, "You have a child at home, right? Go spend more time with the child if you have time."

Hideki, who was already anxious, suddenly flew into a rage when he heard this: "Baga, what does it have to do with you? Who are you? Bastards, get out!"

Seeing Nozaki frowning and standing in front of Makoto, Hideki suppressed his anger and trotted down the stairs.

"Makoto?" Nozaki looked at Makoto.

Makoto sighed, "There is resentment surrounding him, and there are also resentful spirits in his home, very powerful ones."

Without waiting for Nozaki to ask more questions, Makoto turned around and continued walking upstairs. When she arrived at Zheng Wenjie's house and was about to ring the doorbell, the door opened from the inside with a click.

"Hello." Zheng Wenjie opened the door and looked at Makoto and Nozaki, who were dressed as bad girls outside.

Seeing that Makoto didn't say anything and just stared at Zheng Wenjie blankly, Nozaki felt a little uncomfortable and coughed: "I'm sorry for disturbing you by visiting me."

"Please come in." Zheng Wenjie smiled and motioned them to come in.

"Excuse me." Makoto finally came to his senses and walked into the entrance to change his shoes. He looked at Zheng Wenjie from time to time: "This curse is really powerful, but it's not a curse, it should be a blessing from God for you men."

Mitsuki, who heard the noise, followed him out of the room, stepped forward and took Zheng Wenjie's arm, looking at Makoto as if declaring ownership: "Hi, we meet again."

After asking them to sit down, Zheng Wenjie asked, "What's the matter?"

Somewhat unaccustomed to Zheng Wenjie's direct approach without the usual red tape when visiting Japanese people, Nozaki still said directly:
"We are here to seek help. We hope you can help us solve a supernatural incident."

Makoto withdrew his gaze from Zheng Wenjie and looked at Mitsuki: "I can feel the spiritual power in you, which is much stronger than mine. My name is Umekawa Makoto, and I hope you can help me deal with the slit-mouthed woman."

Meiyue held Zheng Wenjie's arm without letting go, and looked at Makoto with a smile: "My name is Zheng Meiyue, you can just call me Meiyue. I can also sense the spiritual power in you, but why should I help you?"

(End of this chapter)