"Is it my delusion?" Qin Heqing pulled out the arm that was being held, sat up from the pile of women, and muttered with some confusion on his face.

"What's wrong?" The bell girl, who was awakened because of Qin Heqing's actions, rubbed her eyes and sat up and asked.

This was followed by Zhu Juan, Yang Yan, and Kato Duanzo, followed by generals such as Aya Nagao (Ayago Gozen), Hojo Sakumo, and Yoshihime Mogami, as well as powerful warriors such as Tsumiko Poison Island.

"I seem to feel the presence of the criminal department." Qin Heqing stood up, walked to the door of the big house and stood still, looking at the sky, that is, the empty position that he had specially opened up to link external signals, so that the computers in the world in the pot could access the Internet and the TV could receive program signals, and said softly.

"Punishment Department Ji? How could you possibly feel her presence. There was no taboo because of Qin Heqing's appearance, and Yue'er who appeared directly was surprised.

You must know that the criminal department Ji Ke is the patron saint of Himeji Castle, one of the Shikami that Qin Heqing contracted in the Warring States time and space, and he is the only Shikigami who did not return from the Warring States with Qin Heqing, so as long as Qin Heqing has a problem with his brain, then under normal circumstances, it is impossible for him to feel the signal of Shikigami living in another time and space across one time and space.

Unless......

"Who is the criminal department?" Poison Island Tsuneko wondered.

"It's Saga Temple." As the original lord of Himeji Castle, Kuroda Kanbei, a good friend of the criminal department, opened his mouth to explain.

"So?" Poison Island asked with some hesitation.

"Maybe I'm wrong." Qin Heqing, who also knew that this kind of thing was unlikely, smiled bitterly.

"Maybe it's not your delusion." The words fell, and when he came out of the other room, Kikyo who did not participate in Qin Heqing's fooling around activities, said with a calm expression.

"What do you mean?" Tsuiko, who also ran out of the big house at the last moment and went back to her small room all night, came out of the house and asked.

"Just now, I also felt an aura of strong blood kinship with me, and the signal of something entangled, so even if that conclusion is impossible at all, I can't deny the possibility that it may become a fact." Kikyo said softly.

"Shhh...... Even you feel it. Qin Heqing said in astonishment.

If it were someone else, it would be okay, but if it was replaced by a bellflower, this witch with a special identity, Qin Heqing really had to pay attention to it, and even verify it.

"Kagura, what about you, do you have any strange feelings?" Qin Heqing turned his head and looked at Kagura in the room and asked.

"Nope." Kagura felt it carefully and shook her head.

“…… Forget it, it's useless to think too much here, but it's better to go to Himeji and take a look at everything and understand everything. After a moment of silence, Qin Heqing decisively pushed the doorpost and stood up straight.

Then he turned and went into the house, found his clothes and put them on.

……

The next moment, Qin Heqing, Kuroda Kanbei, and Poison Island Tsuneko appeared in the apartment rented by Qin Heqing.

Then, without hesitation, I purchased three tickets for the nearest bus bound for Himeji, the city express in the former Harima area southwest of present-day Hyogo Prefecture, and rushed to the train station, got on the passing train, and rushed to the old Himeji Castle.

And it didn't take very long, only an hour, Qin and Qing arrived at the Himeji place, got out of the car, and rushed towards the main body of Himeji Castle, that is, the place where the criminal department Ji usually would be - the castle tower.

"It seems that the previous feeling was not an illusion, I really felt the signal of the existence of the criminal department. It's just that the relationship may have been too far away at the time, so it wasn't very clear or particularly obvious, so I thought I was feeling wrong. On the way to Himeji Castle, as the distance narrowed, Qin Heqing, who felt the connection between Shikijin and his lord more and more clearly, exhaled lightly and whispered a little.

"But...... How is this possible?! Obviously Saga Minister's Hall ......" Kuroda Kanbei asked rhetorically with an incredible face when he heard this.

She is not a novice in yin-yang arts, not only is she not a novice, but she is also a messy yin-yang master who is far superior to the current cultivators of all families and veins in terms of inheritance, and her strength is also high, she understands how terrible and thick the gap between the worlds is, anyway, if she is in the position of the criminal department, she can't do this kind of ability to communicate across the world.

Even if, the criminal department Ji is a god in a sense......

"Then I don't know. Maybe there's something else. Qin Heqing shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

At least he didn't have the three artifacts like the Eastern Emperor Bell, the Pangu Axe and the Kunlun Mirror, and he didn't have the ability to shuttle and transmit signals across the world.

……

After walking for a while, the group of three people came to Himeji Castle smoothly-

It's just that at this time, Himeji Castle was no longer the Himeji Castle that Qin Kazuqing and Kuroda Kanbei saw back then, but Himeji Castle, which was expanded by later rulers and is now rated as a world cultural heritage.

"What should I do?" Kuroda Kanbei asked.

"Use a spell, dive in." Qin Heqing did not hesitate and immediately decided.

Then the three of them didn't hesitate, and they turned on polarizing spells similar to idlers to dispel enchantments, and turned into invisible people in the eyes of others, Megumi Kato, and entered Himeji Castle through the gate, and walked towards the real core of the White Castle, the old Himeji Castle......

After a while, the three of them, who didn't alarm anyone, arrived at the old Himeji Castle, and then turned around three times and two times, and came to the top floor of the castle tower where the criminal department Ji used to be.

"You help me keep watch."

He sat down on his knees with Qin Heqing, and concentrated all his energy on communicating with the contract signal from the Ministry of Punishment......

……

"Huh? Where is this? I don't know how long later, in an inexplicable space like cosmic chaos, the somewhat startled and soft voice of the criminal department Ji suddenly sounded in the void.

"Why am I here?"

"Don't you know?" Then, Qin Heqing's voice sounded and entered the ears of Ji of the Criminal Department.

"Huh!? This voice is, and Qingjun?! Ji of the Criminal Department was stunned, turned his body violently, and looked in the direction where the voice came from-

Sure enough, the next moment, I saw the void there flash, and Qin Heqing's familiar figure suddenly appeared in the universe, exuding a faint light and floating towards her.

"Haven't you already returned to the afterlife, how did you end up here? Or is this the so-called afterlife? The criminal department Ji observed Qin Heqing for a while, and then looked at the surrounding environment and said incredulously.