Mountain Whisper Hotel was located in Kabukicho 1-chome.
What kind of place was Kabukicho?
Kabukicho had long been known as the "Sleepless City." As for why it never slept... naturally, it was because business here was especially booming at night.
Kabukicho was one of Japan's few large red-light districts, and a place most men found hard to leave.
Here, all it took was a little money to let the dopamine in one's body run wild and enjoy that fleeting moment of pleasure.
In a place like this, Xia Jie felt it was reasonable for a Cursed Spirit born from the resentment of rejected men to appear.
After all, the resentment of virgins could be so intense that even forming a Special-Grade Cursed Spirit would not be inconceivable.
But for an Infant Cursed Spirit to appear here—especially at Mountain Whisper Hotel, one of Kabukicho's finest establishments—made things strange.
Where had the curses behind these Cursed Spirits come from?
Although Infant Cursed Spirits were common, that did not mean they could appear anywhere.
In fact, while Cursed Spirits came in all sorts of bizarre forms, humanoid Cursed Spirits generally had origins that could be traced.
That was why Xia Jie found it strange that an Infant Cursed Spirit had appeared in a red-light district.
Megumi Fushiguro was genuinely surprised to hear Xia Jie's explanation.
He had originally thought that exorcising Cursed Spirits came in three steps.
First, lower the Curtain. Second, find the Cursed Spirit. Third, beat the Cursed Spirit to death.
But after hearing Xia Jie explain it, he realized that exorcising Cursed Spirits could not be resolved through sheer overwhelming strength alone.
"We may need to stay at Mountain Whisper Hotel for the night," Xia Jie said to Megumi Fushiguro.
Megumi Fushiguro had yet to react, but Ijichi, who was