But the moment Rita reached out her hand, the kuda-gitsune hid behind the young man and glared at her fiercely. Though with how fierce they looked, they were not scary at all.
"These little ones won't let anyone touch them, not even a beautiful young lady! Unless she becomes their female host."
Rita did not answer, and the young man did not mind. He simply crouched down with a flippant tone and stared at Rita.
"Were you talking to me?"
Rita withdrew her hand and politely looked up at the young man.
"Of course. Allow me to formally introduce myself. I am Izuna Kinji, inheritor of the Izuna family's spirit guns and spirit beasts, a modern-day demon-exorcist family."
"Izuna Kinji?"
Upon hearing that name, an impression suddenly surfaced in Rita's mind. After thinking carefully for a moment... Rita's eyes widened considerably.
"Ga-Rei, Ga-Rei: Zero..."
With that name and his identity, Rita remembered where she had seen him before. He was a male character from Ga-Rei and Ga-Rei: Zero, Isayama Yomi's fiancé!
But... if this world had also merged with the Ga-Rei storyline, there was no way she would not have known...
This world was far too peaceful. At least, it appeared that way on the surface. Nothing like the massive disasters from the anime's plot had happened at all.
Rita took out her phone and searched Google. Although many supernatural incidents had occurred in this world, none had been exposed to the public; they had even been dismissed as rumors.
Moreover, Rita could not find any trace of the Ministry of the Environment's Nature Conservation Bureau Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office, commonly known as the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division, from Ga-Rei.
However... evil spirits did seem to exist...
For instance, the Sessho-seki she had obtained from that little boy she had