Editing The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village:Bonus4 (section)

===Part 5===

I had no idea if we had safely escaped or if our pursuers were simply letting us go free for the time being, but Hishigami Ama went over some kind of checklist and then sighed in relief.

“Looks like we made it just fine.”

“…Oh, is that so?”

“That means their next step will be to search through anywhere I might try to stay.”

“Where is your home?”

“I don’t have one. And we couldn’t go there even if I did. They’ll be watching your home too, Favorite-kun.”

“Then what about a hotel or inn?”

“They’d find us if they checked the guest register or the security cameras. ‘Arawa who Destroys Birth’ is a cyber war expert, so that monster can break into defense industry production lines and intentionally create countless defective products. Searching out a specific person would be a piece of cake for her.”

“The defense industry…wait a second.”

“I’m serious. She places the power of a Youkai called a Nurikabe into the server she’s using, so you could call her an expert at stopping the flow of information. Instead of infiltrating the target server herself, she cuts off their security and firewall to lock up and neutralize their system. Only the most bizarre of defense systems can even start to defend against it. And government offices are always several steps behind in technology, so they don’t stand a chance.”

“Then what do we do? Internet cafes and the like have cameras and you’d stand out too much if you tried to live in a cardboard box below a bridge.”

I wasn’t going to say that no young women lived on the streets, but it was true that they were an overwhelmingly small percentage of the homeless.

“I have an idea. There’s one place that allows fake names on the guest register, avoids using security cameras due to the nature of the business, and is even reasonably priced.”

“What is it? Where is this convenient place?”

I was dubious such a place existed, but Hishigami Ama replied with a mischievous look in her eyes.

“They’re everywhere, aren’t they? I’m talking about love hotels.”