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"uh"

but sanzo terrupted hi, grg at gojyo over the newspaper "no, that was you"

truth be told, tenpou was havg a nice long night until he woke up to a dan nightare he yawned jt as the elderly nkeeper dy walked to their table she siled heartily at all of the and ruffled tenpou's hair as if she were his other or sothg so crazy like that "poor young an" she sypathized after askg the if they enjoyed their al "t have been kept up by the ghosts around this pce"

"ghosts?" the as enough to draw sanzo's attention fro today's paper "is that why you have six bolts on the door?"

the woan nodded gravely "yes, but they don't hurt anybody the bolts are jt to be sure it stays that way"

what an odd vilge this one was "they why don't all of you leave and set up a ho sowhere else?" ired goku, akg a face "i wouldn't want to share a toith a bunch of freaky dead guys"

gojyo waved his cigarette agreent "the saru's got a pot, dy besides, i' sure there are nicer pces than this frozen wastend"

"oh no!" the n keeper "we can't jt do that! if anythg, they scare raiders aould want to ransack a haunted vilge? but ost iportantly, ouldn't want to disrespect the gods no sir"

"the gods?" noas tenpou's turn to sound skeptical "the gods have nothg to do with this pce" the statent was turned to a bleedg pulp with one sharp nt fro a certa priest

"and you know this how?" sanzo turned to hi, raisg a sli brow and shootg a critical gnce

"i don't i only assu their bess is aong theselves and heaven not with huans" which left another loophole for the a siir estion 'and you know this how?' it uld have gone on for days, but sanzo dropped the third degree before it uld get bad

"ch,"