Fujiko Hoshino and Tetsuya Yozakura came to visit again.
The old priest warmly received them, and a young apprentice witch came to serve tea and desserts in the side room.
"Please use."
Hiranuma Key smiled and asked the little girl to sit down, and introduced with a proud expression: "This is my granddaughter Chiharu Hiranuma. She came to the shrine to help me during the school holidays."
Chiharu Hiranuma was wearing a slim-fitting miko robe, holding a disc with food in her arms. When she was introduced by her grandfather Hiranuma Key, she looked a little shy and kept fiddling with the sleeves of her clothes.
"Hello." Hoshino greeted calmly.
"Ah, hello!" Chiharu Hiranuma secretly looked at the two of them, especially Yozakura Tetsuya.
Needless to say, there is no need to say much about Hoshino Fujiko's appearance. Tetsuya Yozakura comes from a big family and is very handsome. He also has a sharp temperament that attracts people's attention.
Originally, Hiranuma Kan wanted to ask where Aoi Keisuke had been, and he was also very impressed by that young man.
But every time I wanted to speak, my attention would be distracted by what Hoshino said.
Afterwards, he noticed that Hoshino seemed unwilling to talk about it, so he no longer dwelled on the issue.
Hoshino and Tetsuya Yozakura are not talkative people to outsiders. Fortunately, Hiranuma has been a shrine master for decades and has received all kinds of guests, so the scene did not become completely cold.
On the contrary, Chiharu Hiranuma listened for a while, shrank her toes in embarrassment, got up and went to clean the shrine.
Without Aoi Keisuke to communicate on her behalf, Hoshino Fujiko was actually a little tired. She didn't like this kind of communication. After hesitating for a moment, she finally decided to go straight.
"Master Hiranuma, I came here this time to ask you about what happened in Ozawa Village more than 20 years ago."
Without waiting for Hiranuma Ken to refuse, she took out the newspaper Aoi Keisuke had restored from her bag and handed it to the old god.
"Please don't say no, that's why we're here."
"What! Are you...?"
Hiranuma Kan saw the headline of the newspaper and felt a rare gaffe.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be such a retention at all...
Could it be that the power of the gods has faded?
but……
The fate entangled in Daze Mountain is obviously not lacking, right?
Hiranuma Key remained silent.
Hoshino continued to say indifferently: "General Ozawa from Tsuruyu and Kitazawa Oda from the police station are currently missing.
We can be sure that they are not dead yet, but if you choose to continue to conceal it, I am afraid that the probability of their survival will be equal to nothing."
"Ozawa and Kitazawa..."
Hiranuma Kagi's face turned pale, and after a long time he sighed deeply.
"Since you are here specifically for Ozawa Village, you must have realized something."
He stood up, his face hidden behind the sunlight, and his original gentle expression became a bit sinister and ferocious.
"Please wait while I send Qianharu down the mountain first."
"Please."
While waiting, Ye Yingzhe secretly looked at Hoshino, his clear and indifferent eyes looking at the ancient hangings on the wall of the room.
It was a wooden bow and quiver.
Tetsuya Yozakura is the person who knows Hoshino Fujiko best, but even he has never thought that he has truly entered Hoshino's inner world.
As a relative of Hoshino, he always wants to break the extremely deep ice in Hoshino's heart, but even "My Sekiryu", the sharpest sword in the world, cannot fulfill his wish.
——His sister will remain isolated from the world as always.
Until death.
Ye Yingzhe also drank the tea in the tea cup, but still felt his mouth was dry. He stood up and walked to the corridor outside the tea room. He looked up at a few high-flying blackbirds in the sky and felt that there seemed to be a depression in his chest.
, cannot be digested.
Of course Hoshino was aware of all his noisy thoughts, but these words that were closely related to her did not change her expression at all. She just looked back indifferently and took a sip of tea.
Hiranuma Ken left for more than ten minutes, and the whole shrine became eerily quiet.
Ye Yingzhe also walked in from the corridor, his expression suddenly became serious.
"There might be something wrong."
"Go and have a look."
Yezakura Tetsuya nodded, held the handle of the knife and enveloped the entire shrine with an invisible cyclone, and then followed the remaining breath into the side room attentively.
Hoshino stood up and followed Tetsuya Yezakura.
Aoi Keisuke once told her that the Hachiman Shrine in Yuzawa does not have mysterious power, which also means that it has no ability to resist mystery.
Ye Yingzhe frowned. For some reason, he couldn't feel any breath of life.
The tea in the tea room was still warm, and he didn't notice anything unusual. The scene and conversation just now should not be hallucinations.
However, he also did not notice the disappearance of Hiranuma's ancestor and grandson.
This means... the situation is completely beyond his control!
"Sister, I'm afraid it's time for us to leave..."
After confirming that Hiranuma Key and Hiranuma Chiharu had indeed disappeared, they finally stood in front of the main hall of the shrine, where the body of Hachiman is enshrined, which is usually a sword, mirror or jade modeled after the three sacred artifacts.
Sweat rolled down Yezakura Tetsuya's cheeks, and the sharp blade was already half an inch out of its sheath. In the cold light, there was still a permeating coldness.
This time, he still couldn't seem to find the target.
At his signal, the two of them slowly retreated towards the outside of the shrine.
At this time, a sharp explosion suddenly sounded in the deepest part of the main hall, and majestic spirituality burst out from the divine body.
"careful!"
Ye Yingzhe's expression suddenly changed, and he slashed with his sword without hesitation.
Spirituality merged into his sword power, turning into an extremely sharp white light, which cut into the body of the god of Hachiman Shrine in the blink of an eye.
The thatched house-style main hall exploded instantly during the collision of two forces, and a bright light suddenly lit up from the altar, taking away all the sight of Fujiko Hoshino and Tetsuya Yozakura.
Hoshino suddenly heard the sound of countless swords clashing. Tetsuya Yezakura's breathing in front of her suddenly changed from gentle to heavy. A strong wind swept past her, but it was all cut off by a long knife.
"Sister...it's Shenyin, leave quickly!"
As soon as Tetsuya Yezakura finished speaking, the light above the altar bloomed again. Even if both of them closed their eyes, they were still stung by the light and shed tears.
"Buzz——"
Amidst the loud noise, Hoshino almost fainted in the ocean of spirituality. She bent over in pain, her cheeks turned unhealthy red, she covered her mouth and coughed in pain.
"boom!"
At this moment, the bracelet she kept in her bag suddenly sprouted tender green branches.
The green leaves on the branches withered silently in the light, and together with the three attached beads, they all withered, turning into a green aura that blended into her body, then merged into the earth and spread out.
All the dazzling lights and loud noises stopped abruptly at this moment.
"Please listen to me..."
Hoshino was sitting on her knees on the stone pavement in front of the main hall. Beside her legs, there were vibrant green grass growing out of the cracks in the stone.
She gasped violently, and hurriedly stretched out a hand to reach forward, because——
Tetsuya Yezakura's voice disappeared.
Together with the clanging screams of all the swords and the exploding debris of the house, all the sounds were lost.
The whole world is left with a single sound like tinnitus.
"Tetsuya……?"
Hoshino raised his head in a daze.
She saw lush vegetation covering the entire Hachiman Shrine, green vines climbing all over the roof, flowers and plants clustering in the open space, covering all the stone paths and courtyards, and light green light spots filling the air.