Chapter 354 The Witch’s Wine, Dance, and Gifts

At about six o'clock in the evening, the flow of people visiting the shrine began to decrease significantly. Even the part-time shrine maidens who guided the tourists to leave changed their clothes and left.

Half an hour later, the entire shrine was empty.

Kamiyagawa finally saw Onitsuka Kirihotaru.

"Kamigu, have you waited for a long time? Are you hungry?"

The little miko has exquisite makeup today, wearing white clothes and scarlet hakama, wearing white footbags and wooden clogs, and her hair is tied up high. She is smart and mysterious.

It was still some time before the ceremony started, so she put on a white bread suit outside the red and white miko uniform.

In addition, she also held a small sandalwood box in her hand, and she didn't know what was inside.

"It didn't take long. Besides, the cats at your shrine are quite cute, especially the fat orange one you showed me last time named Dango."

"Isn't that right? Tuanzi is very kind and not afraid of animals."

In front of the temple.

However, around seven o'clock, Kamiya received a line from the other party: "Come to the front of the hall, idiot Kamiya."

The familiar girl in the center of the temple was concentrating completely, ignoring all the sounds, things, and people around her. She waved her sleeves and twirled lightly, stepping on graceful, light, free and smooth dance steps, and performed the Tianyu Betrayal solo dance.

According to Onitsuka's actions just now, this small box was meant to be given to him, but he was interrupted by Tomi Nei. In this case, it shouldn't matter if he takes a quick look at it.

"Kamiyagawa! You, stupid, idiot! You don't know how to drink!"

Fifteen golden bells are ringing, and the sonorous sound is endless.

…

There is a giant painted fan there, with a golden flowing crown placed in front of it.

This place is probably used by the believers who donated a lot of money to the shrine and stayed there occasionally.

The ribbons and golden bells danced in the stream of light, drawing silhouettes in everyone's sight, enough to separate the boundaries between light and darkness, life and death, man and god.

Onizuka's movements are more holy and firm, and also more ethereal and distant.

You would be mistaken.

"Onizuka."

In front of the main hall of Juqiong Shrine.

When everything calmed down and Kamiyagawa came to his senses, Onizuka's dance had stopped.

She was probably shy and angry and didn't want to see him.

Kamiyagawa replied to her.

No reply to Line messages.

Standing in the courtyard, Kamiyagawa watched Onizuka's dance steps and felt an inexplicable itch in his heart.

The people watching the ceremony were silent, and they could only hear the splashing of sparks from the burning charcoal fire.

"I put on a baby warmer, but it's still a little cold."

"good."

Individual people holding various musical instruments stood in the corridor of the main hall.

Onizuka's side showed "read" but there was no reply.

The lights inside the main hall are warm and yellow, and two wooden braziers are added outside the corridor, with charcoal fires burning inside.

Watching Onizuka and Tomiyi leave, Kamiya sat down next to the table again.

I just noticed that she was pushing the box forward while talking.

Kamiya was a little curious.

Onizuka led Kamiya to the small table: "That's all we did in the kitchen today."

Onizuka Kiriho's beautiful almond eyes stared at the sake bottle in Kamiya's hand, her pupils shaking. From her angle, she couldn't see whether the cork of the sake bottle had been opened, but she could only see Kamiya holding the bottle and bringing it to her mouth. Nose.

In the corridor of the temple, Onizuka inserted the Kamiko flower hairpin into his hair, and skillfully tied up his long hair with white sandalwood paper.

"Uh...Sorry, I thought this was your New Year's gift to me."

"It's okay. The sacrifice that used the Shenzi wine in the afternoon has ended. Even if you drink it, it will have no impact on the sacrifice." Fu Niyi still smiled, "However, this is the first time I have seen Xiaoying show such an expression.

Come on. Kamiya-kun is really powerful. If it were someone else holding the bottle of wine, Xiaoying would probably just take out the yellow talisman based on Xiaoying's temper."

Moreover, the little miko always seems to be full of energy. Although she occasionally gets a little silly, she has a calm attitude towards everything. This is the first time Kamiya has seen her face flushed.

Onizuka brought Kamiyakawa to a guest room in the back hall.

The moonlight tonight is very bright. It falls in the courtyard and is divided by the shadows of the trees. It sticks to the ground and ripples like water.

Onizuka Kiriho took over the tiara and put it on. The gorgeous clothes set off her delicate and beautiful appearance. Coupled with the serious and solemn expression on her face, her whole temperament seemed to have changed.

The taiko drum sounded three short times.

Tonight's sacrifice for Tianyu at Juqiong Shrine is a top priority and nothing can go wrong.

Therefore, Kamiyagawa also nodded in response.

"Yes, it's the chewing wine that Xiaoying brewed last year. If Kamiya-kun really wants to drink it, for the sake of calling me Fujie, I can tell you quietly where Xiaoying usually goes to pour out the wine.

"

Kamiyagawa casually picked up the white wine bottle, without opening the cork, and directly put the mouth of the bottle to the tip of his nose and sniffed.

The taiko drum sounded.

Onizuka quickly picked up the sake bottle on the table and put it back into the box.

She danced the dance of betrayal in the sky, calm and calm, pure and untainted, standing like a peony and moving like a mountain elixir.

The golden Kagura bell is divided into three rings, from the inner ring to the outer ring, with three, five, and seven bells tied respectively. When the bells ring, the sound they make is like a clear spring hitting a rock, crisp but full, pious and ethereal.

"……No, thanks."

"Hehehe, that is the wine used for the afternoon ceremony. Normally, it would not be drunk by others. Xiaoying probably plans to take it and dispose of it."

But the wine in the small bottle smelled unusual, fragrant and sweet.

Not good.

Kamiyakawa raised his hands to cover his face.

Three spins, six sounds, and nine echoes.

Onizuka's dance continues——

Straightening up, the Kagura bell passed in front of her delicate and solemn face, and the five-color silk satin scattered in an arc shape in the air, and then gathered into Onizuka's left hand again.

"Onizuka, are you... wearing cold clothes like this?"

After Tianyu's Dance of Betrayal, Onizuka Kirihotaru will not need to appear again in tonight's sacrifice.

Onizuka did not come back to have dinner with Kamiya.

When Kamiya came here, some people had already gathered in front of the main hall.

"Onitsuka said she has a New Year's gift for me."

"Onitsuka is going to give me a bottle of wine?"

Is it this thing?

"...That guy takes it very seriously."

On the left side of the Ema, it is written in neat and graceful handwriting: [Congratulations on the New Year]

On the right is a line of small words——

Snap.

A girl's chewing wine?

No wonder Onizuka's reaction was so great...

The largest area of ​​​​Ema cards is hand-painted——

There are two food boxes placed on the table in the room.

Grandma Gu, who is leaning on a blind cane, and Fu Niyi, who looks gentle but is actually sinister, are among them.

Having satisfied his curiosity, Kamiyagawa was about to put the wine bottle back into the box. At this time, the sound of clogs' footsteps suddenly came from the door, and Onitsuka's voice said: "Kamiya, I forgot to take it - eh!?"

The two bonfires outside the corridor burned even more enthusiastically, and the firelight shone on the shrine crown that was placed squarely on Onitsuka's head, flashing with gilded patterns.

The Japanese-style furnishings are elegant and clean, and the lighting is bright.

The crown she just put on is called a shrine crown, which is the last accessory worn by a shrine maiden during her ritual dance. Wearing the shrine crown means that the god's sight has been directed to this place and the ritual dance is about to begin.

Inside was a small plain white sake bottle.

"It turned out to be for sacrificial purposes. I'm really sorry."
To be continued...