Because it is late spring, the weather today is quite comfortable.
Sitting on the second floor of a western restaurant, you can see people coming and going on the street through the large floor-to-ceiling windows.
Kamiya and Onizuka have almost finished their lunch.
The little miko put down the knife and fork in her hand: "By the way, Kamiya. I heard that you are looking for a teacher of Xiangdao for Luyeya?"
"Um."
Kamiya nodded and asked, Onizuka, did you really just "hear" it? I feel like you heard it very specifically...
"Why Xiangdao?"
"Because I feel that she is more suitable...well, actually, she has a prop in her hand that is suitable for the use of Xiang Dao spells."
After the battle at Jixiangsu, the [Shōtoku Royal Incense Burner] was picked up by Kamiya. There was no response from the countermeasures room for such a "little thing". They probably didn't know about it. Maybe someone knew about it but acquiesced.
"So have you found the right teacher?"
"not yet."
Xiaolu’s second teacher, Kamiyagawa, had been actively looking for him before, but he really hadn’t found a suitable candidate yet.
During last year's Battle of Wakayama and the operation against Yumeo, many official spiritual exterminators owed him favors. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Kamiya had saved the lives of those people.
If any of those spirit exterminators are proficient in the art of incense, it would be a matter of course for them to be directly entrusted with teaching Xiaolu.
Unfortunately, there are not many official exorcists who study the Xiang Dao sect, and those who have friendship with Kamiya don't know how to do this.
After asking back and forth before, I did know a few people who knew the incense magic, but Kamiyakawa didn't know those people, or their activity range was too far from Tokyo. Kamiyakawa is still waiting for the help of the spiritual master who owes him a favor.
Make connections with the right people.
"That's it." Onizuka said thoughtfully, "I know someone who practices incense magic. She is my friend. She is in Tokyo, so she might be a good match."
"Your friend?"
"What kind of look are you looking at?" Kamiya's slightly surprised look made Onizuka a little dissatisfied, "I have friends too!"
"Ah, sorry, I never heard you mention it."
"That's because you didn't ask me at all, right? And you didn't take the initiative to tell me about your apprentice?"
"seems like it……"
Onizuka shook his head and got back to the topic: "Unju Haruka, the descendant of Soami-ryu. Haruka-san is Kari-san's friend and she often comes to Juqiong Shrine to play, so I have a very good relationship with her."
The Huali sister in her mouth means rich?
He is also an acquaintance of Kamiya, the somewhat shady Mi Yi from Juqiong Shrine. During the previous operation against Meng Nan, he established a pretty good relationship with the elder sister Mi Yi.
But this is the first time I know someone’s full name.
The so-called "Sōami-ryu" is a school of incense. According to historical records, the founder of this school, Soami, was the court master of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate in the Chrysanthemum Dynasty of Japan.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa was quite a failure in politics, but he made a great contribution to the cultural development of Japan's Muromachi period. Ashikaga Yoshimasa was fond of art and fashion, and often protected artists and cultural figures. Soami was one of his most artistically accomplished men.
Outstanding.
However, history books only mention Ashikaga Yoshimasa's court master Soami, who was proficient in painting and calligraphy, calligraphy and painting appraisal, interior decoration, garden design, and incense ceremony. They do not mention that Soami was also a magic practitioner.
The Ami-ryu incense method he founded is a school of incense that involves extraordinary power. After the completion and iteration of later generations of inheritors, it has become a unique folk magic school with a relatively complete system.
And unlike the evil incense method of the Jixiangsu Inuzhu family, Soami-ryu followed an elegant and righteous path.
From this perspective, it is more suitable for Xiaolu to learn.
In addition, according to the secular view, Xiangami Liuxiang Dao has been "lost".
But in fact, there is no such thing. This type of incense path involving extraordinary power, including the other "Kenbe Ryu incense path" and "Fuhaaya incense path", has actually been passed down in the spirit slayer system, but it is not open to ordinary people.
Kamiya: "Unju Haruka, Soami Ryu. I seemed to have heard of this name when I was looking for candidates before. It is said that the research on the magic of Kodo is very in-depth. However, I heard from people in the countermeasures room that her relationship with the countermeasures room is not
Very close.”
Onitsuka: "Well, Haruka-san is a kind of foreign aid, a bit like you? Strictly speaking, she is not completely affiliated with the countermeasures room, and she usually moves relatively freely."
"Can you help me contact her?"
"Isn't that why I'm telling you this? However, I can't guarantee whether Sister Haruka is willing to help you teach your disciples."
The little miko was still very kind. After learning about the physical constitution of Kanoya's spiritual fetus, she took the initiative to recommend a suitable teacher of incense magic.
Of course, she may have other considerations in doing so.
For example, if Haruka Kumo, who has a very good relationship with her, can get in touch with Kanoya, then Onizuka can indirectly understand the nature of Kamiyagawa's young apprentice.
Sure enough, I still feel uneasy.
"What if it's a strange child, even if it's accompanied by Kaitan's parents, it wouldn't be right to live with Achuan." This is what Onizuka thought.
The little miko made a phone call in front of Kamiya. Looking at the way she was chatting with the other end of the phone, both her tone and demeanor were quite relaxed.
There's probably some drama.
Seven or eight minutes later, Onizuka hung up the phone and smiled at Kamiyagawa: "Sister Haruka said she can meet us this Saturday."
…
Life at Kamiya University is surprisingly easy.
There are only two classes in total for the Youkai Studies major, and the number of students is not too large. Most of the time, the classes are held in small classes, but the course schedule occasionally includes large classes with other humanities subjects.
And I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but Kamiya himself has very few classes, only a dozen classes a week, which is almost half of other people’s classes.
Even compared with his classmates in the same major, he was exempt from taking some courses.
In comparison, the courses at Onizuka are much more arduous.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But I heard that Onizuka seems to have the privilege of taking frequent vacations?
Kamiya didn't know exactly how it was done, but it seemed that as long as the little miko passed the final exam, there wouldn't be any problems.
Anyway, for these two outstanding young exorcists, it is a good thing to be able to arrange their time more freely.
As for Kamiya’s study of monsters, it is quite interesting to him personally and is a professional counterpart.
The discussion of "yokai" in Japanese secular academic circles has long ceased to be obsessed with such questions as "Do they really exist?" and "Is it superstitious?"
Instead, through different methodologies, such as history, philology, folklore, sociology, psychology, classical literature, etc., we try to answer the question of "how do monsters, ghosts, and strange phenomena occur?"
The main studies in the department are centered around these, and are applicable to many professional directions such as animation, design, folk literature, and Japanese cultural studies.
After experiencing it for the first time in a few classes, Kamiya was quite impressed.
From the perspective of not considering the extraordinary power of this world, people like Yanagida Kunio, who was the first to study monsters, and Irish-born Koizumi Yakumo, are still very powerful.
These early Japanese folklorists forcibly brought the folk monster culture that was originally difficult to enter into the academic hall, combined with the scholarship of Western mythology, into the academic hall.
These scholars have played an important role in promoting Japan's monster culture to flourish, penetrate into all aspects of the cultural field, and become an actual source of income.
"However, the wider the influence of the spread, the faster the ghost stories are generated... It is no wonder that relatively tolerant means are now being used to make the image of monsters harmless on the cultural side."
As for Kamiyagawa himself, he has a very deep understanding of monsters. After all, he has done countless ghost removals in the inner and outer worlds, and he usually reads various related books.
But it is still of great benefit to him to receive relevant learning in such a systematic way.
Especially the folk customs related to various religions and monsters in various parts of Japan. He couldn't get a comprehensive understanding of these knowledge points just by reading books and reading the information in the countermeasures room.
Dongdali's courses are a good way to expand his theoretical knowledge.
It's no wonder that the Countermeasures Room uses its own power to contact various universities and send young spiritual masters to university institutions for further study in the form of "special recruitment".
…
Unconsciously, the time arrived on Friday, which was the day before the scheduled meeting with Yunju Haruka, the successor of Soami Xiangdao.
At noon that day, Kamiya had just finished a class on "Lectures on Monsters" at the Hongo campus when he received a call from Onizuka.
On the phone, the little miko said that something seemed to be wrong with Yunju Haruka.
But they couldn't explain each other in a few words, so the two made an appointment to meet in front of the school's Yasuda lecture hall.
After the two met, the little miko's first words were: "Agawa, do you have any classes this afternoon? Do you want to go to Saitama County to meet Sister Haruka together?"
"I don't have any classes, but don't you have a lot of classes?"
"It's okay with me. You can ask for leave."
"Well... we didn't originally agree to meet tomorrow. What happened to Miss Yunju?"
"Sister Haruka is fine, but she will stay in Saitama County for the past two days." Onizuka shook his head, "Actually, it's her boyfriend who is in some condition. I don't know how to explain it specifically. I feel that Sister Haruka needs
Let’s talk about my help on the way to Saitama?”
The time now is 12 o'clock at noon. We set off from Bunkyo District, where the Hongo campus is located, to Saitama Prefecture. If we take the train, we will arrive at about one o'clock in the afternoon.
However, Kamiya is accustomed to using ghost cars to travel, which of course saves time and effort.
There are currently two vehicles at home.
Oishi has been driving the ghost Mazda as a full-time driver for Kamiya, but sister Ohara, who controls the ghost motorcycle, has been basically arranged to follow Kanoya recently.
It was like fulfilling that girl’s little wish of having a ghost car to ride in when going to and from school.
On the ghost car, Onizuka briefly told Kamiya about the situation at Yunju Haruka's side——
It was said that Miss Yunju had just made a boyfriend a month ago, and his name was Takashi Takiguchi.
In the past two days, Miss Yunju has been staying in Saitama because she accompanied Mr. Takiguchi to attend the funeral.
The person who passed away was Takiguchi’s grandmother.
"Sister Haruka's identity as a spiritual exterminator is relatively secretive. Although she has registered with the countermeasures room, she rarely goes to help the countermeasures room. She runs an incense gym in the Minato District of Tokyo, and usually sells incense.
Give lessons to ordinary people, teach common incense knowledge and so on. Mr. Takiguchi was originally a guest of Sister Haruka, and we only met him probably in January this year."
"Mr. Takiguchi is usually normal. How should I put it? He is not very thin, and he even exercises regularly, but he seems to be a little sick. Sister Haruka always seems to be able to smell some bad smell on him."
"Sister Haruka didn't pay too much attention to this at first. After all, she was just an ordinary customer, so she just reminded Mr. Takiguchi to go to shrines and temples to pray for blessings. But after the two of them got together, they inevitably began to pay attention to this, so they tried to find Takiguchi.
The source of that worrying smell on Mr. Kuchi’s body.”
"I had no idea at first. But it seems that after I went to Saitama's countryside yesterday, the smell on Mr. Takiguchi's body suddenly became stronger. It was much stronger than usual, and even contained the smell of death, which made Sister Haruka
It feels very bad.”
"I happened to contact Sister Haruka two days ago, and she asked me to go to Saitama's place today."
The little miko told all the information related to Yunju Haruka.
After hearing this, Kamiya didn't express much opinion. What kind of strange thing happened to Mr. Takiguchi? He still had to wait until he went to Saitama and saw it with his own eyes before he could draw a conclusion.
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According to Yunju Qingxiangfa's navigation position, Oishi Junma drove the car to the vicinity of Shenquan Village in Saitama.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In a quiet and deserted place, Kamiya and Onizuka got off the car and walked to their destination.
Because the Takiguchi family was having a funeral, it wasn't too difficult to find. It was a self-built house in a rural area with a fairly large area and its own courtyard.
Kamiya and Onitsuka saw Haruka Kumoi waiting at the door.
Miss Yunju is probably in her mid-twenties.
She has an oval face and delicate and beautiful features. Because she was attending a funeral, her long, permed red hair was neatly tied up, and her clothes were all dark and simple.
But maybe because she is a perfumer of the elegant school of fragrance, she has an elegant and noble mature temperament, and she also has a slightly lazy feeling.
The first impression I give you is that of a beautiful big sister who seems to be able to face any situation with ease.
"Sister Haruka, I'm here."
"Hello, Miss Yunju. This is the first time we meet. My name is Kamiyakawa."
Onitsuka and Kamiya each greeted their sister.
"Gui'an."
Yunju Qingxiang smiled and nodded. Her voice was low and soft. After saying hello, she turned her attention to Kamiya and looked at it with interest for a while:
"Xiaoying, is this the little boyfriend you often talk about? He's such a talented person."
"I never told Achuan about my boyfriend, right?"
The little miko said this, and at the same time, she raised her hand and grabbed Kamiya's wrist, gently pulling him back and behind her.
Yunju Qingxiang still smiled: "Aren't you starting to protect your food? Xiaoying is so cute."
"Sister Haruka, please stop teasing me." After all, the girl does not have the sense of calmness that a big sister does. Onizuka's face turned red from being teased, but he could only protest in a low voice, "I'm here to help you, really.