When she mentioned the matter of helping, Yunju Qingxiang's expression turned serious.
Her boyfriend's matter really gave her a headache.
"Thank you for coming, Xiaoying."
"Yeah, that's pretty much it." Onizuka breathed a sigh of relief, "Also, Achuan is also here to help. Sister Haruka, you know, he is very powerful."
When the little witch said the second half of the sentence, she felt an inexplicable sense of pride, and even raised her chin a little.
"Thank you too, Kamiya-kun."
"You don't have to be so polite. Qie Ying regards you as a sister, so you are also my sister." Kamiya waved his hand.
"Haha, you two have such a good relationship..."
Yunju Haruka was still planning to say something to Onizuka and Kamiya, but at this time, there was a sudden commotion at Takiguchi's house.
The three of them turned to look at the same time.
In the courtyard behind me, someone was arguing.
"...I have nothing to do with that bad old woman."
"Grandma has passed away! At this time, at least at this time, ahem... can't you put away your bossy expression!"
"..."
A young man got into an argument with a middle-aged woman. Many people in the yard were trying to comfort both parties to prevent further intensification of the conflict.
"Is that Takiguchi Takashi?"
Kamiyakawa narrowed his eyes, and his eyes fell on the young man who was being pulled, who looked about twenty-five or six years old.
He was basically certain that the young man was Miss Yunju's boyfriend Takiguchi.
This conclusion can be reached without relying on anything else, just relying on the other party's current state——
With the help of the [Autumn Hair Cut] technique, Kamiya could see a thick and ominous black energy lingering on his body.
This is definitely not what a normal person should look like.
"Researchers of incense magic probably use their sense of smell to judge abnormalities...and Ms. Yunju said that she could smell disturbing odors on Mr. Takiguchi's body. It must be those." Kamiya continued to think like this in his mind.
With.
The dispute in the courtyard ended quickly, and both parties probably broke up on bad terms.
The middle-aged woman, who was wearing gorgeous clothes and didn't look like she was attending a funeral at all, only left one sentence: "Do whatever you like!"
Then he walked out of Takiguchi's yard without looking back, got into a black Mercedes-Benz parked at the door, and drove away.
"Abba."
But before the woman left, a little old man's body quickly appeared next to Kamiya.
Under the signal from his master's eyes, the scout clone acted quickly, got into the Mercedes-Benz and followed him away.
Kamiyagawa didn't see if there was anything wrong with the middle-aged woman.
But the consumable Little Old Man Mini doesn't need to be used in vain. There is no loss in following up.
This trip was originally to check for abnormalities in Takiguchi Takashi, and Kamiya got into work very quickly.
"Sorry, excuse me."
Miss Yunju apologized to Kamiya and Onizuka, bowed slightly, and then walked quickly back to the yard and went to her boyfriend's side.
"Is that Haruka-san's boyfriend?" The little miko touched Kamiya with her elbow, leaned closer and asked in a low voice, "Agawa, what do you think?"
"There's something wrong with the aura about him. He does look like he's in big trouble."
"I feel it too."
The two agreed.
About ten minutes later, Kamiya and Onitsuka met Haruka Kumoi again, this time with Takashi Takiguchi.
The latter seems to have calmed down.
"Takashi, this is Onizuka, and this is Kamiya, they are all my friends. Oh, Onizuka is the divine son of Kanagawa Jujo Shrine. Their shrine is very powerful." Miss Yunju introduced them like this.
Mr. Takiguchi probably doesn't know that his girlfriend is a very powerful spiritual exterminator, but he already knows to some extent that Miss Yunju has contact with some unexplainable supernatural powers.
In addition, this was not the first time that Yunju Haruka mentioned Takiguchi's physical condition to him.
In addition, this time he went to the countryside of Saitama, and his body was obviously weaker than usual. He found someone with a shrine background and came here directly to have a look, and he also said hello to Takiguchi in advance.
"Hello everyone. Sorry, I made you laugh. The person just now was my mother, and her relationship with grandma has never been very good. Ahem, cough, cough..."
Takashi Takiguchi forced a smile listlessly, his face turned a little pale, and he started coughing violently after saying a sentence.
In fact, he was a little bit resistant to his girlfriend's arrangement.
That is, why must we choose now?
The most important thing now should be his grandma's funeral.
However, Takiguchi did not refute Yunju Haruka's good intentions. After all, he was also considering his health.
As long as these two particularly young and mysterious friends did not interfere with the funeral, he could still remain polite.
"Mr. Takiguchi, is there really nothing wrong with your health?"
Kamiyagawa asked this, but in fact it was just asking knowingly.
When you get closer, you can see not only the ominous black aura, but also the thick aura of death between Takiguchi Takashi's eyebrows and forehead.
If possible, Kamiya would like to say something——
"Sir, I see your hall is dark."
"Ahem... It's an old problem. I've always been a bit frail and sickly. But after I returned to Saitama yesterday, I seem to have become even weaker. I'm really frightened that you came all the way for something like this."
"You are Haruka-san's boyfriend, this is what we should do." Onizuka began to say some necessary polite words.
Yunju Haruka, who was standing next to her, interrupted at this time and went straight to the point: "Takashi, can you tell them about your situation?"
"Um."
Mr. Takiguchi nodded.
…
Takashi Takiguchi actually didn't know what happened to him.
However, Miss Yunju speculated that his anomaly might have something to do with Saitama's hometown, so he roughly told some things about himself and Shenshui Village.
Takashi Takiguchi spent his childhood in Shenshui Village.
He was raised by his grandmother.
Takiguchi's father passed away when he was young, so he doesn't have much memory of his father.
But maybe it's because they're separated by another generation. Grandma has always taken great care of her grandson.
In his impression, his mother remarried a long time ago and basically didn't care about him. Moreover, the relationship between his mother and his grandmother was not very good.
As for Shenshui Village, Takiguchi couldn't tell anything unusual about it.
In his memory, he just spent his childhood here normally.
"I have been sicker than other children of the same age since I was a child. My grandmother often took me to the village shrine to pray for blessings. Maybe my grandmother's prayers really worked. Although I am sick, I still live successfully until now."
"Later, even if I grew up and left Shenshui, grandma... she would definitely still be here silently praying for me."
"Maybe it's because grandma is gone now, and no one prays to the gods for me anymore. Maybe it's because of this that my already not very good body started to collapse like this?"
Takashi Takiguchi said this, with some choking in his cough.
My father passed away when I was young, and my mother was not very responsible.
Takashi Takiguchi, who was raised by his grandmother, must be full of attachment to his grandmother.
The death of that old man must have brought him great sorrow.
After all, according to his original words, grandma is his only true relative in the world.
"Where is the shrine for praying?" Kamiyagawa asked.
"It's on the back mountain side, which is a bit far from home. It takes a long time to walk there every time." Takashi Takiguchi said while recalling.
I still have very fond memories of going to the shrine to pray with my grandma when I was a child.
Takashi Takiguchi remembers that he was always being held by his grandma's rough, warm hands. When he got tired from walking, he could lie on her back and act coquettishly.
When we arrived at the shrine, grandma was praying inside, while Takiguchi stayed outside and played by himself.
The wild flowers in spring, the chirping of cicadas in summer, the fallen leaves in autumn and the fine snow in winter, everything in the mountains made Takiguchi feel sincerely happy and joyful as a child.
He still remembers that the end of grandma's prayers was always accompanied by a "bang bang bang" sound similar to a wooden fish or a drum head.
Bang bang bang——
Once this sound sounds, it means you can go home.
Takiguchi liked this sound very much.
Because every time on the way home, grandma would take him to a snack shop and use ten yen to buy him a fruit cake to eat.
"Grandma has always wanted me to grow up healthy, ahem..." Takashi Takiguchi became sad.
After that, maybe because he was speaking emotionally, the things he told mainly centered on his grandmother who had just passed away.
He said that his grandma would always fry delicious tempura for him; that his grandma would always give him a haircut in the yard, and the haircut was rustic but very cute; that during holidays when he was a child, he would always go to the fields with his grandma...
At the end of the sentence, Takiguchi Takashi finally reacted and raised his hand to rub his red eyes: "Sorry, I seem to have said a lot of irrelevant things."
The little miko Kamiyagawa and Onizuka both shook their heads and told him to be sorry and submit.
After a few people talked, Mr. Takiguchi returned to the lobby. Although he was sad, he still needed to continue taking care of grandma's funeral.
Yunju Haruka stayed with Kamiya and Onizuka for the time being. She watched her boyfriend's back enter the house, and then she spoke softly and sadly: "You can feel it, right? His condition is not good."
"Um."
Yunju Qingxiang: "I feel that the source of his aura must come from Shenshui Village, but now I don't dare to leave him and go out to investigate. I always feel that if he gets out of my sight, something terrible will happen."
really.
Looking at the strong deathly aura lingering between Mr. Takiguchi's brows, even if he died suddenly in the next second, Kamiyagawa would not be too surprised.
"Sister Haruka, Achuan and I are here. We will investigate in Shenshui Village and Mr. Takiguchi will be fine." The little miko comforted him.
Kamiya and Onizuka did not intend to stay at Takiguchi's house, but said they would go to the village to see if they could find any useful clues.
"Thank you for your hard work, I will definitely thank you well."
Miss Yunju bowed to the two of them, but the worry on her face did not diminish.
Then she followed her boyfriend back to the house.
At this time, Miss Yunju still felt uneasy about letting Takashi Takashi out of her sight.
…
In Shenshui Village.
The Kamitani River and the little miko Onizuka go round and round.
"Abba, Abba."
The body of the little old man follows the owner's feet, telling something.
Basically, I reported on the situation with Takiguchi’s mother.
Takiguchi's mother drove towards Tokyo after leaving Kamishui, and there was nothing unusual so far.
"Achuan, what do you think?" the little witch beside asked.
Kamiya just shook his head: "It's hard to say, I have no clue at all. But I also feel that the abnormality on Mr. Takiguchi has something to do with this village. But it seems that everyone else here is normal, and I haven't seen anyone with a similar ominous aura.
."
"Hmm. The aura of Mr. Takiguchi is so strange. It seems like a miracle that he can grow up smoothly. Maybe it is really her grandmother's prayers that have been working?"
"Maybe."
"Next, would you like to visit the shrine here in Shenshui?"
In Mr. Takiguchi's self-narration, the only one that may involve some supernatural power seems to be the shrine where he has been praying.
Onizuka's thoughts were the same as Kamiya's. Now he could only go somewhere to check the situation.
Let’s take a look at the shrine that has been protecting Mr. Takiguchi since he grew up. What does it look like?
Shenshui Village is very big, and the so-called back mountain is quite far from Takiguchi's home.
Walking along the dirt road in the countryside, breathing in the smell of green grass and soil in the countryside. After asking for directions several times, the two of them arrived near the back mountain.
"Aba whined."
As soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, the little old man raised his head, looked around, and gave a warning.
It's not that he felt in danger.
With the strength of Kamiya and Onizuka, there is no problem in climbing this mountain.
My own scout felt an uncomfortable aura coming from the mountain. However, as a ghost without any "god" nature, the little old man would also feel uncomfortable when he was near other shrines and temples.
After briefly communicating with the scout for a while, seeing that the little old man seemed to have no intention of hiding in the Nagiya Bronze Coat, Kamiya asked him not to stray too far from him, and then he and Onizuka went up the stone stairs at the back of the mountain.
The little old man felt the breath and walked in front, climbing upward for a long time.
An abandoned shrine appeared in front of me.
The stone torii gate looks a little pale, with greasy moss growing in the shade above.
Not far from the torii gate is the shrine.
It was small in size, just a small room, and it looked in a state of disrepair. It was obvious that no one had taken care of it for a long time.
"Eh?" Onizuka circled the shrine, "The one enshrined here is Kifune Daimyojin?"
"Kifune Daimyojin?"
"Yes." The little witch said, looking at the totem symbols in the shrine, "They are the water god, the dragon god, and the god of darkness and beauty."
Kifune Daimyojin is the god of darkness and beauty.
Kamiya had an impression of this god, but it wasn't a good impression.
Because when he was traveling in the other world, he had heard about it from the Spider Mother Goddess of the Ainu——
The Shinto dragon god Anyu Kamikami, who was born from the blood of the fire god Kagutsuchi, is one of the representatives of the gods of Takamagahara who fell to the side of the land of the underworld in the war of gods.