Kamiyagawa also glanced at the totem symbols in the shrine: "The God of Darkness and Beauty shouldn't care about disease and health, right?"
"In my impression, it's usually about praying for rain and stopping rain." Onizuka agreed.
Um……
It seems that praying for rain and stopping the rain can now be done in the Hiyoribo at home?
"However, if Mr. Takiguchi's grandma was just an ordinary little old lady in the countryside, she might not have thought so much about it?"
"Maybe."
It’s hard to say whether ordinary elderly people will consider the basic attributes of gods when they worship gods.
It is possible that he worshiped at a shrine.
The day before yesterday, Kamiyagawa also heard a teacher from Tokyo University who studies Asian folk customs and religions mention in class that when he visited small villages on the border of Vietnam more than ten years ago, he visited a small village that believed in Allah.
The way the old people in that village worship is to offer a suckling pig as a sacrifice to God, and then kowtow.
It's quite subtle.
But having said that, this dark silt Kamigami Shrine still feels strange to Kamiya, with an indescribable strange aura.
There must be something wrong.
"Aba Aba!"
The little old man with strong senses endured the discomfort and moved around in the small shrine to observe.
Kamiya just stared at his activities.
The little witch had already taken out her bamboo flute.
The flute whined softly, causing some blue light spots to fly up and down, making the environment of this desolate little shrine a bit ethereal.
This flute is a prop used by Onizuka to assist his senses, but it seems to have other uses as well.
I saw her using it last year when she was catching cat and dog spirits in the pet cemetery in Kanagawa.
Although both of them are spiritual masters, their methods of sensing abnormalities are very different.
After a while.
"Aba Aba!"
The little old man danced and shouted and got under the old altar table of the small shrine.
Onizuka Fengpi controlled the light spots to converge towards the bottom of the altar table.
It seems that something has been discovered.
"Aba whined."
Lifting up the worn tablecloth, you can see that the bottom of the already crumbling altar table is covered with dusty square tiles.
However, one piece seems to have less dust than the others, and it seems that it has been moved recently.
Kamiyakawa fiddled with the special brick at will and took it out easily.
Under the square bricks is a small space similar to a hidden grid. It is said to be a hidden grid, but it is actually just a small pit.
Inside the pit, there is a tightly closed wooden box. There is not much dust on the surface of the wooden box, and it is dark. It is probably that it was put in not long ago.
"This thing isn't quite right."
Kamiya could clearly see the gloomy and ominous aura emanating from the box.
"Wait a minute." Onizuka took out a piece of yellow talisman paper drawn with cinnabar from somewhere and slapped it on the top of the box. With her movement, the ominous aura of the box obviously shrank a lot, "Okay,
open to take a look?"
"Um."
Although the box doesn't look quite right, the intensity of the aura on it is just that.
After all, Kamiya and Onizuka are both young and talented soul exterminators, and low-level evil spirits cannot harm them both.
The little witch raised her hand to post the talisman out of caution, but in fact, there would probably be no problem if she opened it directly.
Squeak.
The wooden box was opened, and the hinges made an old turning sound.
What comes into view is a small gavel and a palm-sized straw man.
On the little man's body, written in faded red letters——
[Takiguchi Takashi]
There seems to be a faint fishy smell left on the writing.
Even if Kamiyagawa has never seen this thing in person before, you can roughly know what it is at a glance.
A straw man used to cast curses.
"Is this thing related to the abnormality in Mr. Takiguchi?"
"possible."
Immediately afterwards, Kamiya used his fingers to push aside a few twists of dead straw on the straw man's body, revealing a large amount of black hair.
The entire straw man is wrapped with straw on the outside, and the inside is full of hair of different lengths.
In addition, there is also a small paper roll mixed in the hair.
When you take it out and spread it out, you can see that it is densely written with twisted small characters——
[The adulteress Kumakura Ruka cheated and committed adultery, causing my son Takiguchi Hideyuki to commit suicide. The son Takiguchi Takashi, born to Kumakura Ruka, has no resemblance to my son in appearance, words and deeds. He is actually the child of an adulterer and an adulterer.]
[The believer Takiguchi Renko prays day and night, knocks the straw man, and prays for retribution. Takashi Takashi Takiguchi, who was born out of sin and immorality, cannot live or die. Now that the believer Takiguchi Renko is about to die, he compiled the twenty-four stories of Takiguchi Takashi.
I have long hair, may the God of Darkness and Beauty have mercy on me, curse this child to death, grant him liberation, and go to hell with me.]
Takiguchi Renko, I’ve seen this name Kamiyagawa before, it’s in the lobby of Takiguchi’s house.
This "Renko" is Mr. Takashi Takiguchi's grandmother who just passed away.
After seeing the crooked small words on the note, Kamiya and Onizuka next to him looked at each other and remained silent for a while, with no one speaking.
The two of them are well-informed, and they are ruthless people who won't even frown when faced with vicious and strange talk.
But at this moment, in this warm late spring, inside the abandoned shrine in the mountains, they all invariably felt a sinister chill creeping up their backs.
This is of course not fear, but simply psychological discomfort.
Is Mr. Takiguchi's grandmother cursing him?
"Mr. Takiguchi, you should love his grandma very much, right?"
After a while, Kamiya heard the little miko next to her mumble something like this in her sleep.
He didn't know what to say in response, so he just gave a vague "hmm".
Then, the words Mr. Takiguchi said just now at Takiguchi’s house echoed in Kamiya’s mind——
"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."
"On the way to the shrine, I was held by my grandma's rough and warm hands. When I got tired, I could lie on her back and act like a baby... On the way home, I could buy a sushi confection with ten yen to eat."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "My grandma always gives me haircuts in the yard with her own hands. The haircuts are rustic but very cute."
"..."
Mr. Takiguchi probably misses and loves the time he grew up in Shenshui Village with his grandma, right?
It seems that in Mr. Takiguchi's heart, grandma is his closest relative in the world, right?
Kamiyakawa fell into a trance, and his eyes slowly moved up, landing on the dark silt and beautiful god tablet placed high up.
The sacred tablet was gloomy, standing there motionless. It was obviously just a wooden tablet, but it had a dark and heavy feeling.
Then, Kamiya lowered his head again and looked at the gavel in the wooden box in his hand.
His pupils were slightly shrunk, deep and dark.
I don't know if it was because of his overly rich imagination or other reasons, but he seemed to vaguely hear the sound of a gavel banging.
Bang bang bang.
Through the huddled ominous aura in the wooden box, he seemed to be able to see a strange scene.
Perhaps it was a flashback of what happened in this small shrine more than ten years ago——
Kamiyagawa saw the small shrine of Anyu Kamigami, which was not so desolate and dilapidated.
I saw a kind old woman, kneeling in the shrine to pray, and kept hitting something with a small mallet in her hand, making a "bang bang bang" sound.
Outside the shrine, there was a somewhat thin boy.
One moment I chased the flying butterflies and dragonflies, and the next I squatted down to watch the swarms of ants carrying food.
The grandma praying in the shrine will look back to see her grandson from time to time.
The two met their eyes.
The old man's expression was kind and kind, and the boy's eyes were innocent.
Grandfather and grandson looked at each other and smiled.
After the boy's attention was once again attracted by other interesting things, the old man's originally kind expression changed. He slowly opened his eyes, frowned, twitched his nose, and the muscles in his temples twitched and crunched.
A mouthful of old teeth.
It was intense hatred, disgust and resentment.
She turned back, raised the mallet in her hand again, and struck the little straw man in front of her again and again.
Click, Bang!
Sinful and immoral.
Two clicks, Bang!
Retribution is unpleasant.
Three times, Bang!
There is no life without life, there is no death without death.
Bang bang bang.
…
Whoosh.
Onizuka twisted a yellow talisman between his slender fingers. With a simple flick, a bright red flame ignited on the talisman.
She burned the entire wooden box dug out from under the floor tiles.
The little miko can handle this thing, and Kamiya can handle it as well. Using his already very high proficiency, the Yang Lei filled with brilliant righteousness should have the same effect when it is broken down and burned.
The flames leaped blazingly, but did not emit any heat. Instead, they caused the surrounding temperature to drop a few points.
The scarecrow in the box was curled up by the flames, emitting a foul burnt smell.
"Mr. Takiguchi, there should be nothing serious. It may take a long, long time to adjust, but that is what Haruka-san has to do."
Onizuka said this as he watched a box of cursed items turn into ashes.
Kamiyakawa nodded: "Go back."
The two scattered the remaining black ash that had no heat on the ground, and then walked down the mountain path side by side.
Along the way, Kamiya and Onitsuka didn't speak, they just walked towards Takiguchi's house.
As evening approaches, the sun becomes a little dim.
The air in the countryside does not seem so fresh anymore. Some birds landed on the power lines by the roadside and chirped.
When he got near Takiguchi's house, Kamiya finally said something, but it was not directly related to Mr. Takiguchi's matter: "Does the God of Darkness and Beauty have anything to do with the power of the curse?"
"There seems to be some, but they are rarely mentioned." Onitsuka replied dully, "Agawa, have you ever heard of Uji Hashihime?"
"No."
It is true that Kamiyagawa spent more than a year collecting and supplementing various knowledge about Japanese ghost stories and myths, but he certainly did not know as much as Onizuka, who had been studying this knowledge seriously since he was a child.
So, Onizuka casually told the story of Uji Hashihime——
According to legend, during the Heian period, a noble woman was deeply jealous and prayed to Kifune Daimyojin to become a ghost in order to gain the power to curse her.
Kifune Daimyojin agreed and said: "If you really think so, you will dress up as a ghost and swim in the Uji River for twenty-one days."
The woman really did it, and then she really gained the power of ghosts and gods.
The ghostly posture she performed for twenty-one consecutive days was later considered to be the origin of the famous curse-killing ritual and "visiting worshipers when they are ugly".
"Is it so easy for people to become ghosts and gods?"
Kamiya felt something was wrong after hearing this story.
As a candidate to be the co-master of ghosts and gods, he has to go through a lot of hardships in order to obtain the power of ghosts and gods that truly belongs to him.
To help Shikigami build a shrine, it must be a special shrine created by Kakuzu, so that it can gain a little bit of power from the Shikigami's incense belief, feed it back to itself, and then consolidate the power of ghosts and gods over time.
In the story of Uji Hashihime, mortals can gain the power of ghosts and gods by playing the role of ghosts and gods for twenty-one days.
He didn't believe it, it must not be that easy.
Even if he could, he would probably have to pay an unacceptable price to the God of Darkness and Beauty.
"It must not be that easy." Onizuka said, "It seems that some people have tried to worship when they were ugly before, but the end was very bad."
The two of them chatted and came to the door of Takiguchi's house, where they soon met Yunju Haruka.
Sister Haruka seemed quite happy. She pulled the two of them and whispered: "The uncomfortable smell on Takashi's body has really weakened. Did you do it so quickly? Where did you find the problem?"
Onizuka and Kamiya looked at each other with slightly complicated expressions.
This really confused Miss Yunju.
Finally, the three of them arrived at a quiet place outside the door, and after confirming that no one was around, they truthfully told the truth about what they had discovered at the Anyu Kamei Shrine.
"You say that the reason why Xiaoshi is sick is because he has been cursed for a long time? And the person who cursed him is his grandmother?"
Miss Yunju felt a little chilled when she first heard this information.
The complexity and unpredictability of the human heart may indeed be far greater than the evil and strange stories.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Sister Haruka, are you going to tell Mr. Takiguchi about this?" the little miko asked.
It would be difficult for her and Kamiya to intervene in the subsequent events.
Or maybe you shouldn't have intervened in the first place.
This trip to Saitama can be regarded as completing a commissioned task from Miss Yunju.
This is to make it easier for my young apprentice Kanoya to learn the incense method from the successor of Ami Ryu incense method in the future.
The mission is considered to be successfully completed once it reaches this point. What to do next is all Miss Yunju's business.
"I don't plan to tell him, at least I won't tell him now." Yunju Qingxiang also thought for a while before saying this, and then thanked you, "Xiaoying, and Kamiya-kun, I will thank you well."
In fact, regardless of whether Mr. Takiguchi needs to know the truth or not, there is a reason.
Kamiya and Onizuka don't want to care.
Moreover, for Mr. Takiguchi, the person he thought loved him the most in the world actually harbored the strongest hatred for him.
This kind of thing is hard for anyone to accept, right?
Kamiya and Onizuka briefly talked about other things with Miss Yunju, but they did not mention the matter of letting the young apprentice learn for the time being.
It’s not too late to talk about this later.
"But why Takashi? I mean, if the note left by Takashi's grandma is true, why didn't she curse Takashi's mother, or the so-called adulterer?" Miss Yunju finally said.
"Maybe I didn't get their hair."
Kamiya also thought about this issue on his way back.
Probably so.
Perhaps only the dead Takiguchi Renko fully knows the truth of the matter.
As for whether Takiguchi Takashi is a descendant of the Takiguchi family, this is not certain...
Who knows whether Takiguchi Renko, an old man from the countryside, has ever had a paternity test?
After that, the two met Mr. Takiguchi again, temporarily left the countryside of Saitama, and took the ghost car directly back to Tokyo.
Kamiya could still see the ominous aura lingering on the opponent's body, but the death aura at Yintang had indeed dissipated.
As Onizuka said, it will be Miss Yunju's job to take care of this gentleman's body from now on.