Onizuka Kiriho:……

After sensing what happened to Yuri Sakai during her lifetime, the little miko remained silent for a long time. Finally, she silently bent down and picked up the black and white photos and manuscripts on the ground.

So far, she has figured out what happened to Sakai Yuri, Toshima Taito, and the first hikers she met after they entered the Tsuchimikado area.

In order to find the Amado Bronze Mirror, Toyoshima Teito was killed by a shrine maiden in colorful clothes at the Wanzu Pond.

Then Toshima Taito, who turned into a vicious spirit, lost his mind and returned to Tachibana's house out of a strong obsession with his promise to his lover.

He killed Yuri Sakai.

At this point, the couple have become undead ghosts wandering around in Tsuchimikado Village.

I don’t know how many years have passed.

An unknown climber accidentally entered Tsuchimikado Village.

He encountered the spirit of Sakai Yuri and was eventually killed.

"Tsuchimikado Village itself is extremely weird. People who die here seem to turn into irrational evil spirits... I don't know how many tragedies have happened here." Onizuka thought this way.

If possible, if she had the spare power, she would like to completely destroy this place of death that weaves tragedy as much as possible.

In addition, whether it is the couple Sakai and Toshima or the climbers, their stories are all on the surface.

Their encounters only scratched the surface of the hidden secrets of Tsuchimikado Village.

If you want to explore more deeply, Toshiya Sakai's manuscript may become the next breakthrough.

"It's better to go back to the cave first, and we should also try to make good contact with Agawa."

The little witch still lowered her eyebrows, but she cheered up.

She did sympathize with those who died here.

However, we cannot stand still just because of this.

Onizuka could not allow himself and Kamiya to make the same mistakes as those poor lovers.

…

The red rope on my wrist pulled rhythmically.

The Kamiya and Onizhong, located on both sides of the cave's stone door, convey information to each other in an orderly manner.

"After the Tsuchimikado area disappeared, the victims who accidentally entered it and died...the bloody memorial ceremony held by the Tsuchimikado family...the shrine maiden who was used as a living sacrifice..."

"It seems that Hotaru has obtained a lot of information."

Kamiya roughly understood what happened to Onizuka.

Although he didn't get any useful information, the little witch gained a lot!

"Speaking of the shrine maidens who were sacrificed, are they the ones I met in the deep pool of the waterfall just now? Are those the sacrifices of past generations?"

The group of Tsuchimikado shrine maidens that Kamiyagawa encountered were all filled with resentment and pain. They must have experienced very cruel things during their lives.

Combined with the red hemp rope that bound them, and their fragmented corpses...

"So, the specific sacrificial process of the Tendo Shaman Festival is likely to be - binding the hands and feet of the shrine maidens selected as sacrifices, and then gouging out their flesh and blood?"

Why would the Tsuchimikado family do such a thing?

What is the purpose of this evil and bloody sacrifice?

"Judging from the available information, the descendants of Abe Seimei do not look like good people. Could such an evil ritual be done to please an evil god and then obtain power from the god?"

Kamiyakawa thought so, but was not sure.

The red rope continued to be pulled, and Onizuka recited a song that was popular in Tsuchimikado Village.

This clue was obtained from the climbers' notes.

Before the climbers encountered the dead spirit of Sakai Yuri, they seemed to have encountered a group of children playing and heard them singing and playing.

However, the lyrics were not completely recorded and were somewhat incomplete: "The childish goddess on Gaotian Plain,...the great god, and those not mentioned just now, are torn apart..."

The childish goddess.

Takamagahara is the sister of Amaterasu, and she is also a sun god.

"The Spider Mother Goddess of Ainu mentioned to me that the items belonging to the God of Ekei have the breath of the sun. And it was because of the God of Ekei that I came to Tsuchimikamon. Therefore, the true form of the God of Ekei is very

Could it be that she is the Sun Goddess, the goddess who holds the power of the sun and marriage at the same time?"

Kamiyagawa felt that his conjecture was quite possible.

Continue to analyze the incomplete ballad.

In addition to the childish goddess who is suspected of being the god of fate, the second sentence of the lyrics mentions a god whose name has not been recorded.

"If the second god in the lyrics is Tenden no Mikoto, then the ones that are 'torn apart' are the shrine maidens of Tsuchimikado."

In this way, the song has a certain direction.

It alludes to the two gods associated with the Tsuchimikado area, and hints at the existence of the cruel "Amado Shaman Festival" that tore apart the shrine maidens who were chosen as sacrifices.

It feels quite reasonable.

"In addition, the Amado Shaman Festival, the Amado Bronze Mirror... Amado probably refers to Amado Rock, right?"

Kamiyagawa knew about the mythology of Amato Rock after coming into contact with Juqiong Shrine.

It was Amaterasu who hid in Amado Rock. Without her presence, the world became dark. Later, Amaterasu performed a witch dance to attract Amaterasu, so that the sun god finally returned to the world.

Tian Tian Nuoming is one of the protagonists in the story of Amado Iwa.

"Is the evil sacrifice controlled by the Tsuchimikado family just to please the goddess Tenden?"

Kamiya felt that there should be some kind of connection between Tian Tian Nu Ming and the Tsuchimikado family.

For example, the Jujun Shrine, which once supported the Tsuchimikado family, also enshrines the ancestors of the Tsuchimikado family, Abe Seimei and Tenden no Mikoto.

If there are too many coincidences, they should no longer be coincidences.

But as the ancestral goddess of shrine maidens, would Tian Tian Nu Destiny feel pleasure from such a painful and cruel ritual?

He is supposed to be the patron god of witches, right?

"Tiantian's female destiny, Tiantian's female destiny... uh, Grandma Gu..."

When Kamiyagawa recalled Juqiong Shrine, he thought of something else.

The current deity of Juqiong Shrine, Granny Gu, is the descendant of Tiantian Nu.

After becoming a descendant, she has been able to see some very painful revelations.

The specific content includes: the body of the god is broken, and the blood of the god flows to the earth.

"Tian Tian Nu's life is torn apart?"

If the "divine revelation" that Granny Gu saw was true, then Tiantian's life was probably in a state of fragmentation for some reason.

"So, in the process of the Amano Shaman Festival, the flesh and blood of the shrine maidens who were regarded as sacrifices were cut out. It was not to please the Tenten Maiden, but to echo what happened to her? What exactly is the Tsuchimikado family doing?

What?"

Kamiyakawa pressed his temples, and more questions that came with his thinking were unanswered.

So, he first fed back his guesses truthfully to Onizuka Kiriho through the red rope.

The slender red rope hung in the air, fluttering silently for a while, and then began to be pulled rhythmically from the door again.

The little witch sent back the message——

[The Childlike Sun Goddess on Gao Tianyuan,...the Great God, and the one I didn’t mention just now, the torn apart Heavenly Goddess.]

A simple word-choice fill-in-the-blank question.

Onizuka added another possible fill-in-the-blank model based on the information given by Kamiyagawa.

"...It's possible what Hotaru added. If that's the case, the Tsuchimikado area is also related to a third unknown god?" Kamiyakawa felt that his temples were swollen a little more, "Then the matter will be even more troublesome."

Regardless of whether this possibility is right or wrong, both of them must be mentally prepared for it.

Kamiya and Onizuka discussed through the red rope for a while, but did not achieve any more valuable breakthroughs in conjecture.

Regarding the matter of Tsuchimikado and the fate of Tiantian Nv, they still need to explore more before they can get a glimpse of the whole picture.

The exchange of information ends here for the time being. Kamiya and Onitsuka returned to both sides of the cave door at this time, and there was another important thing to do.

Tianhu Bronze Mirror.

Both of their explorations went quite smoothly, and they each obtained a fragment of a bronze mirror.

Now I have to try to put the pieces together into the grooves on the stone door and see.

Kamiya took out the fragments he obtained and placed them on the groove. The bronze mirror originally embedded in it and the piece in Kamiya's hand sensed it. They pulled each other, and Kamiya didn't need to deliberately find the position. The second fragment

I attached it to the lower left corner of the groove myself.

At the same time, a third fragment emerged from the groove.

Onizuka also did the same thing.
To be continued...