After Teacher Kihara explained the situation, he actually felt a little uneasy.
As a teacher herself, she told the two police ladies that the current disappearance of the children might be related to the mountain spirits... Thinking back on it, this seemed a bit ridiculous.
Then, somewhat to Teacher Kihara's expectation, the two police officers from Tokyo looked normal after the conversation. In the end, they simply asked about the shrine that had performed the spirit-removing ceremony for Sasagami Elementary School last week.
Wherever you are, say goodbye for now and leave.
Kanoya and Tsurumi came out of Sasagami Elementary School and returned to the ghost car parked nearby.
"Yahiko Shrine, Toshima-san, let's go here next." Xiaolu showed the destination of the mobile phone navigation to Oishi Shunma.
"Okay, Miss Kanoya."
Yahiko Shrine, according to the information given by Teacher Kihara, this is the shrine where Sasagami Elementary School performed the spirit-removing ceremony.
Next, Kanoya and his party will go there to learn more about the situation.
Yahiko Shrine is the largest shrine in Niigata Prefecture.
Located at the foot of Yahiko Mountain in Nishigahara County, it mainly worships the god Iyahiko.
This shrine is erected in the lush forest. The shrine's torii gate is made of century-old cypress wood, and the bridge railings are made of whole stones. There are also thousand-year-old sacred bridges, sacred trees, and sacred horse houses. It is large in scale and majestic.
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Since it is a big club, it must be connected with the Countermeasures Room, and it will be much easier for Xiaolu and Tsurumi to communicate with it.
After the two of them arrived at Yahiko Shrine, they first showed their credentials to the Countermeasures Room, and then reported their apprenticeship. They were quickly treated with courtesy, and successfully met the master of the shrine.
The priest here is an elderly and kind man, and he received Kanoya and the others in the reception room of the shrine that is not open to the public.
During the polite greetings, the old priest praised Kamiyagawa very much and introduced the situation of Yahiko Shrine.
According to him, although Yahiko Shrine is large and popular, its business level in the spirit removal industry has always been at the middle level.
Last year, Kamitani River and Onizuka Kamiko of Juqiong Shrine took the lead in conducting an extensive exchange meeting on exquisite talismans and talismans in the spirit exorcism industry. Although Yahiko Shrine was not the core target of "resource integration", it also indirectly benefited from it.
Therefore, the old priest of Yahiko Shrine is grateful to these two young talents from the bottom of his heart.
Thanks to the disciples of ghosts and gods and the son of Juqiong for the open source!
Xiaolu and Tsurumi both felt very happy when they heard the praises given to their master by outsiders, and their faces were bright. However, because they still had important matters to deal with, after a brief exchange of greetings, they took the initiative to cut the topic to the topic and started asking questions.
Things about Sasagami Elementary School.
"I just received news about the incident at Sasagami Elementary School." The old priest obviously already knew something about the situation, "Yes, a week ago, the principal there commissioned our shrine to remove spirits from the past. It was said that there might be evil in the school.
The spirits are causing trouble and terrorizing the students.”
"Is it Kamaitachi?"
"Yes. The appearance of Kamitachi at Sasagami Elementary School is a little surprising - those three Kamitachi, according to the current classification of monster strength, are probably C-level group Kaitan. Several members of the club who were assigned to exorcise spirits
As a priest, I didn't expect a monster like Kama Itachi to be so powerful at first, and I only found out after the exorcism ceremony started."
C-level monsters can be dealt with more safely by the elite among the exorcists.
Although Kamiya and Onizuka did consciously try to enhance the overall strength of the entire spirit-killing industry through the exchange of interests, and it has achieved certain results so far, this matter did not happen overnight.
"However, although the Kamamaitas causing trouble in Sasagami Elementary School are not weak, they are particularly timid. After the spirit-removing ceremony began, they briefly fought with the priests in the shrine, and then they were scattered and fled. Those weasels
They are all wind demons, and they are extremely fast, and the priests in the society cannot catch up with them."
"Considering that the three Kamamata are timid by nature and not willing to fight at all, and they did not actually hurt anyone at Sasagami Elementary School, frightening the students may be closer to their mischievous nature. Therefore, the priest in the club believes that the spirit exorcism was
After that, those kamaitachi probably won’t return to school. Therefore, last week the club just reported this matter to the countermeasures room. In addition, there are other supernatural incidents that Niigata Prefecture has to deal with, and we don’t have enough manpower.
It’s too much…”
"I didn't expect those weasels to be so vindictive that they returned to Sasagami Elementary School in such a short period of time and kidnapped two students. This was indeed caused by our miscalculation."
"Since these two are master disciples of ghosts and gods and are responsible for this incident, if we need any assistance from Yahiko Shrine, we will spare no effort to make up for it."
The old god explained what he knew. As for himself, he was not actually directly involved in the exorcism of Sasagami Elementary School.
After all, I'm old and have no energy left.
Kanoya and Tsurumi did not stay at Yahiko Shrine for too long, and left after understanding the situation.
On the way down the mountain, sisters from the same sect discussed the information they had obtained while walking, trying to come up with the next action plan——
Kanoya: "The priest of Yahiko Shrine doesn't seem to be lying, so that's what happened... Well, the Kamaita that appeared in Tokyo escaped from Niigata Prefecture. It was injured because of Yahiko
The priest of the shrine. It returned to the vicinity of Sasagami Elementary School last night, but did not dare to go back, probably because it was afraid of the priests who had injured it before."
Tsurumi: "Because the Kamaitachi of Sasagami Elementary School did not show a strong desire to attack, and the nature of this kind of monster likes to play pranks but does not overly hurt others, the Yahiko Shrine misjudged their subsequent behavior."
"Perhaps in retaliation for the spirit-killing ceremony, Kamitachi unexpectedly abducted two children from Sasagami Elementary School this morning. The Kamitatsu in Tokyo has been under surveillance by Little Grandpa since yesterday.
.So, it should be the other two who did this. The best case scenario now is that the two sickle weasels just kidnapped the children and did not really hurt them. If this is the case, we still have a chance to
Save the children."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Sister, do you want to attack Kamaitachi in Tokyo?"
"Well. Let's catch the lone one. It's still being watched by the little grandpa, so it's not difficult to catch it. Then, when we come back to Niigata, we might have a chance to use it to catch the two.
In exchange for a child."
"If that's the case, it is indeed the best way to deal with it now." Tsurumi nodded in agreement, but there was still a little uncertainty in her eyes.
"Hmm."
The little deer kicked down a staircase on the shrine, then stopped, and the forest wind in the mountain ruffled the ends of her soft hair.
After coming out of Yahiko Shrine, this young senior sister has been frowning, and her pretty little face has always been slightly bulging: "Xiao Kui, obviously the information we have now can be connected together, but I
I always feel...something feels wrong."
"Actually, I feel the same way."
"But what is wrong?"
Kamiyagawa's young disciples are currently unable to determine the cause of the indescribable strange feeling in their hearts, nor can they discuss the result.
They planned to return to Sasagami Elementary School and meet Teacher Kihara and the principal again. If no further clues were found, they would implement the arrest of the lone Kamitachi.
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When they returned to the school, Xiaolu and the others learned that Mr. Kihara and the principal were not at Sasagami Elementary School at this time.
Because there is a high probability of an incident related to Kaidan happening in the school, the suggestion given by Xiaolu and Tsurumi in the morning was to stop teaching activities today.
The principal did so and asked the teachers to notify parents to take the children home.
Children from school were picked up one after another in the morning.
However, there are also some parents who can't get away from it.
Because the principal didn't dare to let the remaining children go home on their own, he thought he would have to watch their parents take them away, so the remaining dozens of children in each grade and class in the school were all taken to his own home.
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And due to the large number of children, several teachers including Mr. Kihara, a local police officer, and two priests who came from Yahiko Shrine later also accompanied the principal at his home.
The principal's house was a one-family house not too far from the school, so it was not difficult for Xiaolu and the others to transfer there.
Arrive at destination.
It is already evening, and the sky is dyed orange-red, with a tendency to transition to lavender and dark blue. The glow connects with the mountains in the distance. Xiaolu and Tsurumi were busy today and accidentally arrived at this place.
point.
The open space at the entrance of the garage built by a single family.
Teacher Kihara and a priest wearing hunting clothes were accompanying six or seven lower grade children.
The children did not have the worries of adults, and they were not very clear about what was going on in school. They were all immersed in the joy of not having to go to school today, and they were noisy and playing games by themselves.
They used the chalk they brought from school to draw a square grid on the open space.
This is a game called "Where". It is a very old game. Recently, for some reason, it has become popular again in Sasagami Elementary School in the countryside. The way children play, sometimes this kind of "retro" appears.
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The rules of the "where" game are roughly as follows:
Two children alternately jump left and right in the four boxes of the Tianzi grid according to the rhythm of a nursery rhyme. When a specific syllable is sung each time, they have to jump forward one step, then jump back, and continue the previous left and right.
Jumping rhythm.
When Xiaolu and Hemi came to talk to Teacher Kihara, these children were having fun.
"Where are you?
Higo.
Where is Higo?
Kumamoto.
Where is Kumamoto?
Shipyard.
There is a civet cat on Xianbo Mountain.
The hunter killed it with a gun.
Boil it, bake it, eat it.
Cover it with leaves."
The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the little figures jumping back and forth, making the shadows on the ground long and distorted. The childish children's songs and cheerful jumping sounds are mixed into the dim light and the flying dust in the air, but they carry a
A little hazy feeling of emptiness.
At the end of the song, the two children who were playing couldn't control the rhythm with their feet, and they didn't know which one was at fault, so they bumped into each other.
They fell to the ground, but they just held their bellies and giggled together.
Among the other children who had not yet played, two more stood on the grid and were eager to try.
For some reason, looking at the children playing, Tsurumi's eyes narrowed slightly, and she whispered to Kanoya: "Sister, this game is the one drawn by Toshinichi Sugiyama."
"It seems so."
The missing child, Toshimichi Sugiyama, seems to be the type with relatively strong inspiration.
Only his paintings depict Kamaitachi's appearance more completely.
The theme of Sugiyama's painting is indeed a game on the playground. Two children jumping in a field are surrounded by many other children.
"Where" game.
Tsurumi thought of something. She seemed to be grasping the pending "something wrong" in her mind: "That painting... Senior sister, we have to look at that painting again!"
"Ah, okay." Xiaolu did not doubt the junior sister's judgment at all, and immediately accompanied her to the school not far away, "Teacher Kihara, is the painting you showed us still in your office?"
Seeing that the two police ladies who were originally calm became excited "for no reason", Teacher Kihara was a little unable to react, so he could only nod in surprise: "Yes."
Xiaolu took steps to catch up with his junior sister, but just as he turned his head in the direction of the school, her movements stagnated.
The wind blowing in your face from the street is mixed with smells.
The familiar, very light, very light smell of strange beasts.
The smell of Sasagami Elementary School.
Based on previous experience, although the distance is not far now, you shouldn't be able to smell it.
In other words, the smell in the school has become stronger.
"Little grandpa, you can feel it too, right? The atmosphere at the school seems to be getting stronger."
"Aba Aba!"
The aura becomes stronger, which means it becomes more distinct, and you may be able to get more information from it.
I don't know if it was a tacit understanding between fellow disciples, but although his inspiration was different from that of his junior sister, Xiaolu suddenly realized at this moment that there might be something "wrong" that he hadn't really noticed today.
But why did this strange atmosphere suddenly become stronger?
Behind him, the children's games continued.
They sang and laughed.
Snap, snap.
Brisk and joyful footsteps, jumping.
"...There is a civet cat on Xianbo Mountain."
"The hunter shot it to death with a gun."
"Cook it, bake it, eat it."
By the way...
There are two missing children from Sasagami Elementary School, right?
At this point in his thoughts, Kanoya didn't bother to think about whether the two things were really related -
"Stop! Don't play that game again!"
"ah!"
The children who were playing around were startled by the beautiful sister's sudden shout, but the priest of Yahiko Shrine nearby was the first to react.
Although he didn't know what the disciples of the Ghost and God Disciples had discovered, he was right to listen to what they said.
Seeing that a priest was controlling the situation here, Xiaolu called to the little old man and quickly caught up with Tsurumi.
Just a little bit closer.
Kanoya felt that he and his junior sister were almost able to figure out what happened in Sasagami Elementary School.