Kanagawa Prefecture.
Juqiong Shrine at night.
Cicadas chirp and fireflies dance, and the cool breeze blows in the summer night.
This is a great place to cool off in summer. If paired with half an iced watermelon, or a glass bottle of ice-cold fat house water, it would be a surefire hit.
The area behind the shrine is the living place for the priests who are resident at the shrine.
One of the rooms has a light on.
The bedroom is spacious and the furniture is very modern. There are several ugly dolls on the big bed covered with pink quilts.
This is Onizuka Kirihota's bedroom.
Inside the bedroom, there is also a separate bathroom with a bathtub.
The little witch is currently taking a bath inside.
After a day of schoolwork and heavy divine training, taking a bath is a great pleasure.
Onizuka lay in the bathtub with his eyes slightly squinted, his pretty fair face flushed with luster due to the heat.
The still-developing girl's body, separated from the water vapor and soaked in hot water, looked like a naked, immature white sheep.
Wow——
The sound of water stirring.
The little witch picked up her mobile phone. She was chatting with the netizen named "Stranger" whom she was already quite familiar with.
We casually chatted about some topics related to Inugami and Baier.
The little miko Onizuka pressed the keyboard and typed a sentence. After thinking for a while, she clicked send.
[Purple Shangzhang]: "Actually, I had a question I wanted to confirm with you a long time ago."
[The honest stranger]: "Then you ask."
[Purple Shang Shang]: "You are a folk spirit remover, right?"
The spirit remover.
In this world where there are weird stories, it is a secret but indispensable profession.
Onizuka Kirihota herself is also a spirit exterminator.
He was from an orthodox Shinto sect, and he was registered with the Metropolitan Police, and he had a serious official status.
No matter from which aspect, it is a legitimate and well-spoken existence.
There are official spirit removers like Onizuka and Gu Granny. Correspondingly, there are also folk spirit removers without official status in the market.
The structure of this group is complex.
Quite a number of them cannot obtain officially recognized status because they are not good at removing spirits.
Of course, there are also some people who have a certain level of strength, but for various reasons, do not deal directly with the authorities.
In addition, most of the powerful ones among the wild spirit exterminators are from folk Shinto origins.
The so-called folk Shinto refers to the general Shinto beliefs popular among Japanese people, such as the belief in land gods and house gods, as well as the rituals that emphasize worshiping gods and ancestors, as well as divination, incantations, witch doctors and other alchemy customs, etc., all fall into this category.
In fact, there is no strict difference from Shinto, the sect to which Onizuka Komiko belongs.
The only difference is that the spirit exorcists of the Shinto sect will systematically learn the techniques and knowledge of spirit exorcism in various shrines.
Spirit removers with folk Shinto origins basically rely on family inheritance and learn spirit removal techniques at home.
That is to say, parents pass down skills to their children.
Many spiritual exterminators with folk Shinto origins also seek official status. Those who have given up their official status for various reasons engage in spiritual exorcism activities of their own free will, and are relatively free.
It is difficult to simply generalize about spirit removers who are a lower level than folk Shinto.
The remaining people come from all kinds of religions. Most of them do not have the opportunity to systematically learn spirit-removing techniques, but due to various reasons, they eventually embark on the path of spirit-removing.
In Onizuka Kiriho's eyes, the "honest foreigner" belongs to the lowest category of folk exorcists.
Because there is no decent teacher to lead the way, there is no way to systematically learn the knowledge of removing spirits, and my own strength is also very weak. When I encounter problems, I have no choice but to ask netizens.
This is Onizuka’s impression of “Stranger”.
It's a bit pitiful when I think about it.
It is precisely because of this idea that every time Kamiyagawa sends a message to ask a question, the kind little miko will try her best to answer it after seeing it.
Just help if you can.
It took about three minutes after Onizuka's question was raised before a message came back from the other end of the chat box.
[The Honest Stranger]: "I was discovered by you."
After the little witch saw this reply, the corners of her mouth turned up, and a pair of beautiful and smart almond eyes showed a proud light.
How could I not discover it?
How smart I am!
[Purple Shangzhang]: "So about Bai'er's matter, are you asking casually, or is it something you really encountered?"
According to the clever little witch's speculation, the "stranger" is a spirit remover who has actually performed spirit removal activities.
A while ago, he said that he frequently encountered ghosts and obsessions, and he also asked a lot of questions.
According to Onizuka's reasonable imagination, that is the time when "Stranger" begins to remove spirits.
After a while again——
[The Honest Stranger]: "I really encountered one."
[Purple Shangzhang]: "If you meet a lot of people, you won't be able to chat with me anymore."
[Purple Shang Shang]: "Generally speaking, strange stories like Bai'er's are rarely visited by strangers, so what you encountered was probably a spirit descending, right?"
[Murakami]: "Also, I have to remind you, if possible, don't get too deep into things related to Bai'er. Because Bai'er and the others are likely to follow Inugami into reality."
It’s not that Onizuka looks down on people.
If there really is a vicious dog god who has achieved a spiritual descent or a foreign visit, it is obviously beyond the scope of what the "stranger" can handle.
[Honest Stranger]: "I understand."
[Purple Shangzhang]: "Then, if you have any questions, you can ask me more and I will try my best to answer them for you. To a certain extent, I am your teacher."
[The honest stranger]: "I will, boss. Listen to me, thank you..."
The Stranger joked for a while, as usual, and then went offline.
The little witch placed the phone on the edge of the bathtub, then half-immersed her face in the bath water and started spitting bubbles like a big white fish.
"So, he is really a folk spirit remover...GuluGulu."
Speaking of which, among the group of spirit removers, there are some old-fashioned people with official status who look down on those grassroots folk spirit removers.
But as a rising star, Onitsuka Kirihota would not think so.
In this world, there are so many strange stories about ghosts coming to reality and alien visits, but there are only a few official ghost exterminators in total.
Civilian spirit exterminators are also spirit exterminators. Essentially, everyone is fighting hard to protect the peace of reality.
Everyone is doing their best to do a great thing, so why do they have to be ranked higher and lower?
In fact, after being around the ghost story forum for so long, "Stranger" was not the first netizen Onizuka encountered who was keen on asking various questions about ghost stories.
When meeting such people before, the little witch would try her best to answer their questions.
Again, if you can help, just help.
Ordinary people don't encounter so many weird problems.
Those who do this are usually low-level folk spirit exterminators who are desperate.
For those people I met before, after a certain period of time, their avatars were always gray and never lit up again.
Removing spirits is not playing house.
Confronting the most vicious monsters head-on would definitely result in death. Even Onizuka Kiriho himself has the consciousness that he may sacrifice himself in the future.
only--
"I quite like chatting with you."
"Don't die."
