Because it is late spring, the weather today is quite comfortable. Sitting on the second floor of a western restaurant, you can see people coming and going on the street through the large floor-to-ceiling windows.
Kamiya and Onizuka had almost finished their lunch. The little miko put down the knife and fork in her hand: "By the way, Kamiya. I heard that you are looking for a Kodo teacher for Kanoya?"
"Yeah." Kamiya nodded, thinking to himself, Onitsuka, are you really just
"Heard"? I feel like you heard it very specifically...
"Why Xiangdao?"
"Because I feel that she is more suitable...well, actually she has a prop in her hand that is suitable for the use of incense magic." After the battle at Jixiangsu, the [Shengtoku Royal Incense Burner] was picked up by Kamiya. For this kind of
There was no response from the "Little Things" Countermeasures Room, so they probably didn't know about it. Maybe someone knew about it but acquiesced.
"So have you found the right teacher?"
"Not yet." Kamiyagawa had been actively looking for Xiaolu's second teacher before, but he hadn't found a suitable candidate yet.
During last year's battle in Wakayama and the operation against Yumeo, many official spiritual masters owed him favors. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Kamiya had saved lives for those people.
If any of those spirit exterminators were proficient in the art of incense, it would be a matter of course for them to be entrusted to teach Xiaolu directly.
Unfortunately, there are not too many official spiritual masters who study the Xiang Dao sect, and those who have friendship with Kamiya don't know how to do this.
After asking back and forth before, I did know a few people who knew the incense magic, but Kamiyagawa didn't know those people, or their activity range was too far from Tokyo. Kamiyagawa was still waiting for the help of the spiritual master who owed him a favor. The right person bridges the gap.
"That's it." Onitsuka thought thoughtfully.
"I know someone who practices incense magic. She's my friend. She lives in Tokyo, so she might be a good fit."
"Your friend?"
"What kind of look are you looking at?" Kamiya's slightly surprised look made Onizuka a little dissatisfied.
"I have friends too!"
"Ah, sorry, I never heard you mention it."
"That's because you didn't ask me at all, right? And you didn't take the initiative to tell me about your apprentice?"
"It seems so..." Onizuka shook his head and got back to the topic: "Unju Haruka, the descendant of Soami-ryu. Haruka-san is Kari-san's friend and often comes to Juqiong Shrine to play, so my relationship with her is It's also very good." Sister Huali in her mouth refers to wealth.
He is also an acquaintance of Kamiya, the somewhat shady Mi Yi from Juqiong Shrine. During the previous operation against Meng Nan, he established a pretty good relationship with the elder sister Mi Yi.
But this is the first time I know someone’s full name. And the so-called
"Sōami-ryu" is a school of incense. Historical records record that the founder of this school, Soami, was the court master of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate in the Chrysanthemum Dynasty of Japan.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa was quite a failure in politics, but he made a great contribution to the cultural development of Japan's Muromachi period. Ashikaga Yoshimasa was artistic and romantic, and often protected artists and cultural people.
Soami is one of his most accomplished artists. However, history books only mention Ashikaga Yoshimasa's court master Soami, who was proficient in painting and calligraphy, calligraphy and painting appraisal, interior decoration, garden design, and incense making. They will not mention that Soami was also a magic practitioner.
The Soami-ryu incense method he created is a school of incense that involves extraordinary power. After the completion and iteration of later generations of inheritors, it has become a unique folk magic school with a relatively complete system.
And unlike the somewhat evil incense magic method of the Jixiangsu Inuzhu family, Soami-ryu followed an elegant and righteous path.
From this perspective, it is more suitable for Xiaolu to learn. In addition, according to the secular view, Xiangami Liuxiangdao has already
"Lost". But in fact, there is no such thing. This Xiangdao school involving extraordinary power includes other
"Jianbu Liuxiang Road",
"Fenghaoliuxiang Dao" has actually been passed down except in the spiritual master system, but it is not open to ordinary people.
Kamiya: "Unju Haruka, Soami Ryu. I seemed to have heard of this name when I was looking for candidates before. It is said that the research on the magic of Kodo is very in-depth. However, people in the countermeasures room said that her relationship with the countermeasures room is not Very close." Onizuka: "Well, Haruka-san is a kind of foreign aid, a bit like you? Strictly speaking, she is not completely affiliated with the countermeasures room, and she usually moves relatively freely."
"Can you help me contact her?"
"Isn't that why I'm telling you this? However, I can't guarantee whether Sister Haruka is willing to help you teach your disciples." The little miko is still very kind. After knowing the physique of Kanoya's spiritual fetus, she took the initiative to recommend it. Find a suitable incense magic teacher.
Of course, she may have other considerations in doing so. For example, if Haruka Kumo, who has a good relationship with her, can really get in touch with Kanoya, then Onizuka can indirectly understand the nature of Kamiyagawa's young apprentice.
Sure enough, I still feel uneasy.
"What if it's a strange child, even if it's accompanied by Kaitan's parents, it wouldn't be right to live with Achuan." This is what Onizuka thought.
The little miko made a phone call in front of Kamiya. Looking at the way she was chatting with the other end of the phone, her tone and demeanor were quite relaxed.
There's probably some drama. Seven or eight minutes later, Onizuka hung up the phone and smiled at Kamiya River: "Sister Haruka said she can meet us this Saturday."... Life at Kamiya University was surprisingly easy.
There are only two classes in the Youkai Studies major, and the number of students is not too large. Most of the time, classes are held in small classes, but occasionally large classes are held together with other humanities subjects in the course schedule.
And I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but Kamiya himself had very few classes, only a dozen classes a week, which was almost half that of others.
Even compared to his classmates in the same major, he took some courses. In comparison, Onizuka's courses seemed much more arduous.
But I heard that Onizuka seems to have the privilege of taking frequent vacations? Kamiya didn't know exactly how it was done, but it seemed that as long as the little miko passed the final exam, there wouldn't be any problems.
Anyway, for these two outstanding young spiritual masters, it is a good thing to be able to arrange their time more freely.
As for the monster studies that Kamiya studied, it was quite interesting to him personally, and it was a professional counterpart. Japanese secular academia
The discussion of "monsters" has long ceased to be obsessed with
"Does it really exist?"
"Is it superstitious?" Such questions arise. Instead, we try to answer the question through different methodologies, such as history, philology, folklore, sociology, psychology, classical literature, etc.
The question of "monsters, ghosts, and how weird phenomena occur." The main studies in the department are centered around these, and are applicable to many professional directions such as animation, design, folk literature, and Japanese cultural studies.
After experiencing it for the first time in a few classes, Kamiya was quite emotional. From the perspective of not considering the extraordinary power of this world, people like Yanagita Kunio and Irish-born Koizumi Yakumo, who were the first to study monsters, are still very powerful.
These early Japanese folklorists forcibly brought the folk monster culture that was originally difficult to enter into the academic hall, combined with the scholarship of Western mythology, into the academic hall.
These scholars have played an important role in promoting Japan's monster culture to flourish, penetrate into all aspects of the cultural field, and become an actual source of income.
"However, the greater the influence of communication, the faster the ghost stories are generated... It is no wonder that the culture side is now using relatively tolerant means to make the image of monsters cute and harmful." As for Kamiyagawa himself, he has a very in-depth understanding of monsters. , after all, I have done it countless times to remove spirits in the inner and outer world, and I usually read various related books.
But it is still of great benefit to him to receive relevant learning in such a systematic way. Especially the folklore related religions and monster customs in various parts of Japan. These knowledge points cannot be fully understood by just reading books and reading the information in the countermeasures room.
The courses at Dongdali are a good way to expand his theoretical knowledge. It’s no wonder that the Countermeasures Office will use its own power to contact various universities to
In the form of "special recruitment", young spiritual masters are sent to universities for further studies. ...Unconsciously, the time arrived on Friday, which was the day before the scheduled meeting with Yunju Haruka, the successor of Soami Kado.
At noon that day, after Kamitani finished a class on "Lectures on Monsters" at Hongo Campus, he received a call from Onizuka.
On the phone, the little miko said that something seemed to be wrong with Yunju Haruka. But they couldn't explain it in a few words, so the two made an appointment to meet in front of the school's Yasuda lecture hall.
After the two met, the little miko's first words were: "Agawa, do you have any classes this afternoon? Do you want to go to Saitama County to meet Sister Haruka together?"
"I don't have any classes, but don't you have a lot of classes?"
"It's okay with me. You can take leave."
"Well... I didn't originally agree to meet tomorrow. What happened to Miss Yunju?"
"Haruka-san is fine, but she will stay in Saitama County for the past two days." Onizuka shook his head.
"Actually, there is something wrong with her boyfriend. I don't know how to explain it specifically. I feel that Sister Haruka needs my help. Let's talk about it on the way to Saitama?" The current time is 12 noon, from Hongo The campus departs from Bunkyo Ward to Saitama Prefecture. If you take the train, you will arrive at about one o'clock in the afternoon.
However, Kamiya is accustomed to using ghost cars to travel, which of course saves time and effort. There are currently two vehicles at home.
Oishi has been driving the ghost Mazda as a full-time driver for Kamiya, but sister Ohara, who controls the ghost motorcycle, has been basically arranged to follow Kanoya recently.
It was like fulfilling that girl’s little wish of having a ghost car to ride in when going to and from school. On the ghost car, Onitsuka briefly told Kamiya about the situation at Haruka Kumoi's side - saying that Miss Kumoi had just made a boyfriend a month ago, and her boyfriend's name was Takashi Takiguchi.
In the past two days, Miss Yunju has been staying with Saitama because she accompanied Mr. Takiguchi to attend the funeral.
The person who died was Takiguchi’s grandmother.
"Sister Haruka's identity as a spiritual master is relatively secretive. Although she has registered in the countermeasures room, she rarely goes to help the countermeasures room. She runs an incense gym in the Minato District of Tokyo. She usually sells incense and gives it to ordinary people. People give lessons, teaching general incense knowledge and so on. Mr. Takiguchi was originally a guest of Sister Haruka, and we only met him in January of this year."
"And Mr. Takiguchi is usually normal. How should I put it? He is not very thin and even exercises regularly, but he seems to be a little sick. Sister Haruka always seems to smell some bad smell on him."
"Sister Haruka didn't pay too much attention to this at first. After all, she was just an ordinary customer, so she just reminded Mr. Takiguchi to go to shrines and temples to pray for blessings. But after the two of them started dating, it was difficult to start paying attention to this, so she tried to find Takiguchi. The source of Mr. Mouth’s pleasant smell.”
"I didn't have any clue at first. But it seems that after I went to the countryside in Saitama yesterday, the smell on Mr. Takiguchi's body suddenly became stronger. It was much stronger than usual, and even contained the smell of death, which made Sister Haruka It feels bad.”
"I just contacted Sister Haruka two days ago, and she asked me to go to Saitama's place today." The little miko told all the information related to Yunju Haruka.
After hearing this, Kamiya didn't express much opinion. What kind of strange thing happened to Mr. Takiguchi? He still had to wait until he went to Saitama and saw it with his own eyes before he could draw a conclusion.
...According to Yunju Qingxiangfa's navigation position, Oishi Shunma drove the car near Saitama's Shenquan Village.
In a secluded place, Kamiya and Onizuka got out of the car and walked to their destination. Since the Takiguchi family was having a funeral, it wasn't too difficult to find him.
It is a self-built house in a rural area. It is quite large and has its own courtyard. At the entrance of Kamiya and Onizuka, they saw the waiting Haruka Kumoi.
Miss Yunju is probably in her mid-twenties. She has an oval face and delicate and beautiful features. Because she was attending a funeral, her long, permed red hair was neatly tied up, and her clothes were all dark and simple.
But maybe because she is a perfumer of the elegant school of fragrance, she has an elegant and noble mature temperament, and she also has a slightly lazy feeling.
The first impression I get is that of a beautiful big sister who seems to be able to face any situation with ease.
"Sister Haruka, I'm here."
"Hello, Miss Yunju. This is the first time we meet. My name is Kamiyakawa." Onizuka and Kamiya each greeted their sister.
"Gui'an." Yunju Qingxiang smiled and nodded. Her voice was low and soft. After saying hello, she turned her gaze to Kamiya and looked at it with interest for a while: "Xiaoying, this is the person you often talk about. My little boyfriend? He’s a very talented person.”
"I never said that Agawa is my boyfriend, right?" the little miko said. At the same time, she raised her hand to grab Kamiya's wrist and gently pulled him back behind her.
Yunju Qingxiang still smiled: "Aren't you starting to protect your food? Xiaoying is so cute."
"Haruka-sama, please stop teasing me." After all, the girl does not have the sense of calmness that a big sister does. Onizuka's face turned red from being teased, but he could only protest in a low voice.
"I'm here to help you, really."
