Kamiyagawa also glanced at the totem symbols in the shrine: "The God of Anyu Kamei shouldn't care about disease and health, right?"
"My impression is usually about praying for rain and stopping rain." Onizuka agreed.
Um……
It seems that praying for rain and stopping rain can now be done in the RIYABO 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 if there was one.
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 a small village on the border of Vietnam more than ten years ago, he visited a small village that believed in Allah.
The way the old people worship in that village is to offer a suckling pig as a sacrifice to the mother, and then kowtow.
Quite subtle.
But having said that, this dark silt Kamigami Shrine still feels strange to Kamiya, with an indescribable strange aura.
Something must be 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, which made the environment of this desolate little shrine a bit ethereal.
This flute is a tool used by Onizuka to assist his perception, 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 yelled and got under the old altar table of the small shrine.
Onizuka Hengdi controlled the light spots to converge towards the bottom of the altar table.
It seems that something has been discovered.
"Aba whined."
Lifting the worn tablecloth, you can see that the bottom of the crumbling altar table is covered with dusty square tiles.
However, one piece seemed to have less dust marks than the others, and it seemed that it had been moved recently.
Kamiyakawa fiddled with the special brick 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 was a tightly closed wooden box. There wasn't much dust on the surface of the wooden box, and it was dark, probably because it had just been put in.
"This thing isn't quite right."
Kamiya could clearly see a 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 shrunk a lot, "Okay, let's open it and take a look?"
"Um."
Although the box doesn't look quite right, the aura on it is just that strong.
After all, Kamiya and Onizuka are young talents among the spirit 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 opened, and the hinges made an old turning sound.
What came into view was a small gavel and a palm-sized straw man.
On the villain'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, he can roughly tell 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 twisted straw straws 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 a small paper roll embedded in the hair.
When you take it out and spread it out, you can see that it is densely written with twisted small characters——
[***Kumakura Ruka cheated on her with a woman, causing my son Takiguchi Hideyuki to commit suicide. Takashi Takiguchi, the son of Kumagura Ruka, looks nothing like my son in appearance, words and deeds, but he is actually the son of his daughter-in-law. ]
[The believer Takiguchi Takashi prays day and night, knocks on the straw man, and prays for retribution. Takashi Takiguchi, who was born out of sin and immorality, cannot live or die. Nowadays, the believer Takiguchi Renko is about to die. I have been compiling Takiguchi Takashi for twenty-four years. I hope that the God of Darkness and Beauty will have mercy on him and curse him to death. Give him relief and go to hell with me. ]
Takiguchi Renko, I have seen this name Kamiyagawa before, 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 they were 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 monsters.
But at this moment, in this warm late spring, in the deserted shrine in the mountains, they all invariably felt a sinister chill crawling across 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 let out 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 grandma often took me to the village shrine to pray for blessings. Maybe my grandma's prayers really worked. Although I am sick, I still live successfully until now."
"On the way to the shrine, I was held by grandma's rough, warm hands. When I got tired, I could lie on grandma's back and act coquettishly... On the way home, I could buy a Shiki confection for ten yen."
"My grandma would always give me haircuts in the yard with her own hands. The hairstyle she got was rustic but very cute."
"..."
Mr. Takiguchi must have missed and loved 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 became a little dazed, and his eyes slowly moved up, landing on the dark silt and beautiful god tablet placed high up.
The divine card was gloomy and stood there motionless. There is obviously only one wooden sign, but it carries a dark and heavy feeling.
Then, Kamiya lowered his head again and looked at the gavel in the wooden box in his hand.
His vagina was 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 the gavel banging.
Bang bang bang.
Through the ominous aura curled up 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 Kamei, 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.
Praying in a shrine
Grandma would go 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.
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 she dug out from under the floor tiles.
The little miko can handle this, and Kamiya can handle it too. The effect of using Yang Lei, who is already very proficient and filled with brilliant righteousness, to penetrate and burn it out should be the same.
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.
"Takiguchi-san, 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 road 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. In order to obtain the power of a curse, she prayed to Kifune Daimyojin to turn herself into a ghost.
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, "Praying in Worship at the Time of Ugly Time."
"Is it so easy for people to become ghosts and gods?"
Kamiya felt something was wrong after hearing this story.
He is a candidate to be the co-master of ghosts and gods. In order to obtain the power of ghosts and gods that truly belongs to him, he has to go through a lot of hardships.
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 Shikigami's incense belief, feed it back to itself, and then consolidate the power of ghosts and gods over time.
[An app that has been running stably for many years, comparable to the old book-chasing tool, used by all old bookworms.
matter.
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 came to the door of Takiguchi's house while chatting, and soon met Yunju Haruka here.
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 confused Miss Yunju.
Finally, the three of them arrived at a quiet place outside the door. After confirming that no one was around, they truthfully told the truth about what they had discovered at the Anyu Kamei Shrine.
"You think the reason why Takashi is sick is because he was cursed for a long time? And the person who cursed him was his grandmother?"
Miss Yunju also felt a little chilled when she first heard this information.
The complexity and unpredictability of the human heart may indeed be far beyond the evil and strange stories.
"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 he shouldn't have intervened in the first place.
This trip to Qiyu can be regarded as a mission to complete a task assigned by Miss Yunju.
This is to facilitate the young apprentice Kanoya to learn the incense method from the successor of Ami Ryu incense in the future.
The mission is considered to be successfully completed when it reaches this point. What to do next is all Miss Yunju's business.
"I don't plan to tell him, at least not now." Yunju Haruka thought for a while before saying this, and then thanked her, "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 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 something else 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 female godfather?" Miss Yunju finally said.
"Maybe I didn't get their hair."
Kamiya also thought about this issue on his way back.
Probably so.
The truth of the matter may only be fully known to the dead Takiguchi Renko.
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.
