Isohime entered Munakata Taisha Shrine to perform the evil spirits ceremony.
Like last time, Kamiya stayed outside the main hall and looked around, hoping to find some useful clues inside Munakata Grand Shrine, which only appeared once in three hundred years.
About ten minutes later, a small red figure appeared on Okutsu Island close to the shrine.
"Hey!"
Crab Princess jumped from the island into the confines of the shrine. When she landed, her heavy armor trembled.
Appearing at this time, she probably really has no intention of competing for the leadership of the country.
"Little Can, why are you here?"
"Let me take a look. Munakata Grand Shrine only appears once in three hundred years. Wouldn't it be a pity not to take a look?" Crab Princess looked around seriously, and then did not forget to reply, "No, I am not a can! I It obviously has a name!”
"Haha, you are not allowed to be the leader of the country, are you a little unconvinced?"
After all, it was Crab Ji who was being helped by Zhoumo. Following the previous experience, I felt a little sorry for helping Ji Ji this time.
"What can I do if I'm not convinced? I can't beat you again and again, it's just what you say." Xie Ji curled her lips, with an expression of resignation, "And Grandpa Crab said, I may have to rely on you to ensure that in the future As a continuation of my tribe, I have been specifically asked not to contradict you and to be respectful to you."
"Then you really didn't listen to what your Grandpa Crab said."
"snort."
The little crab girl turned her head away as if she was embarrassed.
"How is Crab Island?" Kamiya asked her again.
"It's not good. Grandpa Crab may not be able to hold on for long. If the next red tide comes, Crab Island may be..." Crab Girl looked frustrated.
At the end of last week's game, Crab Princess became the leader of the country. The first thing Hai Yiguang did was to consume the energy in the tears of the ocean to repair Crab Island.
But this time, she did not become the head of the country.
I still remember that the crab shop owner’s previous estimate was that Crab Island could last another hundred years. But without the auspicious aurora power of Xie Ji, Crab Island probably won't be able to hold on for long and is in danger.
Maybe the next red tide will come and it will be completely wiped out.
At that time, we can really only count on Kamiyagawa to lead them to move their entire family and leave the Sea Country.
"I'll take care of the red tide and give you all a happy ending."
Kamiya raised his hand and tapped Crab Girl's red star pocket.
"No, don't touch me!"
Perhaps because of getting used to it, Xiaocan's reaction is no longer as intense as before. After getting along recently, the relationship between her and Kamiya has actually eased a lot.
A powerful alien god who wants to save all the sea people. Although he is more or less partial to the bad mermaids, he is really not annoying.
"To solve the red tide, it sounds nice... Well, I also see that you seem to be very busy and hard recently. However, the red tide has appeared for so long, and no solution has been found, and the cause is not even known. Even if you're good……"
"Will do."
"Well, just say so. If you can really handle the red tide..."
"Just give me all the conches and pebbles you collected?"
"Eh!? How do you know what I have? I-I didn't give it to you! I picked them up piece by piece with great pains when I was a little crab. I will only give them to you when I make very good friends in the future. I'll give it away! But...but I can treat you to grilled fish, as long as you don't call me Xiaocan again."
"Okay, little can."
"You're so annoying! You definitely can't make friends. Only an idiot would want to be friends with you!"
"Well, yes."
Because he thought of the Zhoumu incident, Kamiya looked at the little Crab Lady with a half-smile.
"What do you mean by that look in your eyes?"
If it's not really unbeatable.
Crab Princess really wanted to ram the Kamiya River into the floor tiles of Munakata Taisha Shrine with one hammer.
…
Nothing valuable could be found in Munakata Grand Shrine, everything was the same as last time.
But just a few minutes after Crab Princess arrived at the shrine.
There was suddenly a strange movement next to the huge torii gate standing on the sea.
Kamitani was the first to react.
With a loud sound, he drew out a word.
This action startled Crab Girl, but then she also noticed something strange——
A mysterious force caused ripples on the calm sea.
The water began to surge slightly, as if something alive was squirming under the surface, preparing to break through the water.
Suddenly, a "click-click" sound, like the sound of loose wood on an old wooden door, came from the water one after another. A huge black shadow surged out, like a ghost breaking through the boundaries of the shrine.
It was an ancient battleship.
The wooden hull was dilapidated and covered with shells and salt flowers. From bow to stern, there were armor protection made of rafters. The outer cover was iron armor with holes all over it.
The ship's sides are high, the sea water is rolling down, and the decaying hull is dancing with strange blue firelight. The sails are whirring and swaying, intertwined with evil will-o'-the-wisps and low and plaintive whistling.
"That ship girl?"
"Azaki Maru? Ah - what are you talking about, and what is a ship girl?"
Kamiya and Crab Princess spoke at the same time.
Little Can's doubts were not answered, because with quick eyes and quick hands, Kamiyagawa directly held Ichimonji and the Banshee and rushed towards the place where Anzakamaru appeared.
Something is wrong.
There was no such thing in the previous week.
Anzaya Maru was crushing towards Munakata Shrine. At the bow of the ship, Kamiya saw something unusual.
A ship's head.
Why is there a bow statue on the Anzhai ship?
It was a stone goddess statue, not as big as the Western ship's bow statue, a little mottled, but lifelike.
The goddess's upper body leans slightly forward, and her figure is plump and graceful. The sea breeze seemed to be blowing from her front. The thin clothes faintly revealed the plump and elastic body of the goddess. The texture of the dress and the sculpture of the pleats were breathtaking. The corners of the clothes fluttering back and the rings around the chest were breathtaking. The hands formed extremely smooth lines, and they were obviously stone statues but full of life-like vitality.
The last time he saw Anzaya Maru, Kamiya seemed not to have noticed the small bow statue because he was too far away.
But now it's hard not to notice. The ship's bow statue is emitting a strange light, and it vaguely echoes the atmosphere in Munakata Taisha Shrine.
It feels like Crab Princess and Isabel Princess standing here.
"The carving seems to be Taki Toki no Mikoto-sama. Wait a minute, why is there Munakata's aura that doesn't belong to I and Isohime?"
The little can in hindsight exclaimed.
As Munakata herself, she can feel the power of "the same kind" more than Kamiya.
The third statue of the clan in the Sea Kingdom is the Anzai Maru who rarely appears in the sight of the Sea Clan, sails at extremely fast speeds, and can never see the end of a divine dragon?
No, that's not right.
Anzamaru is probably just a fusangshin who has initially gained some consciousness.
And it seems that consciousness has never been formed.
How could it be Munakata?
In the blink of an eye, Kamiyagawa had rushed in front of Anzaki Maru and called out the shikigami for help.
This Anzhai Maru is just a ship with some consciousness, and it does not pose much of a threat in itself.
But entering Munakata Taisha Shrine like this will definitely have an impact on Isohime who is performing a ceremony.
But entering Munakata Taisha Shrine like this will definitely have an impact on Isohime who is performing a ceremony.
But before Kamiya could take action, the big ship felt a strong oppressive aura, and the ship's planks made a rattling sound that was almost whimpering.
Then he immediately turned the ship's bow and dived towards the bottom of the sea.
"Escape? Mary!"
The red mist surges.
Mary, who had returned to her prime, swayed out of the mist and stood on the bow of the ship.
Her dress was black and red in bright and distinct colors, and it was shaking violently. The huge machete in her hand fell, and it sliced off the bow of the Anzhai Maru.
The wood breaks.
The ship's bow statue and some pieces of wood were separated with a "swish", and then were caught by several red spirits clinging to the ship's body, and dragged into the red mist.
The sound on the Anzhai Pill was almost a cry.
But at Kamiya's signal, Mary did not continue to pursue and kill them all, but escaped into the mist again.
Da'anzhai quickly disappeared into the sea.
Mary brought the ship's head statue in front of Kamiya.
"Xi Ji, come here."
After grabbing the peculiar ship's bow statue, Kamiya called out to Crab Princess.
When he turned around, he saw Xiao Can with his eyes closed, his hands clasped together, raised in front of his chest, and he was reciting something very seriously.
"……What are you doing?"
After two or three seconds, Crab Princess stopped her movements and said matter-of-factly: "Make a wish. It is said that seeing Anzhai Maru will bring good luck."
"Why on earth do you think ghost ships are a symbol of good luck?"
Kamiya was left speechless.
"Maybe, because it's really hard to see?"
Little Can Can didn't seem to understand the complaint and analyzed and conjectured in a serious manner.
"Forget it, come here and take a look at this. Is this the Munakata aura you just mentioned?"
"Ah, it seems so."
Crab Princess looked up and down at the statue of Taki Toki.
This vivid stone statue is actually only about 20 centimeters long, and it is indeed difficult to notice it on the huge Anzaya Maru. Moreover, it is no longer the shining state just now, the appearance has dimmed, and the feeling of being integrated with the Munakata family just now is no longer there.
However, Crab Princess can still clearly feel the aura of the same kind from it, but this "same kind" is different from herself and Ishime, and is much weaker.
Therefore, the third statue of Mune is not Anzaimaru.
But the stone statue itself.
In other words, the third ancestral statue in the Sea Kingdom is a dead thing, but it is only connected to the Anzhai Maru.
"The original aura is not strong, and it is much weaker than it was on the Anzhai Maru just now. But this one seems to be the dead Munakata?"
Crab Girl exclaims her discovery.
"So there really is such a thing?"
In an instant, Kamiyagawa's mind connected the information he had previously mastered——
"There are rumors that as long as you get the third Munakata statue, you will be qualified to enter Munakata Grand Shrine and ascend to the position of country leader."
Zhijiao Ji's Tonghuo memory mentioned this.
"If the descendant of the third ocean goddess, Taki Toki no Mikoto, died a long time ago and left no descendants, then the power of Munakata in his body is likely to be extracted in the form of material."
Not long ago, the medicine seller also raised such a conjecture on Gaotianyuan.
So, is there really a third statue of Mune that exists in the form of material in the Sea Kingdom?
But in retrospect, Kamiyagawa and Isohime had met Atazamaru once before, and at that time they did not feel such a special aura about Atezamaru.
Even Ishime, who was sensitive to the smell of "the same kind", didn't say she had discovered anything special.
Perhaps as the medicine seller said, the power of the extracted clan image itself is not as strong as the "living clan images" such as Crab Princess and Ji Ji.
Maybe it was completely activated after getting close to Munakata Taisha Shrine.
"If you get the third statue of Mune in the form of material, you will be qualified to compete for the leadership of the Sea Kingdom."
As Kamiya said this, he knelt down and touched the statue of Taki Toki Meizune on the ground.
But nothing was felt.
Doesn't seem to work.
"Is there such a saying?" Crab Girl wondered, "You also want to be the leader of the sea country? But the bad mermaid has been in for a long time, is it too late? Moreover, even if this statement is true, you are not a descendant of the sea. , the sea can’t possibly respond to you.”
"Children of the ocean?" Shen Gu withdrew his hand, thinking that I didn't have any men, "Whale."
The ocean is filled with water vapor, and the little whale appears in a daze, dragging its big tail.
After appearing, he silently moved behind Kamiya and grabbed Kamiya's clothes, trying to stay as far away from the curious little can as possible.
Obviously, the little whale is not simply afraid of strangers, but is suffering from PTSD.
Crab Girl looks about fifteen or sixteen years old in appearance, but Hua Jing, who is only seven or eight years old in body and mind, naturally classifies her as a sister.
In addition, the appearance exceeds the threshold that the little whale can accept...
All conditions are met.
So in non-combat situations, he is afraid of Crab Princess.
But if they can fight, the little whale doesn't seem to be afraid of the beautiful sister.
Kamiya didn't quite understand the circuitry in his little head.
"What is this... shikigami of yours? Why are you so afraid of me? Do I look fierce?"
Krabs smiled as kindly as she could at her little whale brother.
But it was okay not to smile. When he laughed, the little whale's small body began to tremble, its big slippery tail slapped uneasily on the floor tiles, and it grabbed Kamiya's clothes and did not dare to let go.
"Stay a little bit away from him... It's a shadow of his childhood shortly after he was born. It's very complicated to explain, but you should be proud of it." Kamiyakawa was also a little helpless, and then touched the whale's head, "Little Whale, go and touch the statue underground."
Hua Whale hesitated for a moment, looked at Crab Girl who was slightly far away with a confused look with lingering fear, and then dragged his big tail and followed the instructions.
As soon as his hand touched the Taki Toki statue, the goddess's stone sculpture emitted light again.
The aura similar to that of Crab Princess and Ji Ji, where the same sect is like a big family, reappeared.
"Perhaps, the so-called rumor two hundred years ago is actually true."
The third Munegami exists on the rarely seen and extremely fast Azaya Maru.
Moreover, there seems to be no special performance without being close to Munakata Taisha Shrine.
No wonder it has never been found by the Sea Clan.
But what Kamiyagawa doesn't understand is why Atazamaru appears here?
This obviously didn't happen last time.
"From my personal point of view, the only thing that is different from last time is - I met Azaya Maru in advance? Is it because of me, that I attracted the ghost ship here? Or maybe it was the gathering at Munakata Taisha Shrine He found two Munakata who were still alive, so that’s why he attracted Anzaimaru here?”
When Kamiyagawa was still wondering whether he was really attracted by Kanji, in the Munakata Temple not far behind him, a noble and graceful figure was holding a scepter made of gold and inlaid with bright teardrop-shaped sapphires. Facing the dim light of the morning sun, he walked out of the palace gate.
The succession ceremony on Isohime's side has ended.
