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Chapter 809 Temari Uta: Where are you?

After Mr. Kihara explained the situation, he was actually a little nervous.

As a teacher, she told the two police officers that the current missing children incident might be related to mountain goblins and monsters...Looking back on it, this seems a bit ridiculous.

Then, somewhat to Mr. Kihara's surprise, the two police officers from Tokyo looked normal after the conversation. In the end, they simply asked where the shrine that performed the exorcism ceremony for Sasagami Elementary School last week was located, and then said goodbye and left for the time being.

Kanoya and Tsurumi came out of Sasagami Elementary School and returned to the ghost car parked nearby.

"Yahiko Shrine, Brother Shunma, let's go here next." Xiaolu showed the destination on the mobile phone navigation to Oishi Shunma.

"Okay, Ms. Kanoya."

Yahiko Shrine, according to the information provided by Mr. Kihara, this is the shrine that performed the exorcism ceremony for Sasagami Elementary School.

Next, Kanoya and his team will go there to learn more about the situation.

Yahiko Shrine is a large shrine in Niigata Prefecture.

Located at the foot of Mt. Yahiko in Nishikanbara County, the main deity enshrined is Iyahiko.

This shrine stands in a lush forest. The torii gate of the shrine is made of century-old cypress wood, and the bridge railings are built with whole stones. There are also the thousand-year-old sacred bridge, sacred tree, and sacred horse shed. It is grand in scale and magnificent.

Since it's a big shrine, it must be connected to the Countermeasures Office, so it would 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 from the Countermeasures Room, and then announced their master. They were soon treated with courtesy and successfully met the deity of the place.

The chief priest here is an elderly and kind old man. He received Kanoya and others in the reception room of the shrine which is not open to the public.

During the polite greetings, the old priest praised Kamiyagawa and introduced the situation of Yahiko Shrine.

According to him, although Yahiko Shrine is large and popular, its business level in the exorcism industry has always been in the middle.

Last year, Kamiyagawa and Onizuka Miko of Kyokyo Shrine took the lead in carrying out extensive exchanges of exquisite talisman skills in the exorcism industry. Although Yahiko Shrine was not the core object 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 Guishen and Juqiong Shenzi for open source!

Xiaolu and Tsurumi were very pleased to hear the praise of their master from outsiders, and their faces were full of light. However, because they had important matters to deal with, after a simple greeting, they took the initiative to change the topic and asked about the affairs of Sasagami Elementary School.

"I just received news about Sasagami Elementary School." The old priest obviously knew something about the situation. "Yes, a week ago, the principal there asked our shrine to come over to exorcise a ghost. He said there might be an evil spirit in the school that was threatening the students."

"Is it a Kamaitachi?"

"Yes. The appearance of the Kamaitachi at Sasagami Elementary School was a little surprising. According to the current classification of monster strength, the three Kamaitachi are probably a C-level group ghost story. The priests assigned to exorcise the spirits did not expect that a monster like the Kamaitachi could be so strong at first. They only discovered it after the exorcism ceremony began."

C-level monsters can be dealt with more safely by the elite exorcists.

Although Kamiya and Onizuka did consciously try to enhance the overall strength of the entire exorcism industry through the exchange of interests, and it has achieved certain results, this is not something that can be achieved overnight.

"However, although the sickle weasels that were causing trouble in Sasagami Elementary School were not weak, they were particularly timid. After the exorcism ceremony began, they had a brief fight with the priests of the shrine, and were then defeated and fled. Those weasels are wind demons, and they are extremely fast. The priests of the shrine could not catch up with them."

"Considering that the three weasels were timid by nature and had no desire to fight, and that they had not actually hurt anyone at Sasagami Elementary School, scaring the students might be more in line with their mischievous nature. Therefore, the priests in the shrine believed that after the exorcism, the weasels would not return to the school. Therefore, the shrine only reported the matter to the Countermeasures Office last week. In addition, there are other supernatural incidents that Niigata Prefecture needs to deal with, and we don't have too many people..."

"But I didn't expect those weasels to be so vengeful that they returned to Sasagami Elementary School in such a short time and kidnapped two students. This was indeed caused by our miscalculation."

"Since you two are the disciples of the Ghost God and are in charge of this incident, if you need any assistance from the Yahiko Shrine, we will spare no effort, which can be regarded as making up for it."

The old priest explained what he knew, but he himself was not directly involved in the exorcism of Sasagami Elementary School.

After all, I'm old and no longer have the energy to do anything.

Kanoya and Tsurumi did not stay in Yahiko Shrine for too long. After understanding the situation, they said goodbye and left.

On the way down the mountain, the sisters from the same sect discussed the information they had obtained and tried to come up with a plan for the next step.

Kanoya: "The chief priest of Yahiko Shrine doesn't seem to be lying, so this is what happened... Well, the sickle-weasel that appeared in Tokyo escaped from Niigata Prefecture. It was injured because of the priest of Yahiko Shrine. It returned to the vicinity of Sasagami Elementary School last night, but it didn't dare to really go back, probably because it was afraid of the priests who had injured it before."

Tsurumi: "Because the sickle-weasels of Sasagami Elementary School did not show a strong desire to attack, and because these monsters like to play pranks but do not hurt people too much, Yahiko Shrine misjudged their subsequent behavior."

"Perhaps in retaliation for the exorcism ritual, the kamaitachi unexpectedly kidnapped two children from Sasagami Elementary School this morning. The kamaitachi in Tokyo has been under the surveillance of Xiaoxiao's outer body since yesterday. So, it should be the other two who did this. The best case scenario now is that the two kamaitachi just kidnapped the children and did not really hurt them. If this is the case, we still have a chance to rescue the children."

"Sister, are you planning to attack the Kamaitachi in Tokyo?"

"Yes. Let's catch the lone one. It's being watched by Grandpa Xiaoxiao's outer body, so it won't be difficult to catch it. Then, we can go back to Niigata. Maybe we'll have a chance to use it to exchange for the two children."

"If that's the case, it's indeed the best way to deal with it right now." Tsurumi nodded in agreement, but there was still a hint of uncertainty in her eyes.

"Well."

The little deer took a step down a step on the path to the shrine, then stopped. The mountain breeze rustled her soft hair.

After coming out of Yahiko Shrine, this little sister has been frowning, and her pretty face is always slightly puffed up: "Xiao Kui, the information we have now can obviously be connected together, but I always feel... I feel something is wrong."

"Actually, I feel the same way."

"But what's wrong?"

Kamiyagawa's little disciples were temporarily unable to determine the cause of the indescribable strange feeling in their hearts, and they could not come to a conclusion through discussion.

They plan to return to Sasagami Elementary School to meet with Mr. Kihara and the principal again. If no new clues are found, they will carry out the capture of the lone kamaitachi.

……

When they returned to the vicinity of the school, Xiaolu and the others learned that Mr. Kihara and the principal were not at Sasagami Elementary School at the time.

Because an incident that was most likely related to ghost stories had occurred at the school, Xiaolu and Tsurumi suggested in the morning that teaching activities should be stopped for today.

The principal did as he was told and asked the teachers to notify the parents to take the children home.

In the morning, the children from school were picked up one after another.

However, some parents are unable to get away.

The principal was hesitant to let the remaining children go home on their own, and wanted to make sure their parents took them away. So, all the remaining children, about dozens of them from all grades and classes in the school, were taken to his home.

And because there were so many children, several teachers including Mr. Kihara, a local police officer, and two priests from Yahiko Shrine also accompanied them at the principal's home.

The principal's house was a single-family building not far from the school, so it was not difficult for Xiaolu and her friends to get there.

arrive at the destination.

It was already evening, the sky was orange, and it was transitioning to light purple and dark blue, the sunset glow connected with the mountains in the distance. Xiaolu and Tsurumi were busy today, and they had arrived at this time without noticing.

The open space in front of the garage door of a single-family building.

Mr. Kihara and a priest wearing a hunting robe were accompanying six or seven lower grade children.

The children did not have the worries of the adults, nor did they have any idea what was happening in school. They were all immersed in the joy of not having to go to class today, and were playing games noisily on their own.

They used the chalk they brought from school to draw a grid on the open space.

This is a game called "Where", which is a very old game. I don't know why it has become popular again in Sasagami Elementary School in the countryside recently. The way children play sometimes appears in this "retro" way.

The rules of the "where" game are roughly as follows:

Two children jumped left and right alternately in the four squares of the grid according to the rhythm of a nursery rhyme. Every time they sang a specific syllable, they would jump forward one step, then jump back and continue the previous left and right jumping rhythm.

When Xiaolu and Heshi came to talk to Teacher Kihara, the children were having a great time.

"Where are you?

Fat after.

Where is Higo?

Kumamoto.

Where is Kumamoto?

Shipyard.

There is a raccoon cat on Mount Senba.

The hunter shot it to death.

Cook it, bake it, eat it.

Cover it with leaves.”

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the little figures jumping back and forth, stretching the shadows on the ground long and distorted. The tender children's songs and the cheerful jumping sounds blend into the dim light and the flying dust in the air, bringing a hazy feeling of emptiness.

At the end of the song, two children who were playing a game lost control of the rhythm with their feet, and no one knew who made the mistake, and they bumped into each other.

They fell to the ground, but just held their stomachs and giggled.

Among the other children who had not yet started playing the game, two more stood on the grid, eager to try.

For some reason, looking at the children playing, Tsurumi's eyes narrowed slightly, and she whispered to Kanoyaya: "Senior sister, this game is the one drawn by Sugiyama Shunmichi."

"seems like it."

The missing child, Sugiyama Toshimichi, seems to be a relatively inspirational type.

Only his painting depicts the appearance of the kamaitachi relatively completely.

The theme of Sugiyama's painting is indeed a game on the playground, with two children jumping in a grid, surrounded by many other children.

The "where" game.

Tsurumi thought of something, and she seemed to grasp the "wrongness" that was lingering in her mind: "That painting... Senior Sister, we have to look at that painting again!"

"Oh, okay." Xiaolu did not doubt her junior sister's judgment at all, and immediately accompanied her to the nearby school. "Teacher Kihara, is the painting you showed us still in your office?"

Seeing the two originally calm policewomen getting excited for no reason, Mr. Kihara was a little overwhelmed and could only nod in astonishment: "Yes."

Xiaolu took a step to catch up with her junior sister, but just as she turned her head towards the school, her movements froze.

The wind blowing in from the street was mixed with smells.

A familiar, very faint smell of wild beast stories.

The smell of Sasagami Elementary School.

Based on previous experience, although the distance is not far now, it should not be possible to smell it.

In other words, the smell in the school has become stronger.

"Grandpa Xiaoxiao, you can feel it too, right? The aura over there at school seems to have gotten stronger."

"Aba Aba!"

The stronger the aura becomes, the clearer it becomes, and perhaps we can get more information from it.

I don’t know if it’s the tacit understanding between fellow disciples, but although the inspiration is different from that of my junior sister, Xiaolu suddenly realized what the “wrong” thing that I hadn’t really noticed today might be.

But why did this strange atmosphere suddenly become stronger?

Behind me, the children's games continued.

They sang and laughed.

pat, pat.

Light and joyful footsteps, jumping and skipping.

"…There is a raccoon cat on Mount Senba."

"The hunter shot it dead."

“Cook it, bake it, eat it.”

Speaking of...

There are two children missing from Sasagami Elementary School, right?

At this point, Shikanoya no longer had time to think about whether these two things were really related.

"Stop it! Don't play that game anymore!"

"ah!"

The children who were playing were startled by the sudden shout from the beautiful sister, 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 Disciple had discovered, it was right to listen to what they said.

Seeing that the priest was in control of the situation, Xiaolu called the little old man and quickly caught up with Tsurumi.

Just a little bit closer.

Shikanoya feels that he and his junior sister are almost able to figure out what happened in Sasagami Elementary School. (End of this chapter)