Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 321 One Day at the Shrine

The morning sun gradually rose, and the light fog in the forest quickly dissipated, fading a bit hazy.

Halfway up the mountain, the shrine also became brighter.

For the time being, there is no second visitor to visit, so Kyoko is very at ease.After waiting for a while, she picked up the mahogany amulet that was placed aside, and lowered her head to study it.

"..."

The feeling of being cut off was still suffocating. She quickly put the amulet back in place, and then heard the faint sound of a car.

Not long after, the white commercial vehicle of Fuyun Shrine appeared at the end of the Panshan Highway and stopped.

Not only Noma Minami and Hasegawa got off the car, but also Soya who went down the mountain more than ten minutes ago.Hanai Mayuri and Kobayashi were unlucky today, and they didn't make it to the foot of the mountain before Noma Minami came over.

She looked at Zongya who was walking over, and even though she had already guessed the result, she still asked, "Is it resolved?"

"Well, just as Kyoko expected, it's a parasite." He nodded, then took out five banknotes from his pocket and stuffed them into her hand.

Kyoko looked down, and the banknotes were all Fukuzawa Yukichi, which was [-] yen.

"This is……"

"Mr. Sagawa's gratitude." Soya said, "Business elites are straightforward. After I eliminated the parasitic spirit, they directly took out money to thank them. He wanted to go up by himself, but unfortunately he didn't have the strength to climb the stairs again. , I can only entrust me to pay these money to the gods."

Kyoko smiled, accepted the unexpected income, and greeted the two witches who came over.

Minami Noma didn't speak, and suddenly moved close to her and smelled it, "It's all the smell of Soya."

"..."

"I just said that you stayed at Jingzi's house last night, but you didn't admit it." She said with a full face.

Soya was equally sure that she hadn't actually smelled anything and was just trying to trick the truth out of their reactions.

And Jingzi blushed a little, which was enough to explain everything, so he didn't continue to hide it: "Because Miss Noma will talk nonsense everywhere."

"Who are you telling me, there are only four of us in the shrine now."

"There are three more gods."

"..."

Noma Minami clasped his hands together and bowed to the three main halls respectively, "No offense intended..."

"How much did that man give you just now? I saw him take out the money." As soon as she let go, she asked what happened just now.

Soya opened his hand, "Fifty thousand yen."

"Wow, it's really rich... Whoever sees it has a share. If I hadn't parked the car on the side of the road and blocked the way, that parasite would have run away long ago. How could it be crushed by you all at once."

Zongya ignored it, and asked Kyoko to collect the money, so ignore it.

Noma Minami didn't really ask for money, so he glanced at the wat board in his hand, "I didn't pay attention to it just now, it's a very important ritual prop, the entire Fuyun Shrine only has two yuan, and the other one is in Kyoko and her Dad, don't use it to deal with spirit bodies casually."

"Mainly because our shrine doesn't have any other male priests."

"Well……"

After a few words, Noma Minami and Hasegawa turned around and entered the social affairs office, and Soya stayed with Kyoko outside for a while, until Hanai and Kobayashi also came to the shrine, and then went to the small log cabin behind alone to start their own work.

Jingzi thought he would come over earlier, so yesterday sent all the information of the last few days to the table in the archives room.

The number seems to be higher than usual, indicating that the activities of the spirits in the Kinki area have become more frequent, but it cannot be used as a basis for judging that the Soul Sacrifice has started, after all, the activities of the spirits are not regular...

buzz-

Just as he was thinking, his phone vibrated suddenly.

Hongzi: I'm going to board the plane.

It was only then that Soya remembered that today was still the day when Yoshikawa's family traveled to Hokkaido, and it was only after eight o'clock, and they were already preparing to take off at Osaka's Itami Airport.

Soya: It's early enough.

Hongzi: All right.

Hongzi: Dad drank a little too much last night, so he almost couldn't get up in the morning.

Soya: Have a nice dream.

Hongzi: It's not time to take off yet!

Soya: Have you boarded the plane yet?

She sent him a photo showing that she was still in the terminal.

Soya zoomed in on the photo, dragged it for a few glances, and suddenly remembered something.

Soya: What about the Alps?

The whole family goes on a trip, so we can’t ignore our pet dog—of course, it’s impossible to bring it on the plane.

It took her a while to send a reply.

Hongzi: Didn't Soya come home last night?

"..."

What did he realize.

Soya: Sent to the old house?

Hongzi: Did you really not go home?

Soya: Busy.

Hongzi: I don’t want to tell you anymore.

Putting the phone aside, Soya continued to look at the information on the activities of the spirit body in front of him.

2 minute later.

buzz-

Hongzi: I asked Qian to take care of me for a few days.

This is a good choice, Soya thought, it is true for her, and it is also true for Akane Kirino who will be alone in two days.

At least there is a dog with me, so it won't be too boring...

Soya: Then I'm relieved.

Hongzi: False.

Soya: How long does it take to fly from Osaka to Hokkaido?
Hongzi: Less than two hours.

Soya: Did it land in Sapporo?

Hongzi: Yes.

After sending this message, she was silent for a long time, and it took a while before she sent a new photo.

She was already in the cabin, sitting by the window.

Hongzi: Boarding the plane.

Soya: Good night.

Hongzi: I'll tell you when it's time to take off!
Soya: Putting down the phone earlier can also prepare for bed earlier.

Hongzi: It's only two hours, it doesn't matter if you don't sleep.

Hongko: Soya remembers to look up when flying over Lake Biwa.

Soya smiled.

Soya: Will you pass this way?

Hongzi: I don’t know, I’m guessing.

After chatting for a while, Hongzi expressed regret that the plane was about to take off, and the stewardess had already come to remind the passengers to turn off their mobile phones or turn on the flight mode, and the chat could not continue.

Hongzi: Remember to look up when you hear the sound of the plane.

Soya raised his head, and there was only a dark floor above his head.

Soya: I will.

Putting the phone aside, Soya picked up the information that had been put down several times, and looked through it with his head buried.

When I looked up again, the unprocessed information on the table had been reduced by half.

"Has it been an hour..."

He got up and stretched, then walked outside the wooden house, raised his head and looked at the sky.

The sky is as blue as washing, and the leaves of the eaves and the back mountain are dotted with a corner of the sky.Even if Hongzi's plane passed by, it would have flown away long ago.

"Student Fangming?" Kyoko walked in from the outside.

"Kyoko." Soya lowered his head, "Take a break."

"Thanks for your hard work."

She held several documents in her hand, "This is the information that was faxed just now."

Zongya took it and quickly glanced at it twice, "The same place? Does this mean that the Soul Sacrifice has already started?"

Kyoko shook her head slowly, unable to confirm or deny it.

"It's like a precursor to the beginning of the Soul Sacrifice, but there are still more than ten days before the Obon Festival. Compared with previous years, it is really early."

Soya shrugged, "Don't worry about it, even if the Soul Sacrifice starts, what we have to deal with is specific spirit bodies."

"Ah."

"These pieces of information look more like notifications, so there shouldn't be a need for a reply, right?"

"Need not."

"That's good." Soya pinched the information under his armpit and took her hand, "Is it time for Kyoko to rest now?"

She smiled, "So I'm here to find you."

The two warmed up at the Inari Shrine for a while, and then went outside together. Soya also took out the information that had been processed before, so as not to pile up too much later, and it would be laborious to reply all at once.

When he came to the social affairs office and passed the Japanese room in the middle, Minami Noma stopped him.

"Songya."

Soya stopped at the door, Hasegawa was on duty outside, and she was the only one in the Japanese room, "Miss Noma is being lazy again."

"Are you looking for fault?" Noma Minami rolled his eyes, "Now I have something to ask you."

"Go ahead."

"I heard from Jingzi that you are going to Kanto in a while?"

Zongya looked at Kyoko, and then at her, "Just these two days."

"So anxious... where exactly are you going?"

"Kanagawa and Ibaraki." He paused, "If there is no accident, I will go back to the children's welfare home where I have lived for seven or eight years."

"Hey, that means you're still going to the Northeast?"

"Ah."

"It seems that you are quite busy." Minami Noma hesitated, "In this case, it is not easy for me to speak..."

"Then shut up."

"Okay, if you have this attitude, I won't have any psychological pressure to open my mouth." Minami Noma smiled, and motioned for him to go in, "When Soya goes to Kanto, run an errand for me by the way."

Zongya decided to listen to her explanation before deciding whether to enter or not, "What are you doing?"

"When Soya passed by Chiba..."

"I won't pass by Chiba."

"Then just pass by." Noma Nan glared at him, "Give me something to a friend. Don't worry, I will pay for the travel expenses."

Soya thought for a while, "The travel expenses from Kinki to Tohoku?"

She was expressionless: "The travel expenses from Kanagawa to Chiba."

"Well……"

"All right, all right, I'll pay half."

Looking at Kyoko with a smile, Soya walked into the Japanese room and sat down: "What do you want to give?"

"You don't have to worry about it." Noma Minami didn't want to say more, "You go back with me tonight, I'll give you the things, and then I'll take you home."

"Not today."

"Why... oh, okay." She glanced at Jingzi behind him and didn't ask further, "Then I'll give it to you tomorrow morning."

Soya thought for a while, "It can't be some contraband."

Noma Minami rolled his eyes, "Don't worry, it's very safe."

"Can't it be mailed?" Soya asked again.

"That kind of thing is more expensive, so I don't worry about sending it by mail."

He was even more worried, and didn't want to take on the inexplicable responsibility for nothing. "Precious means the value is more than 100 million yen?"

Noma Minami hesitated for a moment, "100 million...maybe more than that."

Soya immediately shook his head: "It's too precious, I can't afford to lose it. I'd better refuse."

"No." Minami Noma didn't give him a chance to refuse. In order to make him agree, he revealed a little more information, "It's just a diamond necklace. It's not so easy to lose when it's put with luggage. Two years ago, I When that friend came here for a trip, he accidentally dropped off at my house. Since Soya is going to Chiba, I just happened to send her back by the way."

A diamond necklace worth more than 100 million yen is lost as soon as it is said, and I have not returned it for two years... Most likely it is a gift from my ex-girlfriend.

Zongya dared to think or not to say it, but he didn't refuse again, "That's fine."

"I knew Soya would agree. You are a reliable child. Tomorrow morning, I will give you the necklace, travel expenses and her home address." Minami Noma said, not forgetting to add, "This Don't let Sayaka know about this, or I will bully you in the workplace."

The possibility of "friend" being an ex-girlfriend rose to [-]%.

"Ok."

After explaining this matter, Minami Noma was in a happy mood, and said that she would come to treat guests at noon, and she could mention what she wanted to eat now.

"Send it up?"

"Of course. On such a hot day, who wants to go down?"

"Anything is fine, or let Jingzi decide for me when the time comes."

After dealing with Noma Minami, Soya got up and left the Japanese room, and went to the next room to fax the information back to their respective sources.

Jingzi was helping at the side, "I hope it won't take too long."

Zong Gu reassured her, "Although I'm not familiar with the place, if it's just running errands, it should be resolved in half a day at most."

She nodded, opened the cover of the fax machine, took out the information that had been transmitted, and put another information in it.

After resting for a while, Soya went back to the file room alone and continued to process the remaining information.

When he came out again, it was already noon.

During the period, after ten o'clock, Hongzi who had landed in Hokkaido sent him a message, and the first sentence asked him if he had seen her plane.

Soya responded honestly, saying that he never heard the roar of the plane passing by.

Hongzi: What a pity.

Soya: Maybe not this way.

Hongzi: Whatever you want.

Hongzi: We are leaving the airport now, we will go to the hotel to meet my sister first, and then I will stay in Sapporo all day today.

She told him about travel arrangements, and asked him abruptly what he was doing.Soya only said that she was at the shrine, but she immediately chose to turn a blind eye, seeming to have forgotten even this question, and continued talking about the Furano Flower Sea where she would go the day after tomorrow.

After arriving at the hotel, there were fewer messages from Hongzi, and Soya's last reply was to let her enjoy the trip with peace of mind.

"Is it already this point?"

Soya came outside, and Hanai was walking this way, "Soya, I'm going to call you. The lunch has been delivered, let's eat together."

"It's coming." He walked over quickly, squinting his eyes to see the scorching sun above his head, "Did it come directly?"

"Yes."

"It's really hard work to send it halfway up the mountain."

"He came up on a motorcycle."

When they came to the social affairs office, Jingzi was waiting for them at the door.Went in and sat down, lunch was already on the table.

"Is there a set meal?"

"Okay."

"Ah."

After lunch, the information accumulated in the past few days has been processed, and Soya is staying at the social affairs office.

When Hasegawa went out again, Minami Noma suddenly said that he wanted to take a photo of him.

"What?"

"Show it to my friend, so that I won't recognize you then."

"Ok."

Soya sat still and asked her to take a frontal photo.

Click.

"let me see."

"What do you look at, as long as she recognizes you."

Soya said no more.The afternoon passed quickly, and several witches took turns to come in and take a rest. Minami Noma also went out to stand for a while.

In the evening, Kyoko, Hanai, and Kobayashi, who replaced Tamako, put on the former Tianguan and came to the shrine courtyard to perform the monthly begging ceremony.

Kyoko held the Kagura bell, Hanai and Kobayashi held gold and silver fans, and stood in front of the Palace of Heaven, Palace of God and Palace of Moon, waiting for the moment of sunset.

Soya stood aside, watching with an expressionless face, and next to him was Noma Minami who was also expressionless.

At a certain moment, the sun was setting and the forest was dark.

Kyoko held a bell with a fluttering posture, and the maidens on the other two sides also danced.The three of them paced around, sometimes turning around, sometimes prostrating, and gradually gathered together in front of the three halls.

At the same time, after prostrating on the ground, Kyoko, who was transformed into Amaterasu, stood up alone, held up the Kagura bell, rang the bell and danced.

Then came Kobayashi, and finally Hanai.

The third noble son begged the mother god to return to the underworld, but at this time, Izanami, who did not know where she was, split the gods, and half of the gods quietly emerged in the forest, witnessing the ceremony below.

"..."

As the mist flowed, Sogu looked over there, vaguely feeling that the face condensed by the mist seemed to be looking at him.

"Fangming—"

"teacher……"

Minami Noma looked over, "What?"

Zongya came back to his senses, sweat dripping from his forehead.

"No, nothing..."

He looked into the forest again, the mist was flowing and shapeless, as if everything just now was just his illusion.

Not long after, the begging ceremony ended, and the three witches lying on the ground for too long, helped each other to stand up.

"what happened?"

Kyoko walked towards Zongya, who was a little dazed, and brushed the hair hanging from her ear.

"It's okay." He shook his head and looked at the previous day crown on her head, "Thanks for your hard work. You can take it off, it looks heavy."

She smiled, "Yeah."

After untying the red hair crown tie, the priestesses took off the former sky crown, and put it back to the shrine office together with the Kagura bell and the gold and silver fan.The begging ceremony was over, and the sky darkened, and it was almost time to close the club.

"This seems to be the first time Soya has stayed in the shrine all day?" Noma Minami said, "From the opening to the closing of the shrine."

Soya looked at Kyoko who was inspecting and closing the palace door, and nodded, "Probably."

"Does it feel good? Surrounded by beauties, you don't have to do anything, you don't even need to go down the mountain to eat." This is more like her own experience.

"Ah."

"Just get married and come in."

"...Miss Noma looks like Kyoko's mother."

"I watched her grow up."

Soya smiled, but did not comment.

After a while, Jingzi also finished checking the doors and windows, and could leave.

Getting in the car and going down the mountain, Minami Noma took them to the place where they ate once yesterday. It was not too far away. It was located on the shore of Lake Biwa, and she was also a treat in the evening.

After the meal, Minami Noma planned to send the two of them back.

Kyoko declined, expressing that she wanted to take a walk by the lake, and of course Soya would not go back alone.

"Okay, then you all pay attention to safety."

Hanai and Kobayashi were already waiting in the car, she sat in the driver's seat, and before leaving, she did not forget to remind Soya to come to the shrine tomorrow.

After seeing off a few colleagues, Kyoko held Soya's hand, "Let's just walk around."

"it is good."

The water of the lake lapped against the shore, making a splashing noise.

After walking along the lakeside walking path for more than half an hour, the two felt comfortable physically and mentally. The only uncomfortable thing was that there were too many flying insects by the water at night.

Back at Sugawara's house, the two went to take a bath one after another, and then watched the sequel of yesterday's movie together.

Late at night, when it was time to rest, Jingzi suddenly suggested, "Do you want to watch the sunrise tomorrow morning?"

"Okay." Soya agreed directly, and then asked, "Go to the mountain at the shrine?"

Kyoko nodded.

He thought for a while, "It's better to live in the social affairs office tonight."

"……it is good."

(End of this chapter)