Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 325 Gouyu
A few minutes after nine o'clock in the morning, the Shinkansen train departed on time, left Kyoto Station, and headed towards Tokyo.

The shoulders were heavy, Sogu lifted his shoulders, Yuedu didn't open his eyes, and fell to the other side.

He sat in front of the computer all night, and he looked normal when he went out in the morning.But as soon as he got on the tram, he slumped at a speed visible to the naked eye, and within two stops, he couldn't sit still.

Zongya didn't bother to care about him, just let him fall asleep.

Anyway, it takes two hours to take the Shinkansen alone, and then transfer to the JR line train, and it takes another hour or so to get to the local Tsukiyomi Shrine in Kanagawa, so he still has plenty of time to sleep.

In contrast, Zhao Wuling, who was sitting inside, was much more sober.

"If you're sleepy, you can sleep for a while," Soya said.

She glanced at him, shook her head, but leaned over.

Except for going downstairs to drink water and waking up Akane Kirino, Soya slept soundly afterwards, and was not sleepy at all at this time, and looked at today's itinerary again.

What he was most concerned about right now was the last part of the morning itinerary, "After getting off the tram, I still have to walk for nearly two kilometers. I hope the Tsukiyomi Shrine over there is not too difficult to find...Has Ling been there?"

"No. It's not worth going there."

"That's what it says..." Sogu turned his head to look at Tsukiyomi on the other side, he was sound asleep and heard nothing.

"He will know how to find it." Chao Wuling added.

"Ah."

Tsukiyomi has a unique feeling for the shrine that enshrines him. When he gets close to a certain distance, he knows how to get there.

Soya looked at the map of Chiba Central District again. If all goes well, they will be able to meet Noma Minami's rich ex-girlfriend this afternoon.

Looking at the constantly receding scenery outside the window, Chao Wuling suddenly said after a while: "You are not wearing an amulet."

"Return it to Kirino for the time being." Soya nodded, "The Soul Sacrifice is about to start, and when the time comes, the demons will dance wildly. I'm worried that she may not be able to bear it."

"Is there a soul festival?"

"Ring should know."

"En." Zhao Wuling responded, "After the Buddhist Obon Festival was introduced to Japan and developed into a large scale, the teacher found it interesting, so he summoned the wandering spirits to gather in Kyoto to have a carnival together."

Zong Gu was startled.

"This is the original soul sacrifice meeting." She continued, "Just a few decades later, the teacher lost interest, but the soul sacrifice meeting has remained, and somehow it has become a regular carnival of spirit bodies every year. , and the scope is no longer limited to Kyoto."

"So that's how it is..." Soya shook his head involuntarily. There are few human affairs and ghost affairs in the capital area that have nothing to do with Tachibana Emperor, "I should have thought of it a long time ago."

Chao Wuling looked up at him: "Although I have no interest in participating, on the last day of the Soul Sacrifice, the teacher will still tour the capital, randomly select one person from countless spirit bodies, and try his best to fulfill his wish."

Soya was stunned again, and immediately understood why the Kyoto Soul Festival was the largest and lasted for a long time, "Isn't this adding trouble to people..."

"You can't be harsh on her." Chao Wuling leaned on his shoulder, "Unless you can find something more interesting to replace."

Soya thought for a while, but didn't speak.

In most respects, he is just an ordinary 17-year-old high school student, and Tianzi Tachibana will probably get tired of all the fun he can discover.The immortal is tired of immortality, what he thinks he can understand and experience is actually only one in ten thousand.

"In addition, during the Soul Sacrifice, it is also the time when Huang Quan's spiritual body is most restless-they also want to be the lucky one in a billion." Chao Wuling continued.

"..."

This means that the possibility of them mutating into fierce spirits will also be greatly increased.

And if there are evil spirits fleeing to the world, the daughter of the underworld will come out to hunt them down.

Soya was not too nervous, but just in case, he still asked for confirmation: "Do you still have the amulet that the teacher gave to Suzu?"

She looked up, "Do you want it?"

"Just to borrow a few days...if the eventuality happens."

Nodding towards Wuling, he puffed out his chest again, "Here."

She was wearing a round-neck T-shirt. Although she was covered by short hair, her neck was basically exposed, and Soya didn't see the rope hanging from the amulet.

He raised his eyes, "Here?"

She grabbed his hand and pressed it to her heart.

"Do you feel it?"

"..."

Soft and unbearable to hold, pitifully small, he felt it very clearly.

"bell……"

"in."

Soya turned his attention back to her hands, and the spiritual power also penetrated into her chest.

"Ok?"

In her body, he found a void of nothingness.

The spiritual power can only surround the surroundings and cannot perceive it, as if there is a black hole from which even light cannot escape.

"Catch it." As soon as she finished speaking, Zonggu immediately felt something squeezed into his palm, hard and cold.

He put down his hand, and there was a dark green hook jade in his palm.

"This is……"

She pulled her clothes, "Bachi Qiong Gouyu."

"...Is that the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu?" Sogu narrowed his eyes.

"That's the one."

Eight-foot Qionggouyu, one of the three artifacts in Japanese mythology, is a treasure handed down by the royal family along with the Amancongyun Sword and the Shinjingtsu Mirror.

Of course, this is just a myth known to ordinary people.According to Yuedu, the three artifacts do exist, and they were actually gifts from Izanaki to Izanami, and he was stabbed to death by the cloud of the sky, and now the sword seems to be lost in the underworld.

"...Some things happened. The other two artifacts were lost one after another. Only the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu remained in the teacher's hands, and later gave it to me." Chao Wuling added some unknown secrets to him .

"yes."

Zonggu looked down at the small and exquisite Gouyu in his hand, "Is it contained in Ling's body just now?"

"Ah."

Nodding towards Wuling, "It only takes a little skill to control it with spiritual power, including absorbing it into the body and turning on or off the ability to shield spiritual perception."

"It's incredible..."

Zonggu stroked the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu, the feel was as smooth as he expected, and the fingertips could feel the distinct coolness.

"Is it jade?"

"It seems to be, but I can't find any other jade with the same material as it. It seems to be the only one."

He played with it for a while, watching Wuling silently until he handed Gouyu back.

"Since the teacher gave the bell to you, please lend it to me when I need it."

"Yeah." She just looked at him without moving.

"bell?"

"Put it in."

"..."

Zonggu pressed Gouyu to her chest and covered it with his palm.

The cold and hard Gouyu slowly disappeared, melting into her body like an ice cube, leaving only a soft touch in the palm of her hand.

He quickly let go, looked around subconsciously, secretly thankful that no one else saw his actions.

"Won't it affect the body?"

"After being integrated into the body, the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu will change its nature, from real to virtual—for the body, it does not exist."

"Really." Soya could only sigh with emotion, "Then it is contained in Ling's heart now?"

"almost."

"It can only be placed there?"

Glancing at his hand, she looked at him: "It has no substance, it can be placed anywhere."

"……yes."

He just put it back in place.

The train moves on.

After a while, the phone in Soya's pocket vibrated.

He took a look, "Tirino is awake."

"Ah."

Kirino: Why did you really leave without saying hello?

Soya: Isn't that what Kirino asked for last night?

Kirino: Really?I forgot.

Soya: And I called you when I went out, but you didn't wake up.

Kirino: Really?Why didn't I hear at all?
Soya: That's because you slept deeply.You can ask the bell.

Kirino: [sad]
Kirino: When I woke up in the morning and found that Soya was gone, my heart was empty.

"..."

Soya: Maybe my stomach is empty.

Kirino: My stomach is empty, my whole body is empty!
Soya: Then read a few books to enrich yourself.

Kirino: Hmph.

Chao Wuling leaned on his shoulder, staring at the content of the chat between the two without hesitation: "She is confessing to you."

Soya pursed his lower lip, "If it was someone else, maybe it would be..."

"She has the same idea."

"She's not conscious yet."

"I can remind her again."

"bell."

He turned his head towards Wuling and turned to the other side.

Seeing that she didn't take out her mobile phone to contact Akane Kirino, Soya felt a little relieved.

After dealing with Akane Kirino, he put away his phone and grabbed her hand again.

Zhao Wuling looked at him, said nothing, and looked out the window in silence.

Stopping and stopping, the train goes east all the way, passing through several stations.Two hours later, the train arrived in Tokyo, stopping at Shinagawa New Station.They also have to get off here and transfer to other lines.

Fighting until dawn, Tsukiyomi fell asleep like a severe coma, and Soya woke up after shouting for a long time.

After getting off the bus, he looked around on the platform, "Is this Tokyo?"

"Well, it's my first time here too."

"It doesn't feel like anything special."

"What can you see in the station?"

Soya chose this place as the transfer station because it was more convenient to transfer to the JR line at Shinagawa Station when viewing the strategy.

Take the tram on the Nambu Line, transfer to the Odakyu Line at Nobori Station, and after going around for about an hour, the three of them arrived in Kawasaki City smoothly.

"Kakio Station—Kakio Station is here—"

Soya stretched his waist and waited for the tram to stop before standing up.

"It's time to get out of the car."

After sitting in the train all morning, it was already noon when they walked out of the station.

"Find the shrine first, get the business done, and then we'll go eat." Although the original plan was to look for the shrine in the afternoon, but seeing that the clouds gathered in the sky at this time, and the afternoon was unpredictable, Soya decided it was better to go all out.

"Can you feel the direction?" He asked Yueyue.

The latter sensed it for a moment, then nodded, raised his finger and pointed to the road on the left, "It should be this way."

"Let's go."

The map shows that the distance from the station to Tsukiyomi Shrine is [-] kilometers, but actually walking down, Soya feels that it should be closer.

After about 10 minutes, the three of them finally arrived at the base of the Tsukiyomi Shrine.

The access road in front of the shrine is a long and narrow staircase with several steps up and down. On both sides are bamboo forests and towering trees, which block out the sky and make it seem very quiet underneath.

There are several sections of flat road in the middle of the stairs, and it is not particularly difficult to climb up.Passing through the moss-covered stone torii, Soya stopped and looked at the deserted shrine in front of him.

Located on the top of the hillside, the area of ​​the shrine is not small, surrounded by bamboo and wood.There are several side halls on the side, which enshrine unknown gods. Next to the approach leading to the main hall, there are two stone lions with different expressions.The ground is covered with leaves, and the small house in the corner seems to be a social affairs office, but there is no one there.

"It's really deserted." Zong Gu said in a low voice.

Yuedu looked up at the sky and repeated his words, "It's so deserted..."

"Maybe we are the first batch of people who came to worship today." Soya walked towards Temizuya, deciding to contribute a little popularity to this pitifully deserted shrine.

Chao Wuling also followed.

Yuedu walked to the front of the main hall, and the two came over quickly, bowing twice, clapping and saluting to his left and right.

Pop, pop!

"It's all here, don't you want to leave some incense money?"

"It makes sense." Sogu took out a five-yuan coin and put it into the money box.

"You're really good at it." Yue Du was beside him with a strange look of yin and yang. He planned to let him hand over the incense money directly to him, but he didn't even bother to lift his hand at this time.

But Chao Wuling didn't have any change, so he simply pulled out a ten thousand yuan bill, his eyes were straightened.

"No need." Sogu gave her a five-yuan coin.

"Well." She put the banknote back again.

Yuedu hesitated to speak on the sidelines, but in the end he still couldn't say anything.

"Let's begin, Tsukiyomi-sama."

Soya patted him on the shoulder, and then turned around the shrine with Asagiri Rin.

Although deserted, it can be seen that there are still people taking care of here, but not very frequently.The buildings in the shrine are only a dozen or 20 years old at most, and I don't know if they have been rebuilt.

The two turned around and deliberately slowed down, while Yuedu was still absorbing the power of faith, so he sat in the shade on the steps and waited for him.

The bamboos and trees are towering, and the branches and leaves are stretched out, alternately covering the uninhabited path below.

"Do you feel hungry?"

"Fortunately."

"On the way here, I saw a few places to eat. Let's go to the station after lunch."

"Ah."

"After lunch, go to Chiba in the afternoon and give the things to Ms. Noma's friend. There should be plenty of time left, enough for us to go to Ibaraki." The actual action was a little ahead of the planned itinerary, Soya Can't help but start thinking about it more.

Chao Wuling looked at him, "Go to Sendai tomorrow, and I can also catch up with the Qixi Festival over there."

"The Tanabata Festival..."

The Tanabata Festival in Sendai is on the same day as the Tanabata Festival in Kyoto, and it is also one of the three major festivals in Tohoku, so it is very lively.

"Let's go to the festival together." Zhao Wuling said again.

Soya looked at her, "OK."

"It's you and me, don't take him." She emphasized, before arriving in the Northeast, she excluded Yuedu first, "This is a date."

Soya smiled, "Yeah."

Chao Wuling frowned, and before saying anything, Yuedu came over after absorbing the power of faith.

"I've never seen so little power of faith..."

Zong Gu also looked back at him, "Sure enough, there are very few."

"Talking is better than nothing." Yuedu glanced around, "This place probably doesn't have many years of history."

"Perhaps it has been rebuilt."

"Even if it has been rebuilt, the power of faith is attached to the statue... Could it be that they even reshaped my statue?"

"Who knows."

The two couldn't figure out the result, and the hungry belly began to show its presence again, so nothing happened.

"Let's go eat first."

Leaving Tsukiyomi Shrine, Soya led the way and soon found a restaurant nearby.

After ordering at the bar, the three sat down here.

Tsukiyomi flipped through the travel brochure on the bar, "Speaking of which, there seems to be a Doraemon Museum here."

"Tsukiyomi-sama, do you still know about Doraemon...you mean the Fujiko F Fujio Museum, right?"

"Almost. I heard from my teammates that it's very interesting over there. Do you want to stop by and have a look later?"

"No way, no time." Soya shook his head, "We still have several places to go."

"Okay." Yuedu didn't have much interest, and put the travel brochure back casually.

There were no customers in the store, and the dishes they ordered were delivered quickly.

"Is my brother from Kansai?"

After solving the lunch problem for Akane Kirino, Soya just bowed his head and took two bites. When he looked up, he realized that the shopkeeper in the bar was talking to him, "That's right."

"really……"

The shop owner was a middle-aged man with a mustache. After hearing his admission, he winked at the young man who looked like an apprentice next to him, "Let me just say it."

The latter shrugged regretfully.

"How did you see that?" Yuedu also raised his head.

The shopkeeper had been quietly observing him for a long time, and he didn't show any strange expression at this time, "The Kansai accent of the guests is quite obvious."

Soya froze for a moment, "Me too?"

"A little bit."

It seems that he is gradually becoming a Kansai native, Soya thought.

"My teacher and I both speak Kansai dialect, which was the case when we were in the orphanage for children."

"Hmm... are you fascinated by it?"

I don't know what kind of bet the shopkeeper made with the apprentices. When paying the bill, he seemed very happy and gave the three of them a small discount.

Glancing at the price, Soya quietly calculated, "It seems to be [-] yen cheaper."

"When I bought the PS5, I said that I am from Kansai, can I still get a discount?"

"you are not human."

"God of Kansai."

"Don't be silly."

Walking out of the restaurant, the sky was much darker than before, and a rainstorm in the afternoon was inevitable.The three of them didn't stop, and rushed to the station as soon as possible.

Although it hadn't started to rain yet, after entering the station, Soya went to the convenience store to buy three umbrellas to take with him.

The distance from Kawasaki to Chiba Chuo Ward is much shorter than from Kyoto, but the time it takes is almost the same.

After boarding the train, the three of Soya took the Odakyu Line, the Chuo Sobu Line, and the Chiba Urban Monorail, and arrived in Chiba nearly two hours later.

Walking out of the station, it was raining heavily outside.

The rain started to fall more than ten minutes ago, and it has not stopped at this time, and the umbrellas in the convenience store at the station here have already been sold out.It's a pity that Tsukiyomi and Asagiri didn't express anything about his foresight, Soya was a little disappointed.

After looking at the map for a while, he put away his mobile phone, moved his travel bag in front of him, opened his umbrella and walked into the rain, "Let's go."

After walking for ten minutes, the three of them came to a high-end residential area.

"No. 320...should still be ahead."

Finding the surprisingly large target residence, Soya went over and rang the doorbell.

After a brief electric sound, a female voice came from the intercom, "Who?"

"Miss Hanada Natsuna, I was entrusted by Miss Noma..."

With a click, the iron door opened.

The three looked at each other, and Soya went in first.

Across the courtyard, a young woman who appeared to be in her twenties stood at the door with her arms folded, waiting for them.

"You are what Anan said..."

"Yes."

"Boy friend?"

"--Wait a moment."

(End of this chapter)