Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 7

Facing the cold wind, Soya approached unhurriedly, while Akane Kirino cast her eyes for help early on.

"Soya, can I become a priestess too?"

"No."

He answered decisively without any hesitation, but she hesitated a little.

"Eh, why?"

"Kirino still has to take the entrance exam."

"Ah...that's right..."

Akane Kirino opened her mouth and asked again: "What about after the exam?"

Soya still shook his head.

"As you can see, the main job of priestesses like them with a certain spiritual sense is not to save lives and heal the wounded, but to exorcise evil spirits, that is, to eliminate spirits."

He looked at the two witches, one tall and one short, in front of him. He didn't care about the former's cold gaze, and his eyes fell on the face of the little witch who was looking up at him.

"However, there are very few people whose spiritual strength meets the requirements. As a result, such a young child has to participate in the removal of spirits...it will be very hard."

Combined with what she saw and heard just now, the churning yearning in Akane Kirino's heart immediately cooled down a lot.She almost forgot that she came here to prevent the other party from embarrassing the children.

She recalled Soya's words just now, "the demise of the spirit body is unstoppable", and she was really not interested in removing spirits, and even had some resistance because of what happened just now.

"I see."

Akane Kirino nodded, and then bowed slightly to the tall priestess who had not spoken.

"Sorry, excuse me for declining."

And the look of her eagerness to try just now, the latter saw it in her eyes.

"I am Kyoko Sugawara of Fuyun Shrine." The maiden introduced her identity to Soya who had just arrived with a cold face, "Who are you?"

On Zonggu, she couldn't feel any spiritual fluctuations, she seemed to be an ordinary person, but he knew people like them very well, which surprised her very much.

"I'm just an ordinary person, don't worry about it."

Sugawara Kyoko was dubious and stared at him for a while.

"But she's not."

Soya didn't change his face, "She doesn't have the obligation to become a shrine maiden either."

"Being a ghost maiden is not voluntary labor. Participate in the ghost removal operation, and the shrine will pay the corresponding reward."

Kyoko Sugawara said, and turned his gaze to Akane Kirino, "In addition to money, Fuyun Shrine also has recommended places for some prestigious schools in the Kinki area—you are a third-year middle school student, which high school do you want to go to?"

"..."

Akane Kirino was stunned, "Danhai High School."

Sugawara Kyoko was also taken aback for a moment, then quickly nodded, "No problem."

"As long as you agree to become a ghost maiden, the shrine will immediately arrange for you to be recommended by Danhai High School. The condition is that you can't quit the shrine during the three years of high school."

"Eh……"

Faced with this sudden temptation, Akane Kirino was obviously at a loss.

She looked at Soya again.

Zonggu, on the other hand, stared at the street lamp above his head in rapt attention, and it took him a long time to spit out a cloud of white air, without commenting.

"Songya..."

"What I said is all true, and what she said is also true. Tong Ye can weigh it himself."

"..."

Because of his attitude change, Kyoko Sugawara looked at him more, and then looked at Akane Kirino who was hesitating:

"As he said, there are very few psychic people, and even fewer are willing to join the shrine, but the number of spirit bodies is increasing day by day. You should also feel that since more than a month ago, the number of spirit bodies wandering around Kinki has increased dramatically rise……"

Sogu's eyes moved.

"...the priests of the nearby shrines are exhausted and have reached the point of being overwhelmed.

The Fuyun Shrine where I belong is because it sent ten priests and maidens to guard the capital, and no one was available, so children like Yuzi were allowed to act together. "

A little witch named Yuzi stood aside, grabbing her sleeve.

"elder sister……"

Freeing her little hand, Sugawara Kyoko waved her long sleeves and saluted solemnly.

"For the peace of the Kinki area, please."

"..."

The witch leaned over, her long hair scattered on both sides, revealing her smooth nape in the cold night.

Before Akane Kirino expressed her position again, she maintained such a posture.

Walking along the stone steps to Kirino's villa, Soya waited at the entrance for a while, and Akane Kirino came out dragging a pink backpack.

"Be careful...it's a bit heavy."

"fine."

Taking over the heavy backpack, Soya looked at the tight zipper, "Won't lending me so many books affect Kirino's own exam preparation?"

"Don't worry, these are books and notes that I no longer need, just take them."

"Really? Thanks."

"The rest will be given to Soya after I finish the exam. Can you memorize it?"

Soya tried it, "No problem."

"Yeah, be careful on the road."

"Good night."

Kirino Akane stopped him before he walked out of the range illuminated by the light from the room.

"Songya."

He turned around, "What else?"

"Just now..." She looked at him for a while, "Why did Soya change his attitude?"

Soya turned around and heard her continue:
"At the beginning, Soya didn't want me to promise Miss Sugawara, did he?

Why did she let me decide after she put forward the conditions... Ah, do you think I can't get into Danhai High School! "

"..."

Soya laughed and shook his head again.

"No, I just think this is Kirino's own business, and I shouldn't interfere too much."

Kirino Akane frowned and reluctantly accepted his statement.

"Is the reason why Soya objected also because it is very hard to be a ghost maiden?"

"That's one aspect."

Zonggu paused, the shoulders were still a little heavy, and he put down the backpack, "The more important reason is that I don't want to have too much involvement with that world."

"Born with spiritual awareness, it only brought me trouble, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that I suffered a lot from it.

Although there are many things that cannot be changed, the amulet that Kirino lent me now can at least temporarily stabilize me... Since I can escape, I choose to stay away from it. "

After sinking into the underworld for two years, Sogu now just wants to be an ordinary person.

Akane Kirino seemed to understand, "Sorry..."

"Don't apologize to me."

He shook his head, "And isn't Tongye rejecting her?"

"I rejected Miss Sugawara, not because of the reasons Soya just said."

She is still very curious about that world.

"I just think Miss Sugawara is too...too..." She struggled with her choice of words, "Justice...no, serious...yes, too serious!"

"If it's because I often eliminate evil spirits that I can become so cold, I can understand it, but suddenly I became a shrine maiden in order to protect the peace of Kinki, it is really too serious and serious..."

Akane Kirino paused, "I don't want to take on such a responsibility for no reason."

"--It's fine."

"Eh?"

Soya looked at her, and pulled up the strap of the backpack with one hand, "Since the creation of Japan by the seventh generation of Gods, the human world has been in this way where humans and ghosts coexist. responsibility."

"It's a mouthful..."

Akane Kirino laughed, "But I understand, thank you."

Soya also smiled, "Then I'll go back first."

"Wait, there's another question."

"what?"

"Miss Sugawara said that the spiritual riots in the Kinki region started more than a month ago."

"..."

Sure enough, I noticed.

Soya nodded, "It was the riot that helped me escape from the underworld."

"How many evil spirits have escaped?"

"If I had cared about this at the time, I would have been cut in two by the guarding Huang Quan army."

"guard?"

"The boundary between Huangquan and the human world is not stable. No matter what the reason is, once a new crack is created, the spiritual power floating in Huangquan will condense into the Huangquan army;

On the one hand, they will use their bodies to fill the gap, and on the other hand, they will guard in front of the gap, blocking and killing the spirits that try to escape. "

"Is the boundary not solid? Is it also because of this reason that Soya fell into the underworld?"

"..."

Sogu's expression was suddenly in a trance.I found that the more I think about that memory, the more blurred it becomes.

"Soya?" Akane Kirino noticed his mistake.

"nothing……"

Soya shook his head, shaking off the irrelevant thoughts that surged out of his mind.

"All in all, the power of Huangquan and the spiritual beings in the world are chasing and killing the evil spirits. This chaos will not last long."

"yes."

Kirino Akane didn't pay too much attention to this, and complained half-jokingly, "I really hope Izanami-sama can take care of it."

"She won't care."

"Eh?"

"After all, the first person to tear apart Huang Quan and escape from it is the ruler of Huang Quan, Izanami."

"..."

Akane Kirino was stunned.

"Thanks to her, the boundary between Huangquan and the human world has become so fragile. No matter how repaired it is, it can't return to its original strength...The countless evil spirits later have a chance to escape from it."

Soya turned his face away, half of his face was hidden in the darkness, and he glanced in the direction of the sunset intentionally or unintentionally.

"If I hadn't fallen from this world into the underworld first, I would be grateful."

(End of this chapter)