tokyo creator

Chapter 273 The Tsuchimikado Family’s Big Adventure ([-])

In the Shangjing district of Kyoto, a bridge of cruelty.

An urban area that has both a modern urban appearance and the elegance of Kyoto.

On the spacious two-way six-lane urban road, large and small vehicles roared by from time to time.

On both sides of the road, next to the flat and wide sidewalks, behind the street trees are ten-story apartments and commercial buildings with modern appearance along the street, one after another, extending all the way to the end of the road.

But right in the middle of this row of apartments, a small piece of empty green space suddenly appeared.

At the entrance in the middle of the green space, a gray-white torii gate with no name of the shrine written on its forehead but a golden five-pointed star on a green background stands beside the sidewalk.

Looking inside the torii, there is another torii deep in the green road, and the black tiles of the shrine are faintly visible at the end. It is actually a shrine hidden in the city.

In fact, in terms of social structure, this shrine seems somewhat inconspicuous among the many famous shrines of the thousand-year-old capital.But the reputation of the shrine itself is not small... because the gods it worships are so well-known.

——Seimei Shrine.

Two years after Abe Seimei's death in 1005 AD, in order to commemorate the achievements of the great Onmyoji, Emperor Ichijo ordered the construction of a shrine based on Seimei's residence.

In the following thousand years of history, the size of Seimei Shrine was reduced many times due to wars and other reasons. Until modern times, it was restored again due to the "Seimei trend" set off by popular entertainment works such as movies, TV dramas, literature, and comics. Vitality.

It was six o'clock in the afternoon, dusk was just approaching, and the sun was setting.

If it is in normal times, this is the time when batches of tourists leave reluctantly.

But at this time, there was no one on the approach from the entrance to the shrine's torii gate to the front of the temple.

This scene is of course not normal, but an arrangement from the shrine.

The entrance to the divine domain called "Heian Kyo" is connected to the torii gates of various shrines in Kyoto during the Kamie Festival - but another problem caused by this is that during each Kamie Festival, civilians "gods" "Hidden" records will always be several times higher than usual.

In fact, preventing unrelated people from straying into the realm of the gods has always been one of the duties of each shrine during the Shenzhi Festival... But the problem is that this time the Shenzhi Festival is already in the modern age of information explosion.

It is even more difficult to manage while concealing the truth.

So this time, after confirming that the Shenzhi Festival was launched, the shrine quickly coordinated with major shrines to adopt a series of plans.

The first of them is to use secret techniques to close half of the entrances to Heian Kyo on a daily basis.

This way, those shrines whose entrances are closed every day can remain unaffected and appear to be doing business as usual.

As for the remaining half, you can use the names of "Prayers for Harvest Days", "Great Worship before the Festival", "New Year's Holiday", "Water Pipe Maintenance", etc. to issue announcements to shorten the opening hours, and try to attract tourists and tourists before nightfall. The lower-level priests and witches who were not qualified to know or participate in this matter were all driven out.Afterwards, Shinto spells that have a hint of driving away mortals will be released, completely covering the shrine.

Today is the second day of Kamie Festival, and it is also the first day that Seimei Shrine opens its entrance.

At this point, the dispel spell has already begun to work.

Looking around, there is no one in the entire shrine, not to mention tourists, not even the priests and shrine maidens.But only the hall was still dimly lit, and even the ropes were shaking, as if there were countless invisible figures crowding around.

If it weren't for the fact that the shrine is surrounded by the urban area, if you look up directly behind the main hall, you can directly see the white, rounded multi-story apartment buildings rising close to the back wall of the shrine, which will weaken the atmosphere a bit. Now this place can be called Sinnoh's terror.

There were only three figures near the entire shrine, standing in front of the torii gate.

Or should I say, standing "outside the entrance to God's Domain".

A pair of twin boys and girls with similar looks, dressed grandly, wearing hunting clothes and Chihaya respectively... but in a strange atmosphere, they were carrying modern travel bags and pulling trolley cases.

In addition, there is an old priest who is reciting the edict.

At this time, the lengthy Da Ci finally came to an end.

"祓, Qing, Shou, Xing—" After the four words in cadence, the old priest finally shouted out the last sentence, and at the same time, spilled the wooden spoon in his hand, "Blessings from the Yuan God!!"

Pure water was poured in front of the twins, and they both bowed their heads and prayed.

Soon, the twins stood up and walked to the torii hand in hand.

But just before they were about to step into the torii gate, the old man behind them said, "Wait a minute."

"Grandpa?" The boy and the girl stopped and turned to look back.

The old priest's expression was tangled, but in the end he sighed, looked at the boy and girl, and called out respectively: "Qing Xing, Chun Hai."

"Yes."

"Have you really decided to go?" The old priest raised his head and looked at Torii, "...You are still young. Actually, I should be the one to go."

The young man named Qingxing looked at his sister Chunhai and said carelessly: "Grandpa, what are you talking about? You don't have a few years to live. Please enjoy your happiness at home."

"Don't worry, Grandpa. We will bring back the blessings from Lord Toyokuni to the shrine." Harumi comforted the old priest.

"That's right, this is a sacred festival that you may not encounter once in your life! The revitalization of the Tsuchimikado family can be achieved by me, Tsuchimikado Kiyuki! Hahaha!~!" The young man laughed and pulled My sister went to the torii gate.

While Chunhai was being dragged along, he did not forget to wave to his grandfather and said: "Don't worry, Grandpa, don't worry -"

"Don't be so long-winded, Harumi..."

Tsuchimikado Kiyoyuki continued to rush forward excitedly while complaining.

——But the next moment, his smile froze on his face.Immediately afterwards, his sister Tsuchimikado Harumi ran into his arms.

But the two of them instinctively covered their mouths, and then hugged each other with frightened faces. They trembled violently with fear and looked up at the sky.

At that moment, the two of them had passed through the torii gate.

——Light and shadow changes.

On this side, a blood moon hung in the night sky that had already fallen.

The modern city around the shrine has disappeared.

The only sight that was familiar to the two of them was the small shrine in front of them.

——But at the top of the shrine, squatting was a huge white fox as big as a mountain.

The white fox squatted on the roof, but it seemed to be squatting on a small dog house, and was staring closely at the Tsuchimikado brothers and sisters with three pairs of vertical eyes with black eyes and burning pupils.

And Tsuchimikado Kiyuki was stared at by those six inhuman eyes, and he felt like ice water splashing on his neck, and the piercing meaning penetrated all the way to the innermost part of his soul.

I don't know how long it took, but Bai Hu seemed to finally see something from the Tsuchimikado brothers and sisters, and his eyes became warmer.

Tsuchimikado Kiyuki, who was about to suffocate, finally let out half a breath.

But the sound of venting his breath was like breaking a soap bubble - in the blink of an eye, the huge white fox disappeared into the air like an illusion.

"Is that...the ancestor?" Chunhai whispered from behind.

Only then did Qingxing come back to his senses, and when he turned around, he saw that his sister had already knelt down, respectfully facing the direction of the white fox, that is, paying respects to the shrine.

He also hurriedly bowed twice, then looked up at the night sky.

...In the sky, huge shadows that could not be seen clearly slid across from time to time, blocking the moonlight.

Not far away, the rhythmic sound of waist drum came.

Qing Xing looked around and saw a long string of bright lights in the distance, in the dark forest.

He took a closer look, but he shuddered again - it was a group of translucent luminous humanoid spirits whose specific appearance could not be seen, marching silently into the depths of the woods in a row.

"Bang bang" - "bang bang" - "bang bang bang"... Accompanied by the rhythm of the waist drum, the queue of luminous spirit bodies seemed to be dancing. The spirit bodies sometimes stretched and contracted, and sometimes bent down left and right, as if All of them expressed their excitement through body language.

Qing Xing was also fascinated by it without realizing it. He also shook his calves to the rhythm, and a look of obsession gradually appeared on his face.

——Until there was a "slap", he was suddenly woken up by his sister's slap on the face, and he fell down on his face.

Although the force of the slap was very strong, the girl's voice was very small.

"Brother!" Chunhai reminded in a low voice, "Don't look too much!"

"I know!" Qing Xing rubbed his face in embarrassment and shook his head to wake up, "It was so dangerous, I was almost confused by the living soul."

Then he raised his head again, looking through the torii into the distance.

——If they walk through the torii gate again, they will return to the living world.

But at this time, the distance he could see through the torii was another "capital" with bright lights.

"This is Heian Kyo..." the young priest murmured to himself.

Then he jumped up quickly, straightened his hat, and said to his sister: "Divination."

Tsuchimikado Harumi understands.

She knelt down and leveled the trolley suitcase.

"Clattering" - the sound of a large number of small objects colliding with each other came from the box.

Then, Tsuchimikado Harumi opened the zipper of the trolley case with a "stab" sound... What was revealed inside was a box of palm-sized turtle shells.

Holding out a tortoise shell solemnly with both hands, Harumi put it on the ground, then turned around—and actually took out a sushi cartridge flamethrower from his backpack.

Holding the flamethrower in hand, and after bowing with his hands together with a solemn expression, Harumi began to spray flames at the turtle shell with a serious expression, like cooking.

Amidst the "whooshing" sound of spitting fire, the blue flame burned, and soon there was a "bang" sound, and cracks appeared on the surface of the turtle shell.

Qing Xing came over.

He squatted on the ground and observed the cracks in the turtle shell for a long time, and began to count with his fingers while mumbling words.

——Harunami handed over a map of Kyoto at the right time.

Therefore, in addition to looking at the turtle shell, silently reciting and pinching his fingers, Tsuchimikado Kiyuki also had the additional action of writing and drawing on the map.

Finally, he circled a place on the map without hesitation: "Okay, we have decided on this place! Let's start from Seimei Shrine's 'Kamizhi Festival of Heian Kyoyu Remaining Souls' Great Exorcism'!!"

"Tsuchimikado Adventure Group - Let's go!" Then, before his sister could pack her luggage, the boy waved his arms vigorously, walked around the torii gate, and rushed towards the capital.

(End of this chapter)