I’m a Witch In Dongying

　　 A cool breeze blows.

　　 Immediately afterwards, a few drops of rain fell from the sky.

　　 There is no warning. Just a few minutes ago, the sky over the Tonegawa Bridge was still a clear sky, but it became clouded in an instant. Before even waiting for the black and crushing cumulonimbus clouds to pile up in the sky, the fine raindrops could not wait to fall down, fluttering across the sky and the earth, and hitting Bai Shuiqiu's body with the cool breeze.

　　 At the same time as the raindrops were falling, Bai Shuiqiu suddenly felt his body loosen, and the black airflow entwining her body quickly faded at a speed visible to the naked eye. After only ten seconds, only a thin strand was left attached to Bai Shuiqiu's body.

　　 And, even the only black air current is still desperately drilling into her sleeve, seeming to be... afraid of what?

　　 "School girl Baishui?"

　　Kurimi Sanae was the first to notice the abnormality of Bai Shuiqiu.

Although from her point of view, there is no resentment entwining Bai Shuiqiu's body, so she doesn't know why she suddenly stopped, but Kurimi Sanae still felt something was wrong, her face immediately became serious, and she put her hands back a little nervously. I tried the temperature of Bai Shuiqiu's forehead and found no symptoms of high fever, then looked at Bai Shuiqiu carefully and asked about the situation softly.

Hyuga Asuka next to 　　 also noticed something was wrong, and his expression became a little anxious.

　　 Fortunately, the duration is not long.

After the rain began to fall, Bai Shuiqiu had recovered, and while the cool rain was hitting his face, he calmly glanced at the small black air current that had penetrated into his sleeve, and he was relieved. Tone.

　　 Then he gave a smile to the nearby Kurimi Sanae and Hyuga Asuka: "Senior sister, Asuka... I'm sorry, I suddenly thought of something else just now, and I was a little distracted."

　　 Although this explanation was a deliberate concealment, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and the nervous expression on their faces faded a little.

　　 "Let’s find a place to avoid the rain."

Chapter 33-The Forty-Eighth Year of Showa

　　Kurimi Sanae covered her eyes with one hand, and naturally took Bai Shuiqiu's hand with the other, then turned her head and asked Hyuga Asuka, "Hyuga-san, is there any place nearby where I can temporarily shelter from the rain?"

　　 After a pause, Kurimi Sanae murmured a little confusedly: "It's weird. When I went out this morning, I had read the weather forecast, and there was no mention of rain at all..."

　　"..."

　　 Bai Shuiqiu was still a little unsure, and didn't even notice what Kurimi Sanae was talking about.

　　 "You come here with me."

　　 Under the guidance of Hyuga Asuka, Shirasuiqiu and Kurimi Sanae soon came to a 24-hour convenience store. Running all the way, the girls got wet from the rain. Fortunately, the clothes were not too transparent, so there was no need to worry about running out, and there was only one young female clerk in the convenience store.

　　Kurimi Sanae bought a pack of tissues, handed it to Shiraizu and Hyuga Asuka, and wiped the watermarks on the clothes.

　　 stayed in the store for more than ten minutes, and the rain outside gradually stopped. It came fast and went fast, and it was a bit inexplicable when it rained.

　　 At this time, the girls were also a little hungry. By the way, they bought some biscuits and drinks in the convenience store, padd their stomachs, and then walked around the river for a while.

Bai Shuiqiu experienced what happened just now, and was paying attention to the little black air that got into his sleeves. He was a little worried that Li Chuanlan would come out to be a demon again, so when he was walking, he looked absent-minded and saw Li Jian. The topics that Sanae and Hyuga Asuka occasionally talked about were also dull.

　　Kurimi Sanae thought she was tired and talked a little less. When she turned around the riverbank and returned to the original Mizuno Park, she suggested that she would play here today and go home to take a rest.

　　Neither Bai Shuiqiu nor Hyuga Asuka had any objection to this proposal.

　　 The three of them returned to the intersection of the street where the fish shop was located, and sent Hyuga Asuka back. Then Shirasuiqiu and Kurimi Sanae took the tram together. After several stops, they separated at Amada Station and went back to each house. On the way, Kurijian Sanae also sent a message asking if Bai Shuiqiu had arrived home, and Bai Shuiqiu responded with a facial expression indicating that he had arrived home safely.

After 　　 got off the bus, passed through the torii gate, and returned to Tenme Shrine along the approach road.

　　 After running outside for a day, Bai Shuiqiu was already a little tired.

　　 Especially when Tachikawa Ran appeared, the battle on the spiritual level, although the time was short, the consumption of energy was obvious. Even now, Bai Shuiqiu is still a little slouched.

　　 But after returning to the shrine, she did not go back to the bedroom to rest, but immediately came to the treasure hall behind the main hall.

The main building in 　　 shrine, the most important is the main hall and worship hall.

The two buildings are usually connected together. The former is used to enshrine the gods in the shrine and is a place for the so-called gods to inhabit. Under normal circumstances, outsiders are forbidden to enter, while the latter is used to provide guests who come. Worship prayers and worship coins.

　　The second place is the Kagura Hall and the Dance Hall. The function of these two places is to offer Kagura and dance music to the gods, and they are mainly used in the activities of the gods.

　　 Then, it's the Treasure Hall.

Nominally, this is a place for storing treasures, but small shrines like Tenmoku Shrine are not so valuable as to be called treasures. They are basically ancient books and classics, and there are always plenty of them. bookshelf.

　　Most of these classics are about the doctrines, ritual regulations and historical allusions of Shintoism.

　　 A small part is a variety of miscellaneous books, such as Japanese folk traditional culture research materials, books on music and painting appreciation, as well as novels and poetry collections left by ancient literati. You can find them here.

　　Even, Bai Shuiqiu turned to several comics here, and they were released earlier than the year she was born. It is estimated that her cheap father had read it when she was a child...

After all, Tenme Shrine has a tradition of hosting sacred activities. It is inevitable to use some classical dance music in the activities. Therefore, basic music theory knowledge of music is also a compulsory course for priests and witches to master. In fact, there are even some traditional instruments such as shakuhachi, pipa, and taiko in the corner of the treasure hall. Bai Shuiqiu learned a little bit when he was a child, but he has almost forgotten it now.

　　 In addition, there is also a stack of handwritten pamphlets, which are logs left by the gods of the Tenmoku Shrine. They record large and small incidents in the shrine. Some of the contents involve the "destruction of demons."

　　 The previous Bai Shuiqiu also looked through the things here several times.

But Bai Shuiqiu at that time looked at these books as story books. After all, in her view at the time, these so-called sprites and ghosts were just products of idealism. Maybe they were all the ancestors. The brain supplement conjectures are no different from Zhiguai novels.

　　 But judging from the experience of this time, these things may not be all made up...

　　Perhaps, some ways to deal with ghosts and monsters can indeed work.

　　 "Resolve the evil spirit attached to the body... If you remember correctly, it should be written in these books, right?"

　　 Bai Shuiqiu pulled out a few thin books among the mess of books in accordance with the vague memory in his mind.

　　 Then he pulled the futon next to him, sat on the floor in the treasure hall, turned the pages of the book, scanned the pages for a while, and found the content that he wanted to read on a white paper that was slightly yellowed.

　　 "In the forty-eighth year of Showa, there was a guest in the shrine who was possessed by an evil spirit... it was already fifty years ago..."

　　 Time is a bit too long.

Not to mention Bai Shuiqiu, I am afraid that the thousand generations who are now in old age, have just grown up at that time, according to seniority, the person who left this record may be traced back to the generation of Bai Shuiqiu's grandfather. People of that era, Bai Shuiqiu basically didn't know anything except a name.

Moreover, the content of the record is also a bit unexpectedly simple. There are only a few lines. It probably means that the **** master of that generation did a ritual for him after figuring out what happened to the guest, and used some kind of The spell casts out the evil spirits stored in the guest's body.

　　 But after a lapse of about a year, the visitor encountered a shipwreck while going out to sea and was buried in the sea. His family once returned to the shrine with the demon to pay back his wish.

The last sentence of 　　 is marked on the side with a line of relatively small font. Judging from the different degrees of yellowing of the two paragraphs, it should be the handwriting of the same person, which was added a year later.

Chapter 34

　　 Goshou is actually the amulet of a shrine. Depending on the gods enshrined in each shrine, the made Goshou also has different styles and functions.

　　 Some are used to bless peace, some are blessings for many children, and some are blessings for academic and career success... But most defensive guards have an expiration date, usually about one year.

In other words, only within one year, the yushou will be effective. Once time passes, the spiritual power on it will dissipate. The guests need to bring the old yushou back to the shrine when they come next time, and then buy a new one. of.

so…

　　 Was the guest's death caused by the failure of the guards and the evil spirit taking his life, or was it simply an accident?

　　 Is the so-called exorcism succeeded or failed?

　　 Bai Shuiqiu looked confused.

　　 After thinking about it, I continued to scroll down and saw two or three similar descriptions on the other pages of the brochure. The earliest seemed to have occurred in the Edo period.

　　 Tenme Shrine was established during the Edo Shogunate period about two hundred years ago, so the person who left this record may be traced back to the earliest creator of the shrine. On the back of one of the records, Bai Shuiqiu found a vermilion talisman with two lines of brush writing similar to Traditional Chinese.

　　 This kind of writing is a classical Chinese in Japanese characters. Although it is learned from Chinese characters, after a series of localization transformations, the shape and meaning of many characters have changed.

　　 Bai Shuiqiu based on a few recognizable words, even guessing and ignoring it, it can almost be seen that it is a talisman for exorcising evil spirits.

but…

　　 When Bai Shuiqiu tried to touch the past, he couldn't feel any surging of power at all. It was like an ordinary piece of paper, completely different from the Qingxin Talisman.

　　 It looks like it has expired, right?

　　 After all, two hundred years have passed. Even if this red talisman was once useful, the mana contained in it should have been dissipated after a long period of time.

　　 However, under the page where the talisman was pasted, a few simple hand-shaped patterns were drawn with charcoal, and the fingers intersected, which seemed to be a special gesture.

　　 "Handprint...?"

　　 Bai Shuiqiu put the booklet on his lap suspiciously, then raised his hands, slender ten fingers imitated the pages of the book a few times, slowly buckled out the shape of a handprint, and then quietly snorted: "Eat!"

　　 Nothing happened.

　　 Bai Shuiqiu blinked, a little embarrassed.

　　 "Sure enough...is it a lie?"

Think about it, my shrine enshrines the rain master god, who is in charge of rain, but it is totally incapable of calling the wind and calling rain. The light rain that fell near the Tone River in the morning was the first rain in the past three months. . Besides, if the so-called gods really existed, how could the resentful spirit like Tachikawa Ran enter his shrine?

　　 What is the difference between this kind of thing and the haunting in the temple...

　　 Bai Shuiqiu laughed mockingly. He didn't expect much, and he fell to the bottom.

　　 continued to turn back a few pages, but her mind was no longer on it. Although her eyes were still looking at the lines of text on the pamphlet, her mind was already thinking about it.

　　 From the time I got the **** bills and ring, I quickly passed through the things I experienced later related to Tachikawalan.

etc…

　　 Bai Shuiqiu suddenly sat up straight, his face became serious, and a detail that she had overlooked before quietly came to his mind:

According to Tachikawa Ran’s pictures in his memories before his death, and the results of his own field investigations, most of the place where the cement corpse case occurred was near the Tonegawa Bridge, then... Tachikawa Ran has been buried in a cement bucket. , How did it appear in my shrine?

　　 Even Tachikawaran’s spirit body can walk out of the cement bucket and go directly to find his enemy for revenge. Isn’t it okay to find yourself in the head?

　　 You know, the distance from Tonegawa Bridge to Tenme Shrine is more than ten kilometers...

According to the myths handed down in ancient Japan, things like evil spirits are generally "earth bound spirits." That is to say, after they die in a certain place, even if they become ghosts, their range of activities is limited. , Unless...with the help of some medium, it is possible to leave there!

　　 "That ring, and those paper bills..."

　　 Bai Shuiqiu's eyes lit up, and he vaguely thought of a possibility.

　　 She was a bit weird before. The ring in the shrine's cash box appeared a bit inexplicable. If it is said that Tachikawa Ran attached to the ring by herself, then floated all the way to the Tenmu Shrine, and then she got herself into the cash box...

　　 sounds a bit too ridiculous, how can a grieving evil spirit have the patience to do this kind of thing?

Can…

　　 If it was brought over by someone else, what was the intention of this person?

　　There are not many people who can get in touch with these things...

　　 From the memory of his death, it can be judged that Tachikawa Lan had been tortured inhumanely before being submerged in the cement bucket, and the torture may not be short.

　　 After all, Bai Shuiqiu had experienced that kind of feeling personally. All parts of his body were so painful that he wanted to die.

　　The murderers who did all this are the short-haired fat guy and his accomplices.

　　 If the guess is correct, the fat man’s name is probably Long Shan, which Bai Shuiqiu heard in his memory before his death, and should be the main culprit who killed Lichuanlan.

　　 But, Tachikawa Ran’s body has been disposed of, what about the things she was carrying around?

Whether she was robbed by Long Shan and others when she was at home, or she was kidnapped and taken away on the way out, and then taken to an unknown place for that torture, A woman in her twenties should at least carry a handbag around her, to hold her usual mobile phones, wallets and the like.

　　 Longshan They buried Tachikawa orchid in a cement bucket and tried to destroy the corpses, but these properties would certainly not be thrown away together. The most likely thing was that they were divided among a few people as stolen goods.

　　 And that ring and a few banknotes are probably the stolen goods that one of them got.

But even if they were all the murderers who participated in the cement hiding of corpses, the mental quality of these guys may not be strong. Maybe the person who got this batch of stolen goods was because of fear, or out of conscience, or was already attached to it. The resentful spirit on the ring is entangled...

　　 That’s why I came to Tianmu Shrine to pray for blessings with the idea of ​​making money and avoiding disasters, and then secretly threw these stolen goods into the cash box while others were not paying attention.

Chapter 35: I Really Only Have So Many

　　Of course, no one will pay attention...

　　 When this incident happened, it was the day Shiraishi and Sanae Kurimi went to the equipment store to buy compound bows. Chiyo would also go out from time to time, and Tenme Shrine was often unmanned.

　　 Anyway, the valuables have been placed in other rooms. The cash box is counted every night. Even if it is stolen, the daily turnover is not much. Maybe it is not as expensive as the cash box itself...

　　 As for things like cameras, there is no such thing as a shrine.

　　 Therefore, even if I know that these things were brought over by others, there is no way to find out.

　　 "Wait for this time to pass, find someone to install a monitor in the courtyard..." Bai Shuiqiu muttered in his heart.

I just don’t know if Chiyo will agree. After all, this kind of thing is somewhat disrespectful to the gods. If it doesn’t work, it should be installed outside the torii gate. Anyway, people who come to Tianmu Mountain basically want to visit the shrine and pray. Yes, and there are not a few in a day. As long as you can determine the approximate time period, you will basically be able to locate the individual...

　　 But it costs money to install monitoring.

　　 Bai Shuiqiu’s savings were used up the last time he bought the compound bow, and most of the shrine’s income is in Chiyo, unless...

　　 The unidentified banknotes add up to a lot of money. After the monitoring is installed, there is still a lot left.

　　 But if you want to spend Tachikawa Lan's money, you must first completely resolve her grievances, otherwise the money will probably be unsettled.