I’M Really Helpless In Tokyo

"Hey, look at Xiaoniao Youshi, there is a shoe here!"

Walking in the dark passage, Araki Sosuke suddenly stopped and pointed his finger at a lonely shoe on the ground.

"Wow, it's actually AIRJORDAN1, but unfortunately there is only one, and it is still rotten, otherwise it will be taken to the second-hand store..."

"Sure enough, those who strayed into this place, for some reason, were introduced into this passage by the previous "painted wall"..."

Looking at the sneaker on the ground, Yu Mayumi Torii, who had talisman paper pasted on the wall of the back passage, nodded slightly.

The two of them entered through the hole exposed after the "Tubi" became a Buddha, and proceeded along the slightly upwardly inclined passage all the way.

As you walked inward, shoes, bags, and clothing began to appear sparsely along the way, extending along the inside of the passage.

On the ground covered with fine gray, messy footprints can be vaguely seen.

"Well, do those people feel very hot when they come here?"

Seeing clothes of different ages, new and old on the ground, Sosuke Araki scratched his head curiously.

"The high concentration of resentment in this tunnel can easily cause various hallucinations... No, maybe there is something else hidden in it..."

Looking at the empty passage in front of him, and remembering the strong and foul-smelling resentment that had flowed out before, Yu Mayumi Torii couldn't help but gratefully glanced at the man in front of him.

Thanks to Mr. Araki for inhaling those weird grievances into his body to drive them away, otherwise this passage would not go so smoothly.

"Illusion? So what did these people see?"

Taking a look at a few pieces of sexy underwear scattered on the ground of the passage, Sosuke Araki mumbled and started.

"Ms. Araki, look... the material of the wall has changed!"

The two walked side by side for several minutes, and the original stone structures on both sides of the passage had been mixed with primitive logs.

"This is Maria's Wall... Shasha... Investigation Corps... Please reply if you hear..."

At the same time, Mai Hanyu's vague voice suddenly appeared in the communication channel.

"Hey, Sister Hanyu..."

Hearing this voice, the two people reacted. Since entering this channel, the communication channel has become quiet.

It turned out that since the two entered this channel, the communication was completely disconnected, and it was not restored until just now.

"So... the upward passage... according to the approximate slope of the passage and the advancing time..."

Although the communication from Mai Hanyu is still intermittent.

"If you are still inside the tunnel, you should have reached the location of the mountainside..."

But her voice was much clearer than before in the tunnel.

"In other words... the tombs of the Tokugawa ancestors in Senjuin Temple...maybe not far above your heads."

"The Tokugawa family is the only one who can build this kind of strategic channel under the nose of the Kiytogawa family and has used the barrier seal for many years."

Thinking of the weird scene of "making gods" encountered in Hakone Mountain last night, Tori Yu Mayumi only realized that the picture scroll and the secrets behind Mochizuki's secret treasure were not as simple as they and others had expected.

"Why, these Tokugawa surnames feel like tortoises, and they always like to hide in the mountains and build this kind of air-raid shelter..."

Thinking of accidentally falling from the top of the Hakone mountain to the cave last night, and today he went up from the tunnel at the foot of the mountain into the belly of the mountain, Sosuke Araki also looked like a bitter melon, worried that he would suffer from claustrophobia.

"...Wait, this passage is at the end?"

After an upward corner, what appeared in the sight of the two of them was a row of stone walls piled up with the technique of "cutting and joining".

This kind of craft is very common after the Edo period. The stones are processed into rectangles and then piled up. Because there are almost no gaps between the stones, they resemble brick walls, making them stronger, like the craft used in Nijo Castle in Kyoto.

In the center of the stone wall that blocked the passage, under the quaint Edo-style eaves, is a giant wooden door covered with talisman paper.

"Eh, this door is not closed?"

Excitedly ran to the door, Araki Sosuke found that the old giant door hadn't been completely closed. There were dense talisman paper flying on the door slit that was enough for half a person to pass through.

From the outside of the talisman paper and the sticking method and the giant gate, it should have been someone who closed it from the outside, and then specially sealed it with talisman paper.

Perhaps it was in disrepair for a long time, so that some of the shorter rune papers were broken, and only the longer rune papers were barely maintained. Naturally, this huge wooden door could not be completely sealed.

"There is a plaque on it...Wait, Xian Shou Yuan?!"

The little bird behind him, Yu Mayumi, suddenly exclaimed.

Above the giant gate, on a dilapidated plaque, the three characters "Xianshouyuan" are engraved in a very graceful writing brush.

"That place, shouldn't it be on the top of the mountain?"

"Wait, these rune papers..."

Immediately, her gaze stayed on the broken talisman paper densely plastered across the crack of the door.

"The spell on this talisman... is the "Five Seal Town" sealing technique of the Tomi Gate Shinto! "

"The word sealing technique sounds like ‘troublesome’... Isn’t there something strange being sealed in it?"

"I don't know, the Tao Yumen Shendao should actually be called the Yin and Yang Tao. Their magic techniques are of its own kind, and I just don't understand it."

Facing Sosuke Araki's doubts, Yu Mayumi Kotori shook his head helplessly.

Tomimon Shinto, also known as Abe Shinto, Anke Shinto, or Tenja Shinto, is a Shinto sect founded in modern times by the descendant of Onmyoji Abe Haruaki Tomimon Taifuku.

As for the exact reason why Abe changed his surname, there are divergent opinions among the spirit removers, and there is no definite answer yet.

There is a theory that it is because the Abe family has attracted too many hatreds of ghosts and gods, and it has been cursed that has led to problems such as the decline of the people and the difficulty in giving birth.

Some later generations had to use the "Tu Yumen" where Seimei Abe lived as the surname to disperse the curse and continue the blood.

"Tomimon Shinto is the master of the Yin and Yang Ryo during the Tokugawa Shogunate... Presumably this "Shoujuin" and the outer Shenyin barrier are their handwriting."

From the Kamakura period to the beginning of the Meiji period, Tomimon governed the Yin-Yang-Riao, an important official Japanese government agency, and often held the monopoly on the compilation of the country’s official calendar and the right to participate in national politics, especially with the strong support of the Tokugawa Shogunate. , Can be said to have reached the pinnacle of power.

After the Meiji Restoration, the imperial government not only deprived the Tomimon family of the monopoly of making "calendars", it also single-handedly guided Shinto to break with Yin-Yang Dao and completely abolished Yin-Yang Dao.

Many of the side branches headed by the Tuyumen family were forced to abandon politics and go into business, and secretly formed the "Tuyumen Shinto Association", which continues the inheritance of Yin and Yang Tao as a formal religious legal person.

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