I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

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

Walking in the dark passage, Araki Sousuke suddenly stopped and pointed to a lone shoe on the ground.

"Wow, it's still AIR JORDAN 1, but it's a pity that there is only one, and it's rotten, otherwise I'll take it to a second-hand store..."

"Sure enough, those who entered this place by mistake, for some reason, were led into this passage by the previous "Tubi"..."

Looking at the sneaker on the ground, the little bird Yumami who was pasted with talisman paper on the wall of the rear passageway nodded slightly.

The two entered through the cave exposed after "Tubi" became a Buddha, and then proceeded along the slightly upward-sloping passage.

The further you go inside, shoes, bags, and clothes start to appear sparsely along the way, extending continuously along the interior of the passage.

Messy footprints could be vaguely seen on the fine gray ground.

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

Looking at the old and new clothes on the ground, Sousuke Araki scratched his head curiously.

"The extremely high concentration of resentment in this tunnel can easily cause people to have various hallucinations... No, maybe there is something else hidden inside..."

Looking at the empty passage in front of him, remembering the strong and foul-smelling resentment that gushed out before, Kotori Yumami couldn't help but glance at the man in front of him gratefully.

Thanks to Mr. Araki for inhaling those strange grievances into his body to expel them, otherwise this passage would not be so smooth.

"A hallucination? Then what did these few people see?"

Glancing at the few sexy underwear scattered on the ground of the passage, Araki Sousuke walked forward with a mutter.

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

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

"This is Maria's Wall...Shusha...Survey Corps...Please reply..."

At the same time, Wu Yu's vague voice suddenly appeared on the communication channel.

"Hey, Hanyu-san..."

Hearing this voice, the two of them came to their senses. Since entering this passage, the communication channel has become quiet.

It turned out that since the two of them entered this passage, the communication was completely cut off, and it was not restored until just now.

"Is that so... an upward passage... According to the approximate slope of the passage and the travel time..."

The communication from Mai Hanyu is still intermittent.

"If you're still inside the tunnel, you should have reached the mountainside..."

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

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

"The only ones who were able to build such a strategic channel under the eyes of the Kiy Tokugawa family and have used the barrier seal for many years are the Tokugawa family themselves."

Thinking of the weird "god-making" scene that he encountered in Mount Hakone last night, Yu Mayumi Kotori only felt that the scroll and the secret behind Mochizuki's secret treasure were not as simple as he and others expected.

"Why, these Tokugawa people feel like tortoises, they always like to hide in the mountains and build things like air-raid shelters..."

Thinking of accidentally falling down from the top of Hakone Mountain last night, and entering the mountainside from the tunnel at the foot of the mountain today, Sousuke Araki also had a bitter look on his face, worried that he would suffer from claustrophobia.

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

Passing an upward corner, what appeared in the sight of the two was a row of stone walls built with the "cut and joint" technique.

This kind of craft is very common after the Edo period. It is to process the stones into rectangular shapes and then pile them up. Because there are almost no gaps between the stones, they are similar to brick walls, so they are stronger. This kind of craft is used in Nijo Castle in Kyoto.

In the center of the stone wall blocking the passage, under the eaves of the quaint Edo style, is a huge wooden gate covered with talisman papers.

"Hey, is this door open?"

Excitedly running to the door, Sousuke Araki found that the old giant door was not completely closed, and there were dense talisman papers flying on the crack of the door that was enough for half a person to pass through.

Judging from the talisman paper and the method of pasting and the appearance of the giant door, someone should have sealed it with talisman paper after it was closed from the outside.

Perhaps it was in disrepair for a long time, so that several of the shorter talisman papers were broken, and only the longer talisman papers were barely maintained. Naturally, it was impossible to completely seal the huge wooden door.

"There's a plaque on it... wait, Xianshouyuan?!"

The little bird Yu Mayumi behind him suddenly exclaimed.

Above the giant gate, on a dilapidated plaque, the words "Xian Shou Yuan" are engraved in extremely graceful calligraphy.

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

"Wait, these runes..."

Immediately, her gaze rested on the broken talisman paper densely pasted on the crack of the door.

"The incantation on this talisman paper...is the "Five Seal Town" sealing technique of Tsuchimikado Shinto! "

"The word sealing technique sounds very 'troublesome'... Could there be something strange sealed here?"

"I don't know, the Tuyumen Shinto should actually be called the Yin-Yang Dao. Their techniques are a school of their own, and I only have a half-knowledge of them."

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

Tsuchimodo Shinto, also known as Abe's Shinto, Anjia Shinto or Tensha Shinto, is a Shinto sect founded in modern times by Tsuchimon Taifuku, a descendant of the great onmyoji Abe Seimei.

As for the exact reason why Abe changed his surname, there are different opinions among the exorcists, and there is no definite answer so far.

There is a saying that it is because the Abe family has attracted the hatred of too many ghosts and gods, so they have been cursed, resulting in population decline and birth difficulties.

Some descendants had to take the surname of "Tuyumen" where Abe Seimei lived, in order to disperse the power of the curse and continue the blood.

"The Tuyumon Shinto was the master of Yinyangliao during the Tokugawa shogunate... Presumably this 'Xianjuyuan' and the outer barrier of the gods are their handwriting."

From the Kamakura period to the early Meiji period, Tsuchimikado ruled the Yinyangliao, an important national government agency in Japan, and often held the right to monopolize the compilation of the country's official calendar and 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 Tumimon family of the monopoly of making "calendars", but also single-handedly led Shinto to break with Onmyodo, and completely abolished Onmyodo.

Many offshoots headed by the Tuyumen family were forced to abandon politics and go into business, and secretly formed the "Tuyumen Shinto Fellowship", which has continued the inheritance of Yin and Yang Dao as an official religious legal person to this day.