Truth is everywhere within range

The dealer's name is Takashi Arai, and he is the priest of Seimei Shrine.

Seimei Shrine is a shrine dedicated to Abe Seimei. It is located in Kamigyo District, Kyoto City. Although it is not big, due to Abe's reputation and the popularity of some recent games, many people come to worship.

Even recently, in order to cater to the preferences of today's young people, the shrine has specially opened a card drawing shou. As long as you buy the shou, you can get the good luck of drawing cards in mobile games.

Of course, as an insider, Takashi Arai knew that was nonsense.

He has been a banker at Chu Ling Yan Wu's opening market for four years and has made a lot of money every year.

In the final analysis, things like handicap do not require buying off players or interfering in the game as many people think.

Just by keeping the bettor's money in a delicate balance through probability, Arai Takashi can make the difference.

This is the magic of mathematics.

Of course, Arai Takashi did not rely on mathematics.

As a shrine dedicated to Seimei Abe, Seimei Shrine is not only traditional Shinto, but also onmyoji, and Takashi Arai is an expert in divination.

Although not as good as the one from Tokyo Onnyangryo, Arai Takashi relied on divination to predict the handicap and made no mistakes.

Taking Qiao Qiao's money, Arai Takashi did the math.

Currently, the price for purchasing a person who can remove spirits within thirty minutes is 200,000 yen.

The price for buying someone who can complete the spirit removal in more than 30 minutes is 50,000 yen. Well, including Qiao Qiao, the price is 70,000 yen.

Although the odds for more than thirty minutes are close to 3, it is still more than enough.

"Okay, here's the ticket."

Arai Takashi handed the bill with his spiritual power mark to Qiao Qiao. As a qualified banker, he is still very reputable.

"Wow, I didn't expect that the teacher who usually doesn't pay a dime would actually take out 20,000 yen at once, and he still bets on the other side."

Ariko Asano was a little surprised.

"What kind of person do you imagine me to be? I don't live without money, I just like to use my money wisely."

Qiao Qiao collected the receipt properly.

"But why does Qiao San think that the shrine maidens at Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine will last more than thirty minutes?"

Maki Araki is more curious about this.

"As Maki-san said, martial arts training is more like an exam. So since it is an exam, there must be something like an exam syllabus and scope."

Qiao Qiao called up the venues arranged for the spirit-killing martial arts exercises in the past five years on his mobile phone.

Since the thirty shrines are all different, plus performances such as exorcism, there are more than one hundred and fifty layout plans in total.

"I simply scanned these layout plans and compared them with this year's ones, and found a problem."

"?"

Wait a minute, Qiao San.

Have you read them all?

It only lasted less than five minutes, right?

Can you read a layout plan in two seconds?

Maki Araki couldn't believe it.

"Yeah, as expected of a teacher."

Ariko Asano nodded repeatedly.

Sitting down is the basic operation of the teacher.

"Well, these layout plans actually have traces to follow. For example, the layout plan from the year before last focused on the witches' exploration of the sources of resentment in electrical appliances. Therefore, there are many sources of resentment arranged in the appliances. For example, last year's layout map simulated resentment. Ling’s investment far exceeds that of previous years, so it must be a very scary year.”

"That's true"

Maki Araki seemed to recall some painful memories.

"And then this year."

Qiao Qiao raised his head and glanced at the abandoned village in the distance.

“This year’s theme is probably ‘Beyond the Outline’.”

"Um?"

Ariko Asano also took a look, but basically couldn't see anything.

Only the big screen was still showing the vigorous postures of the witches exorcising spirits.

"I have just slightly confirmed this year's layout. There are many settings that have never appeared in the past, and there are even meme-like sources of resentment. If the shrine maidens of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine are as good as the commentators said, they will be able to perform martial arts for exorcism. He is very good at it, but he is not good at this kind of weird processing."

This can also be regarded as the disadvantage of being the first to appear.

Shrines should probably be on guard in the future.

However, if Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine can still perfectly complete the work of removing spirits under such circumstances, Qiao Qiao believes that its score will be improved a lot.

Of course, this kind of "theme" is not an official statement.

It's just Qiao Qiao's own conclusion.

Settings related to "theme" only accounted for 5% of all arrangements for that session.

But perhaps it is this five percent that will have a decisive impact on the rating.

"Wait a minute, teacher, you said to confirm this year's arrangements, but there won't be this year's arrangements in the materials, right?"

Ariko Asano doesn’t understand again.

Qiao Qiao said it as if he had already seen the answer to the test paper.

"Well, indeed not."

Qiao Qiao said.

"So I just watched it directly."

"?"

The two miko looked at each other.

I couldn't help but look at the forest behind the screen.

From such a distance, can you directly see the source of resentment and the layout of the simulated resentment spirit?

Arai Takashi, who was sitting aside out of curiosity, also felt unbelievable.

But soon, he felt that this young man who didn't know where he came from might be bragging to win the favor of the two lovely miko.

This is not some eminent monk or great onmyoji. How could he have such a strong sense of spiritual power?

"Oh, the iconic fox of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine has appeared."

"Well, the Kumagai shrine maiden here also used the charm representing the Chidori Gate."

In the two screens, several foxes made of spiritual power appeared next to a witch, flying to every corner of the abandoned village, searching for possible sources of resentment.

A dozen or so red torii gates appeared next to another miko. From the torii gates, spiritual power fell like raindrops, penetrating the building and destroying the simulated resentful spirits hidden inside.

"It's really amazing."

Qiao Qiao listened to the explanation, watched the spirit removal, and wrote down some inspirations in a small notebook.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Twenty-five minutes later, the shrine maidens of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine had completely swept the area.

"Sure enough, it only takes thirty minutes."

Ariko Asano was not happy because she was hit. She glanced at Qiao Qiao.

A teacher who usually values ​​money so much would lose twenty thousand yen because of this.

Hiss, I can’t imagine it.

However, Qiao Qiao was unusually calm at this time.

"strangeness?"

Maki Araki said while looking at the commentary screen.

"If all the spirit removal is completed, there should be an announcement."

But now, the source of resentment visible to the naked eye and the simulated resentment spirit have been eliminated. In theory, the removal of the spirit should have been completed.

However, the conspicuous notice never appeared.

Several shrine maidens at Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine obviously did not expect this situation, but they were obviously very professional. When they got together, they began to discuss the details of the previous ghost removal, trying to find loopholes.

"this"

Arai Takashi glanced at Qiao Qiao.

Is this guy really that powerful? Hidden away?

The thirty minutes passed quickly. The shrine maidens from Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine spread out and searched the village again, but still found nothing.

The commentators also had no topic to talk about, so they could only make jokes and talk awkwardly to waste time.

This situation lasted until the 60th minute.

Since the time limit for the martial arts exorcism exercise is sixty minutes, once the time is up, no matter whether the exorcism is completed or not, you will be forced to leave.

Therefore, the shrine maidens of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine could only leave sadly.

There was a lot of discussion at the scene.

"Qiao Sang, where is the last source of resentment?"

Araki Maki was puzzled and asked curiously.

"It's very simple."

Qiao Qiao pointed to a place in the village.