Truth is everywhere within range

August 15th.

Kyoto.

Just like the plot in "Weathering With You", Kyoto has continued to be sunny in recent days, as if welcoming the Bon Festival, and the excitement on the streets is not inferior to the Gion Festival.

night.

The scene of the martial arts exorcism on Mount Hiei.

The two commentators are introducing the shrine that will appear today, Riki Shrine. However, because the score of Shimogamo Shrine was too unsuspicious before, there are very few people present today. Except for the shrine itself, there are basically people like Arai Takashi. Perfect attendance.

After all, tonight's fireworks display is more attractive than the spirit-killing performance.

"Qiao Sang, what do you think should be a better setting for tonight's handicap?"

Arai Takashi was obedient and handed Qiao Qiao hot tea.

"I don't understand these things."

Qiao Qiao didn't drink tea, just looked at the screen behind the commentary desk and said.

"However, judging from the strength of the personnel of Limu Shrine and the situation of this term, I think it is more likely that they will not be able to complete the removal of all sources of resentment. As for the number of sources of resentment eliminated, it should be between thirteen and fifteen. Between."

After hearing Qiao Qiao's words, Arai Takashi hurriedly took notes.

Afterwards, the specific value of the handicap was determined through divination, and combined with Qiao Qiao's inference, he started collecting money.

Next to Qiaoqiao, the five shrine maidens from Shimogamo Shrine were sitting upright, holding notebooks of the same style in their hands, carefully recording their experiences from watching the spirit-killing performance.

Ariko Asano sat on the other side of Qiao Bridge, playing with her mobile phone.

Today is the last day to remove spirits. According to the current situation, Shimogamo Shrine should indeed be the first place in this year's spirit removal performance.

Tomorrow during the day, the summary and award ceremony will be held at the headquarters of the Kyoto Spiritual Exterminator Association, and Qiao Qiao is also preparing to return to Tokyo tomorrow afternoon.

This trip out was indeed too long.

The most famous thing about Riki Shrine is Somei, one of the three major water sources in Kyoto. It was named Somei because it was once used by the royal family to dye clothes.

Therefore, the spiritual exorcism technique of Riki Shrine also has a touch of Somei's color.

It can be seen in the spiritual vision that along with the shaking of the imperial coins, the spiritual energy with colorful colors ripples from every corner of the village, seeping into the house through the windows and doors.

The simulated wraith was suppressed and gradually fell apart.

As for the source of resentment, it is shot by witches holding bows and bows.

The entire process of removing spirits is orderly.

However, in terms of speed, it is not comparable to a shrine like Yasaka Shrine that specializes in removing spirits.

It looks elegant, mysterious and watertight.

But in fact, after thirty minutes, the shrine maidens of Limu Shrine had only eliminated ten sources of resentment, and the farther they went, the slower they removed spirits.

"Qiao Sang is really amazing."

Takashi Arai was counting money on his cell phone calculator and said to Qiao Qiao.

"Hmm, it's a little strange."

Qiao Qiao didn't care about Arai Takashi's praise, but scanned the place where spirits were removed with his spiritual vision.

Originally, the sources of resentment and simulated resentful spirits exuding yin energy were clearly visible to Qiao Qiao, like torches lighting up in the dark night.

But now, those sources of resentment have become blurry.

In Qiao Qiao's spiritual vision, something was superimposed.

"Teacher, are these predictions of yours really inferred from various data?"

Ariko Asano asked curiously from the side.

Isn’t it really about channeling or divination?

"Of course, even a junior high school student can easily produce this level of logical reasoning."

Qiao Qiao replied matter-of-factly.

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Does the teacher have any wrong understanding of junior high school students?

Ariko Asano tilted her head.

"List the possibilities through phenomena, and then eliminate them one by one, and you can easily get the correct answer."

Qiao Qiao said while looking at the screen.

"For example, for example, when we were at Neko Ramen, the tanukis said something, and all the monsters on Mount Hiei were driven out."

He thought for a moment before continuing.

"This happened on July 13th. It didn't seem like there was any problem at the time, but now that I think about it, there seem to be a lot of problems."

"On July 13th, let me think about it, ah, Sister Maki and I went to discuss the Gion Festival in the afternoon and decided on some matters related to the martial arts exorcism."

Ariko Asano suddenly thought of something again.

"Besides, the teacher secretly took Suzuka to Ren O Hall this afternoon!"

Ariko Asano remembers this grudge clearly.

"Ahem, that's not the point."

Qiao Qiao looked at him and talked about him.

"The words I heard on the night of July 13th were thought at the time to mean that the Soul Exorcist Association was starting to expel the monsters from the mountains due to the Gion Festival's spirit exorcism exercise, but when I think about it, it's actually not true."

"First of all, the discussion for the Gion Festival is in the afternoon. Even if you want to expel the monsters, it should be done after the discussion and the specific scope of the spirit exorcism exercise has been determined."

"Secondly, after all, is it really necessary to expel monsters in martial arts?"

"In the past month, through my observation, there are basically no monsters around the venue for the spirit-killing performance. Moreover, when I talked about this matter, it was as a topic of strange things that had happened recently. I checked the recent few The information on Nian Chu Ling’s martial arts training does not mention anything related to monsters.”

"In other words, the departure of the monsters from Mount Hiei is not directly related to the spirit-killing enbu."

"Oh, in that case, why did the youkai of Mount Hiei leave?"

Ariko Asano asked in confusion.

"have no idea."

Qiao Qiao replied simply.

"However, through this incident, we can take a look at what special things have happened in Kyoto recently."

"Well, if I want to talk about it, it's probably those strange statues I encountered when I was exorcising spirits."

Ariko Asano replied.

"Well, judging from the shape of the statue and the feeling it gives people, we can temporarily assume that these are related events. So, what of them is related to the monsters of Mount Hiei?"

Qiao Qiao also started thinking and soon had an idea.

"When it comes to weird things, the first thing to consider is the existence of spiritual power."

Most of the weird tricks are essentially to obtain more spiritual power or yin energy.

Otherwise, no matter what, someone will come out and commit the crime.

"Currently, there are more than twenty commissions that have been handled by the Kyoto Spiritual Exterminator Association with similar traces. Sure enough, that's the only one involving spiritual power."

Qiao Qiao thought about it.

In the forest of Zan, the two seven-hundred-year-old trees, as well as the trees that were uprooted and disappeared.

The reason why the knotted wood cannot be restored is because other trees that have been with spiritual power for hundreds of years have disappeared. From another perspective, those trees all possess a lot of spiritual power.

If you think that the incident on Mount Hiei is related to the trees in the Tsuno Forest, it is easy to draw a conclusion.

"Oops."

Qiao Qiao stood up.

At the same time, a dozen towering trees appeared at the scene of the martial arts performance at Limu Shrine.