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Chapter 707 Ji's Treasure

Red basin.

It is a traditional Japanese ghost story.

Its appearance is just like its name, with a big face like a wooden basin, and as red as if it was painted red. There is a small horn on its forehead, and its hair sticks up like sharp needles, and its bloody mouth is split all the way to the base of its ears.

In the corresponding ghost stories, their temperaments are generally more violent.

Other than that, there isn't much else worth saying.

After all, it is a monster that is not very well-known.

In the cemetery in the forest of Chizu Town, the little old man found a total of two red basins, both of which were about D-level in strength and very aggressive.

This should be the goal of this exorcism.

Now all we can say is that the two red pots in Chizu Town are really unlucky.

If it weren't for the fact that he was bringing his disciples for training this time, this level of ghost stories would definitely not be handled by someone with such top-notch combat power as Kamiya Kawa.

After confirming the strength of the target to be defeated, Kamiyagawa asked Oishi to stop the car in a secluded place, and said to his two disciples in a pretentious manner: "The matter here in Tottori will be handled by the old man's body. You two should solve it on your own. Go quickly and come back quickly."

Of course, Tsurumi had no objection to Kamiya's order. He got out of the car holding Nanquan Ichimonji and Smiling Aoue.

Shikanoya first blinked and looked at his master, then quickly took out the Shengde Imperial Incense Burner and strode to catch up with his junior sister.

Kamiyagawa:……

Although before the deer left, he looked at his master with eyes that showed no emotion as much as possible.

But Kamiyagawa, who was in charge of emotions, could still feel that in the previous moment, the girl seemed to be laughing secretly in her heart.

No matter how big or small!
After Kanoya and Tsurumi disappeared into the lush forest nearby, Kamiyagawa slowly followed them.

Although I let my disciples solve the strange incidents in Chizu Town on their own...

But since I'm here, I might as well take another look at their battle.

……

About thirty minutes later.

In a cemetery in the mountains.

boom.

The small but heavy imperial incense burner fell to the ground, bringing with it a chilly and cold fragrance like the autumn wind.

The brass furnace was stained with blood, and when it hit the ground, it made a small dent in the wet ground of the cemetery.

Kanoya raised his right foot and pointed it lightly and skillfully at the imperial incense burner. The copper chain rustled and drew a faint arc in the air.

The Holy Imperial Incense Burner fell heavily back into her palm.

While putting away the copper furnace, Xiaolu looked to the side not far away and saw that Tsurumi Aoi was already carefully wiping the blood stains on the smiling face of Qingjiang.

There was a red basin next to each of the two girls.

This monster has a short body, but a huge round red head, and the hair on its body stands up like sharp needles.

It looks a bit scary, but that's it.

Now both red basins were defeated. One had obvious blunt impact marks on its head, and the other had several slashing marks from sharp weapons. The bodies of the two monsters also began to slowly turn into ashes.

The battle between Kanoya and Tsurumi to exorcise the demon lasted only a short time, in fact only a few minutes. Most of the half an hour was spent trekking through the mountains and forests to reach the cemetery where the monster was hiding.

"Little Grandpa, are there no other strange stories here?"

The little deer first sniffed the humid air of the cemetery again, and then asked this to the little old man who was traveling with him.

"Aba Aba!"

The scout gestured and nodded in affirmative response.

It was just a D-rank ghost story, and was no match for the two young ladies who were fighting seriously.

"Xiao Kui, let's go back to find our master. It looks like we'll have dinner in Hokkaido." Kanoyaya called to his junior sister.

Tsurumi gave a brief reply, then bent down and picked up a small object from the ground.

It was a dark-colored wood sculpture.

The craftsmanship of the maker is a bit rough, and the wood carving does not seem to be complete, but it can still be seen that what is carved is a dragonfly landing on a lotus bud.

This wooden dragonfly was left behind when the red basin that Tsurumi killed turned into ashes.

That's a trophy.

It just doesn't seem to have much value.

"Senior sister, look at this."

Tsurumi showed the deer the wooden dragonfly he had just picked up.

The younger sister came closer and fanned herself to sniff the air, but she could only smell a slight fishy odor left by the red basin from the wood carving.

"Since we got it by defeating the ghost story, why don't we give it to the master later?" Xiaolu suggested.

"Ah."

The two sisters from the same school returned along the same route under the guidance of the little old man.

And next to the ghost car parked at the foot of the mountain, he saw Kamiya River again, who had been "waiting for a long time".

The disciples briefly reported the process of defeating the red basin, and then gave the wooden dragonfly to their master.

In the eyes of Kamiya, who has extremely rich "plundering experience", there is nothing worth talking about this crudely carved wooden dragonfly. At most, it has a certain air of weirdness.

However, when he took the wooden dragonfly in his hand, "Kaidan Monogatari" gave the identification information:

[Honda Tadakatsu's wooden dragonfly (ordinary): This wooden dragonfly was carved by Honda Tadakatsu after he retired in his later years. It is a failed, unfinished work with no artistic value. But because it has a strange atmosphere, it may be used as a support for some very weak wandering spirits. Or, it can be used as a home display to show the owner's unique taste?]
"Oh?"

Kamiyagawa never expected that this inconspicuous wooden dragonfly had a certain origin.

According to the identification information, this wood carving was made by Honda Tadakatsu, a famous daimyo in the Warring States Period.

Honda Tadakatsu was a powerful general and important official of the Tokugawa family.

The name is very loud——

The Flying General of Mikawa, the Heihachi of Demons, a warrior unrivaled in ancient and modern times. He is also known as a man of both beauty and substance, unrivaled in the East.

He never lost a battle in his life and remained unscathed after 57 battles. He was repeatedly praised by veteran generals from various forces. Later generations even called him the "Japanese Zhang Fei".

However, it is said that after Honda Tadakatsu retired in his later years, he became fond of wood carving. Once he was cut by a carving knife, the wound became infected, causing complications and eventually he died of illness.

He spent half his life in the military and was invincible on the battlefield, but died of tetanus caused by a small carving knife.

Such a life experience is really sad.

"This wooden dragonfly was carved by Honda Tadakatsu... It seems that this Mikawa flying general was really obsessed with handicrafts in his later years? I wonder where those two red basins were picked up from."

Kamiyagawa took the wood dragonfly in his hand and looked through it for a while.

Although the maker of the wood carving is famous in the world and is the kind of hero who will definitely leave behind ashes after his death, unfortunately this wooden dragonfly still does not have much practical value to Kamiya today.

When performing exorcism work, you will occasionally pick up small items like these that you can’t use.

In fact, Kamiyagawa also has a lot of things like this.

As for this wooden dragonfly, although it is a "failed work", it is still well preserved. And when you think about its creator, Honda Tadakatsu, the humanistic style of this small wooden sculpture is suddenly improved!

If you really don't need it, you can put it in your living room as a decoration.

Anyway, Kamiyagawa's family has never been averse to displaying some strange collectibles.

This whole family is so ferocious that they can handle anything.

……

After letting the two disciples deal with the red basin, Kamiyagawa and his party set off again.

As a dispatched member of the Countermeasures Office, he visited the old wizard who reported the situation to Tottori Prefecture.

He also showed the other party his newly acquired [Honda Tadakatsu's Wood Dragonfly].

Eventually the old wizard determined that the eerie aura left on the wood dragonfly was indeed the same as what he had felt on the murdered person before.

In this way, the issue in Tottori was officially resolved.

The Kamiya River arrives at Chizu Town around 1:00 p.m. and leaves here around 3:00 p.m.

Speed ​​is of the essence in war, and work efficiency must be extremely high.

This experience of training an apprentice seems a little too easy.

But after all, it is an actual battle, so it will always be beneficial to let Xiaolu and Tsurumi have more contact and accumulate some experience.

So their next stop is the Nemuro Peninsula in Hokkaido.

After arriving in Hokkaido, Kamiyagawa first contacted the local police who had been notified in advance and obtained more detailed information about the recent "young man disappearance case."

The situation here is still unclear, and it is not even certain whether the disappearance case is really related to the ghost story.

When we came out of the police station, it was already dark.

As usual, Kamiya sent out scouts from the outer body corps to investigate the situation around the Nemuro Peninsula.

There is currently no direction for investigating the “disappearance incident” and no one knows where those missing young men have gone.

Since they have all appeared in the northeastern part of Hokkaido, which is around the Nemuro Peninsula... there is no need to "solve the case through reasoning" for Kamiya River. Just use force instead of cleverness. Let the little old man search the place thoroughly, and he should be able to find some useful clues.

The search of the peninsula would take much longer than that of Chizu Town, and the scope of the investigation also included other coastal areas. Considering that it was already late, Kamiyagawa took his apprentices to stay in a local hotel.

His physical condition as a wild god didn't matter, but his disciples at least needed to eat and rest.

The first day of training passed just like this.

At about six o'clock the next day, Kamiya Kawa, who had gotten up early, was drinking coffee as usual while flipping through the large number of files he had brought yesterday. The little old man, who had been busy working all night, finally reported back an important piece of information -

One of his alter-egos found a somewhat strange shrine at the site of the former Habomai Village near Nemuro.

The owner needs to go and check the situation in person.

……

Habomai Village was originally a second-level village in Hokkaido formed by the merger of multiple villages.

Later it was incorporated into Nemuro City.

The "strange shrine" that the old man mentioned is located near Luoshi Village, which once formed the Habomai Village.

Of course, the so-called "Luo Shi Village" no longer exists.

The target shrine is located on a remote hill facing the sea to the east.

Even in an already desolate area like Nemuro City, it stands out as being particularly remote.

Climb the relatively long approach to the shrine and pass through the faded torii gate.

Kamiyagawa and his disciples came to an abandoned shrine.

The deity enshrined in this shrine is...

It is about two meters tall, with a very realistic shape, and is a human organ unique to females.

Japanese people generally call this kind of statue "Himinotaka".

Before Kamiyagawa came to the target shrine to check the situation, he obtained the county annals from the local contact in Nemuro and learned about the situation in Luoshi Village in advance.

When this village still existed, fertility worship was prevalent.

This Hime no Treasure Shrine is the product of this belief.

In fact, fertility worship is not uncommon in Japan and exists in many places.

There are shrines dedicated to the princess's treasure and shrines dedicated to the male root. There are more than 400 shrines with similar straightforward shapes throughout Japan.

And the belief culture of fertility worship goes far beyond this.

For example, the Asuka-za Shrine in Nara holds the "Oda Festival" every year, which is said to be a religious performance passed down from ancient times.

During the performance, one person wears a "Tengu mask" to represent the male, and another wears a "Tafu mask" to represent the female. The "Tengu" throws "Tafu" to the ground, and performs various sexual actions.

As for why Tengu is the representative of men.

In fact, the long nose on Tengu's face originally had sexual connotations.

Moreover, Saruta Hikomi, whose divine remains were collected by Kamiya River, is himself a male representative of fertility worship.

After all, Kamiya is a "top student" who studies folk customs, so he actually knows a lot about these things.

This ancient fertility worship was indeed prevalent in the main island of Japan. However, the indigenous people of Hokkaido were the Ezo, a tribe related to the Ainu controlled by Kamiya.

This belief in Luoshi Village has nothing to do with Ezo.

Because the villagers gathered here first migrated from the Atago area after Hokkaido was controlled by the Japanese shogunate.

"Uh, this... looks pretty good?"

The accompanying deer saw the statue of "Ji Zhibao" in the abandoned temple, and immediately moved forward curiously.

As a young artist who often draws in books, she has no taboos.

But Tsurumi was not as calm as his senior sister.

Although her face was still cold, she had nowhere to look, so she turned her head away and looked elsewhere.

The place where Tsurumi Aoi was looking was a side hall that was also dilapidated.

Kamiyagawa, who had read the county annals, knew that the side hall was called "Zayu Qintang".

What about the side hall?

It is not as useful as the main hall.

Because of the strong fertility worship in Luoshi Village, there is a custom of sexual indulgence.

Sexual restrictions were relaxed during the festival to commemorate a good fishing harvest, and on the evening of the festival, all villagers, young and old, would go to the side hall of the Hime no Treasure Shrine and sleep together.

[Whether it was the village chief's wife, daughter, maid, or male servant, regardless of age, everyone slept in the side hall. Only tonight, no matter what they did, they were free to do anything.]
Because so many people were lying together, it looked like all kinds of fish just caught and mixed together, so it was called "the mixed fish bed".

In fact, after the Meiji Restoration, similar customs were explicitly banned.

However, Luoshi Village is located in a remote area, and the celebration custom of Zayuqin was maintained until around 1950.

Kamiyagawa briefly recalled the contents of the county annals he had just read, and then pushed out Kanoyaya, who was observing the "Himite Treasure" with great interest in the main hall.

Then, he focused his eyes and looked around the entire Ji Zhibao Shrine carefully.

"No wonder the old man noticed this shrine... There is the power of faith and the remnant of the God of the Wilderness here."

(End of this chapter)