I loaded the ghost talk game

After explaining the situation, Teacher Kihara was actually a little nervous.

As a teacher, she told the two police officers that the current missing children might be related to mountain spirits and wild monsters... Looking back, this seems a bit absurd.

Then, somewhat beyond Teacher Kihara's expectations, the two police officers from Tokyo looked normal after the conversation. In the end, they simply asked where the shrine that performed the exorcism ceremony for Sasagami Elementary School last week was located, and then temporarily said goodbye and left.

Kanoya and Tsurumi came out of Sasagami Elementary School and returned to the ghost car parked nearby.

"Yahiko Shrine, Shunma, we will go here next." Xiaolu showed Shunma Oishi the destination of the mobile navigation.

"Okay, Miss Kanoya."

Yahiko Shrine, according to the information given by Teacher Kihara, this is the shrine that performed the exorcism ceremony for Sasagami Elementary School.

Next, Kanoya and his party will go there to learn more about the situation.

Yahiko Shrine is a large shrine in Niigata Prefecture.

Located at the foot of Yahiko Mountain in Nishikanbara County, it is mainly dedicated to the god Iyahiko.

This shrine stands in the lush forest. The torii of the shrine is made of 100-year-old cypress wood, and the bridge railings are built with whole stones. There are also 1,000-year-old sacred bridges, sacred trees, and sacred horse sheds. It is large in scale and magnificent.

Since it is a large shrine, it must be connected with the countermeasures room, and it will be much easier for Xiaolu and Tsurumi to communicate with it.

After the two of them arrived at Yahiko Shrine, they first showed the credentials of the countermeasures room, and then reported their master. They were soon treated with courtesy and successfully met the chief priest here.

The chief priest here is an elderly and kind old man. He received Kanoya and the others in the reception room of the shrine that is not open to the public.

During the polite greetings, the old chief priest praised Kamiya River and introduced the situation of Yahiko Shrine.

According to him, although Yahiko Shrine is large and popular, its business level in the exorcism industry has always been in the middle.

Last year, Kamiya River and Onitsuka Shinko of Kyokyo Shrine took the lead in widely carrying out the exchange of exquisite talisman skills in the exorcism industry. Although Yahiko Shrine was not the core object of "resource integration", it also indirectly benefited from it.

Therefore, the old priest of Yahiko Shrine is grateful to these two young talents from the bottom of his heart.

Thank you for the open source of the disciple of Onitsuka and Kyokyo Shinko!

Xiaolu and Tsurumi were very happy to hear the praise of the master from outsiders, and their faces were bright. However, because there were important things to deal with, after a simple greeting, they took the initiative to cut to the point and asked about the matter of Sasagami Elementary School.

"I just received news about Sasagami Elementary School." The old priest obviously knew something about the situation. "Yes, a week ago, the principal there commissioned our shrine to go there to exorcise ghosts. He said that there might be evil spirits in the school, threatening students."

"Is it the Kamaitachi?"

"Yes. The appearance of the Kamaitachi at Sasagami Elementary School was a little surprising - those three Kamaitachi, according to the current classification of monster strength, are probably a group ghost story of C-level strength. The several priests who were assigned to exorcise the ghosts in the shrine did not expect that monsters like Kamaitachi would be so strong at first. They only discovered it after the exorcism ceremony began."

C-level monsters can be dealt with more safely by the elite among exorcists.

Although Kamiya and Onitsuka did consciously try to strengthen the overall strength of the entire exorcism industry through the exchange of interests, and it has played a certain effect at present, this matter is not achieved overnight.

"However, although the sickle weasels that were causing trouble in Sasagami Elementary School were strong, they were particularly timid. After the exorcism ceremony began, they had a brief fight with the priests of the shrine, and then were scattered and fled. Those weasels are wind monsters, and they are extremely fast, and the priests of the shrine could not catch up with them."

"Considering that the three sickle weasels are timid by nature, they are not interested in fighting at all, and they did not actually hurt anyone in Sasagami Elementary School. Frightening students may be more in line with their nature of loving to play pranks. Therefore, the priests of the shrine believed that after the exorcism, the sickle weasels should not return to the school. So, last week the shrine just reported the matter to Countermeasures room. Plus, there are other supernatural incidents that Niigata Prefecture needs to deal with, and we don’t have too many people…”

“But I didn’t expect those weasels to have such a strong revenge mentality. They actually returned to Sasagami Elementary School in such a short time and kidnapped two students. This is indeed caused by our miscalculation.”

“Since you two are the disciples of the ghost and god disciples and are responsible for this incident, if you need any assistance from Yahiko Shrine, we will spare no effort, which can be regarded as a compensation.”

The old priest explained the situation he knew, and he himself did not actually directly participate in the exorcism of Sasagami Elementary School.

After all, he is old and powerless.

Kanoya and Tsurumi did not stay in Yahiko Shrine for too long. After understanding the situation, they said goodbye and left.

On the way down the mountain, the sisters from the same sect discussed the information they had obtained and tried to come up with the next action plan -

Kanoya: "The chief priest of Yahiko Shrine doesn't seem to be lying, so this is what happened... Well, the sickle weasel that appeared in Tokyo escaped from Niigata Prefecture. It was injured because of the priest of Yahiko Shrine. It returned to the vicinity of Sasagami Elementary School last night, but it didn't dare to go back, probably because it was afraid of the priests who injured it before."

Tsurumi: "Because the Kamaitachi of Sasagami Elementary School did not show a strong desire to attack, coupled with the nature of this monster that likes to play pranks but does not overly hurt others, the Yahiko Shrine misjudged their subsequent behavior."

"Perhaps in retaliation for the spirit-killing ceremony, Kamitachi unexpectedly abducted two children from Sasagami Elementary School this morning. The Kamitatsu in Tokyo has been under surveillance by Little Grandpa since yesterday. . So, it should be the other two who did this. The best case scenario now is that the two sickle weasels just kidnapped the children and didn't really hurt them. If that's the case, we still have a chance. Save the kids."

"Senior sister, do you want to attack Kamaitachi in Tokyo?"

"Yeah. Let's catch the lone one. It's still being watched by the little grandpa's body, so it's not difficult to catch it. Then, when we come back to Niigata, we might have a chance to use it to catch the two Change the child back.”

"If this is the case, it is indeed the best way to deal with it now." Tsurumi nodded in agreement, but there was still a little uncertainty in her eyes.

"Hmm."

The little deer kicked down a staircase on the shrine, then stopped, and the forest wind in the mountain ruffled the ends of her soft hair.

After coming out of Yahiko Shrine, this young senior sister has been frowning, and her pretty little face has always been slightly bulging: "Xiao Kui, obviously the information we have now can be connected together, but I I always feel... something is wrong."

"Actually, I feel the same way."

"But what's wrong?"

Kamiyagawa's young disciples are currently unable to determine the cause of the indescribable strange feeling in their hearts, and they cannot discuss the result.

They planned to return to Sasagami Elementary School and see Teacher Kihara and the principal again. If no further clues were found, they would implement the arrest of the lone Kamitachi.

…

When they returned to the school, Oka and the others learned that Teacher Kihara and the principal were not at Sasagami Elementary School at this time.

Because there is a high probability of an incident related to Kaidan happening in the school, Xiaolu and Tsurumi gave the suggestion in the morning to stop teaching activities today.

The principal did so and asked the teachers to notify parents to take the children home.

Children from school were picked up one after another in the morning.

However, there are also some parents who cannot escape.

Because the principal didn't dare to let the remaining children go home on their own, he thought he would have to watch their parents take them away, so the remaining dozens of children in each grade and class in the school were all taken to his own home. .

And due to the large number of children, several teachers including Mr. Kihara, a local police officer, and two priests who came from Yahiko Shrine later also accompanied the principal at his home.

The principal's house is a one-family house not too far from the school, so it is not difficult for Xiaolu and the others to turn around.

Arrive at your destination.

It is now evening, and the sky is dyed orange-red, with a tendency to transition to lavender and dark blue, and the rays of light connect with the mountains in the distance. Xiaolu and Tsurumi were so busy today that they accidentally reached this point.

There is an open space at the entrance of the garage built by a single family.

Teacher Kihara and a priest wearing hunting clothes were accompanying six or seven lower grade children.

The children did not have the worries of adults, and they were not very clear about what was going on in school. They were all immersed in the joy of not having to go to school today, and they were noisy and playing games on their own.

They used the chalk they brought from school to draw a grid on the open space.

This is a game called "Where". It is a very old game. Recently, for some reason, it has become popular again in rural Sasagami Elementary School. The way children play sometimes becomes "retro".

The rules of the "where" game are roughly as follows:

Two children alternately jump left and right in the four boxes of a field grid according to the rhythm of a nursery rhyme. When a specific syllable is sung each time, they have to jump forward one step, then jump back, and continue the previous left and right. Jumping rhythm.

When Xiaolu and Hemi came to talk to Teacher Kihara, these children were having fun.

"Where are you?

Higo.

Where is Higo?

Kumamoto.

Where is Kumamoto?

Ship yard.

There is a civet cat on Xianbo Mountain.

The hunter killed it with a gun.

Boil it, bake it, eat it.

Cover it with leaves. "

The afterglow of the setting sun reflected on the little figure jumping back and forth, making the shadow on the ground long and distorted. The childish children's songs and cheerful jumping sounds were mixed into the dim light and the flying dust in the air, but they brought with them a hazy feeling of emptiness.

At the end of the song, the two children who were playing couldn't control the rhythm with their feet, and they didn't know which one was at fault, so they bumped into each other.

They fell to the ground, but they just held their bellies and giggled.

Among the other children who had not yet played, two more stood on the grid and were eager to try.

For some reason, looking at the children playing, Tsurumi's eyes narrowed slightly, and she whispered to Kanoya: "Senior sister, this game is the one drawn by Toshinichi Sugiyama."

"It seems so."

The missing child, Toshinichi Sugiyama, seems to be the type with relatively strong inspiration.

Only his painting depicts Kamaitachi's appearance more completely.

The theme of Sugiyama's painting is indeed a game on the playground. Two children jumping in a field are surrounded by many other children.

The “where” game.

Tsurumi thought of something, and she seemed to grasp the pending "something wrong" in her mind: "That painting... Senior sister, we have to look at that painting again!"

"Ah, okay." Xiaolu did not doubt the junior sister's judgment at all, and was about to accompany her to the school not far away, "Teacher Kihara, is the painting you showed us still in your office?"

Seeing that the two police ladies who were originally calm became excited for "no reason", Teacher Kihara was a little unable to react, so he could only nod in surprise: "Yes."

Xiaolu took steps to catch up with his junior sister, but just as he turned his head in the direction of the school, her movements stagnated.

The wind blowing in your face from the street was mingled with smells.

The familiar, very light, very light smell of strange beasts.

The smell of Sasagami Elementary School.

According to previous experience, although the distance is not far now, it should not be able to smell it.

In other words, the smell in the school has become stronger.

"Little grandpa, you can feel it too, right? The atmosphere at the school seems to be getting stronger."

"Aba Aba!"

The aura becomes stronger, which means it becomes more distinct, and you may be able to get more information from it.

I don't know if it was a tacit understanding between fellow disciples, but although his inspiration was different from that of his junior sister, Xiaolu suddenly realized at this time that there might be something "wrong" that he had not really noticed today.

But why did this strange atmosphere suddenly become stronger?

Behind him, the children's games continued.

They sang and laughed.

Snap, snap.

Brisk and joyful footsteps, jumping.

"...There is a tanuki on Xianbo Mountain."

"The hunter shot it to death."

"Cook it, bake it, eat it."

By the way...

There are two missing children from Sasagami Elementary School, right?

With this thought, Kanoya didn't bother to think about whether the two things were really related——

"Stop! Don't play that game again!"

"ah!"

The children who were playing around were startled by the beautiful sister's sudden shout, but the priest of Yahiko Shrine nearby was the first to react.

Although he didn't know what the disciples of the Ghost and God disciples had discovered, he was right to listen to what they said.

Seeing that a priest was controlling the situation here, Xiaolu called to the little old man and quickly caught up with Tsurumi.

Just a little bit closer.

Kanoya felt that he and his junior sister were almost able to figure out what happened in Sasagami Elementary School. (End of chapter)