Looking at Yuzao, the god lord suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Jingu Temple!" When I heard this surname before, I thought it was the Jinguji that sells high-end suits, but is it actually the Jinguji that sells Japanese sweets? ”

Wait, Kazuma was surprised to think, there is also a Jinguji Temple that sells high-end suits?

Tamamo nodded: "It's the one who sells Japanese sweets." ”

"Disrespectful, disrespectful, that...... The qualifications of our shrine should have been assessed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture the year before last......"

"You misunderstood, I was on vacation with Malay."

Lord Ota: "Oh, I see, I see! ”

Kazuma looked at the expression of the god lord and always felt that he had misunderstood him even more.

Yuzao smiled and said, "Divine Lord San, you should tell me about this mountain god." ”

The Divine Lord nodded repeatedly: "Okay, good." Indeed, as you said, we didn't have any belief in this mountain god here, so you can't see anything related to the mountain god in our shrine. Our shrine has always worshiped the stone on the mountain, which can be climbed by the stone steps behind the main hall. ”

Qingliu muttered in a low voice: "There are still stone steps......"

It seems that she also has a lot of complaints about the long stone steps of this shrine.

Haruru's voice could only be heard by Kazuma, and the god continued undisturbed, "But at the end of the shogunate, some people began to say that they saw the mountain god. According to the local chronicles kept in our house, shortly after the attack of the black ships, it was said that Chiyo Take, who had disappeared from a neighboring village, was seen in the mountains. ”

Kazuma: "Does this Takechiyo sound like a little boy's nickname?" ”

"Yes. At the end of the Edo period, the neighborhood was very poor, and children who could not afford it would be thrown into the mountains, and occasionally wolves would attack and take children away. The specific situation is not clearly written in the local chronicle, only that it is known that the missing child from the neighboring village was witnessed. ”

And Ma babbled: "Rashomon...... Is it? ”

Ryunosuke Akutagawa's famous work "Rashomon" wrote a human purgatory in just 3,000 words. Kazuma is not very interested in this article, but I have to admit that it is awesome.

The priest continued: "Rumors like this have been frequent since the end of the Edo period, and the basic content is very similar, all of them are mountain gods who look like giant wolves, and the missing children who stay with them. The names of the children often change, and it can be seen from the side that children were often lost in this nearby human village at that time. ”

"It's been a lot since the end of the shogunate? Doesn't it mean that after the Restoration, the situation in the village has improved, and gradually no one throws the children into the mountains? And the horse asked.

The god nodded: "Yes, after the Meiji Restoration, the land was inspected, and the low-level samurai who were originally powerful in this vicinity were abolished, and the police team also swept away the bandits, and everyone's life has changed a lot all of a sudden, and they will no longer be able to afford children."

"But there will still be wolves who will take the child away. Soon after the Meiji Restoration, the village organized a team to fight wolves, and the landlords of the town made a fortune in Tokyo, and specially bought back twenty Winchesters armed with a small team of foreign guns, plus local hunters, and went into the mountains to fight wolves.

"But the results of the wolf fight are not very optimistic. Several people were injured, and the rest of the people were also silent about what was happening on the mountain, saying only that they were angry that they had met the mountain god. ”

And the horse stammered: "Twenty Winchesters? This firepower is not able to defeat tens of thousands of light people in the Warring States Period. ”

During the Warring States period, the ashigaru were all conscripted peasants with bamboo spears, and morale was very poor, and there were many examples of dozens of samurai killing thousands of ashigaru.

The 20 gunners with Winchester ran to the Warring States period, and I am afraid that the morale of the ashigaru team would be exhausted and collapsed before the bullets in the barrel were not finished.

By the way, the plot that the god said is becoming more and more like "Princess Mononoke".

Could it be that Miyazaki was inspired by the legends of this place?

The god only shook his head at Kazuma's complaints, and continued: "There are so many records in the local annals, and then the legend of the mountain god naturally exists in the local annals, and every few years someone will always claim to have seen the mountain god. ”

Kazuma: "I guess every sighting is accompanied by a missing child." ”

"Yes, there have been cases of children going missing, but no one has organized a wolf hunt anymore. Later, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, many people in the village joined the army, and it seems that the sightings of the mountain gods began to decrease from that time on. ”

He Ma sighed in his heart, the Sino-Japanese War was the name of the Sino-Japanese War on the Japanese side, and after He Ma crossed Japan, he intentionally or unintentionally avoided the beginning of this period of Chinese history of being slaughtered by Japan in modern times.

The thought that the body he now occupies is a descendant of the people who once brought so much suffering to China makes him feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the god did not mention the Sino-Japanese war too much, but regarded it as a time node, and it passed immediately.

"After the end of the war with Russia, there was no record of the mountain god in the local annals after that."

Kazuma frowned: "Didn't you say that after the Great Kanto Earthquake during the Taisho era, the village began to abandon children in the mountains because they couldn't afford to raise them?" No one saw the mountain god? ”

"Nope. But instead, the legend of the heart-eating demon fox began to spread among the villagers. ”

The priest stopped, looking at Kazuma, apparently waiting for Kazuma to ask a question.

So Kazuma asked, "That's what Watanabe-kun came to ask that day, what did you say to him?" Why did he look so solemn when he returned to the hotel? ”

There was obvious hesitation on Lord Ota's face.

He Ma asked, "What did you tell them?" Tell me! Didn't you want to find out the truth about Watanabe-kun's death? If you hide something from me, how do you want me to find out the truth? ”

The god lord opened his mouth and asked, "Kiryu-sensei, did you learn the information that Watanabe-kun looked abnormal from Miss Akanishi?" ”

"So what?"

"I think it's Miss Akasai confusing the public."

"Do you think Miss Akasai is lying?" Kazuma asked, his voice suddenly raised.

The Divine Lord shook his head: "No, you misunderstood. Miss Akanishi said that Watanabe-kun looked solemn when he returned to the hotel from the shrine, and it should not be a lie. But no one says that the truth cannot be used to confuse the public.

"What I told Watanabe-kun was just speculation, similar to the urban legends and rural tales that I often see in supernatural magazines.

"Ordinary people listen to me say that, they will only use it as a 'ammunition' when they talk about alcohol or pick up girls, Watanabe-kun is very simple, he is the kind of child who will cry because of the plot when watching movies, and his expression is very solemn. He looked solemn at my place.

But it had nothing to do with his death. I'll just say it straight, I think it was Miss Akanishi who killed Watanabe-kun, and she had a motive, but I guess she didn't tell Kiryu-sensei at all. ”

Kazuma: "Regardless of whether Miss Akasai is telling the truth or not. I just want to listen to this rural tale you told Watanabe-kun. By the way, I really chased a white-haired man who ran fast for more than ten miles last night, and you said at the beginning that this is the son of the mountain god, and now you want to tell me that this is a country legend? ”

The god lord looked at Tamamo meaningfully and said, "I'm talking about ordinary human beings." Since you have such a deep relationship with the daughter of the Jinguji family, you definitely won't think of it as a country fantasy. ”

"Wait a minute!" Qingliu, who had been sitting obediently next to her, shouted, "What do you mean? Are you trying to tell me that the ghost-like thing from yesterday is real? Are you trying to tell me that ghosts really exist? No kidding! ”

Qingliu's voice trembled, and Ma didn't expect that this guy was actually afraid of ghosts.

As soon as the god lord was about to speak, Yuzao grabbed the white and said: "Ghosts don't exist, even if there are some things that science can't explain for the time being, it's only for the time being."

"For example, in some places, there will be a sound of speech on a thunderstorm, and later scientists found that there is a natural magnet nearby, and there is a probability that the voice will be recorded on a thunderstorm day, and then played on another thunderstorm. The principle is similar to that of a tape recorder. ”

Qingliu said with a suspicious face: "This explanation sounds very spoofed!" ”

Qingliu continued to give an example: "Another example is the mirage, originally human beings thought it was Penglai Wonderland or the Jade Emperor's manifestation, but now they also find that it is just the refraction of light." ”

Haruku was obviously persuaded by this second example, and although she still had an unhappy expression on her face, she didn't open her mouth to refute it.

Lord Ota muttered, "So that's what I'm talking about now." ”

"It's not a rhetoric, it's a fact." Jinguji Tamamo said firmly, "The legend of the mountain god and the descendants of the mountain god you just mentioned, as well as the legend of the demon fox eating the heart and liver of a child, must also have a scientific and logical explanation. Mystery does not exist, the world is scientific. ”

And Ma complained in his heart: Then you should explain your four-channel ears, you don't want to say that the pair of ears on the top of your head are just your hair out of order, right?

And a virtual video that I've liked all my life is called Kitamiya Hinata.,The pair of ears on the top of her head is the hair that has been messed up from sleep.。

The god lord looked at Yuzao, his expression was very complicated, he bit his lip and considered it for a while, and finally made up his mind to speak: "It may indeed be like that." Actually, in my grandfather's generation, they would still go into the mountains to collect medicine, but suddenly one day my grandfather stopped going into the mountains and told my father to collect medicine in the mountains behind the shrine.

"My father didn't understand at the time that although there were medicinal herbs sown by our family for generations in the back mountain, there were not many types and quantities. You must know that in that era, Western medicine was not popularized in rural areas like ours at all, and the nearest clinic was more than ten kilometers away, and it was up to us to get sick in the village.

"It's not like now, when there were quite large clinics on the hot spring town.

So my father asked my grandfather why. Under my father's constant questioning, my grandfather finally told the truth. ”

The god lord paused, his eyes still fixed on Tamamo.

Tamamo tilted her head in confusion, as if she didn't understand why the god lord was glaring at her like this.

Lord Ota asked word by word, "I said it's okay, right?" Don't you know? ”

Tamamo: "I really don't know. I'm not going to lie in front of Kazuma, never. ”

It could be seen from the expression of Lord Ota that this mouthful of dog food caught him off guard.

"It may be that the adults of the Jinguji family are hiding it from you." Said the Divine Lord.

Kazuma frowned, it seemed that the god lord didn't know that Tamamo was the biggest "person" of the Jingu Temple family.

He turned his head and glanced at Tamamo, confirming through his eyes that the latter really didn't know.

"My grandfather told my father that he had met the gendarmes in the mountains. The big cap and cloak with the red stripe, he would never be mistaken. ”

Along with Ma and Haruyu, he shouted, "Gendarme? ”

And Ma shouted naturally because in his impression the gendarmes were executioners who slaughtered the Chinese, Qingliu, probably because the spirit of rock and roll was inherently incompatible with dog-legged people like gendarmes?

After all, people who play rock 'n' roll have their heads thinking about what to burn to ashes all day long.

Tamamo looked very calm: "The old Japanese army...... Yes. ”

"Yes, the gendarmes seem to be supervising a group of Chinese speakers to build a railway, and I have never heard of a plan to build a railway nearby.

"Several gendarmerie officers chatted in loud voices, saying that they would shoot them all when the railroad was finished. My grandfather thought it was bad and ran back just before he was found. ”

He Ma instinctively felt disgusted, and wanted to travel back to that era again to kill these turtle grandchildren and save their compatriots.

However, he does not have the ability to planeswalk at will.

Once again, he had the idea of "why don't you travel more than a few decades and let me go back to fight the war".

Tamamo: "It's worthy of the old Japanese Army, it's all a bunch of miscellaneous pieces." ”

The god lord glanced at Tamamo: "Miss, you are actually the left wing?" ”

"I'm a student at the University of Tokyo." Tamamo said.

Even the god of the shrine in the countryside, after hearing the four words of the Tokyo University student, felt that Tamamo was a left-wing thing to take for granted.

Ota no longer dwelled on this issue, he continued: "I told Watanabe-kun about this that day, and I expressed my speculation: the old Japanese army may have some secret facilities in the nearby mountains, and may be doing ulterior research. Grandma Noda may have just seen the scene of them coming to the mountain village to catch the test samples. ”

Haruru: "Are you saying that they are capturing their own people as test subjects?" ”

"Nothing is impossible. After all, that's a bunch of beasts. And Ma said.

Tamamo added: "These guys are planning to break 100 million jade in the last moments of the war." If the Americans hadn't dropped the nuclear bomb, they might have done just that. ”

Kazuma: "It's a pity that the Americans didn't send all these people to the gallows, if the Americans had completely liquidated these people at that time, Japan would be better now." ”

Tamamo: "Yes, MacArthur was a heinous crime. ”

Ota interrupted the conversation between the two: "In short, as Miss Jinguji said, weirdness may not exist at all, everything is the work of the criminal old Japanese army. That's what I told Watanabe-kun about that day. He's a kind kid, and he's a college student, probably a left-wing youth like you. ”

He Ma took over the conversation: "That's why he has that expression...... Is that what you mean? ”

"yes, so this has nothing to do with his murder. Miss Akasai must have said this on purpose to interfere with her vision. ”

- No, I always feel like it's more than that.

"Ota-san," Kazuma looked up at the priest, "You have been collecting medicine near Watanabe-kun's accident all day these days, and you haven't found anything strange?" ”

"What do you mean? I should have given you all the strange things I found yesterday. ”

And the horse staggered.

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

"What's the matter?" The priest looked at the office door and asked aloud.

Outside, the voice of Hiroko, a part-time witch: "The people from the Tourism Promotion Association and the village office are here. ”

"Got it."

And Ma asked, "What's wrong?" They came to ......"

"Preparations for the festival, starting today, we will set up a stall for the festival on the square in front of the main hall of the shrine, and we will rehearse and parade, so we will be busy." The Divine Lord stood up, "I've said everything I can say, and the rest of the clues are up to you to find on your own." Of course, if you have any questions, feel free to call me. However, I don't think I will have such a large amount of time to entertain Kiryu-sensei, and according to the experience of previous years, a large number of tourists should have arrived in the hot spring town today, and the Shinkai society has become very busy. ”

Kazuma: "Is it going to get busy?" ”

"Yes, from today onwards, girls from neighboring villages will come to work, and Hiroko alone can't cope with it. In a few days, there will be shrine maidens invited from Tokyo by the Tourism Promotion Association, who will be in charge of the performance of the Kanraku Dance. ”

Tamamo: "Oh? Are you from Tokyo? Maybe I know. ”

God: "Anyway, that's all for today." The problem of wolves, and the white-haired man last night, maybe you can talk to the people of the Tourism Promotion Association, for the safety of the tourist season, they should immediately go into the mountains to fight wolves. ”

Kazuma also stood up: "Okay, I'll go and ask the Tourism Promotion Association, so I won't bother you." ”