The news that the Yuki tree of the Tsunomori had been burned overnight soon spread throughout Kyoto.

Since the scene is still cordoned off to this day, it is difficult for ordinary people to know the truth about the fire.

However, according to rumors, at five or six o'clock that night, the marriage wood was still very normal, and even welcomed a group of tourists to worship.

After that, this area of the Tsunomori was cordoned off, and further on, someone saw smoke rising from the forest.

By the time the fire brigade arrived, the fire had been extinguished naturally.

The 700-year-old knot tree has been reduced to ashes.

Due to the fire in the Katsugi, the Fire Department also discovered that someone was cutting down trees on a large scale in the Tsunomori, so it was initially assumed that the fire may have been caused by an accident by someone who secretly cut down the trees.

Later video surveillance also showed this.

In the video surveillance around the Kinomori, the camera captured a suspicious man who threw a cigarette butt near the Yuki tree, causing a fire.

The investigation into the matter is continuing.

"It's hard."

At breakfast time, Qiao Qiao drank miso soup and was quite emotional.

"Whose fault is that?"

Ryoko Kitagawa sat at the next table, and when she heard Qiao Qiao's emotion, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

"Thanks to the help of Masayoshi and his people, the incident finally did not have a major impact."

Yes.

The suspicious man photographed in the surveillance is actually the result of Masayoshi's change.

Although Shimogamo Shrine can tell the masses that the knots that they used to worship have been eroded by the yin qi and turned into evil and weird, there is no doubt that this will easily cause public opinion to attack and the public to panic.

Therefore, the common way to deal with such incidents is to close the case on the grounds of an accident, such as a gas leak.

It's impossible to have a gas pipeline in the forest, so it's a little troublesome, but it's finally solved.

Congratulations.

Today is July 16th.

The day before the Gion Festival parade.

Light rain.

The weather was very humid.

The official start of the Gion Festival is actually on the 1st of July, but for the shrine, the Yamahoko Parade that starts on July 17 every year marks the beginning of the actual Gion Festival.

From July 17 until mid-August, every night at Mt. Hiei, a spirit-removing exercise is performed for a whole month.

And this time, the lower duck shrine drew the martial arts on August 13, ranking third from the bottom.

At that time, it was Obon.

In other words, after deducting the three days of the Duck Shrine performance at the Gion Festival, Jobashi has less than a month to go.

"Time is of the essence."

Qiao Qiao quickly finished breakfast.

The backyard of Shimogamo Shrine.

At this moment, in addition to the neatly arranged weapons, there are also five shrine maidens wearing red and white shrine maiden costumes, standing in a row.

"After a few days of familiarization, I have a general understanding of their specialties and tendencies."

Qiao Qiao was wearing a T-shirt and stood in front of them.

"Since we will be going to complete the Gion Festival for the next three days, we will not have formal training, but today, I will have to assign duties and tasks."

Qiao Qiao glanced at Haruka Sasaki.

"Haruka Sasaki, out of the ranks."

“？”

Dequeue?

Isn't this a bit strange to describe?

Haruka Sasaki, despite being a little confused, stepped forward.

"Originally the leader of the squad."

The shrine maidens suddenly whispered.

Shinki Maki didn't react because Qiao Qiao had told him in advance.

In her opinion, it doesn't matter what position she takes to be able to make Shimogamo Shrine really grow.

"Then, the striker will be Ryoko Kitagawa."

"Striker?"

Is this the arrangement of a football match?

Ryoko Kitagawa doesn't know too much either.

"Scouting and support hands, Nanase Hayami."

"Defender, Maki Shinki."

Qiao Qiao looked at the two of them, and finally, turned his gaze to Hashimoto Kotone.

"In the end, the sniper is played by Hashimoto Kotone."

Sniper?

The other four looked at Hashimoto Kotone together.

Why did there be such a sniper in the witch's soul removal?

Could it be a code?

"Any questions?"

Qiao Qiao looked at the five people.

"That, although I don't understand very well, but these locations don't seem to have anything to do with the removal of spirits?"

Ryoko Kitagawa raised her hand and asked.

"Huh? There are relationalities. ”

Qiao Qiao spoke.

"This is currently the most popular anti-O squad configuration in the world, which can effectively suppress the armed forces in the region in the shortest possible time with the least number of manpower, in my opinion, anti-O and anti-O are the same, in the face of threatening resentful spirits, or even evil spirits, squad combat is far more efficient than individual alone."

"I've already seen the information on the Soul Removal Exercise, and the requirements of the exercise are to carry out the Soul Removal in a designated area, and to probe, eliminate, and detect the remnants of the strange things that may appear, which is consistent with the requirements of the anti-O operation."

He made the five shrine maidens stunned.

And the more I listened, the more the shrine maidens felt.

Seems to make sense?

“...... Moreover, for this specialized soul-removing act, I also asked an acquaintance to try to make some simple soul-removing equipment. ”

Qiao Qiao took out a metal disc-shaped thing from the wooden box on the side.

There are steel nails at the corners of this thing, and in the middle is a hollow steel pipe, so you can't tell what it does.

"It's a shotgun, of course, it's not the same as in the game, it's improved."

Qiao Qiao said.

"Most of the houses in Wakuni are made of wood, which is less strong than cement, and this explosive can penetrate a regular wooden wall in ten seconds, projecting five explosives to the other side of the wall through the center, killing the spirits."

This was the inspiration that Qiao Qiao got when he was playing a game with Suzuka, and how to effectively strike the other side of the wall without destroying the main structure of the wall was the subject of this explosive.

Through the cleaning of explosives, not only the ghosts, but also the traps set by the spirits will be triggered, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

“？”

A question mark appeared on the heads of the five shrine maidens.

"And this."

Qiao Qiao took out another spider-shaped item with propellers at the four corners.

"This is a small drone unit, with a maximum control radius of seven kilometers and a battery life of more than 30 minutes, and with fast charging technology, it can take off again in as little as five minutes."

"Not only can it shoot conventional and infrared images, but it also supports multi-zoom and cooperative monitoring, and in addition, the drone itself can carry two specially designed micro anti-tank rockets, which can provide powerful fire support to teammates at critical moments."

This is the product of the modification of the drone that Qiao Qiao asked the boss to buy from Huaxia, and if you count the modification cost, it is less than 500,000 yen, which is cheap and practical.

“？？”

There are even more colons on the heads of the five shrine maidens.

"And this."

Qiao Qiao finally patted one of the wooden boxes.

"This is a heavy firepower weapon that can raze an area to the ground according to demand, and if you encounter a situation where the wraith merges with the building, then you can use this weapon to completely destroy the wraith."

"Of course, because of the huge power, it takes a certain amount of time to assemble, and it is not so easy to use, and I hope you don't have to touch this if you can."

“？？？”

The question mark on the heads of the shrine maidens, the backyard of Shimogamo Shrine can no longer be fitted.