Atsuta Jingu has never been busier than tonight.

The shrine maidens in red and white shrine maiden costumes came and went, and the priests had a serious face, but the people of Atsuta Jingu were not sleepy when the whole city was about to fall into a deep sleep.

"A very powerful youkai was found in the west, and it is very likely that it is a large youkai python that has disappeared for forty years."

"There are multiple high-concentration demonic power reactions, all of which are powerful monsters that have not been registered by the association."

"There is a shortage of people on site, please ask for support!"

All kinds of news echo in the side hall of the shrine.

Atsuta Jingu's Miyaji Asagami Ren Saburo remained in an upright position, closing his eyes and listening to the information.

The discussion of the people next to him did not seem to reach his ears at all.

Qiao Qiao, who had changed his clothes, sat in the line of the spiritual exorcists in Tokyo, except for a few who had not yet returned, most of the rest had just been woken up and were slightly tired.

Masato Kotokui yawned and sat casually.

Fujiwara Ayano and Asano Riko, who often have to get up early to practice, have already rested enough, and at this time they looked at Asagami Renzaburo with some uneasiness.

Qiao Qiao listened to these forward reports, and the events gradually became clear in his mind.

The big monster named Python was broken through the disguise by a certain soul slayer, and the battle began.

Faced with the gradual increase in the number of soul slayers, the python, which could not escape, could only call its companions.

So the two sides started a big war.

At this point in time, it is difficult not to associate the appearance of the Tiancong Cloud Sword and the python.

Plus the snake scales that Qiao Qiao and others found yesterday.

A conspiracy looms.

This snake scale should not have been put into the old sports warehouse recently, and judging from the results of the analysis, it is at least thirty years old.

In other words, the python set its sights on the Tiancong Cloud Sword thirty years ago?

But it's not surprising, Qiao Qiao thought.

The lifespan of a monster itself is much longer than that of a human being, and thirty years is a long time for a human, but for a monster, especially a big monster like a python, it is just a snap of a finger.

If Qiao Qiao could live so long, he wouldn't mind spending thirty years squatting on a certain goal.

Looking at the information he had just gotten in his hand, it was a file retrieved from the database of the Soul Killer Association.

The python is a snake demon with an estimated lifespan of more than seven hundred years, and its last appearance was forty years ago.

At that time, the python had just committed a few incidents in Hokkaido, and in the blink of an eye, it ran away to the vicinity of Australia.

I don't know what happened, but it molted over there.

For the seven-hundred-year-old snake demon, molting is more like a means of escaping after being hit more than growing.

The shed skin was caught by the Wakoku fishing boat "Zuiyo Maru", which passed by by accident, and was once thought to be the remains of a sea monster due to its unique shape.

Of course, after the operation of several major shrines at that time, this matter became a mysterious and strange story, and there was no follow-up.

As for going forward, although there are several cases where the mastermind behind the monster chaos may be a python, due to the long period of time, it is not possible to verify the specific details.

It's such a mysterious youkai.

Due to the depiction of snakes in traditional Japanese culture, snake demons themselves are very rare.

Those registered in the register can be marked as powerful snake demons, which can be counted on one hand.

And most of these snake demons have a very long lifespan, the longest even more than a thousand years, and they are ancient yokai that have been recorded since the Heian period.

During the time when Qiao Qiao was looking at the information, Ren Saburo Asagami finally made a decision.

A group of soul killers from Kyoto, Nara, Tokyo, and Atsuta Jingu Shrine were dispatched to destroy the pythons.

Newcomers like Qiao Qiao and Ariko Asano, as well as some older soul slayers, stayed at Atsuta Shrine.

This is a reasonable consideration.

Regardless of whether the python is related to the loss of the Tiancong Cloud Sword, this is a big monster that has the potential to endanger society and must be eliminated.

On the Atsuta Jingu side, it is in the city itself, and it has multiple enchantment protections, and there are no treasures worth paying attention to by youkai, so it can be regarded as the safest place.

After the decision was made, everyone quickly took action.

The people in the side hall left one after another, leaving only Qiao Qiao and others.

"Can you go back to sleep?"

Masato Kotokui yawned again and slept without leaving his sleep.

It can be seen that he is probably the kind of guy who can sleep until noon and get up again on a fine day.

"Maybe it's a tiger away from the mountain."

Qiao Qiao said, it is hard to imagine that if the python had been preparing for decades in order to steal the Tiancong Cloud Sword, it would be accidentally discovered by the soul slayer and exposed to his whereabouts.

And now, it has attracted a powerful soul slayer like Ren Saburo Asagami away, leaving behind an empty Atsuta Shrine.

Isn't this a standard plot of the tiger leaving the mountain?

"But there's no more in Atsuta Shrine than what it wants."

Fujiwara Ayano helped her glasses.

The Atsuta Shrine's Supreme Treasure Heavenly Cloud Sword has been stolen, and the rest are just some witch goddess officials, as well as the main hall of this shrine.

Youkai don't have to go to great lengths to kill a few people or destroy the shrine.

What's more, in addition to Atsuta Jingu, there are many temples and shrines in the vicinity.

If the youkai come to attack, they will not be weaker than the ones sent out.

Judging by the motives, there is no reason to be invaded here.

"I still think there's a problem."

Qiao Qiao flipped through the information and saw the specific location of the strange incident in the entire Nagoya after the loss of the Tiancong Cloud Sword.

These locations are marked on the map.

It looks fairly random, there are all kinds of parts of the city, and you can't find a pattern.

Qiao Qiao stood up.

"What are you going to do?"

Masato Kotokui was already half-lying down, and seemed to be about to fall asleep.

"I'll take a look at it in the shrine."

Qiao Qiao left immediately, and Asako Asano followed him as she saw him.

"Teacher, is there any problem?"

Asako Asano asked puzzled.

"Well, if the python stole the Tiancong Cloud Sword, then why hasn't it left Nagoya for so long, but was discovered by the spirit slayer and had to fight?"

Qiao Qiao came to the corner of the shrine and opened his backpack.

Triple 460 naval guns were exposed.

“？”

Why did you still stuff the model into a box and bring it over?

Qiao Qiao took the model out of his bag and asked Asako Asano to help hold it.

He pulled out a very thin steel wire and a lunch box.

"What is this going to do?"

Ariko Asano watched Qiao Qiao carefully hang grenades in some hidden corners, glued some pillars with the "plasticine" in the lunch box, and used steel wire to pass through the grenade's pull ring, and quickly set up a trap.

"It's a defensive measure, and I think there's more than an eighty percent chance that youkai will attack here tonight."

Qiao Qiao replied.

"These mechanisms are effective in delaying the Yokai invasion."

"However, the shrine is protected by an enchantment, so there shouldn't be a way for youkai to enter, right?"

Ariko Asano looked at the explosives on the pillar of the torii gate with some concern.

This pillar is 1,000 years old, right?

"But didn't the youkai steal the Heavenly Cloud Sword?"

Qiao Qiao did not stop the work at hand.

"Being able to steal the Heavenly Cloud Sword without anyone noticing, why do you think that the enchantment of the Divine Palace will definitely be able to defend against the invasion of youkai?"

Seems to make some sense?

Asako Asano was speechless for a while.

It took half an hour for Qiao Qiao to set a trap where he thought the other party might invade.

Just as he was getting ready for the next trap set.

An explosion was heard not far away.

From the back mountain of Atsuta Jingu.