Night.

Ise Jingu is especially lively tonight.

Preparations for the New Year's festival are still ongoing.

Although people are worried about whether the New Year's festival will go smoothly due to various events caused by previous events, work is work after all.

The shrine hall, which used to be quiet after dark, is now much more noisy.

Jun Kuroda is dressed in a formal shrine maiden costume and is sitting in the Kagura Temple.

Along with her, there were several shrine maidens of the same age.

These shrine maidens are the ones who will perform the Kagura dance in front of Kagura-den.

Jun Kuroda closed his eyes and stabilized his mind, but Qiao Qiao's words during the day lingered in his ears and lingered.

Don't come to the rehearsal, what the hell is he trying to say?

Jun Kuroda had some thoughts of retreating, but he eventually came here.

This is a task she must complete.

The music sounds, and it is a melodious tune intertwined with traditional instruments such as shakuhachi, shamisen, and taiko drums.

A melody that has remained unchanged since the dawn of time.

It's time.

Jun Kuroda opened his eyes and stood up.

Step by step, step by step, out of Kagura-den.

Outside the hall, priests and shrine maidens who participated in the preparations for the New Year's festival were among them, including Jun Kuroda's father and sister.

Suzu –

The kagura bell in his hand shakes and makes a crisp and pleasant ringtone.

Jun Kuroda dances, walking slowly, between movement and stillness, full of mystical beauty.

Between the flickering lights, she glanced in the direction of the mountain behind her.

It's time.

Jun Kuroda infused spiritual power into his body and tried to trigger that.

However, when she was ready, she suddenly found that it was gone.

"Huh?"

Jun Kuroda's movements stalled, and the whole person became sluggish and lacking agility, and then fell forward.

Smack-

Jun Kuroda, who fell to the ground, suddenly divided into countless corpse parts that emitted a stench.

“！”

Hideki Kuroda, who was present, was surprised and seemed to realize something, and hurriedly rushed to the stage to confirm Jun Kuroda's condition.

On the other side, in a corner of the shrine, in a secret room, Jun Kuroda opened his eyes.

"How so?"

She stood up.

I was about to open the window and see what was going on outside.

A hand rested on her shoulder.

"Are you Jun Kuroda? Tsk, it's not cute. ”

A clear female voice came from behind Jun Kuroda, causing her to turn her head.

With long silver hair, bright red eyes, and a black and white dress, this woman has a beautiful appearance, and between the corners of her mouth, sharp canine teeth are exposed.

"Qiao San asked me to come all the way over, why don't you make up for it."

Woman, Sakuraba Kiriya smiled as if she was very angry.

Ise Jingu, inside the dungeon.

Silence.

Below the first floor, there are no priests stationed there.

First, because the security here is strict, sending people is a waste of manpower.

The second is because there are many monsters here, many of which are good at demagogic and spiritual manipulation, and if there is an accident, it is human life.

In this cage illuminated by the lights for many years, a figure shuttles through it.

The priests on the first floor have all been asleep, and at this moment, he is the only one in the dungeon.

He expertly made his way through the second floor, setting up the spells at some points, and then came to the third floor.

On the third floor of the dungeon, there are no gaps in the cage.

All the cages were made of steel, and after the prisoners were imprisoned, they were recast on the outside, sealed with cypress wood, and sealed with a large number of techniques.

Whether it is physically or spiritually, it is a complete prison.

The man walked through these prisons.

Outside the prison, all sorts of names are written.

Descendant of the Yagi Orochi, Worm.

Plague the weirdness of Heiankyo, the Great Tengu.

The ghost god of Mt. Suzuka, Otakemaru.

And so on, all of which are powerful weirdness that has left a prestige in historical legends.

The man was about to place the spell on the prison.

Suddenly, he felt something in his heart and turned back.

A man stood at the entrance to the third floor.

He was wearing the most ordinary white hunting clothes, and his hands were empty.

However, at this moment, the mere fact that the other party was standing here was enough to make the intruder tremble.

"Where to start?"

Qiao Qiao, who was wearing a white hunting suit, looked at the person in front of him who had sneaked into the third floor of the dungeon, held his chin, and said as if he was in distress.

"By the way, let's start with the very beginning of the incident, the death of Aoki Taka."

"You met Takashi Aoki during a certain exorcism, he is a journalist who likes to hunt for strange news, most of the soul exorcists respect him, but you are different, you provided him with a lot of information, so that he wrote a popular article, after all, he is a soul exorcist, and the real experience of soul removal is always more attractive."

Qiao Qiao took two steps forward.

"Well, yes, Takashi Aoki was the first to die, even before Ayako Kashiwagi."

"You told Aoki Gui that someone was going to cause chaos at the New Year's Festival in Ise Jingu, and provided relatively real and credible clues, Aoki Gui naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity, so he came to Ise, however, he was directly killed by you, and the body was made into a living corpse, and a technique was implanted, and that afternoon, you controlled Aoki Gui to return to the hotel, exploded and died, as for why you took the means of exploding this curiosity, on the one hand, it was to create the illusion that the old gods were haunted, and on the other hand, we will talk about it later."

"Of course, there are traces of your forgery in Aoki's notes, and most of those vague statements were made up by yourself, and because you are disguised as a reporter who has fallen into madness, no one will naturally pursue your handwriting."

"Then, there's Ayako Kashiwagi's death."

"I've always wondered why Ayako Kashiwagi was dismembered, why she was made to look like such a rudimentary ritual, and why she was kept at the heart of her body to give people the illusion."

"Later, I figured it out."

"In the reasoning, there will be such a bridge, killing multiple people, each of them intercepting a piece of the body, and finally piecing together a complete corpse, and the murderer disguised himself as being beheaded and died, missing the head."

"Here, the same means are used."

"Of course, Ayako Kashiwagi did die, brutally and without any direction."

"Her death is just to give people the illusion that an evil god is in trouble, and another purpose, which has nothing to do with who the victim is, probably just because she is Tanizaki Koji's girlfriend, so it is easier to deceive her."

"So, where did her body go after it was taken into police custody?"

"After all, if a person explodes and dies, and becomes like that with bloody flesh and blood spread out on the wall, then it is a person or half a person, in fact, you can't find out at all, right?"

"The same corpse 'died' twice in different ways, which is a modus operandi that often appears in reasoning, isn't it, Mr. Shinji Fujina?"

Qiao Qiao looked ahead.

The lurking figure is the dead Shinji Fujina.

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