Gion Festival.

Kyoto is also one of the biggest festivals in Japan.

From five o'clock in the morning, Shimogamo Shrine starts to get busy.

Shinki Shinki was dressed in a red and white shrine maiden costume and walked hurriedly in the courtyard.

Out of the eye caught a glimpse of the gear in the corner, covered with a tarp.

The expression is somewhat complicated.

But I don't have time to think about it that much today.

Just dealing with the Gion Festival left her in a hurry.

Shimogamo Shrine does not have a corresponding Yamahoko or Shinkoshi, but as one of the shrines in Kyoto, it is still responsible for performances in the relevant area.

Qiao Qiao also woke up very early today and walked out of the room at six o'clock.

Compared with the daytime mountain hoko parade, Qiao Qiao is more concerned about the spirit removal and martial arts at night.

Tonight is the opening ceremony of the Spirit-Removing Martial Arts, and it is also the first Spirit-Removing Martial Arts, so representatives from each shrine must be present.

According to the previous draw, it was the shrine maidens of Fushimi Inari Taisha who appeared tonight.

"Fushimi Inari Taisha."

There is no need to repeat the information about Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, as long as you know that this is the most famous and most visited shrine in Kyoto City.

Compared to Shimogamo Shrine, which is located in the forest and is shared with other shrines.

Fushimi Inari Taisha, who occupies a mountain alone, is obviously more powerful.

"Teacher, are you going to the festival today?"

In order to distinguish herself from the shrine maidens who are actually working, Asako Asano did not wear a shrine maiden costume today, but changed into a blue kimono embroidered with a sword-shaped pattern, her long hair was coiled, and a snow-white pear blossom was embellished.

It has the feeling of a Japanese beauty.

"Well, it's rare to come to Kyoto after all."

Qiao Qiao looked at his phone.

"Suzuka also said that she was going to a festival today, so I had to wake her up."

"Hey, is Suzuka-sama with you?"

Ariko Asano asked a little unexpectedly.

"Well, it should be."

"Then I'm going to have to stay with the teacher even more."

Asako Asano obediently followed behind Qiao Qiao.

It took nearly an hour to wake up Suzuka.

Suzuka didn't prepare a kimono, so she only wore a lace dress and put on her signature red scarf and went out.

One left and one right, a modern beautiful girl, a Japanese beautiful girl.

Qiao Qiao has attracted the attention of many people.

At nine o'clock, the Yamahoko parade officially began.

The three shrines depart from Yasaka Shrine and pass through Gion Kaikan, Pontocho, Sanjo Ohashi and other places before converging in Kawaramachi.

The parade lasts until 4 p.m., after which the main ceremony of the Gion Festival, the Shinko Festival, begins.

It is accompanied by various songs, dances, performances, fireworks and temple fairs in the evening.

It wasn't until 11 p.m. that the day's festival ended.

"This is the shrine of Suzhan Mingzun."

Asano Riko looked at the shrine carried by hundreds of people and sighed with some emotion.

On the wooden palanquin, there is a shrine with gilt decorations, and there is a phoenix on the roof, and Suzhan Naruzun is the main priest of Yasaka Shrine, and it is inextricably linked to the main priest of Atsuta Shrine, where Asano Ariko is located.

It's no wonder she feels so emotional.

Qiao Qiao thought.

Suzuka on the other side has been taking pictures on her mobile phone all the time, and she tweets from time to time.

Live like a tourist.

"Qiaosan Qiaosan, let's go eat soba noodles."

Suzuka tugged at Qiaoqiao's cuffs and pointed to a small shop on the side of the street.

Nowadays, the shops along the road along the mountain hoko are all very popular, and there are long queues at any of them.

Countless men and women on the streets were very happy to see the different shapes of the mountain hoko and the people performing on the mountain hoko.

After standing in line for a while, the three of them were finally able to sit down and eat noodles.

Soba in Kyoto is different from Tokyo's, especially in the heat of summer, and cold soba is a must-have to beat the heat.

Qiao Qiao just picked up the chopsticks, and the phone rang again.

After a brief call, he put down his phone.

"Is it Sister Maki?"

Asano has already eaten several bites of noodles, and there is still a little soup left in the corner of her mouth.

"No, it's from the Kyoto Soul Exorcist Association."

Qiao Qiao picked up the noodles, subconsciously blew cold, and found that this was cold noodles, and after entering the mouth, he waited until he swallowed it before continuing to speak.

"There are too many coincidences that have happened recently, I submitted some information to the past, hoping that they can investigate, and sure enough, in addition to these few things I encountered, other spirit masters have also encountered similar things."

Qiao Qiao said.

Sculptures and carvings that resemble evil gods suddenly appear on a large scale, and anyone can feel that something is wrong.

Qiao Qiao submitted these records to the past, and feedback was not long in coming.

"Just now, a soul slayer from the Soul Removal Association found another guy who was affected by the evil god sculpture in Fushimi District, and it seems that he has been deeply affected, that person has hoarded a lot of gasoline, and also bought knives, looking at the appearance recorded by the computer, it seems that he is going to launch an attack on a company somewhere tomorrow."

"Oh, it's terrible."

Suzuka sucked the noodles and sighed indecently.

"Fortunately, that person has been taken into custody by the police, and the original plan should not be implemented."

Qiao Qiao has seen a lot of resentful spirits.

I've also seen a lot of people who are haunted by evil spirits.

Some people try to gain sympathy by saying that they committed those crimes because they were haunted by evil spirits and were deluded by demons.

But Qiao Qiao knows very well that in this world, sometimes people are more terrible than resentful spirits.

Crimes that even resentful spirits can't do, but some people can carry out them with a blank face.

The matter came to an end, and Qiao Qiao also finished eating the soba noodles.

"Ah, it's a friend's contact."

Suzuka looked at Line.

"Is that the Vtuber friend?"

Qiao Qiao asked.

"Mmmm, she's going to find Suzuka to go to the temple fair!"

Suzuka stood up.

"Although it's a little uneasy to leave Qiao San to the little witch, but presumably the little witch can't do anything big, I'll go first."

She then left the shop.

"This deer ......"

Asano Riko clenched her fists.

"You have a good relationship."

Qiao Qiao sighed.

In the afternoon, while accompanying Asako Asano to visit the Gion Festival, Qiao Qiao used his mobile phone from time to time to contact the Kyoto Soul Exorcist Association to obtain the latest information.

In fact, two months before Johashi came to Kyoto, after Golden Week, there was an incident in Kyoto about the statue of the evil god.

Of course, most of these evil god statues and markings were not discovered at the beginning, and many were discovered after Qiao Qiao and some soul killers reminded them to re-investigate the scene.

A soul slayer has limited commissions, and firstly, it may not be possible to find such a statue with weak memetic manipulation ability, and secondly, even if it is found, if it is only once, it will be considered a coincidence.

If it weren't for Qiao Qiao's entrustment of removing spirits from the entire Shimogashi Shrine, and attacking many times in a short period of time, I'm afraid it would be difficult to notice the impact.

In the evening, before he had time to go to the temple fair, Qiao Qiao received a call from Shinki Maki.

The first battle of the Soul Removal Martial Arts is about to start.