Watching Setsuko run into the mountains, Aina Shiratori smiled and returned to her home, she had to go home to finish the extra homework assigned by the teacher.

It's not because the study is too good, the teacher asks Shiratori Aina to study more under the concern of love, on the contrary, it's because Shiratori Aina's academic performance is too poor, and the teacher is angry and assigns more homework, wanting to twist this girl who doesn't like to study to the right path.

But it's completely useless to assign so much homework, and Aina Shiratori still writes and picks and writes, too lazy to make people not know what to say.

Aina Shiratori's mother came out of the room and twisted Aina's ears: "Are you going to be lazy again?" Hurry back to the house and do your homework. ”

"Oh~ Got it." Aina Shiratori propped her arms behind her head, as if she would look more dashing.

Kurokawa Aina looked at herself innocently in her dreams, and her childhood self was so different from her current self.

"Where's your brother?"

"I don't know, maybe go to the mountains to play, with Shitsuko's brother."

"Half-grown children go up the mountain every day, and they are not afraid of any danger."

The small village is shrouded in mountains, but the mountain is specifically a shrine mountain.

On that low hill there is a shrine that I don't know when it existed, and it is not a standard shrine built in the country after the Meiji Restoration, but a small and simple shrine.

There is no main hall, treasure hall, Gengshen Pagoda, torii gate, etc., just some tattered stones and wood put up there to meaning, and even what gods are worshipped, until now there is no record, the standard wilderness small shrine.

When you really want to go to a shrine during the New Year's holidays, the villagers in the small village will choose to go to the shrine in the town, and the shrine in the town looks more or less formal, with priests, shrine maidens, torii gates, and so on.

"You might even encounter a ghost at the shrine!" Aina Shiratori said, "Then my brother was taken away and sacrificed at the shrine!" ”

"Nonsense."

Because no one went there over time, the shrine that was supposed to be a good shrine dedicated to the gods was also falsely rumored to be a symbol of bad luck and bad luck among the villagers.

"Isn't it said that way.,Because the shrine has been unworshipped for too long.,So the gods enshrined inside gradually abandoned the shrine.,And then the demons and monsters in the mountains occupied the shrine itself.,Kamihi.,This is Kami-hiding.。

Shinto means "hidden by gods and monsters", entertained by them, and disappear from human society, and their whereabouts are unknown.

"If you talk nonsense, I'm going to hit you in the mouth."

"Slightly."

This is a world with demons and monsters, and the things that Aina Shiratori said have often happened in history, but these things are impossible for ordinary people to encounter in a lifetime, and the probability is too small.

After all, if there were too many demons and monsters in the world, and everyone could encounter them, human beings would have been wiped out by demons and monsters in the long river of history, and it would be impossible for them to reproduce until now and develop a splendid civilization.

The sun gradually recedes from midday, and as the sun sets, the temperature drops, and the sun submerges into the rising mountains.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines behind the mountains, reflecting the orange-yellow Phnom Penh of the mountains.

"Aina, I'm out to eat."

"Oh!"

Aina Shiratori only writes homework for half an hour in her room, and spends the rest of her time reading comic books.

Hearing about the meal, she threw away the comic book and lazily pushed open the door and walked to the dining table.

"Is your brother back?"

"I don't know, I've been in the room ......"

Before the words fell, the door at the entrance was opened, and Shiratori Shoma walked in with the sun on his back: "I'm back." ”

Similar to the good-looking Shiratori Aina, Shiratori Xiangma's appearance is also very good, and now he is in the third year of junior high school, he is very popular with girls in the class, but as far as Shiratori Aina knows, his brother has no intention of falling in love.

"Why did you come back so late today?"

"There was a delay in the mountains."

"What's the delay, come and eat, if you don't eat, it'll be too late."

Shiratori's father held an important position in a nearby factory, and he was very busy every day, and he came home late, but fortunately, dinner was usually solved in the factory, so he didn't go hungry.

Shiratori Shoma washed his hands and sat down at his place at the table: "There was a little squirrel that died, and it was so pitiful to see it that I buried it." ”

"Aren't you with Setsuko and Brother Setsuko?"

"Didn't touch them."

Shiratori Shoma doesn't talk much, and he has been a silent person since he was a child.

If it's just a boy-looking or ugly boy, this silence will be considered autistic tendencies, but because Shiratori Shoma's appearance is online, it seems to the other women in the class, Shiratori Aina, who is handsome and cool.

As soon as she thought that her handsome brother would have a girlfriend in the future, Aina Shiratori couldn't help but feel that the pig that she had raised with great difficulty was arched by cabbage.

A few hours later, the father of the Shiratori family returned home, he was a dignified man, even if he was tired and tired, he was still a dignified father when he came home, and he did not let people see weakness and cowardice, and it is said that he was such an image at work.

Then a few more hours, Aina Shiratori, who was already lying in bed, was awakened by the noise, she rubbed her eyes and turned on the light to get up and walked towards the living room.

At the door of the living room, Mom and Dad stand side by side, and outside the door is Setsuko's family.

"Isn't Setsuko here with you either?"

"No, Setsuko, what's wrong with her?"

"She's gone, and I haven't seen her since I went out in the afternoon."

"Huh? What can I do? ”

Hearing that Setsuko was gone, Aina Shiratori's eyes widened and she was completely sleepy, and she turned her head to look at the clock on the wall.

It's already twelve o'clock in the evening, and it's definitely not normal to not go home so late.

"I heard from the people in the village that Shitsuko went up the mountain in the afternoon, so he should be on the mountain." Setsuko's mother had tears in her eyes, and there was anticipation in the tears, and the expectation was a fluke that Setsuko was still hiding at the shrine on the mountain.

"Then I'll go with you."

"I'll go too."

The parents of the Shiratori family put on their clothes and rummaged through the room for a flashlight.

Not only the parents of the Shiratori family, but also the adults of the small village were almost all dispatched, and the flashlights of each family shone through the village, like a searchlight shooting into the sky on a battlefield full of artillery fire.

"Xiangma, Aina, you two are waiting at home, and you are not allowed to go out."

"yes, I see."

Aina Shiratori and her brother nodded, and she watched worriedly as the people in the village headed in the direction of the mountain with flashlights.

"Setsuko!"

"Shizuko, where are you?!"

"Shitsuko come out quickly, don't hide and seek, it's not fun!"

"Setsuko!"

Aina Shiratori, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, is also worried now, and she remembers her nonsense about the shrine Shinto in the afternoon.

"Brother." She looked at her brother beside her in fear.

"What's wrong?" Shiratori Shoma still had very few facial expressions, and he was not unstable at all because of the abnormal movement outside at this time.

"Shitsuko, will you meet the gods?"

"Shen Yin? Perhaps. ”