Kitagawa Temple eventually gave up on charging the fire.

At least not now.

The reason is simple.

It is written in the instrument of the ritual of fire that a standing fire cannot be extinguished.

This sentence was repeated three times on the note, and even a fool could smell the unusual smell in it.

If the fire is taken and the suppressed calamity suddenly erupts, won't the gain outweigh the loss?

As long as this mission is over, Beichuan Temple can still come back and pocket the stationing fire, and he doesn't need to take such a big risk for something that must be his own.

Kitagawa Temple quietly suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and after searching everywhere to no avail, he withdrew from the side hall where the fire was stored.

Looking over from the side of the bridge, there was no room around the area except for the room where the fire was stored.

However, if you look from here in the direction of the main shrine hall, you can see the complex of buildings spreading backwards.

This entire shrine resembles a floating shrine like Itsukushima Shrine.

That must be the scene behind the other two wooden doors he didn't investigate.

With this in mind, Kitagawa Temple returns to the shrine main hall and walks towards the second wooden door on the left.

After taking some effort to open it, the familiar scenery of the long bridge sewage appeared in front of Kitagawa Temple.

Not far in front of him was a standard shrine building, but it was much smaller than the storage hall where the fire was stationed.

Without saying a word, Beichuan Temple stepped forward and opened the door first.

The vermilion and blackened walls, the crimson pillars, and the creaking planks.

This room looks like a room where shrine maidens usually worship, and it is filled with musical instruments such as shakuhachi and taiko drums.

Next to another door in the room, a large offering wall is dedicated to a Kagura bell with a red knotted rope.

The red knotted rope was so red that it made people shudder.

On both sides of the offering wall are candlesticks, and the candle flame is swaying slightly.

The whole room was surprisingly clean, and if it weren't for the broken and blackened walls, Kitagawa Temple would have thought that this was an ordinary shrine room.

Kitagawa Temple scans around with a flashlight, and finally stops on the Kagura bell that enshrines the main seat.

There's a black resentment coming out of it.

There are many kagura bells in this room, but this one is the only one that is specially enshrined in this place.

Kitagawa Temple stretched out his hand to the Kagura Bell.

At that moment, it seemed as if some kind of memory flowed into his mind.

Kitagawa Temple stood in an unfamiliar scene.

In the center of the dungeon is a bloodstained long table bound by chains bound to a young man in a sackcloth kimono with a hideous face and round eyes.

Beneath him, the blood had been clotted for a long time, and mosquitoes haunted his bluish-white skin.

Looking at this, the young man has been dead for a long time.

At this time, a crisp sound of unlocking sounded in the quiet dungeon.

A woman dressed in a red and white shrine maiden costume and holding a kagura bell pushes open the door and runs in quickly.

The shrine maiden has long hair and a soft face.

But this softness turned to horror and sorrow when he saw the young man lying on the long table, who had lost his breath.

She covered her mouth tightly, tears falling from her eyes.

But even so, she still didn't dare to make the slightest sound.

It's as if anyone knows if there's a big movement.

The shrine maiden pounced on the young man, and the stench of the corpse passed through Mai, but she clutched the young man's sleeve and refused to let go.

She was in pain and sobbing quietly.

After a long while, the anguished shrine maiden whispered:

"Shenzhu Mountain is the closest place to the Yellow Spring."

"Death is also another kind of survival."

"Wait for me, Chi."

Kitagawa stood quietly behind her, watching her next move.

I saw the shrine maiden trembling and taking out a short knife from her arms.

Looking at the smooth blade, and then at the dead young man on the table, the shrine maiden's trembling movements stopped, and she put down the kagura bell with a reverent face, and held the short knife on the smooth neck as if performing some kind of ritual.

Wrist force!

The blade surface is completely submerged into the neck, and most of it is cut in.

Poof—

Blood poured out in large streams in an instant.

The shrine maiden's white palm dragged the short knife and hung limply, and she was half-lying on the table, her mouth moving.

"Ahhh Whew..."

But her broken vocal cords weren't enough to support her in words.

The blood stained the shrine maiden's robes, the Kagura Bell red, and the knotted rope, which symbolized purity, was also dyed red.

From Kitagawa Temple's point of view, the dead shrine maiden's wide-eyed eyes were staring at him without blinking.

Gazing at him deeply.

Beichuan Temple's lifeless breath turned and pulled back his consciousness from his memory.

He looked thoughtfully at the Kagura bell in his hand.

That was supposed to be the shrine maiden's memory before she died.

The resentment was all lodged on this kagura bell, so that anyone who touched it would be pulled into that illusion.

Beichuan Temple subconsciously swept towards the offering wall again.

There is also a wooden box with a demon flower tattooed under the Kagura bell.

Kitagawa Temple took the wooden box and opened it.

Inside is a piece of paper wrapped around a string.

'Wedding ceremony, a legend about Kagura Bell. ’

A young man who had passed the wedding ceremony fell in love with a shrine maiden who resided in the main house. ’

In order to maintain the bloodline of the family, he grabbed the young man and brought him into the underground palace and killed him, but the witches who reside in the family have a certain ability to inspire. ’

The shrine maiden discovered this through her inspiration ability, and secretly obtained the key to the dungeon during an important ritual while everyone was away, and then committed suicide with a short knife in the dungeon. ’

When I arrived, there was only Kagura Suzu, who was stained red with blood, and the eyes of the shrine maiden who were staring at the people of my family. ’

The few people who found the bodies soon died of madness for various reasons, and it is said that if they touched this kagura bell, they would be tempted by a shrine maiden to commit suicide in the same way. ’

Therefore, it was placed in the ritual room and enshrined and sealed to purify the shrine maiden, and at the same time forbidden any shrine maiden to touch it. ’

"The legend of Kagura Suzu."

Kitagawa Temple held the kagura bell and muttered to himself.

It's no wonder that the knotted rope of this kagura bell is so red.

How can you not have such a suffocating beauty when you are dyed red with human blood?

Just as Kitagawa Temple was thinking about it, the kagura bell in his hand suddenly jingled and rang rapidly!

It's a very strange thing.

Because Kitagawa Temple didn't shake the Kagura bell at all!

With a movement of his hand, Kitagawa Temple attached a layer of dead air to Kagura Bell and simply threw it behind him.

With a bang, Kagura Bell just smashed into the woman in a jet-black shrine maiden robe who was holding a short knife.

This woman was already standing behind Beichuan Temple at some point.