The process of climbing the mountain will not be described here.

Kitagawa Temple has returned to the shrine, and the main hall of the shrine is still flickering with a faint fire.

The entire Shinto community building is surprisingly simple, with the front being obscured by the shrine hall, and only the general outline of the building behind can be seen.

This time, he had enough physical strength, and he no longer hesitated, stepped on the wooden path, and walked straight to the main entrance of the main hall of the shrine.

Perhaps because of the rain yesterday, the entire wooden road was flooded with sewage.

Kitagawa Temple stepped on the water to the wooden road, and the warmth gradually peeled off from his body.

The door of the temple was closed, and the fingers of Kitagawa Temple could not be opened even if they were tightly pressed against the gap.

It's as if you're connected to this space.

Beichuan Temple took two steps back, and the cold light flashed in his hand.

Under the pouring of dead air, the blade slammed into the Japanese wooden door.

A bizarre scene happened.

At a distance of about a centimeter from the wooden door, the dagger of Kitagawa Temple could not continue to get closer, as if there was an invisible wall in the air blocking the front of Kitagawa Temple.

In this regard, Beichuan Temple just increased the strength and death instillation in his hands with an expressionless face.

Click, click, click

Click!

A crisp sound came out, and the invisible wall seemed to be completely chiseled and disappeared by the powerful blow of Beichuan Temple.

Call.

Kitagawa Temple exhaled a breath, took Kaneda back, and when he reached out and put it on the wooden door again, it was already easy to pull it open.

"Let's go." Kitagawa Temple said pitifully to Nishikujo who was lying on his shoulder, and at the same time left his outdoor backpack and winter jacket in place, he only took his own waist bag, pinched a flashlight, and touched the inside of the dark shrine hall.

Although there are inexplicably flickering candles in the shrine, the whole is still relatively dark.

Kitagawa Temple can feel the malicious gaze hidden in the darkness of all directions.

But when he turned the flashlight over, he didn't find anything.

He shook his head, intently scanning his surroundings.

The interior of the building is very large, with a square dome upward, and you can see the horizontal logs and the miserable white lanterns that are overwhelming and swaying slightly.

Yes, there are overwhelming paper lanterns, and there seem to be people's names on them.

By the light, Kitagawa Temple could barely read the words written on it.

Divine Residence...

Divine Residence...

Divine Residence...

On the paper lantern is written the surname of the god station!

This is the main hall of the shrine, but there is only one offering table inside, and there are no offerings on it.

Only the paper lantern on his head was shaking slightly.

Then it is not difficult to guess that the main hall of the shrine is dedicated to these clansmen of the Shinjo family.

Kitagawa Temple's gaze turned-

"That's...?"

Something seemed to have fallen from under the offering table.

Kitagawa Temple walked over with a flashlight.

It was an old, thick notebook that Kitagawa Temple had taken out.

On the cover are written these words.

"God's Resident Marriage Strategy".

Indeed, if the god is stationed in the family to maintain the inheritance all the time, it is naturally impossible to leave the marriage contract.

But it's strange why the notebook of these marriages was placed here.

Beichuan Temple placed it on the offering table and looked at it with the light on:

'The god is stationed at the shrine, and the wedding is a matter of marriage. ’

In order to maintain the inheritance of the shrine, it is necessary to select some husbands to go up the mountain every 15 years, and then hold a wedding ceremony, and if they are compatible, they will pass on the official position of the shrine, and the name of the shrine will be given to them, and then the goddess will instill the concept of the shrine with the help of the jinn, so that they can concentrate on the ceremony, and then settle in the shrine mountain. ’

After that, the son-in-law and the shrine maiden were divided into gods. ’

'The son-in-law must not touch the core of the shrine, and the person who is in the house of the god must not have any relationship with the son-in-law. Maintain the purity of your bloodline and control the entire shrine and ritual lineage. ’

"Son-in-law? Could it be that this is what Asamiya Yongshi said...? Kitagawa Temple remembered the story of the shrine maiden and the man that Asamiya Eiyo had said.

As a shrine maiden who lives in the main house, she falls in love with a man who is her son-in-law, and there is indeed a possibility of existence.

If one of the Soul Twins falls in love with a man, and the ritual fails due to the strict rules of the God's residence that they are unable to meet their beloved—

Is that possible?

And this title page only says 'compatible', what if the man's wedding ceremony is 'incompatible'?

What happens to men?

There is no record of this.

Kitagawa Temple opened the book.

The book begins with the Taisho period, but there are not many things recorded on it.

After all, this mountain only takes men up once every fifteen years, so there are naturally not many things that can be written down.

Besides, sometimes there are a lot of men in the shrine, so naturally there is no need to choose the men under the mountain. So there are still a few records of disconnection in this.

But Beichuan Temple didn't care about this, he cared about the records of 08 or 09.

According to the story told by the eternal remnant of Asamiya, there may be records of shrine maidens and men there.

"There it is." Kitagawa Temple's expression perked.

Sure enough, as Kitagawa Temple thought, in the 21st year of Heisei, that is, in 2009, there was indeed a selection.

There were not many men on the mountain, and at a cursory glance, there were only a dozen of them.

There are also half of the names of the people on it that are redlined, and it can be seen that this should be the person who failed the wedding ceremony.

"In other words, is the rest of the people among these?"

Kitagawa Temple looked at the list below, and there was a person whose name caught the attention of Kitagawa Temple.

His name is marked with a red circle, which appears to be a special mark.

Beichuan Temple turned again.

Strangely, the record of the wedding ceremony in 2009 disappeared out of thin air.

This does not conform to the previous format.

The preceding rough format is:

Wedding Ceremony Candidate - Candidates who have passed the wedding ceremony (excluding men who have not passed the wedding ceremony) - Candidates for the wedding ceremony marry one of the shrine maidens.

But there is nothing left on this page except for the wedding candidates and the candidates who passed the wedding ceremony.

It stands to reason that there should be marriage to be done later-

"In other words, for some reason, the marriage has been postponed for the time being."

Kitagawa Temple frowned.

So what happened that is more important than such a big thing as family inheritance?

Kitagawa Temple quickly came up with an answer.

Something more important than family inheritance should be the ritual of attracting souls to bloom.

In 2009, the shrine had been preparing for the next soul-attracting flower blooming ceremony, but in 2010, for some reason, the soul-attracting flower blooming ceremony failed, and the shrine was completely destroyed, so naturally there was no follow-up record of the wedding ceremony.

"There shouldn't be anything wrong with that inference."

Kitagawa Temple stood up.

The lantern overhead flickered in the light of the dim candle flame—

The spirits of the undead at the shrine seem to be affirming Kitagawa Temple's conjecture.