Beichuan Temple came to the desk, and before he could make any movements, the crisp children's voice suddenly sounded from behind.

"Sister Eternity!"

Kitagawa Temple looked back and found a little girl wearing a white kimono with short hair, who looked no more than seven or eight years old, and did not know when she was already standing behind him.

Beichuan Temple had long since stopped making a fuss about the elusive way of these afterimages, and he watched the little girl trotting past him and running towards the desk.

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl with long hair had already appeared in front of the desk.

The candle flame flickered at some point.

The girls are also dressed in white kimonos, and white chrysanthemum petals are scattered on the clean sleeved robes.

The long hair is sprinkled like satin, and the forehead is flat and the bangs are neat.

In the corner of her eye, there is also a tear mole, which adds a lot of charm to her.

Combined with the words that the girl called her just now, this should be the Eternals of Asamiya who has been mentioned repeatedly.

Her long, narrow eyes lit up visibly when she saw the little girl.

But Ma Gong Yongshi still pretended to complain and said:

"Hitomi, why did you sneak into the library again, if you let the head of the family know, I won't spare you, be careful that you are locked up again."

Pupil of eye?

Hearing this, Beichuan Temple subconsciously looked at the little girl.

Medium and short hair, in terms of appearance, is indeed very similar to the current Asamiya Hitomi.

"When I was a child, did I have a young body?" Kitagawa Temple was silent for a moment, then looked at them again.

"Hmm-" After hearing Asamiya Yongshi's words, his mouth pursed: "As long as Sister Yongshi doesn't tell Grandpa Zongfang, he will definitely not know, and Granny Fuyuko won't let me go into the confinement room." ”

"Of course my sister won't tell the head of the family." Asamiya Yongshi stretched out his white fingers and gently pinched Asamiya Hitomi's fleshy little face, and continued:

"What are you trying to do this time? I'll start with a good idea, I don't have toys or snacks, and there are very few places my sister can go. ”

"I don't want that kind of thing!" Asamiya Hitomi's mouth curled up dissatisfiedly: "The last time I came to see Sister Yongshi, didn't Sister Yongshi say that she wanted to tell me a story?" ”

Asamiya Yongshi smiled and nodded: "There is such a thing." ”

She just wanted to continue talking, but then her bright eyes froze, and the whole person suddenly turned her head to look in the direction of Beichuan Temple!

Yes.

Her sharp and deep gaze seemed to span the long years and stayed on the body of Beichuan Temple.

Kitagawa Temple could even feel the other party's gaze glancing at him.

Asamiya Yongshi looked at Kitagawa Temple for a long time, and only after Asamiya Hitomi couldn't wait to grab her sleeve and sway back and forth, he reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

A look of sadness appeared on her face, and she let out a faint sigh: "It turns out... Is this the final end of the Ma Gong family? ”

"Yong, Sister Yongshi..."Hitomi Asamiya looked at Emasamiya Yongshi with a sad expression, and grabbed her sleeve robe with some worry.

"It's okay... It's okay, don't you still have to tell Hitomi stories? I'm not going to break my word. ”

Asamiya Yongshi rubbed Asamiya Hitomi's little head, and his tone slowed down: "This time, I'll tell Hitomi about a young man and a perennial confined... The story of the shrine maiden. ”

With the eternal soft voice of Ma Gong, a story slowly unfolded under her telling.

There is such a shrine maiden at the shrine on the mountain.

The priests at the shrine have high hopes for her, and countless people respect her.

Even the respected elders in the village had to respectfully call her an adult when they saw her.

The shrine maiden has no sorrow or joy.

She has her own responsibilities.

The shrine maiden who was confined in the shrine - one day when I was passing by the flower pond, I saw a young man.

Right under the cherry blossom trees.

The young man smiled at her.

The shrine maiden's heart was beating fast and she hurried away.

Back in the room, she could no longer calm down, her thoughts were floating and her mind was disturbed.

She knew she was already in love with the young man.

“......”

Speaking of this, Asamiya Yongshi suddenly stopped talking.

"Sister Yongshi? Is that all there is to it? Asamiya Hitomi looked at Asamiya Eternals strangely and blinked incomprehensibly.

"Hitomi, my sister is already a little too tired today, you go back first, lest the head of the family come." With a smile on his face, Asamiya Yongshi squatted down and looked at Asamiya Hitomi.

“... Oh..."Asamiya Hitomi nodded as if she didn't understand, she glanced at Asamiya Yongshi worriedly: "Then Sister Yongshi, you rest early, I'll go first." ”

Kitagawa Temple watched the remnant of Asamiya Hitomi disappear at the door, and then looked at Asamiya Yongshi, who was sitting at the desk.

After Asamiya Yongshi saw off Asamiya Hitomi, he sighed deeply.

She lifted the brush in her hand and wrote a sentence on the paper, word by word.

When she was done, she put the paper in a box with a white chrysanthemum pattern on it.

After doing this, Asamiya Yongshi put the key on top of the bookcase next to him in front of Kitagawa Temple.

She took another deep look in the direction of Beichuan Temple and nodded slightly to him.

——

The afterimage receded like a tide, and the candle was extinguished.

Kitagawa Temple is more like a dream.

"There are also leaders in the ritual of soul induction, and the shrine maidens with powerful inspirations can even faintly see the future..."

Kitagawa Temple didn't understand what Asamiya Yongshi saw, but what she did just now had a feeling of seeing herself completely.

He walked over to the bookshelf and removed the key, then took the dusty white chrysanthemum-patterned box out of the drawer.

Without the slightest hesitation, he opened the box.

The yellowed paper was lying quietly in it.

There is Juanxiu's handwriting on it.

'Atrium, between the coffins. ’

"Between the coffins..."

Kitagawa Temple's eyes flashed.

This should be a hint that Asamiya Yongsei, who saw something, left for himself.

"Even if you tell the people in the village about the end of the Asamiya family, the ceremony will still have to be carried out... And that story..."

Kitagawa Temple didn't think that Asamiya Eisei would be so idle to tell Asamiya Hitomi an irrelevant story.

The shrine maiden of the shrine... A shrine maiden who is imprisoned.

You know, there is also a shrine in the village.

Shinto shrine.

She was talking about what was happening in the shrine...?

"So who is this shrine maiden? Does she have an unusual place in the following rituals? ”

"But judging from the information I saw earlier and Asamiya Yongshi's own sentence 'There are very few places my sister can go', she should also be in a state of grounding."

So how did she know?

Just by the inspiration of the shrine maiden?

It's too...

Kitagawa Temple narrowed his eyes.

Maybe to know all this, then he has to go to the 'coffin'.

If Beichuan Temple is not mistaken, there is a thick iron gate that rises high on the opposite side of the atrium.

That should be the gate to the coffin.