Chapter Seventy-Six: Old Friends (I)

"New Year? It seems that I have really been wandering outside for too long, and I have even forgotten about this kind of festival...... "For youkai, festivals like New Year's Day, which need to be celebrated every 365 days, are too frequent, and over time, not too many youkai will deliberately remember such days, and Ye Yu is no exception."

"But speaking of which, it's also good to be lively like this once in a while~~" Walking in the crowd, in this noisy and bustling, Ye Yu is more like a passerby, as long as he is unwilling, no matter how dense the flow of people around him is, don't think that anyone can see him, let alone touch him......

Ye Yu is like a reef standing in the turbulence, everyone who comes to him will be separated to both sides like flowing water, and these subconsciously induced guys have never even realized the fact that they have been induced.

The New Year is lively, compared to other festivals, this day of reunion and hope for a better future in the new year has been accompanied by the most solemn festivals since ancient times, and because festivals often come in late winter and early spring, so families who usually farm will also enjoy the most leisure of the year at this time, so many reasons to gather together It is no wonder that everyone gathered here is laughing from the heart.

This kind of joy also infected Ye Yu to a certain extent, living alone in the remote mountains for so long, although he was accompanied by his family, although he liked the quiet atmosphere from beginning to end, but when he came into contact with such a scene again after many years, Ye Yu still inevitably sank here...... Of course, all he was immersed in was the festival full of happiness and hustle and bustle, and the festival would disperse when the sun rose. He will return to his former calm self.

But until then, it's all about enjoying it all. Anyway, Ye Yu has never lacked money, whether it is street snacks or games that look rough. As long as he saw it and was a little interested, he would try it, and after a while, Ye Yu had more apple candy, masks, a few goldfish, and some other gadgets in his hands.

Ye Yu, who was surprisingly always troublesome, did not put these things in his personal space as usual, but just carried them unhurriedly to the mountain not far away...... This is the final destination of this flow of people, and Moriya Shrine has sheltered here for many years.

Of course, Ye Yu had no intention of going up the mountain with these people at all, after all, it was really rude for him to rush to someone else's god's domain so rashly as a god, not to mention that there is not only Suwako in the Shouya Shrine now, in fact, it is the Yaban Great Ming God who is in front of the stage, isn't it...... It is said that her temper is not very good, and Ye Yu doesn't want to fight with others at the beginning of the new year.

But Suwako still has to meet, in addition to the friendship between the two back then, not to mention Ye Yu, it is estimated that now he wants to complete the task of finding the witch, and he still has to rely on this little guy. I believe that she has been a god for so long, and the news of the witch must be clearer than Ye Yu's, and even if she can find a suitable one from her family's temple, it is not certain...... The Moriya Shrine looks quite large from the outside, and there are many shrine maidens who come to serve inside.

When he came to the foot of the mountain, Ye Yu was separated from the flow of people, although he never knew why most of the shrines were built on the mountain, but thanks to it, it made it easier for him to carry out his plan.

Going around to the back of the mountain, the completely undeveloped mountain area here is like a forbidden place for ordinary civilians, and there may be wild beasts at night, so no one will pay attention to it except for a guy like Ye Yu, but Ye Yu is different, and going up the mountain from here is no different from walking on flat ground, and even if he flies up, it is not impossible...... I just thought that it would be a long time since the festival ended. So he didn't plan to walk up slowly.

"Suwako's strength is much stronger...... It seems that she must have recovered from the original trauma. As soon as Ye Yu stepped into the enveloped area of this mountain, he immediately felt two extraordinary powers, one from the earth, which was the power of Suwako, which Ye Yu was familiar with, and the other from the sky, which was too specific Ye Yu to analyze for a while. But it should probably be related to wind and rain, and I think it should be the power of the eight-plate god.

Ye Yu used his divine power to simulate himself into a beam of starlight, so that he didn't have to worry about being discovered for the time being. Anyway, he didn't want to do anything to infiltrate the operation, after all, he just wanted to meet his old friends. So that's enough, no matter what, after a while, people will always be noticed, right?

Ye Yu's speed was not fast, but it was by no means slow, and it didn't take long for him to tour the entire back mountain, and finally chose a lake as the location where he made an appointment with Suwako. With the quiet lake, the moon in the sky and the evening breeze blowing slowly at night, it would be nice to have a few more gorgeous flowers, but it's still late winter, so I don't want to force it.

At this time, the sound of Kagura playing slowly came from the other side of the mountain, thinking that the climax of the festival had arrived, and the Kagura Dance of the shrine maidens had always been the finale, and the holy shrine maidens with the solemn and solemn dance were really beautiful, but since he saw Yuyuko's dance, Ye Yu had a feeling that the sea was once unbearable, and it was difficult to mention his interest in the rest of the Kagura Dance.

"But it's also good to listen to Kagura or something~~" With Ye Yu's hearing, even if Kagura is so far away from the mountain, Kagura can still be clearly transmitted in his ears, and Ye Yu has also begun his own preparations with the sound of music...... He laid out a picnic cloth and other things that were necessary in the field, then he gathered a few dead leaves from the surrounding area, and then dug a hole in the ground and threw the sweet potatoes he had brought with him......

That's right, that's what he's going to use to lure Suwako, roasted sweet potatoes or something...... I believe that she has never eaten since she became a high god~~ After all, no believer would pay tribute to the gods.

"Fortunately, I dug ......a little bit when I passed by a field a few days ago," while carefully looking at the flame Ye Yu, he said to himself, originally he didn't like to eat this thing, but that day he somehow dug some out of the ghost, I think this can also be attributed to the word fate......

While taking care of the flames, Ye Yu placed three wine cups on top of the picnic cloth, and then filled them with wine, and all that left to do was waiting...... I believe that with the sweet taste of roasted sweet potatoes and the mellow aroma of light wine, Suwako will be caught soon~~ (To be continued......)