Under the torii gate, which is as dark as a silhouette, the inside of the shrine is not as calm as it seems.

Three men in civilian clothes with flashlights in their hands had already inspected the place Kurihara had already inspected, and only the sound of footsteps echoed in the silence inside the shrine.

The three of them searched outward in a horn style, starting from the center, and soon completed the entire shrine and returned to the center, extinguishing two flashlights at the same time, leaving only the flashlight in the hands of the elderly man with gray sideburns.

The light could only illuminate a circle around the three of them, and farther away fell into darkness again.

The electric lights in the park are not fully rolled out, only a few incandescent street lamps are set up in the bunker play area and along the road, and the rest of the place can only be illuminated by the light from unknown sources.

This is especially true inside the shrine, which is surrounded by trees and the light is almost blocked by the lush foliage – even in winter, the trees in the park are still thriving.

The light shining on the three of them in the darkness seemed so weak.

No one spoke after the inquiry, and the silence lasted for half a minute, and the elderly man with gray sideburns turned his head slightly to the young man on his right and said, "Beiji, how is the situation on your side?" ”

Beiji's full name is Anyun Beiji, and it is not accurate to say that he is young, he is between youth and prime of life, and his face is no longer green, and his bones are clear. Square chin, often tightening teeth, sharp eyes, protruding temples, burly figure, more like an athlete than a priest. Or a fitness trainer.

Another point is that Ayun Beiji is somewhat similar to the elderly man with gray sideburns.

"The statue is gone." Beji spoke, his voice as steady as his own, "The statue I looked at is gone, and there is hair powder on the platform, exactly the same as what we found among the residents. ”

"There was a crack on the platform, and I didn't rush near it because I wasn't sure if it was dangerous. In addition, there are rubble blocks next to the platform, which I don't know if it is related to the disappearance of the sculpture. Beiji said that he found out his inference, without half a word of nonsense, and returned to the appearance of tightening his teeth after speaking.

"Hmm." The elder nodded and looked at the one on the left, "Oshima-san, did you find anything over there?" ”

It was his turn to report that Oshima Shin was not as gentle as he was facing Tsukasa Kurihara during the day, and his face was similar to that of Beiji: "Lord Anyun, there are footprints on the grass that I haven't seen before, two. One is a human footprint, and the other is a bit like a bird's footprint, but deep and overlapping with human footprints. ”

"Oh?" An Yun's eyebrows moved, "That means that there are people other than us who have been here, in the past three days." ”

"I think so." Oshima echoed.

An Yun thought for a while, the fact that "someone appeared inside the shrine" made An Yun a little uneasy, and the calm situation seemed to be beginning to change. Strange tales that have not appeared in decades have reappeared and even affected the residents of real life, and the strange tales that An Yun had almost forgotten about have returned.

Yasumo Shouichi, the deputy abbot of Hieda Shrine, is sixty-two years old this year. Next to him, Ayun Beiji is his son, who just turned 30 this year.

Yasuun's rights at Hieda Shrine did not match his status as the deputy abbot, so he would come to the door in person after receiving a request from the residents.

Yasumo is the priest who was hired by the administrator of the apartment in Suzuki Narumi above, and the deputy abbot of Hieda Shrine, one of the five major shrines in Tokyo, who was finally found. It took a lot of effort from the administrators.

Not to mention the rest, the name Hieda Shrine alone is worth a lot of money, and it is only natural that the administrators charge more from the residents.

But in fact, the amount of money collected by Anyun is much less than the public imagined. On the one hand, it is because of the concept of serving the public, and on the other hand, it is because Adachi himself is not famous in Tokyo when it comes to exorcism.

Compared to exorcism, Hieda Shrine is more famous for its marriage and blessing transfer. As a branch of the Sho'er Eight Classics, the Yasuyun family's status in the Hieda Shrine has been declining since the twentieth century.

The strange talk is gone, why do you want to exorcise ghosts?

And the Anyun family, as one of the oldest wealthy families in neon, has their own pride and dignity, and they enter the Hieda Shrine to survive with the stunt of exorcism, and they eat handicraft rice. disdains to do some flies and dogs, and still insists on making a living by exorcising ghosts and refuses to change careers.

This kind of integrity is especially serious in Yasumo Shouichi's father, so he can't keep up with the times when the world changes, so the status of the Yasuyun family in the Hieda Shrine is getting lower and lower.

As the Grand Shrine of Tokyo, the person in charge of each aspect of Hieda Shrine has the title of deputy abbot. Because of this tradition, An Yun Shouyi got the establishment of deputy abbot.

Because of the previous strange talk and purge, there has been no chance for the An Yun family to do it in the past hundred years, but An Yun Shouyi has been cultivated by the standard of an onmyoji and an exorcist since he was a child.

In just two generations, the situation has changed a lot.

In the time of Yasuyun Shouyi's father, there was still sporadic business, and there was almost no in Yaun Shouyi's generation, until Anyun Beiji.

An Yun Beiji has not really seen strange talks, only the consequences of being affected. For example, a high fever does not go away or you are infected with wind evil. But he has always believed in the existence of this species, and has made it his mission to eradicate strange myths. Of course, this does not conflict with his part-time job as a fitness instructor. After all, people want to live again, and it is more round than grandpa to be lucky.

Nowadays, most people don't believe in the existence of strange theories, and they worship science, which makes them more inclined to seek help from science when they encounter abnormal events, and even psychiatrists, who are once again the power of the shrine.

But the apartment caretaker believes in the shrine.

All in all, Yasumo Shouichi and Beyoshi are here to solve the nightmare situation of the nearby residents. Before that, they had stepped on the point, and they had a general understanding of the situation, and like Tsukasa Kurihara, they were suspicious of the sculpture placed on the platform.

But because I wasn't prepared, I didn't act rashly, and when I came to check it out today, I didn't expect the sculpture to disappear.

As for Oshima Shin, he is the only strong man who is willing to come to the shrine with An Yunshou for one night.

An Yun father and son in the shrine are obvious outliers, babbling about strange things all day long, and doing some incomprehensible behaviors with breath and breath, and gradually being alienated by the mainstream.

Nobuyo Oshima, who came from Saitama Prefecture, didn't know any of this.

He came up to study the Divine Law, and to put it bluntly, he was learning scriptures and asking how the Hieda Shrine in Tokyo could make money. There are not so many deputy abbots in the local shrines.,There are also no branches.,Oshima unsigned.、Marriage.、Transfer plus exorcism will all be.,But it's all half-baked level.。

I've seen the other big islands, but I haven't seen it in terms of exorcism, and Tsukasa Kurihara, who met a strange face during the day, made him decide to follow An Yunjuichi to the scene.

Let's see if the strange story in Tokyo will be different from the strange story in Saitama.

An Yunshou retracted his thoughts and combined what the two said: "Could it be that the person who appeared took the sculpture away?" ”