Without people, Mt. Inari seemed very silent. The lantern-shaped street lamps glow red and yellow, carrying the mystery of purity and worship to the gods.

At night, the shrine is closed only to the shrine, and other areas are open 24 hours a day. But after all, it is a place to worship the gods, and at night it is inevitable that it will be colored by unknown people. Usually no one comes to Mt. Inari at night, and it is difficult to deal with something that happens.

Most people descend at dusk when the sky is getting dark. The vermilion torii gate is gilded with a golden glow in the setting sun, and visitors descend the mountain when Mt. Inari is about to transform into another world, returning it to the original creatures on the mountain.

But there was a man, to his left he was followed by a strange thing that looked like a dog but was not sure it was a dog, and in his right hand he held a long strip of object wrapped in cloth.

When everyone was descending the mountain, he greeted the sunset and went up the mountain.

It was Tsukasa Kurihara.

The thing next to it that looks like a dog and is not a dog is a hairball.

Now that the hairball has the ability to change its form, Tsukasa Kurihara has it become a dog and follows him. However, because he has not fully mastered this ability, the hairball does not look like a four.

One of the visitors descending the mountain noticed him, and his eyes kept following him, but it was only when Tsukasa Kurihara walked away that the man reacted and said to the person next to him, "Did you see the person who just walked by?" ”

"Huh? What? The partner was puzzled.

"It's the pet man next to him. He wears a black trench coat and holds what looks like a cane in his right hand. The eyes are very dark, and all in all he is a very special and temperamental person. ”

According to his description, if there really was such a person, it would be impossible for his companions not to see it, just as he was dazzled.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and everyone who stopped to discuss couldn't help but get goosebumps. When they turned to look at the road, it was completely dark, and only a black patch remained.

An inexplicable scream rang in their ears, and the darkness behind them exuded ominousness.

"Let's go, let's talk about something going down the mountain."

I don't know who said this, the stagnant atmosphere was broken, and everyone woke up and realized that it was time for them to go down the mountain.

The same thing happens over and over again on Mt. Inari.

The people who were still lingering on the mountain were more or less frightened and decided to go down, and finally the mountain was completely silent.

Tsukasa Kurihara took the furball against the crowd to the starting point of the Senbon Torii.

Ahead lies an ominous darkness for ordinary people, an ominous darkness that makes people feel frightened just by looking at it.

No one would want to pass through the torii gate in such a situation, and the miracle of manifesting the gods during the day becomes something different at night.

Something is moving in pieces, and the clearness, quietness, and elegance of the shrine are divided into completely different words by these movements, weird, terrifying, and indescribable.

"Your Excellency." The furball screamed, "At night, all the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods have come out." ”

With a hint of a smile on his face, Tsukasa Kurihara looked at the furball and said, "So the gods only belong to the daytime." ”

"The gods belong only to the day." The hairball repeated, and the more I read it, the more I felt the taste.

As soon as the words ended, a dark blue lantern appeared at the end of the road of Senbon Torii in front of the two.

The lantern illuminated the darkness, and as it drew closer, Tsukasa Kurihara could clearly see that it was a stone fox holding the lantern in his mouth.

The stone fox is missing a corner of its right ear, which is the one that Tsukasa Kurihara saw during the day. Although it uses a stone as its body, it moves flexibly, and its posture gracefully walks up to Tsukasa Kurihara and bows his shoulders like a human bow.

Tsukasa Kurihara raised an eyebrow.

The stone fox didn't speak, it turned and walked back, feeling like it was leading the way.

The furball didn't dare to move, and waited for him to move.

The stone fox walked forward for some distance, and when he saw that Tsukasa Kurihara hadn't followed, he stopped and sat on the spot waiting for him. Tsukasa Kurihara looked at it, and the stone fox still had a smiling face.

At this time, Tsukasa Kurihara took a step forward and followed.

As the stone fox walked forward, every time it passed a torii, a blue light flashed from the red torii. After gathering a few blue lights, the nearest statue of the Inari fox holding the ear of rice fell to the ground, moved its ears, and the inari fox jumped down from the stone pedestal, and spat out a ball of fox fire to form a lantern.

Inari foxes with fox fire lanterns in their mouths followed behind the stone fox that had lost its ears at the beginning, forming a scale, like fireflies that are rarely seen in summer and gather in a large meadow.

But now it's the end of March, in the middle of Mt. Inari.

At the same time as the Inari fox appeared, the sound of musical instruments sounded.

Drums, flutes, flutes, flutes.

"Da, da, da-"

"It's Kagura." The furball could hear it, "It's music that is only played during the sacrificial procession." ”

In Kurihara's eyes, the coming to life Inari foxes stand on their hind feet like humans, with two or three players plucking or blowing their instruments, while the other Inari foxes are holding lanterns and clapping their hands to the music, and the rhythm of each fox is in tune with the beat.

From the sky, the parade of foxes in the night forms a narrow blue band along the Senbon torii gate and winds upwards in a flickering light.

Tsukasa Kurihara and the furball were wrapped in the parade, and the front and back were stone foxes carrying fox fire lanterns, and Rao is furball, which was a strange thing in itself, couldn't help but feel furry in the bottom of his heart.

"What is this·····" Maoqiu stammered, "As the messenger of Inari Shrine, do you have your own set of sacrificial behaviors?" How could such a thing be done under the influence of a god and on such a scale. ”

Tsukasa Kurihara looked at the earless stone fox leading the team at the beginning from a distance, and then looked at everything that came to life around him, remembering the stone horse in his shrine when he was in the strange talk prison.

Compared to the stone horses with living bodies, these foxes can only be regarded as slightly agile, which does not surprise Tsukasa Kurihara, and also makes him have a little speculation in his heart - the connection between the strange prison and the real world is gradually getting closer.

Since a month ago.

In the first snow of Tokyo, he appears, Ash is pure, Hayakawa Daichi is missing, and Aooka writes again.

Everything is connected, and finally it becomes the scene of the stone fox fugue in front of you. Tsukasa Kurihara couldn't help but think of Hyakki's Night Walk, and if the connection between the two worlds was completely opened, the scene would be even more shocking.

Although he hadn't seen it, his body couldn't make waves at all in the face of the current scene, and he wasn't even excited when he faced Gray Chun.

I don't know when Ash Chun floated out of Kurihara Tsukasa's body, and it was prostrate on Kurihara Tsukasa's shoulder, spitting snake letters, and its body exuded coldness.

Compared with the hairball like a puppy, the deterrent power of gray pure is much more. The front and rear stone foxes, which were originally only one meter away from Tsukasa Kurihara, unconsciously separated a little further, leaving Tsukasa Kurihara more space to move freely.

The parade reached the summit of the mountain, the earless stone fox stopped, and all the music disappeared in an instant.

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