Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Asano-sama!"

"It turned out to be Lord Gesheng, I haven't seen you for a long time!"

"That one over there is Fumitsuki-sama from Suwa Taisha Shrine? Isn't he in Shinano Province? Did you get an invitation too? ”

"Why did the Metropolitan Police Department invite so many gods from Jingu Taisha to come?"

A group of middle-aged men and elderly men in priest robes sat in the waiting room of the Metropolitan Police Department, talking to each other, guessing the purpose of the Metropolitan Police Department's invitation to come.

The basic priests here basically know each other, after all, the more high-end the circle, the narrower it is, and they are all the top figures in the Shinto circle.

General Yuya Asano recognized everyone here one by one, and the more they recognized, the more frightened they became.

Shrines in Japan can be roughly divided into five levels according to their level, from top to bottom: Jingu, Miya, Taisha, Shinja, and Shrine.

Among them, Jingu is a shrine dedicated to Amaterasu and his descendants, as well as the Tengo family, while Ise Jingu is the culmination of the shrine because it is Amaterasu that presides over the worship of Amaterasu.

Further down, the shrine is also a shrine dedicated to gods or figures who are close to the royal family.

Taisha and Shinto shrines are shrines used to worship other gods, Taisha has a higher status, and is generally dedicated to the main god of a certain field, and it is also the 'main shrine' of many shrines, such as Fushimi Inari Taisha, there are tens of thousands of shrines dedicated to Inari in Japan, and Fushimi Inari Taisha is the main shrine of these shrines.

The lowest shrines are those that are not large-scale places of worship, shrines on the side of the road, wild shrines in the mountains, these can be called shrines.

Yuya Asano is the contemporary god of Ise Jingu, and he is considered to be the one with the highest status here, while the other gods are either the gods of the shrine or the gods of the Taisha shrine, and there is not even one below the level of the Taisha shrine.

With such a lineup, it can be said that Jingu Taisha shrines from all over Japan have been invited.

What does the Metropolitan Police Department want to do?

Thinking of some of the previous contacts and inquiries of the Metropolitan Police Department, Yuya Asano was a little panicked.

You don't think you're trying to get us to deal with youkai, right?

He had this conjecture as early as when he received the invitation of the Metropolitan Police Department, but he had no way to refuse the invitation of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Who made Ise Jingu an official currency society, and every day with the money given by the government, he didn't have the confidence to refuse the invitation of the government department, so he gritted his teeth and could only come.

The other gods must be the same, after all, they are also either official currency societies or national currency societies, and they eat the government's soft rice every day.

Most of the gods should have such guesses, and their faces were a little embarrassed, and the few gods who had not been in contact with the Internet for the longest time also changed their expressions slightly under the whispers of other gods.

Thankfully, the Metropolitan Police Department didn't keep them waiting.

The door was pushed open again, and Gao Gang Xiongdou walked in under the suspicious gaze of all the gods, followed by several police officers from the special section.

"Thank you very much for coming."

Gao Gang Xiongdou saluted to the gods present, and the gods hurriedly returned the salute, after all, they also knew that this was the head of the special countermeasures section that was currently hot, and he had led the team to exterminate the monsters several times, and now there were many juniors in their shrine who were serving as 'advisors' in the special class.

Gao Gang didn't want to be polite too much, so he went straight to the point:

"Presumably your time is also precious, so I won't talk nonsense here."

"As for the monsters that appeared some time ago, I think everyone must have heard of them, and according to the information that the special class has obtained so far, in the future, the gods and monsters will awaken one by one."

"Gods aside, most of the youkai that have awakened now are existences that will greatly threaten the stability of human society, so we must strangle these threats in the cradle."

"Fortunately, in the recent exchange with the god of Todai Mountain, we obtained his approval, so we gave the Metropolitan Police Department three exorcism knives with the power to exorcise demons."

"After a discussion at the top of the Metropolitan Police Department, we decided to expand the selection of the sword master to include the priests of the shrine, I wonder what you think?"

In fact, the Metropolitan Police Department wanted to digest these three demon exorcism knives internally, but no matter how they tried, even if they even used the demon exorcism knife as a partial method of dripping blood to recognize the master, there was still no reaction.

After asking Asako Todai, the daughter of the mountain god, the answer was only a simple sentence: "The mountain god said that they are not spiritually qualified."

The Metropolitan Police Department was dumbfounded.

Psychic eligibility? What's that? Is there a qualification threshold for using the Demon Exorcism Knife?

Whatever this spiritual power eligibility was, it was just a matter of knowing that the blade wielder they had chosen before wouldn't work.

After some discussion with a dark face, the senior management of the Metropolitan Police Department suggested that the former holders of the exorcism sword were all priests of Todai Shrine, does it mean that the possibility of priests and shrine maidens having 'spiritual power qualifications' will be higher?

Try it, anyway, the Metropolitan Police Department will definitely expand the scope of the selection of knife wielders, and there is no problem in inviting these Jingu Taisha shrines in, and maybe they can form a good relationship and wait for their gods to wake up and order something or something.

In this way, the Metropolitan Police Department issued an invitation to all Jingu Taisha shrines to come and participate in the selection of the Demon Exorcism Sword Master.

Exorcism Knife?

All the gods and gods were dazzled.

They don't know what the exorcism knife is, but they know it.

During this time, Todai Shrine is almost popular, not to mention the Japanese, even many foreigners have come to pay their respects, hoping to get the god's youth.

Why? It's not because of the video on the Internet where the god of Todai Mountain fights with an unknown youkai.

These are real gods, not those that are enshrined in shrines.

Even these gods are jealous of Todai Shrine when they see it, but it is just a shrine promoted from the Wild Shrine, but they are more popular than their top shrines.

Just because others have real gods, even if it is just a mountain god on a small mountain, it is also a real god, and it is far from being comparable to their indistinguishable worship gods.

It is still unknown whether the gods enshrined in the shrine will awaken, and even if they do, they don't know when, but everyone here knows that they don't have much time left.

Yokai appear one by one, and if the shrine does not have the means to shelter the believers, then the believers will inevitably flow to the shrines with real gods.

Don't say anything about the pan-belief of Shintoism, it's just because the people regard the worship as a kind of entertainment, dispensable, if the belief in the gods involves the safety of life, how many people still have the courage to go to the sun? What if the gods see that your faith is not pure enough and leave you alone?

In view of this, if the shrine wants to continue to develop, it must have the ability to protect the believers.

And now the exorcism knife from the hand of the god of Totai Mountain is not just right?

Everyone stared at Gao Gang Xiongdou with burning eyes, and almost wrote the sentence 'I want to' on their faces.

Gao Gang Xiongdou quietly observed the expressions of all the gods, and was slightly disappointed in his heart.

He wanted to take this opportunity to test whether these big shrines were hiding secrets, but now it seems that there should be none, after all, if they really have a transcendent background, these gods will not be so eager for the transcendent artifacts of a small shrine.