Because it was late spring, the weather was quite comfortable today. On the second floor of the restaurant, you can see the people coming and going on the street through the large floor-to-ceiling windows.

Kamiya and Onizuka's lunch is almost finished. The little witch put down the knife and fork in her hand: "That's right, Kamiya." I heard, you are looking for an incense teacher for Shikanoya? ”

"Hmm." Kamiya nodded, and said in his heart Onizuka you are really just

"Heard"? I think you're listening very specifically......

"Why incense?"

"Because I feel like she's more suitable...... Well, in fact, she has a prop in her hand that is suitable for the use of incense spells. "After the First World War, the [Sacred Virtue Imperial Incense Burner] was picked up by Kamiya, for this

There was no reaction from the "trivial" countermeasure room, and it is estimated that I didn't know about it, maybe someone knew about it but acquiesced.

"Have you found the right teacher?"

"Not yet." Xiaolu's second teacher, Kamiyagawa, has been actively looking for it before, but it is true that he has not yet found a suitable candidate.

During last year's battle with Wakayama and the operation against Yumeo, many official soul slayers owed him favors, and it was not too much to say that Kamiya had a life-saving grace for those people.

If there are those who are proficient in the way of incense, it is natural for them to directly entrust the teaching of the fawn.

It's a pity that the number of official soul slayers who study the incense path school is not too many, and those who have a relationship with Kamiya will not do this.

I asked back and forth before, but I knew a few people who knew how to use incense spells, but those people Kamiyagawa didn't know, or the range of activities was too far away from Tokyo, and Kamiyagawa was currently waiting for the help of a soul exorcist who owed him favors to the right person.

"That's right." Onizuka thoughtfully,

"The person who practices incense magic, I know a friend of mine. She's in Tokyo, so maybe she'll be a good fit. ”

"Your friend?"

"What kind of eyes are you?" Kamiya's slightly surprised eyes made Onizuka a little dissatisfied,

"I have friends too!"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you talk about it."

"That's because you didn't even ask me, right? You didn't take the initiative to mention your apprenticeship to me, did you? ”

"It seems to be ......" Onizuka shook his head and returned to the topic: "Yunju Haruka, the descendant of Xiangamiliu." Sister Haruka is a friend of Sister Hanashi, and she often comes to Juqiong Shrine to play, so I have a good relationship with her. "Sister Huali in her mouth refers to wealth.

It's also an acquaintance of Kamiya.,It's the dark-bellied Youyi in the Juqiong Shrine.,In the previous action against Dream Man, he established a good friendship with that Youyi's big sister.。

But this is the first time we know what someone's full name is. And the so-called

"Aiami-ryu" is a school of incense, and the founder of this school is recorded in history, Aiami, who was the court's advisor to Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate of the Japanese Chrysanthemum Dynasty.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa was a political failure, but he made a great contribution to the cultural development of the Muromachi period in Japan.

Xiang Ami is the best of his artistic achievements. However, the history books will only mention that Ashikaga Yoshimasa's court master Aiami was proficient in painting and calligraphy, calligraphy and painting appraisal, interior decoration, garden design, and incense, and will not mention that Aiami was also a practitioner of magic.

The incense path he pioneered, that is, the incense school involving extraordinary power, has become a relatively complete and peculiar folk art school after the completion and iteration of later generations.

And unlike the incense technique with a bit of evil nature of the Takeshi family, Xiang Amiliu is an elegant and righteous path.

From this point of view, it is more suitable for fawns to learn. In addition, according to the secular saying, the incense path of Ami-ryu has been

"Lost". But in fact there is none, this school of incense that involves supernatural powers, including others

"Jianbu Liuxiang Road",

"Wind Morning Incense Dao", in fact, has always been inherited in the spirit master system, but it is not for ordinary people.

Kamiya: "Yunju Haruka, Xiang Amiliu." When I was looking for a candidate before, I seemed to have heard of this name, and it is said that I have studied incense spells very deeply. However, according to the people in the countermeasures room, the relationship between her and the countermeasures room is not very close. Onizuka: "Well, Sister Haruka is a kind of person with foreign aid, a bit like you?" Strictly speaking, it is not completely subordinate to the countermeasure room, and it is relatively free to move in normal times. ”

"Can that help me get in touch with her?"

"Isn't that what I'm telling you about? However, I can't guarantee whether Sister Qingxiang is willing to help you teach your brother. "The little witch is still very kind, and after knowing the physique of the spirit fetus of Luyeya, she took the initiative to recommend a suitable incense technique teacher.

Of course, she may have had other considerations in mind. For example, if she can really get Yuni Haruka, who has a good relationship with her, to come into contact with Kanoya, then Onizuka can more or less indirectly understand what kind of temperament Kamiyagawa's little apprentice is.

Sure enough, I'm still not at ease.

"In case it's a strange child, even if it's accompanied by a strange parent, it's not right to live with Agawa." Onizuka thinks so.

The little witch maiden made a phone call in front of Kamiya, and looking at the way she chatted with the other end of the phone, her tone and demeanor were quite relaxed.

It is estimated that there is a play. Seven or eight minutes later, Onizuka hung up the phone and smiled at Kamiyagawa: "Sister Haruka said she could meet us this Saturday." ”…… Life at Kamiya University was surprisingly easy.

There are two classes in the Yokai Studies major, and the number of students is not too large, most of the time the classes are small, but the course schedule is occasionally combined with other humanities courses.

And I don't know if it's intentional or not, Kamiya himself has very few classes, only a dozen classes a week, which is almost half of the others.

Even compared with his classmates in the same major, he took some courses. In comparison, the courses on Onizuka's side are much more onerous.

But I heard that Onizuka seems to have the privilege of frequent vacations? How exactly it works, Kamiya doesn't know, but it seems that as long as the little witch passes the exams at the end of the semester, there will be no problem.

Anyway, for these two young outstanding soul removalists, it is a good thing to be able to arrange their time more freely.

As for Kamiya's study of monsters, it's still quite interesting for him personally, and it's a professional counterpart. Japanese secular academia for

The discussion of "monsters" has long ceased to be obsessed with

"Is it real?"

"Is it superstition?" Such a sense of problem. Rather, it attempts to answer the question through different methodologies, such as history, philology, folklore, sociology, psychology, classical literature, and so on

The question of "monsters, ghosts, and how strange phenomena come about". The main courses of the Faculty are centered around these, and are applicable to a wide range of majors, including animation, design, folklore, and Japanese cultural studies.

After the first experience of a few classes, Kamiya was quite emotional. From the point of view of not considering the extraordinary power of this world, Kunio Yanagida, who was the first to study monsters, and Yakumo Koizumi, who was of Irish origin, are still very powerful.

These early Japanese folklore scholars forcibly transported the folk yokai culture, which was originally difficult to get into the hall of elegance, combined with the way of Western mythology, into the academic palace.

These scholars played an important role in promoting the flourishing of yokai culture in Japan, infiltrating all aspects of the cultural field and turning it into an actual source of economy.

"But the more influence it spreads, the faster the weird will be generated...... It is no wonder that we are now using relatively gentle means, and the cultural side is vigorously sprouting and harming the image of monsters. "As for Kamiyagawa himself, he has a very deep understanding of youkai, after all, he doesn't know how many times he has done it in the world of the outside world, and he usually reads all kinds of related books.

But being able to receive relevant learning in such a systematic way is still very beneficial to him. In particular, he didn't have a comprehensive understanding of the various religions and yokai customs related to folklore, but he couldn't really get a comprehensive understanding of these points just by reading books and reading the materials in the strategy room.

The course in Todari is a good way for him to expand his theoretical knowledge. It's no wonder that the countermeasures office will use its power to get in touch with various universities

In the form of "special recruitment", the young soul slayer was sent to the university for further study. …… Before I knew it, it was Friday, that is, the day before I agreed to meet with the Yunju Haruka, the successor of the Amika Dao.

At noon that day, after taking a class on "Lectures on Monsters" at Kamiya Gang's Hongo Campus, I received a call from Onizuka.

On the phone, the little witch said that there seemed to be something wrong with Yunju Qingxiang. But they couldn't say a word clearly, and the two made an appointment to meet in front of the school's Yasuda lecture hall.

After the two met, the little witch's first words were: "Ah Chuan, do you have any classes in the afternoon, do you want to go to Saitama County to see Sister Haruka together?" ”

"I don't have classes, but don't you have a lot of classes?"

"It's okay for me, I can ask for leave."

"Hmm...... I didn't say that we would meet tomorrow, what happened to that Miss Yunju? ”

"Sister Haruka is fine, but she will stay in Saitama Prefecture for the last two days." Onizuka shook his head,

"Actually, it's her boyfriend in some cases, I don't know how to say it specifically, I feel like Sister Haruka needs my help, let's talk about it on the way to Saitama?" It's 12 noon, and it's about 1 p.m. from Bunkyo Ward, the Hongo Campus, to Saitama Prefecture, and it's about 1 p.m. if you take the train.

However, Kamiya is used to using ghost cars to pass, which of course saves time and effort. There are now two vehicles in the house.

Oishi has been driving the ghost Mazda to Kamiya as a full-time driver, but the sister who controls the ghost motorcycle Ohara has basically been arranged to follow Kanoya recently.

It's the fulfillment of the girl's little wish to have a ghost car to sit in when she goes to school and after school. On the ghost car, Onizuka roughly told Kamiya about the situation on Haruka Yunju - saying that Miss Yunju had just had a boyfriend a month ago, and the boyfriend's name was Takashi Takiguchi.

In the past two days, Miss Yunju has been staying at Saitama because she accompanied Mr. Takiguchi to the funeral.

The person who passed away was Takiguchi's grandmother.

"Sister Qingxiang's identity as a spirit remover is relatively secret, although she has registered in the countermeasures room, she rarely goes to help the countermeasure room. She runs an incense hall in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and usually sells incense, and then teaches ordinary people about incense. Mr. Takiguchi was originally a guest of Sister Haruka, and he only met in January of this year. ”

"And Mr. Takiguchi usually, how to say, obviously not very thin, and even often exercise, but it seems to be a little sick. Sister Haruka always seems to be able to smell some faint smell on his body that is not very good. ”

"Sister Haruka didn't care about this at first, after all, she was just an ordinary guest, so she just reminded Mr. Takiguchi to go to the shrine and temple to pray for blessings. But after the two of them dating, it was difficult to start paying attention to this, so they tried to find the source of the unpleasant smell on Mr. Takiguchi's body. ”

"I didn't have a clue. But it seems that after going to the countryside of Saitama yesterday, the smell on Mr. Takiguchi's body suddenly became stronger, much stronger than usual, and even with a dead air, which made Haruka feel very bad. ”

"It just so happened that I contacted Sister Haruka two days ago, and she asked me to go to Saitama today." The little witch told all the information related to Yunju Haruka.

Kamiya didn't say much after hearing this, what happened to that Mr. Takiguchi, he still had to wait until he got to Saitama and saw it with his own eyes before he could draw conclusions.

…… According to the navigation location of Yunju Haruka, Toshitoma Oishi drove the car to the vicinity of Kamizumi Village in Saitama.

In the secluded place of the people, Kamiya and Onizuka got out of the car and walked to their destination. Because the Takiguchi family is holding a funeral, it is not too difficult to find.

It is a self-built house in the countryside, the area is quite large, and it has its own courtyard. Kamiya and Onizuka saw Haruka Yunju waiting.

Miss Yunju is about twenty-five or sixteen years old. With a goose egg face, delicate facial features, because of attending the funeral, her long curly red hair was coiled up in a regular manner, and the clothes on her body were dark and plain.

But it may be because she is a perfumer of the elegant genre, she has an elegant and noble mature temperament, and the whole person is a little lazy.

The first impression is that she is the kind of beautiful big sister who seems to be able to face any situation with ease.

"Sister Qingxiang, I'm here."

"Hello, Miss Yunju. When we first met, my name was Kamiyagawa. Onizuka and Kamiya each greeted the older sister.

"Gui'an." Yunju Haruka smiled and nodded, her voice was low and soft, after saying hello, she shifted her gaze to Kamiya's body, and looked at it with interest for a while: "Hotaru, is this the little boyfriend you often talk about?" A table of talents. ”

"I didn't say Ah Chuan, my boyfriend." The little witch said this as she raised her hand to grab Kamiya's wrist and gently pulled him backwards behind her.

Yunju Qingxiang still smiled: "Isn't it all starting to protect food, Xiaoying is so cute." ”

"Sister Qingxiang, don't make fun of me." The girl doesn't have the calmness of the big sister, and the onizuka has been amused to the point that her face is red, but she can only protest in a whisper.

"I'm here to help you, yes."