Kamiyagawa also glanced at the totemic symbol in the Eye Society: "The god of dark stasis and beauty should not care about illness and health, right?"

"My impression is usually that I pray for rain and stop it." Onizuka echoed.

Well......

It seems that praying for rain and stopping rain can also be done now in the home day and workshop?

"However, if Mr. Takiguchi's grandmother was just an ordinary little old lady in the countryside, she probably didn't think about it so much?"

"Maybe."

It's really hard to say whether ordinary elderly people worship gods or not, considering the basic attributes of gods.

It is likely that there is a shrine and worship.

The day before yesterday, Kamiyagawa heard a teacher at Tokyo University who studies Asian folklore and religion mention in class that he had visited a small village on the border with Vietnam more than ten years ago when he visited a small village on the border with Allah.

The way for the old people in the village to worship is to put a suckling pig as a sacrifice to ***, and then kowtow.

It's pretty subtle.

But having said that, this dark silt Kami Shrine still feels weird to Kamiya, with an indescribably strange aura.

Something must be wrong.

"Abaaba!"

The little old man with a strong sense endured the discomfort and walked around the small shrine to observe.

Kamiya stared at him as he moved.

The little witch had already pulled out her bamboo flute.

The flute whined softly, sending some blue points of light flying up and down, which made the atmosphere of this desolate little shrine a little ethereal.

This flute is a prop for Onizuka to assist in perception, but it seems that there are other uses as well.

Last year, when I was catching a cat spirit in a pet cemetery in Kanagawa, I saw her use it.

Although both of them are soul killers, their methods of perceiving abnormalities are very different.

It didn't take a while.

"Abaaba!"

The little old man danced and screamed and crawled under the old offering table at the small shrine.

The Onizuka flute manipulated those points of light to converge towards the bottom of the offering table.

It seems that something has been discovered.

"Abba whoop."

Peeling back the worn tablecloth, you can see the crumbling bottom of the offering table, which is covered with dusty bricks.

However, one of them, which seems to have fewer traces of dust than the others, seems to have been touched recently.

Kamiyagawa fiddled with that particular brick at random, and easily took it out.

Underneath the bricks is a small space similar to a dark grid, which is actually a small dirt pit.

Inside the pit, there is a closed wooden box. The surface of the wooden box did not fall too much ash, it was dull and dull, and it was estimated that it had just been put in.

"This thing isn't quite right."

Kamiya could clearly see a gloomy ominous aura overflowing from the box.

"Wait a minute." Onizuka didn't know where to take out a piece of yellow rune paper drawn in cinnabar and snapped it to the top of the box. With her action, the ominous aura of the box obviously tightened a lot, "Okay, open it and take a look?"

"Hmm."

Although the box is not quite right, the strength of the breath on it is just like that.

Kamiya and Onizuka are both young talents among the soul slayers, and low-grade evil items can't hurt the two of them.

The little witch raised her hand to stick a talisman for the sake of prudence, in fact, it is estimated that there will be no problem if you open it directly.

Squeak.

The wooden box opened, and the hinge made an old-fashioned turning sound.

What caught my eye was a small wooden mallet and a stubble figure the size of a palm.

On the villain's body, it is written in somewhat faded red letters-

[Takashi Takiguchi]

There seems to be a faint smell of fishy smell left on the handwriting.

Even if Kamiyagawa hadn't seen the real thing before, he could roughly tell what it was at a glance.

Cursed straw men.

"Does this have anything to do with Mr. Takiguchi's anomaly?"

"Possibly."

Immediately afterward, Kamiya used his fingers to pull away a few twists of straw stems from the straw man, revealing a large amount of black hair.

The entire straw man is wrapped in straw stalks on the outside, and the inside is full of hair of different lengths.

In addition to this, there is a small paper roll mixed in with the hair.

Take it out and spread it out, you can see that there are twisted small characters densely written on it-

[***Kumakura Ruxia cheated on a woman, causing my son Takiguchi to commit suicide. Takashi Takiguchi, the son born to Kumakura Ruxia, is not at all similar to my son's words and deeds, but he is actually a female god-husband. ]

[Believers Takuchi Ryuko prayed day and night, knocked on the straw man, prayed for retribution, and Takiguchi Takashi Takashi, who was born in the midst of sin, could not live or die. Now the believer Takiguchi Lunzi is about to die, braiding Takiguchi's filial piety history for twenty-four years, and may the dark silt and the beauty god have mercy and curse this son. Liberate him and go to Huangquan with me. ]

Takiguchi Ryūko, the name Kamiyagawa has seen, is in the lobby of the Takiguchi family.

This "Lunko" is Mr. Takashi Takiguchi's grandmother who has just passed away.

Seeing the crooked small characters on the note, Kamiya and the onitsuka beside him glanced at each other, and were silent for a while without anyone speaking.

The two of them are also well-informed, and they are both ruthless people who will not frown in the face of vicious and strange talks.

But at this moment, in this warm late spring, in the deserted shrine in the deep mountains, they all felt a trace of evil chill crawling over the back ridge.

Of course, this is not a fear, but a simple psychological discomfort.

Mr. Takiguchi's grandmother is cursing him?

"Mr. Takiguchi, I think I love his grandmother very much, right?"

Halfway through, Kamiya heard the little witch beside him muttering like this.

He didn't know what to respond to, just Hanhu's "um".

Then, Kamiya's mind echoed the words that had just been at Takiguchi's house and listened to Mr. Takiguchi's words-

"Ever since I was a child, I was sicker than other children my age, and my grandmother would often take me to the shrine in the village to pray for blessings. Maybe it was really my grandmother's prayer that worked, and although I was sick, I still survived until now."

"On the way to the shrine, I was held by my grandmother's rough warm hand, and when I was tired, I could lie on my grandmother's back and be coquettish...... On the way home, you can also buy a fruit for 10 yen."

"My grandmother would always give me a haircut in the yard with her own hands, and the cut hair was rustic but cute."

「……」

Mr. Takiguchi must have missed and enjoyed the time when he was raised by his grandmother in Shenshui Village, right?

It seems that in Mr. Takiguchi's heart, grandma is his closest relative in the world, right?

Kamiyagawa was a little stunned, and his gaze slowly moved up, landing on the Dark Silt Kamei God Tablet that was placed on a high place.

The god card was gloomy, and it stood there without moving. There is only one wooden card, but it has a heavy feeling of black pressure.

Then, Kamiya lowered his head again and looked at the mallet in the wooden box in his hand.

His child's hole shrunk slightly, deep and dark.

I don't know if it was because of his imagination or some other reason, but vaguely he seemed to hear the sound of the gavel ringing.

Bang Bang Bang.

Through the ominous aura of curling up in the wooden box, he seemed to be able to see a strange scene.

Maybe it's more than ten years ago, a flashback of what happened in this little shrine -

Kamiyagawa saw the small shrine of Dark Silt Kamijin that was not so desolate and dilapidated.

I saw a kind old woman, kneeling in the shrine to pray for blessings, and constantly striking something with a small mallet in her hand, making a sound of "Bang Bang Bang".

Outside the shrine, there is a somewhat thin boy.

One will chase the fluttering butterflies and dragonflies, and the other will crouch down to watch the swarms of ants carry the food.

Prayer in the shrine

Every now and then, grandma would look back to see her grandson.

The two looked at each other.

The old man's expression was kind and kind, and the boy's eyes were innocent.

The grandfather and grandson looked at each other and smiled.

And when the boy's attention was once again attracted by other interesting things, the old man's loving face changed, and his eyes slowly widened, his brow furrowed, his nose twitched, and the tendons of his sideburns twitched, and he crunched and bit his old teeth.

It was intense hatred, disgust, and resentment.

She turned back, and the gavel in her hand was raised again, striking it on the straw figure in front of her.

Look, Bang!

Sins are indecent.

Twice, Bang!

Retribution is unpleasant.

Three times, Bang!

There is no life in life, and there is no death in death.

Bang Bang Bang.

……

Whew.

A yellow talisman twisted between Onizuka's slender fingers, and with a simple flick, a bright red flame ignited on the rune paper.

She burned the entire wooden box that had been dug under the tiles.

This thing can be handled by the little witch, and Kamiya can handle it as well. With his proficiency is already very high, the effect of penetrating and burning with the Yang Thunder full of Brilliant Righteousness should be the same.

The flames were roaring, but they didn't emit any heat, but instead lowered the temperature around them a little.

The scarecrow in the box was curled up in flames, emitting a foul stench of burnt.

"There shouldn't be any major events over there, Mr. Takiguchi. Maybe it's going to take a long, long time to recuperate, but that's what Haruka-san has to do."

Seeing that a box of spells had turned to ashes, Onizuka said.

Kamiyagawa nodded, "Let's go back."

The two of them scattered the remnants of black ash on the ground, which had no heat, before descending the mountain side by side.

Along the way, neither Kamiya nor Onizuka spoke, but just walked in the direction of the Takiguchi family.

As evening approached, the sun was a little dark.

The air in the countryside didn't seem to be so fresh either, and some birds landed on the roadside wires, chirping.

When he walked near Takiguchi's house, Kamiya finally spoke a sentence, but it was not directly related to Mr. Takiguchi's affairs: "Does the god of dark silt and beauty have anything to do with the power of the curse?"

"There seems to be, but it's rarely mentioned." Onizuka replied sullenly, "Agawa, have you ever heard of Ujihashi-hime?"

"Nope."

It is true that Kamiyagawa has spent more than a year collecting and supplementing the knowledge of various Japanese strange myths, but he certainly does not know much about Onizuka, who has been studying this knowledge seriously since he was a child.

So, Onizuka casually told the story of Ujihashi Hime-

Legend has it that during the Heian period, a noble woman was deeply jealous, and in order to gain the power to curse, she prayed to the god of Kibune Damyojin to turn herself into a ghost.

The great god of Kifune replied, "If you really think so, you will be disguised as a ghost for twenty-one days and immersed in the Uji River."

The woman really did it, and then she really gained the power of the ghosts.

And the ghost and god posture she posed for 21 consecutive days was later considered to be the origin of the famous curse killing ritual, "Ugly Time Worship".

"Is it so easy for people to become ghosts?"

Kamiya didn't feel quite right after listening to this story.

He is a candidate for the co-master of ghosts and gods, and in order to obtain the power of ghosts and gods that truly belongs to him, he has to work hard.

If you want to help Shikijin build a shrine, you have to create a special shrine from Jue, so that you can get a little bit of power from Shikikami's incense belief and feed it back to yourself, and then consolidate the power of ghosts and gods over time.

[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]

Thing.

Even if you can, it is estimated that you will have to pay an unacceptable price to the god of darkness and beauty.

"It must not be that easy." Onizuka said, "It seems that someone has tried to worship ugly times before, but it didn't end well."

The two talked and came to the door of Takiguchi's house, and soon met Haruka Yunju here.

Big Sister Haruka looked quite happy, and pulled the two of them and whispered, "The uncomfortable smell on Xiaoshi's body has really weakened, you guys are doing it so fast? Where did you find the problem?"

Onizuka and Kamiya looked at each other, their expressions slightly complicated.

This confused Miss Yunju.

In the end, the three of them went to a quiet place outside the door, and after confirming that there was no one around, they told the truth about what they found at the small shrine of Dark Silt and Beauty.

"You say that the reason for the sickness of filial piety is that he has been cursed for a long time? And the one who cursed him was his grandmother?"

Miss Yunju was also a little chilled when she first heard this information.

The complexity of the human heart may really be far more than the vicious weird talk.

"Sister Haruka, are you going to tell Mr. Takiguchi about this?" The little witch asked.

In the follow-up matter, she and Kamiya are not very easy to interfere in.

Or maybe you shouldn't have meddled in the first place.

This trip to Saitama could have been seen as completing a commissioned task by Miss Yunju.

In order to facilitate the little apprentice Kanoya to learn incense spells from this Xiangami Ryu incense path descendant in the future.

If the task is done here, it will be considered a successful completion, and what to do after that is Miss Yunju's business.

"I'm not going to tell him, at least not now." Yunju Haruka also thought for a while before saying this, and then thanked her, "Hotaru-chan, and Kamiya-kun, I will thank you well."

In fact, whether Mr. Takiguchi wants to know the truth of the matter or not, there is a reason to say it.

Kamiya and Onizuka don't plan to care.

Moreover, for Mr. Takiguchi, the person he thinks loves him the most in the world actually harbors the strongest hatred for him.

This kind of thing is difficult for anyone to accept, right?

Kamiya and Onizuka simply said something else to Miss Yunju, but they didn't mention anything for the little apprentice to learn for the time being.

It's not too late to talk about that later.

"But why is it filial piety? I mean, if the note left by Grandma Takashi is true, why didn't she curse Hyoshi's mother, or that so-called female godmother?" Miss Yunju finally said.

"Maybe I didn't get their hair."

This question was also thought about by Kamiya on the way back.

Probably.

The truth of the matter may only be fully known to the dead Takiguchi Ryuko.

As for whether Takashi Takiguchi is a descendant of the Takiguchi family, this cannot be determined......

Who knows if Ryoko Takiguchi, who is an old man in the countryside, has ever done a paternity test?

After that, the two met Mr. Takiguchi again, and then temporarily left the Saitama countryside and returned to Tokyo directly in a ghost car.

Kamiya could still see that ominous aura lingering on the other party's body, but the dead aura at the seal hall had indeed dissipated.

As Onizuka said, the matter of this gentleman's physical conditioning after that is Miss Yunju's job.