Hotaru Onizuka: ......

After perceiving what happened to Yuri Sakai before her death, the little witch was silent for a long time, and finally just silently bent down to pick up the black and white photos and manuscripts on the ground.

By now, she'd been able to understand what had happened to Yuri Sakai, Toshima Taito, and the climbers she had met at the beginning, and when they entered the Tsuchigomon area.

In order to find the Tendo Bronze Mirror, Toshima Taito was killed by a shrine maiden in gorgeous clothes at the Healing Pond.

Then Toshima Taito, who turned into a fierce spirit, lost his mind and returned to the Tachibana family house out of a strong obsession with his lover's promise.

He killed Yuri Sakai.

At this point, this couple has become a chaotic wandering necromancer in the village of Tuyumen.

I don't know how many years have passed.

An unknown climber strayed into the village of Tsuchigomon.

He encounters the necro of Yuri Sakai and is eventually killed.

"The village of Tuyumen itself is extremely strange, and it seems that those who die here will become evil spirits who have lost their minds...... It is not known how many tragedies have happened here. Onizuka thought.

If she could, if she could, she wanted to destroy as much of the place of death that weaved tragedy as much as possible.

In addition, whether it is the couple Sakai and Toshima, or the mountaineer, their stories are on the surface.

Their encounters only sporadically touched on the hidden secrets of the Tuyumen village.

If we want to go deeper, Sakai Toshiya's manuscript may be the next breakthrough.

"It's better to go back to the cave first, and Achuan will try to contact him well."

The little witch still lowered her eyebrows, but she cheered up.

She did sympathize with the dead who died here.

However, we cannot stop at this point now.

Onizuka can't let himself and Kamiya repeat the mistakes of the poor lovers.

……

The red rope on the wrist tugs rhythmically.

Kamiya and Onizuka, located on both sides of the cave's stone gates, transmit messages to each other in an orderly manner.

"After the disappearance of the Tsuchiomon area, the victims who strayed into it and died...... The bloody sacrifice held by the Tuyumen family...... The shrine maiden who was sacrificed as a living sacrifice ......"

"It seems that Hotaru has obtained a lot of information."

Kamiya roughly understood what was going on on Onizuka's side.

Although he didn't have any useful information himself, the little witch had gained a lot!

"Speaking of shrine maidens who were sacrificed, are they the ones I just met in the deep pool of the waterfall? Those were the sacrifices of the ages? ”

The group of earth shrine maidens encountered by Kamiyagawa are all full of resentment and pain, and they must have suffered very cruel things in their lives.

Combined with the red hemp rope that bound them, and their broken corpses......

"So, the specific sacrificial process of the Tiandu Witch Festival is likely to be - to tie the hands and feet of the witches who were chosen as sacrifices, and then rip off their flesh and blood?"

Why did the Tsuchigomon family do such a thing?

What is the purpose of this evil and bloody sacrifice?

"Judging from the available information alone, Abe's descendants don't look like good people. Isn't it possible that such an evil ritual is to please a certain evil god and then gain power from the gods? ”

Kamiyagawa thought so, but couldn't be sure.

The red rope continued to pull, and the 1510 side of the onitsuka retold a song that had been circulated in the Tuyumen village.

This clue was taken from the notes of the climber.

Before encountering the necro of Yuri Sakai, the climber seems to have encountered a group of children playing and heard them singing and playing.

It's just that the lyrics have not been fully recorded, and they are incomplete: "The Childish Lady on the High Heaven Plain、...... Great God, and the ...... that I didn't mention just now, are torn apart."

Childish Female Honor.

The sister of Takamagahara Amaterasu, the same is the sun god.

"The Ainu Mother Spider Goddess and I mentioned that the objects of the Nexus God have the breath of the sun on them. I came to the Earth Gate because of the fate of the gods. Therefore, it is very likely that the true body of the god of fate is the goddess of the childish day, the goddess who holds the power of the sun and marriage at the same time? ”

Kamiyagawa felt that his conjecture was not unlikely.

Continue to analyze the incomplete ballad.

In addition to the childish goddess who is suspected of being a god, the second line of the lyrics mentions a god whose name has not been recorded.

"If the second god in the lyrics is the goddess of Tiandian, then further down, the 'divided' are the shrine maidens of the Earth Palace."

In this way, the ballad has a point.

It alludes to the connection between the two gods in the Tsuchigomon area, and the "Ato Witch Festival", which alludes to the cruelty of the shrine maidens chosen as sacrifices.

It feels reasonable.

"Plus, the Tendo Witch Festival, the Tendo Bronze Mirror...... It's likely that Amado is referring to Amado Rock, right? ”

The mythical story of Amanobe Rock was learned by Kamiyagawa after he came into contact with Juqiong Shrine.

It was Amaterasu who hid in the Amado Rock, and without her presence, the world became dark. Later, it was the Tenden Maiden who danced a witch dance that attracted Amaterasu and caused the sun god to finally return to the world.

Tenden is one of the protagonists of the story of Tenganiwa.

"Is the evil sacrifice controlled by the Tuyumen family to please the life of the Tiandian woman?"

Kamiya felt that there should be some kind of connection between the Tiandian Maiden and the Tuyumen family.

For example, in the Juqiong Shrine that once supported the Tsuchimon family, the ancestors of the Tsuchigomon family, Abe Harumi and Tenden Maiden, are enshrined at the same time.

Too many coincidences should no longer be coincidences.

But as the shrine goddess ancestral goddess, will the goddess of the goddess be happy because of this cruel ritual full of pain?

He's supposed to be the patron saint of the shrine maidens, right?

"Tiandian women's life, Tiandian women's life...... Uh, Granny she'......"

When Kamiyagawa recalled Juqiong Shrine, something else came to mind.

Now the god of Juqiong Shrine, Granny Yu, is the god of Tiandian Woman's life.

After becoming a god, she has been able to see some very painful revelations.

Specifically, the god's body is shattered, and the god's blood flows to the earth.

"The fate of the Broken Tiandian Woman?"

If the "divine revelation" that Granny Dian saw was true, then it is likely that Tiandian's life was also in a state of fragmentation for some reason.

"Therefore, in the process of sacrificing, the Tendo Witch Sacrifice took off the flesh and blood of the witches who were regarded as sacrifices, not to please the life of the Tenden Maiden, but to echo His suffering? What the hell is the Dogomon family doing? ”

Kamiyagawa pressed his temples, and the more doubts that accompanied the thinking were not answered.

So, he first fed back his guesses truthfully through the red rope back to Onizuka Kiritaru.

The slender red rope hung in the air, fluttering and silent for a while, and then began to be pulled rhythmically from the side of the door.

The little shrine maiden sent back a message—

[The Childish Lady of Takamagahara、...... Great God, and the Tiandian Woman's life that I didn't mention just now, is torn apart. ]

A simple fill-in-the-blank question.

According to the information given by Kamiyagawa, Onizuka added another possible fill-in-the-blank mode.

“…… Hotaru supplements are also possible. If that's the case, is the Tsuchigomon region still related to the third unknown god? Kamiyagawa felt his temples swell a little more, "Then things are even more troublesome." ”

Regardless of whether this possibility is right or wrong, both of them must be mentally prepared for it first.

Kamiya and Onizuka discussed it for a while through the red rope, but they did not make a more valuable breakthrough in the conjecture.

Regarding the matter of Tuyumen and the life of Tiandian Women, they still need to explore more on both sides before it is possible to get a glimpse of the whole picture.

The exchange of information and information has come to an end for the time being, and Kamiya and Onizuka have returned to both sides of the door in the cave at this time, and there is another important thing to do.

Atendo bronze mirror.

Both of them went well on their quest, and each of them got a fragment of a bronze mirror.

Now we'll have to try to piece the pieces together into the grooves in the stone door.

Kamiya took out the fragment he had acquired and placed it on the groove, and the bronze mirror that was originally embedded in it and the piece in Kamiya's hand sensed. They pulled each other without Kamiya having to find a location, and the second fragment itself was attached to the lower left corner of the groove.

At the same time, a third piece of debris emerged from the groove.

It was Onizuka who did the same thing.

The fragments of the bronze mirror were transformed into three.

Through simple communication, Kamiya and Onizuka can confirm that the pieces they find are indeed mirrored on each other's stone gate grooves.

"In other words, the fragments of the Tianhu Bronze Mirror exist on both sides of the door." Kamiyagawa smiled bitterly.

Although I don't want to see Hotaru also in danger, judging from the current situation, the current copy of the Earth Imperial Gate is really not able to be opened by one person, and it must be cleared by two people.

"Hotaru and I should have been brought into the Earth Gate by the power of the Fate God, so it seems that there is a high probability that the Fate God is on our side. He sent us to both sides of the door by pairing us with red ropes so that we could deal with the troubles here? ”

Of course, it may not be the fate of the god itself that introduced Kamiya and Onizuka to the Earth Gate together.

It could be the power left over from this god, or even the bones of a god or something.

"Don't think about it yet. The most practical thing at the moment is that the Tiando bronze mirror has probably been pieced together in half. If the remaining fragments are about the same size, then there are probably three other fragments that have not yet been found. ”

Progress has reached 50 percent.

The two who are tied by the red rope of the fate god still need to make persistent efforts.

After staring at the broken bronze mirror on the stone door for a while, Kamiya suddenly had a little sense and lowered his head: "Mary? ”

The space around him was fragmented and turbulent, and a red mist slowly diffused out.

Mary's blood mist.

The red mist was not as majestic as before, enough to engulf everything, but only diffused sporadically, faintly, like a light veil around Kamiya.

"Mary is trying to influence here."

The Amudo Bronze Mirror seems to have the ability to stabilize the chaotic space power in the Tsuchigomon region.

Now that she's only half-pieced together, Mary, who is already a god, can try to infiltrate her power a little.

This is great news.

"If the bronze mirror can be pieced together, or the stone gate with a complete bronze mirror can be broken, will the Shikami be able to appear here smoothly?" This thought made Kamiyagawa happy.

Although Kamiya's strength in individual combat is not low now.

But teamwork is his more specialized field!

Under the command of Kamiyagawa, they are full of buffs, and they cooperate with each other, and the combat power that the Shikigami who are Aragami can burst out can be several times that of individual combat.

Not to mention, now Mary has broken through the A rank.

In the case of the whole army attacking, the Kamiya Group has the capital and confidence to touch the gods.

"This is really rare good news after entering the Tuyumen area." Kamiyagawa's spirits perked up, "It seems that we will have to find the fragments of the Amado Bronze Mirror faster." ”

There is a possibility that the Shikigami will appear in the battle, which provides a second idea for attacking the Tsuchigomon region.

Now that you've been trapped here, it's a good way to escape from this hellish place by looking for clues, exploring the truth behind this area, and finding a way to leave.

But if the Shikigami can appear to fight, it will provide another layer of protection for Kamiya and Onizuka to attack the Earth Imperial Gate-

What a hidden secret, a treacherous truth.

Even if it really can't be revealed, it doesn't matter.

I'm really in a hurry, and Kamiya, who has the gods as a guarantee, will definitely not sit still, the big deal is to try to break through the cauldron and directly penetrate here.

If the decryption fails, then attack it head-on!

Anyway, the weirdness behind the Earth Gate must be related to the gods.

But if I can bring down the gods that affect this place, won't everything be solved?

……

After exhorting each other to be careful, Kamiyagawa left the Shimen Cave.

Outside, it was still the same, the heavens and the earth were dim, and the boundaries could not be seen clearly.

The bare peaks are lined with twisted black rocks, and the peaks stretch and connect with the mountains in the distance.

"After piecing together half of the bronze mirror, the aura outside seems to have changed. It felt like something was about to move in the shadows. ”

Kamiyagawa stared around at the mouth of the cave.

The first time he explored outside, he sensed that the space he was in was unusual, as if something extraordinary lurked.

It's not about the Tsuchigomon shrine maiden who encountered at the waterfall before.

That group of shrine maidens is nothing at all, and with Kamiya's personal strength, they can brush over without injury.

His intuition told him that there was definitely something more terrifying and sneaky in this space.

"Maybe we have to hurry."

Kamiya didn't go down the rock wall this time, the route there led to the Tsuchigomon Shrine Maiden Falls, and it was inseparable from the peak where the cave was located for a long time.

He looked directly down the cliff wall beyond the cave, obscured by gray clouds below.

But with Kamiyagawa's extraordinary eyesight, he can still see the situation below.

"Hmm...... It can be confirmed that there is no strange talk below. ”

More than 30 meters below the steep cliff face, there is a valley.

If you can get there, it seems that you can directly break away from the peak where the cave is located and explore other areas.

"With my current flesh strength, will I be killed if I fall from this height?" Kamiyagawa wasn't very sure, he didn't feel like he was, but after all, he hadn't tried it, and he was still a little weak-hearted, "I knew that I should have used the dead paper man to test the limits of my body in the ordinary world." ”

However, even if you don't fall to your death if you jump from here, you will be in trouble if you fall and hurt your actions in the future.

So he didn't plan to plunge directly off the cliff like the protagonist in martial arts.

From the [Mirage Cloth Bag], he groped for the [Reins of the Hanged Dead], and tied one end of the hemp rope firmly to the black boulder standing on the cliff wall, and the other end tied his waist and abdomen.

This rope for the hanged ghost to hang himself, although not too high-grade, is surprisingly useful in many cases.

For example, now, Kamiyagawa plans to use it as a safety rope. (End of chapter)