The plum candy at the Summer Night Festival is made by wrapping sour plums in maltose.

The fawn bought seven in one go.

Divide two to Tsurumi to gag the mouth of the junior sister, and keep five for yourself.

Of course, she didn't eat these five alone.

She was going to give the little old man's body, a wolf, a red deer, and a Yamiko.

However, Tsurumi, who got two plum candies, said that it was enough for him to eat one, and returned one to the fawn.

The latter is not polite, just one in one hand, licking one side and biting another.

Tsurumi looked at the childish appearance of his senior sister inadvertently, and laughed rarely.

"Aoi, why are you looking at me like this? Do I have sugar on my face? ”

Noticing the expression of the junior sister, the fawn blinked, and subconsciously stretched out her tongue to lick the corners of her mouth, trying to lick off the sugar residue that did not actually exist.

"Nope." Tsurumi Aoi shook her head.

She felt that Mr. Kamiya probably took good care of her senior sister.

Moreover, although she is a senior sister, Kanoya's age is already two years younger than Tsurumi.

The two girls ate candy as they turned to a secluded bush on the corner, far from the street where they were stalling.

Here, Shikanoya called out all three shikikin attached to the small bronze statue of the wrist rosary.

The three of them sent wolves, and their ability to hide themselves was not as strong as that of scouts, so they didn't appear directly in crowded places.

Shikanoya also gave candy to the Shikigami as well, and promised Yamiko, who was the most interested, that she could quietly take her to visit the festival up close later.

Tsurumi Aoi slowly finished eating her plum candy, and Shikanoya on the side suddenly grabbed her wrist.

The younger sister's palms were sticky with a little maltose, a little sticky, but her palms were soft and slightly cool, and the touch was unexpectedly comfortable. Maybe most people have a high tolerance for beautiful girls.,This made Tsurumi, who was actually reluctant to have physical contact with others, didn't take the initiative to break free for a while.。

However, Shikanoya didn't do it on purpose, the tip of her small nose wrinkled, obviously discovering something: "Aoi-chan, look over there." ”

Following the guidance given by the senior sister, Tsurumi looked towards the outer side of the bush where they were now.

The two girls had already walked to the grove at the end of the road lined with stalls, and the path on the other side was not the radiation range of the summer night festival of Jiguang Temple.

The colorful light of the festival does not shine on that side, so that the path that seems to lead to the mountain forest is extremely transparent, and it is not too far from the lively summer night festival in the physical sense, but it is like another world, and the darkness entrenched on the path seems to attract inhuman things.

And on that road, which has nothing to do with "liveliness", for some reason stands a wooden hut, and at first glance the building feels rough, as if it was temporarily built.

Tsurumi is still relatively clear about the situation near his temple.

There should have been no buildings like that on the road leading to the forest.

However, the Summer Night Festival is currently being held, and some vendors have temporarily built small buildings that meet the specifications to attract more customers, and they will be demolished after the Summer Night Festival is over, and Yoshikoji Temple has permission to do so.

As for whether temporary buildings can be erected in this area, it is up to Yoshikoji Temple to decide.

That's because, of course—

A considerable amount of land around Yoshikoji Temple, including some of the mountains and forests, is privately owned by the Tsurumi family.

For a variety of historical reasons, it is not uncommon for such shrines or temples to privately own large areas of land in Japan.

After all, even a large part of Mt. Fuji is directly owned by Asamaji Temple on the mountain, and it is private property.

"That cottage ......"

Tsurumi Aoi was a little confused.

Even if it is not surprising that some temporary structures appear near the temple during the summer night festival, why should the wooden house be built there if it is a small shop? In that unnoticed location?

Also, when Tsurumi entered the bushes just now, he didn't notice the outline of a building in that direction.

Maybe you didn't notice it?

After all, it was a little too dark on that trail.

Because he stared at the hut for a while, he may have been a little accustomed to the darkness over there, and Tsurumi, who had already mastered the "silk beating", was able to observe more details on the abrupt wooden building-

She saw a heavy, red and purple curtain hanging in front of the hut. I saw clearly that the signboard standing in front of the door of the hut read:

[Treasure House]

The handwriting was magnificent, but it was hazy and distorted by the shadows in the shadows.

The "Treasure House" at the celebration is already a term with a sense of age, and it has long been swallowed up by the torrent of the times.

Girls of Kanoya and Tsurumi are basically impossible to come into contact with this kind of thing again.

However, after all, the Tsurumi Aoi family runs the temple and presides over the festival every year. As the eldest lady in the temple, she has a vague understanding of the so-called Hundred Treasure House.

In my impression, the Treasure House is a kind of exhibition that satisfies people's curiosity.

It is a project that uses some more grotesque things to attract curious people.

For example, the owner of the Treasure House will boast to his guests that there are "crab girls" and "bottle girls" in his house.

For a small fee, the boss will briefly lift the curtain on the doorway for the guests to glance in and get a glimpse of the monster.

The room is usually dimly lit, and you may be able to see a woman in a kimono with the corners of her clothes lifted to reveal a few crab legs. Or maybe there's a living girl's head on a vase.

Etcetera.

Of course, the so-called "monsters" in the Treasure House are usually not real.

It's just a rough little trick.

The ticket for a glance inside the house is not expensive, and it is enough for the good doers to glance at it and get a little bit of curiosity.

And the Hundred Treasure House that appears at the Summer Night Festival at Jiguang Temple, judging from the publicity outside, seems to be exhibiting a "living girl in the painting".

"Senior sister, do you want to go over there and have a look?"

Intuitively, Tsurumi Aoi thought something strange about the treasure house that appeared on the dim path.

But she is a little unsure, her personality is jumpy, and when she eats candy, she even reveals what the childish senior sister wants to do.

If the senior sister wants to go over and check to see if she should be stopped?

Tsurumi's question was not answered immediately, but she felt the cool silk palm on her wrist tug slightly, and then something hard and familiar was stuffed into Tsurumi's hand.

It is an unsheathed character.

Tsurumi Aoi turned around, only to see that Kanoya-sensa didn't know when she had carried her bulging satchel diagonally over her shoulder.

This young senior sister, who still looked quite childish when she visited the celebration, looked like a different person at this time.

Her dark eyes flickered in the darkness, and her tone was serious, word by word:

"Aoi-chan, we seem to have encountered something strange." (End of chapter)