The town road was full of people, and it was like the dead silence of last night. The "living people" they had never seen in the whole town were now all in the form of harmless strange stories, looking like normal people, able to touch and communicate.

The witches in kimonos fly low on their broomsticks and are dressed in a style that is far from the current Reiwa era, especially the hairstyle.

There are witches who cut off princesses, witches who wear long hair tied up and dressed up in a particularly dignified manner, and witches who cut off their long hair and have Showa-style crisp short hair, and wear shirts and short skirts.

They are all very recognizable beauties when they pull out any of them, and they are much better looking than the costume ceilings and the first beauties that are highly praised by traffic.

It was too dark before, and Ruiji couldn't see the background behind Binay Town. Wait until the sun rises in the middle of the sky and the light is sufficient, and you can clearly distinguish the surrounding environment through a distant view.

The town of Asahinai is surrounded by mountains and is located at the bottom of a low mountain valley near the river.

The special geographical environment makes the town of Asahina closed to traffic, and ordinary people can only enter and exit through narrow mountain roads, and cars and airships cannot enter. If you are a witch riding a broomstick, you must always pay attention to the road conditions so as not to bump into the raised edges and corners of the cliff.

It's not like Tokyo, where there are holographic signs and scrolling electronic warning signs, reminding flying witches to slow down and slow down, like a forgotten corner of the world.

To be precise, the town of Asahina fits the definition of forgotten.

No one knew what it was, and no one had ever heard of its name.

"Can you see what the place is?"

Ryji tried to determine the location by the signs on the town's shopping street, but could only gather sporadic clues. The townspeople of Asahina Town speak a Kansai dialect with a very regional character, and they are 100% sure that the town is located in some corner of Kansai that is almost isolated from the rest of the world.

"It's simple."

The moon points to a shop that sells groceries.

"The wooden billboard on the outside reads 'Specialty of Shiga Prefecture,' which is part of the Osaka metropolitan area, one of Japan's three major metropolitan areas, and is adjacent to Kyoto Prefecture and is the seat of the ancient Omi Province. There's a famous mountain range nearby, you don't even know it, do you? It's written in history textbooks. ”

Several familiar terms in a row awakened a part of the sleeping memories in Rydge's mind.

"How could I not know that when it comes to the famous mountain range in Shiga Prefecture in Kansai, the first thing that comes to mind is of course Mt. Ruì."

"Yes, Hieiyama. In September 1571, Mt. Hiei's Enryakuji Temple was besieged by the daimyo witch Oda Nobunaga, who was fighting against two other daimyo witches, Asakura Yoshikei and Asai Nagamasa, in what is historically known as the Battle of Ogawa, and the witch coalition was defeated and fled to Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei. Enryakuji provided assistance to the Asai and Asakura witch coalition forces, and the enemies who harbored Nobunaga refused to hand it over, annoying her. In order to avenge his death, Oda Nobunaga had his subordinates set fire to the temple and slaughtered the witches who practiced in the temple, causing a huge sensation at the time. ”

Although you can't see the whole of Mt. Hiei from Asahina Town, you can't capture the majestic Buddhist temples and buildings from your limited view. With a little imagination, Ruiji can barely trace in his mind the images of tens of thousands of witches wearing the armor of samurai in the Azuchi-Momoyama era fighting in this place.

The strange talk that appeared at home happened to be a product of that era, which provided the most intuitive material for her to construct the picture at that time.

Against that historical backdrop, this town, tucked away in the mountains and forests, happens to be the safest. The closer you got to the villages and towns of the capital at the time, the more dangerous it became, and the war never showed mercy to anyone who was innocent.

The traditional buildings of Asahina Town and the shrine on the hill are well preserved, and it is clear that the 90s of the 20th century escaped the magic and artillery fire scattered between the witches and daimyo in that turbulent and heroic era.

It escaped the artillery fire of the Battle of Ogawa and the disasters of modern Japan, but it disappeared at the end of 1993.

Rui Ji didn't complain that Yue's words were suspected of deliberately selling knowledge, in terms of the knowledge reserve of the average high school student witch, this guy really knows a lot, highlighting a diligent and studious.

This period of history occupies an important place in the history of Japanese witches, and has been called "a turning point in the history of Japanese witches" by historians, and has had a profound impact on later generations. It just so happened that Ruiji was a little interested in this aspect, and silently wrote down a few key points as a reserve of knowledge for the future.

They walked around the town again and noticed an unusual phenomenon - the entire town of Asahina was enveloped in an atmosphere of extraordinary excitement and festivity.

There are no major national holidays to be celebrated in November, except when it is a local folk holiday.

Flags with the words "Goddess Sacrifice" are hung on the eaves and entrances of the shops, and Asakura, a witch who works at the hot spring inn, mentions "Goddess Sacrifice" and asks them not to obstruct the festival.

In places where the environment is closed and civilization is not civilized enough, it is easy to give birth to many strange beliefs.

Isolated villages and towns are breeding grounds for feudal superstition, and Mt. Hiei happens to be a religious shrine in Japan, the equivalent of Jerusalem for Westerners, and it is normal for people who live nearby to believe in things other than technology.

This is another key clue.

Ruiji used her notebook to write down key words such as "goddess sacrifice" and "sacrifice", and returned to the town square that she had passed by last night. In the center of the plaza is a 10-meter-long and 10-meter-wide square altar base, which is a miniature version of a palace from the Azuchi-Momoyama period.

The palace is a Japanese-style Hirayama Castle structure, much like Himeji Castle, a landmark building in Hyogo Prefecture, except that the exterior walls are not painted in holy white, but covered in gold paint and the tiles are all black.

Of course, the palaces dedicated to the festival are also made of wood, so they can be assembled and dismantled at any time. The golden palace and the shrine on the hill are far away, and the gold and red are dazzling in the dazzling sunlight.

The altar was not yet completed, but there were still many witches in civilian clothes with sweat towels on their shoulders, magically manipulating wooden hammers to hammer and knock, or letting carts full of wood move forward on their own to transport things to their designated places.

These witches all have a weak magical reaction, but they are almost negligible, and they belong to the weaker category of weak witches.

During the appreciation, a wheat-colored long-haired witch dressed as a shrine maiden stood in front of them with a displeased expression.

"This is not for you, please don't get in the way of the altar."

Coupled with the unfriendly tone that sounded like a quarrel, Riki almost thought he was being scolded.

It's not an insult, but the warning is plain.