"Unless you can become a great witch certified by the National Witch Association."

Yue opened a can of Kirin beer and drank it in the evening mountain breeze. Beer is bought at Yoshinoya for 250 yen a can, which is cheaper than convenience stores in downtown Tokyo.

She seemed to be eating and drinking all the time, as if she would run out of life if she didn't.

The two talked about invisibility magic during the break.

"In order to reduce the crime rate of witches, from the middle of the 18th century, Britain announced that it was forbidden for non-certified witches to practice stealth magic, because this magic would lead to a large number of unsolved cases, and some witches with prominent status were assassinated unconsciously. After that, this initiative quickly affected the world, and now every country prohibits unofficial association certification, and the identity is witches below the Great Witch to learn this spell. ”

It is very difficult to get the certification of the association, and many witches have difficulty reaching that status in their lifetimes.

If the Great Witch uses such a despicable spell to commit a crime, the identity of the perpetrator can be quickly found, because there are so few people who have mastered it, and it is easy for the police witch to lock the search area.

"Also, invisibility potions are also contraband, and the purchase of materials to make them must be registered and specified, even if they are purchased only for the purpose of crafting other potions. Your idea is good, but unfortunately, you can't do it with just two high school student witches. ”

"Taught."

Riji had a clear expression.

I thought I could take a shortcut, but I didn't expect that behind the shortcut might be a criminal road. This also explains why Lady Yoshino made them go to great lengths to climb from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and then find a way to get to the shrine by bypassing the patrolling witches.

There are no shortcuts to some things, and they can only be done with a little more work.

"You've been watching for so long, have you found any place to use as a breakthrough for tomorrow night?"

The moon points to the illuminated shrine below.

The people on the floating platform are still repeating the same dance over and over again, doing the final rehearsal for tomorrow's priestess. Not every place in a huge shrine is impregnable, and it is easier to see the whole situation and find the weak position of defense when you look down from a high vantage point.

"How's the Dance Hall?"

A building in the lower left corner catches Ryji's attention.

The dance hall is a place where dance and music are offered to the deities at the shrine, and the dance performances of the goddess are not held in the shrine, but are held on the floating platform and the altar in the square in front of the town, leaving the slightly narrow dance hall vacant.

The summit of Mt. Akabane could not accommodate too many people watching the dance of the goddess at the same time, so the dance hall was reduced to a warehouse for miscellaneous items.

"There don't seem to be any witches patrolling over there, it's the weakest place to be guarded. There is also a maple tree next to it, which is not only easy to climb, but also blocks the body, making it a great hidden entry point. ”

"I agree with you, too."

Tsuki unfolded the map, marked a red mark behind the shrine's dance hall, and discussed the route with Riki at the top of the mountain. Invade from the most remote dance halls, requiring a bypass of the Shrine of the Yamato Shrine, a garden, a martial arts arena, and a dense maple forest.

The ritual begins at eight o'clock in the evening, and they only need to invade the room where the painted coffin is stored in the main hall before eight o'clock, and take away the target trapped inside, who has actually become a strange person, and Chiyo Nary.

Such behavior was not meaningless, and Rej knew from the beginning that they had to.

The liberation of the poor maiden from the coffin and the taking of her to where she should have gone was a transcendent, though not a formal ceremony, in which the witch and witch wore her full uniform and danced and chanted the scriptures.

After all the clues are sorted out, Riki makes a bold guess based on the solution of the regional weirdness and Mrs. Yoshino's prompts.

Everything forms a perfect loop in the mind, and the last piece of the puzzle is collected, and they are arranged and combined to present a coherent picture.

"I may have a clue about the [specific rules] of this strange story."

"I want to hear about it."

Tsuki stared at the shrine below, illuminated by warm lights, like a burning maple forest, waiting for her to speak.

Raiji gathered her thoughts and sat cross-legged, her hands on her knees.

"I remembered what Mrs. Yoshino said. She said, 'What did she fail to do was not because she couldn't do it, but because she had long since lost herself in the wave of her absolute self, and had lost her qualifications as a human being and as a witch. What she didn't do was mentioned in her diary. ”

One of the entries in the diary is dated August 12 in the real world, and the time in the weird tale is November. I didn't understand the difference in time between the two places, so I wrote it according to the time schedule in reality.

"Himata, who helped the townspeople do something crazy, then wrote down his remorse in his diary, and became an accomplice, making Naling a sacrifice to the priestess. Unlike us, she doesn't know about the strange stories that happened in Asahina, and she can't find a way to solve them.

In other words, the [specific rule] is with Chiyo Naling herself, as long as she makes sure that she does not fall into the hands of the townspeople in this [reincarnation], we can leave this hellish place. ”

"Wait, what is reincarnation?"

Suddenly a new term popped up, and Yue needed a little time to understand and digest, so she had to temporarily interrupt Ruiji's narration. Unfamiliar words can easily affect her understanding of the whole thing, and it is important to ask for an explanation to allow the other party to continue.

This also led to conflicts between her and many people, not everyone is happy to be interrupted many times and patiently explain each other's every question.

"Reincarnation, that's a derivative of the weird talk witches who study regional weirdness."

Tsuki just got to the point, and this part of the content was firmly engraved in Ruiji's mind, and remembering them was like opening an unlocked drawer and taking out the contents with ease.

"For some reason, the event that causes an entire area to become strange and extremely dangerous in the real world, and connects the narrow entrance, is called [regional strange talk], and the area that becomes strange becomes a regional strange story. Is that understandable? ”

"Yes, please continue."

"In regional weirdness, what leads to regional weirdness is repeated over a period of time, and the number we see is the length of that time, which is 72 hours, or three days."

"Well, I understand that."

"Back then, in 1993, the innocent Yonaling was targeted by the townspeople of Asahina Town, who had not yet talked about it, and the priestess was about to sacrifice it, and the townspeople couldn't find a suitable sacrifice and killed the girl. The owner of the hot spring inn Oyu no Mizu tried to help her, but was persecuted by the townspeople and had to flee, so Yonaling died in the end.

In the end, the resentment of the dead and Naling and all the girls in this area who died in the priestess sacrifice and did not get the excess became a strange story. ”