Chapter 551 Takiyashahime

It was a little earlier.

At this time, Kamiya River had not yet reached the vicinity of Xiangshan, and even Onizuka Kirihotaru was still on the plane to Osaka.

In Xiangshan.

The sky seemed to be bright but not yet bright.

The mountain forest in the early morning was like the edge of the world. The dark night had not yet completely receded, and the hazy dawn was quietly coming. Between the mountains and forests, everything was silent, only the breeze quietly shuttled between the treetops, blowing the leaves and making a rustling sound.

The giant trees were towering, and the dense branches and leaves intertwined into a piece above the head, forming a huge dark green barrier, blocking everything from the outside world.

In the dark of the forest, a figure was standing.

The man wore a three-color woven face mask on his face, and his clothes were very strange, a black silk robe, knee-length, straight-tube shape, with a bright silk border on the collar as a trim, and the hem was sewn together.

The official uniform of ancient Japanese civil servants, sewn armpit robes.

The faint morning light shone through the dense leaves, and mottled shadows jumped on the ground. The shadow of the man in the strange mask blended with the shadow on the ground, but was thicker than the shadow of the tree.

Even though the shadow of the tree was shaken by the wind, his shadow remained motionless, as if embedded in the ground.

It can be seen that there are three black nails nailed to his shadow.

One on the head and two on the left and right arms.

It is unknown how long it took, but the nail nailed to the shadow of the head made a rustling sound and crawled from the ground, as if it was pulled up by some invisible force.

Then, the remaining two nails also shook violently.

At this time, the masked man's body finally twisted twice, proving that he was still a living thing.

"Princess, I didn't expect you to appear here. It's time to show up, right?"

He spoke, and his voice rippled in the air, like sandpaper rubbing, rough and harsh.

There was no response in the forest at first. After about two minutes, a white figure swayed from not far away.

That figure looked much more vivid than the masked man. It was a young woman.

Her long hair was draped in front of her, so her face could not be seen, but her figure under the white clothes was graceful. The person who came was holding an iron hammer and wearing a cast iron ring. Three candles were inserted into the iron ring. The candles were burning blue light, and a bronze mirror was hung on her chest to reflect the candlelight. She was wearing single-toothed wooden clogs and seemed to have something in her mouth, whispering.

"Pu."

The young woman's blood-red lips slightly opened, and the flexible red tongue behind the white teeth jumped, and she actually pushed out a long black nail with crystal saliva.

The nail fell from her mouth and was caught by her empty hand.

Such an image is somewhat similar to the character "Shuangyi" in the work of the famous horror cartoonist Ito.

No, it is better to say that this woman is the prototype of the image of "Shuangyi".

She is Chou Shi Shen, also known as the daughter of Chou Shi.

"Won't you let me go, Princess?"

"You can break free by yourself, right? Or maybe you have already broken free and are waiting for me to get closer." Chou Shishen gently wiped the saliva on the nails on his palm with his white fingertips.

"Hehe." The masked man did not comment, "Why do you want to save those two girls? Does the princess know them?"

"No, I just don't want you to get what you want. Besides, didn't you get what you wanted just now? Whether those two girls are dead or alive has no effect on you."

"You are still the same as before, with too much extra kindness."

"Hehe." This time it was Chou Shican's turn to laugh back, "Not entirely, for example, I am no longer the little girl who was lost and helpless because of losing her father, so I am not as easy to deceive as before."

"You seem to be hostile to me."

"Is it not obvious? It seems that I am too restrained."

"It's not right. Takiji, you should know that I do all these things for your father. Before and now."

"I would probably believe you before. Also, I am no longer called that name, and I am not a princess. I am now an exorcist." Chou Shican raised the nail in his hand a little and pointed it at the masked man in the distance.

"Whether you admit it or not, you are the Takiyasha-hime who almost overthrew Kyoto and made the world tremble with fear."

"But, wasn't it you, Lord Xingze, who manipulated everything behind the scenes, almost overthrew Kyoto, and was finally killed like a stray dog?"

"Hehe."

"Hehe."

"Princess, you are provoking me, do you still want to fight me?"

"No, I don't." The nail that the Ushi lieutenant general raised was put down again, "You took away more of the 'curse' of the Kibune Myojin from me than I expected before."

The man called the Xingze King did not refute anything, but asked back in a relaxed tone: "Did you see it?"

"I said, I'm not as easy to fool as before. You had thought of this when you tricked me into doing the Ugly Hour Prayer, right? "

"Taki-jime, you and I fell asleep for a thousand years after our failure last time, and now we have woken up one after another. Although we have become weak, now is our chance. We are the only ones of our kind in the world, and you should be with me. Your father is the emperor, and he is still the emperor even after his death. We wake him up, and with the help of your father's ghost power, let him be the ruler of the demons and monsters, and I will continue to be his regent, and you will still be the princess. Isn't this good?"

"No. You are a lunatic, you were before and you are now. I will not cooperate with you again."

"Taki-hime, aren't you crazy? Otherwise, why were you in the Oma Hour? Ah——I actually saw the long-lost princess in the organization, and the princess still exists in the world because of the power of Kibune Myojin. I was extremely excited at that time."

"Of course I was crazy a long time ago. I went crazy the moment I believed your lies and tried to resurrect my father a thousand years ago. But I have other things to do now. So, I have no interest in your Goblin Dynasty plan. By the way, don't think that I am on your side just because I provided you with a lot of help during the Oma Hour. That Hai Hour, he probably wanted you to die."

"I am not a living person, Princess. Of course, you are not either. We have the power of gods."

"Heh."

Choushi-san shook the hammer in his hand.

God?

Kibune Myojin, a god who decreed a curse.

"Whatever you say, that's it. Keep working hard for your dream of becoming the Goblin Kanpaku. Goodbye, Kanpaku." Choushi-san looked at King Heungse again with a joking look.

Then, the white-clothed figure covered with dim candlelight turned and disappeared into the dense forest in half light and half dark.

In the forest, only King Xingshi was left.

The color of the shadow under him suddenly became thicker and squirmed in the shade of the trees. The two black nails that were still nailed on the left and right arms of the shadow were shaken away effortlessly.

"Princess... I borrowed the power of the gods for you. Why don't you know how to thank me, a loyal minister? However, it doesn't matter if you don't help. The "curse" of the noble god that I got from you is much more than you can imagine now."

King Xingshi's tone was hoarse and sinister, and the shadow under him twisted like a poisonous snake in the silhouette of the light and shadow of the morning light.

...

Kamiyagawa arrived at the police station in Xiangshan.

And he successfully saw Onitsuka Kirihotaru here.

"Who is this?"

Ms. Sugita, who was in charge of this place, also came out to greet him, but she only knew that the son of the god of Juqiong was coming.

As for this young man who came later, no one knew who he was.

Before Kamiya could speak, the little witch snorted: "He is a disciple of the ghost."

"Ah, Mr. Kamiya? Are you Mr. Kamiya?"

Ms. Sugita reacted quickly.

Sure enough, the name of the ghost disciple Kamiya Kawa is already very famous in the exorcist industry.

For Ms. Sugita, a group of Yougu Xiang appeared at the Xiangshan Echo Festival. The presence of the Giant Qiong Shenzi was enough to make her panic.

Unexpectedly, this popular ghost disciple also appeared immediately.

This one is even more important.

Does the matter on Xiangshan need to alarm two such people to appear together?

Ms. Sugita began to realize the seriousness of the matter.

"What's the situation?"

Kamiyakawa nodded to Ms. Sugita, and asked Onitsuka again.

Just now on the phone, he only roughly knew that the vengeful spirit Fangxiang might have appeared in Xiangshan last night.

The little witch handed the notes she had just made to Kamiya, and roughly told what happened to the Shinagawa sisters.

"Where are the mother and daughter of the Shinagawa family now?"

"They are still in the police station. We don't plan to let them leave for the time being. We have arranged for several other exorcists in Kyoto to stay with them."

"Okay, Uncle Yusei has also sent someone over. It is estimated that they will arrive at the latest in the evening. Let's go to Xiangshan to see if there are any clues."

Kamiyakawa made a prompt decision.

Onitsuka did not object to his judgment. The moment he arrived, he tacitly handed over the initiative to him.

...

Because of what happened last night, the festival site on Xiangshan has been cleared and a cordon has been set up at the scene.

However, the stalls, stage and colored paper of the celebration last night are still left at the scene.

After the riot, only a mess is left.

After stepping on the colored paper on the ground, Kamiya and Onitsuka, led by Ms. Sugita, began to climb up the narrow mountain path of Xiangshan.

"Has anything happened in Xiangshan? Maybe something related to those Yugu Xiang."

Kamiya and Onitsuka are both experienced exorcists. While heading towards the destination halfway up the mountain, they talked to Ms. Sugita, who is in charge of the area.

What needs to be done now is to unravel the mystery.

Although the most important target is the one wearing the square of the vengeful spirit and suspected to be the one in the time of the demon, the first thing to figure out is why that person appeared in the ritual celebration of the Echo Festival and what he wanted to get from those Yugu Xiang.

Anyway, according to the narration of the Shinagawa sisters, Kamiya and Onitsuka both felt that--

The masked man seemed to be heading for Yugu Xiang.

"The Echo of the Valley... There are some rumors about it in the Xiangshan area. However, according to the records, it happened a long time ago." Ms. Sugita seemed to find it difficult to speak, but she didn't dare to hide it in front of the two big men who came down from above. "That is, the Echo Festival in Xiangsheng, when it was first formed, seemed to be accompanied by human sacrifice."

"Living sacrifice?"

"Yes, the rock on the hillside of Xiangshan is the place to make wishes to the gods. When there is a famine and a lack of food, or a long period of drought and water shortage, when encountering these things, people just need to climb here and shout, and their wishes can be conveyed to the ears of the gods."

Generally speaking, echo refers to one's own voice, no matter which mountain it is on.

It's a bit forced to think of it as a response from a god.

Therefore, in order for the gods to listen to your wishes, something should be necessary.

Sacrifice.

Ms. Sugita: "When we came from Kyoto last night, our people there temporarily checked some information on Xiangshan. We found some vague and vague ancient records related to sacrifices."

Human sacrifice is a custom that is incomprehensible to modern society.

But in a long, long time ago, when it was still a barbaric era, it might not be so rare.

Perhaps it can be vaguely found in old-era materials that have been preserved sporadically in many places in Japan.

Ms. Sugita: "Combined with the valley sounds that appeared last night, I think they may be the undead ghost stories of people who were chosen as sacrifices in the old days."

Sounds coming from below the cliff.

The god who grants wishes.

The sacrifice that was pushed off the cliff.

I don’t know if those people who died under the cliff in the old days really believed that their death would bring happiness to other individuals. And their will and will remain at the bottom of the valley. As the months go by this year, more people's "wishes" have fallen...

This is probably the reason why those valley noises were formed.

Onizuka recalled the conversation he had just had with the Shinagawa sisters. Shinagawa sister Misako added at the end that she seemed to hear the Yutani Hibiki climbing up from the cliff. The large number of mouths opened and closed, and they were all whispering repeatedly. : "Please, please..."

Therefore, those valley sounds are probably responding to the wishes of the wish-makers in their own way.

Of course, Onizuka doesn't think those ghost stories about the undead can fulfill people's wishes.

Maybe he was just responding desperately and mechanically.

The three of them continued to climb the stairs, and Ms. Sugita added: "But the custom of living sacrifices must have been abolished a long time ago. The current Echo Festival only retains the part of shouting wishes on the rocks. And , There has never been a valley sound here before.”

"It never appeared? Maybe Tatsuki inspired those resentful spirits in some way? Then the plan was accidentally interrupted by the girl named Shinagawa Misako."

Kamiya speculated in his mind.

"Resentment, Achuan." Onizuka thought for a while and gently touched Kamiyakawa with his elbow.

"Um?"

"Misako seems to have a very high level of inspiration. She said she felt a strong sense of resentment in Yutani Hibiki."

If those Yougu Xiang are really the sacrifices from the past, it is normal to carry resentment.

"Resentment..." Kamiya thought again.

Kohata Jiyue, who married into the Kohata family, had a lot of resentment, so much that she gave birth to a doppelgänger.

In the deep valley under the cliff of Xiangshan Mountain, the souls who died for the wishes of others also carried heavy resentment.

Also, Taira Shomon, one of the four most evil spirits in Japan.

The aspect of the resentful spirit that changes due to the influence of resentment.

All these things that have happened recently are inseparable from "grievance".

What does Chenshi want to do?

Collect grievances?