This Japanese Story Is Not Too Cold

The process of climbing the mountain will not be described one by one here.

Beichuan Temple came to the shrine again, and the main hall of the shrine was still flickering with faint fire.

The buildings of the entire shrine complex are unexpectedly simple, the front is blocked by the main hall of the shrine, and only the general outline of the building behind can be seen.

This time he had enough energy, so he didn't hesitate any longer, stepped onto the wooden path, and walked straight to the main entrance of the main hall of the shrine.

Perhaps because of the rain yesterday, the entire wooden path was flooded with sewage.

Beichuan Temple stepped on the water and came to the wooden path, and the warmth gradually peeled off from his body.

The gate of the temple was closed tightly, and Beichuan Temple's fingers were tightly pressed against the gap, but it could not be opened.

It's as if it's connected to this space.

Beichuan Temple took two steps back, and a cold light flashed in Kanesada's hand.

With the death energy pouring down, the edge of the blade slammed hard on the Japanese style wooden door.

A strange scene happened.

At a distance of about one centimeter from the wooden door, Beichuan Temple's dagger could not continue to approach, as if there was an invisible wall blocking Beichuan Temple in the air.

Regarding this, Beichuan Temple just increased the strength in his hands and instilled dead energy expressionlessly.

Ka Ka Ka——

Click!

A crisp sound came out, and the invisible wall seemed to be completely smashed and disappeared by Beichuan Temple's heavy blow.

call.

Kitagawa Temple let out a breath, retracted Kanesada, and when he stretched out his hand to close the wooden door, it could be easily pulled open.

"Let's go." Beichuan Temple said pitifully to Nishi Kujo who was lying on his shoulders. At the same time, he left the outdoor backpack and winter clothes on the spot. He only took his pocket bag, held the flashlight, and groped into the dark interior of the shrine hall. .

Although there were inexplicably flickering candles in the shrine, it was still relatively dark overall.

Beichuan Temple could feel the malicious gaze hidden in the surrounding darkness.

But when he turned on the flashlight, he found nothing.

He shook his head, scanning his surroundings intently.

The interior space of the building is very large, with a square dome going up, and you can see the crossbars and the overwhelming, slightly shaking pale white lanterns above your head.

Yes, there are overwhelming paper lanterns, and there seem to be names of people on the paper lanterns.

With the help of the light, Beichuan Temple could barely see the words written on it.

God stays...

God stays...

God stays...

All the surnames of the gods are written on the paper lanterns!

Here is the main hall of the shrine, but there is only one altar inside, and there is no offering on it.

Only the paper lanterns above his head were shaking slightly.

Then it is not difficult to guess that the people in the main hall of the shrine are the members of the Shenzhu family.

Beichuan Temple's gaze turned——

"That is...?"

Something seemed to have fallen from under the altar.

Beichuan Temple walked over with a flashlight.

It was an old thick notebook, and Beichuan Temple took it out.

These words are written on the cover.

"God's Marriage Strategy".

Indeed, if the god resides in the family to maintain the inheritance, it is naturally impossible to leave the marriage contract.

But it is strange why the notebooks recording these marriages are placed here.

Beichuan Temple put it on the altar and looked at it with the light on:

'The gods are stationed in the shrine, and the matter of marriage. '

'In order to maintain the inheritance of the shrine, it is necessary to select some husbands and sons-in-law to go up the mountain every fifteen years, and then hold a wedding ceremony. , so that he can concentrate on the ceremony and settle down in Shenzhu Mountain from then on. '

'Afterwards, the son-in-law and the shrine maiden gave birth to a separate family of gods. '

'The son-in-law is not allowed to touch the core affairs of the shrine, and the person who is stationed in the family is not allowed to have any relationship with the son-in-law. He should maintain the purity of his blood and control the entire shrine and ritual inheritance. '

"My son-in-law? Could this be what Asamiya Yongse said...?" Beichuan Temple remembered the story of the witch and the man that Asamiya Yongse said.

It is indeed possible that the shrine maiden who is a god in the main family falls in love with a man who is a husband-in-law.

If one of the soul-suppressing twins falls in love with a certain man, but due to the strict regulations of the God's residence, he cannot meet his beloved, resulting in the failure of the ceremony——

Is there such a possibility?

Moreover, the title page only states the status of 'compatibility'. What if the man's wedding ceremony is 'not compatible'?

What will happen to the man?

There is no record after this.

Beichuan Temple opened the book.

The beginning of this book is the Taisho period, but there are not many things recorded on it.

After all, this mountain only brings men up once every fifteen years, so there are naturally not many things that can be recorded.

Besides, sometimes there are many men in the shrine, so naturally there is no need to select men from the foot of the mountain. So there are still several broken records.

But Beichuan Temple didn't care about these, what he cared about was the record in 2008 or 2009.

According to the story narrated by the afterimage of Eiji Asamiya, there might be records about witches and men there.

"Yes." Beichuan Temple's expression lifted.

Sure enough, as Kitagawa Temple thought, there was indeed a selection in 2009, the 21st year of Heisei.

There were not many men going up the mountain, and at a rough glance, there were no more than a dozen of them.

There are still half of the people's names marked with a red line. It can be seen that this should be the person whose wedding ceremony failed.

"In other words, are the rest of them among these?"

Beichuan Temple looked at part of the list below, and one of the names caught Beichuan Temple's attention.

His name was marked with a red circle, which seemed to be a special mark.

Beichuan Temple was turned over again.

But what is strange is that the records of the wedding ceremony in 2009 just disappeared out of thin air.

This does not match the previous format.

The previous general format is:

Marriage Candidates - Candidates who have passed the Marriage Ceremony (excluding men who failed the Marriage Ceremony) - Candidates for the Marriage Ceremony will marry a priestess in the shrine.

But there is nothing left on this page except for the candidates for the wedding ceremony and the candidates who have passed the wedding ceremony.

Logically speaking, there should be a matter of getting married later——

"That is to say, for some reason, the matter of getting married has been postponed temporarily."

Beichuan Temple frowned.

So what happened, which is more important than such a big event as family inheritance?

Beichuan Temple quickly came up with the answer.

Something more important than family inheritance should be the ceremony of the soul-inducing flower blooming.

In 2009, the Shinto Shrine has been preparing for the next soul-inducing flower opening ceremony, but in 2010, for some reason, the soul-inducing flower opening ceremony failed and the shrine was completely destroyed. Naturally, there is no follow-up record about the wedding ceremony .

"This inference should not be wrong."

Beichuan Temple stood up.

The lanterns overhead flickered in the shadowy light of the candles—

The undead in the shrine seemed to be affirming Beichuan Temple's conjecture.