Houses built in Japan are not valuable, what is valuable is land.

Because most of the land is an independent property right that can be used freely and passed down from generation to generation.

For land in a core area such as Kagurazaka, Shinjuku Ward, it currently starts at at least 3 million yen per square meter.

When asked about this topic, Yuma Yumiya's brows like fine willows wrinkled beautifully, and he sighed.

"Since Akagi Shrine was built in 1300, Kotori Yuzu has shouldered the responsibility of enshrining the shrine for generations."

"Oh, that's really a long history... So, you invited me to visit just to prove that you are really a local tyrant witch?" Sousuke Araki said insincerely.

Miko, monks, and priests are extremely common social roles in Japan, just like ordinary company employees.

Sousuke Araki often sees recruiting revelations from working witches on job-hunting websites.

But if you want to become an official clergyman, you can only pass the inheritance from generation to generation or go through extremely harsh exams.

"Of course not. What I want to prove to Your Excellency is my status as a 'spirit remover'."

Little Bird Yumayumi's eyes sank, and he took out the "Spirit Removal Exemption" that had been repaired with transparent glue.

"Is it this tool again?"

"This is not a prop, it's an exemption officially recognized by the Metropolitan Police Department... Wait, don't you have it?"

"This kind of child's prop, why do I have..."

"That's it, no wonder... you are... an illegal slayer." Yuumako Tori's eyes were full of shock, showing an expression of sudden realization.

It is no wonder that in the Soul Eliminator Association, such a powerful person has never been heard.

Since the "Hundred-eyed Ghost Rebellion" that year, supernatural cases have once again attracted the attention of the authorities.

Even those who are capable of exterminating spirits must pass the officially recognized "exemption for extermination of spirits" before they can accept the entrustment and carry out exorcism activities independently within the scope of permission.

After all, the unregulated behavior of removing spirits is very likely to lead to many uncontrollable consequences such as the intensification of "spirits"' resentment, the spread of fear, and the change of rules of conduct, thereby causing more casualties and laying down far-reaching roots.

Those who have the ability to remove spirits, but do not want to enter the official field of vision, are called "illegal slayers".

It's no wonder that the other party has such a clever removal technique, but he has always denied the removal of souls.

"What kind of illegal slayers... It won't work for me to spread feudal superstitions and snap hats. After all, there is no such thing as ghosts in this world. The scientific knowledge taught in the high school textbooks in your schoolbag is the Is it the truth that makes this world go fast?"

Sousuke Araki was lying on the tatami with his head supported, his nostrils picked, his whole body glowing with the light called "science".

"I know that language and this exemption can't get you to recognize it, so I specially invited you to the shrine today. My cultivation is still very shallow, only within the torii range of the goddess Akagi Hime. I can do it..."

Xiao Niao Yuzhengyu's eyes suddenly became serious, he took out a triangular talisman from his schoolbag and sandwiched it between his two fingers.

"Royal."

The triangular talisman was so abruptly burned.

In Xiaoniao Yumayuji's eyes, a large amount of spiritual power spread out from the talisman paper, lingering in front of the two of them.

"This is a large-scale exorcism spell that I can only cast under the protection of the goddess Akagi Hime."

"Oh, it's a good deal. That's what's popular on the Internet recently. The phosphor powder is applied to the paper in advance, and the paper is burned by the principle of friction with the air..."

Sousuke Araki immediately supported the venue and began to applaud.

In his eyes, there is no so-called spiritual power at all, he just saw that the talisman paper burns spontaneously without wind like a magic show.

"It's not that kind of frivolous thing... Do you still have to pretend that you can't see such a large amount of spiritual power?"

Embarrassedly watching the talisman paper in his hand burn out, Little Bird Yumayumi felt that he was simply wasting his spiritual power.

She lowered her head and was silent for a while, then she raised her head and looked at Sousuke Araki sincerely.

The other party was just making jokes, and if she wanted to perfunctory, she could only cut to the chase.

"Akagi Shrine was known as one of the 'three Edo shrines' in the Edo period. However, after several fires and reconstructions, and the blood of the Kotoyu family gradually thinning and unable to sense the will of the gods, it became unknown. ."

Having said that, she raised her finger and pointed to the high-end residential building outside the door.

"The place where the house is located was originally land belonging to the gods... But ten years ago, due to poor management and the shrine being too dilapidated, it was in urgent need of repairs, so I was forced to lease the land to real estate agents..."

"So what? I don't have any incense money that I can offer to the gods to buy back the land." Sousuke Araki drank the green tea on the table and joked.

At least you still have a large piece of land left, you should be able to eat and drink for the rest of your life if you sell it...

However, in case the other party and himself were desperate, he held back the sentence.

"So... I know that it is extremely impolite to inquire about other people's ways of removing spirits. However, I hope that I can grow into a master spirit-removing person who can make resentful spirits 'become a Buddha', just like what Your Excellency did that night. That. With the current land price in Tokyo, only in this way can I have the opportunity to earn enough remuneration in my lifetime to return the land that belonged to the gods to the gods, and wash away the shame of Kotori Yu and Akagi Shrine."

Ignoring Sousuke Araki's ridicule, Yumayumi Kotori, who was sitting cross-legged behind the table, bowed his head earnestly to him.

"I understand what you said."

Looking at the girl's sincere eyes, Sousuke Araki realized that the other party didn't seem to be a "superstitious scam".

After all, such a painstaking single-person scam~lightnovelpub.net~ will not be used on my poor self.

Perhaps, some of her actions that night caused the girl to have some kind of misunderstanding from a superstitious point of view.

Mistakenly think that you are a powerful colleague who is stealing business?

"Ahem, the crux of the problem is that I don't know how to exorcise the spirit at all, and the old lady that night was just a fast-paced old man..."

Having said that, Sousuke Araki got up and prepared to leave.

The next move of the witch opposite made him sit back.

Completely ignoring Sousuke Araki's remarks, Kotori Yumayumi took out a stack of banknotes from her schoolbag, leaned over and pushed it in front of him.

"This is the remuneration entrusted by the convenience store's removal of spirits that night... Although it is the resentful spirit of Your Excellency, I also helped them perform a blessing ceremony afterwards, so I dared to split 50%. After all, it was the task I took first... ...and the current economic situation of the shrine is not very good."

Looking at the thick stack of "Fukuzawa Yukichi" (notes with a face value of 10,000) in front of him, Sousuke Araki squeezed lightly with his hand.

Judging from his years of experience at convenience store cashiers, the thickness is at least 200,000 yen!

With a keen sense of smell for money, his brain immediately began to work frantically, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

What kind of feudal and superstitious "spirit removal ceremony", is it so profitable?

The other party only gave him 50%, which means...

This girl sat in a convenience store in a witch costume for one night, ate a free fresh expired meat bun, drank a bottle of green tea, and worked hard to checkout, load the goods, wash the oden machine, steam the meat bun, beat the bad boy, maintain The shop order itself...

The income is almost a hundred times higher! ! !

No wonder so many people are willing to be gods.

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