"After receiving the request from the Metropolitan Police Department, the old man personally followed the search and rescue team to the place where the bus signal was interrupted."

Kono Ichiro took a spoonful of water and poured it into the charcoal stove, bringing out a lot of water mist in the sound of "Zizzi".

"So, what happened after you went there? Did you find anything?"

"The old man wanted to try to purify the grievances in the snow, and see if I could find some clues through Spirit Vision... Ashamed, compared to the overwhelming grievances in the snow, my purification technique can only be considered a salary. "

Shaking his head, Priest Kono took a transparent plastic bag and put it in front of the two of them: "...Fortunately, it's not all fruitless, at least I found this."

In the plastic bag commonly used for forensics, there is a half of a broken talisman paper.

"This is... the talisman paper of Akagi Shrine?"

Looking at the soft, delicate, gentle and beautiful familiar brushstrokes on this talisman paper, Sosuke Araki's golden and black pupils shrank like the tip of a needle!

"She used the talisman paper... Did she get lost and wanted to leave a mark... or was she in danger?"

The stick-shaped thing hanging in the white cloth on his back also trembled slightly.

"The old man also thinks so... The bus must have encountered something abnormal near the national highway, so that the witch on the bus used a talisman."

Glancing at Sosuke Araki's back, the thick and long things that continued to vibrate like some kind of massage props that were activated by mistake, Dalang Kono shook his head helplessly: "Unfortunately, because of this strange snow disaster, the search and rescue operation could not be spread on a large scale. Kai, we searched for a while along the way and couldn't find any more talismans."

"Damn, is there no other clue?!"

Unwilling to punch the tatami, Araki Sosuke anxiously got up and walked towards the door: "No, let's go to the place where the bus lost contact and see for ourselves, maybe we can find something."

Fujiwara Takumi grabbed his trousers and said, "Don't worry, it was only a waste of time to run around like a headless fly in the past, why don't you study it carefully..."

"That's better than sitting in a shrine with a charcoal stove and drinking tea!"

"Two, as for the clues, the old man personally thinks that there may be another..."

"Please enlighten priest Kono!"

Just as the two of them stared at each other, the priest Kono spoke uncertainly and drew their attention back: "Near the place where the bus disappeared, it happened to be an Ainu settlement, maybe they Know something."

"Auntie licks people? What kind of monster is unkind, unfathomable, and devours people for the sake of wealth?"

Hearing this unfamiliar word, Sousuke Araki raised his eyebrows curiously.

"Idiot, Ainu, the earliest aboriginal people in Hokkaido..."

On the side, Fujiwara Takukai seemed to know something, with a complicated look on his face, he hesitated: "However, due to some historical reasons, the relationship between the Ainu and the Japanese has not been harmonious."

"Priest Fujiwara said it well, if you can communicate with the mixed-race Ainu who generally intermarry with the Japanese people..."

Priest Kono drank the hot tea in his hand and poured himself another cup: "There is an Ainu ethnic group who is isolated from the world and retains pure blood and primitive culture, and even the police live nearby. There is no way to compel them, who have autonomy, to cooperate with the investigation.”

"Unfortunately, the Ainu people who have existed in Hokkaido for thousands of years are the best hunters and guides in this snowy country. If they happen to live nearby, they will help, not only can they understand the situation at the time, but maybe they can also find the car. Traces of the bus."

"If that's the case, then what are we waiting for?! It's the age of global integration. How could there be aborigines who refuse to deal with the outside world."

"That's right, as long as we have a chance, we'll all try..."

Hearing his words, Sosuke Araki looked at each other, and hope was rekindled.

"Ahem, I understand that the two of you are eager to save people, but please think twice before doing anything. Except for the occasional barter, the Ainu never communicate with the outside world, and they have a very strong territorial concept and a very attitude towards outsiders. Brutal... It is said that they still retain some strange methods..."

"It's easy to do barter! Whether it's food, clothes, money, thermos cups, game consoles, DVDs for learning... As long as they are willing to help, everything is easy to negotiate!

"That's right, Lord Kono, please tell us how to get there!"

"Hey hey, it really doesn't work, let's just ask them in a special way, 'sincerely', anyway, I'm still wanted now..."

"Shh, shut up! 』

Asked priest Kono for the location information, and after the two thanked them repeatedly, they rushed out of the side hall in a hurry.

...

ten minutes later.

In the side hall of Hakodate Hachimangu Shrine, the priest Kono was unhurriedly cleaning up the tea set by the stove.

"Hey, deliberately lead those two people to the half-demon settlement..."

Above his head, the man's vicious ridicule suddenly came: "...I didn't see it, the priest Kono is actually a master of killing people with a knife."

A man in a white robe with a mask on his face sat on the skylight at the top of the side hall.

The patterns on his mask formed an extremely distorted "two" character.

"Please don't compare me to lunatics like you."

It seemed that he had already sensed the existence of the other party, and Kono priest continued to put the tea set into the wooden barrel without turning his head, and his movements did not stop at all.

"Voltaire said that in an avalanche, no snowflake feels responsible..."

"The snowstorm is getting bigger and bigger. They wandered outside for a few hours and realized that they couldn't get to the island, so they would naturally retreat."

Putting out the charcoal fire, the priest Kono picked up the wooden barrel and walked outside the house, without any intention of continuing the conversation with the other party: "No way, the Onodera who came with Fujiwara Takumi seems to have noticed the abnormality on the Goryokaku side, let him His continued stay in town will affect our plans."

"Hmph, Onodera? As far as I know, the one named Sousuke Araki is a Buddhist monk under the gate of Daishi Kawasaki, and his strength is not weaker than that of Fujiwara Takumi... By the way, he is also the most wanted man on the news recently."

"No wonder, he can see the clues there..."

Hearing the words of the man above his head, Kono stopped in his footsteps and nodded clearly: "Kawasaki Daishi Temple's Heavenly Eyesight is indeed well-deserved!"

"Don't worry, head of the Kono Sect, as long as these two leave Hakodate, they don't have to come back."

"The dispute between your organization and the Spirit Eliminator Association has nothing to do with me... Don't forget what you promised!"

Leaving this sentence, the figure of the priest Kono disappeared into the increasingly violent snowstorm outside the door~lightnovelpub.net~ It was natural... Everything was going according to plan. "

Inside the hall, the man sitting alone on the skylight stretched out a pair of transparent wings like ice crystals on his back.

"Two days...just wait two more days..."

Looking closely, the "feathers" of the wings were actually slender and sharp ice edges.

"The 'Yifeng Da layman of Chengshan Chengshan in the Suijinyuan Hall' sacrificed by your Tufang sect will come back to this land! "

Fluttering the ice wings, bringing a chill, the man vacated from the skylight and left.

"...And this holy land, which has been defiled by the He clan for hundreds of years, will also return to its purity."

Only the cold and crazy voice echoed in the room, covering everything in a layer of hoarfrost.

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