The scene in front of him reminded Fujiwara Takumi of the scene of watching Uncle Keigo being pierced through his chest by Sotokuin under the big torii gate more than a month ago.

"Let go of Sousuke!!!"

He, who originally kept a distance from these terrifying puppets, rushed forward subconsciously, the short "Royal Coin" in his hand faintly surging with golden light...

"No, go and help!"

At the same time, Zujiro also got on the back of a man and ran towards Sosuke Araki.

Although this "foreigner" showed the powerful strength of defeating the shelter of the bear spirit and smashing the offensive of ghosts and gods with only a wooden knife.

But they, who have just experienced a life-and-death struggle, know how terrifying the sharp limbs and ghostly speed of these strange dolls are.

Being buried by such a large number of dolls is tantamount to falling into a meat grinder...

"Up Right C Left Down B Down Right Up Left AB Down Right A!"

Coming to the crazily wriggling hill made of "March Dolls", Fujiwara Takukai waved the chrysanthemum pattern and the golden light blasting the royal coins in front of him...

"Great Bear Spirit, please bless your descendants and expel the evil spirits from the Holy Land!"

And Riding on the backs of the tribesmen and coming first, Bunkai Tsuijiro, the "holy stick" green light burst out in his hand, and a super-large bear head with a ferocious mouth was poured out...

"Hey, you stubborn children, it's almost enough..."

At the same time, wisps of white light erupted from the crevices between the dolls' creeping crevices from the hills that were piled up by the "March Dolls"...

"I don't know there is a saying called, eat chili peppers for crying children?!"

In the next second, a doll on the "hill" was covered in white light like a lit light bulb, reflecting a dazzling glare on the white snow that could not be seen directly.

"Hey...this is..."

"Sousuke!"

Suddenly encountered a "flash bomb" attack, the people who came to the front lost their ability to see things in an instant, and their footsteps stopped subconsciously...

"This is the return of the soul to the kingdom of God, the unique light..."

The only way to distinguish Tsujiro, still staring at his tearful eyes, knelt in front of the "hill" that bloomed with white light, and repeatedly made a pilgrimage to the ground.

The Ainu people believe that the bear spirit came to the world with the body of a bear.

Therefore, they will give all they can, even when food is scarce, they will use their own milk to raise bear cubs.

After the bear becomes an adult, at the "Bear Spirit Festival", by letting the bear raised by himself die willingly, the spirit of the gods can be separated from the flesh, and the gods can be welcomed back to the realm of the gods.

The bear skin, meat, and bones left behind are the clothes worn by the gods and gifts from the gods to the clansmen.

And the white light in front of him is a unique "divine omens" that will only appear when the bear spirit successfully returns to the kingdom of God at the "Bear Spirit Festival".

"Xiong Ling Xiansheng..."

Seeing Zujiro's move, all the Ainu people, both near and far, knelt down and began to worship.

In the white light shining, the dense "March figures" quietly transformed into a delicate girl in a kimono, with big round eyes and a chubby face...

"It hurts...you little girls, you really can do it..."

Araki Sosuke struggled out of the "hill" with a blue-veined face, and his whole body was covered with little girls who were clenching his hands and feet with his teeth.

"Aju, not a bad person!"

"Don't go and catch Aju!"

"Dad... Mom..."

Looking around at the hundreds of cute girls who folded their hands and knelt awkwardly, he was slightly taken aback...

"So, these years, is Aju taking care of you at Wannian Temple and keeping you from running around?"

Immediately, he reached out and squeezed the fleshy cheeks of a girl beside him, and smiled relievedly: "In the next life, we must work hard to grow up healthy!"

"Huh... scare, scare me to death, it's nothing to squeak!"

After restoring his eyesight, Fujiwara Takumi was relieved to see Sousuke Araki safe and sound.

"Eh?"

He turned his head and saw that a super-giant "little daisy" with a diameter of about one meter and clear lines appeared on his royal coin that had not been released...

"What rubbish, I don't remember learning this strange Shinto technique?"

He slumped down on the snow with his feet and threw the giant chrysanthemum into the air, and all of a sudden the golden light bloomed like fireworks.

"The old host, I really didn't lie to Aju... Obedient child, one day, there will be a Buddha to pick up..."

On the top of the tall pine trees, the "Aju Doll" in a black kimono is standing silently on the branch, looking at the poignant scenery on the snow from a distance.

Two lines of red blood droplets slipped from her eyes.

"Everyone... finally free... must be happy... Aju said with a reluctant expression."

Snowflakes fluttering, fluorescent dots, chrysanthemums all over the sky, centered on the man standing with a knife, countless petite figures that make people feel distressed, as if turned into hexagonal snow crystals, disappearing in the wind...

Only the periphery was left, and the Ainu whose name looked like a bear was still kneeling unremittingly towards him.

At the same time, the man in the distance suddenly looked in this direction with a feeling...

"Only this time... Ah Ju can't be obedient..."

The petite black shadow between the branches ~lightnovelpub.net~ disappeared instantly.

"There are still two days...Even if there is only one Aju left, I will stay to protect everyone...Aju said with a stubborn expression."

...

Hokkaido, National Highway 230, Toya-cho Section, Yata-gun.

Thousands of miles of snow are falling, and I don't know how tired it is, but it's getting heavier and heavier.

Not far from the periphery of Lake Toya, the original four-lane road had turned into a vast expanse of snow.

Since no vehicle can drive normally, even the rut marks cannot be seen, and the original appearance cannot be seen at all.

It was as if everything on the earth was covered, eroded, and gradually lost its vitality by the white color that represented death and coldness, returning to the way it was before the birth of civilization.

"So, that bus, the last positioning signal, was interrupted near here?"

"Yes, the positioning deviation of a single base station is about 500 meters, and there is only one road nearby."

In front of the military tent, Fujiwara Takumi communicated with several police officers stationed at the scene in charge of search and rescue work.

"However, because most of the electronic equipment and communication signals are subject to unknown interference, it is impossible to confirm whether the problem is with the GPS of the bus or the nearby base station..."

A day ago, a temporary search and rescue team camped at the location where the bus lost contact, and began the search and rescue work under the raging blizzard.

"Because of this terrible snow disaster, there is an urgent shortage of rescue forces all over Hokkaido, but vehicles and communication equipment cannot be used normally. At present, the only manpower can only use sleds to search along this national road, and the efficiency is very low..."

However, due to factors such as limited personnel, failure of electronic equipment and communications, and the inability of search and rescue personnel to effectively protect their mobility and their own safety, the progress of search and rescue has been slow.