Lin Pingzhi finally got the Manual of the Sword of Exorcism, but found that everyone in the martial arts world had a copy.

This is roughly how Aso Misaki feels now.

"How did you get this?"

Looking at the ancient cameras in the hands of the two people in front of her that looked exactly like her own, Aso Misaki was completely stunned.

Hearing her question, Amakura Mio and Kurosawa Rei looked at each other.

"That...I picked it up."

"I picked it up too."

“Picked it up?!”

However, for Misaki Aso, it would be better not to answer.

"How could it be such a coincidence that I picked up a camera made by my ancestors!"

"Even if you say so..."

Regarding Aso Misaki's dissatisfaction, Amagura Mio and Kurosawa Rei didn't know what to say. After all, as they said, they really just picked it up. Amagura Mio found the camera in a private house in Minamigami Village with Amagura Mayu, and Kurosawa Rei found the camera during her adventure in the Sleeping House... They just picked it up.

"Okay, okay, this is just a coincidence, don't take it too seriously."

Shizuku clapped her hands, signaling everyone to come back to their senses.

"As for the camera issue, it won't be too late to deal with it later. Let's deal with your lost memories first."

Hearing this, Aso Misaki nodded and did not pursue the matter any further, while Mizunotsuki Ryuka next to her picked up a notebook from the table on the other side.

"Ah, here are Dr. Kunihiko Aso's notes."

As he spoke, Mizunotsuki Ryuka opened his notes and began to read.

"In ancient times, Longyue Island was known as 'the island closest to the underworld'... Uh, what happened to you guys?"

Just as Mizunoe Ryuka was reading from her notes, she found that when she mentioned the word "Yellow Spring", Hinasaki Shinku, Amakura Mayu, Amakura Mio and Kurosawa Rei all froze and their faces changed suddenly, as if they had heard something bad.

"Nothing, just an allergy to a certain word, go ahead."

Shizuku shrugged, and the other four looked at each other and sighed silently.

How should I put it...it feels like the bad premonition has come true.

There is nothing special written in this notebook. It mainly records Kunihiko Aso's experience of coming here. He came to Oborozuki Island because he heard about the Oborozuki Kagura ritual and wanted to find materials to make a projection machine. The ruler of the island also welcomed him... In addition, the most important part of the notebook is the masks on the island. According to Kunihiko Aso's description, in the Oborozuki Kagura ritual, five girls will wear masks and play in five corners, and in the middle of them there will be a shrine maiden wearing the same mask to dance. According to Dr. Kunihiko Aso's analysis, this mask is likely to be the connection point between the world of the dead and the living world.

"A mask..."

Hearing this, Shizuku narrowed her eyes, thought for a moment, then looked at Tsukimori Sonaka who was hiding behind everyone.

"You said before that in the memories you recalled, there were five girls wearing masks and a witch? And they all died?"

"I, I think so..."

Hearing Shizuku's question, Tsukimori Sonaka answered timidly.

"I just remember that they suddenly fell down, and then the crowd was in chaos, and then I was taken away..."

"So the ritual failed again?"

Hinasaki Shinku asked in a low voice in front of Shizuku, but Shizuku shrugged and didn't answer. Instead, Mizunotsuki Ryuka and Asou Misaki looked at each other in confusion.

What does it mean to fail again?

"Okay, let's do this."

Shizuku signaled everyone to return to the topic.

"We are now divided into two groups, one responsible for searching upstairs and the other for downstairs. This will be faster and we can look after each other if something happens."

If it were in a horror movie, this kind of proposal would be the standard opening of Flag. However, with Shizuku's ability, she is the type who can even stick Flag upside down on a demon's head for fun, so she naturally doesn't care about this little trouble.

"But the passage to the second floor has been locked with iron bars."

Hearing this, Tsukimori Sonaka asked uneasily, while Shizuku shrugged her shoulders.

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

After that, everyone was divided into two groups. Because Amagura Mayu had difficulty climbing up and down, Amagura Mayu, Amagura Mio, Mizunotsuki Ryuka and Shizuku were responsible for searching the first floor, while Aso Misaki, Tsukimori Sonaka, Kurosawa Rei and Hinasaki Shinku were responsible for searching the upper floors.

Aso Misaki has her own projector, Tsukimori Sonaka took the one from the memorial hall, and together with the ones owned by Kurosawa Rei and Hinasaki Shinkuro... well, I'm afraid we don't even know how the evil spirits on them died.

By the way, Shizuku ripped open the iron gate on the second floor like tearing brown paper, so there was no need to think too much about finding the key to open the door.

Next, Shizuku led the other three to search everywhere on the first floor. At the same time, she also briefly told Mizunotsuki Ruka what happened to the others. After listening to Shizuku's story, Mizunotsuki Ruka finally understood why the others behaved so strangely when they heard the word "Yellow Spring".

"So... Miss Kasugano, you mean that there is also that... Gate to the Underworld on Oborozuki Island?"

"From the current perspective, the possibility is quite high. Moreover, everything that happened on Longyue Island is basically the same as other places affected by the Yellow Spring Gate."

As she spoke, Shizuku picked up the information at hand and glanced at it. This was the information they had just found in another room. It described a disease called "Moon Phantom Disease". This was a very mysterious disease. The patient would experience mental confusion and memory impairment, and sometimes even behave like another person. Eventually, the patient would gradually become insane and die miserably.

And this Oborozuki House was built at that time to treat those patients. According to the information in the hospital, Mizunotsuki Ryuka and other three girls had been hospitalized here as patients before - the next mystery was solved, that is, why five girls from different families knew each other and appeared in this place.

Now it seems that when they were little, Mizunotsuki Ryuka and his group were probably suffering from the Moon Phantom Disease, so they were sent to the Longyue Pavilion for treatment. But something happened later, so they left Longyue Island.

However, it is certain that other people in the Longyue Pavilion are not so lucky, because along the way, they have encountered many vengeful spirits of nurses and patients.

And at this time, we have to mention Tiancang cocoon.

She did have difficulty walking and walked slowly, but perhaps because of this, Tiancang Jian's sense of inspiration was very strong, which could be said to be equivalent to human radar. In fact, many times, before those vengeful spirits appeared, Tiancang Jian could immediately feel that something was not comfortable or wrong.

This also made it impossible for the ghosts to suddenly come out of the door or window cracks to scare people like in horror movies. Basically, before they were fully exposed, Tiancang Jian had already pointed out where her sister should be careful, and then Tiancang Mio immediately turned around and aimed at that place. As a result, when the ghost came out and was about to hit the target in front of it, it was greeted by the powerful attack of the flash and projector...

We have to admit that the combined power of these two sisters is greater than the sum of their parts.

Forget it. Anyway, Shizuku suspected that the so-called Oborozuki Kagura ritual was just a disguise.

The reason is very simple. By referring to Himuro Residence, Minamigami Village and Kuze Family, we can know that sealing the Gate of Hades is a very dangerous thing. If you make a mistake by mistake, it will be a total annihilation. The other three places are so cautious that they even want to kill everyone who has come into contact with the shrine maiden. How dare Oborozuki Island open this once-in-a-decade ceremony for the public to watch?

Are they so careless? Aren't they afraid of something going wrong?

Of course, the reason why Oborozuki Island dares to put this ceremony out for viewing is because this ceremony is not so cruel. It will not involve dismembering a person, nor will it involve letting a sister strangle her sister to death. It will not involve tattooing a person's entire body and nailing him to the ground. According to records, the so-called Oborozuki Kagura ceremony is similar to an ordinary folk sacrificial ceremony. It involves five masked girls, each holding a musical instrument, playing Kagura, and then a masked shrine maiden dancing in the middle. The entire ceremony lasts for an entire night.

It seems that the only inhumane aspect of this ritual is its duration.

It was a very difficult night.

Moreover, the experiences of Oborozuki Island itself are very wrong. According to what Tsukimori Sonoka said before, they witnessed the failure of the ritual and the death of the shrine maiden. However, according to the newspaper found by Mizunotsuki Ruka, it is clearly written that after the Oborozuki Kagura ritual that year, five girls including her, Aso Misaki and Tsukimori Sonoka mysteriously disappeared and were not found until two weeks later. Although they have lost their memories, according to the news found so far, these five girls should have been returned to their parents after being found, and then their parents took them away from Oborozuki Island.

Two years after the Oborozuki Kagura ceremony, the entire population of Oborozuki Island died and mysteriously disappeared.

This is also different from other places. According to the locations of the Yellow Springs Gate that Shizuku had visited before, the Yellow Springs Gate would basically explode the moment the ritual failed, completely sweeping away everything around it, and directly annihilating your entire body, making nothing work.

But there is still a delay here?

"But is there really a gate to the underworld here?"

"You'll know if you look for it. According to our experience, this thing is usually underground..."

“That’s enough!!!”

However, before Shizuku could finish her words, there was a burst of screaming and noise coming from upstairs.

"You never look at me, ever! Why?! Why are you always like this!! I've had enough!!!"

Along with the scream, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded and gradually disappeared.

"What's going on up there?"

Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and Shizuku frowned.

"I'll go up and take a look."

After saying that, she clenched her fists, bent her knees, and then jumped up suddenly!

"Bang!!!"

Shizuku punched a hole in the fragile and old floor in an instant, and then she flew up and landed steadily on the second floor with a flip. At this time, Shizuku found that Kurosawa Rei and Aso Misaki were staring at her as she came out from under the floor, with stunned faces.

“…Ms. Shizuku? What are you doing…”

"Oh, we just heard a quarrel upstairs, what happened?"

Shizuku brushed the sawdust off her hair and then asked. When she asked, Kurosawa Rei's eyes moved back and forth between the big hole on the floor and Shizuku brushing the sawdust off her body - and finally decided to shut up and ignore the question.

"Actually... Miss Madoka and Miss Misaki were arguing just now..."

Kurosawa Rei also quickly explained the situation to Shizuku.

The second floor is the patient area, and in fact they did find a room with their names written on it. It was obvious that they were patients of the Oborozuki building before, and Aso Misaki seemed to have remembered someone important. But this seemed to be a big blow to Tsukimori Sonaka. She seemed quite scared and excited, and kept shouting a name called "Ayako".

Tsukimori Sonaka, who was stimulated at the time, wanted to seek comfort from Aso Misaki, but the latter pushed her away, muttering another name.

As a result, this made Tsukimori Sonoka completely explode.

"You never looked at me, you just treated me as a substitute! I've had enough!!"

Perhaps because of extreme fear and anger, Tsukimori Sonaka yelled this at Aso Misaki, then turned around and ran out.

"So that's how it is."

After learning the whole story from Kurosawa Rei, Shizuku nodded. She had noticed that Tsukimori Sonaka treated Aso Misaki differently before, and now it seemed that there was a clear conflict between the two. At this moment, Aso Misaki stood aside with a complicated expression, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"What about Crimson?"

"Crimson was worried that something might happen to Miss Madoka alone, so she followed. I will stay here to look after Miss Misaki."

"I see."

Hearing Kurosawa Rei's answer, Shizuku nodded.

Since Crimson has caught up, then it should be... okay.