Early in the morning, inside the Asaba-cho Shrine, the shrine maiden staggered out of the room to the main priest statue, her hunched body resting on a dull wooden stick. After coughing twice, the shrine maiden began to pray.
The wooden stick was tightly grasped in the witch's palms. The witch's hands were already very old, and the swollen joints were covered with a layer of dead skin. There were densely distributed dark brown spots. No matter how you looked at it, the witch had a feeling that her end was approaching.
A hint of fanaticism flashed in the old shrine maiden's eyes. "God Watatsumi-sama, your offerings are ready. Please grant your grace and allow your servant... to receive your blessing!"
After saying that, she threw the wooden stick aside, moved her knees tremblingly to kneel down, and knelt for a long time in front of the statue of Watatsumi.
At this moment, a bright light suddenly flashed from the statue, and then a few wisps of thick smoke floated out from nowhere, floating around the witch... The witch's body gradually became lighter, the wrinkles on her face gradually disappeared, and her hands, which were originally like dead wood, slowly began to become full of fleshy texture.
The shrine maiden who looked to be in her nineties instantly turned into someone in her fifties or sixties. At this moment, the shrine maiden felt as if she had returned to the peak of her physical condition... Of course, this was just an illusion.
A burly man rushed in rashly and called out "Miko-maiden." But when he saw her appearance, he was stunned: "Miko-sama... huh?"
"How dare you do this in front of the great god Watatsumi?!"
The witch snorted coldly, then spoke slowly, "Tell me, what made you so reckless?"
The burly man swallowed, took a deep breath, and said in a trembling voice, "Mistress, those...those two outsiders have disappeared!"
Hearing this, the witch shuddered, and as if she had activated a speed boost, she instantly arrived in front of the burly man, grabbed his arm, and her eyes were full of disbelief: "What did you say?! Those two outsiders disappeared?!"
At this moment, the witch felt as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting apart, and her whole nerves were in a trance.
She is the shrine maiden and priestess of this shrine.
She knew the God Watatsumi too well. If no sacrifice was offered to the God Watatsumi tonight, she would most likely become the sacrifice!
No!
Can't be a sacrifice!
The old witch screamed in her heart, she wanted to return to the age of eighteen, she wanted to live forever, she couldn't die here!
A trace of sadness flashed across the old witch's eyes. After dragging the strong man out of the shrine, she loudly demanded, "What on earth is going on? How did those two outsiders escape?!"
"Miko...Miko-sama, I don't know."
The burly man panicked. He had never imagined that this eighty-nine-year-old witch could be even stronger than himself. "This morning... a few of us went to capture them in the name of the Inspector to prepare for the sacrifice, but... the room was empty!"
"It must be Kitano Jun!"
The witch gnashed her teeth and said, "Now that those two strangers are gone, we'll use him as a sacrifice!"
"And that Kawashima Yuri? She's the only one in the town who can communicate with outsiders. She must have colluded with Kitano Jun to let the outsider go!"
At this point, the shrine maiden no longer cares who let the outsiders go. She just wants to find two scapegoats to replace the two outsiders and sacrifice them to the great Watatsumi!
The miko was afraid of complications, so she said directly, "Let's go and capture them now and give an explanation to the great god Watatsumi!"
The shrine maiden is now blessed by the power of the great god Watatsumi and has acquired some abilities. She believes that she can now capture the two traitors, Jun Kitano and Yuri Kawashima!
But...those two outsiders who left are a hidden danger.
A strong murderous intent suddenly flashed through the witch's heart: If those two outsiders escaped, they would definitely reveal what happened here.
Then, countless people will come to disturb the rest of the great god Watatsumi, and he himself will also be troubled.
In that case, I can't stay in Asaba Town anymore.
After sacrificing Jun Kitano and Yuri Kawashima, all the people in Asaba Town were dedicated to the great god Watatsumi.
I will leave here with the statue of Watatsumi Okami and find another place to make Watatsumi Okami famous!
At this moment, the witch only thought of a sentence from an ancient country that she heard when she was young: If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth!
Unfortunately, she didn't know that the meaning of this sentence was not what she imagined, but that if people do not cultivate themselves, they will be unacceptable to heaven and earth.
Soon, the witch gathered a large group of timid villagers, and together they dragged Kawashima Yuri and Kitano Jun out of their homes and prepared to perform a sacrifice.
Jun Kitano is all alone. It is said that his wife ran away with someone else decades ago, leaving him and his son to depend on each other... His son died a few days ago, and now Jun Kitano is left alone.
And Yuri Kawashima...her parents are loyal believers of Minatsumi, and they obey the words of the shrine maiden. Naturally, they have to give up Yuri Kawashima and enshrine her in the service of the great Minatsumi.
The two were imprisoned in the backyard of the shrine, waiting for nightfall so that the villagers could sacrifice them both to the great god Watatsumi-no-Okami.
If the sacrifice to Watatsumi could only be performed at night, the shrine maiden would have wanted to sacrifice them both to Watatsumi at noon.
At night, the lights were dim, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the villagers of the entire town gathered at the Watatsumi Shrine. They all knelt devoutly under the altar, their eyes somewhat evasive.
At the signal of the shrine maiden, Kitano Jun and Kawashima Yuri, who were tied up, were pushed up and prepared for the sacrifice.
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