Chapter 055 Chapter 55

Reino ran into the torii and ran up a long stone staircase. At this moment, her mind was full of getting to the shrine as soon as possible to receive the protection of the gods. She no longer had the ambition to leave here early.

Work is important, dreams are important, but when it comes to a life-and-death situation, you will find that nothing else is that important except your life.

At least, life definitely takes precedence over dreams.

If this job fails, I can still find another way, but if I lose my life, everything is really gone.

Ling Nai ran while crying, repeating the names of her two little friends in her heart, but she didn't dare to shout them out.

She and her two companions separated.

Before the Kisaragi platform, when she turned around and saw the scary ghost close to her face, her first reaction was to run away. This was her instinct for survival. She vaguely heard her two companions calling her, but she didn't look back, nor did she stop, she just kept rushing forward.

Until the surroundings became quiet, Lingnai stopped and turned around, but she could no longer see Miyuki or Limei.

As for Aburano Hideto? He was just a stranger who was traveling with us temporarily. Who cared?

Ling Nai wanted to call the names of her two companions, but she was afraid of attracting the red-dressed female ghost, so she could only search quietly.

She was glad about this because the first person she saw was not her two friends, but another herself.

He was wearing the same clothes as himself and had the same face as himself, but the difference was that 'Ling Nai' had a cold expression on his face and was holding a knife in his left hand.

Unlike herself, she was calling out Rimi and Miyuki's names loudly, looking for them openly.

ah……

That's too bad.

Before the other party saw her, Ling Nai ran away.

The sound of her escape was discovered by her doppelganger Lingno, because she heard the calling voice suddenly stop as she ran away, followed by a burst of hurried footsteps chasing after her.

Help, someone come and save me, anyone can help.

Ling Nai didn't even dare to look back, for fear that she would see the female ghost in red and would see herself very close when she turned around.

She didn't want to die, so she had to run away desperately.

I saw mountains and forests in the distance. Maybe escaping into them would be a good idea. When it was so dark, that would definitely be the best hiding place.

So Ling Nai went into the woods, and her bet paid off. She lowered her footsteps and walked around the woods, getting rid of her doppelganger.

Ling Nao regretted it. She wanted to go home more than her idol career.

See your parents, eat the omelette rice they make, and have a good sleep on their soft bed.

Then I said sorry. As your daughter, I am really sorry for being so willful.

Reino passed through the torii and came to a small open space halfway up the mountain, which was the shrine.

The shrine is very small, just an old wooden house with a closed door. There is a prayer rope and a huge bell hanging in front of the door, and there is a money box underneath.

There are no wooden signs or words indicating which god is enshrined here.

But whether it is Inari God or Amaterasu, it is the same for Reino now. As long as they can protect her, any one of them is fine.

"I have to worship God..." Ling Nai muttered to herself, touching her pockets.

It costs five copper coins to worship the gods, but how could a girl who had just finished a performance and changed into casual clothes have such coins?

She didn't even know where she had lost her bag, and there was only a cell phone in her pocket.

The shrine does not accept mobile payments.

Ling Nai's expression became embarrassed. She felt around for a long time and finally found a round coin. Upon closer inspection, she found it was a game coin.

By the way, during the day, I went to a newly opened game hall nearby with Rimi and the others. Since we were nervous about the performance in the evening, we played some claw-shaped doll games to relax. In terms of value, one game coin is worth much more than five yen.

But is it okay to throw things like this in a shrine?

Or, stop worshipping God?

No, she wanted to worship the gods and pray for their protection. Even if it was just for comfort, she needed spiritual sustenance.

Ling Nai threw the game coins into the cash box. The silver coins rolled in through the gaps between the wooden strips and fell into the cash box, making a clinking sound.

Then the bells are rung to inform the gods of their arrival.

Ling Nai put both hands on the pull rope and pulled it.

The bell didn't move at all, as if it was stuck there.

Ling Nai frowned and pulled hard again, but Lingdang still didn't move.

Ling Nai looked up at the bell in confusion, and was shocked. The huge bell that had a little metallic luster before had turned into a head without her knowing. It was her own head, staring at her with its eyes open.

"Ah——" Ling Nai collapsed on the ground and crawled backwards desperately.

The head was still hanging upside down, its eyeballs moving along with Ling Nai's movements, its eyes filled with anger.

"No, I'm wrong." Ling Nai shook her head desperately, tears rolling down her cheeks, "I forgot to bring it, I will bring 5 yen next time, really, please forgive me——"

The head was still hanging there, and the ferocious eyes did not relax at all.

Ling Nai slowly stood up, took a few steps back, turned around and wanted to run.

However, she was stunned when she turned around. There was a path to the torii behind her, and she should be able to see the red torii when she turned around, but when she turned around... she was still facing the main building of the shrine, the cash box and her own head.

"No, don't—"

No matter where Ling Nai looked, she saw money boxes and heads. Finally, after such a series of shocks, Ling Nai's eyelids fluttered and she passed out.

The head disappeared.

Everything returned to normal, except for Reno, who was lying on the open space in front of the shrine. The wind blew the leaves off the trees and they fell on Reno.

[I was scared to death.]

[There's something wrong with this shrine. ]

[Which shrine is this? It must be a shrine. 】

[She keeps saying it's wrong, what did she do wrong? ]

[The coins she just put in were game coins.]

【Use game coins to worship gods? It’s possible. 】

[Speaking of which, how much money should be given to worship gods in Japan? Is ten or twenty dollars okay? ]

[Not that much. In Japan, you only need to give five yen to worship the gods. The pronunciation of five yen is similar to the word "jieyuan", which means to establish a bond with the gods.]

【How much is that? 】

[I don't know what country you are from, so I'll explain it to you based on purchasing power. Here, 100 yen can buy a bottle of the cheapest drink, and then you can imagine the value of 5 yen. ]

[I see. Almost worthless.]

[It is like the last decimal point when you go shopping in a supermarket. It is worthless, but the money still exists.]

[That one game coin is worth far more than five yen.]

【That's not true. Worshiping gods is not about how much money you spend, but about sincerity. Using 5 yen to worship gods has always been a tradition. 】

[Mr. Bai said before that we should be polite. So the result of being impolite is... this? ]

【In fact, according to the steps of worshipping God, she still did three things wrong. 】

[There are more, and there are so many? ]

【Yes, I often go to worship gods, so I know it very well. First, you need to bow before entering the torii, which is a greeting. Secondly, when entering the torii and walking along the shrine approach, you cannot walk in the middle, you have to walk on both sides, because the middle is the path for gods to walk, not for ordinary people. Finally, you have to wash your hands before worshiping gods. I saw a hand-washing house. Some shrines require washing hands before worshiping. Some small shrines do not have a hand-washing house, so you can worship directly. 】

[It sounds complicated.]

[No, Japanese people must go to the shrine to worship during the New Year, and the process is basically familiar. This girl didn't do that, probably because she was too scared. When she entered the torii gate and ran up the shrine, she just ran and didn't notice that she walked in the middle of the road. The water tower is very close to the side. There are not many people worshipping in small mountain shrines, so it is not uncommon for them not to have a water tower. As for the coins, maybe she forgot to bring them. If you don't go to the shrine on weekdays, no one will bring a 5 yen change that they don't use much. ]

The value of a 5 yen coin is like a cent. Unless you go to a supermarket and get a discount, the smallest denomination of currency you need for shopping is basically 100 yen. Even 10 yen is rarely used.

So don’t blame Ling Nai for not bringing change.

That is, when people go to the shrine to worship during the New Year, the five-yen notes suddenly become very popular, and everyone is depositing and exchanging them.

Normally, you might be too lazy to pick up something if it falls on the ground.

But no matter what the reason is, it is a fact that Reno has made mistakes one after another since entering the Torii, so the result that awaits her may not be so good.

All the viewers who were watching the live broadcast saw that a thick tree root emerged from the ground, entangled Ling Nai's feet, and dragged her under the tree. Then the tree opened a huge mouth and swallowed Ling Nai.

The comments section was silent.

After a while, words like lighting wax and crying started to fill the screen.

There are one or two fans here mourning their idol.

This result has reduced the number of comments questioning whether the live broadcast was a self-promotion by underground idols. Headlines such as "A member of underground idol group T3 was dragged away during a mysterious live broadcast" and "Is it promotion or real? The secret behind the live broadcast" have begun to appear on the Japanese Internet.

Ling Nai's wish to become an internet celebrity has always been fulfilled because she was dragged away and swallowed. I wonder whether Ling Nai should cry or laugh after learning about this.

Because Ling Nai was swallowed up, the split screen of the live broadcast that was only focused on her naturally went black.

The audience gathered below began to flow to other live broadcast split screens. The vast majority went to watch Okita Shinro and others, while the rest went to pay attention to Rimi and Miyuki.

Okita Shinro and his friends have already reached the foot of the mountain, which is not far from the Torii. Meanwhile, Miyuki has also come here by mistake. She chased Reno all the way to this area, lost sight of Reno, and separated from Rimi.

At this time, she was anxiously calling out Reino and Rimi's names.

Finally, a few hundred meters away from Okita Shinro and his companions, also at the foot of the mountain, she found Rinno.