388, Death of the Priest(1/2)
"How is this going?!"
Looking at the white paper that burned into a ball of ashes, Anlu Onmyoji exclaimed in shock.
He immediately opened his brocade bag and
Fall down,
Pour out the ashes!
——In his brocade bag, there were several paper shikigami hidden to protect his life. Now those paper shikigami have all turned into ashes.
This shows that if those paper figures had not resisted an attack for him just now,
He must be dead now!
Anlu raised his head again and looked at Su Wu with eyes full of scrutiny.
Su Wu was even more depressed than him,
I thought I could use the power of the two gods of Soseki Shrine to see my true destiny this time, but I didn't expect that this would not work. Even the white paper recording my future destiny was directly 'burned' to ashes by a drop of ink!
"Is there no other way?
Lord Anlu, am I unable to know my future destiny?" Su Wu asked Anlu sincerely.
The old Onmyoji saw that his expression didn't seem to be fake, so he swept the ashes of the burned white paper on the table into the brocade bag, and said slowly: "Maybe there are other ways to divine your fate. It doesn't matter. You go first
Wait, wait..."
He was still speaking to comfort Su Wu,
In a dark corner to the side, there was a sudden thump!
Everyone looked at the corner in shock at the sound,
Just when he saw it - the middle-aged priest who was originally quite tall and straight, now shrank to a small degree and fell to the ground.
The folded black hat fell off his head,
Revealing the gray hair!
"Master Priest!"
Haruko exclaimed, but did not move closer to check the priest's condition.
In this shrine, the priest has been secretly bringing his son and Haruko together.
She was very disgusted with this behavior,
The alienated relationship with the other party caused the priest to secretly exclude her.
Therefore, she now saw that the priest had turned into a grey-haired old man, languishing on the ground. She just expressed concern in a 'courteous' manner, and could not get close to the other person to really check the other person's situation.
Fortunately, Anlu stood up from behind the desk and hurriedly approached the priest who had fallen in the corner.
When he saw the priest's gray hair exposed to the air, his pupils suddenly shrank.
Turn the priest's body over and face him,
Anlu saw again the priest's face, which had become older than himself, and the loose flesh on his neck.
His fingers rested for a moment under the priest's nostrils,
And he attached his ear to the priest's heart,
After a long time,
Anlu put down the priest's body and said with a stiff expression: "Dead... the priest of Soseki Shrine is dead..."
His brows were filled with heavy doubts, and he glanced sideways at Su Wu who looked calm behind him.
Although I subconsciously felt that Su Wu might be deeply related to the current situation,
But think about it rationally,
And one would think that a servant of the Inoue family might not have the ability to cause the priest of a shrine to suddenly run out of life and die!
“Papers for fortune-telling burn spontaneously without fire,
The priest who was in the prime of life at the shrine suddenly turned into a frail old man and died on the spot..." Anlu whispered to himself, stood up, and turned to look at the gods behind the altar.
The gap between the girl in the stone's eyebrows is not obvious yet, and it is even covered by a head of black hair.
In the corner of the wooden box containing the 'Hashihime', the traces of charring after being burned cannot be hidden.
"The coffin of Hashihime's spirit should have been soaked in water forever, showing a soaked state.
But now a corner of the coffin has been charred by fire..." An Lu looked up at the black corner of the wooden box, "What on earth is going on? Is it a hint from God?
still……"
He turned to look at Su Wu.
Miss Haruko suddenly stopped in front of Su Wu: "Mr. Anlu, Abu is just here to divine their fate. You want to divine their future fate. Every day, hundreds of people go to the shrine to pray to the gods to help them see the future."
In the future, let them know their future destiny.
I have never heard of any weird phenomena occurring in shrines because they divine fortunes for others!"
"I know, Miss Haruko, you don't have to be so anxious to protect them both."
Anlu shook his head,
He took out his brocade bag and waved it in front of Haruko: "Just now, when I was divining Abu's fate, the amulet shikigami I made in the brocade bag had been burned to ashes.
Does this mean that
Does Abu's destiny have some kind of countermeasure against the prying eyes of others?
Despite this measure,
Maybe he didn't make it himself,
But it’s still necessary to check.”
"How do you want to check, Mr. Anlu?" Before Qingzi could speak, Su Wu spoke before her. Looking at Anlu's cloudy old eyes, he asked a question.
Hearing his question, Anlu was stunned.
yes,
How to check?
Divination again?
Try again to pry into his future destiny?
This attempt has already drained the life of the priest, all his amulets were burned, and even the coffin of 'Hashihime' showed signs of being burned by fire...
I made my second attempt to check Abu’s horoscope.
Without the amulet, there are no priests and gods standing in front to ward off disasters.
I'm afraid it'll be me who dies next time, right?
An Lu felt a chill in his heart.
He took a deep look at Su Wu, shook his head, and said: "This matter still needs long-term consideration. I will temporarily stay at Soseki Shrine to conduct various investigations.
Please also take good care of your servant, Miss Haruko.
Recently,
Ask him to cooperate a little with my investigation.
I will go and invite the ‘Son of God’ to come over.
His father is dead,
It is his turn to succeed and become the priest of Soseki Shrine."
Shrines are generally run by shrine maidens and priests.
Some shrines are dominated by shrine maidens,
Some are mainly priests.
After some shrine maidens have husbands, they are no longer unmarried virgins, so naturally they can no longer be shrine maidens. In this case, they can pass on the authority to control the shrine to their descendants.
Men are priests and women are witches.
Before these descendants formally took over the position of abbot of the shrine,
He was called the ‘Son of God’.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Since there are still things to be busy with here, let's take a step forward." Qingzi bowed to Anlu Onmyoji. After the other party nodded, she took Su
At noon, Omu left the shrine in a hurry.
along the way,
Qingzi was so worried that she didn't even say a few words to Su Wu and Omu.
When approaching the Inoue family's mansion, she suddenly stopped, looked at Su Wu, and whispered: "Abu, no matter who asks about what happened in the shrine from now on, you must insist that you and this matter are
To be continued...