Drawing cards can't save the weird world

Wristzuka Shrine is one of the famous scenic spots in Akashi City. It enshrines the severed arm of Hira Tadada, who lost his life in the battle of Genpei.

Hira Tadashi is both civil and military and is good at waka. When he was killed, even Genji's samurai felt sorry for him.

Today is the weekend, a group of high school students got together to visit nearby attractions, and a few of them came to Wristzuka Shrine.

Among the six boys and girls, there is a relatively taciturn boy named Yuanhe Nakano.

Although because of her good grades and good looks, her popularity is not bad.

But he himself is not very talkative and social, and he is always in an inconspicuous place in the team.

No one knows that this unremarkable boy Nakano has a pair of eyes that can see unusual things since he was a child.

Probably when he was in elementary school, because he saw a very weird-looking old lady, he ended up pointing it out to his mother, which killed his mother.

The old woman was a very rare vicious curse spirit during the period of psychic silence, and she didn't know where it was sealed before. She suddenly escaped and was seen by Nakano, and then attracted his mother's attention.

Spiritual vision is a kind of protection for ordinary people. Nakano, on the other hand, can be seen as having no such protection.

His mother died in order to protect him. Before she died, she told him, "You didn't see anything, and you won't see anything in the future! Nakano, you must remember, you didn't see it!"

The death of his mother was a great blow to Nakano, and he has been reticent since then.

After that, every few months to a year or two, he was always able to see something unusual.

Some are blood-covered earthbound spirits at the crossroads in the evening, some are horrible things with indescribable swelling and deformity, and sometimes there are human-shaped monsters... But he pretends not to see them.

Even when those things were almost stuck to his face, whispering something terrible in his ear, his eyes and heartbeat didn't change. He also relied on this trick to disguise and hide until now.

But in recent years, there have been more and more of those things.

More than ten years ago, he could only accidentally bump into it once in a few months or even a year or two, but now he can bump into it almost several times a day.

He didn't know what was going on, he just knew that he was going to "see"!

On this day, the students organized to play, he didn't want to come.

After all, he could always see those things in crowded or other special places. Even if you can pretend to be invisible, it is by no means a comfortable experience.

But because they are about to graduate soon, everyone will go their separate ways and may never see each other again in this life, it is really impossible to shirk.

But what surprised him was that there were no such things in the Wrist Tomb Shrine!

You know, it's not that he hasn't been to those temples and shrines, but he spent a lot of money on sesame oil, but those temples themselves have more of that kind of thing.

In middle school, Nakano had already lost his respect for gods and Buddhas.

They are all deceitful, even temples and shrines have those things, so what about Buddhism and divine power?

However, Nakano was very excited that the wrist mound shrine was so clean.

You know, even his house is not necessarily very clean.

Every day he had to sprinkle little piles of salt in every corner...

According to the customs of Japan, spreading salt can drive away evil spirits.

Nakano has also tried it. Although he doesn't know if the salt will harm those things, they really don't like it.

And beans!

In traditional customs, there is the activity of throwing beans to drive away ghosts, and Nakano also carries beans on his body, which can indeed make many small things reluctant to approach him.

If, if this shrine can really drive away those things, then I can live here for the rest of my life!

At that moment, Nakano even had the idea of ​​dying in this shrine.

It was the first time in more than ten years that he shook the god-awakening bell so devoutly, and after clapping his hands, he prayed to an unknown god: unknown god! If you really exist, please help me stay away from those things!

When he closed his eyes and prayed, he suddenly heard some students around him shouting: "Hey, why is it foggy at noon? It's so strange!"

As soon as he opened his eyes, a thin layer of mist appeared in the shrine.

He suddenly felt flustered! An ominous premonition welled up in my heart.

After that, the six students, three men and three women, couldn't find anyone else in the shrine. Just a few minutes ago, there were several tourists and priests of the shrine!

"Strange! Why did the person disappear?" a boy said.

Another girl was a little scared, "Let's go quickly! It always feels scary here!"

"That's right!" The other two girls also echoed.

The boys also felt that the strange fog and the disappearing people were really creepy, and they didn't dare to wait any longer. The six of them hurried to the gate of the shrine.

As a result, the boy in the lead, less than ten steps out of the torii gate of the shrine, was suddenly pierced from top to bottom by a bone spear that fell from the sky!

The bone spear was more than three meters long. It pierced through his shoulder and neck and nailed him to the ground. The blood flowed along the bone gun and spread rapidly on the ground...

"Ah~~~" The four screamed, pulling their hair and covering their eyes, and collapsed to the ground.

Only Nakano was calmer. He raised his head suddenly and saw a large irregular piece of meat with wings flying more than ten meters above his head.

The big piece of meat has no hands, feet and limbs, and there are many porcupine-like spines growing on the back, but there is only a huge mouth on the front!

At this moment, the monster flapped its wings clumsily and landed. Because it had no feet, it finally fell directly to the ground at a height of more than two meters.

After falling to the ground, it rolled directly to the side of the crucified corpse, bit most of it with one mouth, and then began to chew and swallow!

"Run!" Nakano yelled, and threw out all the salt and beans that had never left his body for many years, and sprinkled them on the wing meat. However, the moment the salt touched the meat, it turned black and turned into something like ashes, and the same was true for the beans, which were instantly charred.

That big handful of salt and beans seemed to be tickling this thing. It even just shook the piles of trembling fat on its body, and then continued to rub against a girl nearby who was already frightened... …

"Run!" Just as Nakano pulled up the two girls around him, the girl closest to the meat had already been eaten, leaving only two legs in cotton socks struggling and kicking, and it was very painful. Soon to be swallowed by pieces of meat!

Two men and two women frantically ran towards the inside of the shrine in horror.

The piece of meat still wanted to catch up, but opened its bloody mouth, as if looking at the red torii gate, and finally gave up. After struggling on the ground for a long time, it flapped its wings and flew away.

The four people who were still in shock returned to the shrine, and all three were crying bitterly. Only Nakano remained calm and wanted to think about what happened. However, this kind of thing is so thoughtless, who knows what's going on?

Could it be... Could it be... Nakano remembered his own prayer, could it be because of his own prayer? !

No matter, a dead horse is a living horse doctor!

He hurriedly came to the Zingshen Bell, shook the Zingshen Bell, clapped his hands and began to pray: "God, please forgive me, let us go back! Please forgive me, let us go back!"

Suddenly, a voice sounded beside him, "It's not because of me that you came to the other world."

When Nakano opened his eyes, he saw a middle-aged man dressed in ancient costume in the corridor not far away.

"You, you are..."

"I'm Hira Tadada, I can hardly be regarded as the half master and half prisoner of this shrine."

"Ping, Ping Zhongdu?!" Nakano's national history is not bad, and he knows that Ping Zhongdu is a general and singer at the end of the Heian period.

The main reason is that he has read a book called "A Collection of Wakas for Thousand Years", in which there is a waka called "Flower of Hometown" written by Ping Zhongdu.

That was already seven hundred years ago!

Nakano seems to have seen Nakano's doubts, "So, I'm not human. I can barely be regarded as a land god, but I'm still a prisoner!" Speaking of this, Ping Zhongdu also had a somewhat lonely expression.

"Everything, let's start with that man. No, it should be a monk..."

"Monk?"

"That's right, Monk. Have you ever heard of the name Ashiya Domitsu?"

Nakano froze for a moment, nodded...