But after all, it is actual combat. It will always be beneficial for Xiaolu and Tsurumi to have more contact and accumulate some experience.

Then the next stop is the Nemuro Peninsula in Hokkaido.

After arriving in Hokkaido, Kamiyagawa first contacted the local police who had been notified in advance and obtained more detailed information about the recent "missing young man incident".

The situation here is still unclear, and it is not even certain whether the disappearance case is really related to the ghost story.

By the time we came out of the police station, it was already dark.

As usual, Kamiya asked the scouts to send out the Waikato Corps to explore the situation around the Nemuro Peninsula.

The "missing incident" has yet to be investigated. No one knows where the missing young men have gone.

Since they have all appeared in the northeastern part of Hokkaido, that is, around the Nemuro Peninsula...then Kamiya River does not need "reasoning to solve the case". He can just use force to overcome cleverness and let the little old man rummage through the place.

You should be able to find some useful clues.

The search for the peninsula took much longer than Chizu Town, and the scope of the investigation also included other areas along the coast. Considering that it was already getting late, Kamiyagawa took his apprentices and settled into a local hotel.

His Aragami's physique didn't matter, but his disciples had to eat and rest after all.

The first day of training passed like this.

At around six o'clock the next day, Kamiyagawa, who had gotten up early, was drinking coffee as usual while flipping through the large number of files he had brought yesterday. The little old man, who had been busy working all night, finally reported back an important piece of information -

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One of his avatars found a somewhat strange shrine at the former site of Habomai Village near Nemuro.

The owner needs to check the situation in person.

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Habomai Village was originally a second-class village in Hokkaido formed by the merger of multiple villages.

Later it was incorporated into Nemuro City.

The "strange shrine" the little old man called was located near Luoshi Village, which once formed Habomai Village.

Of course, the so-called "Luoshi Village" no longer exists.

The target shrine is located in a hill facing the sea to the east and is very remote.

Even in an area like Nemuro City that is already relatively desolate, its remoteness stands out.

Climb the relatively long shrine and pass through the faded torii gate.

Kamitani and his disciples came to an abandoned shrine.

The statues enshrined in this shrine are...

It is about two meters tall and has a very lifelike shape. It is a unique female human body organ.

The Japanese generally call this kind of statue "Hime's treasure".

Before Kamiyagawa came to the target shrine to check the situation, he obtained the county records from the local contact in Nemuro and learned some about the situation in Luoshi Village in advance.

When this village still existed, fertility worship was prevalent.

This Ji Zhibo Shrine is the product of this belief.

In fact, fertility worship is not that rare in Japan and can be found in many places.

There are those enshrining Hime's treasure, and there are also those enshrining the male root. There are more than 400 shrines with similar straightforward shapes throughout Japan.

And the belief culture of fertility worship goes far beyond that.

For example, the Asukaza Shrine in Nara holds the "Oden Festival" every year, which is said to be a religious performance handed down from ancient times.

During the performance, one person wears a "Tengu mask" to represent the male, and one person wears a "Tofuku mask" to represent the female. The "Tengu" knocks down the "Tofuku" and performs various "sexual" actions.

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As for why the male symbol is Tengu.

In fact, the long nose on the face of the Tengu originally had a "sexual" meaning.

Moreover, Saruta Hiiko-no-Mikoto, who was enshrined by Kamiyagawa and had the bones of a god, was himself a male representative of fertility worship.

After all, Kamiya is also a "skilled student" who studies folklore, and he actually knows a lot about these things.

This ancient fertility worship was indeed prevalent in the main island of Japan. However, the aborigines of Hokkaido are Ezo, a tribe related to the Ainu controlled by Kamiya.

This kind of belief in Luoshi Village has nothing to do with Ezo.

Because the villagers gathered here first migrated from the Atago area after Hokkaido was controlled by the Japanese shogunate.

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The little deer who came along saw the "Ji Zhibao" statue in the abandoned temple, and moved forward out of curiosity.

As a young painter who often draws in notebooks, she has no taboos.

But Tsurumi is not as calm as his senior sister.

Although her face was still cold, her eyes had nowhere to go, so she turned away and looked away.

The place Tsurumi Aoi was looking at was an equally dilapidated side hall.

Kamiyagawa, who had read the county annals, knew that the side hall was called "Zhaoyu Dormitory".

What should I say about the side hall...

Its use is not as good as the main hall.

Because of the strong worship of reproduction, Luoshi Village had a custom of sexual indulgence.

On festival days to commemorate the harvest, sexual restrictions here are not strict. On the night of the festival, all the villagers, men, women, old and young, will go to the side hall of Himinoho Shrine to sleep together.

[Whether it is the village chief's wife, daughter, maid, or male servant, no matter how old or young, everyone sleeps in the side hall. But tonight, no matter what you do, you can do anything.]

Because everyone was lying together, it was like all kinds of fish that had just been fished out, so it was called "the fish bed".

In fact, after the Meiji Restoration, similar customs were explicitly prohibited.

However, Luoshi Village is located in a remote area, and the custom of celebrating the fish bed was maintained until about 1950.

Kamiyagawa briefly recalled the content of the county annals he had just read, and then pushed Kanoya out of the main hall, who was watching the "Hime Treasure" with great interest.

Immediately afterwards, he narrowed his eyes and looked around the entire Ji Zhibao Shrine in detail.
Chapter completed!