Naturally, I know that I have the blood of the shrine maiden. However, I was young at that time, and so I thought that my sister would take over the title. No, to be exact, after my sister succeeding, I would take over. Takakura Shrine maidens are short-lived people after all There are multiple cases of the shrine maidens conducting the arbitration ritual, forced to have sex with the Yakuza boss, and thus read their memory. Which results for their heart to crumble.
Mother has done her role as the shrine maiden, and I saw how she has become weak with my own eyes, and so my sister and I have resolved ourselves to the same fate
Kiyomi-san said.
However, you didn’t become a shrine maiden, have you?
Jii-chan’s questions are sharp.
Yet, just recently, the shrine maiden died, and you entered Takakura shrine. Taking from your words, you weren’t supposed to be the next shrine maiden, however,
Kiyomi-san doesn’t move at all, she just looks at the same location.
You came here wearing that clothing. Aren’t you showing me that you’re not a shrine maiden?
That’s right, we had Tsukiko and the two wear shrine maiden clothes to draw the attention of the Yakuza.
If that’s the case, Kiyomi-san;
Kiyomi-san is the perpetrator who took over the Takakura shrine.
Shouldn’t she be wearing a shrine maiden clothing to show her legitimacy?
But.
Yes. I’m not qualified to succeed as the shrine maiden
Kiyomi-san replied.
Why do you think so?
My sister gave birth to Tsukiko after her first arbitration ritual. At that stage, there are already signs that my sister’s mind is suffering
It was already there when Tsukiko was born?
I have learned from mother on how to train to become a shrine maiden, and so I can use the Yomi power which the wandering shrine maidens used. I’ve seen through the condition of my sister. However
Kiyomi-san signed.
My sister gave birth to Yomiko-san. My sister and her husband’s marriage was decided by the surrounding people, but they loved each other. Therefore, after giving birth to her daughter with her loved one, she looked stable Yomiko’s 14 now.
That means it was 14 years ago.
And seeing my sister like that, I felt jealous. I also wanted to have a loving marriage and childbirth, just like my sister. Back then, I was a middle school student
However, that’s not the last of the sisters.
Luna’s currently 12-years-old.
If you add the pregnancy period, that would be 13 years ago.
That’s the time of the second arbitration ritual.
Takakura shrine was contacted to perform the arbitration ritual once again after two years. I was 17 years old at that time
Kiyomi-san’s body trembled.
If we’re to follow the order, I should be the one in charge of that arbitration ritual. I knew that my sister’s heart wouldn’t be able to stand a second arbitration ritual. The bosses would prefer to have sex with myself, a virgin, than my sister, who is a mother of two children by that time. My sister should’ve retired, and I should’ve become the next shrine maiden Then why that didn’t happen?
Jii-chan asks.
My husband didn’t like the idea. No, back then, he wasn’t my husband, he was just a kind man who taught me about the Tsuki Miko power. But, my husband cared for me, and I can feel that he didn’t want me to have sex with other men. I read his mind Does he love you?
Kiyomi-san.
No. In retrospect, his emotions weren’t love
Then what is it?
A strong attachment to me and a desire to monopolize. That’s all. However, for the 17-year-old me, it was love. No, I deluded myself that it was
She wanted to think that it was love.
That is how much I felt fear from reading my sister’s mind about the arbitration ritual. I thought that I should evade it if I can. I’m a woman with an ugly heart
Not really. Your sister and the previous generation of shrine maidens were all virgins, and they have endured having sex with more than one men without even having any experience in sex. They don’t know what will happen to them in the future. However, you have read those horrific memories your sister experienced with your power. It’s not unreasonable to feel fear Jii-chan said.
However, my 17-year-old self rode my husband’s car and then had sex with him. I threw my everything and relied on the man familiar to me
Kiyomi-san said.
After giving my virginity to my husband, he started acting as he said. That was the time when the bosses thought that I don’t have the ability to succeed as the shrine maiden. And thus, my sister conducted the second arbitration ritual!
Luna’s born as a result.
I came to my senses after Luna-san was born. I noticed that my sister’s heart is on the verge of collapsing. But, I can no longer inherit the title as the shrine maiden
Was it because you were entrusted to your husband?
Jii-chan asks. Kiyomi-san;
Yes. At that time, I was also giving birth to my husband’s child
Giving birth?
At 18-years of age, I gave birth to my daughter, and my husband took custody of me
She made a child, and so she was made to leave the Takakura shrine and stay with her husband.
No, should I say that Kiyomi-san used her power to the bosses?
In the end, I was young, and I was ignorant. I didn’t know much about the Takakura shrine maidens nor the power I had
Kiyomi-san speaks mournfully.
Soon after, there were disputes that may have started another arbitration ritual. I stopped both of those using my power. That’s how much power I had. Even now, I know in what turn should I talk to the boss, or what’s the power relationship between the Yakuza’s world very well Then aren’t you the one controlling the Kansai Yakuza’s world?
No, all I want is not to get caught
Kiyomi-san replied.
Also, to have fun. Living with my husband, my daughter, away from the Takakura shrine
Kiyomi-san takes a deep breath.
Let me ask again, did you, do you love your husband?
Jii-chan asks. Kiiyomi-san paused for a moment.
I wonder about that now. To my young self, a man that is kind to me is someone I feel a familiarity with, someone I respect. Is that emotion different from love? To begin with, I grew up in a closed box, and so I don’t know much about love. Even now, I still don’t understand it. After all, I killed my husband with my own hands Kiyomi-san?
She killed her husband?
For several years, I have watched over my sister’s daughter’s training as her condition is getting worse. But, I feel I owe my sister a lot. I cannot let her children carry the fate of the shrine maidens. Therefore, I deliberately slowed down their training. I taught them incorrectly. It was all not to let them wake up their power She swapped the names of the Tsuki and Yomi power.
Yomiko’s power to make someone obey her is too weak that it’s not useful.
Luna, who accumulated too much Qi, didn’t wake up her power.
Naturally, I didn’t want to let my daughter inherit the shrine maiden title either.
However, did you not think that someone else will inherit?
That’s why I plan to end the history of the Takakura shrine maidens using all of my power
And that is the impetus of all that happened?
Jii-chan asks.
Concerning the result. Yes. By no means, I aimed for this timing
Kiyomi-san smiles wryly.
I can read minds, and so I was careful about my husband’s behavior so far. I didn’t read my husband’s mind with my Yomi power nor use my Tsuki power to manipulate my husband’s will. I had faith in him
Then why is it
This summer vacation, my daughter left home to a club activity camp. At that time, my husband also worked away from home for some reason. That time, I noticed
Could this be?
When the two went home, I noticed it right away. My husband hid it from me, but he started to teach my daughter to train her Miko power. He really was a fool. It seems that he thought I couldn’t read my daughter’s power with his newly developed training. That’s why he thought he could hide it from me Kiyomisan laughs.