However.
Jii-chan, you seem tired
Now that it’s just the three of us, I asked him.
That’s obvious, I didn’t think that I’d have to play a role at this age
Jii-chan said.
That woman, Takakura Kiyomi told me that she didn’t know about Kouzuki house until she heard it from Oodori
He sighed.
Perhaps, the late shrine maiden knew about it. Furthermore, the idea was distorted
Tsukiko’s mother knows about Kouzuki house?
I have that experience. As I’m the eldest of Kouzuki house, it’s established that I will succeed as the owner. Nevertheless, there’s a lot of unexpected events until I was announced as the head
Jii-chan stopped and saw that Minaho-neesan and I aren’t seating yet.
He points at a chair.
We bring in a chair near the wall and sit down.
Takakura Kiyomi didn’t become the shrine maiden but confessed that she’s stronger than her sister. However, the elder sister has become the shrine maiden, and she is aware that she has to become one. It’s similar to the Kouzuki name. Kouzuki house is a family of wealthy people living in Kyoto from the start. If you go further back, it becomes a direct lineage in the Imperial court, the department of divinities. Shrines, priests, shrine maidens, mediating them is an old tradition of the Kouzuki house. Takakura shrine is an old one Jii-chan said.
That is why I had to act as the mediator according to the image of the late shrine maiden about me. If not, Takakura Kiyomi, who has her sister’s thoughts deeply rooted to her, won’t be as obedient as that. She testified that she didn’t use her power in me, but in fact, she did use a small amount of it, I believe. If not, I couldn’t possibly entrust the Takakura sisters to you. In short, the order was to keep the Takakura sisters in the most optimal custody. I think that’s the only command she gave me I see. If it wasn’t because of the power,
Then Jii-chan wouldn’t bring in the sisters to a place where Ruriko stays.
After all, the Yakuza’s chasing after the sisters.
However, that’s all there is to it. Perhaps, she didn’t try to control me. The reason why Takakura Kiyomi didn’t go further is that her sister’s memory has some fear towards the Kouzuki house. In other words, she’s asking for help from the past Kouzuki, our prior authority Kouzuki house used to be in charge of shrines.
Inheriting that memory from the late shrine maiden,
Kiyomi-san who has her mind overlapping with the late shrine maiden is under that impression.
Therefore, the mediation was entrusted to Jii-chan.
Meanwhile, I had to act in various ways just to match the image of that crazy woman. She probably won’t agree to anything unless I convinced her that I’m a man who holds overwhelming power. You can say that it went well for now. I succeeded in making Takakura Kiyomi commit suicide Kiyomi-san’s suicide is a success.
No, there’s no other way, it’s unavoidable.
Have you seen the international news yesterday? About Mexico
Jii-chan asks me.
What news?
A gang in Mexico attacked a hospital car and stole all the goods that were for delivery. The gang took it because they thought it was something valuable, but the contents were a mass of Cobalt 60 used for radiation therapy. It’s something where you touch for a few minutes and die due to radiation exposure. The police that they only found the empty protection case, but they found neither the gang nor the radioactive material. The gangsters maybe carrying something they don’t even know Could it be that the people who got close to the gang were exposed?
You’re correct. And the problem progresses at this moment
There are people with radioactive material loitering around Mexico.
Cobalt 60 can be re-used as a weapon. It’s the so-called dirty bomb. If used for terrorism, it will ensure thousands of victims. Therefore, even the American police in the neighboring state is desperately trying to track the gang. It would be nice if the gangs ask the authorities for recovery once they become aware of the dangers of what they’re carrying, but if they dump it illegally somewhere, or if they sold it to terrorists, it would be dreadful Yeah, that would definitely get scary. It’s a bomb.
Well, it’s a faraway country, and so we have to wait for the follow-up
As expected, Jii-chan couldn’t do anything in an incident in Mexico.
The Takakura shrine maiden case is similar to that story
Huh?
The Takakura shrine maidens are a fearsome existence that would have horrible consequences when misused. And yet, the Yakuza’s controlling and managing that dangerous existence for some reason. On top of that, they only use it for their silly game called arbitration ritual.
That’s right.
The Yakuza’s in control of the Takakura shrine, but they clearly don’t know what to do with it.
It’s basically the same as the Mexican gang who’s carrying around radioactive materials without knowing how much power it contains. Fortunately, the old Yakuza didn’t notice what could be the use of Miko power. They were only interested in the balance of their power relationship in the Yakuza world. They didn’t want a single faction standing out. They’ve only thought of coexisting until now And thus, the Arbitration ritual.
The bosses in dispute will have sex with the shrine maiden.
It’s a punishment game where they would have their minds read by the shrine maiden.
Once someone else knows their inner thoughts, they can’t act boldly with their ambition.
However, Takakura Kiyomi demonstrated how to use it. It shows how horrible it can get if one gets serious in using Miko power. This is definitely dangerous. Don’t you think so? Have you not thought of attaining heaven if you awaken the Miko power of the sisters?
That’s.
I did. I talked to Misuzu about it. Once we have the Miko power, it would be useful for Kouzuki and Kuromori house
Making it advantageous for us when negotiating with companies and foreign countries, for example.
If you could think of that, others could too. As a result, it becomes a fight for the shrine maidens. A lot of people died. And as the Japanese way of thinking, if it’s going to become a dispute, there would be ideas that it’s better to kill off the Takakura shrine maidens Jii-chan said.
The successive generations of the Takakura shrine maidens knew that if they show off how mighty their power is, then everyone in their shrine and with their blood will die. Therefore, they resigned themselves to become toys for the Yakuza. And it was the shrine maiden who has to endure all of that. The one called shrine maiden is the person recognized by the shrine. However, Takakura Kiyomi wasn’t a shrine maiden. She didn’t have the dignity as the shrine maiden, yet she confessed that she has a stronger power than her sister, the shrine maiden. Therefore, Kiyomi was getting reckless Because she wasn’t a shrine maiden,
She lacks awareness of what she has to endure when becoming a shrine maiden.
The result of her drowning in power, her sick sister, eroded Kiyomi-san’s heart.
Everything crumbles down.
Then, Takakura Kiyomi wishes for herself to be the last shrine maiden. She has inherited the desire for ruin from her sister and is trying to end the tradition of the Takakura shrine maidens. Therefore, I had to back that up. I prepared a stage where the last shrine maiden would die in front of spectators, the Yakuza who caused all the pain to the Takakura shrine. I think that she’s already emotionally dead. And this was the image that she wanted Then, why did you not let Tsukiko make contact with Kiyomi-san?
The girls just look down from the VIP room with Jii-chan.
It’s in the distance beyond Kiyomi-san’s power’s reach.
One of the reasons was not to let Takakura Kiyomi notice that Tsukiko has begun to awaken their power. If she discovers that the sisters’ power is starting to bud, Kiyomi-san might kill the sisters together with her Jii-chan said.
The other reason was the possibility that Takakura Kiyomi passes through her ill heart to the sisters, just like how her elder sister controlled Takakura Kiyomi