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There is more than one shrine in Ise Shrine, but Ise Shrine is the only shrine that can refer to itself only by "shrine".The Imperial Palace of the Inner Palace worships Amaterasu, and the Great Shrine of the Outer Palace worships the God of Fengshou.

Ise Jingu is the god of the royal family, and coins are not allowed except for the emperor.But it has been decades that the emperor has not personally visited the Ise Shrine, but the Zhai Palace conducts coin offerings twice a year.

Without the worship of the common people, there are only those familiar faces and familiar solemn scenery in the Ise Shrine.

I saw my daughter Twelve Feathers. She was wearing a white dress, undergarment and scarlet hakama. Her beautiful long white hair was tied up with white sandalwood paper, and she wore a light grass-colored Chihaya. Her lovely face was just like her Mother is average.

There are other priestesses beside her, although Midori has long been Yayi, and those priestesses are just serving as officials, but Midori has never cared about these, and still gets along with them.

I can understand Green's thoughts. Her mother passed away very early. She grew up in Ise Jingu Shrine, and was taken care of by those kind priestesses. Don't care about their rank.

Although I am her father, she still bowed to me in accordance with the rules, like other priestesses.

I nodded slightly, and they respectfully walked away from me, starting a day's work of a witch.

The Ise Shrine holds sacrifices twice a month on average. The maidens are busy cleaning the shrine, washing clothes, making wards, preparing ritual utensils, and practicing Kagura. They are all carefully taught by Omiya, always Organized.

"God Lord, the clothes for the new fasting palace have been cut and displayed in the White Palace. According to the route, Jingzhai Palace will probably arrive at the night after tomorrow."

Nanko Omiya's voice sounded hoarse.

She has a deep friendship with her predecessor Saigong, and the promotion from Shaogongji to Omiyaji is also due to the promotion of the former Saigong, and the former Saigong did not live for five years. She is probably still suffering for that Saigong. .

But in my heart, I don't have any empathy with Nan Kou, even if Nan Kou didn't mention it, I wouldn't think about the Zhai Palace.

Because my heart has other things that are deeply tormented.

The gods began to wane.

The so-called witches and priests are those who listen to the oracle of the gods and convey the will of the gods.

I listen to the voice of the gods, and then put it in the place of my life motto, and do it with all my strength.Such a noble and high god, but I can listen to his oracle and send it down to the world, what a noble thing this is!It is a great honor and joy for me to serve my god with all my heart.

Since more than ten years ago, the frequency of the voice of the gods has become less and less, and finally disappeared completely.

We have lost the ability to listen to the oracle. We have repeatedly reviewed and confessed ourselves, but it still doesn't help. We just refuse to admit and believe that the gods have begun to decline.

I lost the God I served.

I keep firmly in my heart the last oracle that the ghost king will appear in the future.

And in the first month after hearing this oracle, an unstoppable monster rebellion broke out in the south of Heianjing, and the first team to go out under the order was wiped out due to lack of information.

Oh no, there is still one person who survived, and now he is General Zuo in the court.

After dispatching teams again and again, people discovered that the leading monster was unbelievably powerful. I think it was the ghost king in the oracle.

He is terrifying because he is immortal, his skin is harder than steel, no matter what kind of formation or sword, he can't kill him.

So I took a different approach and proposed the entire plan to eliminate the King of Ghosts. Heiankyo was indeed saved, but the migration of Ise Shrine and the curse of Saigu began.

As a result, I climbed to the pinnacle of the Shinto—the God Lord, but this is not what I want, I am only for my god, but my god never responded to me again.

Every time I think of this my heart can't stop suffering, and nothing else can shake my heart.

There is nothing left in my heart.

Up to now, looking at the carefree witches in front of them, they have completely lost this ability, and have even forgotten their duty, their greatest value.

"Green, did you hear God's will when you danced Kagura?"

"No, if I want to say something, when I turned around vigorously and my head was dizzy, did the gods convey their will to me?"

The miko who was talking to Green giggled, "I thought you would be different from us, but you didn't hear anything either."

"How am I different from you?" Lu was not very happy.

"After all, your father is a divine master. Who doesn't know that Twelve Haori is the youngest divine master?"

"If you call my father's name directly, you will be scolded if Omiyaji hears it."

"Isn't Omiyaji not here, and you and the priest have white hair and pupils, isn't that special? Is it because your family has been priests for generations?"

"I have no idea……"

"God Lord only has your daughter. It is estimated that you will retire as a priestess in a few years and find a good man to marry. I will not be able to see you by then. It is really sad." The priestess sobbed a few times pretending.

"Why did you suddenly bring up this topic!" Lu looked a little embarrassed.

"You are already Miyi, and the divine master will not raise your rank anymore, otherwise it will be difficult to leave. You know, the newcomers around Zhai Palace will be the young palace secretary when they come to us. , directly lowered you by one level. When the new Zhai Gong takes office for a few more years, it is estimated that she will be promoted to Omiya Secretary just like Nankou Omiya."

"Don't make fun of me anymore, you know that I don't care about rank at all." A ray of sadness appeared on the green face, "To be honest, I'm tired of staying in the priest's house every day, I really don't know how my father always Until now."

"It's because of this that the God Lord is the God Lord." The witch sighed, and then said, "It's so pitiful, it's been a few days since I took office in the Zhai Palace, and the shrine has been cleaned up to welcome the new Zhai Palace. It’s like forgetting the previous fasting palace. What’s the point of such a fasting palace?”

"You're talking nonsense again!" Lu scolded the witch, "If Nanko Omiya hears this, he will not punish you well. You know how close she is with that Zhaigong. Teach us to be ruthless Her eyes are so red from crying recently that she is like a piece of iron, and you are still talking sarcastic here, you are so shameless!"

"It's okay, the gods didn't punish me, so don't worry~" the witch propped up her cheeks, and said indifferently, "Those princesses, those who are beautiful will always be praised as very beautiful, and those who are talented will be praised as beautiful." She is very talented. The previous Prince Nei was a beauty with a good reputation, but her appearance is still ordinary, not even half as green as yours. This time, Prince Jing Nei has no rumors. Isn't she an ugly girl? The Zhai Gong who took office is really a beauty, but it is a pity that standing with our divine master, one would feel ashamed."

After speaking, the miko made a face, and then saw me appearing behind Midori.

"For disrespect to Jingzhai Palace, go to Nankou Dagongsi to receive the punishment."

After the disrespectful priestess left, I shook my head at Lu, "That kind of uneducated child dares to chat with you casually, and he doesn't have any prestige, but he can't do it."

"Anyway, I won't stay here. In other words, there are no more than a hundred people in the shrine. You definitely don't remember Yuki's name!"

"Her name is Yuki?"

"Sure enough."

"Is that something important?" I asked.

And Lu obviously couldn't answer my question, "It doesn't make sense to you! Anyway, you don't care about anything, you don't care about anything."

I patted Lu's head, "Have you had any troubles lately?"

"Come here, I hate this kind of routine greeting!" Green moved my hand away, seeming annoyed.

"Can't I take your worries away?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Then it doesn't make sense for me to stay here, you can find other witches to play with you."

I left Lu, and heard Lu let out a "hum!" from behind my nose, and stomped her feet. She seemed really angry, but unfortunately I couldn't eliminate her annoyance.

I really want to get along with Lu, but Lu always seems to hate me and refuses to communicate with me.

I walked out of the main hall, passed through the hall of worship, and walked to the gate of God. I walked along the path with koma dogs and stone lanterns on both sides of the quilt, passed Temizuya, and came to the torii gate. The road is smooth and spotless.

I looked at the torii gate, and the torii gate of the gods, which is only composed of pillars, girders, and bamboo, is beautiful and solemn. The section of the wood is a clear pentagon, which is the appearance of the torii gate that only Ise can have. Only such a bird It is called "Ise Torii".

The torii gate separates the realm of the gods, where the gods live, and the secular world, where humans live. Stepping into the torii gate means stepping into the realm of the gods.

But I know in my heart that this shrine is no longer the realm of the gods, and those things that once made me so proud are now in pieces.

This pain and suffering came to an abrupt end when he saw the girl.

I have completely ignored the distinguished Jingzhai Palace, and I am completely attracted by the girl next to Jingzhai Palace.

She is so shining that one wonders if she is a star that fell from the sky.

When she spoke, my soul trembled.

In this world, only I can understand the frequency of that speech and resonate with it. This is the only one that accompanies me all my life.

My oracle has come to the world again.

At this moment, I can't wait to kneel down and offer my unburned soul, my dirty hands, and everything to that girl.