Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 151 Goddess Soup

Seeing Noma Minami's expression of being serious and indifferent, Soya understood that she didn't take the hot spring strange talk that happened a few days ago too seriously.

"Aunt Jizi, what are you having for dinner today?"

"..."

Kawata Kiko opened his mouth, and then smiled.

"I have prepared a lot of Anan's favorite dishes. But it's still early, you should go to the 'Goddess Soup' first."

Although it is not a serious matter, but since it has already come, it does not take much time to go to "Goddess Soup".

Thinking of this, Noma Minami stood up, but then sat down again.

"Soya, go over with Kyoko and have a look."

"..."

Kyoko didn't say yes or no, and Soya didn't object, it's just that they were here for the first time, and they didn't know where the so-called "Goddess Soup" was.

Minami Noma led them out of the house, pointing to a path on the side of the yard.

"Go along this road all the way to the back of the mountain, and there is a huge rock at the end, on which is the 'Goddess Soup'."

Kyoko nodded, and Soya looked at Yoshikawa who was still in a daze.

"Want to see it?"

"Uh-huh!"

Minami Noma folded her arms and glanced at him.

"Let Yoshikawa stay here alone, she will be bored," Soya said.

"I can chat with her."

"It's not safe for orphans and widows."

"Soya Yoshiaki, I think you want to run back with the car today."

Noma Minami didn't say too much after all, and he didn't stop him. Yoshikawa didn't realize that there was any other meaning in the conversation between the two, but he just felt happy and interesting.

Leaving the courtyard of Kawada's house, the three of them walked along the path to the back mountain under the watchful eyes of Noma Minami and Kawada Kikoko.

The path twists and turns through the village.Passing through several old Japanese houses, there are almost no people to be seen, even if there are old pulsatillas.

The left-behind elderly were full of curiosity about the three young and strange children, and would ask who they were when they got close.

It was only then that Soya realized that it was rare for Kyoko not to go back and change into the maiden costume that could be seen at a glance today, and followed in the action.

"I……"

Yoshikawa who was questioned didn't know how to answer, so he simply held Soya back.

"I came with him!"

On the other hand, Kyoko was still trying to explain her origin to the old man in front of her.

"I am sent by the Kinki Spiritual Enlightenment Organization..."

"what?"

"Kinki Sensei Organization..."

"what?"

"I……"

Soya pulled her behind him, bent slightly, and raised his voice.

"We are relatives of the Kawata family, and we want to go for a walk in the back mountain."

"Oh."

The old man nodded, and turned to talking about things like it was getting late and he had to pay attention to safety when going up and down the mountain.

"thank you, I know now."

Soya turned his head and let go of Kyoko's wrist.

"Let's go."

She doesn't look at him.

"Ah."

Passing through the village and coming to the back mountain, the path at the foot ends into a winding staircase covered with moss, winding into the forest.

Taking advantage of the bright sky, the three of them quickened their pace and walked up the stone steps.

Not long after, they reached the end of the stairs halfway up the mountain, in front of a huge rock.

There was a solitary huge rock, three or four meters high, with steps carved out on both sides.Soya asked Yoshikawa and Kyoko to wait below first, and climbed up by himself.

The top of the giant rock was sunken, forming a large circular pit with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of no more than one meter. There seemed to be several holes at the bottom.

At this time, the pit was filled with clear water and turned into a pool.He leaned over and touched it, and the water was not hot at all.

"Hey, there seems to be something engraved here..."

Yoshikawa's voice came from below.

Soya turned her head and looked down. She leaned close to the huge rock, stared at the very inconspicuous lettering on the stone surface, and pushed her glasses.

"The Legend of 'Goddess Soup'..."

It seems to be a stone carving introducing the origin of this hot spring pool.

Kyoko also watched silently from the side.

Sensing the gaze from above, she raised her head.

"..."

The four eyes met, she looked away silently, and did not continue to look at those stone carvings.

Soya sighed softly, feeling a little headache.

"What's on it?" After studying the stone carvings, Yoshikawa raised his head and asked him.

"A hot spring pool."

She was startled, "Is there really a hot spring?"

"It's gone now. Come up and see for yourself, and pay attention to your feet."

Yoshikawa came up the stairs, and like Soya, she squatted down and tested the water temperature with her hands.

"It's cold..."

"Ah."

Soya glanced at Kyoko again.In order not to appear to be doing nothing, she began to study the words on the stone carvings again.

"What is the content of the legend?" he asked Yoshikawa.

"Is Soya interested too?"

"Just a random question."

She immediately began to explain to him the origin of this hot spring and even this giant rock.

It is said that at the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a famous samurai accidentally discovered several natural hot springs here, so he recuperated his injuries here.

One day, when he was practicing martial arts in the mountains, he suddenly saw a huge boulder floating in the forest.

The samurai was terrified, so he went to check and found that it was a beautiful woman who was walking forward with a boulder.

She stopped on the mountainside, and when she lowered the boulder, the whole mountain seemed to shake a few times.

Afterwards, she used her palm to carve out a depression on the top of the giant rock, poked it with her jade finger, and actually poked out a puddle of hot spring.

The stunning beauty sits in the hot spring on the top of the rock, as beautiful as a goddess, and ignores the samurai below.

A few days later, the goddess floated away, but the hot springs still gushed out from the top of the rock, and it lasted for hundreds of years before it dried up.

"It is said that the handprint of the goddess was left by the hot spring pool..."

Yoshikawa looked around, pointed at the hand-shaped depression at Soya's feet, "It should be this."

He lowered his head for a few glances, and then compared it with his hands. After finding that his palm was a circle larger than the fingerprint, he smiled complicatedly.

"It's really the handprint of a goddess..."

"Eh?"

The two quickly descended from the top of the boulder, supporting each other.

Kyoko took a deep breath, intending to settle the entrustment in front of her first, before discussing the others.

"Did Soya-san see anything?"

"No."

Zongya already understood the whole story, but he couldn't tell the truth.

It comes with the rain and goes away with the rain, and it can temporarily "resurrect" the "goddess soup" that has been exhausted for many years. The young woman that the villagers see can only be the master of the underworld, Izanami, who is chasing the front line of the rainy season and traveling.

She was just passing by.

"There are some elderly people in the village, and it is probably the result of false rumors." Zongya said.

Kyoko believed [-]% of his deduction, and the remaining doubts were just because he hadn't gone through the meaningless process.

Reaching out to touch her flat chest, she suddenly stopped and looked down again.

She is not wearing a priestess uniform, but a student uniform...

"..."

Soya and Yoshikawa also stared at her hand.

"cough."

Pressing her chest, Jingzi coughed lightly, then put her hand down, as if nothing had happened.

"Don't you have a talisman?"

"..."

Jingzi turned her face away, her earlobe was red and bleeding.

Yoshikawa had never seen her show such an expression before, and he was stunned for a while before remembering to ask:

"What talisman?"

"The talisman paper that can reflect the traces of the spirit body's activities after burning." Soya explained, "Generally, when you come to investigate the scene, you will always take a picture... But it is no longer needed here. Let's go back."

The latter sentence was addressed to Kyoko.

After a long silence, she sighed.

"Let's go back."

After working together for several months, she believed in Soya's judgment, but she couldn't forgive herself for being in a variety of situations.

Back at Kawata's house, Soya told Noma Minami the same conclusion, and she didn't doubt it at all.

"However, it's not enough to just explain to me, Aunt Jizi must also feel at ease..."

Noma Nan got up and walked out, "Soya, come with me."

"Ah."

After walking a certain distance, she stopped and looked back at Soya.

"What's going on, why do I feel that Kyoko has become more depressed? Did Soya say something to her?"

He was silent for a few seconds.

"Jingzi forgot to bring the talisman of manifestation."

Faced with this kind of mistake that cannot be lowered, Minami Noma also fell silent.

After a while, she continued:

"Now Soya also knows that Kyoko's condition is really bad. Do you know the reason?"

"Probably because of me."

"Uh-huh?"

Minami Noma looked at him.

"No, no. At least not yesterday—Kyoko had a fight with her parents."

(End of this chapter)