Persona: Devil Summoner

After all, a Saint Seiya will not use the same move twice - Niijima, you are still of Saint Seiya bloodline!

Looking at the blushing face of Shinjima Makoto, Jiang Tianwei said in his heart, "So you mind cheating so much. Then I won't eat it anymore."

"I'm sorry, President. I won't eat it secretly. Don't be angry. Alas, I have wasted such a beautiful face!"

"I want you to take care of it!!"

"Okay, okay, don't be angry. I'm just here to eat your free food. Don't be angry. If you don't like my joke, I apologize. I just want you to relax."

Seeing Jiang Tianwei retreating obediently with a wry smile on his face, Shinjima was even more furious - not because of anything else, but because: It's okay if outsiders don't understand me! How come even you, the leader of the Phantom Thieves, are like this! You don't understand the feelings of your subordinates!

This is probably a special "crack" that often appears between close people. Some people are like this. If they are offended by a stranger, they will often think "after all, they don't know" and forgive the other person. But if a close person offends them, they will think "Why don't you know?!" and get even angrier.

Hmm? Wait a minute... Is there a special premise for this...

Close people...

Shinjima blushed, lowered his head, and used the spatula to stir-fry the vegetables in the pan without any rules or patterns. He even forgot to add salt...

By the way, tonight, the Niijima family's dinner was takeout pizza.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 689: Is it inappropriate for me to come and pay homage?

Like most countries, when encountering difficulties or praying for success, people will pray to gods and Buddhas. This is true in Europe and America, and in Asia as well.

The Shinto faith in Japan is deeply rooted in the hearts of Japanese people and Japanese comics fans. Even if you have never heard of Shintoism, you have probably heard of shrine maidens and the red and white shrine maiden costumes.

After all, Japan is a country that attaches great importance to cultural output. They will spare no effort to promote their own culture in various literary and artistic works. If you think about it carefully, you know many characteristics of Japan even though you haven't learned about them specifically, such as ninjas, samurai, samurai swords, and the romantic feelings towards cherry blossoms.

Shintoism, as a native religious belief of Japan, is naturally taken seriously by the country. You can find shrines in almost any region of Japan.

Walk through the recognizable red torii gate in the shape of a Chinese character "kai", follow the mountain path, cross the bamboo forest, feel the refreshing atmosphere, and cleanse your soul, and you will arrive at the shrine.

Just like the Chinese set off firecrackers during the New Year, the Japanese pay attention to visiting shrines during the New Year - although it is not New Year now.

But for many things, what matters is the flavor, and they don’t necessarily have to be so hardcore.

"I haven't worn this in a long time! As expected, this is what Yamato Nadeshiko should be!"

Fang Zexia said happily, her wooden clogs tapping on the bluestone road, making crisp sounds.

She was wearing a traditional Japanese dress, a kimono. The bright red long-sleeved shirt was decorated with beautiful flowers. As the saying goes, a beautiful face and peach blossoms complement each other, but there were no peach blossoms here, and the cherry blossom season had passed, so she could only make do with the flowers on her clothes.

Fang Zexia's medium-length hair was combed up and tied into a bun, decorated with a beautiful golden hairpin. Strings of beads hung down, adding a lot of color to her black hair.

Jiang Tianwei agreed with the little girl's previous conclusion. As expected, when it comes to Yamato Nadeshiko, it has to be kimono - but you can't just have this one element, right?

It’s like, it’s true that Guan Erye has a big beard, but you can’t say that all people with big beards are Guan Erye, right?

The traditional Yamato Nadeshiko is a woman with a quiet and reserved character, gentle and considerate, and noble virtues. (From Baidu Encyclopedia.) You, Kasumi Yoshizawa, have nothing to do with these qualities! ! ! Don't challenge the concept of Yamato Nadeshiko!

"Yes, this looks good on my sister."

As Yoshizawa Kasumi's number one fan, of course Yoshizawa Sumire fully agrees with her sister's taste.

After all, the two girls look almost exactly the same. When looking at Fang Zexia, I always feel like I am looking at my own phantom.

By the way, as a good Chinese man, Jiang Tianwei certainly does not have women's kimonos. How can a good man have women's clothes in his closet! That's not a good man, but a sissy man!

So, the provider of this kimono is – Teacher Sadyo Kawakami.

Of course, Yoshizawa Kasumi had a kimono when she was alive, but her parents locked it in her room as a permanent memory. As for Yoshizawa Sumire's kimono... well... wearing her sister's clothes always feels a bit shameful.

Today, the two sisters suddenly decided to go to the shrine to worship together. This decision confused Jiang Tianwei: As a ghost, you go to the shrine to worship, do you have no idea what you are doing?

In short, JK is a very active creature after all. After making the decision, the elder sister immediately called the younger sister and took Jiang Tianwei with her, and the three of them went out together.

Interestingly, the three of them came to a large shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo, called Meiji Shrine. Considering that he had just cheated someone with a similar name in Chinese not long ago, Jiang Tianwei vaguely felt the taste of fate.

Unfortunately, there is no muscular Marisa to break the fatalism this time.

To be fair, the two sisters wearing kimonos together are really pleasing to the eye. When Jiang Tianwei thought about being able to enjoy the kimonos of the beautiful sisters alone, he thought that being forcibly dragged out was not a bad thing.

"Come to think of it, will you come to the shrine to worship? Or in other words, will you pray to the gods?"

After passing through the tree-lined avenue, the three of them had arrived at the front of Meiji Shrine. Yoshizawa Sumire tilted her head, looked at Jiang Tianwei cutely, and asked.

"I didn't believe it before, and I don't believe it now."

Jiang Tianwei looked uninterested.

This is true.

He didn't know about gods and Buddhas before, and didn't believe in them. But now, he has all kinds of gods and Buddhas stored in his phone. Do you think he believes them? He even wondered if he could release a god or Buddha here, such as Zao Gongen, would it scare the Shinto priestesses to death?

"Hey~ I thought you were the kind of person who would always ask for blessings from gods and Buddhas!"

Fang Zexia teased him with a wicked smile, Jiang Tianwei shrugged: "There is a saying in my country: When we do good things, we always hope that the gods and ghosts know about it, and when we do bad things, we always hope that the gods and ghosts don't know about it. We are making it too difficult for the gods and ghosts."

The Fangze sisters were stunned at first, then they savored the words carefully and couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Indeed! Putting it this way, it really makes it difficult for the ghosts and gods!"

"Besides, if praying to the gods and praying to Buddha is effective, then why would people still go to work? Wouldn't it be enough to pray to the gods every day?"

Jiang Tianwei expressed his thoughts as an atheist (currently, he is using gods, demons and ghosts to fight against monsters and evil spirits in the cognitive space) in a light-hearted and humorous way.

"Before, my sister and I would come out to pray for good luck before the competition!"

Yoshizawa Sumire smiled sweetly, her tone full of nostalgia for the past.

What a beautiful sisterhood!

Jiang Tianwei thought so.

"No, no, you remembered it wrong."

Then, someone came to ruin the atmosphere.

Fang Ze Xia giggled: "Didn't we use the excuse of visiting the shrine to sneak out and eat dessert? Crepes, cutlets, red bean pie, taiyaki..."

“Aaaaaah, sis, didn’t you agree that you wouldn’t tell anyone!!!”

Yoshizawa Sumire blushed and refuted, how can I describe the scene of two girls in kimonos playing around... it's just, it's beautiful! If it was thrown into a galgame, it would definitely be a hidden CG and attract countless players.

"Well, let's come and worship! Anyway, worshipping here seems to be very effective."

Fang Zexia had made enough of her sister, but she still hadn't forgotten her original intention.

Yes! Even if she is a JK, she doesn't just act without thinking! Yoshizawa Kasumi came to the shrine for her own purpose!

That is, I heard that making a wish at Meiji Jingu Shrine is very effective!

Just like the various ways of burning incense and fulfilling vows in China, Japan also has many ways of making wishes. People who often watch anime must have been familiar with them.

Fang Zexia had already prepared the advice and decided what she wanted.

The first thing, of course, is to worship the gods. Now that I am a ghost, I am only one word away from being a god, which makes me a half-relative. I should be able to get help from the gods, right?

Second, there are the amulets here (which are commonly called talismans in China). There are various types of them. For example, the love amulet that blesses smooth love is what Yoshizawa Kasumi is targeting.

The third one is, of course, Ema! To put it simply, this thing is a wishing board. If you write your wish on it, it will come true. What kind of wish will Yoshizawa Kasumi write... Hey~

By then, the Trinity will be one, and everyone will have mastered it. Isn't that perfect? ​​God will surely bless us!

Fang Ze Xia was immersed in her own perfect vision. Together with her sister, she washed her hands and then put her hands together to pray...

"Axia?!"

Suddenly, an intimate call broke her sweet fantasy.

When I looked up, I saw a familiar female face appear in front of me...

Fang Zexia opened her lips, but in the end she said nothing. She only lip-synced when she called out "Mom," and everything returned to calm.

"mom."

The sisters were of one mind. Sumire, who was beside Fang Zexia, called out for her.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 690 Didn't I come here for nothing? !

There are many rules in this world, and the most widely known and believed one is that the dead cannot be resurrected.

No matter which country, resurrection from the dead is just a beautiful wish or a publicity gimmick.

The same goes for the woman who called out to Fang Zexia.

She had watched her daughter being buried a few years ago, so she knew better than anyone that her daughter would never come back.

Therefore, she would often visit various shrines to pray for the afterlife of her eldest daughter who would never come back. Although she could not give her a more comfortable living environment, at least, she wanted her to live a better life in the other world. This was her simplest and purest thought as a mother.

It was the same thing today. When she came to Meiji Jingu Shrine to worship, she suddenly found her daughter worshipping with her eldest daughter who was supposed to be dead. How could she not be excited?

But after all her excitement, she was immediately convinced by cold common sense and accepted that the dead could not be resurrected. Moreover, if she looked closely... that face, although it looked very much like her eldest daughter, did have some different details in the corners of her eyebrows and eyes.

Very similar but different people indeed.

Fangze's mother walked over quickly and bowed to Fangze Xia: "I'm so sorry. You look a lot like this child's sister."

"It's okay, Auntie. That's what she said."

Rhythmic gymnastics is essentially a performance, and as a master of rhythmic gymnastics, Yoshizawa Kasumi is of course very confident in her expression management. She pretended to be a stranger and gently patted Yoshizawa Sumire's back, looking intimate.

"It's so rare that there are people in this world who look so similar... If my Ah Xia were still alive..."

She spoke hesitantly, and when she thought of her eldest daughter, she was overwhelmed with sadness and could not help but cover her face and sob.

Yoshizawa Sumire rushed over to comfort her mother. It was obvious that losing her daughter was a huge blow to her. If Yoshizawa Sumire wasn't still alive, I don't know what would happen to this mother...

"It's okay... Auntie. If you want, you can treat me as your daughter."

Fang Zexia couldn't help but shed tears as she spoke, but she quickly blinked away the tears to spread them evenly so that they wouldn't flow down.

"Thank you... But no thanks. They are my only two daughters. Your family certainly doesn't want you to be treated as a daughter by other families."

Fangze's mother said so. Only when you lose your child, you will truly understand the pain of losing a child. If you put yourself in her shoes, how could she be so cruel as to treat someone else's daughter as her own?

"But thank you anyway, young lady. I hope you can also be friends with our Ajin. What's your name?"

"Me? I—I'm Jiang Xia."

"Jiang Xia... is she Chinese?"

“Yes, they are Chinese.”

No one would have thought that Fang Zexia's fluent Chinese, which she had acquired from complaining to Jiang Tianwei, would come in handy in such a situation.

"I never thought that there would be such a coincidence among foreigners. It's so good, so good... For a moment, I felt that my Axia was back... But I knew she would never come back."

Fangze's mother was about to cry again. Fangze Jin was about to comfort her, but she shook her head and said, "Don't worry about me, Jin. Just have fun. Mom, I'll go back and cook first."

The mother, crying non-stop, left the Meiji Jingu Shrine with sadness and a little bit of happiness. Seeing her back, Yoshizawa Kasumi's eyes were filled with tears.

It’s not like she hasn’t thought about going home.

However, she was very clear that she no longer belonged to that family.

Even twin sisters may take completely different paths because of their different destinies. It's really sad!

Jiang Tianwei thought so.

Originally, this matter should have just passed like this... Everyone should continue to worship and visit the shrine... But suddenly, Jiang Tianwei glanced and inadvertently saw a scary guy out of the corner of his eye.

She has bright yellow eyes and short silver-white hair, and a small blue hat on her head. I don't know if it was intentional to match the atmosphere, but she changed into a shrine maiden costume today, but the top is white and the bottom is blue, not the traditional red and white shrine maiden but a blue and white shrine maiden...

This person is Elizabeth.

She is also the woman Jiang Tianwei absolutely does not want to have anything to do with now - considering the power of the Megatron that she used to intimidate Jiang Tianwei before, Jiang Tianwei feels that he is not ready to defeat her, so the best way is to ignore her.

Why is she here? It's like she's spying on me.

Jiang Tianwei was not going to chat with her, and quickly fled away from the shrine with his two female companions.

Elizabeth did not chase him either. She just posed with a broom in her arms. Her bright yellow eyes seemed to have seen through the entire world, through reality, and into a certain essence.

"Do you think... you can escape like this? Once the shackles of fate are put on, there is no way to break free... It's almost time. The final demon war. Let me observe quietly until the end."

Elizabeth didn't know who she was explaining something to. Perhaps she was talking to herself. She smiled mysteriously, and her figure was temporarily blocked by the bustling crowd around her. When the crowd parted, she disappeared.

However, Jiang Tianwei left the shrine to get out of trouble. He held the hands of the two girls and walked outside, saying, "Come on, let's go. I'll treat you to some snacks. Don't just stand here!"

But, there is such a thing as over-interpretation.