"Lord God, please bless my wife with a smooth delivery."
A young couple put their hands together and stood in the main hall praying. "It's best to have twins."
The pregnant wife hammered the man's arm and said, "Just say it in your heart. Don't read it out loud. It won't work."
"Hehe."
The man smiled. "There are so many people praying every day. How can Lord God listen to them one by one. It's better to say it out loud."
After the two young couples finished praying, they turned to Mizuno and smiled apologetically. They had been talking for a long time.
They put five yuan into the money box, which symbolized fate. They clapped their hands twice and put their hands together. The three bowed and lowered their heads. They thought about what they wanted to pray in their hearts.
"Azuri High School, Azuri High School …" Miyuki Kahara whispered what she was thinking in her heart.
She completely forgot her original purpose of coming to the Meiji Shrine. While praying, she peeked at her boyfriend, Mizuno.
After a short prayer, the three left the main hall. The process of worshipping was simple. The difficult part was the long queuing process.
"Let's go ask for a lot … I don't want to …" After leaving the main hall, Miyuki Kahara was excited to ask for a lot, but after thinking about it, she suddenly shook her head.
If she got a good lot, it would be a good thing, but if she got a bad lot, it would be uncomfortable.
Miyuki Kahara didn't want to take the risk of being unhappy, so she pointed to the place where the Enuma was hung and said, "Let's write Enuma. It will come true."
Enuma was a form of making a wish. In the beginning, it was because the horse was sacrificed to the temple. Later, people found that it was too expensive, so they painted the horse on the wooden sign. Now, they wrote the wish on the wooden sign and hung it up. Maybe they would get the blessing of the gods and their wishes would come true.
The price of Enuma in the Meiji Shrine was five hundred yen. The price was still a little expensive for ordinary students. After Mizuno paid for two Enuma, Mai Sada bowed her head and counted how much food a thousand yen could buy.
"Here." Mizuno gave the Painted Horse to the two girls.
"Mizuno -senpai, aren't you going to write an Enma for yourself?" Miyuki Kahara took the Enma and noticed that Mizuno hadn't bought an Enma for himself.
"My wish …" Mizuno chuckled as he flipped through the hanging Enma. "It's better for me to fulfill it myself."
Tens of thousands of Emmas were hung together, clanking when the wind blew. There were Japanese characters, English characters, Chinese characters, and Korean characters written on the Emmas. Basically, every foreigner who visited here would write an Emma in their name.
Mizuno casually flipped through a Chinese character drawing and smiled knowingly.
[Let our son get married this year.]
It was really hard to explain in a few words that he was urging her to get married overseas.
"Can Mizuno -senpai read Kanji?" Miyuki Kahara noticed something special about Mizuno.
"I can understand a little."
Mai Sada casually wrote a wish and hung it up. Ancient literate people seemed to understand Kanji. As a thousand-year-old demon, how could Mizuno not understand Kanji? He might have even gone to communicate with his peers in Hua.
After hanging up the Enma, Mai Sada's eyes suddenly focused. Beside the red pillar of the torii, two people were walking together.
One was a girl wearing a black-and-red witch costume. Although her face was delicate and lovely, it wasn't the focus of Sada's attention. In terms of appearance, she was comparable to the witch. What really caught his attention was the woman next to the witch.
The woman was tall and had a high ponytail. Although she was wearing regular clothes, she naturally had a dignified aura.
Mai Sada recognized her at first glance. It was the policewoman who questioned her at school that afternoon — the Frost Island Police Force.
Although her instincts told her that she should have fooled the policewoman at that time, it was a government agency after all. Who could guarantee that the policewoman would be so easily fooled? The moment Mai Sada saw Frost Island, she shrunk back and grabbed Mizuno's sleeve with her hand.
"What's wrong?" Mizuno lowered his head and asked in a low voice.
Kohara Miyuki was in the middle of writing Enma. She was very careful with her words, and it seemed like she was trying to fill up Enma. She was so focused on her work that she didn't notice the two's little movements.
"Do you remember the Frost Island Police Force I told you about? They're standing in front of the torii." Mai Sada retracted her gaze after a glance and pretended to look at Enma as if nothing had happened.
"Frost Island … Police Force …" Alarm bells suddenly rang in Mizuno's heart. The aftermath of the attack in Yamanashi Prefecture hadn't passed yet. Although the government agency hadn't made any moves, who knew how much progress the other party had made. Maybe they had already grasped something and were just observing in the dark.
Mizuno forced himself to calm down and said, "Don't panic. If they really grasped something, they'd definitely hide and not appear in front of us so openly."
He pretended to be calm and turned to look at the torii. He saw the two people standing next to the torii.
The one wearing the witch costume was definitely not the Frost Island Police Force, so it was the woman in regular clothes.
Her face looked very familiar.
Right, it was the strange guest in the kitchen who would stare at him with hatred from time to time while eating.
Although practicing ninjutsu couldn't improve one's memory, Mizuno's memory had always been good. Besides, the other party had left quite a deep impression on him.
Coincidentally, Mizuno's gaze collided with Shuimaichi's. Mizuno pretended to be surprised and nodded in greeting with a smile.
Next to the torii.
"Miss Shuimaichi, do you know that man?" The witch Aso Itō followed Mizuno's gaze and looked at Shuimaichi Seimaichi.
"I … don't know him."
Shuimaichi Seimaichi's eyes narrowed. It really was a small world. She even met a scumbag in Shibuya. The girl next to him should be the poor Mai Sada. Who was the other one?
Judging from her height, she didn't seem to be the girlfriend from the torii that day. Did this mean that this scumbag had another girl?
He wasn't two-timing, but three-timing, and he even brought two girls with him at the same time. Were the three of them shopping together and having a threesome?
Were the young people of the Island nation this rotten?
Shuimaichi Seimaichi didn't give Mizuno a friendly look. In her heart, she had already labeled him as the number one scumbag in the Adachi District.
"I met him once in the torii."
Shuimaichi didn't want to talk about this kind of person. She grew up in a kendo family and was very strict in her personal life. Not only did she demand this of herself, but she also demanded a spouse — even if she didn't have one yet.
Ito Aso looked at Mizuno Sora and said in a serious tone, "This man … his Spiritual Energy is very high."
"What?"
Shuimaichi Seimaichi's expression turned serious. Despite her disgust, she was an elite officer and wouldn't bring her personal likes and dislikes to work. If Mizuno was of value, she would definitely contact him again and even monitor him 24/7. "Why do you say that?"
If someone else had said this, Shuimaichi Seimaichi would have ignored them. However, this was Aso Itō. Although she was just a girl who looked like a university student and was indeed still in university, Aso Itō was the only clue for the case so far. From the witch's identity, she was also someone who was related to the world of superpowers.