This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 118 - 117. Third Floor

Chapter 118: Chapter 117. Third Floor

The system reward sound did not sound, this was the second time now.

Why was that?

The resentful spirit of the man in the white hat and the resentful spirit of the kitchen maid type.

Although they were only low-level spirits, they shouldn’t have deducted as little as 0.5 skill points.

Beichuan Si reached out to open the system page.

The system page could still be opened, and the vast skill tree was visible.

It seemed that the system had not crashed.

"So this means the system judged the resentful spirits just now as ’residual images’."

Beichuan Si murmured to himself, gently pulling down the hair that had fallen across his forehead.

But residual images were supposed to be unable to attack humans.

Yet the resentful spirits of the man in the white hat and the kitchen maid were able to materialize...

Beichuan Si’s brow relaxed.

If these residual images existed in such a way, there certainly must be a reason for their existence.

The secret hidden within must definitely be within the Magong Main Family.

If it was incomprehensible, then there was no need to continue spending energy on this.

Beichuan Si stood up again and walked outside.

This time, he decided to explore deeper into the left side.

After leaving the dining room, Beichuan Si, flashlight in hand, groped his way deep into the corridor on the left.

He walked about five or six meters, and then his view suddenly opened up.

It turned out that at the deepest part of the left side was a large staircase gallery, with a staircase going up and one going down on this side.

Beichuan Si directed his flashlight to the left side, clearly seeing that there was an identical corridor on the right side as well.

It must also be possible to reach the rooms on the second floor from that side.

There were now three possible routes.

But Beichuan Si did not hesitate; he directly stepped onto the staircase to the third floor.

After all, from the third floor, he could also oversee the situation on the second floor.

Upon stepping onto the third floor, his field of vision narrowed considerably.

To the right were battered diamond-shaped paper windows, the torn paper illuminated cold winter light through several large holes.

Beichuan Si directly kicked the curtains onto the window frame.

Following a crisp sound, the window frame fell off.

He casually removed the paper window and poked his head outside.

Before he knew it, it was already the afternoon; the sky was subtly darkening, but it was still possible to see outside.

Taking advantage of the light, Beichuan Si carefully observed—

The overall structure of the building came into view.

It was a large rectangular manor, and in its courtyard, there was an ancient tree whose species Beichuan Si could not identify.

The crown of the old tree was twisted and winding, resembling a giant lid of a coffin, vaguely enveloping the whole Magong Family.

Underneath the tree were numerous sotoba, densely inscribed with people’s names.

"So, that’s how it is."

Beichuan Si withdrew his gaze, having roughly grasped the situation.

He had been walking back and forth, but hadn’t had a rough spatial orientation.

But now it was different.

The overall appearance of the manor had been memorized by Beichuan Si; no matter where he went, he would be aware.

Beichuan Si turned his head back—

There was a face.

A pale, ferocious ghost face.

As it was so close, Beichuan Si could even clearly see the dark liquid seeping from the corners of its mouth.

The ghostly face was about to move when Beichuan Si’s right hand, emanating a sinister aura of death, grabbed it and slammed it to the floor!

Bang!!!

The wooden floor was smashed into a large hole by Beichuan Si.

Without changing his expression, Beichuan Si pulled his hand out of the hole in the wooden planks, casually treated his knuckles with death energy, and then walked inside as if nothing had happened, leaving behind only a large, pitch-black hollow.

...

On this side, the third floor had only two rooms at the very end; the first room resembled a library storage room, with five or six bookshelves erected and packed with thread-bound books.

"..." Beichuan Si.

Beichuan Si rubbed his temples and eyes.

With so much information, disregarding most of it as unnecessary and useless, he didn’t know how long it would take just to flip through them one by one.

Even Beichuan Si felt a bit of a headache.

Just as he was sighing inwardly and planning to go through each bookshelf one by one, Nishijou Kurenai suddenly jumped out of his arms and clambered onto a bookshelf.

She steadied herself with both hands on the bookshelf, her small, chubby legs flapping in mid-air.

Upon seeing this, Beichuan Si raised his hand to catch Kurenai just as she could no longer hold on and fell.

As Kurenai landed in his arms, an ancient, pale yellow, thread-bound book also fell down.

Beichuan Si touched Nishijou Kurenai.

Having a good understanding with Kurenai, since she had taken it down, there must be a reason for it.

He unfolded the pale yellow cover of the thread-bound book.

The title page only had faint handwriting, which Beichuan Si could barely read under the flashlight’s beam—

"Soul Suppressing Twins, Soul Guiding Ceremony."

"The Soul Guiding Ceremony is conducted by Jinnv and Pinv."

"After the birth of the Soul Suppressing Twins, they must be swiftly sent to Shenzhu Shrine for the Soul Guiding Ceremony."

"Cover their entire body with Soul Summoning Flower Mud except for the head, then wash the body with Soul Summoning Flower Pond Water."

"Cover the twins with Soul Summoning Flower Mud to connect their souls, then wipe with Soul Summoning Pond Water that communicates with Yellow Springs."

"After these two rituals, the Soul Suppressing Twins will share a conjoined life, and their intuition will be tens of times stronger than normal people, granting them the ability to see through life and death."

"It is said that the Soul Suppressing Twins who undergo the Soul Guiding Ceremony, if they possess outstanding intuition, might even be able to vaguely see future events."

"This is the Soul Guiding Ceremony."

"Enhancing intuition...there are indeed special methods in this world to suppress paranormal phenomena."

Beichuan Si’s eyes gleamed.

It made sense, both emotionally and logically.

The paranormal entities in this world cannot be said to be many, but definitely not few either; humans have inherited from ancient times certainly some rituals to suppress or seal these paranormal phenomena.

This Soul Guiding Ceremony is just one of them; there might be other rituals elsewhere.

Beichuan Si flipped through the pale yellow cover book, finding it filled with details about the Soul Guiding Ceremony.

Regarding when the ceremony should be held, how long it should last, dress code—

When Beichuan Si saw these complicated rituals, he put down the book.

After all, he only needed to understand the gist of these ritual clues to facilitate his subsequent inferences.

"Thanks to Kurenai."

Beichuan Si patted Nishijou Kurenai’s head and sighed.

Being able to find this book among so many documents and texts, Nishijou Kurenai’s contribution was indispensable, and he certainly needed to praise the little one.

Beichuan Si used death energy, widening his eyes to barely see the faint resentments emanating from the pages of the book.

However, as a living being, it was understandable that Beichuan Si’s intuition was not as sharp as Nishijou Kurenai’s, who was a Spiritual Body.

Just as he thought about stuffing the book into his backpack, Kurenai scratched his palm to draw his attention, then stretched out her chubby hand, pointing towards the innermost bookshelf.

"More?"

Beichuan Si was taken aback, but without much hesitation, he walked past the first three bookshelves toward the inside.

In the depths of the book storage, there was a small desk with paper, pen, and candle holder set up on it.

It looked as if someone had once been reading here.

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