This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 156 - 154. Answer (Update 24 times)_2

Chapter 156: Chapter 154. Answer (Update 24 times)_2

"The mandated stone was their means against the ’calamity.’

The stone, unrelated to talismans and blessings, could directly suppress and purify the resentment of malicious spirits.

Even the formidable knife-wielding miko did not dare to charge directly into it, which also highlighted the usefulness of the stone.

"But... she could actually get so close to the mandated stone..."

Just moments ago, the knife-wielding miko was only a few meters away from the stone before she finally left.

This sufficiently illustrated the terror of the knife-wielding miko.

The Shenzhu Family had passed down this mandated stone from generation to generation, and although its size was not comparable to the one owned by the Magong Main Family, years of rituals and worship meant its exorcism ability was much stronger than that of the Magong’s stone.

Beichuan Si was about to stand up after patting his body when suddenly a voice came from behind:

"You... are...?"

The voice was crisp and gentle, like the Shinra Bell.

There’s still a spirit presence here?

Beichuan Si thought quickly but did not hurry to draw Jian Ding.

After all, those who could appear beside the mandated stone definitely would not be malicious spirits.

He turned around.

He saw a young girl wearing a red and white miko outfit and a red scarf tied behind her head, gently walking out of the darkness.

Her face was gentle, and her eyes were clear and calm, like the surface of a lake, soothing and concentrating the soul with just one glance.

Seeing her face resembling Magong Yongshi to some extent, Beichuan Si could not help but ask,

"Shenzhu Zhong?"

This should be Magong Tong’s eldest sister.

But to Beichuan Si’s surprise, upon hearing this name, the girl’s slender eyebrows visibly furrowed, and she asked in a tranquil tone, "Why... would you know... that cursed... name?"

Isn’t that your name?

Sensing the indifference in her voice, Beichuan Si straightened his drooping hair and asked directly, "Aren’t you Shenzhu Zhong?"

The miko shook her head: "My... name... Shenzhu Shihui."

Shenzhu Shihui?!

To see the person herself here?

Surprise flickered through Beichuan Si’s eyes.

However, her speech was unclear and stuttering, which seemed a bit strange.

While Beichuan Si was observing her, Shenzhu Shihui spoke again.

"Why... know... that cursed... name?"

"The cursed name? Are you talking about ’Shenzhu Zhong’? "

"...Yes." Shenzhu Shihui replied faintly, her calm eyes lifting, "Why... did you come... to the Shenzhu Family...?"

Beichuan Si did not rush to answer, looking at Shenzhu Shihui and combining her previous words, an idea seemed to be forming in his mind.

"Do you know Magong Yongshi?"

He countered.

"Yong... Yongshi... my younger sister." Shenzhu Shihui pressed her palm to her chest, a hint of tenderness flashing in her eyes: "Did... Yongshi send you... here?"

As expected!

Beichuan Si had grasped all the clues.

This Shenzhu Shihui was indeed the true Soul Suppressing Twin—

So Shenzhu Zhong is...

"Shenzhu Zhong, Shenzhu Shihui, Magong Yongshi... so that’s the connection." Beichuan Si muttered to himself.

"Answer my... question." Shenzhu Shihui stammered.

"I came to Shenzhu Shrine wanting to resolve the affliction of calamity. You must know Magong Tong too?"

Beichuan Si countered.

"Know... know her." Shenzhu Shihui nodded, a faint confusion appearing on her lovely face: "Tong... my youngest sister, should now have been sent to Tokyo by Granny Dongzi."

"Why is ’Shenzhu Zhong’ considered a cursed name?"

Beichuan Si already had a guess but still needed to confirm it from Shenzhu Shihui.

Shenzhu Shihui seemingly knew far more than Magong Yongshi, her memory apparently completely intact:

"Zhong... caused the entire ritual to fail... that woman... is not normal."

These words were exceptionally clear.

He instinctively breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving this answer.

Shenzhu Shihui appearing next to the boulder also ruled out the possibility that she was a vengeful spirit deceiving him.

In other words, this was a spirit that was alive and knew all the secrets of the Shenzhu Family.

And she was also another one of the Soul Suppressing Twins.

As for Shenzhu zhong, she must be the knife-wielding shrine maiden outside, who was the original concubine.

They had been going in the wrong direction.

Beichuan Si initially thought that Shenzhu zhong was another Soul Suppressing Maiden, and he finally understood why his previous theories had felt so incongruous.

"The entire incident, even the village massacre, was all because of Shenzhu zhong..." Beichuan Si glanced at his waist pouch.

Shenzhu zhong’s ebony hairpin was still lying inside his waist pouch.

It wasn’t the Soul Suppressing Twins who had fallen in love with a foreign man, but the concubine!

Thinking this way, everything could be explained.

Shenzhu zhong, infuriated by her thwarted romance with a young man, was responsible for the final Soul Summoning Flower ceremony.

She sabotaged the ritual at the crucial moment, causing it to fail, and eventually plunged into the Nether Spring herself, turning into the knife-wielding maiden who slaughtered everyone in the Shenzhu Family.

Beichuan Si tried to explain this theory to Shenzhu Shihui.

But Shenzhu Shihui shook her head, "Most of it is like that... but one thing... is wrong."

She looked at Beichuan Si, stuttering, "It was zhong... who personally sent that man... to the gallows, she wasn’t grieving... from that time... she had become very strange."

As Shenzhu Shihui slowly unfolded her story.

Under her narrative, Beichuan Si finally understood where his theory had gone wrong.

From a young age, Shenzhu zhong was exceptionally cruel, her naive brutality terrified both Jinnv and Pinv.

Strangling dogs, squashing ants flat.

As Jinnv and Pinv who raised Shenzhu zhong, they watched this ten-year-old girl perform an execution herself, severing a man’s tongue, the blood smearing her delicate face, yet a sadistic smile appeared on Shenzhu zhong’s lips.

She wasn’t scared at all.

Yes, she was an anomaly incarnate.

"Such a person... it’s unimaginable to think there exists any love... in her heart."

Shenzhu Shihui shook her head.

What should liking someone entail?

Like the legend of the Shinra Bell’s Shinju Rina, dying together with her beloved, that too is a beautiful kind of love.

But Shenzhu zhong was different.

The way she ’loved’ someone... if it could even be called love.

Shenzhu zhong informed the family head of the man’s name and personally executed him.

She slit open her lover’s abdomen, gruesomely pulling out his organs, a mad, sadistic smile on her face while tears streamed down profusely.

Joy and sorrow, her emotions were as strange as if a bottle of bizarre flavors had been knocked over.

"The root of the disaster... was also buried... at that time. From that day on... that mad woman... started to enjoy the perpetrator’s stance towards her loved one... the ceremony also failed because of her."

Shenzhu Shihui’s gaze dimmed, "She was proactive... and full of malice... when she plunged into the Nether Spring. When she reappeared, she had turned into a ’calamity’... Yongshi, I, and family head... were all killed."

"The Soul Summoning Flower... bloomed halfway... it was Yongshi’s blood... my blood... that was tainted by her blood. We still need another Soul Suppressing Twin... to restart the ritual."

After hearing Shenzhu Shihui’s explanation, Beichuan Si finally understood all the puzzles.

"So that’s how it is."

The cause of everything laid with the concubine; the tragedy of Shenzhu Village was all her doing.

From a young age, her education in murder confused her understanding of like and love between people, eventually leading her to corrupt Shenzhu Shihui’s blood for her desires.

The ceremony should have had no issues whatsoever.

But the concubine, Shenzhu zhong, was the biggest problem.

However—

If the ritual was to be started again, would they need a new Soul Suppressing Twin?

A face of a young girl unconsciously surfaced in Beichuan Si’s mind.

"Magong, perhaps...?"

No wonder Magong Yongshi said that Magong Tong was the key to solving this series of events.

So that was the matter.

Thus—

All the mysteries of Shenzhu Village had now been answered.

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