Tokyo: Starting with the Shrine Maiden

From the outside, it looks like a fairly common building, nothing special.

Haruhiko went inside.

It resembled a bank lobby, with numerous service counters.

It really is keeping up with the times.

"Hello, what service do you need?"

A young woman in uniform asked with a smile.

"Claim your reward for defeating the Otherworldly Demon."

Haruhiko sat in front of her and talked to her through the glass wall.

"Please open your Ouyushuo software and show the recorded video."

The young woman said in a businesslike manner.

"Ok."

Haruhiko took out his phone.

After reading it, the young woman couldn't help but show surprise on her face.

The battle was very clean and efficient.

Furthermore, a large number of talismans were used.

This doesn't seem to be an ordinary priest.

The young woman thought for a moment and then returned the phone to Haruhiko.

She opened the drawer and took out a list.

Please select two items.

"Ok."

Haruhiko glanced at it and immediately perked up.

The list contains a great many items.

They have spiritual tools, talismans, elixirs, and all sorts of materials.

Haruhiko pondered for a moment and then made a decision.

As a player, under normal circumstances, he can advance in rank once he meets the requirements for spiritual energy.

Other psionicists, however, are not so simple.

When one is promoted, one will encounter vague and elusive spiritual questions.

It's somewhat similar to the inner demons in fantasy novels.

It will test your comprehension, spirit, and will.

Players don't have it, but correspondingly, a job change quest will appear.

You need to collect seven kinds of materials.

The two items that Haruhiko chose were the two materials needed for a priest to advance to the second rank.

Heart-Changing Grass and Heavenly Punishment Fruit.

"Hold on."

The young woman got up and went through the back door.

Not long after, he came out with two glass bottles.

Inside were the materials that Haruhiko had exchanged.

"Thank you."

Haruhiko left the Imperial Palace.

He then began to reminisce about his pet from his first playthrough.

It has storage space.

In the game, the creatures that Onmyoji can control are called Shikigami.

However, ordinary psionicists can also possess similar beings, known as demon tamers.

The difference between the two.

Onmyoji and Shikigami are partners bound by life and death.

The demon tamer is a pet with no combat ability and is friends with the psionicist.

It's like raising a cat; you feed it, and it catches mice for you.

If we don't give it to it, it might go on strike.

Haruhiko went back to Nanen, handed his things over to Yuki for safekeeping, and then went to school.

The afternoon passed quickly.

As soon as the bell rang, the classroom became completely empty within seconds.

"Let's eat first, then go to the auction house."

Hoshino Rin packed her schoolbag and said.

"Ah."

Haruhiko naturally had no objections. He asked, "What would you like to eat?"

"That fried rice restaurant from last time."

Hoshino Rin smiled and said, "I think it's quite interesting."

interesting?

Haruhiko couldn't quite understand her thoughts.

However, he didn't ask anything further.

The two walked towards the school gate.

Chapter 18 Twin Sisters

Haruhiko paid the bill.

Just as I stepped out of the fried rice restaurant, I saw two men in black.

Behind them was a long, expensive-looking sedan.

"Miss."

The two men in black bowed in unison.

Haruhiko sensed something was off.

At this moment, Hoshino Rin looked more like a yakuza heiress than a shrine maiden.

The car door opens.

Come here.

Hoshino Rin got into the car and turned to look at Haruhiko.

Haruhiko snapped out of his daze and regained his composure.

In his first playthrough of the game, he was a renowned swordsman in Japan.

This little scene is nothing.

Although the first playthrough is not an immersive second playthrough.

There were two people in the car.

One of them is dressed in the most common shrine maiden attire: a white robe, a kimono, and scarlet hakama, along with white tabi socks and red-buttoned straw sandals.

She looks quite similar to Hoshino Rin, but appears more mature, probably in her thirties.

As expected, it's Hoshino Aoi.

The chief priest of Izumo Shrine.

As the head of the largest shrine, she was one of the most respected people in all of Japan.

Her strength matched that; she was a fifth-tier priest.

Moreover, he is the only known fifth-order priest.

But she gave Haruhiko a very bad feeling.

A coldness that emanates from within.

There was no emotion in his face or eyes.

It's like a robot.

Her coldness was different from that of Jinguji Fuyumi; it wasn't that she kept strangers at bay, but rather that she was indifferent, like a deity.