The things that came out of the Godly Mother of Shitamachi's mouth were quite extraordinary.
"Beika Town? I remember that mysterious person who writes the diary wrote in it that we shouldn't go near Beika Town if we have nothing to do. So it's a gathering place for vengeful spirits?" Yotsuya Miko whispered to Shinomiya Kaguya beside her.
She had just read the diary in the afternoon, so she still had a very deep memory of its contents.
The mysterious person's explanation was that it was the place where the protagonist of a detective manga that had been serialized for decades lived, which was why all sorts of bizarre murder cases often occurred there.
I never thought that the influence of those vengeful spirits was also involved in this?
Yotsuya Miko immediately patted her chest. According to the Godly Mother of Shitamachi, that place was about to become a gathering place for vengeful spirits. Just thinking about it felt a bit terrifying.
Fortunately, she hadn't been there these past few days.
And on Shinomiya Kaguya's side, she was more concerned about another matter.
What's the deal with that Jujutsu Headquarters?
The Godly Mother of Shitamachi quickly began to explain to the two girls.
Exorcists like her were basically from unorthodox backgrounds, without any proper lineage or inheritance. There were not many ways to exorcise evil spirits. Besides brute-forcing it with spiritual power, the rest could only be figured out by themselves through trial and error.
And Jujutsu Sorcerers were what those exorcists with long traditions and who had mastered a variety of jujutsu called themselves.
However, when she mentioned this, the Godly Mother of Shitamachi paused for a moment and added, "But if you really want to be particular, the power used by Jujutsu Sorcerers is indeed a little different from the spiritual power that we exorcists have, so they all call their power 'Cursed Energy', and they also look down on us exorcists."
The Jujutsu Headquarters was an official organization formed by the great families among the Jujutsu Sorcerers. It was one of the institutions used to manage and inspect abnormal events throughout Japan. Because of the sharp increase in the number of vengeful spirits in the past ten years or so, this institution had also developed considerably.
Of course, at present, the number of people in all of Japan who could be called exorcists did not exceed a thousand, let alone elites like Jujutsu Sorcerers.
Even if the Jujutsu Headquarters wanted to expand on a large scale, it had to consider the problem of manpower.
As for the Godly Mother of Shitamachi, although this second-rate exorcist had once lived a relatively comfortable life, because of an accident more than ten years ago, she had lost her former ambition. Later, due to the decline of her spiritual power, she could only stay safely in her small shop in the shopping street.
Most of the time she would scam people, occasionally she would do a good deed and help those who really needed help. In short, she would not get involved in those troublesome matters.
Regarding the matter of the Jujutsu Headquarters, she had basically learned about it from people she had known in the past.
"I originally thought that the artifact I made in my prime, even if it couldn't exorcise the current evil ghosts, could at least drive them away and protect you from their influence for a short time," the Godly Mother of Shitamachi looked at Yotsuya Miko and sighed.
"But the times are changing too fast. If this continues, the chaotic era of a thousand years ago when humans danced with a hundred demons might return. An old bone like me who can't keep up with the times should just go back to my hometown and farm."
As the Godly Mother of Shitamachi laid out everything she knew and her own guesses, Shinomiya Kaguya had already taken out her diary and begun to record.
The ghost and monster legends passed down in human history were not entirely false.
It was just that the closer it got to the modern era, the more those ghosts and monsters faded away.
In the era of the Godly Mother of Shitamachi, even a second-rate exorcist could prosper.
It wasn't until more than ten years ago that ghosts and vengeful spirits, for some reason, made a comeback, and there was even a trend of recreating the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons from a thousand years ago.
Writing this, Shinomiya Kaguya wrote down the words "mysterious person" in her diary again and drew a question mark after it.
The mysterious person's transmigration to this world, and this diary that appeared in their hands half a month ago, could there be any connection with this matter?
She thought of her father again.
As the leader of the Shinomiya Conglomerate, how much did her father and her older brothers know about these things?
What happened tonight should soon reach the main family in Kyoto. At that time, she could make a judgment based on their attitude.
Shinomiya Kaguya asked the Godly Mother of Shitamachi for some more details, confirming that she was not fooling her.
Finally, she asked the Godly Mother if she and Yotsuya Miko had the aptitude to become exorcists, and if she would be willing to become their temporary exorcism teacher.
The Godly Mother of Shitamachi naturally understood what this "temporary" meant, but she still agreed, not even mentioning the matter of payment.
She knew that her strength was low and she couldn't catch the eye of this young mistress of the Shinomiya family. But even if she only taught for a few days, the other party wouldn't treat her, this old woman who had initiated her, badly.
At that time, if she took this sum of money and returned to the countryside to live out her retirement, wouldn't that be much more comfortable than her current life?
Since this matter had been decided, Shinomiya Kaguya had someone arrange a place for the Godly Mother of Shitamachi to stay nearby.
After that, she had someone find a clean car to send Yotsuya Miko home. Shinomiya Kaguya then sorted out her thoughts and sent them to the group.
She now held a great deal of the initiative.
Jujutsu Sorcerers, vengeful spirits, and the possible coming Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
These things should be able to make the people in the group make some changes and truly connect them, these diary holders, together.
...
This night, although there was no diary from the mysterious person to stimulate everyone's minds, these "truths" still had a huge impact on the members of the Diary Interest Group.
It also had a considerable impact on Miyauchi Hikage.
Having followed that group of girls for a whole day, thanks to Kasumigaoka Utaha and Shinomiya Kaguya mentioning his name from time to time, although he had missed some things, he had heard the key information more or less.
Beika Town was a gathering place for vengeful spirits, the existence of Jujutsu Sorcerers and the Jujutsu Headquarters, and the mana resurgence that had started more than ten years ago.
Although they had said "the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons from a thousand years ago is returning," wasn't this, at the end of the day, a rather classic mana resurgence?
"The time of the mana resurgence seems to be about the same as the time I transmigrated to this world. It's just that I can't figure out the order for the time being. What do you think, Jerry?"
Miyauchi Hikage pulled Jerry out. Jerry cooperatively replied, "I believe there must be something fishy about this matter."
"So... I wasn't just pulled over here to do stunts for everyone?" Miyauchi Hikage shook his head, a little melancholy. "Could it be that I was really summoned by the world's consciousness of this world to be a savior?"
After all, that's how it was written in those mana resurgence novels.
He had even already thought of the plot that would follow.
Right now, the plots of the other stories hadn't finished yet. Guys like demons and monsters probably wouldn't formally appear on stage so quickly.
At the very least, they had to wait for the plot on Conan's side to run its course, right?
And taking advantage of this last period of peace before the mana resurgence, he, this "savior," should work hard to develop his own power and harem.
And then, on the day that the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons reappeared before the world, he would wear the head-flicker artifact he had made himself, go up to the Nurarihyon in the lead, give it a head-flick, and by the way, shock the whole world.
Thinking of this, Miyauchi Hikage hurriedly shook his head.
That picture was too beautiful, completely unsuitable for him.
And it was too early to talk about that time now. He was now just an internet memer who had filmed cringey rustic videos for three years. To ask him to consider this kind of thing was indeed a bit difficult.
He should first consider things that were closer to him.
Isn't Beika Town a gathering place for high-level vengeful spirits?
Why have I been living here for so many days and haven't seen a single one?
Could it be that because of my arrival, Beika Town has now become the cleanest street in the whole world?
In that case, not only would the people from Jujutsu Headquarters have to give me an advanced exorcism award, but even that guy Conan would have to come over and kowtow to me for the decrease in Beika Town's crime rate.
"Although I've prepared for it before, I should review it again and check for any loopholes in my identity." Thinking of this, Miyauchi Hikage also decided what he should write in his diary tomorrow.