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Chapter 15: East and West

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, three days have passed.

During these three days, Yang Yun frantically read a large number of ancient Japanese myths and legends in the Moya Shrine, hoping to find out the mystery of Rashomon and Mishen Gate.

However, he found nothing.

He had no choice but to find anything, this is the situation Yang Yun is facing now, and he has no idea how to start, just like a knight fighting the wind.

Putting away the heavy book in his hand, Yang Yun walked out of the shrine and stared at the Yushen Gate.

[The Godsmen, Rashomon, two gates related to Shintoism and Buddhism... What secrets are hidden in this?]

Before we knew it, the sound of rooster crowing sounded in Yang Yun's ears. In a blink of an eye, the east was already white.

【Another night has passed…】

Yang Yun sighed. In the past three days, he gained nothing except familiarizing himself with a large number of Japanese gods.

"What's wrong, Mr. Yang Yun, have you noticed anything?" Just as Yang Yun sighed, Meili's voice suddenly came from behind.

"No... it's okay that you haven't been to class these days?" Yang Yun asked back.

"No, because my usual grades are quite reasonable, taking a few days off will not affect anything." Meli shook his head: "But what I have about my dream..."

"What dream did you have again?"

"Well, I have had some dreams that are different from before." Meili walked forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with Yang Yun at the Yushen Gate: "I dreamed that I was sleeping in a dark place with many strange eyes around..."

"Sleeping in a dream? This is very interesting." Yang Yun didn't take it too seriously. "But compared with the dreams you used to be able to bring back fresh bamboo shoots from your dreams, it's not a strange dream."

"If only this is the case, it is really nothing compared to the past..." Meli said in confusion: "But this time my perspective is different from the past, I sleep from the first person perspective. In other words, I am sleeping in the dream, but I can think clearly about problems, just like I am awake... No, no! What I want to express is not this..."

Seeing that Meili became more and more confused as she spoke, Yang Yun didn't understand much, so she had to stop Meili's nonsense first.

"Okay, since you can't think of it, let's forget it. Your secret should be related to this sect. Meli, what do you think about the Yushen Sect?"

"Well... how do you say it? I'm a foreigner and don't know much about Japanese myths and legends, so I can only look at it from a normal perspective." Meli stroked the hair that was scattered behind his head and said, "If you only look at it from the perspective of architecture, I do feel that this Yushen Gate is a bit strange."

"Oh? The architectural aspect? What's the weird thing?"

Yang Yun just asked Melis just that he was planning to change the topic, or it could be said that he was in a hurry to seek medical treatment. After all, he had been reading the books for three days but couldn't find the answer, let alone a foreigner, Melis.

"The direction of the door, direction."

Meli pointed to the God of God and said, "Since this God of God and God in the legend, why not go east but to the west? You must know that God and God Amaterasu is the legendary God of the Sun."

"I think if this mountain gate really has something to do with Amaterasu, then the craftsmen who built the mountain gate should build the opening of this gate to the east, right? After all, the sun is setting in the west, which is not very good for Amaterasu."

After hearing Meli's words, Yang Yun was stunned and quickly looked at the rising sun in the east. As Meli said, the direction facing the front of the Yushen Gate was the west where the sun set, not the east where the sun rose.

[In the Japanese mythological system, when the father of the gods Izenagi was bathing by the river, amateur shines in charge of the sun from his left eye... So how could the mountain gate that had something to do with her face to face the west of the sun set? There must be a problem with this...

【Does this mountain gate have nothing to do with Amaterasu?】

After looking at the three runes on the door, Yang Yun shook his head and rejected his conjecture.

[It is unlikely... Since Saenai's mother said that the first generation of the witches of the Tofukutani family knew the meaning of these three words, it should be what the gods, Suwako and Kanako Yasaka, told them. With the identities of the two gods, even if they don't know, they will definitely not talk nonsense and will casually pull out Amaterasu's name to put it on.]

[Then, there is only one possibility... This is not a mistake by the builder, but a deliberate act! Maybe the puzzle that has troubled me for three days is related to the strange direction of the mountain gate!]

[Since the God Gate is opening westward, then the Rashomon's words...]

Thinking of this, Yang Yun immediately asked Meli beside him and said, "Meli, do you still remember where the Rashomen in that temple opened?"

"I think about it..." Meili held her chin with her hands, and after thinking for a few seconds, she said uncertainly: "It seems... it's east, right?"

[To the east... Rashomon comes from Buddhist allusions, and Buddhism is also called Western religion. Whether it is Journey to the West or the Romance of the Gods, the Buddhist bases are all in the West. Shouldn't this Rashomon face the West?]

If it may be accidental to say that the Yushen Gate goes west, then Rashomon also gets the wrong direction and does not go west but east. There must be a problem with the two when combined.

"thing……"

Yang Yun was muttering these two words and suddenly took out a map from his arms.

【This is the Mishen Gate of the Moya Shrine, this is the Rashomon of the temple, and the east and west...】

Yang Yun took out his pencil and marked the locations of Rashomon and Yushen Gate. The locations of these two gates are exactly the east and west of the city.

[If the opening directions of the two doors are deliberately designed and the location is indicated for later generations...]

Yang Yun used a pencil to draw two straight lines on the map, but the result disappointed him very much... Not to mention the intersection of the two straight lines, they are simply opposite to each other.

"No, it's not right!"

Seeing these two straight lines, Yang Yun shook his head, picked up his pencil and thought hard at the map.

[Rashomen is facing east and Yushenmen is facing west. Are these two opposites... opposite?]

“Yes, it’s the opposite!”

Yang Yun slapped his head and did not erase the two dazzling straight lines, but instead stroked along the reverse extension line...

Then, the two reverse extension lines intersected a little...

"Where is this?" Yang Yun quickly pointed to the map and asked Meli.

"Look, it seems familiar here... Isn't this the location of the House of Resentment?" After seeing the direction marked on the map, Meli covered her mouth in surprise.

"Let's go there right away!" Yang Yun slapped his thigh and stood up, "There... may be the place we are looking for!"
Chapter completed!
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