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The gentle morning sunlight shone down from the horizon, illuminating a red-and-white iron tower that seemed to pierce the clouds.
This iron tower enjoyed a certain degree of fame not only in this country, but in other countries as well.
Not far from this somewhat famous iron tower stood a great variety of complicated buildings.
Some were upscale restaurants, some were small and medium-sized schools, some were famous television stations, some were radio broadcasting stations, and there were even embassies nearby.
However, if one had to name the most numerous among them, then aside from residences, it would be shrines and temples.
For some reason, the streets not far from the famous iron tower had an unusually large number of shrines and temples.
Among them was a shrine located at the end of winding paths, atop a raised platform reached by more than two hundred stone steps.
It was a shrine surrounded by lush trees and nestled amid verdant woods.
In the open space before such a shrine, a young girl held a broom and swept with slow yet rhythmic, practiced movements.
The girl wore an exceedingly standard shrine maiden outfit. She looked to be around fifteen or sixteen years old, with beautiful waist-length hair that gleamed brilliantly beneath the sunlight.
However, her hair was not glossy black, but a flaxen color close to coffee brown.
A beautiful girl with such lovely waist-length hair, dressed as a shrine maiden and sweeping before a shrine, looked just like a gorgeous painting, giving one the feeling that she might vanish at any moment.
And indeed, this beautiful scene was soon