Divine Gate

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Divine Gate
Alias(es)	神御門; Kawamori Divine Gate
Type	Government-established psychic and exorcist organization
Affiliation	Government; formerly influenced by multiple Psychic-family factions
Occupation/Role	Containment of Gates of the Underworld; spirit-related investigations; exorcist coordination and recruitment
Status	Reformed and renamed after the disappearance of the Gates of the Underworld; continues in a streamlined role concerning the balance between humans and spirits 133 134
First Appearance	46

Background / History

The Divine Gate is the country's foundational exorcist power: an official organization of Psychics established to manage situations beyond ordinary people. Its foremost original duty was preventing outside interference with the seals on the Gates of the Underworld, while spirit incidents and other work were secondary concerns 48 61.

It created the modern threat classifications for Spirits, including the Insect, Wolf, Tiger, and Dragon classes. Dragon-class Spirits can be perceived by all Psychics, while entities above that category may be visible even to ordinary people 48 53.

Despite its official status, the organization developed severe internal divisions. Psychic families retained influence because Spiritual Power depends on bloodlines and natural mutation, leaving government control incomplete; regional branches often became contests between the Investigation Department, the Special Affairs Department, and competing family-backed factions 88 90 103.

Organization

Core duties

• Guarded and monitored the seals of Gates of the Underworld, which contain powerful Spirits and monsters 48 61.
• Investigated urban legends, tracked involved civilians, reviewed related cases, and dealt with dangerous Ghosts 80.
• Monitored freelance Exorcists near Gates and recruited unaffiliated Psychics when manpower was insufficient 61 80.
• Classified and responded to spirit threats using its standardized threat-level system 53.

Departments and authority

Division / Body	Known function
Investigation Department	Investigates urban legends, external incidents, and intelligence related to Spirits and hostile groups; led by Okita Qishen during the Kawamori aftermath 80 81.
Special Affairs Department	Handles operational personnel and field pressure; its rivalry with the Investigation Department contributed to internal dysfunction 51 71 103.
Supreme Council	The Divine Gate's highest council. The One family secured Yotsuya Miko a seat whose authority could direct operational departments nationwide unless other council members intervened 100.
Regional branches	Maintain local Gate security and spirit-related operations, though their effectiveness varies greatly depending on manpower, corruption, and factional influence 61 80.

Recruitment and contracts

The Divine Gate offers contracts to rogue Exorcists and Psychics, including psychic education and safety provisions for minors, compensation, insurance, and long-term employment arrangements. Minor contracts cannot be terminated until the eleventh year after the recruit begins adult work; adult contracts run for ten years 61.

Futamido Yuria joined after being offered such a contract, later rising to Vice Minister of the Special Affairs Department 62 96.

Major Incidents

Kawamori operations

The Kawamori branch used a nationally televised calligraphy competition as cover to mobilize personnel and investigate the Shepherd, while also diverting public attention from the organization's search operations 46 69 71.

The operation was compromised by Shepherd infiltration. A captured Shepherd member killed himself through an unknown power, and the organization later uncovered a spy within the Kawamori branch 71 72.

The branch's director, Yamanaka Saigawa, was ultimately exposed as Tongsheng Yuanhe, the Shepherd's leader. He used a Blood Sacrifice to open six Gates of the Underworld, demonstrating that the Divine Gate's understanding of the ritual and its own internal security had been dangerously incomplete 73 74.

Second Kawamori Gate Riot

During the Blood Sacrifice, the Divine Gate and allied Exorcists faced monsters emerging through multiple Gates. Shimizu Tenpu and Yuria held one Gate while Yotsuya Miko severed connections and closed others 74 79.

The crisis revealed that some Gate entities could physically affect reality and be seen by ordinary people—capabilities absent from the Divine Gate's previous records 74 75. Tongsheng Yuanhe's death ended the Shepherd's operation, but the Kawamori branch suffered major reputational and structural damage 77 80.

Cooperation with Yotsuya Miko

Following Kawamori, the Divine Gate granted Yotsuya Miko a Special Investigator identity with special authority in exchange for resolving dangers on Kamikakushi Mountain 81 82.

Miko supplied the organization with information about Spiritual Qi and modified Tongsheng Yuanhe's cultivation method into the Life Spiritual Qi Extraction Method. The technique was intentionally crude, slow, capped at late Qi Condensation, and contained hidden backdoors and traps 86.

The Divine Gate later distributed the method internally, strengthening its Exorcists with an energy more potent than ordinary Spiritual Power 96 107. Its attempts to test Miko by contaminating supplied materials deepened tensions, though Okita Qishen and the One family pursued accommodation rather than open conflict 93 95.

Reform and loss of the Gates

As Spirits disappeared on a large scale, the Divine Gate prepared to merge the Investigation and Special Affairs Departments, streamline personnel, and withdraw from secular affairs 122.

Yotsuya Miko subsequently destroyed the Gates of the Underworld throughout the country. With its central containment duty eliminated, the Divine Gate underwent rapid reform, merged its former departments, and received an undisclosed new name 130 133 134.

Miko proposed a new purpose for the reformed organization: using a new technique to eradicate Evil Spirits while allowing benign Spirits to remain until they naturally fade, thereby maintaining a revised Yin-Yang balance without Gates of the Underworld 134.

Relationships

• Yotsuya Miko — Initially an independent anomaly the organization sought to understand; later a Special Investigator, contractual partner, and Supreme Council member supported by the One family 81 82 100.
• Futamido Yuria — Recruited as a minor Exorcist; became Vice Minister of the Special Affairs Department and served as a key intermediary between Miko and the organization 61 62 96.
• Okita Qishen — Director of the Investigation Department who negotiated with Miko and increasingly treated her as an untouchable, godlike power 82 93 107.
• One Kyojun — One-family figure who sought to reform the Divine Gate, remove outside factions, and support Miko's position on the Supreme Council 108 109.
• Shepherd — Hostile organization that infiltrated the Kawamori branch and exploited its weaknesses to conduct a multi-Gate Blood Sacrifice 46 61 73.
• Tongsheng Yuanhe / Yamanaka Saigawa — Former head of the Kawamori Divine Gate and secretly the Shepherd's leader 74 80.

Trivia

• The Divine Gate operates from facilities disguised as ordinary businesses; at least one branch has hidden underground floors accessed through a password-protected elevator panel 85.
• Before Yotsuya Miko appeared, only three Exorcists in the country were capable of confronting Dragon-class Spirits 107.
• The organization has been compared to a spiritual-world police department because its personnel handle both routine supernatural cases and rare catastrophic threats 80.