The Shrine

General Information
The Shrine is one of the most important locations in game, being the place where Masako opens up a portal to the Microverse, where Masako plans her assualt of the acadmy, and overall base of operations for the Red Queen's mission. This is the place where both main charecter parties are shrunken.

Ari no Tsurugi
In Ari no Tsurugi, Hitoshi and the party come here after 'Lady Hosoki'(secretly Masako) told them to deliver the Marco crystals to the Mikos. The Mikos, realizing Masako's intentions, send the party into the nearby forest area to get more of them. After getting more of them, Hitoshi's party then comes back, confronting Masako and the Mikos. After Masako reveals she is not Lady Hosoki, she battles the party and takes the crystals for herself. She then uses them to shrink the party down, and depending on the choice chosen at the instant death cutscene, either killing them underfoot, or failing to kill them.

Later on, the Red Queen is seen through cutscene to have been summouned forth, though only the size of a doll, and now residing at the shrine. No other contact with the Shrine is had until Hiromi, Umi, and Rui come to investigate the disapearence of all the boys at the academy. They pick up the Red Queen thinking she is a doll, and, after talking with Masako, go off in search of the boys in a abandoned mineshaft.

Later on, after coming up from the well through a geyser in the hot spring, the party finds Izoku and Masako(now their size), on the floor of the shrine after the Red Queen shrunk Masako for 'not being able to crush an ant'. The party then go after the Red Queen through the Shrine's portal with either Izoku or Masako.

Ari no Tsurugi II
In Ari no Tsurugi II, Izoku's party go to the shrine after the old man tells them his suspicouns of the shrines involvement on the chain of disapearences. The party goes into the shrine, and asks the head priestess about the crystals, only to have her reveal they get them from the forest north of them. The party goes out looking for some, and the Miko aks if they'd be willing to barter for them.

Later, after fighting the three Mikos and blinding the head priestess, the party goes into the shrine to find Masako busy at work with the portal, using the markoforce from the groundskeepers to establish it. The party confronts her, and after some chit-chat about who she is, they fight Masako while she has her growth power activated. Even though they smashed the crystals they had, Masako uses her own to shrink them down, and they retreat.

Later, a cutscene showing Masako's servant, Sayuri(The Queen of the Portal) coming forth into the world. Masako sends her off to do her errands, like killing the shrunken people and friendly insects.

After remeeting Billy, the party goes into the shrine through a hole and through several tunnels, can come through on several places. The right one letting them battle Sayuri, and letting them take use of a helpful distraction to get out.