Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 248 Buying a Shrine?
"Well, those few words, actually, are..."

Xia Fan swallowed hard, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

You can't say that it was some evil god living in my body, speaking nonsense after his descent, right?
"Hehe, if you don't answer, I'll just take it as what you said."

Aoi Jinguji turned her head away and stopped asking about this matter.

The two of them sat side by side, immersed in the darkness after the street lights broke down, quietly gazing at the vast galaxy above their heads.

"Hey……"

"It seems that with my low budget, I can't buy a 'clean' house..."

After a while, Xia Fan finally remembered that his original purpose today was to "look at houses" and couldn't help but sigh.

With my low budget, the "single-family house" I can afford in the Tokyo area is most likely either a haunted house or a property with an accident...

Even if we have to settle for the next best thing, it would still be uncomfortable to live in a place where there are a lot of signs of spiritual activity around.

I'm afraid I won't be able to complete this [Limited Time Oracle] from the God of Heaven.

"Mr. Xia Fan, if you want to buy a 'clean' plot of land to build a house..."

Understanding his troubles, Aoi Jinguji rolled her eyes and started to help think.

"Oh yeah, why don't we just buy a shrine?"

After a few seconds, she seemed to have thought of something, stood up lightly, and excitedly proposed to Xia Fan.

"I...buy...a shrine?!"

This overly shocking "housing purchase suggestion" made Xia Fan subconsciously lean back.

"A shrine blessed by the gods has a torii gate as a boundary to demarcate the divine territory. Foul air cannot invade, and evil spirits cannot enter."

"I grew up in a shrine since I was young. After I awakened my spiritual power, I have never seen any traces of spiritual activity, let alone evil spirits, in the shrine."

"Many psychics live in shrines and temples for their entire lives, also for the sake of 'peace and quiet'."

Aoi Jinguji explained seriously.

"But, can the shrine be sold to ordinary people?"

"Will the gods living there not be enraged because their territory was sold by mortals?"

"and……"

Xia Fan naturally felt that this was not feasible.

What he didn't ask was that there was already an evil god in his body...

If you want to live in a shrine, I'm afraid that the God of Tenmyoujin will first have a "war of faith" with the original gods inside to fight to the death.

"According to the regulations of religious corporations, the buildings and land of a shrine are also considered as assets of the corporate body, so they can of course be sold."

"Of course, most shrines are not willing to sell the gods' land, but there are exceptions..."

"I owe you so much favor, Mr. Xia Fan, so I'll take care of this matter. Just focus on recording the show these few days and wait for my 'house viewing notice'."

Jinguji Aoi seemed very proud of her sudden idea and promised confidently.

……

The next day, early in the morning.

The sunlight shines through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the luxurious bedroom with a 2.3-meter-long bed.

"It's me. Go ahead."

In front of the French window, a middle-aged man with shoulder-length hair, naked in the golden morning light, answered the phone. On his wrist was a string of bone-made Buddhist beads, with faces of people with different expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness carved on the surface.

"President Matsudaira, the real estate project that our group has invested in, the one in Wako City..."

"Because of a natural gas leak, residents in the community fell into a coma. The area was blocked by the Geological Disaster Countermeasures Center and will only be opened after geological restoration..."

"Fortunately, there is only one plot left in the entire project that has not been sold, so the loss is very small..."

"This is a small matter that shouldn't bother you so early in the morning, but I thought about you asking us to pay special attention to this project, so I took the liberty to call you so early in the morning."

On the other end of the phone, a male voice reported respectfully.

“What about the residents in the community?”

"The resident seems to have been rescued by official agencies and sent to a specialized hospital for treatment. No more detailed information is available at the moment."

"Got it. Just follow the official agency's advice and let me know if there's any new developments."

After asking a few questions indifferently, the man called "President Matsudaira" ended the call in a calm tone.

"The old site of the Matsudaira clan, the spirit summoning formation that was hidden so secretly, was actually discovered by the authorities. Is it a coincidence, or did someone with ulterior motives notice it?"

"The 'resurrected' relatives in the community, as well as the ancestors in the Soul-Calming Tower, must have died."

"If it weren't for the favor of the Buddha, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to gain freedom, and I wouldn't be able to escape the cycle of reincarnation at this moment..."

Staring intently at the bustling city below, his arms trembled subconsciously, and the phone in his palm broke into two pieces with a "click".

"complex."

The next second, Matsudaira uttered a word, and the phone was restored to its original state as if a video was played in reverse.

"Amitabha, for a moment I forgot the true meaning of the Buddha and violated the precept of anger."

“Always have compassion for all living beings, even those who are not living beings…”

Then, he bowed his head reverently and recited some obscure scriptures.

"Boss, who made you angry so early in the morning?"

A handsome, muscular young man in a bathrobe got off the bed and leaned silently against his side.

"Nothing to do with you."

"Speaking of which, you are going to rejoin the crew for recording at noon today?"

Matsudaira skillfully reached out and grabbed the other person's slender waist under her robe.

"Well, it's been a while since I can stay at the president's place. I really don't want to leave."

"In this show, Xia Fan from the Burning Department has Yayoi Tsuki's hype, and he's too popular. I have to work extra hard to live up to the president's expectations and take the first place as planned."

If there are viewers who follow the "Idol Birth Festival" here, they will definitely recognize that he is the five-star trainee of the local group, Takahashi Yu.

Although Takahashi Yu received a five-star rating for his first stage and his overall popularity ranking was hovering in the top four or five, he did not have many screen times in the first few episodes of the show, and his presence was relatively weak among the five-star trainees. He only left the audience with the stereotype that he "seems to be very good at dancing."

Only the top management of J Company knew that although Yuta Hirano from the same company was a talented singer and dancer and had good looks, his long-term overseas life had made him have a hot temper and was assessed by the company as having "many uncontrollable factors", so he was not the first candidate for debut.

On the contrary, Takahashi Yu, who was also a trainee selected by J Company, got the "training counterattack and championship script".

According to the plan, in the later stages of the program, he would show obvious "growth" in all aspects of his abilities through "unremitting efforts", step by step surpassing several trainees who were in the limelight in the early stages, such as Hirano Yuta and Kishi Sho, and unexpectedly take the first place in popularity.

But now, Xia Fan, a man with dazzling appearance, perfect dancing and touching singing, suddenly appeared. From the very beginning of the show, he took advantage of the hype of Yayoi Tsuki to attract traffic and took the first place in the gap, disrupting the "script" that several companies had discussed in advance.

(End of this chapter)