Tokyo Gods Only Want Beautiful Priestesses

Nagai Seiko stepped back to catch his breath, trying to maintain a steady breathing pattern, but with each breath he could hardly contain his excitement.

"Don't worry about the rules or knowledge you've learned, just follow your nature and let it run its course."

Jingu said casually, this speed was as easy for him as masturbating, while suppressing the earthquake required much more effort.

"Wow! My heart is pounding like crazy, is this what it feels like to be in love?"

Nagai Seiko clutched her chest, her blood circulation accelerating and her heart pounding rapidly.

"Although I really want to say yes, it would be too despicable of me to lie to you after all this," Jingu said regretfully.

"That's the feeling called pursuit. Whether you're a human or a god, if you lose your pursuit, you lose your life."

"If you once pursued breaking free from constraints, how about now? How does it feel to successfully break free and be unfettered?"

Before the Holy Son of Mingju could answer, the Divine Palace swung his iron whip, which extended into a nine-section whip. He used lightning to control its shape and swung it straight into the thunderclouds, gathering the power of thunder.

Without time to think, the Holy Son could only deal with the situation with all his might. In addition, he sank his mind into the depths of the earth, stirring up the giant catfish that had been trampled underfoot by the Divine Palace.

As if preparing to unleash its power, the shrine's suppression of the giant catfish lessened, allowing the Holy Son of the Namei to easily draw upon the catfish's power and gather it together.

Meanwhile, the long whip in the shrine lashed down heavily, carrying the might of a vast thunderbolt, as if dragging the sky down with it.

The Holy Son of Mingju gripped the stone tightly with both hands, neither dodging nor avoiding it. He closed his eyes, concentrated, and chanted something in a low voice. Then, he slammed the stone heavily onto the ground. The shockwave momentarily stopped the thunderclouds before it crashed down.

The catfish's full-force turn and the unreserved release of the blessing stone will inevitably have a tremendous impact.

Its overwhelming power overturned heaven and earth. This time, it was unimpeded and unrestricted, and was released without reservation. The entire Takao Mountain, along with the surrounding mountains, shook.

The shockwaves twisted the earth along the veins, spreading in all directions, like an invisible giant hand twisting everything on the ground. The earth was turned upside down, and the very foundation of the world was in turmoil.

After enduring repeated minor earthquakes, Tokyo in the distance finally faced this disaster. Roads were twisted, houses shook and collapsed, high-rise buildings swayed like straw, and countless sirens wailed.

The powerful shockwaves continued to spread into the distance, and the sea trembled. If nothing unexpected happened, a massive tsunami would soon follow, engulfing the surrounding land.

On Mount Takao, the once lush forest is now covered with yellow earth. Tamamo-no-Mae and Iizuna-maru protect Soga-ai as they take flight, waiting for this matter to end.

At the center of the collision, the Divine Palace remained spotless. The attack made by the Holy Son of the Name Palace just now was less about fighting him head-on and more about finding an opening to achieve his own goal.

Although the shockwave blocked some of the lightning, the remaining force still blasted the girl beyond recognition, shattering rocks into pieces.

Even though it was a charred remains that were no longer human, the shrine could still sense the vigorous life force of the Holy Son of the Naju.

About half an hour later, a white, lotus-root-like arm emerged from the charred remains, and a brand-new young girl's body emerged from the old shell.

His bewildered gaze swept around him, finally settling on the shattered stones on the ground.

Had he failed? The thought had barely formed when countless curses and wails burrowed into the mind of the Holy Son of Namei.

The girl smiled brightly and gave a V-sign to the shrine.

"I won!"

Chapter 51 Precious Unfreedom

The phenomena of heaven and earth do not change because of human thoughts.

Natural disasters are merciless and uncontrollable, and the girl named Nai-no-mori has always been taught to think like the heavens.

Nai-no-kami is merely an agent, striving to make the uncontrollable earthquake controllable. Inevitably, oversights and mistakes will occur. Even without accidents, earthquakes will inevitably cause death and injury. To alleviate the guilt of successive Nai-no-kami, the Nai-no-kami family has taught them this way.

But when countless negative emotions, fear, pain, resentment and so on, rushed in all at once, Naiji Seiko couldn't help but tremble. However, she still endured the discomfort, made a V sign with her hand towards the shrine, and smiled brightly.

"I won!"

She had completed her mission, and an unprecedented sense of satisfaction filled her heart, even though her actions had indirectly caused the deaths of nearly ten thousand people.

"Yes, you won. Are you happy now?"

The shrine maiden put away her iron whip and approached step by step.

"I'm not very happy, they're so noisy."

Nagai Seiko covered her head, countless voices echoing in her mind. The curse triggered by negative emotions began to erode her body, while the strange regenerative power within her actively fought back, buying her time.

"No, I still have time. I need to do something."

The girl struggled to her feet. Having completed all her duties, she was no longer the Lord of the Names, no longer the Holy Child of the Names.

But what should I do? I can't think of anything, I don't know anything. The excitement I felt just now has vanished without a trace, leaving only a sense of emptiness.

"Shin-gu, what do you think I should do now?"

Having lost everything and broken free from all constraints, the girl asked the shrine, no longer knowing what she should do.

Instead of answering her question, Jingu asked another one.

"Are you happy now that you're no longer bound by anything?"

The girl paused for a moment, lowered her eyes, and said, "I don't know, but I was happy just now, but I don't feel anything now."

"Because you are nothing now, you have nothing now."

The shrine maiden slowly approached her and draped his clothes over her shoulders.

"Is there anything you want to do?"

The girl nodded first, then shook her head.

"I don't know what I want to do, but I don't know what to do."

They pursued absolute freedom, but in the end, they lost their direction.

For the past sixteen years, it has existed only as a name, without any ideals, dreams, or pursuits. Without the action of external forces, the object will only remain still.

"You may not be a guardian or a holy child, but you must always have some kind of bond. Only in this way can you experience joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, can you be human, can you truly live. This is precisely why God was born."

The shrine maiden stretched out her hand, drawing a line of blood from her fingertips.

"Become my priestess. This is not about losing your freedom, but about gaining an irreplaceable kind of unfreedom."

The bonds between people, the irreplaceable feelings, are born from love, fueled by the fear of death, and made possible by the inevitable end of each day.

It is precisely because of the lack of freedom that we yearn for it.

Of course, Shrine

The words didn't contain so many subtexts; they were more straightforward.

The girl was stunned for a moment, then her face quickly flushed red. This was something she had never experienced before. Even though she had said many meaningful things to the shrine before, she had never felt this way.

"Is this... a confession?"

"No, I should be asking you: Do you like me even a little bit? Is the lack of freedom you feel as my priestess so precious that it can replace the freedom you've always been pursuing?"

Jingu countered, "If you are willing, then let's make a contract, and I will give you a new name and a new life."

The girl stood frozen in place, unsure of what to do, simply standing there blankly.

Jingu sighed and put his fingertip into the girl's mouth.

"It seems you have no choice at all. Let me be firm then. If you hate me, there's nothing I can do."

The girl did not resist; perhaps she simply enjoyed the feeling of having everything decided by force. The contract was thus established.

The curses and countless voices that had been eroding the girl's body disappeared, and a system pop-up appeared in front of the shrine.

[A large amount of negative sentiment and information has been detected. Do you want to block it?]

Since she became the goddess of the maiden, all these things naturally transferred to the shrine.

The shrine didn't even glance at them, completely blocking them out. What did it have to do with him? He didn't have that much sentimentality or a pointless sense of responsibility.

"Alright, now that the contract is settled, the old name is no longer valid. I will choose a new name for you."

After a moment of contemplation, the shrine maiden said, "You already possess two of the qualities of Heaven, Earth, and Man. Since you are my priestess, you can also be considered a daughter of Heaven. Let's call you... Empress."

She is the daughter of heaven, the goddess of earth, and the heart of man.

As for the surname, I haven't thought about it. I'll just call him the Emperor. Although it seems hasty, I'm too lazy to think about it too much. Anyway, I'll take his surname sooner or later.

The shrine looked around, gathered the shattered stones scattered on the ground, and used lightning and fire to temper them, extracting gold from the stones and forging them into a new sword.

"You must really enjoy kendo, so consider this sword a gift."

The emperor took the sword, but still seemed somewhat confused, appearing rather dazed, unlike his previous lively and agile demeanor.

【ding~】

[Task - One isn't enough?]

[Task status: Completed]

【Submit? 】

Upon receiving the belated task completion notification, the Shrine immediately submitted the task.

【Miko: Emperor】

[Qualification: 94]

[Reward: The ability to create Kun-level effects]

Hmm? Jingu wasn't surprised by the ability that clearly corresponded to the last reward. Instead, he was curious about the Emperor's aptitude. If he remembered correctly, Suga's aptitude was 96, but he didn't expect the Emperor's to be a little lower.

The Divine Palace has already experienced the extraordinary nature of the Emperor's qualities; she is like a perfect vessel, capable of containing the qualities of a god.

Whether it's the earthquake power of the stone or the calamity power of the giant catfish, now that the contract has been signed, the Divine Palace can feel its own dragon god-like qualities and the power of heaven and earth, Qian and Kun, slowly flowing into the Emperor's body.

Despite his extraordinary physique, the emperor's rating in the system was only 94, while Su Woai's was 96. However, apart from the past and future events he mentioned, Su Woai has not shown any special characteristics so far.

Even in terms of talent and aptitude for spiritual power, he can only be described as average, which makes the Divine Palace quite curious about how the system was arranged.

But there's no point in being curious about these things right now; let's clean up the mess first.

The shrine has returned to its normal appearance, and the line of sight now extends from the underground to the sea surface.

Chapter 52 The Human Heart

At the beach, people watched the receding seawater. Experienced fishermen quickly climbed ashore and made their way to higher ground.

Meanwhile, people already in the high-rise buildings took out their phones to take pictures of the white cliffs on the distant sea.

But to everyone's surprise, the white tsunami did not grow stronger as it swept in; instead, it tended to subside. The massive tsunami that everyone had imagined did not arrive, and by the time it reached the shore, it was just a normal high tide.