Tokyo Gods Only Want Beautiful Priestesses

Faced with an unclear situation, Su Woai chose to be cautious and find out more before making a decision.

"why?"

Mana first asked Suga a question in return, and then asked, "Miss Aiko, what era is it now?"

"Is there a problem with 2023 in the Gregorian calendar?"

Su answered truthfully, but unexpectedly, Zhenyu suddenly laughed twice, her tone slightly sentimental.

“But this village dates back to 1938, Father Shimura to 1863, and I am so far removed from that time that I can’t even remember when I was born. Most of the villagers here were caught in the tsunami, but many others were people who were taken in by God or strayed into this place in different eras.”

The explosive news, like a thunderclap, instantly dispelled the fog in Su Wa'ai's mind. It wasn't until Zhenyu pointed out the fog that she noticed many details she had overlooked.

The entire Yuzuru Village seems to have been frozen in time in the last century, even the most remote mountain village wouldn't be like this. Moreover, the priest's notebook is made of a special waterproof material and uses very coarse ink. Combined with his talk of missionary work, he couldn't possibly be a modern person.

But why, why hasn't anyone noticed? It's so obvious, and with so many people from different eras mixed together, shouldn't someone have realized the problem long ago?

Before Suga could voice her question, Mako had already answered it.

"Don't you already know the answer? This is a dream. Ordinary people can't remember the details of dreams. In dreams, many things are confused or ignored. Isn't that normal?"

When Mana said those words, Suga Ai even felt as if she had for a moment seen herself lying on the table at the banquet, fast asleep, while in front of her, Jingu was toying with her best friend, placing Kuga Hikari in front of her as she slept and teasing her mercilessly.

"Is that so?"

Su Woai suddenly realized why she had been mysteriously hidden from the shrine without knowing it; it was just a dream, not some kind of mysterious disappearance, and the real her was still asleep.

But when she was in her dream, she couldn't break through that cognitive barrier. When the real fish pointed it out, she finally understood, but she still couldn't wake up from the dream.

"And what about you, Miss Mana? How did you become a shrine maiden, and how did you stay in a dream for so long?"

"That's a long story. The name 'True Fish' is just what I used later when I was living in seclusion."

"If we were to use the legends you've read in books, you should call me Yaobikuni."

Chapter 159 Dead Things

The Eight Hundred Bhikkhunis, who gained immortality by eating the flesh of mermaids, are said to travel the world and live forever.

But there is no such thing as a mermaid in the world. Similar fish monsters or sea monsters like sirens do not have the power to grant immortality. After all, if immortality were so easy to achieve, this species would have been artificially bred or driven to extinction by people who cannot accept it.

Therefore, the story of Yaobikuni has always been a true legend, unlike the actual figures like Shuten-dōji and Tamamo-no-Mae.

But the real fish in front of her tells Suga that she was once known as Yaobikuni.

"Is it surprising? Well, it is. It's certainly surprising when a legendary figure suddenly appears in front of you."

"True Fish," or Yaobikuni said calmly.

"No, I'm not surprised by that."

After all, even Princess Kaguya intertwined her fingers with hers and was played with until her eyes rolled back on the same bed. In mythology, Yashinagami, who tricked Amaterasu Omikami out of Ama-Iwato, also pushed her to fast. So, Suga Ai is quite receptive to this kind of thing.

I just felt that the person in front of me, no matter how I looked at her, didn't resemble the mythical Yaobikuni. Oh well, it seems that none of the people around me resemble the legend. Oh well, it doesn't matter.

"So what you mean by piranha flesh is eating the flesh of your supreme god?"

Yaobikuni nodded slightly, confirming Soga's guess. Consuming the flesh and blood of a god also conformed to the terms of the contract between the priestess and the god.

“Ever since I did that, I have regretted my reckless behavior. In this village, in this dream, in front of the corpse of God, I can never leave and am tormented in vain.”

Yaobikuni looked outside. What Suga didn't know was that the mountain path where she first appeared was actually the boundary of this dream. No matter which way she went, she could never reach the sea. This dream was only as big as this village and the surrounding mountain path.

Because this village is not located by the sea.

"Wait a minute! You mean, the corpse of God? It's already dead?"

Another bombshell announcement! Su Woai felt like a player who clicked "skip" to fast-forward to the final level, and everything being said was completely unknown to her.

"Of course it's dead, otherwise why would we be here?"

Amid Soga Ai's questions, Yaobikuni answered all her questions about the dream.

When Yaobikuni was still an ordinary person, she encountered a drought and famine. On the verge of starvation, Yaobikuni saw a god fall from the sky and land in front of her, dying.

At the time, she was starving to death, and her first reaction upon seeing this bizarre event was to treat the flesh and blood of the god as her own food, and she went up to eat it without regard for the circumstances.

But the god did not die completely, or rather, its body died, but its struggle before death still had some effect, transforming this area into the otherworldly realm it is today.

From that time on, Yaobikuni was trapped here. The life of a god is great; though it died, it still possessed consciousness and the possibility of resurrection. Yaobikuni would then have to pay the price for her act of consuming the flesh and blood of a god.

Pay the price.

In the countless years that followed, Yaobikuni not only had to guard the body of the god, but also deal with all sorts of people who strayed into the place.

She had always been here, never leaving for even a moment. Later, the village of Hanyu Hebikuni was gradually established, but it was then that Yaobikuni discovered that the body of the god had polluted the water source.

The villagers spontaneously developed a faith because of the blood, and revered the eight hundred nuns as their founders, and spontaneously carried out a ceremony called "Returning the Sea".

By reaping the lives of believers, the gods' corpses gradually regained their vitality. However, even after decades, nearly a century, the restored corpses never truly came back to life, as if something was still missing.

Then, in a tsunami, everything vanished like a bubble. The entire Yuzuru Village and the god's corpse were dragged into the abyss of the sea by the tsunami, leaving only this dream to remain.

But a dream devoid of reality is meaningless; what is the point of constantly "returning"? The entire dream is trapped on the eve of the tsunami. No matter how many rituals are performed, the corrupted corpses will emerge from the sea and instinctively return to the place where they started.

Endless, this dream has fallen into a cycle with no future.

"So, Miss Aiko, do you understand? I don't care about anything anymore. Your killing it might be a good thing for me, but I don't have any expectations."

After telling the long story, Yaobikuni breathed a sigh of relief, and Suga Ai digested the information in the story.

"If that's the case, why was I still pulled into this dream after God's body had already disappeared?"

"I don't know, maybe it's just a coincidence."

Yaobikuni stood up, picked up a lantern, and said to Suga Ai, "The story is almost over. If you still want to go, Miss Aiko, please come with me."

Following Yaobikuni, in the basement of this mansion, there is an underground passage that leads directly to the mine.

The mine that once played a significant role in the establishment of Yuusuke Village has now become the place where Yaobikuni hides her secrets. Follow the dark mine downwards.

"Is there water?"

As Su Woai walked close to the rock face, she could faintly hear the sound of flowing water coming from within the rock.

“We are now below the village, with the river flowing through it above us. The end of the ‘Sea Return’ is not the sea, but an underground river.”

As Yaobikuni walked a little further, the space in front of her suddenly opened up, and the river water poured down from the hole in the top, forming a small waterfall that blocked the road in front of her.

The surrounding rock walls became damp, and even strange moss grew, emitting an eerie glow, just like the scene before Su Wai was swept up in.

"Are you ready? To be honest, I don't know where your confidence comes from, Miss Aiko. Don't you need to prepare something else? Like a weapon to fight a god or something."

Having stopped, Yaobikuni finally confirmed with Suga Ai.

"Go further ahead, cross the water curtain, and you will reach the deepest part of this dream. Before you is the god himself, who still lives in the dream."

"Indeed, I need to prepare."

Suo Ai pulled an umbrella from under her coat. She had taken it from the priest again, and it was perfect for her to use now to help her get through the curtain of water and avoid contamination in case the red rain came again.

Seeing Suga's cautiousness, Yaobikuni's expression was somewhat helpless.

“Miss Aiko, is it still necessary to be so cautious at this point? If you haven’t been contaminated, you will not be able to enter the next level, and you will not be able to see its blood or form.”

The two stopped in front of the water curtain and looked at each other.

I suddenly realized that even pretty girls can be aroused by slurping oysters; damn, I discovered that too late.

Chapter 160 A shrine maiden should behave like a shrine maiden.

Yaobikuni's words were not entirely without merit; it is a concept frequently mentioned in Shintoism.

However, it cannot be ruled out that Yaobikuni deliberately deceived Soga Ai. Perhaps all the purposes she mentioned were to make Soga Ai willingly accept the contamination. This is not impossible.

After all, although her words matched the priest's message and her motives were plausible, she ultimately lacked empirical evidence; it was all just talk.

The two faced off in front of the water curtain, Yaobikuni remaining calm and seemingly unconcerned.

After a while, Su Woai suddenly laughed and opened the umbrella.

"Actually, you're not completely indifferent to everything, are you? For example, you're quite concerned about whether I'll go in or not."

"Why do you feel that way?"

Yaobikuni remained calm, seemingly unmoved.

"Intuition tells me that although you've always acted indifferent, after you showed up last night, you deliberately led me to the priest. Everyone in the village is your eyes and ears, so you know that the priest has been investigating these things for a long time."

"You were worried that I wouldn't believe your story, so you deliberately led me to see the priest to make the priest's message echo what you said, so that I would trust you, right?"

As for the four hundred nuns, you didn't think they were bad people, and you were also very vague about your feelings, after all, you never even fantasized that you could kill a god.

However, the only response to Su Ni'ai was a shrill roar, as if the other party did not accept the proposal, which made things a bit troublesome.

"How exactly should he deal with this, Aiko's eldest sister?"

"It wants to devour him, so that it can be reborn in the present world through his body and return to the world."

"aaa——!!!"

Su Ni Ai was stunned for a moment, then she understood. That was the deepest part of the dream. As long as she swallowed her own consciousness, it would take over her body and complete her rebirth in an alternative way.

So, where does one's goal lie?

"By the way, the reason you're willing to get soaked isn't because you're wary, but because you're not someone else's shaman yet. You'll only accept the blood and flesh of this one person and don't want to be corrupted by anything else."

Su Ni'ai didn't even turn her head, but walked in a roundabout way toward the water curtain.

A shrine maiden should fight in a style that doesn't resemble a shrine maiden.

Matters concerning the gods should naturally be resolved by the gods themselves.

"Eat you?"

Beneath the hollow at the top lies a small lake, as if the world has been turned upside down. In the lake's water, a tiny figure is rushing towards the surface.

Su Ni'ai suddenly understood why she was pulled back from that dream. There was indeed a medium between you and that so-called god. It was her own body, the sea monster sashimi she had tasted on the first day of her vacation.

Behind him, swimming in the air, was the little sea monster that the shrine had caught that day. The light shining through the water was refracted by its scales, and the scene at that moment truly resembled a god descending from the sky.