Fairy Tail: I Am the God

"This person was murdered, but the spider demon should also be real. If we don't do this, you really will have to accompany Koizumi Akako to catch the demon. What if something unexpected happens and she finds out that you are abnormal?"

Shinichi Kudo said irritably.

Kidd wasn't stupid; he understood instantly, and a look of gratitude flashed in his eyes.

"Kudo, you're so kind."

"Get out of here! Now it's time to settle our score. You bastard, you used Xiaolan to blackmail me when I didn't come."

Kid looked around, completely ignoring Shinichi Kudo, and laughed loudly, "Really?"

Shinichi Kudo really wanted to kill Kid. Why were there only two reincarnators in this world? Why Kid? Why wasn't he a normal person?

“Alright, it’s been a long time since we last met. How about we see what the spider demon looks like?” Kidd said with a smile.

The missions in these three years have all been solo missions, with very few group missions, and the members of their team haven't gotten together for a long time.

His call to Shinichi Kudo this time might have had this intention in mind.

After all, there were only two reincarnators in this world. With Shinichi Kudo dead, he was truly lonely.

"Let's go. I should be free in a few days. It would be nice to meet up with Jinmu and Mofan."

Genius Team, members: Ken Kaneki, Mo Fan, Kaito Kid, Shinichi Kudo.

The team name was chosen by Kidd; it's a team made up of a group of geniuses.

Mo Fan, being shameless, would of course not deny it; Kaneki Ken didn't care; as for Kudo Shinichi, he... tacitly agreed.

In front of a temple in Spider Ridge Village.

Okamoto Ryo parked the police car outside, got out, and smiled as he introduced the place to Shinichi Kudo and Kid: "This temple is called Hiroshi-ji, and the cemetery where the body was found belongs to Hiroshi-ji."

"In addition, the first person to discover the body was also a monk in the temple, Master Huaming."

“Since we’re going to the cemetery to investigate the scene, it would be best to ask Master Huaming to take us there. He can also explain to us the circumstances of when the body was discovered.”

Okamoto Ryo was babbling on and on, while Kudo Shinichi was scanning his surroundings.

"Huh? Isn't the cemetery of this temple connected to the temple itself?"

In Japan, cemeteries are managed by temples. Regardless of who it is, everyone needs to purchase a burial plot from a temple after death.

Generally speaking, temple cemeteries are located around the temple for easy management and care.

Of course, there are also temples and cemeteries that are not connected, but they are very rare.

Shinichi Kudo pondered...

Okamoto Ryo said, "That's right, the cemetery of Guangsi Temple is some distance away from the temple."

There's a saying in Spider Ridge Village: "First came the Spider Tomb, then came the Guangsi Temple." The Spider Tomb refers to the land...

Upon hearing this, Kidd asked with some curiosity, "Is there some explanation for this?"

"Actually, these are all legends about the Spider Fairy of Spider Ridge Village," Okamoto Ryo explained.

“Hundreds of years ago, Spider Ridge was a forested area with no inhabitants. A woman would often wander through the forest, saying things like ‘Do you think I’m pretty?’ or ‘Do you want to have sex with me?’ to lure men who came into the mountains alone.”

“These men would disappear without a trace once they left with her, and never be seen again…”

"Later, a puppeteer heard about this and made a puppet the same size as a real person, and placed it in the place where that woman often appeared."

"The woman lured the puppet, but the puppet, without much reaction, revealed its true form—it turned out to be a spider as big as a person!"

"Seeing this, the puppeteer fired the rocket he had brought, and the spider, engulfed in flames, fled into the forest. After that, someone found the giant spider's nest and discovered that the giant spider and the little spiders inside had all been burned to death."

"Is this the legend of the Spider Fairy? Isn't it terrifying?" Okamoto Ryo made a threatening gesture, but Shinichi Kudo and Kid both remained indifferent, each more composed than the other.

The contempt in his eyes was already ignored; what's so scary about him?

This story is clearly just a very ordinary legend!

Dregs.

Have you ever experienced real terror?

Chapter 842 Incense Offerings and Deities, Misa Takeda

Kidd asked casually, with an elegant yet polite demeanor, "...And then? What does this legend have to do with Guangsi Temple?"

“Uh… this…” Okamoto Ryo scratched his head and continued.

"Later, the villagers were worried about being cursed by the spider fairy, so they asked a monk with magical powers to help them. After examining the giant spider, the monk said that there were many vengeful spirits in the spider's nest and the places where it often roamed, and that this must be dealt with."

"Then he had the nearby villagers build a shrine at the spider's nest to worship the Spider Fairy, while he himself would sit in the area where the spiders frequently roamed to prevent them from being wrongly accused and harmed..."

"Perhaps it was because the vengeful spirits there were too powerful that the monks dared not stay in the area where the spiders roamed at night, so they found a thatched hut not too far away from there."

That thatched hut is now Guangsi Temple. As for the place where the spider roamed, after the vengeful spirits disappeared there, it was used as a cemetery by the monks, and it remains so to this day…”

After finishing his sentence, Okamoto added with a smile, "Of course, this is just a local folk tale from Spider Ridge; take it with a grain of salt."

"Hmm." Shinichi Kudo pondered for a moment, then nodded. "This legend is quite interesting."

Outside the Spider Ridge Cemetery, Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kid declined Ryo Okamoto's offer to have someone lead the way, and the two strolled leisurely inside.

"Kudo, we seem pretty bored. We could have just used our divine sense to scan the area and kill that spider demon. Why are we searching everywhere?" Kid asked, puzzled.

Shinichi Kudo stopped in his tracks and looked at Kid with utmost seriousness. "Refine your inner self. Haven't you noticed that we've all changed?"

Has it changed? Kidd pondered for a moment, then sighed inwardly.

Kudo was right; he really did change after gaining power.

At least in this world, he rarely pays attention to anyone except his closest relatives, and he is also somewhat arrogant and conceited.

This is a common problem among those who reincarnate; they have already acquired the power to destroy and change everything.

Therefore, most reincarnators abandon everything and even take action within the reincarnation space. Very few return to their original world like he and Shinichi Kudo.

“If this continues, we’ll start to think of ourselves as gods, even though we really aren’t that different from gods,” Shinichi Kudo sighed.

"Only these ordinary days can give me some peace of mind. I am no longer that profit-driven reincarnator, nor an executioner who would do anything for the sake of a mission."

"That's because we all have things we can't let go of," Kidd said, seemingly enlightened.

Deep within the cemetery, Kudo and Kaito stopped in their tracks.

There was a tombstone in front of them.

"Come out, aren't you bored underground? How about meeting some friends?" Although Shinichi Kudo had sealed his divine sense, he still keenly sensed a peculiar aura.

But something seems off about this aura.

After waiting a few minutes, as if convinced that the two had indeed found it, the Spider Woman slowly rose from underground to the surface, cautiously hiding behind the tombstone, watching Kid and Shinichi Kudo warily.

The incense energy within the ghost vibrated, actually condensing its voice into a line that reached Shinichi Kudo and the others directly: "Who...who are you two? What do you want?"

The Spider Queen is human from the abdomen up, her abdomen is like a spider, and her eight legs are also spider-like. She looks like a beautiful woman in her early twenties.

Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kid stared at each other, realizing they might have made a mistake. This female demon wasn't a fairy; she seemed to be some kind of "god" or something similar.

Kidd glared at Kudo, thinking, "Which bastard said to block divine consciousness?"

Alright! You've made a mistake this time!

Shinichi Kudo ignored Kaito Kid and turned to the spider demon, chuckling awkwardly, "Hello, I'm an exorcist named Shinichi Kudo. The two of us beside me heard that a spider demon was appearing in the vicinity and harming people, so we came here to exorcise it. Now it seems we were wrong..."

Exorcist? Why the hell don't you just say you're an Onmyoji, you bastard!

"Exorcise...exorcise a demon?" The spider demon hesitated, then backed away fearfully, her voice barely a whisper, "I...I didn't hurt anyone..."

"I know, I know~" Shinichi Kudo waved his hand.

"You possess the power of incense offerings and prayers, so you should be a 'deity' who receives offerings from ordinary people, right? But it's strange, how did you become like this? Also, how did you receive offerings from ordinary people and become a 'deity'?"

It's said that becoming a demon is not easy in this Dharma-ending Age, and becoming a "god" is not easy either!

This spider demon must have died three years ago.

She passed away three years ago, but not only did her soul not dissipate, it became a "deity," and it absorbed a lot of incense offerings and prayers. It can even make sounds, which is indeed quite strange.

Upon hearing this, the spider demon said in a confused voice, "Gods? I don't know."

Three years ago, after I committed suicide in my family's puppet warehouse, my wandering spirit entered the spider fairy statue that was previously enshrined in the shrine, and that's how I ended up like this..."

"A statue of the Spider Fairy?" Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kid were slightly taken aback, then exchanged a glance. "You mean the Spider Fairy from the legends around here? The one whose shrine was built in its lair after it died?"

"That's right, that's the one. After Dad demolished that ancestral hall, the Spider Fairy statue used for worship was buried under the foundation of the puppet warehouse. I never thought it would turn me into this."

The spider woman answered helplessly, and Shinichi Kudo and Kid simultaneously thought of a possibility—this woman must have died near the spider fairy statue used for worship.

Then, by chance, it "inherited" the remaining incense and prayer power from the statue, which is why it turned out this way.

Holy crap, her dad's got guts! He actually dared to demolish an ancestral hall like this?

Thinking about all this, Shinichi Kudo said, "Your father is really something. He even dared to demolish a shrine to a demon god. Didn't anyone stop him back then?"

"The villagers had always opposed the demolition of the ancestral hall, but my father insisted on doing it his own way, saying that the ancestral hall was on our own land and we didn't need to listen to the villagers' opinions. In the end, the ancestral hall was demolished and a puppet warehouse was built instead."

The spider woman smiled slightly, then, as if remembering something, introduced herself: "Oh right, I forgot to tell you my name."

My name is Misa, Takeda Misa. I'm the daughter of the Takeda family who lives nearby. Nice to meet you!

"Shinichi Kudo, Kaito Kid, please take care of me."