Becoming a god in Tokyo starts in the bathroom

"Yes, is there another opportunity after such a bath? Or does our shrine hold bathing ceremonies regularly?"

"Does the deity only help women? Could I please ask for some of this holy water so I can take it home and wash my husband and son as well?"

......

The women were amazed by the magical effects of the bath. After becoming believers, their attention naturally turned to the bath, or rather, the water in it.

Anzu Matsuori was completely unprepared for these questions.

Before this, all she had imagined was:

If the shop owner disagrees, how should I persuade them?

If no one is willing to try it, how can you persuade customers?

If customers don't approve of the experience, how should you argue your case and attract more customers?

And wow, she didn't do anything, and the discerning customers completed the whole process themselves!

Having never experienced anything like this before, she was genuinely a bit bewildered by the overly proactive, enthusiastic, and even experienced young women and aunties.

We can only try our best to respond:

"No! Absolutely not! This is bathwater! Hmm? No! And it's even more unacceptable to take it back for your family to drink!"

"Yes, the effect isn't due to the water in the pool; the divine blessing is bestowed upon this pool!"

"Duration? I don't know either... but it won't be too short. The gods didn't say anything about this either."

"Huh? Call people over for a bath now? Well... if it's not too far, that's fine, right?"

"What?! How far? We can call people from within the Tokyo area in time, but calling your mom and grandma from your hometown definitely won't be enough time!"

"Damn it! The gods can bless the men's bathhouse! Absolutely do not invite the men in your family to bathe here now!"

......

It's just outrageous.

With more believers, all sorts of questions can be asked.

Answering the believers' numerous, varied, and often contradictory questions kept Anzu Matsuori extremely busy.

Then, Anzu Matsuori inadvertently mentioned that the "God of the Washroom" did not yet have a shrine.

Upon hearing this, those who were interested immediately reacted.

"Everyone, quiet down! Sisters, I have a suggestion!"

Among the new believers, a rather capable-looking young woman stepped forward:

"Let's not keep asking the little witch questions right now. Since we are all believers of the deity, let's solve the problem for the deity first, and then we can talk about the blessing, okay?!"

"Help the gods solve their problems?"

"What problem do you have, my lord?"

"What?! There's something wrong with the deity?!"

"What's wrong with the deity?!"

......

"Quiet! The current situation is that although the deity is efficacious, He does not have a shrine in Tokyo and can only receive offerings at the place where the shrine maidens live!"

"As the first believers of the deity, shouldn't we build a shrine for him? We can't afford a large shrine, but we can certainly build a small shrine for him in the bathroom to receive offerings!"

Ok? !

Setting up a shrine for a deity in a bathroom? This… Anzu Matsuori was about to weakly retort that this was the shop owner's place when she saw the young woman turn to face the shop owner, Grandma Kubo:

"Aunt Kubo, could you please reserve a space here for a shrine dedicated to the god?"

"Okay, but you'll have to do the shrine-making yourself, Anzu."

Okay, they know each other, it's alright.

That's true. Many customers at these long-established shops have been familiar with the business for years. After all, Japan's economy has stagnated for many years and has become quite rigid.

The current customers in this bathroom, especially the middle-aged and elderly, could very well have been guests of this bathroom decades ago.

After receiving the shop owner's approval, these old customers—no, they should now be called new believers—immediately got to work.

Some people put on their clothes and then went to make phone calls, some sent messages to unknown people, and some who lived very close by simply put on their clothes and went out to go home to get their things.

While many of them were calling their sisters, mothers and daughters, or best friends to inform them of the situation and urge them to come quickly, the work of building the shrine was also assigned to others during this process.

Then, the dashing young woman, whose air of an elite white-collar worker emanated even without clothes, went directly to Anzu Matsuori and began asking about the specific location of the shrine's altar:

"My lady, where do you think would be a good place to build the shrine? How about we build it in the corner against the wall near the large public bath?"

"At that time, the deity will be directly facing the bath in the shrine, and everyone bathing in divine grace will be able to see the deity's tablet at a glance!"

Ok? !

The shrine faces the large public bath?!

Do you expect your crush to watch this every day?!

!!!

"No, absolutely not! A shrine can't be placed inside a bathhouse!"

Anzu Matsuori immediately and vehemently denied it.

"Oh? Oh, right! It's disrespectful to the gods to not wear clothes! Then, shall we place the shrine of the gods at the entrance? That way, everyone who comes to the bathhouse can pray before bathing, and then, when leaving, they can pray and make offerings to the gods while bathing and changing!"

Good heavens, without Anzu Matsuori even having to come up with an excuse, the young woman had already automatically come up with a reason and offered another suitable position.

So that's why everyone likes young married women – isn't it because they're sensible? One pat, and cough cough, look how sensible they are!

In short, half an hour after the decision to build a shrine for the "God of the Bathroom" was made, knocking and banging sounds came from the entrance of the bathroom.

Before long, Anzu Matsuori was invited over; the shrine was completed!

Chapter 75 has one more

【Ding! 】

[The believer who builds the first shrine for the god is rewarded with the ability to travel between shrines and an additional 1 unit of divine domain size!]

【Ding! 】

[You have developed a new divine inclination; please check your inbox!]

......

"Huh?! What?!"

Good heavens! I was just sitting at home when suddenly a shrine appeared? And according to my senses, this shrine is actually... inside that women's bathhouse?!

"Gudong."

"We can't use this to test the gods! If I were to fall into evil, this world would become..."

He Chen was in a very awkward and complicated state.

Suddenly, a shrine appeared in the women's bathroom, and he was even rewarded with the ability to travel between shrines. If it were anyone a little more perverted, they would have already gone to visit their new house and the believers inside!

He wasn't a pervert, but...

"Should we test out our newly acquired teleportation ability?"

"...Tsk, why the hell did this ability have to be activated for me in the women's bathroom? Now I don't even know what a shrine looks like, or whether it's beautiful or not!"

"How about we at least go once, just to see the shrine, cough, to see what it looks like? It's ridiculous, I don't even know what a shrine usually looks like!"

"but......"

After hesitating and agonizing for a while, he decided that, at least for now, he shouldn't go.

However, if the young believer suddenly encounters any danger, or rather, encounters any problem that needs to be solved, he could rush to the shrine in a moment of urgency, ignoring everything else.

After all, the safety of the younger believers is the most important thing.

Of course, invisibility and such will definitely be done well!

......

"How come this little believer isn't encountering any difficulties this time? Wasn't he having quite a run of bad luck before? Oh well, never mind."

As it turns out, the little believer's luck seemed to be pretty good if he hadn't caused trouble.

At least, it won't be like Conan, who gets into trouble just by going to the public bathhouse.

After waiting for a few minutes without receiving any distress message from the young believer, He Chen could only regretfully put aside his plan to check the women's bathroom and his shrine for the time being.

"They just said I have a new [divine inclination]? Could it be related to taking a bath?"

Only then did He Chen turn his attention to the additional [divine bias].

It's not that he didn't take it seriously; rather, the "divine inclination" he obtained in the bathroom made him feel that it might just be like the "toilet" inclination he got last time—he might only get a "shower" or "bathing" inclination.

He Chen really had no interest in this kind of practicality-oriented but utterly lacking in sophistication.

Rather than being the "God of Bathing" who floats out of the hot springs with a smile and asks passersby if they want to take a bath, he would much rather be a dashing and handsome god who rides his sword eastward!

"Huh? Not 'taking a bath'?"

He Chen raised an eyebrow as he opened the system panel.

[Cleric: God of the Bathroom]

[Number of believers: 206]

[True Believers: 18 (Click to view list)]

[Shallow Believers: 81 (Click to view the list)]

[General Believers: 117 (Click to view the list)]

[Divine Realm: Anzu Matsuori's Washroom + Shrine No. 1 + 324 Additional Divine Realms]

[Divine Power: Weak]

[Deity's Favoritism: 5]

[5. Recovery: It can provide some recovery to the believer's mental/physical state, but a greater amount of repayment is required afterward.]