Becoming a god in a low-key way in the supernatural world

The voices of Takanashi Hanamai and Ms. Chiko could be heard coming from downstairs. Soon, the girl returned, carrying two cakes.

"My mom is still watching TV and can't bring too much up. You can try it tonight, and if you like it, I'll prepare more later."

Kotegawa Kami was looking at the sheet music spread out on the table. Hearing this, he thanked her, picked up a piece with his fork, put it in his mouth, and immediately his mouth was filled with sweetness.

He ate it in a few bites.

Now is the perfect time to lift your spirits with a dessert.

After finishing a piece, he put down the empty plate, looked at the sheet music, and asked curiously, "Is this the newly written piece?"

The little bird, who was watching him eat, quickly closed the sheet music upon hearing this, pretending not to care: "Anyway, I have nothing else to do, so I'll just write something."

"Just writing something?" Kotekawa Kami tried humming a tune, savoring it: "It sounds really good!"

"Huh? You understood it?" Kotori Hana-mai exclaimed in surprise. "We've only had two lessons, haven't we?"

"Uh, you sang off-key?"

"No, it's just that your progress has surprised me a little..." Takanashi Hanamai looked at him strangely and asked, "You really can't sing?"

"I have no reason to lie to you about something like this, do I?" the young man muttered to himself, and started eating his second piece of cake.

Takanashi Hanamai thought about it and agreed. Seeing how much he was enjoying his food, she couldn't help but move closer and say, "Give me a bite too."

Kotekawa Kamimi forked a piece and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Is it good?" he asked, a pointless question.

The girl shook her head: "It's not too sweet."

After she finished speaking, she leaned closer, her breath brushing against Kotegawa's face. She stuck out her little pink tongue and licked his lips, then smacked her lips and said, "Hmm, this side is sweeter."

Kami Kotekawa touched his face and asked in surprise, "Eh? Why are you taking advantage of me?"

Little Bird Dances and Ignores Him, Huffing and Blushing as she Wipes Some Cream Around Her Mouth with Her Finger, Says Nonchalantly, "You can eat it back too!"

Are you provoking me?

Unable to tolerate her behavior, Kotekawa Kami moved closer, intending to "retaliate."

Takanashi Hanamai nervously closed her eyes, but her chin was slightly raised.

Just then, Kotegawa's cell phone rang.

He sat up straight immediately, took out his phone and glanced at it. When he saw that it was Ishikawa Yasuhiro calling, he raised an eyebrow, got up and jumped out of the window to find a quiet corner to answer the call.

Takanashi Hanamai opened her eyes, somewhat annoyed that the guy had to call at this time. She picked up half a cake from the table, puffed out her cheeks, and began to chew it in big bites.

……

In the courtyard, Kotekawa Kami pressed the answer button and lowered his voice: "What happened?"

On the other end of the phone, Yasuhiro Ishikawa's heavy voice came through: "Something has indeed happened. The mute girl is seriously injured and is currently undergoing emergency treatment. Her boss asked me to contact you."

"The mute girl is seriously injured?" He instantly thought of the escaped ghost princess and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Yasuhiro Ishikawa hesitated for a moment: "She said your identity may have been exposed."

"Ok?"

"I don't know the specifics either... I'll send you the address, go there tomorrow! Be careful, it's very likely the guys who escaped during the last Shinjuku mass incident did it."

After hanging up the phone, Kotegawa Kami frowned.

Has her identity been exposed? Does that mean the Ghost Princess knows he raided her hideout?

He pondered for a moment, and a sense of crisis instantly gripped his heart.

Of course, this wasn't because he was afraid of being retaliated against, but because he was worried that it would affect the people around him.

"Oni-hime...you forced me to deal with you..." He sighed, turned around and jumped into Takanashi Hana-mai's window again, and immediately saw Takanashi Hana-mai with her cheeks bulging from eating.

He glanced down and saw that the cake was gone. He said, "Lock the windows. I have to go out for a bit. Don't forget to brush your teeth... Hmm, get some rest."

He jumped back, and on his way out, he took some dried kiwi fruit with him.

Takanashi Hana choked, pounding her chest several times. By the time she recovered, Kotegawa had already returned to the house and gone upstairs.

She looked at the lights on the second floor and the figures busy inside, let out a slight sigh, locked the window, and drew the curtains.

Becoming a god in a low-key way in the supernatural world

Chapter Twenty-Three: Water Moon

The night passed peacefully and quickly.

Before dawn, Kotegawa Kami stood in the courtyard, stretching his waist and legs.

He waited all night, but instead of seeing the Ghost Princess, he saw a wild cat howling loudly on the roof.

“Spring is almost over…” He rubbed his cheek, let out a soft breath, turned around and went back into the house. After some persuasion, he woke up Mikazuki Haruka and asked her to come out with him for a morning exercise.

Mikazuki was perfectly sober, with rosy cheeks and plenty of energy, showing no signs of a hangover, after all, he had only drunk a little sweet sake.

Kotegawa Kamimi first taught her how to stretch her legs to improve her flexibility.

He wanted to lay a foundation for her first, and after a while, he would teach her some practical self-defense skills, while also advising her: "If you really encounter danger, don't rush in on a whim, but run, run as fast as you can, and don't choose to take risks."

Because of her small size, she had no ability to fight head-on.

Kotegawa Kamimi taught her these things not to turn her into a female warrior who fights and kills, but simply to enable her to keep a clear head when she encounters danger and know what to do to protect herself.

The two of them taught and learned, and there were bound to be various kinds of contact during this time, but Mikazuki didn't feel anything was wrong. She was already used to it. Only Kotegawa Kami was reciting the "Qingjing Jing" in his mind.

Two and a half hours later, Mikazuki had already returned to his room, and Kotegawa Kami had also finished his morning prayers and taken a shower.

Hangover-stricken, Shirakawa Kurumi finally emerged from her room, clutching her head. She opened the refrigerator, grabbed a bottle of water, sat down at the dining table, took a few sips, and looked rather pale.

"I...I'll never drink again..." she said, uttering the words that countless wine lovers would say the next day.

After taking a shower, Kotegawa wasn't sure whether to believe her. He went back inside to change into casual clothes and said to them, "I took the day off today. There's something else going on."

"Huh? Taking leave?" The two girls looked at him at the same time, their eyes filled with doubt.

"Well, there's something urgent that needs to be taken care of." He shrugged. "I didn't finish the last job properly, so I need some after-sales service."

When Shirakawa Kurumi heard him talking nonsense, she pointed to herself and asked, "Do you need my help?"

The young man looked at her and pondered for a moment: "Then could you call over your family's divine messenger? I don't mean anything by it, I just want to have a little sparring."

Shirakawa Kurumi rolled her eyes at him, then asked Mikazuki for a bowl of porridge and sipped it slowly.

Having made a fool of himself, Kotegawa Kami asked Mikazuki for a pot of porridge, and then, along with some cucumber salad and beef, began to drink it in large gulps with a spoon.

Breakfast is a rare moment of quiet and leisure.

After having breakfast, the three of them went back to their rooms, tidied up a bit, and then went out together to meet up with Kotori Yuka next door, and headed towards the school.

Kotekawa Kami wasn't carrying a schoolbag, only a sword pouch, and he wasn't wearing a school uniform, but rather that unmarked special department uniform, with protective armor underneath.

The group had traveled together for half the journey when, just as Kotekawa Kami was about to turn off to another direction, he suddenly saw the young priest waiting at the traffic light ahead.

The young priest glanced back at them, his face cold, as if someone owed him a lot of money again.

He greeted them but received no response. He could only scratch his head and mutter to Shirakawa Kurumi, "Is your little brother having another episode?"

Shirakawa Kurumi also thought that her brat was very rude today.

The group waited at the traffic light for a while. When the green light came on first at the intersection on the left, Kotegawa waved and walked in that direction.

Yujia turned her head and looked at him curiously, asking, "What is he going to do?"

"I heard it's for after-sales service," Mikazuki said softly.

"After-sales service? So Kotegawa's job is in sales?" Yuka pondered. "But with his looks, he should definitely make a lot of money."

……

Kotegawa Shinmi hailed a taxi, drove through clusters of buildings, and found the grand Inari Shrine by the address given to him by Ishikawa Yasuhiro. He glanced at the tall, vermilion torii gate and stepped inside.

"Could the owner of the mute girl's place be from the Inari family?" he wondered, thinking that it was no wonder Ishikawa Yasuhiro was so careful and respectful.

This is the territory of the great god Uka no Mitama, where incense is extremely thriving. His messengers are all foxes. It is said that he is the son of Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and he is very famous in the pantheon of gods in this country, both in terms of his origin and his own identity.

"That boss, could he be a fox?" He looked at a benevolent fox statue and suddenly realized something.

Are the messengers of the gods at each shrine not necessarily human?

In this place, the animals are foxes; in other places, they are said to be raccoon dogs...

He seemed to suddenly understand why the Shirakawa siblings refused to let him meet their family's divine messenger.

The messengers of the gods are probably of a transcendent status; apart from obeying the will of the gods, they can probably only be commanded by the head priests of each shrine.

Shirakawa Nozomi and Shirakawa Kurumi, those two little brats, would probably have to bow respectfully when they see him; there's no way we could arrange that.

Thinking this, he didn't go to the main hall of the shrine, but went straight into the backyard. After passing through the "thousand torii gates" made up of many torii gates, he found a house in a slightly secluded corner. He looked around, went up and knocked on the door, and said, "Excuse me, is Mr. Suigetsu here?"

The door opened quickly, and the person who opened it was the contracted woman whom I had met twice before.

She snorted, giving Kotekawa a cold look, her voice hard: "My boss has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Kotekawa Kami wasn't angry. Although the mute girl's serious injury wasn't directly related to him, it was somewhat related. Of course, the bigger factor was that the divine messengers underestimated Oni-hime, which led to such a big problem. The mute girl's boss must have known about this, otherwise he wouldn't have come to him.

He followed them inside, his expression calm.

The gatehouse was simply furnished, with a living room and a bedroom further inside, with a banner hanging between the two rooms.

The orange cat he had seen before and the annoying black cat were both lying in front of the bedroom door, looking at him from the left and right.

The old woman stood before the banner and bowed deeply: "Master, he has arrived."

Kotegawa Kami's eyes flickered slightly.

A melodious voice, like the tinkling of silver bells, came from the bedroom: "I am truly sorry that I cannot meet with our distinguished guest."

The voice was youthful, like pearls falling onto a jade plate, clear and melodious, making people feel relaxed and happy.

Kotegawa Kami looked at the slightly swaying figure inside the curtain, his gaze somewhat strange: "Is it because of Oni-hime? Last time I was only responsible for rescuing people and didn't fight much, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to escape."

The black cat snorted, as if mocking his boasting.

The shopkeeper, Shuiyue, spoke up from inside the curtain: "I am aware of your strength, esteemed guest. If you had really made a move, Oni-hime would not have been able to escape. However, the current situation is that Oni-hime has escaped and found an even stronger backer. The other party is powerful enough to cause a disaster in the Tokyo area."