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

There was a wary look in her eyes, not for her, but for her good friend.

A girl this beautiful would make any boy's heart flutter, right? Especially since she's a big celebrity at school... Kotegawa, he can't do anything like that!

Beside her, Takanashi Hanamai and Shirakawa Kurumi clinked glasses and tilted their heads back to drink the entire glass of green tangerine juice.

Tonight, they want to get drunk on fruit juice.

But as everyone knows, fruit juice can't get you drunk, it can only fill you up.

Of all the people at the table, the only one who wasn't worried was Mikazuki Haruka. She rubbed her sleepy eyes, leaned slightly against Kotegawa.

Kami Kotegawa wasn't eating either; he was listening to Fujiwara-sensei talk about the changes in Bunkyo Ward over the past thirty years... but basically, there hadn't been any major changes.

So he steered the conversation to the recent international competitions, “regarding the opening ceremony which was very much in line with Piao Jiang’s style, and the fact that a gymnast who was doing quite well in the competition had one foot in the ocean but still got a great score of 14.7 points…” What does Fujiwara-sensei think about all this nonsense?

Fujiwara-sensei didn't say anything, but picked up her juice and took a sip.

This conversation is impossible.

Kotekawa Kami smiled and, as Mikazuki leaned closer, reached out and hugged her, even wiping her greasy little mouth with a tissue.

Mikazuki nestled her head in his arms.

Fujiwara-sensei watched silently and took another sip of juice.

Sitting next to her, Fujiwara Kaori looked at her with a strange expression and asked curiously, "Is Kotegawa-san dating Mikazuki-san?"

"Yes, we're dating!" Kotekawa Kami replied with a smile.

The three girls on the other side of the table craned their necks to look, then shrank back, exchanged glances, and quietly picked up their phones to type and communicate.

"Huh? Just like your younger brother said, Kotegawa is very cold towards Fujiwara Kaori."

"That's right, even Mikazuki has been taken as a girlfriend."

"Do you guys remember that Fujiwara Kaori has been looking for someone lately? Could that person be Kotegawa?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, the three girls tacitly changed the subject.

"The sky is so cooperative! Look at how they hug; you can't tell they're acting at all!"

"Perhaps they had communicated beforehand?"

Youjia watched the two of them chat silently, thought for a moment, and then typed a message and sent it to them.

"What if it's not just acting, and they're really together?"

After she sent that message, everything around her suddenly became completely quiet, as if there wasn't even a sound of breathing.

Yujia couldn't help but turn her head, filled with doubt and curiosity. She wanted to hear what these two were thinking.

Shirakawa Kurumi and Takanashi Hanamai had their heads down, making it impossible to see their expressions.

After a long while, someone replied, "I don't think so, right?"

The chat ended.

Yujia scratched her head, wondering if she had said something wrong.

On the other side, Fujiwara Kaori looked enviously at Kotegawa and Mikazuki leaning together and sighed, "It's so nice to be a couple. I wonder when I'll find my prince charming."

"I heard that Fujiwara-san has been looking for someone lately?" Yuka, who had been listening intently, immediately asked.

“That’s right, that’s right!” Fujiwara Kaori nodded repeatedly, her eyes shining brightly with undisguised longing: “That’s the prince I will serve for the rest of my life, I will definitely find him!”

"Is he a really, really handsome guy?" Yu Jia became even more interested, and even the two girls who had been on guard temporarily put aside their worries and turned their attention over.

"He was very tall! He had a straight posture! He was incredibly skilled! His weapon was a very sharp Han sword! He killed the monster in one go! Although he wore a mask, he must have been an extremely handsome man!" Fujiwara Kaori held her hands together, recalling every detail of that time, her eyes filled with a mixture of joy and regret.

If she had been just a little more resolute that day, perhaps she wouldn't be searching so hard now?

"Tall and upright?"

"Super powerful? Wearing a mask?"

"The weapon was a Han Dynasty sword? And it killed the monster in one strike?"

Yuka, Kurumi, and Takanashi each pondered for a moment, then fell silent, not looking at the other side.

OK, case solved.

No wonder this kid looked at Fujiwara Kaori with such disdain; it turns out there was something like that earlier!

As Kotekawa Kami was getting meat skewers for Fujiwara-sensei, he said with concern, "Eating too much meat at night is hard to digest. Shall I make you a bowl of plain porridge?"

Fujiwara-sensei's lips moved slightly, and he finally let out a barely audible sigh. He shook his head, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, stood up, put his hands behind his back, hunched over slightly, and gave Kotekawa Kami a deep look before slowly saying, "Thank you for the hospitality today. It's getting late, Kaori, let's go home."

"Huh?" Fujiwara Kaori, who was chatting happily, was a little surprised. She quickly finished the skewers in her hand, forced them down, took out a handkerchief, stood up, took a few steps back, and bowed slightly: "Thank you very much for the treat tonight. We'll take our leave now."

The three girls quickly got up, and Mikazuki rubbed his eyes and also stood up unsteadily.

Kami Kotekawa, who had also gotten up, saw them to the door and said cheerfully, "Teacher, please be careful on your way back."

The teacher, Fujiwara, who was walking ahead, paused, turned her head and looked at him with surprise, shook her head, and walked towards the car parked by the roadside with her hands behind her back.

He stood at the door, watching the two get into the car, and only after the car drove away did he turn his gaze away, shake his head, and let out a sigh.

The teacher is very cunning!

How about we find some time to give him a "Nightmare Spa" treatment? And change his memories?

He pondered for a moment, hesitated, and finally shook his head.

Never mind, let's see.

He still doesn't want to use his abilities on the people around him, as that would go against his principles.

He turned and went into the courtyard, where the little priest and the bespectacled man were standing around the table, eating meat and clinking their drink glasses.

Takanashi, Yuka, and Kurumi were also standing, completely unlike their previous well-behaved selves, and were also eating meat skewers with gusto.

Even the sleepy Mikazuki Seisakusho was drinking a beverage from a cup.

The cup belonged to Furutekawa Kami.

Kotegawa Shinjin also went over and joined the "battle," grabbing a handful of skewers in his hand.

The little priest frowned slightly: "Eat slowly, wait until we're full before you eat your fill."

"No way, why should I go hungry?"

"You have too big an appetite!"

"Huh? Having a big appetite is a crime? Be careful, or I'll sue you for personal attack!"

The bespectacled guy raised his hand to interrupt their bickering, mumbling, "It's okay! There's plenty more! We can just bake more when we run out! We'll definitely eat our fill tonight!"

The little priest turned his back, grabbed a handful of kebabs, and buried his head in his food.

He's going to eat until he's stuffed tonight!

Kami Kotekawa wasn't in a hurry at all, leisurely eating his skewers, but actually he ate faster than anyone else.

Youjia came over and very attentively helped him get the grilled meat and drinks.

"What do you want?" he asked warily.

Yuka, with a look that said, "You can see right through me," quickly asked, "Is the person Fujiwara Kaori was talking about you?"

"No, no!" Kotekawa Kami shook his head, his eyes wide open. "How could it be me? Although it sounds similar, it's not me!"

Youjia didn't believe it: "But they all said he's tall, incredibly powerful, and wields a Han sword! Who else could it be but you?"

"Is this me?" Kotekawa Kami asked rhetorically. "There are plenty of tall people, aren't there? Just this afternoon, that designer Kuwano, wasn't he quite tall? And very handsome too! Besides, Fujiwara Kaori doesn't know martial arts, so anyone who knows even a little bit probably looks incredibly powerful to her! And finally, about the Han sword, although not many people use the Han sword as a weapon, I'm definitely not the only one! Am I right?"

Yujia was taken aback and said blankly, "Hmm, that makes sense, but what a coincidence."

"There are plenty of coincidences in the world, nothing to be surprised about. Come on, let's eat."

……

Meanwhile, in the car that had already driven away, Fujiwara Kaori, sitting in the passenger seat, reminisced: "Grandpa, the grilled meat skewers were delicious! Was it made with your secret sauce?"

"Grandpa doesn't know either..." Grandpa Fujiwara glanced at the rearview mirror and asked, "How does it feel?"

"Hmm, it's quite lively. I'm a little envious." Fujiwara Kaori smiled faintly and tentatively asked, "Grandpa, shouldn't you tell me now? Who exactly is the person you entrusted with this matter?"

Grandpa Fujiwara paused for a moment without answering, then asked, "Grandpa wants to ask you what your impression of the boys you just met is."

"Them?" Fujiwara Kaori was quite surprised. After thinking for a moment, she said, "I don't really have any particular impression of them. Hmm! Your student's way of speaking is quite interesting. Is it his hometown dialect? His girlfriend is also very cute..."

Is that all?

"Hmm, the students here are very enthusiastic. As for Shirakawa, he's been cooking the whole time and hasn't said a word."

Fujiwara Kaori looked at him, completely bewildered: "What exactly are you trying to say?"

"It's nothing." Grandpa Fujiwara sighed. "My dear granddaughter, it's not that I'm deliberately hiding it from you, but the gentleman who rescued you last time probably already has a family. So give up. You and he won't end up together."

Fujiwara Kaori was stunned. She silently hugged her knees, buried her head in them, and said nothing.

……

Late at night, after the group had eaten and drunk their fill, they cleaned up the trash and moved the table back into the house. Kotekawa Kami first took Takanashi Hanamai and Glasses-kun back to their respective homes. When he returned, Shirakawa Kurumi, taking advantage of Yuka and Mikazuki taking a bath together, sneakily approached him and looked him up and down: "So you were the one who solved that mass disappearance incident in Shinjuku the other day? No wonder you ended your vacation so hastily."

Kotekawa Kami did not deny it, and said with his hands behind his head, "After all, Fujiwara-sensei has taken good care of me. Since his granddaughter is in trouble, I naturally want to lend a hand."

"So it really was you!" Hu Tao exclaimed. Although she was 90% sure, she still felt a little uneasy without the person involved confirming it. Now, that feeling was gone.

Then, she hesitated for a moment before saying, "I have another question I'd like to ask. It's nothing by it, so please don't overthink it!"

"Okay, go ahead and ask."

"You... seem to dislike Fujiwara Kaori? Why?"

After thinking for a while, Kotekawa Kami looked at the ceiling above his head and said, "If she had been the first person I met when I first came to Tokyo, this problem probably wouldn't have happened."

Shirakawa Kurumi was taken aback, then nodded silently, as if she understood something, but didn't quite understand... or perhaps she didn't want to understand.

"So, you actually already have someone you like in your heart," she asked casually as she sat down next to him.

Kami Kotekawa drew a circle in the air with the index fingers of both hands: "My heart is about this big, and inside there is Uncle Kenji, Aunt Akiha, Mikazuki, and all of you... There is no room left."

"What do you mean?"

"It doesn't mean anything special."