Tokyo Soft Rice King.

"That's right. Some deities will cooperate with a family for a long time. The agent is jointly selected by the deity and the family, but of course, it mainly depends on the deity's wishes."

"Oh... I guess I don't count."

While Kuroo's side of things doesn't count, in a sense, Kuroba Akira is also a family representative, since he is still possessed by Orochi. However, then he is no longer a representative, but rather becomes a living god.

“Yiyi and I are both family agents, and our generation happens to be the ‘abandoned agents’.”

"Abandoned agent?"

"It means an agent who no longer needs to fulfill the duties of an agent. Kuroba, you should still be collecting faith for the god who chose you, right?"

"Yes, at first we couldn't even communicate, but now we've finally recovered to the point where we can communicate."

"Is it really that weak? All the gods I've ever seen have appeared in human form, so this is the first time I've heard of a weak god who can't even speak. I didn't know there were such weak gods in Tokyo..."

Kuroo is probably sneezing like crazy right now.

Moreover, the person who spoke about her happened to be from the Myoen family, who had brought her to Tokyo.

"Then, what do you mean by saying that there's no need to fulfill the duties of an agent, Senior Sister Miao?"

"It means exactly what it says. Although we are agents, we no longer need to collect faith for the gods."

Is it because there's so much faith that there's no need for agents to collect it?

"Yes, the two gods who chose me and Yiyi are indeed very wealthy. After all, in this era, the things people pursue the most are wealth and love."

Behind Tsukimi Ryoui is the Goddess of Love and Marriage, and all wishes for love and marriage become her faith, so naturally she has no shortage of faith.

So who is the powerful figure behind Senior Sister Miao?

"As you can probably guess from what Yiyi said, it's Lady Kikurihime, and the deity who appointed me as her representative is Lady Inari..."

"It's Inari Goddess!"

It's that sly fox Kuroo was talking about! Wait, she actually chose someone from the Myōen family?! This is definitely a deliberate attempt to provoke Kuroo!

"That's right, it's Inari, the god with the largest number of followers today. Of course, Inari is a general term, and there are many gods with related beliefs, but the one who chose me is the most well-known, Kurane Soul-no-Mikoto... also known as the Three Fox Gods."

"What a coincidence! It's true, I also have some connection with Chiyoda Inari Shrine."

"Ah, is this the shrine managed by the Tomita family? The current head of the shrine is Mr. Tomita Hogen, right? I've met him a few times before. I think he has a daughter who is about our age."

"Well, her name is Tomita Haruka. She came with us this time. She's a good friend of the class monitor."

"I can't believe something like this happens... Hey, what a small world."

Akira Kuroba also wanted to say that.

No, is it because this circle is very small?

Deities are a very small minority, and their agents are mostly recorded in the shrine's main hall records, so it's not surprising that Sister Miao and Uncle Faquan have met them.

"But that's not surprising, it's all part of the nepotism that's been there all along."

"Indeed, after all, the gods have existed for a long time and have been secretly interfering in human society for a long time as well."

"Yes, gods have existed on the other side of human history since ancient times, but now it's completely different because Amaterasu has been liberated."

"Does this have anything to do with the Emperor being deposed?"

"Yes, they are related. In the past, all the gods were subordinate to Amaterasu, but after the Emperor's rule was overthrown, Amaterasu's soul wandered to the human world, and then the gods were also liberated."

"oh oh……"

Kuroba Akira knew some inside information about this matter, which involved Grandpa Kobayashi, but he decided to pretend he didn't know.

"This matter has affected our generation of agents. When faith is unrestricted, those gods who are rich in faith no longer need to rely on agents, because the gods no longer need to offer faith and can keep it for themselves. Hmm, it's a bit like a free market?"

"Wait, do we need to make offerings for our faith?"

"Yes, because nowadays almost every shrine sells all kinds of amulets, and the wishes they accept are not limited to any kind, right? But the duties of the gods are different, and the blessings they can give are also different, so some wishes are transferred to the corresponding gods, and then a portion of the corresponding faith must be handed over... um, it's similar to customs duties?"

"Good heavens, a tax on faith?"

"Wishes related to passing exams and achieving academic success are all entrusted to Lord Tenma Tenjin."

"Oh, Tenmangu Shrine, right? Indeed, they're everywhere."

Incidentally, this deity was also a deity who rose from human form; he was originally a scholar from the Heian period, Sugawara no Michizane.

It's roughly similar to Confucius and the Confucius Temple.

"Yes, this deity is probably the most demanding of all the deities I've ever seen, especially when it comes to his followers. For those candidates who cram at the last minute, haven't done their homework, and are pinning their hopes on gods and Buddhas, he not only won't give them blessings, but he'll even curse them to fail the exam."

Good heavens, no wonder it's one of the strongest vengeful spirits. Now, will the examinees still dare to ask the God of Exams for protection?

However, Akira Kuroba felt it was quite reasonable. Indeed, if passing the exam could be achieved simply by praying to gods and Buddhas, wouldn't that be unfair to those who truly studied diligently?

"I've gone a bit off-topic. In short, the gods have a set of order for the flow of faith, and the god who used to manage and coordinate these was Amaterasu. But since Amaterasu's absence, some gods have received an excessive amount of faith, so Yiyi and I have also gained our freedom."

"Isn't that great?"

"It's good, but for those of us who have been trained to be agents since childhood, this has caused us to lose our original mission."

"what……"

"Actually, I'm alright, but my good-for-nothing... cough, Lord Cangdao Soul Fate still comes to me often to complain."

Did Senior Miao just call her a "good-for-nothing"? Calling your own deity a "good-for-nothing"? That's incredibly disrespectful!

However, if one becomes familiar with the true nature of a god, it might indeed dispel the illusion, just like how Kuroba Akira was very rude to Kuroo.

"How should I put it? It's more like Inari-sama treats me like a mascot. She's always complaining to me about how busy she is, how she doesn't want to work, how she's going to die, and so on..."

They're corporate slaves.

The god of social animals.

So that's why the religious business exploded. People pray to Inari for blessings in agricultural and commercial matters.

It's similar to a leader who has endless work and countless documents to process.

How tragic.

It seems that being too rich is not necessarily a good thing.

If I tell Kuroo about this when I get back, she'll definitely be gloating.

"But Lady Kikuhime, this deity is very mysterious. Although she has a deep faith, she never shows herself in front of people."

"oh oh……"

"Yiyi was originally going to become the Mistress of Fate, and she also admired the Lady Kikurihime who chose her. But the last message Lady Kikurihime gave her was to give up using her abilities."

"Uh……"

"Yiyi felt that she had been abandoned by the gods."

So he turned evil?

Chapter 434 Let's play games together!

Why would this deity make Tsukimi Ryou give up using her abilities?

Is it because ability has side effects?

It is said that gods and ghosts are unpredictable, and the thoughts of the gods are unknown. Even Lan Yi herself probably doesn't know what her own god is thinking.

So if she feels abandoned, this becomes the catalyst for her determination to change.

Then, working backwards from the current situation...

"So does this have anything to do with her debut as an artist?"

"As expected, Kuroba is very smart. That's right. Yiyi is not the type to like the limelight. In fact, she was very shy when she was a child, but she still decided to bravely step into the entertainment industry."

"But I don't understand what connection she has between feeling abandoned by the gods and being an artist. They seem completely unrelated."

"To explain this, we must first explain what faith is... Kuroba-kun, do you know that faith is not necessarily a wish or a prayer?"

“I know that; my family’s deity explained it to me specifically.”

I remember that people's emotions also belong to thoughts, and any thought can be transformed into faith, and faith is roughly equivalent to karma.

"That's great. That way, there's no need for further explanation. In short, Yiyi thinks that what Kiku-ri-hime meant when she told her not to use her abilities anymore was that she shouldn't rely on her abilities to gather faith. So she chose another way, which is to become the vessel of faith herself."

"That's really...we're on the same page."

She was doing the same thing as him, and Kuroba Akira realized it immediately.

Kuroba Akira formed a karmic-sharing relationship with women through his ability to replicate. These famous women then became the emotional anchors for people, which were then shared with Kuroba Akira and finally converged on Kuroo, thus helping Kuroo quickly regain his faith.

What Lan Yi did in Tsukimi was to omit the karma sharing part, and she became famous on her own, and then gathered faith. The advantage of doing this is that there is no intermediate loss, and all the faith can be transferred to the gods.

However, their motivations are completely different.

It's important to know that Kuroo is a poor god with only one shrine in Tokyo, while Kikurihime is a wealthy god with about 2000 branches throughout Japan.

"But why does she continue to gather faith... According to you, Misaki-senpai, Kikurihime is also a deity with abundant faith, and no longer needs an agent to gather faith for her, right?"

"That's right. Yiyi's goal is actually to reconnect with Kikurihime-sama through the gathering of faith."

"To rekindle our bond?"

"Yes, just like how people are connected by a thread of fate, gods and their agents are the same. There is still this connection between Yiyi and Kikuhime-sama, so she strengthens this thread of fate by continuing to gather faith for Kikuhime-sama. Just like the thread of fate on you, Kuroba-kun, has turned into a red thread because of your deep feelings."

"So she's trying to win back the gods' favor?"

It sounds like a woman who's been dumped is still clinging on desperately... Isn't that just being a simp?

"I think Yiyi just wants to see Lady Kikurihime again."

He really is a simp.

To put it in a more touching way, it's like the feeling of having exchanged five hundred glances in a past life just to brush past someone in this one.

Akira Kuroba felt that there was probably a lot of self-pity involved, and it could even be called an obsession.

However, Kuroba Akira could understand Tsukimi Rii's thoughts. It was precisely because she didn't understand the gods' thoughts that she wanted to meet them and ask them clearly.

According to Sister Miao, these family agents are trained to be agents from a young age; that was their whole life.

Then suddenly losing this mission feels like your past has become meaningless, and you'll definitely feel lost for a while.

At this point, one either lets go of the past completely and seeks a new meaning in life, or clings to the past and wants to find out the truth.

Akira Kuroba had a similar experience only recently.