Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 168
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Keiko Kirino, who was attending a university classmate's wedding in Osaka, received a call from a relative.

"Aunt Satomi... Ah, have you come to Lake City? It's too unfortunate that Hiroyuki and I went to Osaka to attend a friend's wedding today."

Hiroyuki Kirino looked at his wife and listened silently, but then saw her startled.

"Eh? It's already at the door. Is Qian not at home... There is no one in the old house? Then she probably went out with her boyfriend... That's right, the child already has a boyfriend. I know, I will Get her back as soon as possible."

After hanging up the phone, Keiko Kirino glanced at her husband who hesitated to speak.

"What, did I say something wrong?"

"Let it be."

"Come on you."

She scoffed and called her daughter instead.

"Akane, Aunt Satomi has come to visit our house. Where are you, go back now...won't you go back?"

Akane Kirino leaned in front of the phone's microphone and said in a low voice, "I'm at Ise Shrine."

"..."

Kirino Keiko was stunned for a while, but he didn't realize it for a while, "Which Ise Shrine?"

"Huh? Of course it's the Ise Shrine in Ise Shima."

"Ise Shima...why did Akane go there?"

"Come here with Soya."

Compared with being happy, Keiko Kirino in Osaka is still mostly at a loss at this time.

"The place you dated is too far away..."

"A date?" Kirino Akane was also taken aback, and then denied it, "No. It's Soya who wants to do something here, so I came here with him."

"Just the two of you, it's okay to treat it as a date."

"It's not two people, confinement is here too."

"..."

Kirino Keiko originally thought that Soya was just too embarrassed to tell the truth, but now he immediately dismissed this idea - it is impossible for him to take Yuezi on a date together.

"What about the Zonggu people?"

Holding the mobile phone, Akane Kirino turned her head and looked at the two people standing on the other side of the deserted shrine.

"Soya...he seems to be in some trouble."

In front of the main hall of Yueyejian Palace, Yuedu still pinched the little lock of hair in his hand, showing a rare serious look on his face.

"...So, even if I recover more divine power, it doesn't make much sense."

Soya was silent for a while, and also held a lock of his long hair, observing in the palm of his hand.

"Even if Tsukiyomi-sama's divine power returns to its peak, won't it be able to cover this forest?"

The "forest" he mentioned is of course not the forest in front of him, but the entire Japan where the eight gods of thunder are hidden.

"Of course not." Yuedu immediately said, "Do you think I'm the God of Creation?"

Sogu looked at him, "As a child of the Creator God, it shouldn't be too much difference."

"Much worse!"

Tsukiyomi pulled Soya to squat down again, and explained to him by borrowing the white sand and stones laid on the surface of the Jingu Temple.

"Father and mother... Creation gods like mother were born from the most primitive will of this world. It can be said that their divine power is the original power of the world."

He pointed to the entire gravel floor in the shrine, and picked up a white pebble from it.

"The original power of the world is inexhaustible, and the divine power of the two creator gods in Japan is just a drop in the ocean."

Soya stared at the stone in Yueyue's hand for a while, paying close attention to a certain point he just mentioned.

"What is the origin of the world?"

"Huh? How do I know."

"..."

"Don't look at me like that, I really don't know." Yuedu pointed to his head again, "As soon as I was born, these contents have been engraved in my mind. There is no explanation, and there is no extension , just like a matter of course.”

Hearing what he said, Soya could only give up the idea of ​​further investigation.

"Then……"

Yuedu picked up another pebble, rubbed against the stone in his hand, and rubbed a little powder.

"For a lower level god like me who was born from the will of the Creator God, the divine power is even weaker... Can you see it?"

"..."

Soya looked at his fingertips, although he couldn't see the trace of powder scraped off, but he already understood the meaning of Tsukuyomi.

——His divine power cannot be compared with a creator god like Izanami.

"The gap in divine power is so large, it is really a blessing that Tsukiyomi-sama's god can survive from Izanami-sama."

"..."

Yue Bi rolled his eyes, then shook his head again.

"It's not like this. Divine power is equivalent to the blood of a god. Although it is very important, it is not the only determinant of the ability of a god as you understand it."

Soya didn't ask what other factors were. After thinking for a while, he said again:

"So, even a creator god as powerful as Izanami-sama, can't easily sense the traces of the Eight Thunder Gods hiding in the world?"

Yue read nodded, "That's right."

"If you understand the way we sense those guys, you can see why I said it was a needle in a haystack and even that one couldn't do anything about it."

Soya motioned for him to continue.

Tsukiyomi threw the pebble in his hand forward, and it fell into a pile of sand and gravel with almost the same color and size, and then asked Soya, who was watching him, to pick up the pebble.

"...are you teasing the dog or joking."

"Oh, just pick up a piece and bring it back, just treat it as the one just now."

So Soya randomly picked up a white pebble and handed it to him.

Tsukiyomi held the pebble, tapped it on his forehead, and looked at him again.

"This is an investigation completed by a divine power."

"..."

Soya understood immediately.

"Projecting divine power to a certain point, then retracting it, and reading the information of that point is the way I detect the traces of those guys."

Yuedu grabbed another handful of pebbles, threw them all in front, and fell to the ground with a clatter.

"Even if the divine power becomes stronger, it is nothing more than more divine power projected at the same time."

He looked around.

"However, this world is too big... The farther you go, the more time you need. If you don't know anything, and don't have any guidance, isn't it just looking for a needle in a haystack?"

"Is this the only way?" Soya asked.

"That's the only way." Yue Du replied.

"yes……"

Looking at the place where a certain pebble fell, the face of Emperor Ju, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, suddenly appeared in his mind.

It seems that this time, she is not lying.

"Go back." Yuedu said.

Soya nodded, "Let's go."

After squatting for a long time, the two stood up again.

"Are you going to the station?"

"No, go to the inner palace. Tsukiyomi Palace."

"..."

Soya looked at Tsukiyomi who was speechless, and said: "Thanks to Tsukiyomi-sama for explaining so clearly, I understand that there is really little hope of finding the trace of Eight Thunder Gods."

"Then you still..."

"I still say the same thing: little hope does not mean there is no hope. Persevere, maybe there will be a time when a blind cat meets a dead mouse."

Tsukiyomi found it difficult to understand his optimism and persistence, Soya smiled.

"I have experienced such things as falling into the underworld and escaping from it alive. As long as it is not completely hopeless, I want to stick to it."

"..."

Yuedu looked at him for a while, "This is hopeless."

"Don't be willful, Yueyue-sama."

"I'm the one who has to work hard!"

"What Master Yuedu has to do is to sense traces. Others are responsible for the daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. That is the real hard work."

Sogu paused, "What's more, Tsukuyomi-sama only needs to work hard for a few more decades--for the immortal Tsukiyomi-sama, isn't that too long? When I leave this world, you will be relieved." gone."

Yuedu looked at him, "She won't let you die like this...leave this world."

At this moment, she can only be Izanami in his mouth.

"maybe."

Thinking of Izanami, and thinking of Asagiri Rin, Soya shook his head slightly.

"This is something that can only be determined at the time of death."

"Do not……"

Tsukiyomi pointed to his eyes.

"The eyes of a god can see through everything."

(End of this chapter)