After soaking your body in the hot spring, the mud smell on your body will not be so strong.

"I never want to talk to him again!"

"I know this kind of thing, and you have said it thirty times." Afeng responded to me good-naturedly, sat aside with his hair pulled up, and put his feet into the hot spring.

"But I'm just so angry!"

It doesn’t matter if I can’t defeat him a thousand years later. Why was there nothing I could do against him a thousand years ago?!

"You seem to have an unexpected affinity with him, the god Gao Tianyuan."

The hot spring is not far from the village. After setting up a barrier, it has become Afon's unique bathing place.

Not even one including me.

"That's also a bad fate."

"I think you are very happy."

"……Yeah?"

"Um."

"……Feel sorry."

"Why apologize?"

"That hole can't help you."

"'Nothingness'..."

In the mist, I couldn't see clearly the expression on A Feng's face.

"Um."

"You have seen it yourself, so you believe what we say. But no outsider has ever been to Izumo Country, and no outsider has ever seen it. Everyone in the world thinks it does not exist. The god of Takamagahara also told me, "

I didn’t expect that Izumo Country really existed, and it was also the first time I saw the old god of Izumo Country.” This also shows that the attitude of Takamagahara God towards us is just a matter of doubt.”

"...Although you don't imitate it well, you may be right. If you think you are important, you can't just let a derelict god come and pick you up."

"Even so, I want to go there once."

"...?"

"I want to go to Takamagahara. This matter concerns all living beings. I must inform Takamagahara about the "emptiness". Izumo Kingdom is declining, and only Takamagahara can gather the gods."

"...But you also know that they do not believe in the existence of the old gods of Izumo Kingdom, and they may not necessarily believe what you say."

"But they finally sent gods to pick me up. Among them, there are still some who are willing to believe in our existence. I went to Gaotianyuan just to ask the gods to send messengers to come with me. All these things, I will definitely know what's going on.

dangerous place."

"...How do you know that they will take care of this kind of thing?" I leaned on the stone and looked at Afeng and asked.

...Is this her naivety? Even I sighed, what should I do with such blind trust?

"As a god——"

"Never use the old gods of your Izumo Kingdom to understand the gods of Takamagahara. Sometimes I really don't understand...why can you trust so many gods that you have never even met?"

If the gods of Takamagahara can be trusted, why no one in the world knows about her after she went to Takamagahara? Why was she not sent to the world to bless her? Why did she fall into a narrow space like Yamata no Orochi?

"But why do you have such a big prejudice against Gao Tianyuan?" Afeng's red eyes saw me through the mist.

"I...can't provide any evidence, but they really can't be trusted." I replied dryly, "In short, they are not trustworthy."

"I know what you said. As of now, there is no other way. I have dispersed most of my divine power on this land to pray for good weather every year, and I have used the remaining divine power to seal the black hole. There is not much left. I know

This is not a long-term solution, so we can only rely on the identity of the old god of Izumo Kingdom. I have explained this matter to the old god, and he promised to give me an answer tomorrow."

I came out of the water and immediately put on the clean clothes brought by A Feng: "There is one thing I wanted to ask a few days ago when I was about to recover."

"...?" Afeng looked at me doubtfully.

"Where has your divine power gone?"

-

The power of the old god of Izumo country originated from Izumo country and is closely related to that land. But since the disappearance of Izumo country, as the old god of Izumo country, her power should have been constantly passing away. Perhaps it is because she is a god who is closely related to life.

, the red-haired old god also said that there is very little in the outside world that can defeat her.

After I slowly recovered, it was difficult for me to feel the same intimacy with her anymore.

Of course I was wondering if something had changed her. Once she understood emotions, she should be more approachable, but the opposite was true.

Later I discovered that it was her innate power.

That day at the hot spring, under my questioning, she finally told me about this matter.

The reason why this village can change from being so barren in the beginning to being prosperous now is because of good weather every year.

At the beginning of a hundred years, she spread her divine power over the land to nourish it. The rice fell, grew, leafed, formed ears, and was planted again. In the spring of the following year, it was planted again. During this period, time passed, and the seasons were windy and rainy, but "accidents" could not escape.

Either there is too much rain, causing floods, or there is no water falling, and drought is unbearable. Water storage and dam construction are all available, but even so, the shortage of food for people will not be reduced.

Later, she used her divine power to nourish the land, and this resulted in abundant harvests every year.

"Since it is nourishment, then this land can at least respond to it, right?"

Afon shook his head: "The conversation a hundred years ago was the last conversation. After that, I never talked to this land again. But you don't have to worry. Everyone from the past of Izumo Kingdom

Even if the old gods are here, my divine power will not be affected even if it weakens."

Now that she said that, I had no room to worry anymore. If I was anxious, the red-haired guy was the most anxious after all. We didn't go back until very late that day, so that the next day, I didn't want to wake up at all.

"Boom——"

Something is tapping gently——

I opened my eyes with difficulty and saw that it was already light on the other side of the window. I left the bed extremely reluctantly, and then opened the door——

"Huh? Ah Feng...? You...didn't you go see the rice today? Isn't the rice your biggest concern? Have all the affairs in the village been dealt with?" I didn't fully open my eyes, but just said something in my mouth.

These words.

"Rice is of course important...but I have a day off today, so I knocked on the door, so you opened it. You and I came home last night...didn't you sleep well last night?"

"Hmm... I don't know. I have a day off today... ah..." I rubbed my eyes and responded to her words indiscriminately. Later I saw A Feng holding food in his hands and rolling up his sleeves, "Where is the old god?

"

"Rest in my body, what's wrong with you?"

"No...hasn't he agreed to your matter yet?" I said, and got back into bed again.

"No. Now is not the time to sleep, it's time to eat." Afon stopped me.

I turned around and looked into Afeng's firm red eyes. I knew I was no match for her, so I sighed, went to the courtyard to wash up, and then returned to my room.

"Where's the one at Takamagahara?" I asked after returning to my room.

"After he finished eating, he said he wanted to go out for a walk."

"It's really leisurely..." I started stuffing rice into my mouth, "So? Afeng, why did you come to see me?"

Afeng sat upright, and then took out a piece of paper from his waist: "The things to do today are as follows: clean the house, prepare lunch, handle the harvest festival and other matters, prepare dinner. Above."

I was a little stunned: "Isn't this your itinerary, A Feng? There is nothing you want me to do."

"Yes." Afeng smiled softly, "Please help me clean the house, prepare lunch, handle the harvest festival affairs, and prepare dinner."

"...! Why? You didn't ask me to do these things before."

I absolutely don't want to do these things anymore.

"That's because you are still recovering from your injuries. Now you are well."

"No, no, no, it's just because it's time to rest - so, why do you still have to work?"

Afeng's smile slowly faded, and his beautiful eyebrows wrinkled——

No? Is she really thinking about this kind of thing?!

"Oh...I know, I will come to help you."

After I took a few bites of the meal, we divided our work and started cleaning the house——

Amid my complaints of "You are obviously a god, why do you have to do this yourself?", A Feng wiped the last bit of dust from the corner of the table with satisfaction.

Fortunately, only the two of us had lunch, so despite my strong resistance, I was able to eat a simple meal and was let off by Afeng for a lunch break.

Without getting a complete nap, I had to follow Afeng to the village chief's house to discuss this year's harvest festival.

The Harvest Festival is a festival held every five years during the autumn harvest. During the festival, Kagura dance and various delicacies should be presented to the gods, but the god Afon is here, so whether it is Kagura dance or delicacies, in the end

It is the land that is dedicated, not the gods.

To be honest, she is so approachable that she loses her majesty as a god.

Yamata-no-Orochi got better earlier than me, so I was able to learn more things from him. For example, the old god even arranged an admonisher for her, hoping that he could admonish Feng when he made mistakes.

"It is said that this matter has been going on for about seventy years."
To be continued...