Of course I know what Boya said. However, understanding is one thing and doing it is another.

I'm just angry.

I'm angry at that young god for not making the right decision, and angry at why she trusted humans so much. But no matter how angry I am, it's all in the past. Even if I go back to the past, I can't change it.

So later on, I just made an excuse to say that I wanted to be alone for a while, and Xiao Yuan smiled happily and asked everyone to disperse.

Although I said this, Axi did not leave. Kagura also sat next to me and told me many things. Including the stories about Princess Kaguya that I missed, the stories about Yatogami, and her own resignation.

Reiki performs soul separation.

It can be said that the current Kagura is probably the same as before.

As I listened to Kagura's words, the bonfire in front of me gradually started to jump. Because everyone participated, the conversation quickly expanded from the stories Xiao Yuan knew to fate.

Everyone was in high spirits, but I was really tired, and my eyelids kept drooping. Kagura has returned to Boya, and Xiao Yuan's fruit wine may have also gained strength.

In a daze, he seemed to say something, and then he fell completely into darkness.

Those past experiences are what she must pass through.

That trust in humanity and love for Izumo Country did not appear at the right time at all.

"As expected, you're here again." The red-haired old god appeared in front of me.

"Because I have something to ask you."

This is the old god after a thousand years, no longer as high-spirited as he was a thousand years ago.

He smiled and shook his head: "You can ask."

"Before going to that village, she had countless choices to stop elsewhere. Why did she choose to stop there?"

"Don't you know very well why it is there?"

"...Because you thought it looked like Izumo Country, so-" I couldn't continue.

"That's why I let her go. I didn't even expect that after she understood feelings, her longing for Izumo Country could be so strong. I had countless opportunities to let her leave, but..."

"But you didn't."

"...Because I feel I can still control it. As long as I don't get close to the hole-"

"But she lost everything in that hole... No, it would be better to say that she never had anything."

"If you want to blame me or blame me, I have nothing to say. I let her go when she was young, thinking that everything was under control. This pampering and pride have made me dare not face her again in the past thousand years. If it hadn't been for the last time

If you are in deep trouble, I won’t show up.”

I stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar: "So you haven't seen her again in these thousand years?! Even if she does what happens to her in the future, you don't care anymore?!"

The old god looked at me in surprise, but soon, that look slowly dimmed: "Perhaps, without me by her side, she can follow her heart. As early as that time, she thought I was dead, so she said -

—”

"Then have you ever thought about how much she sometimes wanted someone to guide her during these thousand years? If you could stay with her, maybe she and I wouldn't become so antagonistic! After that!

All the bad things about her would never have happened!"

After all the emotions were brewing to the extreme, tears burst out at that moment.

"I..." The old god trembled. He wanted to speak, but he just opened his mouth.

I gritted my teeth and endured it. I let go of my hand and said, "To be honest, I have no position to blame you. At that time, she didn't have a "self" yet, she was just a god who acted based on the concepts she was instilled.

Just seeing the past like this, I couldn't help but get angry."

"..."

"...It's time for me to leave."

I turned around and saw——

"Afeng...?"

"you--"

She smiled innocently: "Because I rarely see Ah Zi and the Old God like this, so I held back my voice."

"No...how did you get here?" I asked, "And your body..."

She doesn’t look like a girl no matter how you look at it——

"How did it come...?" She gestured a little childishly, "Because she was sleeping, and then I came over."

I'm a little confused about the situation.

"Her? What happened in that cave?" The old god was one step ahead of me and stepped forward to ask.

"That hole...? By the way, I want to talk about it too."

Next, what A Feng told me was all about that village.

A long time ago, that land was blessed by gods, but the cave appeared earlier than the gods. The people on that land were attracted by the darkness of the cave, but they were also shocked by the majesty of the gods.

The two were originally in balance, but the good times did not last long. The "tide of nothingness" flowed out of the cave, and the "beast of decline" appeared on the land.

The gods originally planned to integrate with this land for the sake of mankind. In that way, the tide of nothingness would not encroach and decay would be far away. That land would become a land of fertility.

But human beings were too afraid. They wanted to dispel fear and entertained the gods. They made the gods drink poisonous wine and then threw the gods into the cave.

Naive humans thought that if the gods were thrown into the hole, everything would be solved. But they forgot that everything they had before was due to the gods.

The "emptiness" and "decline" in the cave tortured the god together. The god disappeared there little by little, but at the same time, it also left a curse.

That curse lasted for a long time, so long that the original world disappeared, but this land still existed, so long that this world accepted this land and allowed it to survive as a walking corpse.

Therefore, although that land has died long ago, the people on that land must still be alive.

"I just heard the old god saying that he asked me to stay, but that's not true. Although this land has died long ago, it keeps moaning "I want to leave". This is the ultimate reason why I went there."

I still can’t accept it for a while. There are many things I want to ask, but I can’t grasp them——

"Who told you this?" asked the old god.

"Tell me the hole."

"Why are I telling you this? What's going on with the stone of the "Tomb of God"?" I asked immediately.

"Because the god's will has been integrated with the hole, and that stone is the body of the god." After A Feng finished speaking, he rubbed his eyes, "I'm sleepy, A Zi Ru, what else do you have?

Want to ask?"

A Feng's little figure has become blurry——

If she's like this, I'm afraid she will disappear, right?

"What is the relationship between the old gods of Izumo Kingdom and the original world?"

Afeng was stunned for a moment, and finally raised his head to look at me: "I can't say these things."

"Because I'm not qualified yet?"

"No, because she didn't let me say it." Afeng said, "I'm here to see you for the last time."

"..."

"Because I am going to grow up. As a childhood fantasy, I have already died after being thrown into the hole. She doesn't need me anymore."

"……really."

"It's great that I can come and say goodbye to you." She thanked her childishly, with a smile on her face, "I am really happy about this journey from the land of Izumo country to that village."

"Wait a minute -" The old god was a step too late after all. He wanted to reach out and grab Afeng, who was almost disappearing, but his grasp was in vain.

That was the last time I saw Afon/the childhood god.

The truth brought about by that land may be worth mentioning as a story like this, but that's where it ends.

"Old God of Izumo Kingdom..."

I was already planning to leave, but the voice of the old god came from behind me.

"The old gods of Izumo Kingdom will be attracted by everything about the original world."

"..."

"Thousands of years ago, when she went to Takamagahara to visit Amaterasu, lightning struck Amaterasu's temple, and she was regarded as a bad omen. She should have been able to leave Takamagahara because of this, but we saw him.

"

"he?"

"That man has the same aura as that land, decayed and ancient - not just a thousand years, but tens of thousands of years of time have been tempered on him, so he has that aura. It is not "nothingness", nor "decline"

"...The old god died trying to save us, so I don't know more about it. If you meet that man later, you must be more careful."

"Where's your name? You should tell me your name, right?"

"Izanagi, that man's name is Izanagi."

-

"Don't plan to go back to Genji?" A Xi touched her nose and said, "Are you still angry because of that?"
To be continued...