Tokyo Gods Only Want Beautiful Priestesses

Perhaps remembering its home-field advantage, flames ignited on the two entangled figures, forming a giant firebird that spread its wings over the silent sea of ​​lava, burning the two bodies it had been carrying to ashes.

With the blessing of the Immortal Mountain, the firebird grew stronger and more lifelike, each of its fiery feathers so vibrant, emitting its first cry.

She was losing herself. She didn't need anyone to tell her; she could feel the wildness of the firebird. Chiyo's consciousness was temporarily suppressed by the firebird.

However, there's no rush to deal with this. Chiyo can probably regain control of the phoenix inside her after resting for a while. Right now, Jingu needs to catch someone who's trying to escape.

From Princess Kaguya's perspective, all movements were stretched to their extremes and frozen in time. Even standing on lava, one would not sink or feel the heat.

This is her ability: to stretch and extend time, to make an instant eternal and turn eternity into a fleeting moment. However, influencing the existing material world requires a certain amount of power, and this power can be consumed to a very low level only when stretching and extending her own thoughts.

With her remaining strength, it would be difficult for her to extend the time of the shrine even by a moment. The only option she could take was to extend her own thinking in order to figure out how to escape.

If she could escape back to the bamboo forest, no one would be able to find her there. Time in the bamboo forest had long been stretched and solidified by her; it no longer existed in the modern era, but rather as a fleeting silhouette in the Nara period.

But now that her strength is exhausted, she can only, like a prisoner of time, ponder how to escape from this world where only she can keep thinking.

What should I do? How can I escape from the approaching shrine?

This chapter is 2073 pages long, and I've only managed about 4k words today. I'm having some trouble figuring out what to do next.

Chapter 110 Experiment

No, no, no

No matter how hard she tried, Kaguya, lacking much power, simply couldn't find a way to escape.

All she could do was stretch her timeframe infinitely, as if escaping, hiding in this fleeting moment when only she could think, but it was utterly meaningless.

If she were some kind of idealistic martial arts fanatic, she could continue to practice and learn in her mind in this instant, and achieve enlightenment and breakthrough. But unfortunately, Kaguya is the kind of person who would rather die than be bored. If she were to stay in this instant for two hours, she would be unable to bear it.

This technique would be a waste for her; she would only use it to make her reaction speed appear fast when playing games.

Ultimately, this kind of time is no different from a prison. Heaven and earth are an even larger prison, and some people confine themselves to a small place, unable to break free.

By doing this, Kaguya trapped herself in a moment. Is there a smaller prison than this?

Well, I'm going to be a guest here anyway. Rather than getting bored to death locked up here, I might as well be taken back by the shrine and then find a chance to escape.

From the perspective of the shrine maiden and the others, Princess Kaguya, who had just been resurrected from the sea of ​​lava, was about to run away when she suddenly gave up and stood there in place as the shrine maiden lifted her up by the collar.

Oh right, she was a little better than Chiyo; she knew that after being resurrected, she needed to make a set of clothes first, and she used up all her remaining strength on that.

"Huh? Not trying to escape anymore?"

Kaguya ignored the jeers from the shrine maiden, giving him the look of "do whatever you want with me."

"And that one over there..."

Jingu looked at the phoenix soaring above the sea of ​​lava, and with a flick of his finger, he shot out a burst of energy like a rainbow, directly knocking out the burning humanoid figure inside the firebird.

He tried to reignite the flames in mid-air, but the shrine grabbed his head and pressed him to the ground. The air around him was sucked away, leaving no room for the flames to ignite. He was suffocated to death, then resurrected, and then died again.

After repeating this process more than ten times, the phoenix finally stopped because there was no more fire to keep it warm. Chiyo, as an immortal, regained the dominant position, but was in a deep sleep due to the excessive death in a short period of time.

"Alright, this time we've reaped quite a harvest. One, two, three..."

Excluding the shrine maidens whose names are unknown, Jingu, with Chiyo on one arm and Kaguya on the other, and the obedient Narukami holding Yaiba's hand, has reaped a great harvest.

A long wind swept everyone up and headed straight for Tokyo. It seemed the hotels down the mountain were no longer safe to stay in; they might as well just go back.

After it departed, only the vibrant Mount Fuji remained, its long plumes of smoke rising into the night sky and reaching straight to the bright moon.

Hanayama Inshun sat on the bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

Mount Fuji outside the window is still erupting, and many people, like her, are probably unable to sleep tonight.

My mind is completely blank. Why did Mount Fuji erupt? Isn't the shrine just a tourist destination? How could a trip cause something like this?

And why did he call her specifically to wake her up and watch the eruption before it finally erupted? What did that mean? It couldn't have been because of her that he set off Mount Fuji, could it? He should have had that much self-awareness.

What could have happened? It feels like it only took two days, and then...

She had many things she knew nothing about.

Just then, her phone rang urgently again. Hanayama Haru answered, but the person on the other end said something that left her confused.

What do you mean by "starting tomorrow, the position will be changed, and the family's previous decision was somewhat hasty"? What does this mean? What exactly happened?

Completely bewildered, Hanayama Haru lay down on the bed, covered her face with the blanket, and tried to fall asleep. Little did she know that she wasn't the only one who had received a similar call.

The eruption of Mount Fuji also brought about undercurrents throughout Tokyo and even Japan.

Meanwhile, in the small shrine of the shrine, the shrine master was preparing to launch a thorough interrogation.

"Master...isn't this a bit too cruel?"

Narukami felt a little sorry for Yasui Kensuke when he saw his current state.

"How can this be considered cruel? Shrine, hurry! Add fuel to the fire, I've wanted to do this for a long time."

Kaguya, contrary to her previous listless state, excitedly leaned against the back of the shrine maiden and encouraged him.

"This is hardly cruel. They didn't even take off our clothes. It's just a little bit of fun. I'd rather do it."

Tamamo-no-Mae was also egging them on from the sidelines. The shrine was too mild. If they had shown even half of the skill they had shown to Takaji Makoto back then, it wouldn't have been this simple. Perhaps they were afraid that if they went too far, he wouldn't be able to bring himself to do it later, so they were being so mild.

Faced with this room full of villains, even the little shrine maiden remained calm and unmoved. Narukami suddenly felt out of place, perhaps she should stay out of it like Asuka.

At this moment, Hachiko's hands were tied and she was suspended, her eyes were covered, and her whole body was covered with a slippery liquid that was moving like a living water snake, constricting her skin and leaving snake-like crawling marks.

As for the clothes, Narukami felt it would be better to just take them off. With the power of the shrine, the fibers grew into tiny plants that swayed constantly in the wind, reaching the soles of the feet, under the armpits, and around the waist. Seeing Yasui Ken's trembling appearance, Narukami could imagine what it felt like.

Indeed, in terms of cruelty, it was not even half as cruel as it had been on the battlefield before, but considering that Yagami was an ancient and noble god with an extremely high seniority and noble status, it felt like the shrine's methods were completely humiliating and disgracing her.

Narukami guessed that he would rather the shrine use some truly cruel torture than this humiliation.

However, no matter how much the others egged him on, the Divine Palace remained unmoved; he was simply trying to develop his own abilities.

Since most deities are beings formed from faith, their manifestations in the mortal world are not much different from ordinary flesh and blood, though there are some differences.

For example, their bodies in the mortal world are entirely replenished and consumed by divine power. The advantage is that they can freely change and repair themselves without being bound by material constraints, and they do not have as many weaknesses as flesh and blood bodies.

The downside is that it is constantly being depleted, making it impossible to achieve a self-consistent cycle with the external world, and it can only rely on divine power to replenish itself.

However... as Jingu's ideas changed, the water that had seeped into Yashinagami's body began to decompose and transform, breaking down from the most basic elements to form new forms.

But all of this could not be hidden from Yashinori Kanekami, who was being used as an experimental subject by the shrine. She began to struggle violently, and even the unbearable itching just now had not made her react so strongly.

"What are you doing to me?! Stop it!!!"

But her struggles were in vain; those invisible hands had embedded themselves in her body, altering its structure.

Cells, nerves, blood vessels, organs, bones

The instant that flesh and blood are formed is an unimaginable agony, an agony that Kaguya and Chiyo are already familiar with—the agony of going from incomplete to whole, the agony of a primal, instinctive life force.

There are also instances where the construction of the shrine went astray, with nerves connected to the wrong places and organs placed in the wrong locations.

This was the real torture; the eight creatures, suspended in mid-air, twisted their bodies, trying to alleviate the pain.

This chapter contains 2199 words. I'll write two more chapters today to conclude the entire backstory, and then I can start thinking about how to begin the next story.

Chapter 111 This is not better

Life is such a joy, but to the gods, being born as a human is nothing but suffering.

When the shrine withdrew its hand, Yashinagami was completely trapped in this physical cage, unlike when she possessed it and could come and go as she pleased. This body was a prison specially made for her.

With his divine power restricted, and the body created by the shrine entirely as an ordinary life form, lacking any special qualities or talents, Hachiko immediately wanted to bite his tongue and commit suicide, ending this newborn life and returning to the essence of a god.

But she couldn't. The shrine maiden had tampered with this body, forcing her survival instincts to override her reason. This meant that in other aspects, her bodily instincts far surpassed those of ordinary people: survival...reproduction...eating.

The thought that he would spend the next hundred years like a mortal poisoned by desire, a pig indulging in instinct, a lowly female animal, made Hachiko no Kanetama want to faint.

"Alright, you can't call yourself Yagokoro anymore. From now on, you'll be called Yagokoro. You have no name. Just enjoy your life as a human being and as my pig."

After dealing with Yagokoro, Jingu turned around, and Kaguya, who had been enthusiastically stirring things up, froze instantly, sitting up straight.

"You're next, Princess Kaguya, what should we do?"

"Hmm...actually, I'm here to help you, do you believe me?"

Kaguya's attempt to bluff her way through only earned her a disdainful look from Jingu, who then chuckled twice and fell silent.

"Let me satisfy my curiosity first. Why is this guy so obsessed with you? He's gone to so much trouble to lure you out."

Seeing that the shrine had no intention of torturing or humiliating her, Kaguya breathed a sigh of relief.

"What else could it be? Of course, it's the elixir of immortality."

Kaguya sighed. It all stemmed from the silly fun she had recklessly created back then.

"The elixir of immortality was not created by me or Yagokoro alone, but was accidentally created through the cooperation of the two of us, combining my abilities. It is a forbidden item that is difficult to replicate."

"After it was made, the elixir of immortality had no effect on her as a god, so I had to test it myself. But I kept half of it, and you all know where the other half is now."

The other half, under Yagokoro's guidance and encouragement, eventually fell into Chiyo's hands. In this light, it's no wonder that Narukami said Yagokoro had no right to speak about her serving two masters.

Back then, Yagokoro had secretly defied Amaterasu's wishes and guided Chiyo to seize the elixir of immortality that was supposed to be destroyed.

"Then what's the reason? Since the elixir of immortality has no effect on her, why is she still so persistent?"

Instead of asking Yagokoro himself, whose eyes were still unfocused and who hadn't accepted reality, it was better to continue listening to Kaguya's story. However, upon hearing Jingu's words, Kaguya couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha! Why? Because she's an incurable idiot, a self-destructive fool, of course."

"As the Goddess of Thought, whose very existence is defined by contemplation, she desires to solve all the world's problems. Do you think that's possible?"

The shrine maiden spread her hands in greeting and asked.

The questions will only lead to new ones. Narukami's mouth gaped slightly; she had never heard Yagokoro have such thoughts before. In all their thousand-year-long acquaintance, this was the first time she had heard of such things.

Originally, Yagi was not meant to be the god of wisdom. Yagi means "thinking at the same time". In ancient times, Narukami even remembered that Yagi's image was once made up of a brain and eyeballs.

"Yes, since we can't solve all the problems, let's do the opposite: stop all thinking, use the elixir of immortality, and make all of humanity immortal, eternal prisoners."

"Then people will stop thinking, because humanity will become prisoners of time, frozen in that instant, and the world will come to a standstill. When humanity stops thinking, then there will be no need for the God of Thought to continue thinking."

Kaguya's bombshell revelation left everyone speechless, their mouths agape in disbelief.