Jiuyuan was not in a hurry to build the shrine. During this period, he even enjoyed his student status and went to school and came home regularly. However, there were some minor troubles at the beginning - he was too ostentatious. Although many people were not crazy enough to wait at his door, if he appeared on the street, he would inevitably cause traffic jams in the surrounding areas.

As a good citizen, Jiuyuan had no choice but to use the folding space to transfer every day.

When he suddenly appeared in the classroom for the first time, the boy sitting behind him almost jumped out of fright.

——It’s like seeing a ghost in broad daylight!

As for the side effect, Mimiko and Nanako originally treated him a little like people of the same age, but now they completely regard him as another person.

Not only them, but also the rest of the classmates.

Even the teacher who used to like to call on him to answer questions in class was the same.

Thinking of this, Jiuyuan inexplicably felt that he was a little out of favor.

During lunch, the two sisters saw Jiuyuan looking inexplicably sad.

"…Is there anything you need us to help you with?"

"No need." Jiu Yuan held his chin with his hand, looking like a completely harmless high school boy, but no one would think of him that way now, "It's just some of my own problems."

After the twins left, Jiuyuan and the system said:

"——I still enjoy the feeling of being noticed by everyone as a human being. This feeling of being connected to humans is very interesting, a hundred times more interesting than being a chaotic spirit."

【System: ...Because humans are complicated?】

"Yeah. They always give rise to many possibilities that make me curious... Whether it's good or bad, it always makes sense to the person who makes the choice, right?"

Jiuyuan stood up and leaned against the iron fence of the rooftop. A breeze blew over his head. The power of the land god allowed him to change the weather in a small area. He turned all the hot air around him into a cool breeze. "Now it makes me feel so lonely."

His complaints were like that of the child who was being excluded in a game of house.

【System: There is no way around this, right? Strictly speaking, you and they are no longer in the same dimension.】

"...I thought you would say something to comfort me." Jiuyuan smiled and patted the dust off his body.

Then, as if he had thought of something, he asked curiously, "Don't you have a name? Or rather, didn't I give you a name?"

The system was stunned for a moment, then said: [No.]

Jiuyuan: "Oh, then I am quite irresponsible."

System: [……]

Jiuyuan: "After you have your own body, you don't want me to call you 'system' every day, right?"

System: […Of course I don’t like this name…Wait, my own body? What do you mean?]

A thought that he dared not even think about came to his mind.

Of course the system knew what he was. He was one of the stubborn vengeful spirits in Jiuyuan's body. He was plucked out of the other's body, his consciousness was cleansed, and he became an independent, thinking "tool".

After all, he thinks he is just something like a vacuum cleaner or a sweeping robot, with certain procedures, but he is not regarded as an "independent thinking being".

He himself didn't know why he thought this way - maybe it was just because he felt that he was a part of Jiuyuan, but not a part of him.

Just like a person's fingernail, would you say that this thing is part of him?

Not everyone will agree with this concept.

The only one who truly has the power to give him a new life is Kuen.

So this sentence was almost like Jiuyuan making a promise to him.

Jiuyuan didn't keep the secret and said, "It would be a waste to just let you be a warehouse manager and automatic recorder."

He can do these things by himself. Previously, he needed the third-party auxiliary tool "system" to block his own memory. Now that he can remember them himself, he no longer needs the system to provide these services.

So, isn't it normal to give him a body and assign him other tasks?

"The shrine will be built soon." He said, "It's not nice to be a god with no real purpose... I always need some subordinates, such as messengers..."

The system was not overwhelmed by the sudden surprise. It carefully tested the master's thoughts.

[But, those monsters can also do it...]

"That's meaningless." Jiuyuan said, "The identity of 'Jiuyuan's messenger' will cover up their own existence, which is contrary to my idea that they should be remembered soberly and for a long time. So what I need is a brand new, unknown existence to be my messenger."

[…Can I? ]

"It's not that difficult." Jiu Yuan was puzzled. "For you, recording and arranging are easy tasks, right?"

Without waiting for the system to continue asking anxious questions, Jiuyuan said first: "I have to give you a name first. After all, you are a messenger of God, it would be best if it is related to my name..."

"One divine messenger is not enough."

Jiuyuan recalled that when he sent out invitation letters, he used the images of two black and white foxes as messengers of God.

In this case, just implement it thoroughly, and you may be able to get some business for your future self.

"Since I'm KU ON... 'KU' seems hard to come up with a suitable name, so how about 'ON'?"

"How about 'ON ON'? The Chinese character is '音音'?"

System: […I don’t think it’s very good.]

He doesn't want to bear such a name.

"I think it's good." Jiu Yuan lied with his eyes half closed. "You can tell we are very close just by hearing it. Seriously, do you really not like this name? It sounds very cute."

Seeing that Jiuyuan really believed this, the system didn't want to refute it anymore.

He was slightly moved by the other party's words "It sounds very intimate".

...really just a little bit!

But, we still have to resist a little.

System: [But isn't this name too cute? It doesn't fit your style as a god, right?]

Jiuyuan said: "The Chinese character for 'ON ON' can also be '怨音', which is very suitable, right? However, people think that this is not auspicious, so they usually use the two characters '音音' instead."

Convinced by Jiuyuan's perfect reason, the system gave up the struggle.

"Then I will make a body for you."

He found the best-quality alchemy doll in the warehouse, and then gave it a physical appearance according to his own imagination.

The doll's body slowly transformed into a child of about ten years old, with snow-white hair and a pair of fox ears of the same color, and eyes of pure red. He was wearing a white kimono with many decorative ribbons embroidered on it.

He looks like a lovely child.

After he put the system's consciousness into his body, "Yin Yin" slowly opened his eyes.

First, he realized that Jiu Yuan was bending over to look at him——

"…Why am I a child?"

Jiuyuan rubbed the new envoy's head and said, "Because your setting is 'Children's Resentment'."

Yinyin said "oh" in a dry voice.

"…Does that mean there is still 'grudges of adults'?"

He looked at his clothes and wondered if his future colleague would wear all black.

Does it mean that adults have dirty hearts?

"Of course." Jiuyuan looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction - these furry ears and tail that feel so good, he can stroke them as much as he wants in the future, and he won't have to envy others anymore.

After all, after he recovered his memory, he found out that he couldn't summon Furry at all! All the Undead were rigid!

Yinyin adapted well. He looked up and asked Jiuyuan: "How are you going to choose another messenger? ... Are you going to choose from those you know?"

Kuen nodded.

"I will select fairly."

That day, Yinyin, who was taken home, knew what the selection that Jiuyuan was talking about was.

He directly sent out the selection invitation through his own Huangquan House.

He said that he still needed to find a messenger of God and the registration period was one week.

There were many people who were eager to try, but after seeing the selection criteria, many of them backed out.

Jiu Yuan looked at Xia Youjie who handed the application to him and asked, "Are you really going to apply?"

"Yes." Xia Yujie did not hesitate.

Kuen raised an eyebrow.

It's nothing, it's just that one of the selection requirements he proposed must be fulfilled by the candidates.

He will decide whether the person is qualified to become a divine messenger based on the performance of this project.

This project is to let them experience the feeling of going to hell.

They are sentenced and then serve their sentences in hell according to their crimes in their previous lives. This is just a real simulation and does not really mean that they have completed their sentences. If they go to trial in the future, they will need to serve their sentences again.

Although the real simulation only takes a few minutes for Jiuyuan, the other party has to actually complete hundreds of years of criminal law in this environment that almost completely restores hell.

That’s why most people back out, because no one can guarantee that they will be completely sober after coming out.

...After all, in hell, most people who have served their sentences are directly arranged to be reincarnated, so there is no question of whether they need to be sober or not.

Jiuyuan set it up this way just to be fair to Yinyin.

He pointed at the paper in his hand and reminded Xia Yujie: "I remember I told you how the judgment would be based on your situation."

Kuen's expression was as if asking, "So you really decided to do this?"

He deliberately pushed the application form back.

Xia Yujie did not take back the paper.

His face was expressionless. He said, "If, as you said before, curses and cursed spirits are just inferior products that cannot be completely transformed into monsters due to the lack of faith in this era - then, as long as the Shinto era comes, there will be no curses, only new monsters and monsters... right?"

"That's the theory," Kuen said, "just like the Jujutsu Master was derived from the Onmyoji, it's like a simplified version."

"Then I won't quit."

Xia Yujie pushed the application form over again.

"...I want to know the full picture of this world and what a future without curses and cursed spirits would be like."

"—Even if I have to go to hell and walk through mountains of swords and seas of fire?"

"yes."