After asking a few more questions about the game instance, Su Muyue looked at the tall mountain of Wushan Shrine and whispered, "There's something wrong with that shrine..."
Su Deng's expression shifted slightly. "What's the problem?"
Su Muye shook his head, "I've never been up there, but I live in the Little Fox Society in the Firefly Forest at the foot of the mountain, and I can sense that something is wrong."
Su Deng narrowed her eyes.
"Haruko!"
Momoko and Riki Ninomiya ran in.
Su Deng explained that Su Muye was her younger brother who had come to watch the fireworks display, and that the fox ears and tail were fake.
Of course, they couldn't fool Riki Tsunomiya; as long as Momoko believed them, that was enough.
"So cute!"
Peach believed it. After touching Su Muye's ears, she seemed to fall in love with him, constantly rubbing his ears and tail, and occasionally squeezing his cheeks.
Su Muye tried to run away but couldn't, so he asked Su Deng for help.
Su Deng pulled him out and shielded him behind her, then led Taozi to higher ground. "The fireworks are about to start, are you still going to watch them?"
"Just let me touch it one more time!" Peach pleaded, reluctant to let go.
Tsunomiya Riki found it amusing and secretly waved to Su Muye, signaling him to go first.
Su Muyue didn't want to be separated from Su Deng, but he also didn't want to fall into Taozi's clutches again, so he could only put on his mask, hug the takoyaki he hadn't eaten yet, and hide away.
After losing sight of Su Muye, Taozi's attention returned to the fireworks festival, and she went to buy the snacks she had previously ordered.
While she was away, Su Deng looked at Tsunomiya Riki and asked, "How much do you know about the Wushan Shrine?"
Riki Tsunomiya pursed her lips, "It's not much more than yours."
A nation has more than one shrine and more than one shrine maiden.
However, the Wushan Shrine enshrines the main god in the hearts of the people, who is the highest, most sacred, and most sublime being.
Regardless of whether they become the children of the gods, the chosen priestesses will become the high priestesses who serve the shrine's deity.
The Tsunomiya family was once glorious, but later fell into decline due to certain events, and Ibaraki also lost its former glory.
The Jigami family looks down on the position of shrine maiden at other shrines, only considering the Wushan Shrine.
Her mother said that her face was born pure and flawless, and that she was born to become a high priestess and serve the gods.
From birth, from the moment she gained her own consciousness and memories, Riki Tsunomiya has lived on the path to becoming a priestess.
A retired shaman was hired to teach her etiquette, dance, and music from a young age.
Therefore, she was taught from a young age how to become a qualified priestess.
One should be gentle and dignified, act with elegance and nobility, maintain a beautiful figure and appearance, and remain refined and pure. Even one's sleeping posture should not be arbitrary.
"The shrine of Wushan that my shrine teacher told me about was something she had seen when she participated in a shrine festival."
In Wushan Shrine, the chief priest is the highest-ranking official, followed by the chief priest of power.
If the chosen high priestess can become a divine child and a palace priest, then she will be the most noble being in the world.
"I once asked my teacher, 'Do gods really exist?'"
When she was eight years old, she asked this question out of confusion, and the witch who taught her hit her hands ten times and locked her in a dark room by her parents for three days without food or water.
If it weren't for the fear of hurting her, leaving scars or something that would affect her appearance, she definitely would have been beaten.
But such punishment is even more terrifying.
“After that, I never asked that question again, but I secretly looked up information about Wushan Shrine.”
Riki Tsunomiya said.
She wanted to know if the god she was destined to serve from birth actually existed, and what kind of god he was.
However, there is very little specific information about the Wushan Shrine. Everyone has an unfounded belief in and worship of it, and no one dares to speculate or doubt it.
But no one has ever seen a real god.
"According to the information I found, the Wushan Shrine existed 500 years ago, and our country believes in gods..."
"I think it's not that they believe in God, but that they believe in everything as God," Su Deng said with a low laugh.
After all, here, there are Inari gods, cat gods, tanuki gods... even radishes can have a radish god.
Riki Ninomiya didn't accuse her of disrespecting the gods. She smiled and continued, "It is said that when monsters caused a plague, a god appeared and saved the world. The prosperity we enjoy today is also due to the god's protection. People built the Wushan Shrine at the highest point to worship it and called it the main god."
"The chosen high priestesses are almost all from noble families. This is the first time such a selection has been conducted."
The incident stemmed from the death of the previous priestess, and the sudden escape of the originally designated priestess candidate caught the entire Wushan Shrine off guard.
"To be honest, I'm a little ashamed to say this," Riki Tsunomiya sighed. "My family was determined to raise me to be a shrine maiden from a young age. To maintain my mystery, they never let me go out and never let outsiders see me."
When she was twelve years old, after discovering that she could communicate with spirits, he felt even more strongly that she was the next priestess of Wushan Shrine!
It is divine choice, destiny, and selection by the gods.
Her family recommended her to the priests of Wushan Shrine.
However, the Wushan Shrine had already been grooming its next candidate, a noblewoman.
Although she was outstanding, she was not directly selected.
The shrine staff said she could stay there and become a junior shrine maiden.
But that's not what the Tsunomiya family wants.
“My parents started blaming me, saying I was useless and that all the hard work the family had put in over the years had come to nothing…”
At that time, Riki Ninomiya was happy.
“The man you saw last night is called Yuki-dō.” Riki Tsunomiya took a deep breath and said in a very soft voice, “He is a yokai, a yokai that brings wind and snow.”
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