Chapter 241: The Truth Kamishiro Hime Was Unwilling to Believe
Natsuba Hanae’s red, glass-like beautiful eyes immediately shone with a brilliant light.
In a flash, a thousand thoughts raced through her mind.
And Natsuba Hanae said,
“Hime, come a little closer.”
Hearing this, although Kamishiro Hime felt a little strange, she still obeyed Natsuba Hanae’s words, stood up, and approached her.
And in the next moment…
Natsuba Hanae extended her slender hand and touched Kamishiro Hime’s head.
Instantly, Kamishiro Hime couldn’t help but tremble slightly, and then she closed her pure white beautiful eyes, a look of satisfaction on her face.
However, the time of satisfaction was always short.
Natsuba Hanae had already withdrawn her hand.
Natsuba Hanae’s brow furrowed slightly. Looking at the dazzling light in her hand, which was swaying and seemed to be about to disappear in the next second, she quickly used her crimson divinity to protect it.
And with this move, the dazzling light dissipated.
And in its place was a small, broken, crystal clear, light-type silk thread.
“As expected.”
A hint of understanding flashed in Natsuba Hanae’s heart.
From seeing the dazzling ball of light, Natsuba Hanae had felt a sense of familiarity.
And the consciousness that had flashed in Ebisu at that time had a similar essence.
And both were in the form of a silk thread.
This could not be a coincidence.
In other words, the pure white consciousness of Ebisu back then, and the small, light-type silk thread in Natsuba Hanae’s palm now, both came from the same existence.
That supreme existence, above the gods.
And it was malicious towards Natsuba Hanae.
Although Natsuba Hanae now had almost no means to act against that existence, if she could learn some information about it, it was clearly very good.
The so-called crushing of combat power was only a very small number.
When facing a god of the same rank, the most important thing was still intelligence.
If Natsuba Hanae could know its weakness, then it would be much simpler to deal with.
But if Natsuba Hanae didn’t know its weakness, then to be helpless against it was also very likely to happen.
For example, when Natsuba Hanae had dealt with Ebisu, if not for her Sanctuary Flame’s natural restraint on the life-filled blood, and that extremely vast Great Sanctuary Heaven had completely contained the entire sea of blood…
Even if Ebisu had a single drop of blood, he could have survived and thus escaped.
And from then on, Natsuba Hanae would have had an immortal enemy in the dark.
In reality, to be able to completely kill Ebisu, for Natsuba Hanae, was also a bit of a fluke.
And with Ebisu, Natsuba Hanae had also understood that every god had a special trait, and to kill them was not a simple matter. She had to collect intelligence.
And to take measures to deal with it.
Of course, if Natsuba Hanae could crush it with her combat power, then that was naturally the most convenient and fast.
But now, Natsuba Hanae looked at the light-type silk thread in her hand. That warm, gentle, and dazzling feeling made her think of the sun.
Natsuba Hanae’s beautiful eyes flickered slightly, and a hint of a strange light appeared.
And it was as brilliant as the rising sun, shining brightly.
A faint smile appeared on Natsuba Hanae’s lips.
The sun?
Speaking of which, the crimson vertical pupil had always symbolized the red sun. This was a bit of a coincidence.
Natsuba Hanae didn’t know, when they reached the same rank in the future, whether this so-called sun would be stronger, or her red sun would be more brilliant and dazzling.
Natsuba Hanae was a little looking forward to it.
Of course…
Now it was still better to be careful, and to avoid exposing her form as much as possible, to prevent this “sun” from finding Natsuba Hanae first.
It was a being above a peak god, and Natsuba Hanae was now just a small high-level god. To meet it would be a nine-to-one chance of death.
What was fortunate was that Natsuba Hanae had learned from Ebisu that the pure white consciousness was in a hazy state.
And the situation Kamishiro Hime had encountered had further deepened this guess of Natsuba Hanae’s.
If the pure white consciousness were in a clear state…
Then in Ebisu’s time, it could have completely controlled Ebisu’s body to fight her.
And not to give Ebisu some power, and to rewrite his consciousness to fight.
The same went for Kamishiro Hime.
If the pure white consciousness had awakened, then something would have surely happened to Kamishiro Hime, and she would not be completely unharmed now.
And this broken silk thread could further explain the situation.
Just as most of the existing gods were in a slumber, this supreme existence must also be in a slumber. It had just revived a negligible wisp of consciousness.
And it had noticed Natsuba Hanae, this heretic, and was now dealing with her.
Natsuba Hanae didn’t know if the attack on Kamishiro Hime was deliberate or just a coincidence.
This point still needed to be confirmed through questioning.
Natsuba Hanae’s red, glass-like beautiful eyes stared at Kamishiro Hime.
And Kamishiro Hime pursed her pink lips, still lingering on the feeling of her mother stroking her hair just now.
Until Natsuba Hanae’s words entered Kamishiro Hime’s ear.
“Hime, before you came to the filthy land, did you go anywhere?”
“Did you feel anything unusual at that time?”
Hearing this, Kamishiro Hime was slightly taken aback. Kamishiro Hime didn’t understand why her mother was suddenly asking her these things.
However, although Kamishiro Hime was not in the divine realm, because before, Natsuba Hanae had rewarded her daughters with some divinity, to serve as nutrients for their future advancement to godhood…
And after this period of comprehension, although Kamishiro Hime could not see the divinity…
But Kamishiro Hime’s pure white eye’s perception of divinity had become more and more keen.
Although Kamishiro Hime couldn’t see it, she could feel that before, when her mother had been stroking her head, it wasn’t just a simple stroking, but Natsuba Hanae had taken something out from it.
And that thing was now in Natsuba Hanae’s hand, and was freely displaying a divinity of light and heat. Although it looked very subtle, its essence was powerful.
Kamishiro Hime, as long as she felt it with her heart, she would feel a strange stinging pain.
Probably, her mother’s question was related to this.
Thinking of this, Kamishiro Hime did not hide anything and answered honestly,
“Before I came to the filthy land, I had used the authority my father had given me to summon ten B-rank tengu loyalists to conduct a large-scale search here.”
“To help Mother find the whereabouts of Yamata no Orochi.”
“In this…”
Kamishiro Hime’s brow furrowed slightly, and Kamishiro Hime thought carefully and continued,
“In this, there was nothing unusual that I felt.”
“A B-rank tengu loyalist wouldn’t have anything unusual.”
“They were all through my father, and with a unique method, they were paired with the tengu birds that survived in Takamagahara, and with their blood……”
“…………”
Suddenly, halfway through her sentence, Kamishiro Hime widened her eyes, as if she had discovered something.
“Takamagahara?!!”
Clearly, since the thing had already been discovered…
Then during this period, Kamishiro Hime had encountered something unusual.
And a few days ago, Kamishiro Hime had just come back from her mother. If Kamishiro Hime had already had this divinity on her head, then her mother would have discovered it long ago.
Kamishiro Hime wouldn’t have waited until now to discover it.
Then the time was locked to when Kamishiro Hime was in Kyoto and Takamagahara.
And recalling the matter of Takamagahara, Kamishiro Hime said to Natsuba Hanae,
“Mother.”
“This divinity is highly likely to have been left in my hair when I was in Takamagahara.”
“If not for your discovery this time…”
“I would have thought that what I had felt at that time was just an illusion.”
Thinking about it carefully, to have reached A-rank, it was impossible to have an illusion. Especially Kamishiro Hime’s pure white eye, which had a very high perception.
Kamishiro Hime pursed her pink lips, and a hint of surprise appeared in her eyes.
Kamishiro Hime had been so alert to any slight movement in the past, and had investigated it carefully. But facing this extraordinary feeling, she had not paid any attention to it.
Could it be that the divinity that had remained in Kamishiro Hime’s hair was deliberate?
It was highly likely that it had an effect of making Kamishiro Hime ignore this incident.
But Takamagahara was the area where the Kamishiro imperial family was located. In fact, besides people with the imperial family bloodline, ordinary people couldn’t even stay there for a day.
And the airspace near Takamagahara was heavily guarded.
Not to mention, at Takamagahara, the god of the Kamishiro imperial family, as long as It was awakened, was undoubtedly the strongest.
Even in an unawakened state…
It was absolutely impossible for anyone to invade.
Otherwise, a few decades ago, there would not have been many forces joining forces to lure Kamishiro Hime’s father and grandfather out of Takamagahara and seriously injure them with several divine artifacts.
But they would have directly entered Takamagahara.
Because even the lords of those forces knew very well that even several divine artifacts, in front of the unawakened Takamagahara god, were also weak and unbearable.
This information was recorded in the ancient texts of every force with a god.
But…
Kamishiro Hime, as a direct descendant of the Kamishiro imperial family, had almost been attacked in Takamagahara. This was simply a joke.
Kamishiro Hime forcibly suppressed the confusion in her heart.
And told Natsuba Hanae the information she needed first.
“To investigate the hiding place of Yamata no Orochi…”
“I went to visit my father and asked him to give me the authority to mobilize the B-rank tengu loyalists.”
“When I was taking my leave from my father and was preparing to leave Takamagahara…”
“The power of the Daitengu had been triggered in an instant.”
“As if to resist something.”
“Then, I felt my head was gently pricked by something.”
Kamishiro Hime’s brow was tightly locked, and Kamishiro Hime tried hard to recall.
“But these memories………”
“If not for your reminder, and for you to take that divinity that radiated light and heat, I feel that no matter how long I think, I probably won’t be able to remember.”
“As if it were buried deep in my memory.”
“Even more so, after a while, I would have completely forgotten.”
Natsuba Hanae looked at Kamishiro Hime’s slightly bewildered expression.
And Natsuba Hanae already had a guess in her heart.
According to Natsuba Hanae’s guess, this divinity itself existed in Takamagahara.
Then it was very normal for Kamishiro Hime to be tainted by it.
In that case, the existence of that pure white consciousness was not that it had discovered Natsuba Hanae and was targeting her and her daughter.
Kamishiro Hime being attacked was completely a matter of coincidence.
With this as a conclusion…
It could be said that the situation was developing in a good direction.
Because this meant that the small part of the pure white consciousness that had awakened, its ability had not reached the level of omnipotence.
Since in Ebisu’s time, it had already known that Natsuba Hanae was an enemy…
And had used Ebisu to kill her…
Then if Natsuba Hanae were the pure white consciousness, she would have used all her means to eliminate herself and the people around her as much as possible.
But that pure white consciousness had not done so.
Clearly, its current ability was limited, and it could not do this.
And by using all Natsuba Hanae’s current information to deduce, its identity was also completely clear.
Knowing its identity, Natsuba Hanae could use this to investigate and to plan its weakness.
At least in the information war, Natsuba Hanae had already gained the upper hand.
And the current Kamishiro Hime was still in a state of utter confusion, and she was thinking carefully.
“But… how is that possible?”
“In Takamagahara, to attack a direct descendant of the imperial family.”
“And it was a divine attack. To have reached this level, how could my father and grandfather have not reacted?”
“And the god of the imperial family, how could It have not reacted at all?!”
As the undisputed strongest god, although the imperial family’s god was sleeping, It also had a unique enemy-seeking mechanism.
Compared to the other gods, It was more sensitive.
If other gods would only counterattack after the damage had been inflicted on the direct descendant’s body…
Then the imperial family’s god only needed someone to show malice to the imperial family, and they would be attacked.
When a direct descendant was about to be attacked, the imperial family’s god would release Its divinity on the other.
And according to Kamishiro Hime’s understanding, if someone were to use a divine artifact or divinity in Takamagahara…
The strongest god, how could It tolerate the appearance of another god’s power in Its territory? It would surely attack first and would not give the other a chance to attack.
Not to mention attacking Kamishiro Hime herself.
This time, if not for the power of the Daitengu template itself, to counter that scorching divine attack…
Kamishiro Hime wouldn’t even have known when she had been attacked.
Kamishiro Hime’s pure white beautiful eyes were filled with confusion.
And Kamishiro Hime had no clue herself. Kamishiro Hime could only turn her gaze to Natsuba Hanae, wondering if her mother could know what was going on.
However…
Kamishiro Hime’s mother knew very little about Takamagahara. It was probably a bit difficult.
But what if her mother knew something?
With this mindset, Kamishiro Hime asked,
“Mother, why was I attacked by a divinity in Takamagahara, but the god of the Kamishiro imperial family, why did It not stop it?”
“Could it be that the god of the Kamishiro imperial family has encountered………”
Before Kamishiro Hime could finish her sentence, she saw Natsuba Hanae gently shake her head.
Natsuba Hanae looked at Kamishiro Hime’s confusion, and she already had a guess in her heart. Natsuba Hanae actually didn’t want to tell her.
After all, this answer would very likely cause a mental shake-up in Kamishiro Hime.
But with Kamishiro Hime’s status, if Natsuba Hanae didn’t tell her this information, she would very likely be attacked again.
Pursing her lips slightly, Natsuba Hanae made up her mind.
And Natsuba Hanae said softly,
“Hime.”
“If the divinity that attacked you was initiated by the god of the Kamishiro imperial family…”
“Then everything makes sense.”
“And………”
“Light and heat, this sun-like feeling, doesn’t it perfectly match the name of that god?”
“Amaterasu.”
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