On the Methods and Skills of Keeping Gods

"Give."

Izumi Nagi stuffed one of the Kopei candies on top of the ice cream into Gojo Satoru's mouth.

The little candy was quickly turning into sugar water, Wujo Gojo smacked his lips twice: "No sincerity! Perfunctory!" Although he said so, he didn't continue to ask for rewards.

The four of them ate and drank all the way, and looked down at the time, it was already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon.Xia Youjie sipped milk tea and asked them, "Where are we going?"

Nairi Glass and Gojo Satoru looked at each other, then turned to look at Izumi Nagi: "Nagi, is there anywhere you want to go?"

Izumi Nagi, who was named, looked up at them: "I want to visit Kitano Tenmangu Shrine."

"Shrine?" Iiri Nitroko wondered, "Why would you think of going to a shrine?"

"Didn't Jie ask for some omori for me during the Chinese New Year? I think it's really helpful. This time I came to Kyoto and wanted to visit the famous Kitano Tenmangu Shrine. I can ask for some for you." He said, He took out the guard that Xia Youjie had given him before, and it was stained with a little blood in the battle with Fu Heisher, but because the whole body was red, it couldn't be seen if he blocked it with his hand.

Unexpectedly, a thing he did was remembered by him. Xia Youjie was very moved: "Since Nagi thinks so, let's go. The opening hours start at [-]:[-] in the morning and end at [-]:[-] in the afternoon. Now You can go and turn around.”

Gojo Wujo ate the food all the way, and after satisfying his appetite, he was very talkative, and he didn't have any objections when he was in the house, so the four of them planned to take a taxi there together.

After getting off the car, Izumi Nagi suddenly said to Gojo Satoru: "Speaking of Satoru, didn't you say that you are a descendant of Sugawara Michizane? Have you been here before?"

"Huh? No, there are so many Tenmangu shrines in Japan, so it's impossible to visit them all. And I have a shrine dedicated to enshrinement at home, so I don't need to come to the shrine, so this is my first visit."

"So it is."

As soon as I stepped into the confines of the shrine, Izumi Nagi felt the same aura as Yato and himself, which indicated that the main body of the god was here.He followed the other three people through the torii and up the stairs to the front of the main hall, thinking about how to make Sugawara Michizane appear, or how to talk to him face to face.

If I can perceive his existence, naturally the other party can also perceive him.But why has it never appeared?Izumi Nagi glanced at the people around her, is it because there are people around her who are inconvenient to show up?It seems that I have to find a chance to act alone.

Although Nagi Izumi thought so, she never found a chance.After all, everyone knew that it was his first time traveling far away, and everyone was afraid that he would get lost, so there was always at least one person by his side.He had no choice but to take one step at a time.

When you come to a shrine, if you don’t pay homage, what’s the difference from not coming?So I went to wash the house first to remove the dirt, and then came to the money box in front of the main hall.Izumi Nagi specially exchanged change with the cashier when he was shopping for clothes. He took out a 500 yuan coin and was about to put it into the box. He happened to see Gojo Satoru standing aside but doing nothing.

Quan Nagi asked: "Wu, don't you pay homage?"

"What's there to pay homage to? I don't have anything to wish for." Besides, it costs money to make a wish to one's ancestors, isn't it a waste?He is not willing to suffer this loss.

Quan Nagi couldn't help him, reached out and grabbed his hand, spread it out, and put the coin just prepared in his palm. "Then this is for you, come here, come with me."

Gojo Satoru was stuffed with a coin, looked at the 500 yuan in his palm, and thought: 5 yuan would be enough to visit the shrine, and 500 would be enough for a meal... It seems that Nagi has no idea about money... …

Throwing the money into the box made a crisp sound of metal colliding. "Papa" clapped twice, and Izumi Nagi bowed to the front.He thought about it, if Sugawara Michizane really wanted to find a chance to meet him alone, then visiting the shrine would be the best chance.

Sure enough, when he looked up, the main hall of the shrine disappeared, and he came to a white space.A figure came out from the tumbling white mist, wearing an ancient official uniform and holding a wat in his hand, and finally he stood still in front of Izumi Nagi.

"Gui'an," Sugawara Michizane said to the god he had never seen in front of him: "Yato-kun has already told me about your reason for coming. I want to see you, and I want you to come in person because of some private matters." It's really embarrassing to go to Kyoto."

"Michizane, you are being polite. I have a request from you. Then through this meeting, are you willing to come forward to help me?" Izumi Nagi asked.

"Of course, of course." Sugawara Michizane said with a smile: "When I saw you, I knew that you must not be that kind of god. After my current affairs here are over, I will go to Taoyuan Township to ask Bai Master Ze, what you want to know."

At this point, Izumi Nagi's goal has been fully achieved, he let go of the big stone in his heart, and relaxed: "Michizane, you are too polite, although I don't know what my real name is, but the current name is Izumi Nagi, you directly Just call me by my name. Being honored by a famous god really makes me uneasy."

"Hahaha!" He suddenly let out a burst of hearty laughter: "Okay, okay. Since this is the case, you don't have to treat me like this. Let us get along with each other, Mr. Quan."

"Okay." Quan Nagi also joked leisurely at this time: "Then Dao Zhengong, what do I need to pay you as a commission fee?"

"This, didn't you already give it when you visited the shrine just now?"

Thinking of the 500 yuan I put into the Sai money box and the 5 yuan I entrusted to Yato, is the cost of entrusting the gods so cheap?Feeling puzzled in his heart, he asked naturally.

Hearing his question, Sugawara Michizane laughed: "How could it be? It doesn't matter whether it is 5 yuan, 500 yuan, or even 5 million yuan, it is the same to our gods. Let me explain this way, Izumi-kun, do you think human beings Is your money useful to the gods?"

"It's useful... right?" Izumi Nagi wasn't sure: "Isn't there a saying: Can ghosts turn mills with money? If it's useful for ghosts, it should be the same for gods, right?"

"That's right. Money is useful to us, but that's all. We listen to the wishes of believers and choose the right people to help them realize. This choice is not based on how much they enshrine, but on the 'fate' .”

Izumi Nagi was puzzled, why did he mention "Fate" again?

"There are tens of thousands of believers in the gods, especially gods like me who are in charge of special abilities. There are people making wishes to me every day, every moment, will I help them all come true?"

"No." Izumi affirmed.

"Yes, I won't realize all of them. But I will choose a part to realize, and this part is neither because of his pious faith, nor because he paid a lot of incense money, but because of 'fate', because he told me There is a destiny, so I will help him realize his wish."

Speaking of this level, Izumi Nagi naturally understood.The gods obtain incense money from human beings not because of the value of the money, but only because of this to connect people and gods with "fate", and this kind of fate is a kind of transaction. will break by itself.

The money that was originally enshrined to the gods cannot be used by the gods themselves. The incense money in the saqin box eventually falls into the pockets of the people who manage the shrine.The gods can't get it, what they really gain is faith.Faith has nothing to do with the amount of money. Someone paid 5 million but he didn't have a trace of faith in his heart. So to the gods, the 5 million is no different from a pile of fallen leaves scattered on the ground. No, there are still some, at least the fallen leaves are floating. There is a meaning when it is down.

"Gods and humans complement each other, especially acquired existences like me and Yato-kun. When we lose the belief of humans, that is the moment we disappear. So in order to maintain our existence, we will work hard and be selective. The fulfillment of human wishes." Michizane Sugawara concluded at the end.

But in this way, Izumi Nagi has a new question: "Then why don't I need faith?"

"Because you are in a special state of receiving flesh now, you will still face the same problems as us when you return. Of course, there is another possibility," Sugawara Michizane said: "Gods with innate abilities such as San Takako are right For them, belief is just icing on the cake, dispensable. And the Huangquan gods who don't need belief at all, because they don't need it at all, so humans in this world have never heard of their names. But these are special cases. Just get to know it."

"Understood, thank you for your clarification. The time is almost up, so I should leave. After you get the answer, just ask Yato to bring the message to me. Thank you again for your help, and leave."

Seeing that Izumi Nagi had achieved his goal and was about to leave, Sugawara Michizane suddenly stopped him: "Izumi-kun, wait a moment."

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"In the end, it's to satisfy my own curiosity. Ye Dou-kun is anxious to help you cut off the fate. I don't need to think too much, I know it's for the incense money. What about you? You haven't recovered your memory now. Once you cut off the fate, you will be there All connections in this world will disappear. Your existence, residence, and everything you have now will disappear, I really don't understand why you made such a decision." Sugawara Michizane looked into his eyes, wanting to start from Find something inside.

But he saw nothing.

Quan Nagi looked at him, without a trace of concealment: "As you said, once the fate is cut off, I will lose everything I have now. But, so what?"

There was no emotion in his eyes: "It doesn't make sense to me to lose everything. Although my current situation is quite special, it may take a long time and a lot of energy to regain my memory after I lose my shelter. But these are not troublesome in my opinion."

Even if he said that, Michizane Sugawara did not believe that this was the real reason why he decided to kill Yuan. "Since that's the case, doesn't it have no effect on you? If it's just for convenience, then I think it's more convenient not to cut it? I hope you can tell me the real reason."

Izumi Nagi was silent, and when Sugawara Michizane thought he would not speak, he spoke.

"Yato told me that it is not a good thing for human beings to have a deep relationship with gods. Human beings tainted with the breath of gods are very delicious nutrients for monsters." Izumi Nagi slowly told her truest thoughts: "It doesn't matter what I do , but they, they should have their own destiny, and I shouldn't intervene in it to change their life trajectory."

So, Sugawara Michizane understood.For a god without memory, the memory of being a human is all he has.Because of this, do you not want human beings who value you to be harmed for your own reasons?Is this feeling he felt when he was a human being or is it the feeling he has now as a god?In other words, this god who is said to have given up his feelings, did all his feelings really disappear?

"But I don't think it's right to do so." Sugawara Michizane said: "Humans have their own destiny, which is good. But gods also have their own destiny. Although I can understand your concerns, I still want to persuade you You, after you recover all your memories, make such a decision when you really have the ability to judge. Not listening to the suggestions of other gods, but your most authentic thoughts."

This time Izumi Nagi didn't answer him again, bowed to him to thank him, and left.

After his figure completely disappeared into the mist, the Beacon Meiyu appeared beside Sugawara Michizane.

"My lord, that lord really..."

Michizane Sugawara took out a pipe and took a puff of smoke. "That's right, his situation is very special. I've never seen such a strange situation of incarceration. Fortunately, I met him after hearing what Ye Dou-kun said."

Mei Yu began to worry.

"After merging with the godhead, he still hasn't recovered his memory and the sense of disobedience on his body. This situation will never be formed naturally. It was caused by someone's intervention at the moment of his reincarnation. As for it can affect a person who can be reincarnated God, this kind of existence is not some nameless god that can be seen everywhere."

"Then... why do you still..." Knowing that there is such a big secret in Quan Nagi, Mei Yu began to worry about her god.

"Mei Yu, the fate of human beings, and the fate of demons. Everything is running according to certain laws, and God is the same. Facing fate, don't deny it. What we have to do is to try our best to resist fate." See If Mei Yu realized something after listening, he smiled and stopped talking.

"Then who should we choose to help us?"

Sugawara Michizane asked while looking behind the mist, Gojo Satoru was putting coins into the box and closing his eyes to pay respects seriously.

"Isn't there a ready-made good candidate? As a descendant of the gods, the only genius who has inherited the six eyes in a century, the strongest magician in the contemporary era, and has formed an unbreakable fate with the gods by accident... ...Then leave it to you, don't let me down~" Michizane Sugawara looked at him and said with a smile.