The shadow reaches the top of the mountain, the Mingshen Taisha Shrine.
Under the huge sacred cherry tree, Yae God's pair of beautiful eyes seemed to show both joy and anger. His gaze followed the falling cherry petals and finally landed on the half cup of sake in his hand.
The mountain breeze blew against the sacred cherry tree, and the rustling sound from the treetops made the fox ears that were faintly visible among her pink hair move slightly.
At a certain moment, footsteps were suddenly heard behind me.
"Master Palace Administrator, this is the new manuscript that Yaedou sent this month."
"Oh? Let me see."
Yae Shinko turned around, walked down the stairs quickly, and came to the shrine maiden who was bending over and holding up her arms to present the manuscript. Without saying a word, he took the manuscript from her hands and began to read it carefully.
While watching, Yae Shinko took a sip of sake from time to time.
"Really? There have been too many isekai novels from Yaedou recently. Are you so dissatisfied with your own world?"
After taking a rough look at it, Yae Shinko shook his head slightly, obviously not satisfied with the quality of the manuscript.
Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of the priestess's seemingly uneasy figure. After a slight exclamation, Yae Shinko looked at the priestess's hands tucked into her sleeves.
"What are you hiding? Show it to me."
"Um... Lord Palace Administrator... this..."
"Let me see~!"
How could an ordinary miko resist a fox demon who had achieved great success in cultivation? Yae Shinko only gave her a look, and the little miko could only hesitantly hand over the manuscript hidden in her sleeve.
"Okay, you hid another copy? Let me see what this is."
"Hmm? 'Reborn and transformed into Lord Yae-miyaji'? Interesting kid, you actually set your sights on me, Yae-miyaji?"
After glancing at the title of the book, Yae Shinko suddenly drank the sake in her hand. She didn't do anything else, but just waved her hand and the wine bowl disappeared.
Then she lifted the little witch's chin with her fingertips and moved closer to her. Because they were so close, the tips of their noses almost touched.
"You actually want to hide it? Even you belong to me, where can you hide it?"
"Master Miyaji..."
The little miko blushed at being teased by Yae Shinto for no reason and subconsciously took a step back.
Just at this moment, a muffled thunder suddenly came from the direction of Inazuma Castle.
Yae Kamiko's face changed slightly. She no longer paid attention to these light novels, but stood up and stared in the direction of the castle tower.
The little witch also looked over, but didn't find anything unusual.
The sky was light and cloudless, and it didn't look like there would be a natural thunderstorm.
If the thunder was not natural, there was only one possibility.
——Murakami, perhaps he is giving an oracle.
The little shrine maiden looked at Yae Goddess again. In her eyes, the only one who could understand Lord Narukami's oracle from the thunder was probably Lord Palace Master, who was admired by almost all the shrine maidens.
"I'm leaving for a while. I'll leave things here to you for now."
Yae Shinko glanced at the little priestess, left these words, and then his figure suddenly turned into a flash of lightning and disappeared in front of the sacred cherry tree.
When it appeared again, it was already on the eaves of a tall building near the castle tower.
If the person inside was the real Thunder God, Yae Shinko, as a follower of Thunder God, would naturally enter through the main gate in a proper manner to show respect. But now, the person inside was just a puppet, and Yae Shinko had no interest in playing along with her.
Staring at the castle tower that was so close at hand, Yae Shinto frowned more and more.
"What is this guy Ying doing?"
She could sense that the power of thunder element between heaven and earth was constantly gathering, and the power that caused this gathering was undoubtedly the power of Shadow.
In her eyes, the doll was boring, but because of that, it had hardly made any mistakes in the past few hundred years. So the only person who could suddenly cause such a strange phenomenon could be her old friend who had been avoiding everyone for hundreds of years.
The power of the thunder element gathered by the divine power became stronger and stronger, and even affected the thunder-attributed divine eyes worn as earrings by the Eightfold God Son, causing it to emit a bright purple light.
"No, I have to go and take a look. Don't let me get into trouble because I've been bored for hundreds of years."
With a thought, the Eightfold Son of God once again turned into lightning and broke into the castle tower.
However, as soon as he entered the castle tower, Yae Shinto was shocked by the extremely abundant power of thunder element and the raging divine power in the hall.
Before she could react - in fact, she couldn't react at all - Yae Shenzi faintly heard a voice saying "Success! The passage is open!"
Then, Yae Godson felt a powerful suction force pulling him into a certain space. He rolled his eyes and lost consciousness.
In the main hall, the silly shadow who temporarily controlled the body of the Second Generation Raiden General stared blankly at the Eightfold Son of God who suddenly broke in and then suddenly disappeared.
After a while, a mournful cry sounded——
"Son of God——!!!"
Far away in Kamisato's residence, Kamisato Ayaka, who was practicing swordsmanship, put away her sword and stood gazing at the castle tower.
When the thunder roared, the silver-haired girl's eyes revealed confusion.
"General, are you telling me something?"
…dividing line…
The clattering sound of a child running quickly on the stairs interrupted the conversation between Ning Qingxuan and Yang Xingshu.
Ning Qingxuan turned her head and saw Ning Lanyin holding up her skirt and climbing up the last step, running towards her excitedly.
"Brother Crown Prince! This is my choice, what do you think?"
She is clearly only four or five years old, but because of her parents' good genes, she has already begun to show some extraordinary charm at this age.
Ning Qingxuan looked at the hairpin that Ning Lanyin handed to him. Just now, when he and Yang Xingshu were talking about business, the child was wandering around the jewelry store downstairs.
This kind of folk jewelry is certainly not comparable to those produced in the palace.
It may seem extremely precious and luxurious to ordinary people, but it is worthless in the eyes of the royal family.
However, it is somewhat novel in shape and is polished very smoothly, which makes the little girl who is used to the elegant and luxurious style of the palace look quite novel.
"It looks good."
Ning Qingxuan gently pinched Ning Lanyin's face.
"Is the allowance enough?"
The so-called regular money is this girl's monthly pocket money.
But don't think that the princess of the royal family can squander money at will.
Ning Junkang and Wen Guxi will certainly not let the little girl lack anything in her daily expenses, but they can't give her a lot of money to spend at will.
In fact, the funds that the child can freely dispose of every month are pitifully small.
Even Ning Qingxuan was not able to freely dispose of large amounts of wealth until she was sixteen years old.
"Well... I want to buy one for Sister Ying, but I don't have enough money."
"Then this is a gift from my brother, okay?"
"Yes, yes!"
Seeing the little girl so happy, the general came over, picked her up and kissed her on the cheek.
Just as Ning Qingxuan was about to say something, she suddenly heard a noise coming from outside the window -
"Someone come——!"
"Someone fell into the water——!"
At the same time, Ning Qingxuan and the general suddenly felt a chill in their hearts.
He/she sensed that the surrounding electromagnetic field suddenly experienced abnormal fluctuations for a moment.