episode_0052

What is needed to form a divine name?

I saw the answer as faith and soul.

As I traced Inari’s memories, I felt the faith that gathered and filled the soul, and I realized that that faith transformed the soul into a divine soul.

The point is that the divine name itself had no special power and was merely a receiver that gathered faith.

However, since I still had no idea what the divine name was, I decided to receive faith in person or watch from the sidelines as Inari gathered believers.

Once you know what faith is, you will also be able to know the name of the god who gathers it.

So, I lived in a village and spent my time granting people’s wishes.

“Wow! So much salt and meat!”

Food ingredients supplied from the earth.

“Ah! Youkai made so simple!”

Eliminate hordes of monsters and ghosts located near the village.

“This is the water vein. Dig up this land and secure a well.”

Finding water veins to secure drinking water and agricultural water.

“Oh! Your body will feel energized!”

Not only for people’s illnesses and injuries, but also for restoring their health.

Before I knew it, people had gone from worshiping me and Inari to becoming passionate.

‘I still don’t feel faith.’

I tried using magic and spirituality to detect their belief in me, but there was no result.

However, it is not that there is no income at all, and through Babel, I was able to sense faith from Inari’s perspective.

It is filled with something presumed to be faith, and the soul is slowly sublimated into a newlywed spirit.

At the same time, I thoroughly dismantled, recognized, and traced back the spirit that was rising with my extra senses.

“Hmm…”

Still, I couldn’t figure out what faith was just by looking at the recipient.

That’s why I lived at the shrine and tried to sense the faith transmitted between the shrine maidens Eriko and Inari.

This was also the reason why I did not brainwash the shaman.

In order to gain insight into pure faith without any manipulation through the woman who is most faithful to Inari.

“Inari, the current situation in the village is very good. ”

“I know. I could hear people laughing all the way to the shrine.”

The spirit and the shaman sat in the shrine’s guest hall and talked about the situation in the village.

Before I came, the village’s condition was very bad, with a large percentage of the village population suffering from illness, injury, or deformity, resulting in a labor shortage.

The biggest problem was food. Although Inari had the ability to help crops grow, there was a lack of land for farming because it was in the mountains to begin with.

If things continued like this, famine could not be avoided.

However, as I solved not only food, but also medical care, drinking water, and other minor problems, it was natural that the village immediately became normal and vibrant.

“All of this is thanks to Yugen. Eriko, from now on, you must treat Yugen-sama as a true guest god, respecting him like I do.”

“Yes… I understand, Inari.”

Eriko seemed reluctant to treat youkai like a god.

Because people in this world are as sensitive to ‘location’ as Japan in reality.

This ‘position’ is a kind of ‘status’ and is close to the position one was born with.

A social structure that dictates that you should not confront people in high positions and should follow them, as well as an unwritten class.

This was the principle behind the hereditary succession of local districts in Japan, the people of Kyoto who were proud of their origins, and the daimyō or shogun who could not ignore the emperor even if they had actual power.

Simply put, it is a case where the tendency of the caste system is maximized.

This world was the same, but basically it was recognized in that order: Cheonjinshin, Gukjinshin, Gukjinshin, humans, and monsters.

Because youkai do not follow these ‘laws’, they are close to being excluded, and because they do not belong to a high ‘position’, their level is lower than that of humans who belong to beings of a high ‘position’.

By the same principle, Burakkumin do not belong to a high ‘position’, but are the lowest ‘position’ among humans, and as such, they are discriminated against, and Inari, who do not care about such discrimination and receive the religion of the village, are a different species.

Even the spirits openly discriminate based on ‘position’.

Anyway, that’s why Eriko reacted so sensitively to the fact that I was a youkai.

Because in this society’s perception, worshiping a youkai of a lower status than yourself as a god should not happen.

“Yugen? Yuugen?”

I came to my senses and answered Emiko’s words.

“Oops, I was thinking about something else for a moment. So what’s going on? Emiko.”

“It is said that the construction of Seopsa Company has just been completed.”

Seopsa is a shrine that worships other gods within the shrine.

Since I am also a guest, I must have a gentleman.

“Thank you for letting me know. Let’s go together.”

“Yes. Please follow me.”

I thought as I left the guesthouse and looked at Emiko ahead of me.

Still, it seems like Inari’s orders are being faithfully obeyed.

After leaving the guesthouse and walking a short distance, I came to the place where Seopsa Temple was located.

A neat building built on a foundation made of large stones.

For something built in such a short period of time, it was well made and full of care.

“Ah Yugen! Are you here? I’m Naotatsu! This is the Naotatsu who healed Yugen-sama’s hand!”

“I’m snoring! Thanks to Yuugen, my eyesight has returned! If there is anything in the shrine that needs to be fixed, please let us know at any time!”

“…!”

In front of Seopsa, there were nearly twenty people who appeared to be masons, carpenters, and laborers.

He helped build this shrine to repay me.

“I like it. I will definitely remember your sincerity.”

That’s not an empty remark, I really liked it.

This is also evidence of faith, so how could it not be appreciated?

I congratulated them and sent them away, taking a closer look at the shrine that had been created.

‘A shrine is just tradition and culture, it has no special function.’

As I was appreciating the shrine, Eriko next to me spoke.

” Yugen, I apologize for my previous rudeness.”

Eriko bows and apologizes. I answered that too.

“It’s okay. Because I don’t care about that. Your question was reasonable.”

Actually, I was a suspicious person and I manipulated Inari.

“No. I should have trusted Inari-sama and Yugen-nim whom Inari-nim brought. That’s right.”

Eriko was silent for a moment, then looked at the village below the shrine and spoke.

“This village, this village, was originally a hell of royalties. It was an abandoned place filled with injured, sick, abandoned, and thugs.”

Originally, that was the role of the village and the burakkumin.

The humans abandoned by the gods and the village where they gathered.

“I was originally just a beggar born in this village. If it had been the same, she would have become a prostitute or a product to appease monsters.”

“But Inari became the god of this village.”

“That’s right, Inarikami appeared in this village one day and said. ‘It’s so pitiful.’”

From what I remember, it is true that Inari felt sorry for her. But at the same time, he needed someone who would believe in him.

At that time, Inari was forced to sleep with Shomyo, a higher-ranking god, and refused, so he could not borrow people from other gods.

“It is thanks to Inari and Yugen that this village has become so normal. From now on, I will treat Yugen like a true spirit and serve him to the best of my ability.”

They worship youkai as a spirit.

It was unconventional to the common sense of this world. This may be because I come from a village that is almost like a makjang.

“It feels strange. Okay, I promise to grant prosperity to this village if they continue to believe in me.”

I was already thinking of this village as a base for the spirit universe, and the charm of it was that it was isolated and separated from other spirits.

“Ah! thank you! With Yugen-sama and Inari-sama’s help, this village will one day be able to rid itself of the disgrace of being called a village.”

Eriko had a dreamy, hazy expression as he looked at the village.

“Yes. If Inari rules the village, it will be possible.”

The conversation ended there, and I headed to the main shrine.

However, as I walked down the path to the shrine, I couldn’t help but smile and the corners of my mouth turned up.

‘Faith, trust… I finally sensed it.’

When Eriko expressed her hope for the village’s future, her extra senses succeeded in recognizing it.

Faith was the spirit’s desire.

A wish that connects with the spirit and is so earnest that it dyes even the soul.

You have to carry other people’s wishes

It was possible to elevate the immortal soul of an individual.

‘This is why I cannot sense the faith directed towards myself.’

How do you sense a pure heart and the spirit that embraces it?

If it weren’t for Eriko’s pure and strong desire that made the spirit tremble, even I would not have been able to sense it, having reached the state of spirituality and physicality.

Rather, the name of the deity that substantively draws in and accepts this faith was strange.

“But by what principle does God’s name bring this faith together?”

It was difficult to detect the divine name even through Inari.

While trying to find a solution to this, I came up with a solution.

“Learn spiritual skills to a higher level.”

As I reached the level of spiritual communication or gathered spirituality, I remembered the feeling of inspiration that was clearly rising.

Here, if you increase your spiritual ability and inspiration, the possibility of detecting the divine name may increase. In the end, this divine name must also be something spiritual.

I thought about what I had to do in the future, and first worked on filling the village with what it needed.

Supplying large quantities of cheap fabrics from the earth,

Using magic to manufacture agricultural implements and tools that are lacking in the village,

Construction of a fence to initially block the invasion of monsters,

They even gave us potatoes and sweet potatoes that did not exist in this world.

I worked hard for this village.

Before I knew it, most people believed in me more than Inari.

‘It’s good because these are people who will later add faith to my divine name.’

Deciding that I had helped the village enough, I left the rest to Inari and returned to the mountain of the tengu.