Its body was as huge as a prehistoric creature.
The so-called god before him and her two fox divine messengers had strange powers and extremely ugly appearances.
But they didn't seem to want to do anything harmful to Sosuke and the others.
However, the god's action of devouring that monster made Sosuke slightly doubt whether this thing's essence was the same as those life forms.
In this land, the boundary between gods and monsters had never been very clear.
He wasn't completely at ease with this thing, but Kitahara Sosuke felt the goodwill that the fox mikos were releasing towards him and thought it was okay to trust them a little.
Moreover...
He hadn't felt it yet, but after his whole body relaxed, a wave of pain that made him clench his teeth involuntarily came from the arm that had been hit by the monster.
He tried hard to pretend to be nonchalant and went to the two girls near the shrine entrance.
"Miko, Hana, are you alright?"
His concerned words were mainly worried about whether the two had suffered any psychological trauma.
Especially Hana, since she couldn't see the monster that had been following her at all.
"She probably thinks I'm very strange. I can finally understand how Stand users feel."
Kitahara Sosuke thought to himself with self-deprecation.
In the eyes of those who couldn't see those things, hadn't he just been acting like a mental patient having an episode?
Just thinking about it was an extremely embarrassing thing.
However, to his surprise, Hana, who usually seemed a bit ditzy, didn't rush to ask him a series of questions because of her doubts.
No matter how many questions she had, she kept them to herself for now.
"I'm fine, but Miko, she..."
The girl said to Sosuke with great concern.
"Miko."
Hearing this, Kitahara Sosuke walked to the black-haired girl, wanting to check her condition, but was met with the other party taking a slightly fearful step back.
"So scary..."
Her trembling, slender body conveyed this meaning at all times.
"Miko!"
Kitahara Sosuke forcefully grabbed her hand and loudly called out the girl's name, trying to bring her back to her senses.
He wasn't discouraged by the girl's fear of him.
After all, Miko was just an ordinary high school girl, completely different from a murderer like him who could unhesitatingly sentence Hayato-kun, whom he had just met for the first time, to death.
"Really, really... really scary, Sosuke-kun."
Seemingly called back to her senses by Sosuke's loud voice, the girl spoke words that were cowardly but at least became coherent.
Sosuke looked at her and, like an elder, used his uninjured hand to pull Miko into his arms, gently patting the child's back and comforting her with words.
"You've been through a lot all this time, but it's alright now."
He could very well understand her feelings of being the only special one in the entire world.
"Wuwuwu..."
Miko was finally able to sob without restraint beside Hana and Sosuke.
Sosuke felt slightly relieved.
He wasn't afraid of her crying.
What he was really worried about was the negative emotions that had been pent up in her heart for so long, with no way to vent them.
That was what could truly drive a person to despair.
Thinking of this, Kitahara Sosuke paused, then spoke to the girl.
"There are still more of those things around Miko, right? Then on the way back, I'll go and deal with all of them."
He genuinely wanted to help this poor little girl.
The way she trembled in his arms was too good at arousing his protective instincts.
The outwardly abstemious and indifferent high school girl showed her timid and weak side in front of him.
It had a kind of unexpected gap moe.
Hearing Sosuke's words, Miko hesitated for a moment before replying.
"No need."
"More than that, how's your hand, Sosuke-kun? You really should go to the hospital to get it checked."
The girl looked at the arm that Sosuke had been hit on, her face full of worry.
The left sleeve of his jacket had a large hole torn in it, as if it had been forcefully rubbed against a rough surface, and now it was barely connected.
There were originally some weights there, but they were broken when he blocked the attack for the fox miko, so Sosuke had casually thrown them away when he walked over.
But fortunately, because he wanted to avoid looking too bulky when going out, he hadn't worn large weights. Otherwise, his movements in the battle just now would have been significantly affected.
"As expected, Sosuke-kun was fighting something I couldn't see just now, right?"
Hana looked at Sosuke's wound, which was starting to swell and turn purplish, thinking silently.
Blood was still seeping out of it.
"Let's hurry down the mountain. I'll call a taxi to take Sosuke-kun to the hospital."
Hana said to the two of them, picking up her phone.
But Kitahara Sosuke refused them.
"Don't worry, I'll go get it checked myself later."
Of course, he didn't need to act tough, but he still decided to go get checked out alone.
If he really had bad luck and something went wrong, it would be better to prevent the two girls from feeling indebted.
Just as the few of them were talking,
The huge god, dragging its massive body, came in front of them.
"Hand..."
A deep but very dignified voice entered Sosuke's ears.
Although he could understand the word, Sosuke didn't understand what the other party wanted to express.
This god, like the two fox mikos, seemed to have a body structure that was very unsuitable for speaking human words.
"What do you mean?"
"Reach... hand... out..."
The huge life form replied very patiently and with great difficulty.
Kitahara Sosuke held out his hand, thinking that this generous god was going to heal him.
Then...
"Clatter clatter..."
A handful of coins of various sizes was pressed into his hand.
There were 5 yen, 10 yen, 50 yen, and 100 yen coins.
Kitahara Sosuke quickly counted them. The handful of coins in his hand added up to about 900 yen.
"One hundred yen... is enough..."
The god said this, then ignored Sosuke and turned to look at the other two girls.
Its action immediately extinguished Kitahara Sosuke's idea of casually coming over to make a couple of wishes.
He felt that although this god looked a bit bizarre, it was quite serious in its work and had a high cost-performance ratio.
Unfortunately, it seemed there were no loopholes to exploit now.
The god finally extended its huge claws again and did something towards Miko from a distance.
It was probably a good thing, right?
Looking at Miko, who was clearly terrified by the god's appearance and had tears welling up in her eyes, looking pitiful, Kitahara Sosuke didn't stop it.
As the god turned to leave, Sosuke hesitated for a moment before calling out to them.
"Could you please wait a moment? I have a question I would like to ask you."
Supernatural power held extraordinary attraction for him.
Kitahara Sosuke didn't want to miss this opportunity no matter what.
But the ugly-looking god just looked at him with its two huge eyes and didn't give a direct response.
Just as Kitahara Sosuke was about to say something more to them, the mummy-like faces of the two fox ladies seemed to smile, and they nodded slightly towards Sosuke.
"Bye... bye... big brother."
Then, they and their god stirred up a gust of wind. Under the gaze of Sosuke and the others, they disappeared into thin air.
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