Chapter intermission 2
"Wish you a happy new year . "
"Satou! W-wish you a happy new year!"
Receiving my surprise happy new year greeting, Aze-san greeted back like she was surprised .
Making use of the time difference between the royal capital and Boruenan countryside, I came to Boruenan to do happy new year greeting .
I had prepared the pretext of using the new Unique Skill [Unit Arrangement], but everyone was fast asleep since they were making merry until late at night during the evening party and the after party yesterday .
Today Aze-san is even cuter than usual .
No, I should say that that she's beautiful on her miko attire huh .
"I like your normal clothes, but that miko attire is also lovely isn't it . "
"T-thank yu--"
She was saying the last part embarrassingly and sheepishly I couldn't hear it, but since I was able to see blushing Aze-san, I deemed it good .
"Are you not using the little girl illusion today?"
"T-that's! I-it's not like that! That's--"
When I was playing around with Aze-san, Lua-san came in wearing miko attire .
"Ara, Satou-san . Is it fine for you to be away from Shiga Kingdom already?"
"Yes, fortunately . "
I had told them about the greater demon and the summoned part of Demon God ahead with [Telephone] magic .
"It's about time for the ceremony, let's go to the world tree . "
"Satou will also come right?"
"Yes, of course I'll be observing . "
I came here for that sake after all .
They tell me that they will perform offering dance at the time of sunrise in the observatory of the world tree, so they need to prepare various things .
An altar like the one in Shinto shrines has been prepared in the observatory, and including Aze-san, there are more than 100 miko and diviners preparing things .
The light is put off when everyone has taken their position, the room is wrapped in silence .
When the first sunlight begins to be seen on the faraway horizon, the sound of transverse flute and organ begin to spread .
The 'shan-shan' sound I heard sometimes are probably from the kagura bells the miko and the diviners are carrying .
And then when the sunlight illuminates the observatory, Aze-san who was standing by begins to dance the Kagura Dance with dignified expression .
The other miko starts to dance one after another, while the comforting sound from the diviners fill the altar with solemn atmosphere .
Their movements are accurate as if they've programmed to it .
And yet, they don't look mechanical . Looking from the elves' perspectives, it's probably a dance they've performed for hundreds, thousands of years, so it probably has become as natural as breathing to them .
The dance continues on for about 30 minutes, and I've perfectly recorded it from start to finish .
I'll show it to Mia and the others later .
When I was gazing at the prime and proper mode Aze-san, she seemed to notice me and came over while taking Lua-san along .
"Satou . "
"Good work Aze-san . It was a very wonderful dance . "
I hand over a fluffy towel to Aze-san .
While looking at her who's wiping her sweat from the side, I ask her the question I've been having in mind .
"Aze-san, I forgot to ask before, but which God was the dance dedicated to?"
"It's to Dragon God-sama . "
--Dragon God Akon Kagura?
"D-does the elf revere the Dragon God?"
If that's the case, then I have to confess that I've killed their deity . . . .
"No, it's not like that . Rather, the elves only revere us and the Creator God who created the seven pillar gods . "
Oops, some last boss-like name came out of Aze-san's mouth .
"This is the first time I've heard of Creator God--"
"That's only natural . It's a God that came from a far far away world together with the seven pillar gods after all . "
Lua-san answered my doubt .
Come to think of it, the same thing was written in the picture book about myth from before .
"It's independent?"
"Yes, about 100 hundred million years have passed since they came to this world, but not even once an oracle came from Creator God . There are many gods who leave their worlds, and that particular God has non-interference policy . "
The time span is strange .
Rather, so there are a lot of gods in other worlds huh .
Oops, the story has been diverted .
"But, then why is the dance dedicated to the Dragon God?"
"That's because--"
The thing that Aze-san told me was close to the content of the myth picture book I read before .
As a thank for the Dragon God who welcomed the gods coming to this world, they've been doing the offering dance for generations in the span of 100 million years .
100 million years huh . . . .
Then keeping silent about will be too dishonest of me .
I steeled myself, asked to meet the demi-god mode Aze-san who's linked with the world tree's archive, and confessed that I had killed the Dragon God .
" . . . . to the Dragon God?"
Demi-god mode Aze-san looks perplexed for the first time .
"Apparently, you are not lying . "
After a while, she greatly breathes out and turns her tranquil eyes to me .
"Satou, I have been surprised by you so many times, but this is the first time I'm this shocked in the 100 million years after I came to this land . "
I wanted to lower my head from her sublime voice, but I psyche myself and stare at the dignified face of demi-god mode Aze-san .
"However, there is no problem if you just merely killed the Dragon God . "
――WHAT?
"When the gods had just came to this world, God Zaikuon and God Garleon challenged the Dragon God and got themselves killed, but they were revived in 1000 years time . If it's the Dragon God then it will probably be revived in 100 years . "
As expected of God .
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