---------------------------I'm the dividing line between Ebisu being buried at work and Inari abducting Natsume------------------------

When Natsume woke up, the sky outside had not darkened or lit up, and everything was the same as when he went to bed. The difference is that the surrounding environment has changed, and it is not the Inari mansion that I am familiar with, but on a ship.

Breaking free from the shackles of the quilt covering him, he struggled to get up and walk on the small but rickety boat, Natsume was like a little fox who had drunk on the adult's wine.

It's a completely unfamiliar environment, and if Natsume hadn't seen Inari and Amaterasu sitting on the bow of the boat, I'm afraid she would have thought that she had been kidnapped by someone she didn't know.

Stumbling out of the cabin, Natsume saw that the stars in the sky were within reach, the boat was sailing in the heavenly river, the bright or dark stars twinkled around the ship, and the bottom of the boat was a river composed of starlight, which was called the Milky Way in the world.

Inari and Amaterasu sat on the sampan at the stern of the boat. Inari was fishing with a fishing rod, and Amaterasu was fanning the wind against a small red clay stove with a fan made of plantains. A small purple sand teapot on the small stove is just about to boil, and white water vapor is spewing out from the connection between the body and the lid and the spout.

When Natsume came out of the cabin, he happened to run into Inari and shook his fishing rod and caught a ball of cyan light but not real, and after catching the boat, the light was still struggling to return to the vast expanse of the heavenly river. Unfortunately, he couldn't get his wish, and Inari quickly caught it and threw it into Amaterasu's boiling water.

The faint fragrance, accompanied by the whole water vapor spread throughout the ship's side, which makes people feel refreshed.

"Natsume, you've come just in time, come and taste the special tea leaves of Tianhe. He lifted the purple clay pot from the stove and brought it to Natsume with a cup of fragrant tea in a thin and delicate porcelain cup.

After taking a sip of tea, Natsume suddenly felt refreshed all over his body, and his brain, which seemed a little groggy because of sleep, woke up in an instant, and he felt very good, and even the complicated problems that Sakurakami Miko talked about before could be remembered at once.

The appearance of this is a tea leaf in a heavenly river of light, and a ball of light can only make three cups of tea, and after a cup of tea for Inari Amaterasu and Natsume, the tea in the purple clay pot can no longer be drunk, because the quality of the tea will begin to decline greatly from the fourth cup.

Amaterasu lifted the purple clay pot and took out a white ceramic soup basin that had been prepared early in the morning, poured tea into it, and then covered the large tea pot with a lid of the same style that fits perfectly with the ceramic soup basin.

The soup basin was placed between his hands, and the temperature inside and outside the soup basin dropped rapidly, and after a while, a thin layer of frost condensed in the soup basin, "Okay," Amaterasu said, opening the lid of the soup basin, and after a burst of white cold air dissipated, you can see a piece of food like a lamb's bag with a faint brown translucent color in the soup basin.

Amaterasu took out an equally white spoon and scooped out a trembling jelly-like piece of food from the soup basin and fed it to Natsume, who ate it and tasted it carefully, feeling the graceful changes in the food in his mouth. This kind of food is like a classic girl of twelve or thirteen years old, fresh, elegant and tranquil, but with a kind of youth-specific youth and sweetness, and the aftertaste is endless.

When you taste it, the entrance is faintly cold, which stimulates people's appetite, and after the coldness dissipates, it melts in the temperature of the mouth, and it does not need to be chewed by teeth. After melting into the mouth, there is a kind of tea unique bitterness diffused in the mouth, the faint bitterness with the tea fragrance makes people refresh, not too bitter and tired to enter the mouth, after the bitterness dissipates, a sweet aftertaste swept away the previous bitterness, but also faint, not too sweet, but under the bitter background, it looks extraordinarily sweet.

"How's it taste?" Amaterasu asked.

Natsume replied with a sigh to express his love for it, and Amaterasu scooped up a spoonful and continued the previous feeding work.

Just like this, feed a kung fu and eat for a while, and the tea jelly in a porcelain pot disappeared into Natsume's bulging belly.

Natsume, with a big belly, fell on the deck of the bow of the ship on all fours, quietly admiring the starry sky that is rare under industrial civilization.

The boat rises and falls with the waves of the heavenly river, watching the mysterious operation of the starry sky, immersed in it, and gradually feels that the body and mind are like unhindered in the heavenly river, slowly feeling the changes of the stars in the heavenly river, and disappearing in the new life.

Natsume seemed to understand something, something exploded in his brain, and his body was extraordinarily relaxed, and this change made Natsume wake up from this feeling.

As soon as he woke up and opened his mouth, he found that the words he said were not howling foxes, but became human language, Natsume crawled to Amaterasu in surprise and happily shouted to Amaterasu, "Mom, I can speak, Mom!"

"Oh, really?"

"Well, I looked at the stars around me for a while, and then suddenly I had a very relaxed feeling that I was able to speak human language. ”

"This is because you have realized something in this starry sky and digested the divine power that skyrocketed when you awakened your bloodline before, so you can speak out. Inari explained to Natsume.

"This is good news, and it means that the next time you digest some of the energy in your body, you'll be able to turn into a human being. Inari encouraged.

"What do you see in the stars?" Inari asked.

"I felt suddenly one with the stars in the heavenly river, felt the expansion of one of the stars and turned into dust, and then found the birth of a new planet after the collision of two meteorites. ”

Natsume, do you know that the destruction of every star is the fall of a god, but the birth of a star is also the birth of a god. Both of these are very rare to come across, and you should cherish what you see today. Inari instructed so, and although Natsume didn't quite understand, he still remembered what Inari said.

After digesting Natsume's stomach for a while, there wasn't that much food in Natsume's stomach anymore, and Natsume was ready to take a look around the ship. This is a big ship that can sail in the heavenly river.

Natsume immediately walked into the sail of the ship that he was particularly concerned about, and had seen the strangeness of this sail before, the sail was not the canvas sail that could be found everywhere on Japanese maritime ships.

It is not powered by the wind, nor does it raise or drop its sails depending on the direction of the wind.