Chapter 19: Young Girl, In That Distant Past...
"How to arrange the specific practical operation, Miss Kanako hasn't come up with an exact plan yet?" I asked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Here's the problem, of course there's a plan, but ...... Eh...... Hey...... There are some troublesome places to implement. ”
"I don't understand at all." I said.
"Don't worry, listen to me," Kanako supported her chin on the tea table with her elbow.
"Let's talk, let's talk, I've long been used to this kind of storytelling rhythm, not to mention that I haven't made progress for decades, and the patience I've accumulated is enough for me to take the pass thirty-seven times in a row without blinking."
Kanako: "In the distant past, when the depths of memory also turned into a trickle, there was an ancient shrine located on the outskirts of Bang Castle......"
The story goes that the era of hidden gods and human prosperity is quietly coming, and the shrine where the gods live is located in the suburbs of a certain city, and the shrine is full of incense and people, which is the social harmony and peace and contentment that the gods convey to the world.
On a sunny morning, the breeze blew through the hills, trees, branches and leaves, and suddenly a loud cry spread throughout the shrine and beyond, and it was particularly abrupt in the natural sound of the mountains, and the shrine maiden who had gotten up early to clean the courtyard followed the sound to the torii gate, and there was a long mountain staircase on the side, and I saw a baby wrapped in cyan cotton cloth with his eyes closed and his mouth open, and the baby was abandoned by someone on the last stone step, which was very pitiful.
The baby was brought to the presence of the Divine Lord.
The shrine as a rare place outside the aristocratic courtyard within a radius of hundreds of miles has become a large distribution center for abandoned babies in a short period of time, and the baby girl will be left to be trained as a successor witch, and the rest of the babies will be raised by the surrounding villages, or sent to the merchants to take them to other places.
The god confirmed that the baby was a girl, and the shrine maidens were waiting for the god to announce the way of the baby girl, and it was not without a chance to stay, but the god had only adopted a baby girl some time ago, and there was no shortage of believers serving the gods in the shrine, and it didn't take too many people to do it, whether it was daily work or ritual sacrifices.
The god summoned the old witch and told her to send the baby girl to a village twenty miles away and give it to the village chief to raise.
Wait, the voice of the gods sounded from the main hall.
The old shrine maiden retreated outside the temple with the baby girl in her arms, and the god came to the idol and leaned down to the ground to listen to the will of the gods.
And the gods said, "Thou shalt be so."
The god bowed his head and said yes.
The baby girl was then adopted by the god and kept with another baby girl.
The first adopted baby girl successfully became a sacrifice to the gods and presided over the work of the shrine, and the second adopted baby girl learned the art of medicine from the previous shrine maidens and gods, and unconsciously acquired the power of miracles, which was not only for the shrine maidens but also for the people of the city and village.
"Then the troubled times returned," said Kanako, "and there was little peace for mankind in the nearby domains, including Kyoto, but the shrine was a noble place, and the impact was lighter than that of the aristocratic groups." ”
"It's a refreshing and emotional story, but what does it have to do with what we're talking about?"
"Don't rush, let's take our time."
Wait, you big-headed ghost - the things the big-headed ghost describes are probably referring to Suika - Sanae is coming back soon!
In this chaotic circle, the great ability of human society to change comes from the short cycle of the replacement of the constituent components - human beings, change means chaos, chaos creates tragedy, but in the eyes of the gods, tragedy is not emotional.
Why? Originating from the "birth" of the gods in the inhuman sense, if we exclude the gods' instinctive tendency to believe, the personality of the gods looks at social changes from a bird's-eye perspective, and what we see is not a single tragedy or comedy, but only a change in the world as a whole.
The personality of the gods, who gradually withdrew from the stage of human history, must treat all human beings as equals, and if they had to be classified, there are only two categories of human beings in terms of the personality of the gods, believers or non-believers - even if these categories have gradually evolved into unclear boundaries - those who cause tragedies or suffer tragedies are mere gravel in the eyes of the gods, and they may or may not form part of the world. Therefore, the gods who gradually withdrew from the stage of human history have no position to interfere with the tragedy caused by the cyclical changes in human society, nor do they have the motivation to drive the gods to interfere.
If the gods refuse to interfere in human society because of their equality, the priesthood and shrine maidens will save the people who have always been disadvantaged in the changes because of their humanity.
The shrine maiden prayed to the gods, trying to complete the end of social change with the power of the outside world, so that the world could be restored, but the gods naturally refused the request.
The shrine maiden asks for the help of the priestess, and although the priest can assist the shrine maiden with her own willpower, she must not use her divine power against the will of the gods, and the power of the two young human women is too small for the human group to create a perfect world for humans.
The tide of time is unstoppable, and no one can stop the conquest between the human villages in the island country, and the shrine maiden is more and more full of hatred for herself who has miraculous powers but cannot do anything, and miracles cannot solve the contradictions of her own expectations, and miracles cannot end the troubled times.
One day, when the morning breeze was drunk, the shrine maiden bowed down to the gods and made a vow to the gods to bring her soul and body into the boundless will of the gods, seeking answers to their questions - or self-comfort.
The gods allowed it after a moment of thought, but the sacrifice begged the gods to postpone it for a day to persuade the shrine maiden to break the ethereal vow, and the gods allowed it after a moment of thought.
The priestess invited the shrine maiden into the house, and sat opposite each other from early morning until noon, saying this and this, blaming the shrine maiden for only trying to free herself for being a selfish act, and the shrine maiden moved.
After noon, the large group of people stepped into the mountain, and the door reported that a certain daimyo Mu Maiden visited the shrine.
"Which daimyo?" Hearing this, I interjected and asked.
"I don't know." Kanako replied.
"No matter how unknown you are, you're still a big name, a representative figure of the human race, Miss Kanako back then was too indifferent to human society."
"Hey...... Even if I knew it at the time, who would remember who it was hundreds of years later. ”
The story continues, but it is also nearing the end.
The shrine maiden accepted the appointment of the daimyo, not as a religious scholar, but as an advisor to both the military and the government.
Naturally, a fierce battle was raging in the troubled times, and even if the power of a great name in one place had the heart, it was unable to quickly dominate the islands, and several years had passed without waiting for the news she expected.
Time flies, more than ten years after the witch left home, the chaotic world is still not clear, but the shrine maiden returned to the shrine with a young girl without warning and without warning, and the chaos in the territory has appeared, and the personal return to heaven is weak, and he talks about ending the troubled times, disheartened and has broken his personal vow, so he took the daimyo and the daughter born to him to avoid the chaos and returned.
As the months passed, and the autumn harvest season dawned on the plains covered with colorful leaves and gold, the shrine maiden entrusted her daughter to the sacrifice and came to the main hall to bow down to the gods.
God: You've made up your mind?
The shrine maiden bowed her head and said yes.
This sacrifice was not stopped, and took the initiative to organize this unprecedented sacrifice ceremony for the gods and shrine maidens.
This is the end of the story.
"Wait!" I raised my right hand and spread my five fingers, "What does the result have to do with Miss Kanako's plan?" ”
"Sacrificial rituals."
"Oh?"
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