"Did Miss Kanako deliberately open Sanae?" I asked inexplicably after calming my mind. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Because there are some things that I won't say as a god next, and now with Sanae's cultivation depth, I can't touch the gods who are separated from the identity of the gods at will, especially my own gods," Kanako explained a little inexplicably, "I think you can probably understand something, but it doesn't matter if you don't understand it for the time being, because you are not a shrine maiden in the actual sense, and you are only temporary." ”

"Well, that's right."

"I won't dwell on the rights and wrongs of Reimu's death itself and the impact on Gensokyo," Kanako put down her teacup and raised one leg to relax her sitting position, "This thing affects everyone differently, and there is nothing to unify your thoughts, is it." ”

"I kind of get the idea of the big monsters."

"No, no, it's just my personal opinion, and I don't have to substitute it for someone else."

"Actually, Murasaki means something similar to that of Miss Kanako."

"It's just a coincidence, I heard that if it weren't for Yakumo's rescue, you might still be imprisoned in the basement by that Lori vampire?"

"Probably, my blood doesn't taste like a vampire, so it's more likely to be broken down into toy-making materials."

"Haha, Remilia wouldn't do that, I promise...... No, the preface is withdrawn, in fact, I dare not guarantee it. Kanako laughed dryly.

"Why is it that the gods are suddenly not confident again?"

"Do you think I was a man or a god when I said this?"

"People."

"So I don't dare to give complete guarantees about anything, even if an apple falls when it's ripe."

"Miss Kanako is referring to the fact that people's exploration of the things around them is always blurred?"

"Not necessarily, but note that 'man' here refers to all creatures who have opened their minds."

"So as a god, can you make a complete guarantee?"

"What does Miss Alice think?"

"Probably talking nonsense around the bend like a cult leader? But with complete guarantees, such as 'If you don't believe in Almighty God, you will split the spiritual lightning into ashes,' and usually no one can prove it right or wrong. ”

"I'm not an undocumented cult, as a true god, I can't always say something ambiguous, and if I encounter a question that even the gods can't answer, the gods will usually remain silent."

"Ah, I see, so many of the gods of legal religion speak unusually little, so that's why."

"I can't see it that way, but it's pretty much the same."

"But was it Kanako's original intention to exclude the gods from the psychic creatures?"

"If you were to answer this question as a human being, I would agree with you."

I somewhat understand the intention of Yasaka Kanako, who is the body of the gods, to branch out Sanae of the wind and the east wind valley.

"Why did Miss Kanako take the initiative to talk to me about this...... Well, what about things that have to do with the practice of the gods themselves, but have nothing to do with me as a magician? ”

"If it's still Alice, the former puppeteer, there won't be much intersection with me, let alone the scene of sitting down and discussing like this now, but you're a shrine maiden now, even if it's only temporary, and you happen to come to the door to ask for practical questions, plus I happen to want to talk about my realization."

"There won't be a conspiracy, such as your calculations to make me bear some inexplicable things."

"Ahaha, how could it be, I'm not Yakumo Purple. In a word, as a unique witch, Miss Alice is very interested in what she will discover and verify on her spiritual path. ”

"As a witch, it's a great thing to communicate with the gods."

"Now it's not a god, it's one of a multitude of beings."

"In that case, you're welcome, I have some questions that I'm very interested in and would like to ask Miss Kanako seriously."

"Since I've already boasted about Haikou, I basically won't refuse to answer."

I asked, "How exactly were the gods born?" As a scholar of magicians, I am not able to understand the form of the existence of gods, although the worldview of magicians is not uniform, but there are always traces to follow, such as the general relationship between energy and matter, the essence of the material and phenomenal world, the common characteristics of the unpredictable spirit, the existence of time, and so on. There was no place for the gods to form. ”

"Ah, it's not just you scholars who are surprised, but even I myself am amazed at the very existence of the gods."

"Huh?"

Why is this so? We have to start with the origins of religion, and of course I don't have the time to go into a long story, so I'll try to make a long story short. In the beginning, human beings feared or loved something concrete or something unconcrete, and so a primitive religion was born, rather than a witch, and the thing or appearance that was feared or loved gradually became the first 'god' - a god of no real meaning, because it never really existed, as will be discussed below, - people hoped to derive benefits from the 'gods' they sublimated, so that the 'gods' became more and more sacred and unattainable as civilization progressed - Those who succeed in reaping benefits are more respectful, and those who are unsuccessful are more deeply aware of the inscrutable measure of the gods. ”

"So, the gods were born from time immemorial?"

"From my point of view, this is not the case, the above-mentioned 'gods' of primitive societies excavated from a historical point of view have never existed, anyway, I have never seen gods who belong to ancient worship who have walked the world since their own existence, and I can be counted as the first group of gods to exist in the world, since I have not seen anything earlier, then let's treat them as if they never existed."

"Miss Kanako doesn't know how she started to exist?"

"I don't know, but that's not exactly what surprised me myself."

"And?"

"Most primitive witchcraft developed to about 3,000 B.C., then there was a relatively complete system, began to become a mature religion, a mature religion generally includes the religious core of the periphery of the common people of the gods as visible and perceptible 'people' stories and true believers follow a complete set of worship rituals, but the important thing is not the story, but the core believers from the religious rituals expressed worship, these systematic worship can be said to be the first catalyst for the gods to truly appear in the world.

Even if the early mature religions were lost to the dust of history, the religions that emerged later could not be separated from the framework that had been formed, and the core of the framework was worship, whether it was the worship of idols or the brilliance of the heart. In short, by this period of maturity, the 'gods' themselves have become detached from human nature, that is, they no longer have the concept of the trajectory of human birth, growth, aging, and death. I, including all the first gods, were probably 'born' at this time, and it is not until now, thousands of years later, that I am beginning to realize and face it. ”

"So what is it that surprises Miss Kanako?"

"Let's put it this way, how a god who does not contain the meaning of birth is a question that human beings cannot face, but as the essence of the gods, I have cultivated to this point, and I am impossible and unwilling to avoid it."

"Why not shy away? Anthropologists also tend to avoid questions that they don't understand. ”

"It's about my cultivation as a human being, and if I don't know where I'm going, it's impossible to know where I'm going, let alone continue on the road."

"I remember that Rei, who rents a bookstore in Renli, mentioned some humane stories and legends about Miss Kanako, and it seems that they are still circulating in the outside world."

"Yes, but myths and stories are by-products of religion, and they are not something that informal religions will take seriously, and the stories that have been passed down to this day have long been mixed with too many human speculations about the gods in various periods of history, so there is not much reference value for facts. It is not the people who listen to the stories that really make the gods 'born' and exist, but the believers who firmly believe in the gods. ”

I came up with two main points: "Miss Kanako first didn't know how she came into existence, and then she was surprised that a god who shouldn't have a beginning actually had a beginning. ”

"Yes, the same can be seen in this way, the wind is not a concept that blows after I began to exist, whether I exist or not, the wind cannot disappear, but in fact I was born as the wind god of Japan, and the wind and I have become indistinguishable from each other, or rather, the wind and the wind god 'since the wind god has existed' can no longer distinguish between who comes first and who comes after."

"If I understand what Kanako meant, I don't think there's any logic in your phrase 'since the god of wind has existed', because by definition the god of wind has not had a beginning, but has always been there."

"Miss Alice, worthy of being a magician-type scholar, quickly understood my problem, yes, that's the crux of it all."

"I have an idea to take a trick."

"Tell me about it."

"It's true that the gods have always been there, indistinguishable from the universe, but isn't it easy for a staunch believer to drag the gods out of nothingness and become their gods?"

"If it were that simple, the practice of the gods would have returned to nothingness, but what does Miss Alice think I am like now?"

"More like an anthropologist who is confused by a question."

"Yes, the practice of the gods does not become vast, but becomes closer and closer to people, not to mention that if you want to drag from nothingness, you must first define nothingness, but this is something that is difficult to define."

"I'm just a young magician, and I can't answer Miss Kanako's questions."