"It's pretty spacious inside!"

Yuri walked down a long road, followed by Chito and the boy.

"Indeed, what's going on on both sides of the road? All the stone statues we saw on the road. Qianhu followed.

"I guess this is a temple dedicated to these stone statues."

"Before, Fubo seems to have talked about beliefs, gods, etc., is that what he said?" Yuri asked.

"Well, I thought there were only those stone statues on the road, but I didn't expect that such a large temple was built specifically for these stone statues, which means that a sect with these stone statues as the center of faith should have been formed here!"

"Oh! I don't understand it, but it's amazing! ”

"You~ you! Always interested in these weird things. Qianhu sighed.

"Because it's fun, isn't it?" Yuri said with a smile.

"What's interesting?" Chiho glanced at him.

"Isn't Chi-chan curious about what it's like inside?"

“………… Completely. ”

"Liar! Obviously you're interested, aren't you? ”

"Uh~~~ You, you'd better hurry up." Qianhu changed the topic and said.

"Here we go again, here we go again! Chi-chan always likes to change the subject. Yuri laughed.

"It's verbose! Hurry up and go, the oil for the lantern won't last long! ”

"Hey, hey!"

"Hey, once is enough!"

"Hi~~~~"

As Yuri's words fell, the group finally reached the end of the road and began to walk up the stone steps in front of them.

"What the hell is a god?"

"What is Sa~~?"

"Can I eat it?"

"Nope! Probably not. ”

"What, can't you eat it?"

"No, I don't seem to have seen this kind of creature in my common sense, nor have I seen a similar creature that could be used as a template, so I guess it was an imaginary existence that people had imagined before." The young man carefully looked at the stone statues standing on the side of the road.

"Huh? Were the gods originally imaginary beings? Yuri said disappointedly.

"Well! It's just that there is this possibility, after all, the world is still very big, and there are still many things that we have not seen. The boy reassured.

"It's ............"

"What's on it?"

In front of the group who climbed the stone steps was a rather large stone tablet, which was densely engraved with images and words.

"Many............ About 400 years ago............ Built ............ Dedicated to the three gods...... "Thousand households struggled to read the words on the stone tablet under the illumination of the lantern.

"Huh~~~?!"

"This is indeed a temple!" Chiho turned his head to Yuri and said.

"Pure Land of Bliss............ Bliss refers to the world after death...... This temple was probably founded to reproduce that world. Qianhu continued to read.

"It's not the same thing as a hot spring...... It's better to be blissful or hot springs! Yuri said.

"Liberation from sorrow and trouble............ Happiness ......," Qianhe continued to recognize.

"Anyway............ I haven't heard the sound of floating waves since just now! Yuri said strangely.

"Yu! Records of the gods have been found! …… Those gods are beings who illuminate the afterlife......" Chino, who was reading the stone tablet, called.

"It feels a little ambiguous............"

"Huh?"

"Hmm............ Chi-chan? Floating wave sauce? ”

Yuri whispered as she looked around in the darkness, and she turned her head cautiously to find a glimmer of light.

"Chi-chan?!" Yuri, who didn't get a response, shouted loudly again, and she began to grope her way forward in a panic.

"Chi-chan? Where are you? ”

Yuri continued to fumble ............

"It's pitch black............ Is that what the world feels like? It's not as warm as you thought it would be...... It's pitch black, and no one is ...... yet What would I do without Chi-chan............" Yuri felt for the first time how important it was for the dark-haired girl who had always been with her. She continued to fumble until she seemed to collide with something behind her.

"Ouch!" A cry of pain appeared as Yuri fell.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts......"

"Is this a face?"

"It's the stomach!"

"Really, why didn't Chi-chan answer me!" Yuri said grumblingly.

"Yu's reaction was so funny."

"Wow~~~ Chi-chan is really!"

"Ahh There seems to be light there. Qianhu looked not far away and said.

"Ahh Really! ”

Suddenly, the whole space lit up, illuminating the originally dark hall with incomparably brilliance, and what appeared in front of the girls were three tall stone pillars, two of which were similar to those seen on the road, only the stone pillar in the middle could be seen to be a girl.

"Ahh It's a floating wave sauce! Yuri suddenly pointed to the figure under the girl's stone pillar.

"Hmmm! Let's go over and have a look! Chiho said to Yuri.

"Hey! Fuba-chan, what are you doing? Yuri asked aloud as she ran up to the boy first.

"............" The boy didn't react, still staring straight at the girl on the stone pillar.

"Hey!" Yuri slapped the boy hard.

“………… Oh! It turned out to be Yuri. The boy finally reacted and said to the girl on the side.

"I haven't heard the sound of floating wave sauce since just now, is it here?" Yuri said.

"Does Ukiba-chan know this god statue?" Qianhu who came over asked curiously.

"Nope! I don't know at all, it's just that I've found something. The boy smiled back.

"Na! Sen-chan come and see, come and see! ”

At this time, Yuri's voice came from behind her, and Chito turned her head to see that she didn't know when Yuri had run to the pool full of lotus leaves and lotuses, and saw her standing on the water and pointing at something below and shouting.

"Let's go and see! I'm going to take a closer look. The boy said with a smile.

"That............ I'll go first! ”

"Okay!"

Senho walked to the edge of the pond and carefully checked the surface of the pool with his toes, and found that the surface of the pool was made of glass, so he walked down............

"Is this a mold of a plant?" Qianhu walked to the nearest lotus leaf and said.

"Is it metal?" She touched the petals of the lotus flower on one side and continued.

"Chi-chan! Come here, come here! See............ Fish! Yuri said loudly as she greeted Chino.

"Is this also a molded product?" Chiho said as he looked at the koi fish that was sealed in glass.

"Mold...... Molding? Can't you eat it? ”

"Just look at it! It's sealed in glass, but it just looks like it's in the water. Qianhu said, squatting down and touching the surface of the glass.

"What a disappointment! I'm so disappointed in the gods! Like that one, it's just a stone statue! Yuri's whole body drooped.

"If you talk nonsense, be careful of retribution!" Chido took out his camera and took a few pictures of the stone statue.

"But...... Didn't we knock down a stone statue when we came? ”

Qianhu froze for a moment, and a drop of cold sweat flowed down his face.

“…… It's just a stone statue! ”

"Is it really just a stone statue?"

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"Sure enough, the energy source you sensed when you came in just now came from these three stone statues?"

The boy said, looking at the three stone statues that glittered in his field of vision. From the moment he first climbed the stone steps, the boy had already sensed that there were three huge energy sources in front of him, and unlike the ordinary energy sources such as batteries that glowed yellow, the energy sources in front of him emitted a soft golden light. Fascinated by this phenomenon, the boy came to the stone statues alone, and he found that the so-called golden light was radiating from these ordinary stone statues.

"What the hell is going on here? Why is there energy in ordinary stone statues............" The boy pondered.

"Fubo-chan, come here, we're going to eat."

"Oh! Here it comes. The boy couldn't figure it out, so he decided to deal with his hungry stomach first.

"It's also a unique experience to eat solid food while looking at the scenery of that world!" Qianhu leaned on the stone pillar and said.

"Delicious!" Yuri was munching on cookies next to her.

"............" The young man thought about the stone statue and ate silently.

"But I still don't understand!" Yuri put down the biscuit in her hand and said.

"Huh?"

"After all, the magnificent-looking gods are just fakes, so why build such a place with all the fanfare? No one knows what the world is like after death, does it? ”

"Hmm............ Didn't you say in the darkness just now, that world is also so dark? ………… Something like that. I think maybe it was because I didn't want to think like this, so I built the stone statue and illuminated it with lights...... Just to make yourself feel at ease, isn't it? ”

"Rest assured............" Yuri picked up the cookie again and took a bite.

"I'm still relieved when I find Chi-chan, ...... in the dark."

"Uh-huh......"

"Ahh Is it ......?"

"Really?"

"Is Chi-chan a real god?" Yuri shouted.

"You know what?"

"Huh?"

"Sacrifice food to the gods!"

"Huh!"

"Give it to me!" Chiho said as he stretched out his hand to Yuri.

"Sure enough, I still feel that something is wrong!" Yuri looked at the food in her hand and took a bite.

"Give it to me!"

"Don't!" Yuri refuses again.

“………… Yes! Could I be a god? ”

"No, not like that." Qianhu immediately denied it.

"I'm a god......"

"Impossible."

"Give me ......"

"Impossible......"

"Food ......"

"Impossible......"

"Eat ......"

"No ......"

"Give it to me............"

God...... Faith...... Is it ----- worship the gods and worship the faith? Is that the case? The boy listened to the discussion of the girls, and suddenly made an explanation for the energy source in the stone statue.

"Listen to me! Yuri, and a thousand ......" The boy interrupted the girls' quarrel.

“……？” The two girls on the side turned their heads in unison and showed an inquiring expression to the young man.

"Actually...... I want to tell you............" The boy gritted his teeth and finally revealed his secret to the girls..................