Musashino stepped into this Japanese-style room.

It was quiet.

There are no strange creatures or phenomena, and the floor is still covered with tatami mats, and the surrounding walls are covered in ukiyo-e.

On the surface, it looks like an ordinary room.

"Huh?"

Musashino noticed that at the back of this new Japanese-style room, there was still a lacquered gold screen sliding door.

In other words, there are other rooms in the back of this room!

He hurried over and tried to open it.

Unfortunately, unlike the sliding door just now, this screen is tightly closed and cannot be entered for the time being.

"System?"

Musashino's pupils lit up with a blue mesh again, trying to use the system to open the third room.

【Password ......】

[Correct password]

Soon, however, a new prompt sounded:

[Sorry, the access conditions have not been met for the time being]

"It seems that this room can't be entered ...... for the time being."

Musashino is a little curious now:

How many rooms are there in this Ise Jingu?

And what is the meaning, or purpose, of these different rooms?

He returned his gaze to the room.

"That's a lot of ukiyo-e."

Musashino retreated to the door, browsing the paintings from where they had been.

"This ......"

The first is of blonde and dark-haired Europeans, dressed in all sorts of knightly or aristocratic dresses, worshipping a man who looks like a priest.

It's like some kind of ritual to worship a god.

It's just that this kind of picture with a clear Renaissance style is painted in ukiyo-e......

"It feels weird."

The second.

The picture goes straight to the African savannah.

A group of black buddies who seem to come from a semi-primitive tribe are raising their arms and shouting at a man wearing a chieftain's hat, and the style of painting becomes primitive and wild.

Musashino took a quick look.

He quickly found a common denominator:

These paintings seem to depict scenes of people praying to the gods?

And from all over the world.

In addition to Europe and Africa just now, even his hometown on the other side of the sea, including those Eskimos who live in igloos!

Soon, he saw the last one.

"Huh?"

The final one depicts a neon man in a daily kimono on a scorched earth...... Worshipping a man with a golden face.

"This painting should be another god, right?"

This golden-faced man.

When Musashino sat on the main seat, the image presented was exactly the same, and even the details of the pattern of the clothes were not different.

Musashino stood back in the middle of this Japanese-style room.

Looking at the ukiyo-e around him, he suddenly realized one thing:

In all the paintings, the men who are worshipped make the gesture of folding their hands in front of their chests.

Seems to be the same person.

"Do you mean ......?"

His eyes widened slowly:

"These paintings are actually gods and their followers!"

It's just that he will conjure up corresponding images all over the world according to the local cultural traditions there?

"Farewell to the Gods"

- This is a very good way to call it.

It can be assumed that He has a very different name in other parts of the world.

"After a long time, this god's business used to spread all over the world?"

But it must have been a long time ago.

After all, in the hundreds of years of verifiable history of the Ise Taisha Shrine in Tokyo's survival area, there has never been a trace or record of the presence of a god.

So much so that he was regarded as a false god.

"So where did the gods go?"

In these ukiyo-e, it is clear that there is no answer to the answer.

"I guess it's gone......

It is reasonable to speculate that Musashino also has a lifespan.

Because at the end of the day, they're just powerful enough humans, or wastelands.

For example, himself.

Although according to the Transcendental Realm, he is called a "demigod".

But this is just an honorific title, and it doesn't mean that 50% of the place is not human, in every way......

He is still Homo sapiens, carbon-based life.

The so-called gods should be the same thing.

Musashino stretched out his hand to touch the material of the painting in front of him.

Drip~

Suddenly, the ukiyo-e painting with the words "Golden Noh Face Farewell to the Gods" lit up.

Immediately after, a holographic projection appeared.

In the projection, it is a wooden palace.

"It's ......"

Musashino carefully identified and recognized what place it was: "It's the inner palace of Ise Taisha Shrine!" ”

He stared at the holographic projection for a long time.

I thought it was a still picture.

It wasn't until a flying insect suddenly circled in the light of the lantern that he realized that this holographic projection was actually showing a real-time image!

"Good fellows."

Musashino roughly guessed the purpose of this room:

Over here......

It turned out to be a monitoring center!

Each painting is a surveillance screen, and you can see the surveillance image of the headquarters of the local Betianjin Organization.

"It was exactly as I thought."

Although this Ise Jingu is packaged as an antique on the surface, the actual built-in functions are completely based on modern technological means.

This at least illustrates:

The gods are not old enough.

Definitely not that kind of prehistoric savage.

He may have also lived in a relatively modern environment, surfing the Internet, watching live broadcasts, and playing games.

Musashino tried to touch the ukiyo-e of the "Eskimos in the igloo" next to him.

"Let me be well......

"What kind of vest do other gods use in other parts of the world?"

Since the other gods have already received a boxed lunch......

Then I may be able to take this little bit of believers that he has left, and by the way?

If that's the case,

Not to mention other benefits.

At least he travels to other living areas in the world, and there is definitely no need to worry about free guides, free accommodation, and free food.

Drip~

Another holographic projection.

It's a pity that there is no image on it, only a pattern of a lock, and a line of small print underneath:

【Not unlocked yet】

"Harm~"

It's not that simple.

He turned off these holographic projections:

"But there's no need to rush.

"The Ise Taisha here has not yet become the most influential transcendent organization, and even if I can contact other places, I can't control them."

Musashino exited this Japanese-style room.

Then he took the seals that had been piled up in the corner of the conference hall and moved them inside.

"Although it is a monitoring room......"

But Ise Taisha, there is nothing to see.

It's so close, just a few minutes walk after dinner.

"So you're going to use it as a warehouse for the time being!"

Whoop -

He closed the door again and prepared to exit Ise Jingu.

The moment he was about to take a step, a slight tingling suddenly came from Musashino's eyes.

Hmmm-

The sign-in system attached to the iris suddenly peeled off and turned into a bunch of abstract data symbols, slowly floating to every corner of the shrine.

"Is it the system?"

It eventually melted into the shrine and disappeared.

But even so, Musashino could still sense its presence.

"Huh?"

He rubbed his eyes:

"It seems that the system is indeed its boot key."

The key and the original item are combined into one.

The Ise Jingu in front of you is the final and complete form of the "system".