Asako Todai hasn't been that happy for a long time.

At the shrine on the top of this mountain, there are only three people most of the time, Asako Todai and her parents.

The father is an extremely serious and old-fashioned person, and even if he wants to talk to his daughter, he often doesn't know what to say after only two or three sentences.

Her mother often takes care of her, but unfortunately her mother also has a lot of housework, and from time to time she has to take care of her father, who doesn't know how to take care of herself.

So what Asako Todai can do most of the time is to lie in bed and try not to cause trouble to her mother.

Fortunately, she also has her own entertainment project, which is listening to e-books.

She can't use a touchscreen device, she can only use a keyed music player, and every function on it is played by her very skillfully.

She would ask her mother to help her download an audio e-book, lie in bed and listen to other people's stories, and fantasize about what it would be like if she were herself.

She doesn't like thrilling adventure stories, but prefers stories that tell people's daily lives, which should be what she longs for.

However, stories are just stories after all, and when the sound ends in her ears, that is, when she returns to reality, it is someone else's story that is left behind, not her memory.

Her sister, Ayako Todai, left the family after graduating from college three years ago, and she said that she did not want to inherit the family business, and she did not want to live the life of a son-in-law and then stay in the mountains for the rest of her life, so she wanted to leave this family.

My sister's tone is very firm, but Todai Asako is still a little confused, because since she was a child, her sister has never shown a yearning for freedom, and she feels that maybe there is a more important reason behind her sister's departure.

Maybe it's because my sister has grown up? In novels, it is often said that girls will change a lot when they grow up?

Fortunately, my sister still often secretly calls her mother and chats with her, and she also likes to listen to her sister talk about the things she has encountered in her work and life.

But no matter what, what makes her happiest is that her sister comes back, and the long-lost reunion makes her stick to her sister all day long, listen to her tell stories, and then tell her the stories she saw in the novel.

It's already nine o'clock in the evening, and the night has long been suspended, and it's time for Asako Todai to go to bed.

Although she was very reluctant, she still lay down on the bed with the help of her sister, covered the quilt and began to sleep.

Her sleeping position was very upright, the whole person lay upright, motionless, and soon, the sound of her breathing calmed down.

But today, unlike usual, she had a somewhat strange dream.

Asako Todai looked up at the somewhat tall building in front of her, her eyes revealing curiosity.

"What is this?"

It was a tall vermilion building, with two half-arm-thick wooden pillars standing firmly on the ground, and two parallel wooden pillars were erected on it, and there was a wooden plaque with words written on it, but unfortunately she did not know the words, so she could not tell what was written on them.

She looked at the building and remembered the door to her house, but it wasn't closed.

Asako Todai stepped forward, stroked the thick wooden pillar, and tilted her head.

The pillar was about three of her heights.

"That's amazing!" She couldn't help but sigh.

"Humph!"

A cold snort came, and Todai Asako followed the sound and found a strange white animal lying on the side of the road.

"This is the torii gate at the entrance to the Divine Domain, and some other gods will look down on me if they don't make a show."

The animal didn't speak, but the voice was already ringing in Todai's mind.

"Torii?" She looked a little surprised, but also a little excited: "Is this the torii?" Our shrine also has a torii gate, so does it look like this? ”

She excitedly stroked the vermilion wooden pillar of the torii gate, and seemed to be trying to climb up, which made the white fox on the side full of black lines.

"That's enough."

She stood up, and then Asako Todai found herself surrounded by a strange force that stripped her off her gate and floated her in mid-air.

Asako Todai kicked her feet excitedly and waved her hands like a bird.

She looked at the white creature and asked, "Are you a god?" ”

Looking at her eyes full of curiosity, the big white fox was a little aggrieved, circled around his tail, lay on the ground with his tail on his pillow, and said helplessly:

"You're a shrine maiden who worships me, isn't that a bit too much?"

Todai Asako's eyes widened: "Are you a fox?" ”

She stared at the white animal and remembered what it looked like.

Does the fox look like this? It seems to be quite cute.

The fox suddenly appeared on her head, and knocked on her head with its little white fluffy paws: "Rude! You should call me a god! ”

He nestled on the head of Asako Todai, and had no intention of going down.

Asako Todai was a little aggrieved, she felt an itch on her head, but she didn't dare to reach out and take him down, because he said that he was the god she worshipped.

"Are you the god of Todai Mountain?" She asked.

The fox didn't answer, just snorted back.

Asako Todai didn't care about his attitude at all, and then asked, "Is this Mt. Todai?" ”

She looked at the surrounding mountains and forests with bright eyes, and ran to the side again, looking at the street scene in the distance, and couldn't help cheering.

Although she had been living on the mountain for nearly 20 years, it was the first time she had seen the scenery of Mt. Todai – in a dream.

Innocently, she didn't take into account the reality of the dream or anything, for her, as long as she could see a different scenery, although in reality she couldn't see anything, but fortunately she could see a world that belonged to her through the dream.

However, this is the first time she has dreamed of her home, and this dream is very real, unlike previous dreams, the background is gray.

She looked out at the horizon in the distance, saw a large ball of fire coming out, sunrise and sunset, dusk, and she saw a line of torrential rain falling from the sky, she saw a rainbow, and saw things that she had never seen before.

She stood halfway up the mountainside in front of the torii gate, and the exclamations did not stop until the second sunrise.

She looked at the torii, or rather at the back approach to the torii, which stretches all the way to Todai Shrine.

"Kami-sama, can I go to the shrine? I want to see what the shrine is like? ”

She asked cautiously towards the big fox hovered overhead, afraid of a negative answer.

The fox didn't answer, but leaned down, two short furry hands pressed against Asako Todai's face, hanging his head upside down and staring into her eyes.

The white body was spotless, and the big fox had ruby eyes, in which Asako Todai saw her own reflection.

In the reflection, his eyes are closed.

She heard as if someone was singing an old song in her ear, a blessing in praise of the earth and the mountains.

"Why do you want to see it in a dream? Why don't you see with your own eyes and measure with your own body? ”

"My child."