Kanda Shrine in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan.

The history of Kanda Shrine can be traced back to the Edo period.

It is dedicated to two of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune: Daikokuten, who is in charge of marriage and a good harvest, and Ebisu, who is in charge of commerce and fishing.

At the same time, the shrine also enshrines Heishomon, a military commander who rebelled against the Heian Imperial Court.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, it has gradually become a famous tourist attraction near Akihabara due to the popularization of various online devices and game manga.

Especially now that the Kelvin company is vigorously promoting bionic machinery, Kanda Shrine is full of bionic robots with various two-dimensional images at the door of its own shrine.

From Doraemon to Magical Girl, from Dragon Ball Goku to Mobile Gundam......

A variety of anime avatars that cater to two-dimensional lovers have now become a ticket to Kanda Shrine's world-famous reputation.

When they see tourists coming here, these bionic robots with two-dimensional images will take the initiative to step forward and act as tour guides and guides.

When visitors want to leave, the androids recommend the shrine and Galvin products in their own way.

For example, Doraemon will pull out an electronic version of the IT amulet from his pocket......

Magical girls will recommend their mascots blessed by the gods to tourists......

Super Saiyan Goku will take out his own Turtle Immortal uniform of the same style......

Some of these things are income items from the shrine itself, and some are various technological products that Galvin has recently promoted.

Anyway, no matter how effective these things are, whether they are good or not, tourists will always take the things handed over from various two-dimensional androids with a look of surprise.

It is with this practice of keeping pace with the times and vigorously changing the stereotypical image of the shrine that Kanda Shrine has become one of the most popular shrines among young people in the Tokyo shrine circle.

However, it is such a popular, lively and prosperous shrine, and today it is unprecedentedly vacant that a huge open space has been vacated.

In that clearing, a circus of only five people was performing hard, and from time to time it drew the applause of the crowd of onlookers.

To say that this circus is a wonderful performance?

That's not all, at least not as big as the really big circuses.

In fact, the five-person circus doesn't even have animals dedicated to performances.

However, they also have their own unique skills - prosthetic juggling!

Compared to the fame of prosthetics a few years ago, today's human society has basically widely accepted this kind of human modification project from Gaia.

Although there are still many rumors that Gaia is just a branch of Galvin Corporation, a shell company created by them to evade the regulation and regulation of the TPC Channel.

But I have to admit that the current earthlings have basically accepted "human body modification" as a supplementary means of medical treatment.

As a last resort, even the most stubborn and prosthetic-rejecting people will choose to accept the prosthetic modified organs provided by Gaia.

After all, compared to other companies that have obtained the technology to manufacture prosthetic organs through patent sharing.

Gaia has a huge advantage in both technology and prestige.

Even when it comes to the most sensitive price for consumers, Gaia has become the most cost-effective option with its excellent follow-up service.

Thanks to this, even the poorest people can get a "new life" with cheap loans provided by Gaia.

At present, the circus that is now present at the entrance of Kanda Shrine is a circus that has made a prosthetic transformation of its own body.

Considering the dangers of circuses when performing certain items, similar remodeling surgeries are fairly common among jugglers.

Usually, the audience will refer to this kind of circus performance, either in order to push the limits of the human body, or in order to get a prosthetic organ transplanted during a performance, collectively referred to as "prosthetic juggling".

This kind of vaudeville has a huge advantage over ordinary circus performances.

That is, the projects they perform often exceed the limits of human endurance, and are "spectacle performances" that are absolutely impossible for human beings or even living beings to achieve.

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"It's so pretty!"

"How did they do it?!"

"Is that kind of action really something that humans can do?"

"How do I feel that the current human beings are more like youkai than we are!"

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Quietly hiding in the crowd, a group of tanuki disguised as children let out their own exclamations.

They are all small youkai who live on Sixth Avenue, and occasionally sneak into Akibahara in groups to join in the fun.

Of course, under normal circumstances, they will disguise themselves as human children.

This is the nature of tanuki cats, and it is also an important reason why they have been able to live in harmony with humans in the era of the end of the law.

Tanuki aren't old-fashioned monsters.

Or because the little civet cats are too weak, they haven't created any brilliant feats at all, and naturally they don't miss the glory of their peak.

The tanuki have no resistance to the matter of "accepting all kinds of novelties created by humans".

Not to mention, the little tanuki now almost everyone has a social account, and they are paying attention to various events that are happening in human society all the time.

At this point, none of the demons who are now living on Sixth Avenue and still nostalgic for their past glory can do it.

Rumble!

Just as the civets were excitedly watching the acrobatic performance, a loud noise suddenly came from the sky above the city.

In the next second, a cloud of purple gas poured out from all directions of the shrine.

All the people who were shrouded in this purple qi almost all went berserk and went crazy in an instant.

A few little raccoon cats shrouded in this purple aura directly changed back to their original form, baring their teeth and destroying everything they could touch.

This scene directly frightened the other little raccoons, and the onlookers let out a piercing scream.

Fortunately, those androids with different two-dimensional images were not affected by this purple qi, but quickly subdued the humans who were rampaging nearby.

At the same time, the android uploaded everything it observed to the nearest server and alerted the Victory Team for help.

Thanks to this, this sudden disaster did not continue to spread, but was only confined to the vicinity of Kanda Shrine.

Commuter/Referral Passes

(End of chapter)