Shizuku moved quickly. Within moments, she had reappeared before Shizuku.
However, the news she brought left Shizuku quite surprised.
"A god?"
"Mm..."
Shizuku nodded slightly.
"I asked the Oni Clan. They said the Amatsukami are about to descend, awaken Amaterasu Omikami, and rule this world again..."
"Great. First the Ghost Eye King, now Amaterasu. None of them ever let people rest easy..."
Shizuku shook her head helplessly.
"Come to think of it, what exactly is the deal with this Amaterasu? Does anyone here know about Japan's mythology?"
As she spoke, Shizuku looked at everyone before her. She herself had never had much interest in Japan's mythology; at most, she knew a few names from gacha mobile games.
"Uh... I'm not very familiar with those stories..."
Mayu Hinase shook her head somewhat sheepishly. No modern high school girl would go digging through the Kojiki. In fact, even in China, reading Investiture of the Gods or Journey to the West was still fairly normal these days, but opening up the Classic of Mountains and Seas was another matter entirely.
"I'm not interested in the history of some island nation."
Kagari no Kiri-e was clearly even less informed. She did not even care about the myths and beliefs of her own country, so how could she possibly care about the beliefs of an island nation on the other side of Earth?
"Shizuku, I'll have to leave it to you."
"Understood..."
As a Qiu Dragon who had lived in Japan for several centuries, Shizuku possessed extensive knowledge in this area. She nodded and began recounting the entire story.
According to the records of Japan's Kojiki, after heaven and earth took shape, five gods emerged between them, known as the Separate Heavenly Deities. After that came twelve generations of gods. These were the earliest gods