Those things... were probably just as real as the so-called eight million gods of Japan. They were some kind of phenomenon or existence. Once they possessed even slightly incredible power, they were perceived as mysterious...
At the very least.
Little Griseo had carefully investigated them.
The so-called wondrous existences behind those phenomena were, in reality, nothing more than phenomena themselves.
Even the so-called true spirits had no independent consciousness whatsoever.
They were merely a mechanism, or some kind of trigger-based rule...
Like typhoons and torrential rains, they appeared by chance and brought changes to the world.
Of course.
In any case!
As long as something was good, even if it was a phenomenon that might bring some surprises, Little Griseo could tolerate it.
Only bad things would be deemed filthy things.
Only they had to be eliminated.
Even monsters, vengeful spirits, and all sorts of other things!
Little Griseo did not simply wipe them all out in one blow.
However, speaking of which!
The work Summertime Rendering had truly been integrated into this world.
The story took place on a place called Hitogashima Island.
Several hundred years ago, Hitogashima Island accidentally came into contact with a strange existence that had fallen from a higher-dimensional space.
That existence was the source of the shadows.
They called it the Hiruko God.
The so-called shadows were beings whose true forms were shadows, yet which could manipulate bodies and perform all kinds of activities.
Only by harming their shadows could one harm them.
Otherwise, no matter how battered the bodies they controlled became, it would have no effect on the shadows themselves.
At most, the human bodies would be missing arms or legs and would indeed become unsuitable for movement...
Furthermore, in general.
The human bodies controlled by the shadows possessed physiques close to