Uesugi Tetsu stopped and looked up again.
There were no trees, eaves, or anything of the sort above him—or even within a ten-meter radius.
Only the star-speckled, red-stained black canopy remained.
Uesugi Tetsu glanced sideways at the three women beside him. None of them had noticed the pendant that had suddenly appeared.
It was normal for Karuta and Two-Shaku-Sama not to know, but Minamoto Shizuka...
She hadn't noticed it either!
This pendant...
"What is it, Uesugi-kun?"
Minamoto Shizuka stopped almost the instant Uesugi Tetsu did.
Several seconds later, she finally asked him about it.
"Oh, nothing." Uesugi Tetsu answered casually and pointed at the pendant on the ground.
He glanced at Minamoto Shizuka again and found that she merely looked at the pendant as she normally would.
"I saw a fox pendant lying on the ground. It would be a shame not to pick it up."
He bent down and picked up the Four-tailed Fox Pendant, whose two eyes shone with exceptionally conspicuous golden light. "I picked this up off the ground. Might as well get a free souvenir."
Minamoto Shizuka nodded, not suspecting anything.
Uesugi Tetsu's heart tightened, and he stuffed the pendant into his pocket.
She can't see the light in the pendant's eyes either! She can't sense anything unusual about it!
"Let's keep going."
As he spoke, he stepped out of the divine domain of Fushimi Inari Shrine.
In truth, the pendant's red-and-white interface had already appeared before his eyes.
[Heavenly Fox Pendant] [Quality: Legendary]
Uesugi Tetsu blinked.
Heavenly Fox?
Shouldn't it be the "Inari Kami"?
Even if he wasn't sure which Inari Kami it was, it shouldn't have anything to do with a "fox."
The passable knowledge of the divine age he possessed told Uesugi Tetsu that no "Fox Kami" existed among the Inari