Setting Foot in the Ancient Sun Land, Paper Dance's Revealed Past

Although he had already formed some suspicions, when he truly heard that the Onmyoji before him intended to visit the Ancient Sun Land, Ichimokuren still could not suppress the emotion on his face.

Sun God Amaterasu—he was one of Takamagahara's most powerful deities!

If they touched upon his laws, the punishment they would face was easy to imagine.

"Then please allow me to accompany you."

Yet after a brief silence, the Wind God who had fallen into becoming a demon added, determination showing in Yu Zhi's sole remaining blue-green left eye.

He wished to repay the kindness the other had shown by taking him in and building him a shrine.

Although the Wind God Shrine had not yet been fully constructed, under the promotion of the Onmyoji before him, residents of the Land of Hot Water had already begun coming continuously to make offerings and worship there.

Such actions had stabilized his demon body, which had begun showing signs of dissipating, and it gradually began improving.

He did not wish to owe such a debt of gratitude, so even knowing that he might face the high-ranking god Amaterasu directly, he showed no hesitation.

"No."

"I'll go alone."

Arata shook his head and rejected the offer.

As the other had said, gods still held some reservations when delivering divine punishment upon ordinary people. But those restraints were far fewer when it came to fellow gods, or descendants of gods already bearing sin.

Though Ichimokuren had lost his godhood, he had once been the Wind God after all. No one knew what change in will Amaterasu, one of Takamagahara's supreme gods, might make should he appear on the opposing side.

Of course, if possible, Arata did not want to open the City of the Sun Wheel's secret realm so soon.

After all,