"Iehiro, how is it? Can you see clearly?"
"Main God above! Clear as day, clear as day! What an incredible divine object! This Divine Eye Lens—how on earth was it made?"
"Hmm? Iehiro, didn't I tell you? This is the Main God's power. It is Divine Protection bestowed by the Main God!"
"Uh!... Power... Divine Protection?..."
"What? You don't believe it? I'm telling you, this is a divine object made by the Institute of Divine Inspiration under the guidance of the Main God's revelation, which His Majesty of Divine Revelation personally heard!"
"Ah! That mythlike noble sovereign! Guardian Deity of the night, incarnation of Tsukuyomi?"
"? What wicked Moon God? The divinity His Majesty inherited is death and rebirth... Watch the enemy ships properly!"
"Yes! Yes! This humble one will keep watching!"
The morning sunlight scattered over the coast of Hokkaido. Ten Kan-style ships lay anchored in the bay, like a drawn-in Wolf Pack, lingering there for a long time without moving. Along the shore, six "Ship Forts" were lined up in a row, then linked together with dozens of arrow shelters, forming a "fence" that guarded against the Wolf Pack.
Behind the fence, on a natural mound of earth, Zuwaro stood in ordinary Samurai attire, gazing out at the "Wajin Temple Fleet" on the sea. Beside him, Losanda and Ali were nowhere to be seen, and no one knew where they had gone. Ryuzoji Iehiro, however, held a meter-long "Divine Eye Lens," his face full of astonishment as he kept peering toward the Tendai Fleet out at sea.
"Ana kana! Ah! Hundreds of paces away, yet right before my eyes—even people's faces can be seen... How wondrous this scene is, how wondrous!"
"Iehiro! What do you see? Who is the enemy commander?..."
"Ah! Priest, look! That is a rather