I have unfathomable power? How come I don't know about it?
Catherine glanced instinctively at Tomioka Yoshimasa. Everyone in the world knew she was the reincarnation of the Goddess Sekhmet, and she believed it herself. But the little power she had awakened hardly seemed "unfathomable."
Seeing his old friend speak up, Tanaka Shigenaga immediately put on an air of wisdom. "Though I do not serve a god, I once came face-to-face with the great Amenominakanushi. I felt his divine might, vast as the sea and terrible as an abyss. Your might may not equal his, Lady Sekhmet—he opened heaven and earth and created the universe—but of all the gods I have encountered, you rank among the top three."
In the myths of the Eastern Isles, Amenominakanushi had commanded the gods to create the Eastern Isles and the world. But now that creator gods in other countries' mythologies had become creators of the universe, they had quietly raised their own god's standing to match.
The explanation was easy enough. The people of the ancient Eastern Isles had believed the world they could see was all there was. They had mistakenly described a great god's creation of the universe as the creation of the world. The people of the modern Eastern Isles were merely correcting that error.
Catherine fell into thought. Is there really unfathomable power inside me that I just can't sense?
Beside her, Tomioka Yoshimasa had a few thoughts of his own.
You call kneeling on the ground when a god descended "coming face-to-face"? Do you even know what that means?
And what gods have you encountered besides Amenominakanushi?
He would never say any of that aloud, though.
They were all in the same boat. They had to work together.
Unfathomable power in Catherine? Why can't I sense it?
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