"Kaze, you seem to know a lot about this, so what do we do next..."
"That depends on what you want to do."
Aikawa Kaze looked at Megumi Fushiguro. He had already understood why Suguru Geto had given him this assignment, and he was clear on his own intentions, too.
The question now was what Megumi Fushiguro, who had never been part of the plan, thought about all this. What did he want to do?
"How ironic! Ai wasn't a monster to begin with, but a misunderstanding caused by those butterflies made people mistake her for one. Now she really is starting to turn dark."
"A god that never existed was born from the villagers' stubborn delusions, too, and all he remembers is the 'sacrifice' that left the deepest impression..."
Rather than approach the chaos, Aikawa Kaze looked at Megumi Fushiguro. In the flickering light, his expression looked particularly enigmatic.
"Right now, we don't belong to either side. This god is so weak and fragile that if we outsiders step in, we can easily interfere with this deadlocked sacrifice-"
"Weak and fragile?"
Megumi Fushiguro ignored the loaded hint and focused on something else entirely.
"But that overwhelming presence we felt just now was anything but ordinary..."
"It was just our first encounter with the presence of a [god] that exists in this world... we weren't quite used to it."
As Aikawa Kaze spoke of the stiffness he had felt earlier, he glanced at the "Mountain God," who now looked like an idiot no matter how he viewed him, and refused to admit that he had actually been overawed for an instant.
I only hesitated out of an instinctive reverence for nature. Who was scared?!
"To make a comparison... it's like trying wasabi for the first time. You're bound to get