The famed Inari... as Seele's maidservant, she barely qualified.
She wondered what her millions of followers would think if they found out that the deity they worshipped had been tied up by her...
Just thinking about it made her a little excited.
"Inari... Inaho-hime, how did you end up here? Are you alone?"
Black Seele concealed the predator-like gaze she cast at Inaho-hime behind her blood-red eyes and asked in an apparently calm tone. If there were no other gods around, Black Seele planned to make her move later.
She would not kill her, but she could capture her.
"I'm not alone... As for why I'm here, that's hard to explain." Inaho-hime put away the yuri manga in her hands and rubbed her eyes, looking a little sleepy.
"Not long ago, I was still resting in Takama-ga-hara. Who would have thought I'd get dragged into trouble by a great yokai? Honestly..."
Inaho-hime looked quite helpless...
"A great yokai?"
Seele froze, staring curiously at Inaho-hime. Could it be... Kanou?
"...Let's not talk about it. But it's fine. People there were going to descend to the Human World soon anyway, so coming down early meant I could have some fun here. Oh, right! I've finished this one. I need to go buy another one, so I'll be leaving first..."
Inaho-hime looked somewhat helpless yet faintly happy, but she did not seem inclined to say much more to Seele.
"We'll go with you, then?"
Before Inaho-hime could finish, Seele could not help but interject. Inaho-hime's words had piqued Seele's curiosity, and it would have been such a shame to part ways just like that.
"..."
"Seele, what are we going with her for?"
Before Inaho-hime could say anything upon hearing Seele, Black Seele could not help speaking up.
This was supposed to be