She thanked her casually, but Rita's purpose wasn't to worship the gods—it was to find that deity...
The first god she had encountered in this world—Rita didn't want to give up on it. She wanted to see how the gods of this world differed from those she had met in previous worlds. Besides... she didn't know if it was an illusion, but Rita felt that she could gain quite a lot here.
What puzzled Rita was that... although she could clearly sense that the deity was within this shrine, she couldn't find where it was.
Was it deliberately hiding from her, or something?
No! If it were deliberately hiding from her... then when she entered, the barrier would have exposed its location.
Moreover, as Rita looked at the Miko before her, who was brimming with divine power, a thought suddenly occurred to her. Could she be... the reincarnation of a god?
Her current condition was very similar to the reincarnations of gods Rita was familiar with—physical body, divine soul...
She was the reincarnation of a god's divine soul...
Looking at the offering box not far ahead, Rita suddenly thought of Hakurei Reimu's Hakurei Shrine. The location of Hakurei Shrine was about the same as this shrine's—perhaps even worse. There were barely any humans there.
There were probably only a few dozen villagers here, so it was about the same... which meant that the offering box... even if it wasn't empty, it was probably close to it, right?
She wondered if donating one hundred thousand yen would let this Miko allow her to do whatever she wanted, just like Reimu did?
Approaching the offering box, Rita took out a ten-thousand-yen bill and dropped it in under the gaze of the purple-haired Miko. But unfortunately... although the Miko saw the amount Rita