After paying the price of skipping classes to catch up on sleep, Soya realized that blind eagerness had no more effect than making him tired and restless.

The key to the matter is Tsukuyomi, who is sensing the traces of Korai.

but……

"That god, is he working seriously?"

Looking at the sky outside the window, Zonggu took a deep breath, then recovered his thoughts and returned to class.

Under the same sky, Tsukuyomi, who had not slept all night, was lying in the living room, not yet waking up from his sleep.

Even if someone sat down next to him and stroked his cheek, Tsukuyomi didn't wake up immediately.

"……hehe."

Until the laughter he had not heard for thousands of years sounded again, and his dream suddenly reversed.

Time froze, and a familiar sword kept magnifying before his eyes. After penetrating him, it shattered all the beauty in the dream, leaving only a monotonous desolation - just like the underworld.

And the laughter was so real, as if it was right next to his ears, and he instinctively opened his eyes.

"..."

For a moment, Tsukuyomi's breathing stopped, and his heart seemed to stop beating.

"hehe."

Izanami looked down at him and smiled sweetly.

"It's already afternoon, when do you plan to sleep?"

"..."

The body cannot move.

Tsukuyomi stared, not even knowing whether it was due to her own fear or because of something she had done to herself.

Looking at the Mother Goddess in front of him, there was only one thought in his mind: If he had known that he would die when he woke up, he should have spent all the three thousand yen before going to bed.

"What's wrong? It's been so long. You don't recognize me anymore? I even said hello to you some time ago."

Seeing that Tsukuyomi didn't respond, Izanami rubbed his face with the back of her hand again.

"However, I remember this face very clearly." She laughed, "It's exactly like your father."

"……Mother."

Tsukuyomi finally squeezed out two words from his throat, but his forehead was already covered with sweat.

"So happy."

With Izanami at the center of his eyebrows, Tsukuyomi found that his body had regained consciousness, "I haven't heard the child's call for a long time."

"Although you are not a separated part of my body, I am still very happy." She said with a smile.

Tsukuyomi stood up wordlessly. He didn't want to sit down or run away. He just knelt down and sat there, waiting for her to say the next word or to stab her with a sword.

It's just that fear is like this and words are like blades, but he realizes that there is not much difference between the two.

"You are shaking." Izanami looked at him, "What are you afraid of?"

"..."

"I remembered."

Izanami reached out to touch his chest and pulled open the old-fashioned shirt that belonged to Akane Kirino's uncle, exposing the roundness inside to the air.

"Don't you think it's in the way?"

"..."

In the way...do you mean the breasts?

Tsukuyomi was speechless.

She raised her hand and pressed it on his chest. With a little force, the bulge gradually became flat.

"Very good……"

Izanami observed the delicate skin on his heart, "The wound is no longer visible. Does it still hurt?"

"……Won't."

"Don't worry." She patiently tied all the buttons on his chest, "I have already thrown away the sword."

"By the way, you have been staying in that place before, have you seen it?"

"Never seen it before."

"Do you remember the name of that sword?"

Tsukuyomi's throat moved.

"...the clouds in the sky."

"That's right."

Izanami laughed, "It's one of the three gifts your father gave me. Until now, only one of them is still in my hand."

At the moment of life or death, Tsukuyomi didn't care about this kind of thing at all, and she just mentioned it casually.

She quickly stood up again and looked around the Kirino family's living room.

"It turns out that the place where Fangming lives looks like this."

"He went to school..."

"I just came from there. Where is Ling's room?"

"The third room on the second floor."

Tsukuyomi replied immediately, but received no response. When he raised his eyes, he realized that she was looking at him.

"If Tsukuyomi-sama doesn't lead the way, are you waiting for death?"

In a daze, he seemed to see Zonggu's plain and sinister look on his face, and he quickly got up.

"...I'll lead the way."

Izanami smiled, "I'm honored."

When she arrived at Asagiri Suzu's room, she walked to the window with the best view on the second floor and looked out for a while.

"This room is really nice. I want to live here."

What could Tsukuyomi say, he could only stand numbly.

"Come here." She turned around and greeted him.

He walked to the window, and Izanami raised her hand and pointed. He looked over and saw an ordinary cedar tree.

"What did you see?" she asked.

Tsukuyomi does not hide his short-sightedness, "One tree."

Izanami curled her lips, turned around and walked out, whispering like a sigh:

"My child, within two days you will die in that direction."

"..."

Like being struck by lightning, there was a loud bang in Tsukuyomi's mind. He didn't hear a word of what she said next.

Izanami ignored him and walked into the next room, looking at it with interest for a while.

"There's nothing."

She stood in the room, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she saw the full picture of Zonggu's daily life here.

"I'm really optimistic about you, Fangming..."

Izanami murmured to herself, "Resisting fate is also a part of fate... This matter must be done by you."

After a while, she walked towards the window and kicked lightly with her toes.

...

Tsukuyomi didn't know when Izanami disappeared. After looking around for two times and seeing no one, he didn't really care. He just felt that his death was coming.

After much thought, he ordered the most expensive pizza under 3,000 yen.

"It's delicious..."

Licking his fingers and finishing the pizza with tears streaming down his face, Tsukuyomi lay down on the floor of the living room again until the sky turned dark and Soya and Asagiri Suzu returned home with their guests.

"..."

There was a pizza box on the table. Kyoko looked at the disheveled god on the ground, with food residue still stuck to the corner of his mouth.

She looked at Zong Gu again, and he was also looking at her, especially wanting to know how she felt now.

After the work at the shrine was over, when he and Asagiri Suzu had dinner at Sugawara's house, Kyoko expressed that she wanted to come back with him to visit the long-lost gods;

Of course Soya didn't refuse. No one answered the phone. What he saw was what he expected. What he was looking forward to was Kyoko's reaction.
To be continued...