After leaving Tsukiyomi Palace, the three of them had no time to visit other areas of the outer palace and went straight to the Emperor's Shrine where Tsukiyomi Palace is located.
"Are any relatives coming to visit?"
"yes."
Akane Kirino nodded and told Soya the call she just received.
"She's my mother's aunt, she lives over there in Gifu. I don't know why I came here today when I was free, but I didn't say hello in advance. As a result, there's no one at home..."
"Then is she still waiting at home?" Sogu asked, "Even if we go back now, it will take at least four or five hours to get home."
"We have already left. Mom told my aunt that we were in Ise-Shima, so she went to other relatives' houses first and then came back after her parents came home." Kirino Akane said.
"so……"
Zonggu looked at his phone and said, "It's almost four o'clock. Let's hurry up and try to go back as early as possible."
"Mom said we can stay here tonight and go back tomorrow."
"...There is no need to waste money on staying here."
"Mom said she would pay for it."
"..."
Soya was silent for a while, "Did Ms. Kirino give you any other instructions?"
"guide?"
Kirino Akane thought for a while, "Mom also said that there are many specialty restaurants around Ise Jingu Shrine. It's rare to come over here, so Soya should check it out."
"..."
Hit the bullseye.
"What does Kirino himself think?"
"I? You can stay here or rush back."
Zonggu took a deep breath and looked forward.
"Then let's talk about it then. Let's go to Tsukiyomi Palace first."
"Okay~"
The Uji Bridge across the Isuzu River is the entrance to the Imperial Shrine area. There are ancient stone torii gates at both ends of the wooden bridge, which is also the passage from the secular world to the divine world.
Walking onto the hundreds-meter-long wooden bridge, the Isuzu River below is flowing rapidly, surrounding the inner palace. The river water is clear, and standing on the bridge, the pebbles on the bottom of the river are clearly visible.
Cross Uji Bridge and enter the inner palace. Soya walked in front, taking Tsukuyomi and Kirino Akane straight to the area where Tsukiyomi Palace is located.
The main worship god of the shrine named "Tsukiyomi" is naturally the noble son of the moon. After the three of them entered the shrine area, they saw four neatly arranged palaces in front of them.
In addition to the main palace, Tsukuyomi Palace, the remaining three palaces are dedicated to Izanagi, Izanami and Tsukuyomi's Araemon.
Taming the soul is a Shinto term.
The so-called "one spirit and four souls" means that every living being has four different souls of wild, lucky, harmonious, and strange, representing different character traits including struggle, care, affinity, intelligence, and rationality.
It is the different proportions of this soul that create the different personalities of thousands of creatures.
The Tsukuyomi Aragohun enshrined here represents Tsukuyomi’s struggle and resentment.
"It turns out that Tsukuyomi-sama's fighting spirit is sealed here. No wonder he doesn't look very energetic at ordinary times."
The god himself was dismissive of this.
"It's all nonsense."
There are four palaces, Tsukuyomi Palace is arranged on the second left, Arakumi Palace and Izanagi Palace are on both sides, and Izanami Palace is on the far right.
Perhaps because of the two worshiping creation gods, this place is obviously much more lively than the Tsukiyomi Palace in the outer palace, with worshipers coming and going incessantly.
This is Soya's conjecture.
And Akane Kirino told him that the Tsukiyomi Palace here is actually a well-known holy place for love.
"It is said that as long as you find a heart-shaped tree stump in Tsukiyomi Palace, you can have a perfect love."
"...No wonder there are so many young lovers nearby."
After approaching, Tsukuyomi looked at the four palaces in front of him with a complicated expression, not knowing what he was thinking.
Soya and Akane Kirino didn't bother him, and paid homage one by one in order of priority.
"Sogu didn't say anything."
When they visited the last Izanami Shrine, Kirino Akane suddenly spoke.
"..."
Through the fence, Zonggu looked inside the palace and shook his head again.
"There's nothing to say."
"Is it because Izanami-sama escaped from the underworld, causing Soya to fall into it?"
Akane Kirino's understanding of Izanami only ends there.
"Almost."
"So Soya can now pray that Lord Izanami can return to Huangquan as soon as possible and solve your troubles."
"..."
Zong Gu looked at her, but in the end he didn't explain anything.
"I hope Izanami-sama will have a good time in this world. If there is nothing serious, don't come to me."
"What..."
Akane Kirino couldn't help but laugh. She glanced behind her from the corner of her eye and immediately restrained herself.
The worshipers who came in later looked at the two of them, bowed and mumbled to themselves.
After exiting, Soya saw Tsukuyomi walking into his palace.
Have to wait a while.
As he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed Kirino Akane looking around.
"What's wrong."
"I want to find that love tree stump."
"..."
"Mom asked me to take a picture of it and show it to her after I find it."
Looking at it, Kirino Akane's eyes stayed on a certain area with a lot of people.
"It seems to be over there...I'll go there."
"Um."
She went over to take pictures alone, and Soya looked at Izanami Palace behind her, then walked to Tsukiyomi Palace and waited.
After just a moment, Kirino Akane came back here and showed him the photos she took.
"Does this tree stump look like a heart..."
"I don't think so either!"
"It feels like it's just a gimmick deliberately created to attract tourists."
"After all, many people believe this statement."
Soya looked at her, "Does Kirino believe it too?"
"Don't believe it."
Kirino Akane shook her head and smiled again, "I don't believe it even more after seeing it with my own eyes."
With that said, she sent a photo of the love tree stump to Yoshikawa far away in the countryside to taste it together.
The two chatted on the phone for a long time before Tsukuyomi came out of the palace.
Zonggu walked over to him and looked at him, vaguely feeling that something was wrong with him.
"A lot of power of faith..."
Tsukuyomi let out a drunken murmur, holding a lot of hair in his hand and shaking it at him.
"There are so many, so many!"
"..."
Zong Gu was happy for him and happy for himself, and then asked him to calm down a little first.
"After all, with so many people coming to worship, the power of faith will naturally be there."
"Although there are many people, they are not here for me... Hey, is there anything in the woods over there?" Tsukuyomi looked at the place where Akane Kirino had just been, "Why are there so many people around there?
?”
"Don't worry about that."
Soya drew his attention back and raised his chin towards the Tsukuyomiara Soul Palace on the far left, "The power of faith here should also belong to you."
According to the order of worshiping Tsukuyomi first and then Aramimon, when most people worship Tsukuyomi Aramimon, who has no specific image, they are thinking about Tsukuyomi himself, so the power of faith generated should also belong to him.
That's right.
Tsukuyomi disdains the Arakami spirit fabricated by human religious institutions, but it still attaches great importance to the power of faith attached to it.
"I'll go in and take a look."
And just as Zongya guessed, the power of faith attached to the Arayuhun Palace belonged to him. After he started to actively absorb it, it all came over.
Tsukuyomi closed his eyes, immersed in the divine power transformed by the power of faith, and vaguely felt that some changes were taking place in himself.
Until a certain moment, the divine power in his body had just accumulated to a certain level and suddenly stopped.
"..."
Tsukuyomi opened his eyes and looked down at his hands.
The divine power has not yet accumulated to the level of its heyday, so of course he will not stop it on his own initiative, and a considerable part of the power of faith in the palace has not yet been transformed. He does not understand the reason why the transformation of divine power has suddenly stopped.
Until he felt a familiar yet terrifying aura behind him.
"..."
Soya, who stayed outside, looked at Tsukuyomi who suddenly knelt down in the palace in surprise, not knowing why he suddenly had a convulsion.
Just as surprised as him were the worshipers inside and outside the palace, all looking at Tsukuyomi who not only knelt down but was also shaking non-stop.
Seeing that he couldn't kneel down, Zonggu had no choice but to go in and help him up, and pulled him out of the palace amidst the gazes of many people.
"What are you doing...is Tsukuyomi-sama moved by his fighting spirit? You won't kneel down, right?"
When Yue was reading this, he suddenly took a deep breath as if awakened from a nightmare.
"She's here!"
"..."
Zonggu was stunned, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
If Emperor Tachibana appeared in Tsukiyomi Palace, he would definitely spot her immediately.
"I feel her breath!"
"Where?"
In fact, there was no need to ask, Zongya could tell the direction through his straight gaze, but there were only some ordinary worshipers there.
"..."
wrong.
Zonggu narrowed his eyes and took a few steps that way.
At a height of two or three meters above the ground, there is a small coin suspended.