Crossover Anime: Starting with Adopting the Homeless Melon God

"Although the two sides appear to be keeping to themselves, they have actually had many conflicts in private over their struggle for faith."

"For example, Sugawara no Michizane, the literary god behind the Daruma monster that attacked you last time, is a deity belonging to the Inari god camp."

Realizing that Kitagawa Yu lacked 'common sense', Murasame deliberately explained in more detail.

"However, Amaterasu is an exception. Because the legend of Ama-Iwato is so famous, and with the existence of the Ama-Iwato Shrine, she can still move freely in Takachiho."

"In this day and age, there are only a dozen or so gods, such as Amaterasu, Inari, Sugawara no Michizane, and Ōkuninushi, who still have the divine power and energy to manipulate the fate and souls of a few mortals."

Kitagawa Yu sat cross-legged on the bed, his brows furrowing unconsciously as he heard this.

"Will Amaterasu let Ai go?"

Murasame smiled at him: "Didn't I tell you not to underestimate me? Don't worry, she has already promised not to interfere with Hoshino Ai's fate anymore."

Kitagawa Yu isn't stupid.

The other party is Amaterasu, after all. He doesn't believe that things will turn out as easily as Murasame described.

"What price will be paid?"

“Not really,” Murasame explained. “Forcing her to stop didn’t really come at a price. It was just pretending to fight her. But to get back the soul of Tendouji Sarina, or to get her to help her reincarnate, I need to help her hunt down a hundred monsters that have recently infiltrated the Tokyo area.”

"Hiss—" Kitagawa Yu couldn't help but gasp.

"A hundred?! That must take up a lot of your strength, right?"

Murasame shook his head and said, "No, actually, the humans and monsters I kill are absorbed by me and become my power, so hunting monsters will only make me stronger."

"Huh? Is that so?" Kitagawa Yu looked at her in surprise. "I thought you also used divine power to train and become stronger."

Murasame hesitated for a moment, but finally said frankly, "Divine power is actually used to purify the many negative auras such as resentment, unwillingness, and despair attached to me, because my essence is killing, and if I want to advance further in my cultivation, I must make myself pure."

Upon hearing this, Kitagawa Yu raised an eyebrow and immediately understood the sinister intention behind 'hunting down a hundred monsters'.

Sending Murasame to hunt monsters not only saved him energy but also made Murasame 'impure,' slowing down her breakthrough speed. This can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

But now.

"Leave the job of hunting monsters to me!"

Murasame froze, a strange look flashing across his face.

"here you are?"

If she remembered correctly, she had just rescued Kitagawa Yu from a monster the day before yesterday, and that monster wasn't very strong.

If classified by EDCBAS, it's at most a newly evolved D-rank monster. And if classified by Lv1~Lv6, it's only Lv2.

Kitagawa Yu couldn't even handle one monster like that, yet she's expected to hunt down a hundred more. Is she planning to specifically target the weakest Level 1 monsters?

Kitagawa Yu saw through her thoughts at a glance and said confidently, "There's an old saying in the Dragon Kingdom: 'A scholar should be looked at with new eyes after three days' absence.' My strength has improved a lot! You'll see soon enough~"

"By the way, how much more divine power do you need to complete your purification?" Kitagawa Yu skipped over this topic and asked curiously.

"Thirty thousand low-grade divine power, if converted into faith power, would require at least five hundred thousand low-grade faith power, taking into account the losses in between."

Kitagawa Yu silently calculated that 30,000 low-grade divine power was equivalent to 300 points of his wish power. Even though he had gained a lot in the Demon Slayer world, he was still far from that level.

"It seems I can't help you," Kitagawa Yu said with some regret.

Not counting previous transactions, Murasame had also saved him from Kokushibo once in the Demon Slayer world. If he had enough wish power, he would really be willing to give it to Murasame as a way of repaying him.

Across from him, Murasame was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing, his eyes crinkling into two cute arcs, completely erasing his usual coldness and eeriness.

Kitagawa Yu felt offended.

"Please, haven't you heard the saying 'Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river,' and 'Never underestimate a young man's potential'?"

"No."

Kitagawa Yu was speechless for a moment.

"But 500,000 low-grade faith power isn't that much, is it? There are thousands or even tens of thousands of shrines dedicated to gods like Inari and Sugawara no Michizane, with hundreds of millions or even millions of believers. And then there are the New Year's shrine visits every year; the number of people visiting shrines in Tokyo alone can reach millions. Collecting 500,000 faith power should be quite easy, right?"

Murasame shook his head slightly upon hearing this and explained, "That's not how it's calculated. 'Those who harbor evil intentions cannot offer the power of faith.'"

"When the dark side of a person's heart exceeds 30%, even if they are most devout to the gods, they cannot generate the power of faith. Instead, when they pray and beg, they will generate a kind of 'poison of faith' that is similar in nature to curses, resentment, and demonic power. The gods need to expend their divine power to purify it, otherwise the gods will become confused and degenerate into demons that are even more evil than monsters."

"So even for Inari and Amaterasu, it would take decades if they were lucky, and hundreds if they were unlucky if they wanted to earn 30,000 low-grade divine power."

"In addition, gods need to constantly consume divine power to maintain themselves, fight against monsters, and fulfill the wishes of believers. Even a great god like Amaterasu has to take on the appearance of a little girl in order to conserve divine power. Therefore, even Inari, the most powerful god, simply cannot produce 30,000 low-grade divine power."

Kitagawa Yu was stunned for a long time after hearing this.

At the same time, a strange expression appeared on his face as he suddenly realized what was happening.

"Even Inari, the god with over 30,000 shrines, can't produce 300 high-grade divine power? Does that mean I, a newbie with only one shrine and a dozen or so followers, am considered incredibly wealthy among the gods?"

"No, in the Demon Slayer world, Kagaya Ubuyashiki even said he would build me a shrine as a token of his gratitude."

"hiss--"

"Wait a minute! What if too many people come to the shrine and cause some kind of 'faith poison' to appear?!"

Kitagawa Yu's eyes widened instantly, wishing he could immediately return to the Demon Slayer world and personally tear down his own shrine.

He was already quite satisfied with the speed at which he was earning the power of wishes, and he didn't want to create any more troublesome things like the poison of faith that would taint him.

Unfortunately, without anyone praying, he could only enter the Demon Slayer world by expending the power of his wishes.

After inquiring about the system's pricing and looking at the 200 points of Wish Power he had painstakingly accumulated, he ultimately had no choice but to temporarily abandon the idea.

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore."

"Let's go fight the monster!"

As night fell, the empty campus was completely devoid of the vitality and energy it had during the day.

The pale moonlight stretched the shadows of the trees, making them look like twisted, grotesque figures. A gentle breeze rustled the leaves, making them sound like the whispers of monsters.

Along with the school building, which appeared even larger and more menacing in the darkness of night, an eerie and suffocating atmosphere permeated the air.

But just then, a dazzling golden flash of lightning suddenly appeared in the darkness, followed by what seemed like a faint scream and a sound like a balloon being punctured.

Within a vision imperceptible to ordinary people, a monster with the physique of an ordinary high school student, but a hunched back, a huge fleshy tumor on its back, a deformed head, and limbs as thin as a rake, exploded with a series of cracks, then turned into wisps of black smoke, like the smoke after a piece of paper has burned, and quickly and gracefully disappeared without a trace.

Meanwhile, in the empty classroom, behind the seat where the monster had been sitting, a tall, handsome figure, wielding a Nichirin Blade and dressed in a Shinigami uniform, gracefully twirled his blade before neatly sheathing it.

Obviously, this doesn't mean that a Shinigami from Soul Society has also traveled to this world.

She just thought the Demon Slayer Corps uniforms weren't cool enough, so she did a little cosplay of Kitagawa Yu from Bleach.

"I told you my guess was right, didn't I? Schools are definitely places where monsters are likely to appear at night."

"Actually, there should be quite a few in the hospital, but unfortunately there are too many surveillance cameras."

"But speaking of which, how come our school doesn't have a single monster? Is it because our school's 'happy education' is too successful? Or is the relationship between students too harmonious?"

As if talking to himself, a figure even more enchanting and beautiful than the cold moonlight slowly appeared behind him.

“Perhaps someone cleaned up your school,” Murasame said slowly after thinking for a moment.

"A person?" Kitagawa Yu was taken aback.

“Although fewer and fewer humans with spiritual power have been born in recent centuries, as long as they can gain the approval of gods and monsters, they can still borrow their power to possess extraordinary abilities,” Murasame explained.

"Are there many people like that?" Kitagawa Yu asked curiously.

“What do you think?” Murasame asked with a smile. “Don’t forget that even the gods these days don’t have enough divine power. Although there are more and more yokai, most of them are low-level yokai with only instincts, and they are impossible to communicate with. After all, even yokai, if they are not purified and are allowed to absorb people’s negative emotions indiscriminately, will cause them to become mentally confused, lose their reason, and eventually become madmen or beasts.”

My knowledge of strange things has increased quite a bit.

Kitagawa Yu then returned to the corridor, preparing to continue searching for the next unlucky monster.

But at that moment, Murasame, who was beside him, suddenly stopped and looked through the open window toward the playground below.

"what happened?"

Kitagawa Yu quickly noticed her movement and followed her gaze.

Then he discovered that a pure white fox had appeared on the previously empty playground.

This fox was almost the size of an adult Samoyed, clearly exceeding the size of a normal Arctic fox. More importantly, what kind of Arctic fox would come to the school playground alone in the middle of the night?

"monster?"

"No, it's a messenger of the Inari god, something like a spirit or a familiar."

Kitagawa Yu raised an eyebrow in surprise after hearing this.

"The messenger of Inari God has actually come to Tokyo?"

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"Inari Goddess's main shrine is in Kyoto, so her true form usually stays in Kyoto. Her shrines are all over the country, so it's not surprising that her messengers appear anywhere. What I find strange is that this fox actually has a human scent, which means that this fox was given to a believer or shrine maiden by Inari Goddess to be used."

After a pause, Murasame continued, "This fox is quite powerful. It has cultivated for at least four or five hundred years. According to your understanding, it is probably at level 3, which is considered one of the top among spirit foxes. So I'm just a little curious why Inari God would be so generous."

"Should we arrest him and question him?" Kitagawa Yu joked.

Before the words were even finished, whether the fox on the playground heard them or not, it vanished in a flash, as if its life depended on it.

"I hope I won't offend that human and the Inari god?"

"That's hard to say~"

"."

Seeing Kitagawa Yu's bitter and depressed expression, Murasame couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle. Her gentle temperament even made the bright moon in the sky pale in comparison.

However, on a street just two kilometers away from the school, a beautiful girl wearing a light pink nightgown was running and jumping rapidly on the rooftops of buildings like a ninja from an anime. She could often jump more than ten meters high and forty or fifty meters far with a single leap. If an ordinary person saw this extraordinary running and jumping ability, they would be absolutely dumbfounded.

However, this 'powerful' girl's face was filled with anxiety and panic. It wasn't because she couldn't sleep at night and ran out to play some ninja or parkour games. It was because she had once again had her soul leave her body, and, to her dismay, attracted a monster that looked like a lizard but had eight legs and was as big as a car.

That's right, the girl who was running wildly on the rooftop late at night instead of sleeping was none other than the spirit form of Hiyori Iki.

She wasn't sure if these monsters would harm her sleeping parents, so she had no choice but to lure the monster away.

"Ahhhh-"

Why am I so unlucky?!

"Why is this monster so fast? Does having eight legs make it powerful?!"