Crossover Anime: Starting with Adopting the Homeless Melon God

However, if one can make multiple changes of direction and draw their sword during a high-speed dash, then this flaw will completely disappear, and its practicality will be increased several times over.

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Chapter 139 The Shock from the Young Lady

"Lord Kitagawa! Thank you for saving me once again!"

Once she came to her senses, Hiyori Iki suddenly ran in front of Yu Kitagawa, bowed at a ninety-degree angle, and completely exposed everything that could and could not be seen.

Kitagawa Yu quickly glanced at it, then glanced at it again.

"Ahem, it's nothing, I just happened to be there."

“I know, but I’ve been to many shrines before, and they were all blocked by barriers. There must be gods living inside, right? But none of them helped me. Only you, Lord Kitagawa, are different!”

Hiyori Iki said earnestly, her pink eyes almost overflowing with admiration and love.

She's not stupid either.

During her escape, she passed by at least twenty shrines. Although most of the shrines did not have barriers, the most popular large shrines did.

Even if these shrines with barriers don't have gods, they must have superhuman beings, right? Otherwise, where would the barriers that can repel monsters come from?

Even if these superhumans can't defeat those seven monsters, surely they can put her in and save her life?

Unfortunately, despite visiting so many shrines, no deity or supernatural being offered her any help, which was the real reason she gradually became desperate.

But Kitagawa Yu didn't hesitate to save her, which was clearly different from other gods.

To be honest, it's only because Hiyori's troubles have been resolved that she no longer needs to pray or make wishes; otherwise, she could definitely contribute a great deal of wish-granting power to Yu Kitagawa.

Kitagawa Yu hadn't thought about the power of wishes yet, but he felt a little uncomfortable under Iki Hiyori's intense gaze.

After all, he wasn't really being kind; he just happened to need to hunt monsters.

He searched through the entire Toyoshima High School, which was also Hiyori Iki's school, and only found five. Now that seven were delivered to his doorstep, he naturally wouldn't let them go.

"Ahem. You can think of gods and superhumans as people with great power, so you don't need to think too highly of them," Kitagawa Yu explained after a moment's thought.

"But even humans, if they see someone in danger, wouldn't they lend a helping hand if they had the ability?"

Iki Hiyori's rebuttal startled Kitagawa Yu, who then looked speechless.

He only just remembered that Hiyori Iki, the heroine of Noragami, has some saintly qualities.

"Then just think of them as capitalists who won't do anything without a profit," Kitagawa Yu said with a shrug.

This time, Hiyori Iki was stunned by what Kitagawa Yu said and almost choked on her own words.

"Then why did Lord Kitagawa save me?"

"This time it's just because I happened to have promised someone I'd hunt down a hundred monsters," Kitagawa Yu said frankly, though he kept his distance from beings like the Holy Mother.

"And what about last time?"

"The last time was—"

Kitagawa Yu didn't know how to explain it for a moment. He couldn't very well say that it was because he had seen Noragami in his previous life, could he?

Seeing his speechless expression, Hiyori couldn't help but smile sweetly.

"So, Lord Kitagawa saved me either out of kindness, or..."

For some unknown reason, a blush appeared on Hiyori Iki's fair cheeks.

"Um... let's not talk about this anymore. I'll take you home."

"Ah."

Hiyori Iki nodded gently, thinking to herself with a happy smile, "Lord Kitagawa and Lord Yu are indeed very kind!"

"By the way, Lord Kitagawa, do you know how to cure my astral projection?"

“I don’t know, but I can ask for you.” Kitagawa Yu said, turning to look at Murasame, who had appeared beside him at some point.

At this moment, Hiyori Iki, who had only seen Kitagawa Yu before, finally noticed Murasame's presence.

"What a nice view!"

Hiyori Iki was stunned. Perhaps unlike Yu Kitagawa, who needed to be on guard, her reaction was even more exaggerated than when Yu Kitagawa first met Murasame.

However, Murasame's beauty and temperament are indeed the kind that appeals to both men and women; she is mysterious, enchanting, and captivating.

She didn't snap out of her shock until Murasame spoke.

"Does the soul often leave the body? This should be due to some damage to the body, creating a 'hole' that causes the soul to 'leak out' frequently."

There are two ways to solve this.

"One method is to cultivate soul incantations, which allows one to freely control whether the soul leaves the body. Even if the soul accidentally leaks out, it can immediately return."

"The other option is to heal her physical injuries, but modern medical technology can't do that. We'd need to find gods who have healing magic, which would probably require a lot of divine power."

Murasame, as expected of a beautiful girl who has lived for over a thousand years, saw through Hiyori Iki's condition at a glance and provided a solution.

Kitagawa Yu frowned slightly after hearing this.

Because Amaterasu treated Ai like a toy, manipulated her fate, and schemed against Murasame, he had no good feelings towards those gods.

Even if the divine power expended was a drop in the ocean for him, he was unwilling to let other gods gain an advantage.

"I also know healing magic, but I need to wait another 47 days before I can use it."

“Then let her practice incantations first.” Murasame then turned to Hiyori Iki and said, “I have those incantations that allow you to control your soul to leave your body after practicing them, but I won’t help you for free like Yu did.”

"Then what do you want?"

Hiyori Iki did not show too much surprise.

"I want you to become Yu's priestess."

Hiyori Iki was taken aback for a moment, then secretly breathed a sigh of relief and a relaxed smile appeared on her face.

"I thought it was something else, but it turns out it's just becoming Lord Yu's shrine maiden. I would have been willing to do that even if you hadn't told me!"

Murasame gently shook her head and said, "No, I'm talking about the real shrine maidens of ancient times."

"Huh? A real shrine maiden?"

"A priestess who is required to offer everything and serve the gods wholeheartedly."

"Uh, give everything?"

Kitagawa Yu and Iki Hiyori couldn't help but reveal a strange expression, subconsciously looking at each other. Iki Hiyori, for some unknown reason, caught her breath and her cheeks turned burning hot.

Kitagawa Yu quickly looked away, then looked at Murasame with a puzzled expression.

Before he could even ask, Murasame explained via telepathy, "Although Iki Hiyori's soul strength is very ordinary, only at the level of an average person, her mind should be relatively pure. If she becomes your shrine maiden and serves you wholeheartedly, she should be able to provide you with three or four balls of low-grade faith power every day. If her mind is no longer pure in the future, you can use the special ability of your Enmusubi lineage to sever your connection with her, so you don't have to worry about being poisoned by her faith."

A strange emotion flashed in Kitagawa Yu's eyes once again.

"The special ability of the God of Marriage? But I'm not the God of Marriage!"

"besides."

"Is three or four groups of low-grade faith power a day a lot?"

If one can condense three or four bundles of low-grade faith power a day, then one bundle of low-grade divine power can be formed in three days, and more than a hundred bundles a year. This may not be a small number for other gods, but for him, who has a system and holds 200 wish powers, it is really not worth mentioning.

I think it's better to—

"No, I do!"

Kitagawa Yu was about to speak when Iki Hiyori interrupted him, blushing.

Refusing now would be hurtful, so he could only accept Murasame's kindness with a wry smile.

However, neither he nor Murasame knew that Hiyori Iki's faith power could not reach Kitagawa Yu's hands at all. On the contrary, a certain silly girl who was sitting cross-legged on the offering table, eating hot spring buns and watching the melon, jumped up happily and excitedly after he agreed.

"That's great! That's great!"

"Now I finally have a priestess to serve me!"

"Ha ha ha ha--"

A certain goddess girl laughed heartily, hands on her hips, the bells on her chest jingling.

Meanwhile, in a luxurious bedroom filled with pink and girlish charm, a young lady who was staying up all night watching anime suddenly sensed something and looked towards the window. There, she saw a pure white, elegant fox that had appeared out of nowhere. It was the spirit fox under the command of the Inari god who had escaped earlier.

If an ordinary person saw this scene, even if the fox didn't look fierce, they would definitely be startled. After all, a fox crouching by the window late at night is an eerie sight.

However, the young lady seemed to be used to it, only glancing at it casually before quickly turning her gaze back to the computer screen.

Clearly, neither monsters nor foxes held any appeal for her as much as the anime in front of her.

At the same time, the spirit fox seemed to have already become familiar with the young lady's 'true face'. Its pure black gem-like eyes rolled back in a human-like manner, and then blinked as it used soul transmission to tell her what it had seen that night.

Originally, the young lady didn't care much.

While it's difficult for gods to intervene in this era, priests and priestesses with spiritual power, as well as sorcerers who use magical powers, have little to no scruples when they do.

Although such people are extremely rare in this era, if you look at Tokyo, you can still find nearly a hundred of them by adding up the various shrines, families, temples, and government agencies.

Who knows, some people might be unable to sleep at night and like to go out and slay demons.

But when she heard that the person was Kitagawa Yu, a look of utter bewilderment appeared on her face, which still looked incredibly cute on her delicate and pretty face.

That's right, the adorable young lady who stays up until 3 a.m. to binge-watch anime is Yukiko.

"Huh? What did you just say, Shiro? That meddlesome guy is actually Yu? And he's even with that demonic sword?!" Yukiko's eyes widened in surprise.

"Yes, that's it."

“But how could Yuta—” Suddenly, Yukiko seemed to have thought of something.

"Wait a minute, Yu's family seems to run a shrine!"

"But aren't spiritual power and magical power innate? If he possessed spiritual power or magical power, it should have shown itself long ago."

"It can't be divine power; no god would be so extravagant."

"Could it be that Yu made a contract with a yokai and gained yokai power?"

"Could it be that demonic sword?"

"But the power of that demonic sword can corrupt the mind. Let alone ordinary people, for over a thousand years, anyone who has tried to obtain the power of that demonic sword, even the most holy priestesses and powerful gods, could not withstand it."