I Am an Emperor in a World of Mixed Anime

Higashino Akira looked behind Miko at two unknown beings, their bodies translucent and radiating a faint golden light, resembling white foxes dressed like human girls, standing upright with black, Hime-style haircuts typical of humans. A word inexplicably popped into his mind.

Fu Rui?

This was the first time he had ever seen all of these strange and mysterious things.

Judging from their color schemes, these two don't really look like evil spirits.

The moment they saw Akira Higashino, the two unknown beings bowed respectfully to him, their manners not overstepping any boundaries.

However, Miko, who was standing in front of them, did not notice this and was still earnestly pleading. She walked over and hugged his arm, awkwardly acting coquettishly.

"Please, I have a surprise for you, Onii-chan."

Akira looked down at Miko, who was blushing slightly even though he himself couldn't help it, and after a moment of silence, he quietly closed his eyes.

I already thought Nagasaki Motoyo's acting was bad enough, but I never imagined there could be someone even worse.

Who gave Miko the confidence to think that this is how she acts cute?

Yurikawa Hana: Hehe…

After seeing Higashino Akira close his eyes, Miko quickly let go of his hand, turned around and looked at the two fox spirits behind him, gestured to the cold and dark curse power surrounding his body, and respectfully put his hands together in silent prayer.

Upon seeing this, the two fox spirits exchanged glances. After a while, they reluctantly raised their hands and aimed them at Dongye Ming. They released pale golden power, shattering the curse. Then, ignoring the curse that was slowly but firmly regrowing from the void, they jingled the bells on their bodies, gave the girl a deep look, and gradually disappeared.

Eh!

Why did you leave?

Should we not continue?

And this time it wasn't counted either!

Seeing that Zi was still somewhat confused, Higashino Akira had already reopened his eyes.

So, what's the surprise?

Yotsuya Miko puffed out her cheeks, looking somewhat unhappy, and took out a cake from behind the sofa.

What an untrustworthy god!

She clearly made this decision after a long period of mental preparation and with great determination.

Happy birthday, Onii-chan.

Akira Higashino was taken aback. "Is today my birthday?"

Since coming to Tokyo to study and living alone, with no one to help him remember his birthday, he hasn't celebrated his birthday for six or seven years. Every year, it's only after a long time that he suddenly realizes he's gotten another year older.

Although he himself doesn't really care whether or not he celebrates his birthday.

But I didn't expect that Jianzi would remember his birthday.

"When I was registering the materials, I noticed Ni-chan's birthday and wrote it down."

"After all, we are family."

Jianzi heard her mother's gratified voice praising her, "That's right, you know how to take the initiative to care for your family. Jianzi is such a sensible and good child."

Higashino Akira raised his hand and gently touched Miko's head. After all, he was not a heartless person. With Miko's care for him time and time again, although he could not say that he immediately regarded her as an indispensable close relative, he could not help but feel closer to her.

"Thank you."

"When it's your birthday, I'll celebrate it with you too. Remember to tell me in advance if there's any gift you want."

Yotsuya Miko nodded in agreement, still somewhat discouraged that she hadn't been able to free her 'brother' from the terrifying curse.

That deity was the most powerful being she could come into contact with. It seemed that the deity had agreed to help her three times. Although she didn't know what the consequences would be after the three times, Yotsuya Miko still resolutely left one chance to save Higashino Akira. However, she didn't expect that the deity's messenger would just make a casual move and then run away.

After all, he was the only relative who wasn't quite a family member, and he treated me very well. At least he didn't mistreat me. Although he seemed a bit cold on the outside but warm on the inside, I could always tell he was a good person.

Jianzi did not want her older brother to die young.

"By the way, when is Miko's birthday?"

Yotsuya Miko: "..."

With just one sentence, the girl's sorrow was dispelled.

This is strength.

Akira Higashino's gaze shifted, making him appear much more vivid and real. Instead of deliberately acting cute, Miko revealed a slightly resentful expression, which made him smile.

The two cut a small piece of cake and ate it together. They put the rest in the refrigerator to chill. They sat together watching TV, occasionally asking each other about their recent situations.

Until their final parting, each returned to their bedroom to rest. Seeing that Zi hadn't noticed, and that the expression on their faces remained gentle and relaxed, the coldness and vigilance they usually feigned to avoid revealing any flaws in front of the evil spirits were completely gone.

On the other side, after returning to the master bedroom with a package sent to him by a stranger, the smile on Higashino Akira's face gradually faded.

After meeting those two foxes, they seemed quite fond of her, both around forty. However, after they disappeared, the new connection that appeared afterward was very unfriendly, with blatant malice on display. It not only linked her to herself but also to Jianzi.

Judging from the color of the two foxes, the entity behind them is probably not an ordinary evil spirit, but most likely a deity that has been worshipped.

so what?

This guy dared to deliberately create a bad relationship with himself; he deserved to die.

We'll follow the clues to your doorstep right away, and we'll even find out the color of your underwear!

You'd better be able to fight at the very end!

Akira Higashino took out his phone and dialed the number of the Pokémon Master's guardian.

"Moshi moshi, did the senior give you any instructions?"

"I've discovered something special. I'm planning to go out and do some field research tomorrow. Want to come along with the late-night snack group?"

"Kami-sama, I like it." On the other end of the phone, a quiet, aloof elementary school student gave a frightening answer in a calm voice.

After a long silence, Higashino Akira decided to scare him back.

"Alright, I'll wait ten years. When you grow up, I'll make you the wife of a god."

"Eh!" Hozuki Eiko was startled by the two's somewhat unconventional way of communicating.

"Kami Samadhi is a lolicon."

"Nonsense, I just happen to like a little girl, and I want to like all the beautiful stages of her life."

"Terrible, so terrifying..."

You scared me first!

"It's uncertain how powerful the other party is. If you want to subdue it, remember to bring some powerful helpers with you when you come."

After leaving his last words, Akira Higashino hung up the phone.

Some kids probably won't be able to sleep tonight.

[As emperor, please acquire your own subjects as soon as possible. For every 1000 subjects, you will receive +1 more chances to be granted a title by a subordinate deity (in progress: 568/1000)]

We are already more than halfway to the standard of one thousand subjects being granted titles. Although the growth rate has gradually slowed down, it is still slowly and steadily increasing. In a couple of days, we should be able to fully reach the standard.

Unfortunately, only employees who are formally employed, have a permanent position and work permit, and who have a sense of identity and belonging to the company culture and the company itself can be considered as successfully naturalized subjects. Otherwise, they could just gather a large group of temporary workers and take off.

With the evil Pokémon trainer Baoyue Yexiao around, it shouldn't be too difficult to obtain future conferment titles. Putting aside everything else, those two foxes from before seemed pretty good; they were polite, unlike those brainless wild evil spirits.

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P.S.: 31 chapters still owed.

Chapter 49 Miyamizu Futaba

There's also that unknown entity with a favorability rating of over 70 that's always hovering around Miko.

Higashino Akira could only see the favorability rating and didn't know who the other person was or what they looked like. However, judging from the fact that the other person had such a high level of favorability towards him, a complete stranger, he could tell that it was most likely either Old Deng or the spirit left behind by Miko's mother after her death.

If it's Old Deng, that would be terrible.

I don't dislike it, but I can't say I like it either.

Not to mention, the old man had a difficult life and finally raised his two children to adulthood. When he passed away, he had let go of everything and didn't have many obsessions. His spirit only existed for a few days before returning to the world. Old Deng abandoned his wife and children to run to Tokyo to be a winner in life and even planned to remarry. If he died with a bunch of unresolved obsessions and forced to stay in the world, that would be too disappointing.

As for the spirit in the house, whether it's Miko's mother or Old Deng, Higashino Akira doesn't plan to confer a title upon it, at least not in the early stages. Opportunities for conferring titles are scarce in the early stages, so he needs to focus on spirits that are intelligent, not extreme, and have considerable abilities. It's best not to confer titles upon spirits that have been beaten half to death and then subdued, lest the spirits shirk their duties after the deed is done.

Picking up the package of unknown origin, after glancing at the sender's name and confirming that the connection brought about by this package had not changed and was still a benevolent one, Higashino Akira opened it.

Inside was a thick photo album and a letter.

Higashino Akira opened the letter, took out the letter paper, and there was only one line of writing on it: "Long time no see, God."

The handwriting is quite delicate, so the writer is probably a girl, and not too old.

The letter paper is very new; it must have been written recently.

Upon seeing this letter, the bond that had been with Higashino Akira the longest, probably existing before his birth and closely related to him, which had been constantly trembling and seemed on the verge of breaking at any moment, became more stable than ever before. The price for this was that its existence was now in its final countdown.

Higashino Akira, with a sudden inspiration, chose to use his luck on this line.

[Luck Consumption -10000]

Night fell, and it felt as if Akira Higashino was having a lucid dream.

In his dreams, Akira Higashino is powerless to control or change anything. People who bump into him simply pass right through his body. He seems to have become a ghost, drifting between history and reality, silently observing everything from the perspective of an outsider.

The scene in the dream was somewhat abstract, but it was still vaguely discernible as a backward and ancient place. A group of villagers dressed in tattered clothes, like ancient people, surrounded a priest and a witch as they walked up the mountain. In the darkness and firelight, the villagers knelt on the ground, and the witch stood in front of the fire, dancing a Kagura dance. In the deeper darkness, a pair of crimson eyes watched everything that was happening with malice.

As the priestess swayed in her dance, her flesh was gradually devoured by the demon, and her blood slowly stained her entire priestess robe. Finally, she collapsed on the altar, her body crushed by the demon, and her soul floated out, attaching itself to the priestess robe and enveloping the demon.

The young priest seized the opportunity to seal the clothes that trapped the evil spirit, and stayed there for the rest of his life to strengthen the seal and nurture his descendants until they grew up and sacrificed their lives to become part of the seal. After that, the priest's descendants became generations of priests and priestesses, each generation sealing and controlling the evil spirit at the cost of their lives.

Countless years later, the villagers' wishes finally washed away the evil spirit's thoughts. The collective consciousness formed by the sacrifices of generations of witches took over, and the evil spirit was no longer ferocious; its appearance became gentle and compassionate.

Finally, a new shrine was built, and the blood-stained shrine maiden's robe was enshrined as the deity's sacred body in the deepest part of the shrine.

Thus, the priests and shrine maidens of the shrine were finally able to live to their natural death, but instead of gaining stability, they began to use the power of the "gods" to travel around, protecting the local area and driving away evil spirits from all directions. Each time they encountered a powerful enemy, it represented a sacrifice. The young shrine maidens with spirituality sacrificed themselves to become part of the gods, in exchange for the gods to recover their power more quickly and eliminate the enemies.

As time passed, the shrine experienced ups and downs, and eventually, it gradually became the kind of place that Akira Higashino was familiar with.

Chayiki Shrine.

Akira Higashino opened his eyes, staring at the unfamiliar ceiling above him, still immersed in the lingering aftertaste of that story full of bloodshed and struggle, unable to forget it for a long time.

No wonder the shrine's deity was willing to die to protect him. There were never any benevolent deities there; it was just that the shrine's kind ancestors wanted to protect their descendants.

dong dong——