Tokyo Soft Rice King.

The current Ameyu Hikaru is the true form of the deity worshipped by the family. This time, she has temporarily left the family and come to Tokyo for a reason.

Since the matter entrusted to her has been completed, there is no need for her to stay any longer, so she has most likely been taken back to her hometown.

Because Kuroba Akira still carries the giant snake, he is not allowed to return to his hometown, which means he will never see Amehiro Hikaru again.

However, we live in the information age now, so if we want to talk, we don't need to be face-to-face; we can communicate using our mobile phones.

It's a pity we forgot to exchange contact information last time... By the way, do gods use cell phones?

If all else fails, the only option left is to use the oldest method of long-distance communication: writing letters.

That said, Akira Kuroba originally intended to stay at the Tomita family's house, but he was later taken to the Kobayashi family's house by Kuroo...

However, she eventually met Haruka Tomita and Makoto Saionji, so it seems their connection is quite strong.

By the way, regarding this comb that can reveal memories, we could ask Kuroo; she's sure to know something.

"Black Tail, is there anything special about this comb? I just used it to see memories from the past."

"Meow?"

Kuroo glanced at the comb, then climbed onto Kuroba Akira's neck and explained telepathically.

"Oh, that brat gave it to you... This thing is quite old and already has the basic conditions to become a god, meow. What you see is the thought that was recently stored in it. This is the idea of ​​imbuing a thing with thought, which is what I mentioned before as the 'origin of gods,' meow."

"A comb can become a god? Oh, so tsukumogami are gods too, right..."

That's probably how the claim of eight million gods came about; most of them were just imposters.

"It's still early, meow. According to the developmental stages of you humans, you're just an embryo right now, meow. You're still a long way from developing self-awareness, meow."

"Wow... You're saying I'm seeing the most recently stored memories, which means I can also see memories stored at other times?"

"Of course you can, you'll see it if you keep combing your hair with that comb, meow... But what's so interesting about memories of combing hair, meow?"

"Huh? I can only see memories of combing my hair?"

"Nonsense, it's just a comb cat. It can only store thoughts cat when it's used by humans."

Indeed, the last scene we just saw was also the brother combing his sister's hair.

So seeing the memories of parting was entirely due to the younger sister's last lingering affection; it was pure luck.

What else could I see further ahead? Thinking this, Kuroba Akira combed his hair again…

What we saw was...

"My brother combed my hair today too..."

"Brother's hands are so big..."

"Onii-chan...?"

Buhou!

This is... really bad!

This isn't something I should be watching... and it's written in the first person! And it even evokes empathy!

Unfortunately, once the memory begins playing, it cannot be stopped manually until the segment is finished.

So Kuroba Akira could only silently endure the whole process, until Ameha Hikaru got the comb all wet... When the older brother uses it to comb his younger sister's hair, the younger sister doesn't use it to comb anymore, she uses it to shave...

Kuroba Akira was completely dumbfounded when she realized that she had actually experienced what it was like to be a girl.

Qingxia learned from Heiyu Ming's brief words that the comb carried the owner's thoughts and memories. So when Heiyu Ming was in a daze, he was also immersed in the memories brought to him by the comb. So what did he see now?

So she asked out of curiosity.

"Kuroba-kun, what did you see?"

"nothing……"

Kuroba Akira's feelings were very complicated. From his perspective, he should probably be glad that his sister was chosen and forgot everything after the initiation ceremony, becoming a girl with no emotions. Otherwise, it would probably have been like the story of Yosuga no Sora.

Although he wrote a light novel about a sister complex, when it actually happened to him, Kuroba Akira felt a little... uneasy.

In other words, if Hikari Amane were to regain her past memories, she would revert to being that awful brother-obsessed younger sister?

Chapter 398 No Overnight Stay Order

If I had known earlier that I really had a younger sister, I wouldn't have written any light novels with a sister complex theme... If Hikaru found out, there would be a huge misunderstanding.

However, the light novel of "Imouto ga Yuu" has already been published, and the first volume sold out. Now it's too late to tell editor Mori that I don't want to continue writing.

Even at a rate of one book every two months, it would still take two or three years to reach the end. During this time, Xiaoguang cannot know that he wrote the light novel.

It may seem unlikely, but if we discuss it with Shiori, we can still ask her to help keep it a secret. Anyway, we just need to cut out the original character, Akira Kuroba.

Now that Hikari is a goddess with no emotions, she probably has no interest in modern light novels... So the question is, is Hikari currently on the path to regaining her memories, and to what extent have she regained them?

In Kuroba Akira's view, she was still subconsciously calling him "brother," but had not yet remembered anything about him or her own past.

"By the way, when Hikari used this comb, didn't she see any memories of the past?" Kuroba Akira asked Kuroo in his mind.

“I don’t think so, meow. Although this comb doesn’t have its own consciousness yet, it can still ‘choose’ who can see this memory. For example, if you lend it to Ah Qing now, meow, I guess she probably won’t be able to see it.”

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Kuroba Akira handed the comb to Haruka and asked.

"Qingxia, try combing your hair with this comb and see if you can see some images."

"Ok."

Qingxia obediently took the comb and combed her hair left and right in a very smooth motion, without any pause.

After finishing combing her hair, Qingxia glanced at the comb in her hand and shook her head regretfully.

"I didn't see anything, so it seems it won't work for me."

"So it seems that only the chosen ones can see it... Then why do you think Hikari hasn't seen it, Kuroo? She was originally the owner of the comb, and she was also the person involved in the memories, right?"

Blacktail licked its paws and said as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Because it contains her own thoughts, and those thoughts are stored there to be 'shown to others,' so of course she herself can't see her own thoughts, meow."

"Huh? What does that mean? It's clearly my own longing, but I can't see it?"

"The longing on an object can only remain because of a strong obsession to 'convey' it, meow. And the convection is definitely not to the person, meow. For example, if you were to write a letter, Shirako, would you write it to yourself, meow? It would definitely be 'sent to someone else, meow.'"

"I understand, so this comb also follows this rule, and I am the object she wants to convey her longing to?"

"That's right, meow. And then the 'unfulfilled longing' will grow stronger over time, and as the items are passed on to different people, they carry even more longing. Over time, a trace of self-personality will be born from the aggregate of these longings, and that is the original god, meow."

"I see……"

As Mr. Kobayashi previously stated, gods who are passed down through human bloodlines do not possess their own memories, which also suggests that gods are consciousness entities composed of the collective subconscious of humanity.

"If this comb really had its own consciousness, it might actually show itself to the person in question, meow. But as I just said, this comb has existed for a long time, but the thoughts it holds are not enough, meow."

To put it bluntly, it's not intelligent enough; it can't understand human speech and is still executing commands according to a program, making it a human-machine interface.

"However, for gods with a little bit of ability, experiencing other people's memories is basic stuff, meow. For example, I looked through your memories before, Shirako."

Akira Kuroba also remembered that Kuroo had watched his memories like a documentary, and could even see the anime, manga and novels he had watched before.

I remember she said at the time that she couldn't share the images with Kuroba Akira yet, so Kuroba Akira still couldn't use the works he had seen in his previous life as a reference.

"Although your sister is a deity whose divine nature has decayed, the foundation of faith is still there. She shouldn't be unable to even look through her memories, meow."

"So, although Xiaoguang can't see her own memories using this comb, she can still extract those memories if she wants to?"

"That's right, meow."

Then we absolutely cannot return this comb to her...

If we turn her back into the brother-obsessed sister she used to be, and then she finds out that the brother she knew is no longer alive, she might do something terrifying.

Many tragedies begin with the cry of "Resurrect, my love!", followed by the use of any means necessary to achieve resurrection, ultimately leading to enormous consequences. Regaining memories is probably similar.

Kuroba Akira could already picture Hikaru, having regained his memories, yelling at him, "You're not my brother!" and then brandishing his katana, ready to kill him.

After all, his younger sister was a rather dangerous girl; she had previously expressed her desire to kill Kuroba Akira.

"I think you're overthinking it, meow. Even if your sister really saw those memories, she would only think that she saw 'someone else's memories,' and she wouldn't think that the person in the memories was herself, meow."

"Huh? Ah, I think I understand what you mean. Even if you can see it, or even experience it, it doesn't mean you've 'regained your memories'..."

It's probably like a person with amnesia looking through their old diaries; they won't remember how they wrote those diaries after reading them.

"Although the Tianyu family's God Transformation Ceremony is somewhat special, involving bloodline awakening and the awakening of the gods midway, in general, it's not much different from being a god's child from birth, meow. If someone were truly an ordinary person, they would have been an ordinary person from the beginning and there would have been no way they could have been chosen to undergo the God Transformation Ceremony, meow."

"So, does that mean the gods truly die when, in a certain generation, their children are no longer gods but ordinary people?"

"That's right, meow. Anyway, there's no precedent for gods turning back into humans so far, meow, because the 'weight of memories' is vastly different, meow."

To a god born from the thoughts of countless people, the memory of one person is insignificant—that's the idea.

"Shiroko, you are the most special case among the special cases I know, meow. In fact, even if you came later, there is no reason why you could overshadow the gods, meow... But such an absurd thing happened, meow."

In response, Kuroo showed a rare expression of astonishment, as if he had never seen anything like it before.

If even Kuroo said so, then Kuroba Akira's situation might truly be the first of its kind in history.

"Perhaps it's because you, Shirako, are a special soul from another world, meow."

"The reason seems so far-fetched..."

"Look, it's just like the card effect in Yu-Gi-Oh! 'This card is unaffected by other card effects, meow.'"

Now I understand.

Kuro-Tail, you saw my card-playing memories too?

Are there any card games similar to Yu-Gi-Oh! in this world? Or Hearthstone? Or Auto Chess?

If none of those exist, I'd like to create a similar game... not to make money, but mainly because I want to play it myself.

"Considering that Hongxiang also broke the precedent that a body cannot have two souls, I feel that the souls of you that I brought from another world may indeed be somewhat different from native souls, but Baizi, your sister doesn't have this special characteristic, meow."

"So, Kuroo, you think Hikari can't possibly regain her original memories?"

"Hmph, if your sister really has the ability to suppress gods and regain her own memories and personality... then I, this cat, would call her 'one who surpasses gods,' meow!"

That's so cringeworthy! You lazy cat, you've been watching too much anime.

"And I'm still a bit skeptical about the fact that you have a rascal snake on you, meow."