Difficult Problem
The next day. After finishing the farm work, when I turned on the TV at noon, just as expected, the incident from yesterday's Super Grand Sumo had become huge news.
Yeah, that's only natural. After all, even if they were just points of light, actual gods really did descend.
I heard from Masa-kun and Yuki-kun later that, while strange things had happened during bouts before, it was the first time anything like that had occurred.
On the TV screen, experts invited to a wide-show were explaining that the ones who likely appeared there were martial gods known for their strength, like Takemikazuchi no kami or Takeminakata. Hmm, indeed, these two gods are said to have clashed in a contest of strength over the cession of the land, which became the origin of sumo.
Ah, by the way, Takemikazuchi no okami is a child deity of Izanagi no mikoto.
His birth originates from when Izanagi no mikoto, enraged at Kagutsuchi no kami for burning his mother Izanami no mikoto to death at birth, flew into a rage, went "What the hell are you doing!?" and promptly cut his own newborn child to death with a sword.
Truly the ultra-DQN god, Izanagi no mikoto.
He pulls an absolutely awful deadbeat parent move. Because this caused the fire god to die, fire became something difficult to control within the world's logic from then on, making it an incredibly troublesome affair.
This is a digression, but that weapon used in the Izanagi no mikoto infanticide incident.The blood that stuck to the hilt of the Ame no Ohabari, splattered onto a rock, and from that was born this Takemikazuchi no kami. This is yet another outrageous way to be born, but indeed, as befits a god, Izanagi no mikoto's moves might be the worst, but his gacha luck seems to be the absolute strongest.
Still, what's truly pitiful is Takemikazuchi no kami, who was produced in such an ultra-violent timing.
The moment he's born, his mother Izanami no mikoto is burnt to a crisp, and right beside him, his father Izanagi no mikoto is cutting down his own child, Kagutsuchi no kami, with the lethal weapon Ame no Ohabari. Furthermore, right in the midst of this chaos, more gods, including himself, are popping out one after another from the dismembered body.
(Eeek! I-I gotta get strong or I'm next!!)
That Takemikazuchi no kami later walked the path of the strongest martial god probably because of these insane circumstances right from the moment of his birth.
On the other hand, Takeminakata no kami is a child deity of Okuninushi no mikoto.
Okuninushi no mikoto. That peerless earthly god who brilliantly outsmarted that scary~ Susanoo no mikoto, acquired the treasures and Princess Suserihime no mikoto, and went "See ya~, old maaaan!"
However, this one was no match for Takemikazuchi no kami in strength and lost.
But, he displayed an oddly straightforward fighting style of challenging the strength-specialist to a head-on contest, and also showed a weak-willed move by fleeing in fear from Takemikazuchi no kami. So, it seems that while he was a child of Okuninushi no mikoto, he likely wasn't a child born from Princess Suserihime no mikoto, who is the daughter of Susano-o no mikoto.
If he had been a child of Suserihime and also inherited the blood of the outlaw god Susano-o no mikoto, who would do anything like throwing poop, he would probably have had no qualms about getting even a god sent by Amaterasu no mikoto drunk and wobbly before killing them.
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[E~h, and so. The Japanese government is prepared to respond to requests for sumo exhibitions from overseas... However, on the absolute condition that Japan bears no responsibility whatsoever for any incidents or phenomena that occur in that country after doing so...!]
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The Prime Minister held an emergency press conference in the afternoon and explained that. Then, along with the murmurs of the reporters, a fierce storm of camera flashes. It's said that in the dungeons which had appeared around the Aichi gymnasium where the July tournament was being held, and around Ryogoku where many of the Seirikishi live, the monsters inside had weakened.
In other words, the divine aura of the gods caused the monsters to weaken.
It's true that when we were resting on the grounds of a shrine during the Dungeon Stampede second wave, not a single monster appeared. Perhaps that was also due to the influence of that divine aura.
And since yesterday's national broadcast, there had probably already been inquiries from various countries, privately. He held this emergency press conference to put a stop to that...
"U~mu, that makes sense indeed..."
"Eh, what do you mean?"
When I muttered that, Serai-san, who had just brought everyone's coffee from the kitchen, voiced her question.
"Machi... It seems that when rikishi-san who have become dungeon challengers wrestle sumo, gods descend. And then, the monsters in nearby dungeons weaken."
"He~h, that's amazing. But isn't that a good thing?"
"But that's fine if it's inside Japan, but if you do it in another country, from the perspective of that country's gods, it's a question of 'what do you think you're doing?'"
"Ah... I see."
Yes, this is an extremely delicate problem.
Thinking "wa~h, this is convenient" and carelessly summoning Japanese gods could call one's own faith into question.
Yeah, that is, it wouldn't be strange for it to be taken as an act of blasphemy by the gods they themselves believe in, like "Ha? What's with you guys? Are other gods better than me!?".
Furthermore, in the spheres of monotheistic religions, there is a history of vehemently rejecting other deities.
So, even if they do the same thing as Japan, it remains questionable whether they would get the same effect. Worst case scenario, they hold the exhibition but gain no results, only leaving behind the wrath of the god worshipped in that country. And if that happens, just where would the focus of that anger be directed...
That's probably why he made that kind of explanation.
After all, it's a matter of safety and faith. They're probably desperate overseas right now, trying to figure out if they can't somehow make their own gods descend...