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God's manager - Natsu Asaba
(This English translation is literal translation)
Translation M.Terra
Storyteller
Forever and ever, people are having a wish in their hearts.
Some wish for fertility, some wish for the prosperity of descendants,
others wish for good luck in their own life. Even now that scientific civilization
has developed and the darkness is about to disappear from the world, exams,
employment, marriage and people's wishes will never fail. And in Japan one of its
receptions is a shrine, an ancient Japanese god festival is held there.
However, if you comprehend the old books, the anger of God's husband's cheating, suspected
that the child she was conceived as truly my girlfriend caught up in the traps of his brother,
ramped up at his sister's house and finally scatted the *** .There are many anecdotes such
as. How much of that is true, even if you lay down for each honor, is such a perfect
existence that God can make all the wishes of a human child, and that a human child
envisioned in his mind It will prove that there is nothing.
"God is exalted by the respect of men, and men luck by the virtue of God."
This is a sentence in the successive defeat formula established in 1232, originally the
relationship between God and men was mutual augmentation and mutual support of each other.
But now that balance collapses, God has replaced it as a one-sided one that can only appeal
wishes from men. As a result, the power of many gods declined, one god returned to Takamagahara, and one god
disappeared so that the snow could melt in the sun of the spring.
Do people know that the gods that were barely left on the ground are being destroyed their original
powers and they can not even satisfy their own services satisfactorily?
Well, what I will write from now on is born in such modern Japan, calling monks from temples for
funerals, eating cakes and chicken at Christmas and going to a shrine for the New Year at New Year
at a very common family It is a story of a child of one who was born and raised. He was also trying
to make God as an existence just as God is, as many people do.
No, even that existence, he did not believe from the bottom of my heart.
For me who is a god, people are like raindrops falling from the clouds, leaves falling in the seasons,
or a passing breeze, but in my too long memory, one vivid Let's write down his story that left
coloring in plays.
If this story is handed over to my someday until my scales fade someday
and passed on to the children of tomorrow, that is also a revival of the transient world.
1. Fox and Matcha Parfait
Born and raised in a historic town blessed with a shrine temple called Kyoto, Yoshihiko recognized
the distinction between the temple and the shrine clearly after entering high school.
"It is supposed to be learned at about primary school age, but you do not remember?"
Kotaro Fujinami, who was in the same class when he was in high school, explained to me with some
surprises.
"The temple is a Buddhist temple, the shrine is a Shinto priest, the temple is a Buddha, the shrine is a
God, Buddha is confusing, although it is confusing, many people point to Buddha very often,
Japanese God It is totally different."
He was a son of a traceful big shrine in Kyoto prefecture, he often talked to Yoshihiko such a story.
Of the gods being festivaled, as well as the historical buildings, the meaning of gravel spread in the
precincts, the fact that there is a skirt type in the scarlet horse wearing a shrine maiden.
"And then, in big shrines, in the case where the vicinity of the money box is surrounded by a large
scale, there is a high possibility that the belt conveyor will pass under and that it will be able to
automatically collect your money."
His story with a surrealistic thought that seems to be truly like holding a hand in hand earnestly than
anyone would be interesting as he seems to see a world unfamiliar to Yoshihiko.
After graduating from high school, Yoshihiko entered a local university with a well-known
baseball team in order to continue baseball which he was doing since elementary school student,
but Kotaro is going to go to a local college with a specialized undergraduate school I went to college.
However, when he comes back, the relationship to eat together and go out together for long
holidays continues, even now that it is in the mid-twenties, it will not change.After graduating from
university, Kotaro who did not successfully qualify as a priest safely returned to the shrine of the
parents' house but came to a majority shrine in the neighborhood of Yoshihiko's home
(apprentice of the priesthood), and they came to the service, and the two were in high school Just
like every day, I looked face to face almost everyday.
Early September. Yoshihiko who stopped by the main shrine in the morning of that day avoided the
main shrine where there are some worshipers, and in front of a company called Daigenda, where
he went around the steep slope road in the premises I put my hands together.
Because there was not much people coming from the main shrine, it is something that the God who
is enshrined and yet enshrined is the god of Tianjin God Earthly Millionaire something seems to
be quite something, so I just decided here when to visit There is no particular meaning there.
Originally, my grandfather came to visit here well, so Yoshihiko conceived somehow. But
Yoshihiko himself was not a father, and there was no shrine in the house, so it was close to the
custom influenced by Kotaro and his grandfathers. Unfortunately, unlike Kotaro who seriously
consults even though it is a surreal thought, there are things that it makes a god-pried occasion,
such as during the New Year's visit, before the examination, when someone is sick, It is close to
existence. "... At that time, I am sorry to have asked selfishly ..."
Together with the two worshipers 2 taught by my grandfather, I thought that I was doing
something stupid halfway, and Yoshihiko breathed as though I had finished one work. But still, I
felt polite to apologize properly. Even if there was no god there.
"""Oh, the seller, you will get fine.” After having finished the budding of the great tengu arm after the completion of the summer's appearance I came down the long staircase which continued to the approach path while being surrounded by the voice of cicadas, under the sky still in the sky, when I came, I did not see it when I came Kotarou who is supposed to find it sweeping."
"... Oh, are not you looking at me today?"
Kotaro looks frustratingly holding a bamboo charcoal to Yoshihiko who played with jokingly.
"Well, should I do something, is it wrong?
"Looking at my outfits, saying something is wrong.
A group of like tourists slowly comes down, taking pictures of the long staircase with vermaid lanterns lined up on both sides. In order not to be found in the party, Yoshihiko moved to the back of the handwater and dragged by Kotaro.
The large main shrine built at the western foot of the place originally called the major mountain is an old company originating in the middle of the Heian period. The red gable courtyard and the corridor are beautiful, and there are several branches in the premises.
I heard that God to be prayed at the main shrine was recommended by Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara. It is also listed in the guide book as a tourist attraction, and there are not many visitors to the weekdays even on weekdays.
"Dress is another same as usual ..."
Yoshihiko, who said so, reviewed the appearance of Kotaro again and broke the words.
A friend in front of me seems to be a human being who ordinarily serves as a shrine at the shrine
as usual. I wear this coat with a white coat, but today it is a light blue skirt to call even as an
asparagus color.
To Yoshihiko 's reaction, Kotaro smiled satisfiedly to finally realize.
"I got permissive from the departure, it is no longer an apprentice, a fine shrine official, you can
understand Shinto priest?"
"... Is that that you got a career?
When Yoshihiko asked fearfully, Kotaro nodded that it was that kind of thing.
He is wearing a clothes body exceeding 175 cm, cutting the black hair as short as possible to clean up, smiling with any kind of smile and being an adult He is an adorable guy since a time when he has recently committed here, a neighborhood aunt And the wife 's wife have gained explosive popularity. I heard that the reputation of the priests, senior priests priests and byte shrine maidens as well as being accepted as expected newcomers.
Height that does not reach 175 cm and mediocre facial expression which is referred to as a defining role when arranged in parallel with Kotaro, unlike Yoshihiko, which is an average point other than baseball, he seems to be blessed from the talent that he was born, It is impossible to hear that he got a better career.
"Why? How do you like it?"
Although it is in the city, although it is far from the center of the city, the noise is far, but now the sound of cicadas still unfamiliar echoes in the premises. Yoshihiko grabbed Kotaro's sleeve while surrounding trees dropped leaves and sunbeams through the wind that blew through, feeling a strange impatience. Speaking of which, I quit a company I joined last year in a graduate school in
only half a year, and I have only just started using a bridge byte since this spring. While holding a cold view from my family, when I look at job magazines day by day I hold my head, what does
promotion mean?
"Do not say bad things about people, because I left the university properly, I had a rank that was originally authoritative.It was only an apprenticeship until now."
Pull Yoshihiko's hand and Kotaro will arrange the neck. When I think about it, the appearance of this sort of disguise that I had fallen apart and had no choice in the beginning was becoming much more like.
"However, even until this time, I just hit the drum and blown a whistle!"
"That is Kagura practice"
"Make a sandy mountain in a vacant lot ..."
"Grand Town Festival"
"Talking happily with milf in the afternoon!"
"That is business"
Yoshihiko gives a confusing eye to the answer that comes back.
"Why does the priest need to take care of milf?"
Kotaro breathed deeply into Yoshihiko who questioned the suspicious question.
"Well, since there are people who work at the shrine, you will get salaries there, do not you think that repairing the shrine, purchasing amulets and rewards, preparing for events that are many times a year, I can not do it unless I have funds. "
"Funds ..."
Yoshihiko looked back to Karutaro with a finger. It is supposed to be a priest who is in front of you, but you can see it also in a collector.
"To that end, securing Ms. Children who will give donations, and greetings to companies that will become sponsors is an important job as long as you work at a shrine."
Yoshihiko glanced at Kotaro who talks with his confident face with a good arm. I thought it was a surreal thought since I knew it, but it may have been somehow polished.
"Yoshihiko, God is a respected, existence to be feared, do not negotiate falsehood, but there is something as important as that."
My friend who carries the late summer sun is dangerously burning. Kotaro tells Yoshihiko, who holds his hands in front of me, feeling somewhat more than a reality.
"Shrine management is business." Finally I felt dizzy, Yoshihiko closed my eyes.
"After I met you, the image of the priest within me gets steadily becoming strange ..." "Shinto priests are also human beings" It is not because I live with myself eating. "
"That's right, though. I wonder what internal life is like anywhere. It is a world I do not know for men just looking from the outside.
"From then on, what did you come here for, was not today a legal guard?
Kotaro looks back as I thought, stopping the hand moving the bamboo grass. No way he thought that he remembered, Yoshihiko was confronted with falsehood and was consolidated for a moment.
"Oh, yeah it was yesterday, it seems that something is busy, it has become pretty bad.
The first anniversary of my grandfather who passed away a year ago ended without delay yesterday.
My parents 'house is not an avid Buddhist, but like most Japanese families, Yoshihiko' s house is also serving in Buddhist style.
"Today is ... I just dropped because it was a byte.""
Yoshihiko diverted his eyes from Kotaro, not mentioning that he had handed hands at the store shrine earlier.
In the water shop where I looked eyes, the water spewing out of the bronze dragon's mouth flows with a slight noise. A ripple created endlessly in a basin made by piercing stones."
"Ah, that." Kotaro Koitaro muttered after saying that he was a spare person, will return to sweeping again.
Then, I noticed the newly arriving worshipers, and welcomed them warmly and welcomed me.
Yoshihiko exhaled a grand sigh at the exit of the building after finishing work on shift.
Behind that, my younger colleague passes through while saying Okkareesamma Day. "Great work."
Yoshihiko responds to the back which is revitalizing and running away. The time is before 6 PM. He may well be a college student, perhaps he is going out to play now.
Yoshihiko who came out outside wearing the white joint which is working clothes, sighed again and started walking. Dense thick like the basin of Kyoto, the density of which the body seems to melt, will not decline yet in September.
Workers who do not work Even under the terms of my mother who do not eat,
the cleaning department which started off as a connection until officially finding a job is different from the place dispatched by the day,
such as a hospital, a commercial facility or a corporate building.
Although I started going right the first time, once I got used to it, a good job to just move the polisher silently was easy for Mr. Yoshihiko, who is becoming more busy talking to people here.
"Career or."
Yoshihiko is blurry while walking to drag the bottom of the shoes sneakers. It is a dreamlike dream for me who can not even reemploy it properly.
Baseball which I continued from elementary school has dreamed of entering Koshien at the third most position in high school only once, but it ended in the first round after all.
Then proceeded with recommendation to a university with a baseball club, and luckily from a company with a strong team of professional baseball team at a university.
Up to this point, there was no dramatic development, but it was a smooth life as it was.
However, shortly after joining, Yoshihiko was forced to undergo surgery due to the meniscus of the right knee hurt by contact with his teammate during practice.
Moreover, at the same time, due to the management deterioration of the company, it was decided to abolish the baseball club in this season without heartlessness.
"Unhappiness will overlap ..."
Recalling that time, Yoshihiko learns a dull pain like aching in her right knee.
After three days of hospitalization including surgery, when I returned with crutches, Yoshihiko's place where I was there was not a thing of well-being.