VOLUME 2

PART 2: YATA NO KAGAMI

Chapter 11: Personal Notes From the Yagami Sisters 2

Preparations for battle are fully complete.

Talisman Machine Gun, downloaded. Spiritual Missiles, input. Imperial Flame Shield Kagutsuchi, (1) set at Level B. Yata no Kagami, placed in state of high alert. Vulnerable factors and damaged functions, uninstalled. Heart and emotions, placed into sleep mode.

According to radar readings, if my divinity is 100, then the evil G.o.ds stationed at Konohana Sakuya Academy have divinities of 2, 4, 6, 11, 12&h.e.l.lip; I wouldn’t lose to any of these in a one-on-one fight, but things are a bit more troublesome because they’ve all teamed up. If I remember that today will be the last cleanup session, though, then things feel much easier.

The school’s closing ceremonies are in six days.

We only have one more week to be first-year high school students.

I might not be able to make it in time. I might be a G.o.d, but I was a rather bad one. After all, I couldn’t grant anybody’s prayers. But someone had sent me a prayer. Someone had wished for something from me. Or no, rather&h.e.l.lip; someone had asked me to do something as their friend.

So I would exhaust every effort.

In the distant past, I had been a doll.

I had been a doll without a will of her own.

However&h.e.l.lip; I had found a family. And maybe a friend as well. That friend was a thoughtless idiot, a mannerless girl who didn’t even understand the words that came out of her own mouth, and she was quite irritating&h.e.l.lip; but if her wish was to live a normal, average school life, and to make normal friends, then I would remove everything that stood in her path.

I didn’t want to be thanked. I was simply just happy.

I would make it so she didn’t have to shoulder too much guilt or regret. While she wasn’t looking, I would take it upon myself to work in the shadows for my own satisfaction.

I would b.l.o.o.d.y myself countless times for the sake of ‘having an average, normal life.’”

Like Pinocchio, I would cross the turbulent seas with my ridiculous desires held under my arms.

I was a G.o.d, so n.o.body else would listen to my prayers. Everything depended on my own actions.

But while a person like me with such a troublesome history wouldn’t be permitted to pray&h.e.l.lip;

If my prayers could come true, then G.o.ds above, I&h.e.l.lip;

TRANSLATOR’S NOTES

(1) Reference to a flame deity in j.a.panese folklore, famous for burning his mother to death during childbirth.