Inari wants to live in peace

Time passed, and it was the fall of the Ten Years of Eternal Lock.

The priests of Inari Taisha Shrine hired people who had been sent as hostages by famous people everywhere.

I was struggling with unfamiliar work at first, but by the time the seasons changed, I was able to move quite a bit.

Inari Taisha Shrine in Edo is fully staffed every day, so it's not hard to get the opportunity to gain work experience.

However, I, who call myself Inari God, basically dragged behind the sanctuary forest and rarely appeared, so I somehow asked about them as hostages on the day of the regular meeting, which was the service of the Great General Kaisei.

In a crowd of officials, I have a relaxing atmosphere with a relaxing sip of tea on a higher tatami mat.

"I've been sent as hostages, but when will the New Year's homecoming begin?"

I wake up in a teapot in front of me and instead I grab a salt pancake.

As always, Tokugawa-san looked surprised in his absence, with no words from the officials.

Eventually one of them was small and raised his hand and asked me.

"Inari, are they the priests of Inari Shrine?"

It is not a complete clergy because it employs people who have been sent as hostages.They are only casual employees and, to put it mildly, are in a position of part-time employment.

"I did not dedicate myself to God as I wished.

This is the position of the temporary staff employed by Inari Taisha Shrine. "

That's why Inari Taisha Shrine in Edo is not my home, like the Shinto, and my parents' home is separate.

"It's natural to go home to your parents even if you shift days and shifts because you're busy on New Year's Day."

What?

Officials are obviously confused by the question, but what was wrong with the current dialogue?

In Japan in the future, distant relatives come home to their parents together in Bon and New Year.

I remember it very well because the rush to go home was on the news every year.

"Whoever is offered as a hostage will never set foot in his homeland for life.

Sending a sentence and letting them know is the best thing they can do. "

"... eh?"

Regardless of the Sengoku era, now that it is peaceful, it is only natural that it should be applied as a hostage.I was so optimistic somewhere in my heart.

So this time, I was very surprised.

Current hostages build or rent houses nearby, and sometimes work in houses.It can be said that it is close to being a naive servant.

But you should be able to get permission to go home when your parents' health changes suddenly.

I learned that the habit of the world becoming peaceful is strong and that it applies all the time unless someone tries to challenge and change it.

No matter how irrational they are, people take it for granted.

"Inari God!? Are you all right?"

And then I realized that my eyes were full of tears.

"What? Oh, that? That's weird."

Honestly, I don't know why I'm crying.

But guess what, someone taken hostage will never be able to go home again.You must have felt sad from the bottom of your heart that you couldn't see your parents dying.

I used to have a family and I used to live with them.

But I can barely remember when I got a new life because I refused to practice.

Still, I have not lost my love for my family.

Because in order to establish my existence, love is absolutely necessary.

Whoever reincarnated the fox's daughter didn't put a hand on anything but the heart.

Instead, even if there is a surface feeling, the foundation has completely disappeared, but you can't help thinking about it, so it is abandoned.

Without love, people can be cruel everywhere.

No matter how many times I was drunk by the living hell of the Sengoku period, it never changed.

But that's why I overlapped the poor situation of the hostages with myself.

It was almost unconscious behavior, but I didn't care because it was the usual thing there, and I couldn't convince myself of the current situation on the spot, so I shouted loudly.

I've made up my mind!

After wiping away the tears with a cotton hand-piercing handkerchief handed over by Sakura-san, I declare without shame before the surprised and bewildered officials.

"We will remove all the Sekijo in Japan!

And take the hostages and the childish princess home to Obon and New Year's!Let's see more of our parents die! "

"Oh, that's a boulder!?"

I can also see that officials disagree.

Though united and peaceful, all of them are side by side with their former enemies.

Some forces may still be asking questions and persuading others, and there may be cases where the toll at the gate is a source of funding, and it will be imperative to take it all away.

But I didn't want to give up.

I definitely don't want to be separated from my family forever.In addition, there is not a single branch in each prefecture that restricts distribution in the future.

Now that there is no more war in the first place, betrayal is no longer necessary, and there is no need to take hostages or lives.

It also has a role in preventing the spread of the plague and the escape of designated criminals, but it doesn't suit my peaceful life.

In other words, if the profit and loss are weighed, it is concluded that it is better not to have a national office.

However, I am not familiar with history, and I do not know when the branches that exist throughout Japan have disappeared.

But I'm sure we won't need anything from now on.

Therefore, I have completely recovered, and I will clearly say the reason for going through me in order to carry out the reform of removing the customs office.

"I can't see my parents dying, I can't go home."

I don't know what I'm talking about right now.

Fortunately, however, there was neither pursuit nor opposition from the officials.

"If you look at current times, it's harmful and unprofitable to collect tolls and restrict circulation."

So I get emotionally chaotic, and I can't say what I think.

I had no choice but to take a seat in the middle of the explanation, and told her that I would leave the rest to you, and I left the room promptly between the eyes.

I think as I walk down the hallway of the main shrine.

This incomprehensible feeling will calm you down overnight.

But now that I wanted to see Tokugawa-san asexually, I shook my face in a hurry to shake off my strange desire.

Switch your mind and play with a crocodile or eat something delicious today.Then change the policy to take a bath and sleep well.

If common sense medical knowledge is spread in the future, life expectancy will be 50 years or more.

But as far as I'm concerned, I'm totally unknown and I might live to be a hundred years old.

Still, it would have come before the Edo period ended, but I felt like I would live longer than Tokugawa-san.

(I don't know how many more years I'll live, but I hate it when it gets hard to say goodbye.)

So I didn't want to be any closer to each other.

However, he is reassured of his feelings because he has a good feeling.

That's probably what I mean when I say I don't make a single cut.

For my sake, I decided that doing nothing was the most sensible way to maintain the status quo, so until one of us dies, the relationship will remain uninterrupted.

As a man and friend, you don't have to feel at ease.

Still, I don't rely a little on leaning on it when I'm lonely, but it's just about right.

(I'm a little used to the wolves instead.

If I see the death of a close man, I can't stand it.)

That's why I decided today to give in to the wolves, who are not human beings but family members.

Then, exhaling a heavy sigh, I walked to my home in the back of the forest.