When there are gods who disappear and people who gain new ones or get named by those who need them, the length of time one is a shinki compared to being a friend doesn't have to always be the same. Which basically means that Gojyo is looking too far into what it means. But oh, how they met was certainly something else.

"I might have flown into that barrier she has around the temple," she says with a shrug. "I've been learning and practicing some things that I can do, so I was going through the whole Shore. So when I was about to pass over the land while in the sky..."

She makes the motion of smacking right into the surface with her hands. Hey, it's not like she was about to knock over the glass- it was still half full. "Then it turned out that she knew and seemed to be friends with the god I had at that time."