"Because Aomi is very reserved," Ebisu adds on bluntly with a smile, which is enough to make Aomi laugh into his hand. Well, it's not wrong either way.

Thinking over the questions, he takes another piece of sushi in his hands. "Well, Since she was my first, it was many centuries ago. I stayed under her for a decade, which isn't that long, I suppose..." Relatively speaking. Once a shinki lives long enough, time becomes a very strange thing that they have to work on keeping an eye on. It's likely the same for gods as well. "She was reserved herself, although in a much more elegant way. The kind of person that you would expect to rule so far away from other people."

With the latest piece eaten, he points down the way they'd traveled up. "When I was named, there was a small settlement further down the mountain, as a matter of fact. They prayed to her regularly."