I'm Really Just a Nameless Little God

Among Japan's eight million gods, Chengsi is an obscure little deity, the kind who can't even afford to pay his divine instrument a salary. After seeing off the last of his household's divine instruments, who had quit and changed careers, he chose to sleep in his dilapidated shrine to conserve energy.

Then he woke up from a long, long nap...

Chengsi was woken by a lonely ghost who had wandered into his home, and discovered that the whole world had changed beyond recognition!!!

What is that little square everyone carries around?!

What are those monsters with four wheels that can move?!

Why do people live so high up?!

You mean humans can fly through the sky now? How is that possible!

The lonely ghost answered all the questions of the antique who had slept for hundreds of years. He was gentle and mature, and the power of his soul surpassed that of every human Chengsi had ever seen. He even remembered his life as a human.

Chengsi took him in and gave the man a lovely name: Chengyu.

From now on, he would live in this world under the name of his divine instrument.

One day, Chengsi became interested in the human world after listening to Chengyu talk about it. After hundreds of years, he finally went down the mountain again.

And he ran into a big situation almost as soon as he got there.

Staring at the human monk who looked exactly like his own Chengyu, Chengsi rubbed his chin and finally figured it out.

No wonder Chengyu still remembered his life as a human. Turns out he hadn't died at all. An outsider had merely taken over his body, leaving him unable to go home!

The deity decided to stand up for his poor little divine instrument. He popped open the monk's skull and plucked the brain flower living inside his little instrument's head right out.

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A thousand years ago, curses ran rampant and evil spirits held sway.

In the chaos of a troubled age, millions upon millions of people prayed for the gods to answer their pleas and protect the world.

Their wishes were granted. A god descended into the world.

His name was Chengsi.

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