If the problem were resolved quickly, then I would have no reason to continue staying in the team of the two protagonists. Sticking around shamelessly might easily raise suspicion, but if I decisively withdraw, I might inadvertently miss a key plot point, rendering my efforts over the past few days wasted.

"Eh?"

Faced with Yato's question, Ichijima Hiyori was slightly taken aback, then instinctively wanted to turn and survey the entire restaurant.

"Hey, don't look around at this time, what's the point? Just tell me your answer directly. Besides, haven't you been here a few times? Why do you still need to confirm?" Yato promptly stopped her attempt to cheat.

"This… it should be two, right?" Ichijima Hiyori pursed her lips, contemplated seriously for a moment, then said in a rather uncertain small voice.

She had been there a few times and did have an impression, but it wasn't clear enough to be specific about each person.

She remembered a rather quiet clerk and another who felt very gentle when smiling, but no matter how hard she thought, she couldn't recall more impressions, so she could only provide such an uncertain answer.

"Wrong, see, there are clearly four..."

Yato displayed a somewhat smug smile and pointed at the restaurant's servers, "It's just that simple. It's not that you can't see them, right? But you subconsciously ignore their existence because there's no interaction. If I hadn't asked the question, you wouldn't typically pay much attention to them..."

He shrugged, "That's just how it is. Before I spoke up, I was basically treated as a background. And after I spoke, the server suddenly realized my presence, but she didn't know what was going on, only felt absent-minded, so didn't see me or something like that..."

Gu Mo silently set down the menu in his hand, suddenly feeling that this trait seemed quite nice.

Before drawing others' attention, he would be directly overlooked; even if seen clearly, there wouldn't be undue focus, merely being treated as background... It seems to perfectly align with his current needs, possibly even solving his real-world problem of frequently disappearing for periods.

Unfortunately, this didn't seem like a skill one could learn and teach, but more like a talent unique to inhabitants of the world's crevices?

—Maybe a racial passive stemming from a unique form of existence?

Unaware of what thoughts the fake god next to him, mistakenly identified as the same kind, was pondering, Yato rested his cheek on his hand and continued to carefully advise Ichijima Hiyori, "If you didn't come out with your body today, you'd surely get the same treatment. This sort of thing, just get used to it..."

"It's easy for you to say get used to it... And I've been asking you for so long, when are you finally going to help me solve this problem?"

Ichijima Hiyori furrowed her brows unhappily, not wanting to get used to such a thing. Who knows how much trouble her current constitution has caused her; feeling constantly sleepy in daily life, wanting to sleep even during classes, enduring with sleeplessness becomes unbearable.

If she didn't hang on and directly fell asleep, she might discover her body slumped, while she stood beside watching dumbfounded... classmates and teachers were worried, and parents were uneasy, suspecting it as a sequela from the previous accident.

Indeed, that's how it was, but she still hoped to solve this issue.

"Ahem, soon, very soon..." Yato awkwardly turned his face away but still spouted the same rhetoric, "Wait until this time passes. Mainly, there have been many things recently, and without a Divine Artifact, it's inconvenient for me to act, and I can't get away during this period either."

Unable to find a suitable Undead to name in this city for the time being, and he wasn't quite suited to head out of town lately; bringing Ichijima Hiyori wasn't very realistic as she needed to attend school and had exams coming up. If he went alone without a Divine Artifact in hand, unarmed, what if attacked by Visakha?

Although since Zhao Ma's last tip-off, nothing seemed to have happened, Yato still believed in the intelligence, thinking maybe Visakha had something temporary delaying, or she's patiently waiting for a suitable moment to strike—

Once she catches his flaw, what follows will surely be an overwhelming deadly attack!

Of course, he couldn't take such a risk...

As for the Fei Artifact, he didn't really want to use it and also knew that person surely wouldn't follow him out of town. After all, when finding him before, it specifically instructed him not to run around recklessly lately, presumably at his father's request...

Yato even somewhat suspected that whatever plot or conspiracy his father had been scheming recently, was aimed at the Visakha lineage? Otherwise, it's hard to explain why as soon as Visakha made a move, he immediately knew and specifically sent Fei to assist him.

—Said to help, but it might actually be surveillance. He, as a "son," could be bait in his father's plot to catch Visakha... That is to say, perhaps Visakha's sudden desire to target him was also nudged along by him?

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