After the subsequent battle, under the continuous attrition by the four, the Human-Faced Mountain God was finally killed, its abdominal bells scattered everywhere, then turning into an ominous black mist and disappearing.
"Fin...finally...!"
When the mountain god completely disappeared, Yotsuya Miko, whose divine power and stamina were almost exhausted, collapsed onto the grass, breathing heavily.
"Hoo... I'm so hungry."
Yurikawa Hana also lay on the ground, stroking her shrunken belly, her life essence having dropped to its lowest point.
"But it's good that we won."
Zhoufang Youxi also sat on the ground without much regard for her image.
The final frantic projection consumed her limited divine power, but she was happy to have been able to help.
"Rosen, is the mountain god dead?"
Sakurajima Mai, who had reappeared from her "disappearing" state, asked.
She was the one with the least stamina consumption among the four, but her contribution was still significant.
"Not completely dead yet."
Rosen, knowing that the mountain god's body had only disappeared, informed the girls of a fact that was unlikely to make them happy.
As expected.
All the girls let out a loud "Eh?" of questioning.
After all, if they had to do it again, they wouldn't be able to fight anymore.
"But as long as its Go-shintai is shattered, the mountain god will be completely dead."
Speaking of Go-shintai.
In many shrines in the island nation, divine statues are not enshrined.
Instead, according to tradition, things like trees, mirrors, or stones are worshipped as deities.
And these worshipped trees or stones are the Go-shintai.
The mountain god was once just an ordinary evil spirit; in the past, after being sacrificed by people with a young girl, it obtained the skull of that living sacrificed girl as its "Go-shintai."
In the original work, the spiritual ability user, Mother God Takeda Mie, and the divine child, Mother Screw, tried everything they could but couldn't harm the mountain god.
In the end, it was by assisting Yotsuya Miko, letting her run into the shrine and smash the skull inside, that the mountain god here was killed.
Rosen opened the shrine's door, which was taller than a person.
Various sacrificial tools were placed in the narrow room.
And on the altar was a pale human skull covered with a red cloth.
Rosen picked it up and smashed it.
In an instant.
Everyone seemed to hear a roar of intense resentment, which then, unwillingly and fearfully, completely dissipated.
Immediately after.
Before Rosen and the four girls, a black-haired woman appeared, dressed in a miko outfit, her face covered by a white paper.
"Thank you."
After her appearance, she respectfully prostrated herself before the five people present.
"Go."
Rosen spoke.
Then the woman's spirit body began to dissipate.
But just as it was about to disappear, the nearby undead, sensing that the mountain god was dead, stirred and appeared all around.
Their twisted faces and limbs, like octopuses, brandished their claws, glaring covetously at the woman.
As the mountain god's Go-shintai, she was definitely a delicious existence for the undead.
However, the next second they melted in the Holy Light.
The woman's spirit body successfully dissipated.
Seeing this and understanding everything, the girls' mood was somewhat heavy.
After all, when they thought of how that woman was sacrificed alive and then used by the mountain god after death, aiding evil for hundreds of years, they couldn't help but feel sympathy.
But fortunately, she was dead.
"May your soul rest in peace."
These words were not spoken by Rosen.
But by Yotsuya Miko.
The other three also did the same, clasping their hands in prayer for the woman who had just passed.
A moment later.
Yotsuya Miko asked Rosen with some doubt: "Lord Rosen, where do the souls of good people go after death? In our world, after dying, is there really an afterlife?"
Rosen found it very difficult to answer with a formulaic response like people going to heaven or hell after death.
After all, in this world, he was the orthodox Christian faith holder of the life tree.
Since even he couldn't sense it, then heaven, hell, or anything similar couldn't exist.
As for the underworld.
Rosen also felt nothing.
However, it was highly probable that it also didn't exist, or that even if it did, it couldn't fulfill its duties for some reason.
After all, if the underworld truly existed, it couldn't possibly ignore the wandering undead on the ground.
Rosen shook his head.
If there was none, then he would just establish a new one from scratch.
At the same time...
In the chat group.
After seeing the Mountain God defeated and the final truth, the group members were filled with sighs.
Hell's Fubuki: "All I can say is, feudal superstition is deeply harmful!"
Saeko: "But in that era, it couldn't really be called superstition, after all, things like the undead really existed."
Magic Old Man: "Speaking of which, are the undead very common where Rosen is?"
Shepherd: "Quite a lot, like rats in a city."
I Don't Want to Eat Monsters: "It must be truly despairing for ordinary people to live there."
Shepherd: "Everything is normal at the moment, after all, the undead here are harmless as long as they don't realize you can see them, so for most people, it's still relatively safe for now."
Bad Woman: "The countless undead on the ground mean that the hell, the underworld, and other places on Rosen's side have problems, or perhaps... those places never existed to begin with."
Fallen Angel: "A bit outrageous. There are ghosts, but no heavenly realm. No wonder evil spirits dare to appear even in broad daylight."
Fallen Angel: "If there were more Mountain Gods like that just now, even if ordinary people couldn't see them, they would easily be affected, right?"
I Don't Want to Eat Monsters: "Rosen's world is in deep trouble."
Shepherd: "Why do I feel like you're all pitying me? Do you really think, with my strength, I need to be afraid of those things? *shrugs.jpg*."
As soon as he finished speaking.
More undead gradually appeared in the live stream.
They all sensed the Mountain God's disappearance and, driven by instinct, wanted to come here and get a share.
Not only that.
Just then, a sudden change occurred.
The ground suddenly began to shake.
The earthquake-like tremors made the girls show surprise, but soon, what they initially thought was an earthquake turned into a scene that left them speechless.
With two small mountains as a backdrop, a giant monster, whose size could rival the small mountains, emerged from the deep mountains.
After seeing it.
Rosen recalled that the reason the Mountain God here was worshipped, besides people praying for an end to the great drought, also had the function of "suppressing evil."