[Weekly Short-Short Note] A Lie Can Be a Convenience #DaiusoTemple #CreativeGhostStory

In the hometown of my seminar classmate, Y-kun, there is a temple called 'Daiuso-sama' (The Great Lie).
It is a mountain temple only about as high as a hill, but the grounds are vast. In addition to the main hall for the principal deity, Okuninushi-no-Mikoto, there are shrines for Inari and the mountain god, as well as the hall dedicated to the aforementioned Daiuso-sama.
It is said that the shrine, which originally enshrined the god of theater and performing arts, was absorbed and merged during the Meiji era's syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism.

'It seems that nowadays, it's considered a god that guides all forms of fiction, including novels, manga, and anime.'
'There really are all sorts of gods among the eight million, aren't there?'
'But if you intend to go, please be careful.'

To the professor, who looked intensely curious, Y-kun was completely serious. He had the intensity of a deeply religious elderly person from a village with old customs.

'They say that anyone who utters the words "god of swindlers" on the temple grounds becomes unable to tell a single lie.'
'That's terrifying.'

The professor, who had been laughing at first, had his face stiffen at Y-kun's following remark. He must have realized that for a teacher who also works as a writer, that would be a matter of life and death.

'Even idioms like "my legs turned to sticks" are apparently judged as lies, too.'

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After all, novelists are like experts at lying. Yes, fiction.