The Temple of Artemis(Pre-Event/Intro Thread)

[Clownpiece]

Amaterasu. The wolf woman had introduced herself with a name that chilled Somerled’s blood. The great kami who shines in heaven. He tried to maintain his polite smile, and for the most part he did, but facing a god who ranked so highly above a mere youkai like himself, it was quite a challenge. Just the fact that he was quite possibly meeting the Amaterasu almost made him want to drop to his knees and repent for everything, simply for a small hope that maybe she wouldn’t smite him into nonexistence. She may be a benevolent goddess, but facing a human-terrorizing monster such as himself may make her rethink that.

Luckily, he was quite adept at body language, which is probably what saved him from completely losing his shit externally. Internally, of course, there was no hope. His mind flitted about from one thought to another far faster than he had any time to process. Is she the real Amaterasu? Borrowing the name? What if she finds out? Does she already know? These thoughts and similar raced through him, shooting past faster and faster, until it just stopped. Pop. His mind, overloaded on worries, just gave up, and his conscious was flung out from his introspection, and allowed him to actually look.
In front of him, Amaterasu studied his face, a curious look on hers. Curious why? The monster asked himself. Was she thinking about how to best exterminate him? The great kami opened her mouth, and the spirit braced for the worst, only to have his worries completely shattered with her words.

“A Holy Grail War?” Somerled repeated once Amaterasu had finished her explanatory ramble. He wasn’t entirely sure why the hell people would start an entire war over a half-rate cup like that, but at this point he’d latch onto any topic and silently thank the great kami that she saw fit to not purify his ass then and there. “The Holy Grail isn’t really a big deal where I hail from. Lots of magical artifacts could provide infinite life, provided you could find them. Though finding them was the problem....” The monster trailed off, smile falling and thought flickering across his visage as he searched for the words he needed to explain what he was thinking. “I can’t really speak with any authority, but I do not think this concerns the War you are talking about. The only way to know is to find out, though. So I guess we’ll see if inevitability proves me wrong.” His face lifted back into a bright smile.

“Now that that’s out of the way...” Somerled immediately bent into another deep bow. “I am terribly sorry if I have been too impolite, Shiranui.” He finally succumbed to his own uncertainty of how to act around an actual god. Or rather, a god that he actually thought highly of. For all he cared, Jupiter and his merry band of assholes could go and screw themselves. And although he would prefer to apologize a lot more than this, he was worried that going any further would draw unwanted attention, and based on what the great kami had been saying, it would probably be best to avoid that.