User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater ∂: Those Who Change History, chapter ∞

The following occurred long, long ago, in a time before the age of men. An age in which gods and demons roamed the earth, an age in which battles were fought with divine blades and magical curses and spells.

Witness now a tale of when the very first Kamigui slew the very first Aragami…

It had not been long since Susano’o had been expelled from Takamagahara. He had slain one of Amaterasu’s attendants in a fit of rage and destroyed her rice fields, so the other gods had exiled him from their heavenly plane so that he might come to atone for his actions and find himself.

Left to wander the lands of the earth without an aim, he came upon a small village in the province of Izumo. In this village dwelled a grieving family of kunitsukami, gods of the land, headed by a male god named Ashinazuchi. As Ashinazuchi recounted to the visiting Susano’o, a sinister serpent by the name of Yamata-no-Orochi had kidnapped seven of his eight daughters as offerings and would soon be coming for his final daughter, a goddess named Kushinada-hime.

Taking matters into his own hands, Susano’o took it upon himself to investigate this mysterious creature, but quickly found himself outmatched, for the Yamata-no-Orochi was a being which could bring even the mightiest of gods to heel. Pondering on the matter, Susano’o came up with a plan, and thus did he return to Ashinazuchi. In return for slaying the Yamata-no-Orochi, he asked Ashinazuchi for Kushinada-hime’s hand in marriage, a proposition to which all parties involved readily agreed. Transforming Kushinada-hime into a comb, Susano’o made apparent the nature of his plan.

As instructed by Susano’o, the villagers brewed eight barrels of a special sake, which he placed around the Yamata-no-Orochi’s den behind eight gates. As the beast made to drink from each barrel, Susano’o bravely severed the head that came through the gate.

Upon severing the fourth head, Susano’o is said to have found within the neck of the beast a sword, a blade of gleaming gold and seven points which seemed to offer its hilt to the awaiting god. Taking this blade in hand, Susano’o deftly severed the Yamata-no-Orochi’s fifth head, but before he could sever any more, the beast retreated, fleeing to its home deep underground, where it is said to sleep to this day…

And thus did the first Kamigui slay the first Aragami. Severing the heads of the Yamata-no-Orochi, Susano’o was able to use forging techniques heretofore unknown to forge the beast’s body into a blade suitable of dealing a decisive blow thereto, much in the manner as did the Kamigui of sixteenth-century Japan.

As for what significance this holds to our story, well… I hope that you, dear readers, will read on and find out…