Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 2

Adachitoka. Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 2. 2014. 149p. ISBN 978-1-61262-907-0 . Available in the Graphic Section of the library.

Still hopeful that Yato will help her exit her current existence of being neither fully human nor fully ayakashi, Hiyori continues to spend time with this minor god. Her transfer from one level of existence to the next comes when she falls asleep at the most inopportune times. Meanwhile, Yukiné, Yato’s new shinki, is young and inclined to steal, and every time he does something bad Yato feels it ten times worse.

When Yukiné fails to save a young girl from the ayakashi, Hiyori decides he needs better housing accommodations and takes him home with her. Unfortunately he does not stop his bad habits of stealing money. And just as things couldn’t possibly go wrong, Yato is located by Bishamonten, one of the goddesses of war. She wants vengeance on the god without a following, and Yato will have deploy his entire arsenal of ideas to avoid death at her hands, a situation that would complicate Hiyori’s life even further ...

The story continues in Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 3.