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“Why were you checking out my mother’s … birthmarks, braid-boy?”

Lord Inari knows his mother will have that mark clearly visible, and we have seen recently that Yuki considers it an important identifying mark. That it was hard to not notice is a further indication that it was really her.

I freaking called it that she was Inari, so many details demanded it.

Or wait, got over excited, so Yuki is Inari’s mom.
Also time skip to afterwards why? Yuki just left the fake alone, and this guy wasn’t told off or reigned in?

My guess is that Yuki WAS Inari in the past, but when her job required her to move to the Celestial Realm, her son had to take over the role

Inari is usually depicted as female in IRL mythology

Not quite “usually”. Inari’s depictions IRL have varied enough over the centuries that it’s functionally become part of the kami’s identity. In modern terms, Inari is treated as gender fluid, being either male, female, or androgynous as the whim strikes them.

Okay, so in actual Japanese mythology, Inari is usually depicted as female, yet this person appears to be male

So my guess is that Yuki is actually the original Inari, and her son took over the role when she moved up the celestial hierarchy

This would also explain how Yuki immediately knew the patron wasn’t the real Amaterasu, as Inari, Yuki would personally work for her

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