Amaterasu/Synopsis

Volume 10 (36 - 37)
Chapter 36: Amaterasu appears behind a post where she peeks at the group composed of Hiyori, Yukine, Kofuku, and Daikoku gathered where Ebisu was executed by the Heaven's Execution Force.

Chapter 37: Hiyori notices her first and she and Yukine confront her, claiming she is one of the Execution Force and proceeds to ask her if they can help her with anything. Amaterasu answers she isn't someone worth helping and that no one knows she went to them, causing that Yukine asks what she wants and states that he is sure she is aware of what has just occurred. Amaterasu says she is and that whatever Yukine wants her to tell, but she cannot say as "Heaven is righteous and absolute. And it must never bow down or apologize to anyone, no matter what." Amaterasu tells her reason for being there (her sentence was cut off).

Later, Amaterasu is seen whispering to Kofuku's ear, who is shown gleaming to whatever the higher goddess informed her. Amaterasu disappears right after and Kofuku bows down to her. Kofuku later reveals that Amaterasu told her of the Soul Call, which they could use to summon Yato and Bishamon from Yomi back to the living realm. Amaterasu had stated that if they call Yato by his real name, "I'm sure it will make him happy."

Volume 18 (70 - 72)
Chapter 70: After Yato and Yukine are restrained by the subjugation forces, Yato requests an audience with Amaterasu, and she arrives shortly after with her three sacred treasures. She sentences Yato to death, and has Mitsurugi and Mikagami help her seal Yukine in a stone sarcophagus. Amaterasu explains that she would subject Yukine to the same fate as the Burier.

Chapter 71: At Tenjin's request, Amaterasu performs a Trial by Pledge. She explains some of the rules before divining between Tsuyu, representing the rebels, and Mitsurugi, representing the Heavens. The first trial determines Heaven to be in the right. She asks if anyone will step forward for the second trial. She divines again between Kunimi, representing the rebels, and Mitama, representing the Heavens. The trial ends in favor of the rebels, and Amaterasu appears surprised. She asks for a third god to offer up their guidepost. When Daikoku falls forward in his vessel form, Amaterasu calls his name to summon him. She begins the divination between Daikoku, representing the rebels, and Mikagami, representing Heaven.

Chapter 72: The third trial deems Heaven to be in the wrong, which Amaterasu declares with a strained expression. She asks the rebels to step forward, and absolves Yato and Yukine, releasing the latter from the sarcophagus.

Volume 20 (76)
Chapter 76: Amaterasu sits behind a screen while her three sacred treasures interrogate Yato about the Crafter. She becomes angered when Yato confirms that Father had returned from Yomi, saying that such a deed could not be allowed. She believes that humans doing so removes the need for gods, who invite mortals to their death. Yato assures her that he will kill Father.

Volume 24 (92 - 93, 95)
Chapter 92: Much to Father's shock, Yato says that he intends to kill him before Amaterasu arrives.

Chapter 93: Amaterasu speaks to four gods of combat who are shrouded in divine cloaks. She tells them to kill the Crafter without using their shinki, and gives them permission to invoke their aramitama natures.

Chapter 95: After sending off the Ooharai participants to make their rounds, Amaterasu prepares herself and the other four gods of combat to begin the raid against the Crafter. She notices a thread is entangling her, and notes that it has been attempting to do so for a while. However, the other gods present don't see the net, and can't fathom the existence of someone who could capture her. She appears shocked at their word choice, wondering if she has done something wrong to warrant her capture. She momentarily brushes it off to inform the four gods that the Crafter is Yato's father and lifeline, but they shouldn't let that deter them since Yato wishes him dead as well.

There is discussion of Heaven's misjudgement during the Trial by Pledge, as well as the blind spots in Heaven's watchful eye that have allowed the Crafter to run free for so long.

Later, Father and Yukine flee from Yato and Kazuma. Yato shouts that Amaterasu will target Yukine as well if he leaves with Father.

Volume 25 (97 - 98)
Chapter 97: Yatagarasu rallies the injured Shinatsuhiko and Kagutsuchi to return to Amaterasu so they can protect her from the Crafter.

Meanwhile, Father and the Stray discuss how Amaterasu has found him. Father says that since her eyes are sun, she would still be able to find him even if he died, resurrected, and changed bodies. Amaterasu appears in front of the sun, and looks down at Father, who confronts her wielding Chiki and Yuuki.

When other unnamed gods arrive to protect her, she tells them that their interference would be useless, and they should leave with their shinki. The gods do not flee, and she watches on as they are engaged by Father. Father eventually addresses Amaterasu directly again, asking if she remembers him.

Chapter 98: In a flashback of Father's past, while he gazed up at the sun he lamented that the gods watched on while those in the living realm suffered. In the present, Father asks Amaterasu why she let him live and do he pleases, even though she was always watching him and was aware of his crimes. He charges her to attack with Chiki, but is intercepted by Yatagarasu. When Father eventually stabs Yatagarasu through the chest, he asks Amaterasu how she doesn't seem concerned at all while those underneath her are harmed. When Father calls himself a necessary evil, Amaterasu says he's slightly off. She tells him that the necessary one is not him. She then sentences him to death and plans to excommunicate his shinki for his crime of returning from Yomi, which she deems unpardonable. She begins forcibly revoking the Stray's names, including those given to her by Takemikazuchi and Ebisu. Just as she goes to remove the name given to her by Father, Yukine interrupts her by slapping her hand aside using the Goodness Net. She tries again to release both the name Chiki and Yuuki from the Stray and Yukine, respectively. She appears shocked when she is unable to revoke both those names, and Father assumes it is because they were named using the Word, which is infused with Izanami's spirit and would therefore be bound by the laws of Yomi rather than Heaven.

Chapter 99: Father questions Amaterasu about what she thinks of the suffering she witnesses in the mortal realm. Amaterasu listens, looking down at her hands. She's caught off guard when Father chargers her to attack, and is surprised again when Father is suddenly pierced through the chest by one of Rekki's arrows.

Amaterasu's sacred treasures ask her to fall back for her safety, and she does so. She tells Father that she's both turned and blind eye and offered help, referring to how she provided Kofuku with information about the Soul Call. She again says that people who take lives are necessary– but allowing Father to cause this much turmoil without punishment would be too permissive. She explains that the belief that only the weak die is wrong; she works to ensure that the living live and the dead die.