Chapter 4: Koujin 荒神: the god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen.

Have you ever heard of the "Tsukumogami"?

Oh yes, that idea that objects, after long years, have gods or souls or the like living inside them.

That "Thing" is much like that.

They're the "Tsukumogami" that inhabit what have formally been called "warships".

But it has taken in too many human souls.

And has become not a god, but a failure.