Seven Lucky Gods

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The **Seven Lucky Gods**, also called the Seven Gods of Fortune, are a group of seven deities that can be found within Heaven.

## Overview

The Seven Lucky Gods are a group of gods who presides over the world's good fortune. They also act as the heavens executioners, delivering "divine punishment" to those who dare to defile the gods.

They were originally only one god who was split into seven different beings.

## Plot

### Past

After absorbing too much misfortune and feeling betrayed by humanity, Zerofuku decided to go on a killing spree in order to punish them.

However, the first two people that he decided to kill were a mother and her child, feeling hesitant Zerofuku ended up splitting his soul into seven parts in order to stop himself from harming humanity.

After that, the legends of the Seven Lucky Gods and the Eighth Lucky God were born.

### Gods' Council

As the gods were deciding on mankind's destruction, Brunhilde took the humans' side and suggested the start of Ragnarok. The gods, seeing the suggestion as pointless, refused to take part in it, saying that it was a waste of time. However, Brunhilde taunted them, declaring that they were "chickening out". The mere suggestion that they feared direct conflict with mortals caused such anger among the gods that they decided to accept Brunhilde's proposition, if only to put her in her place.

As the most powerful member of the Seven Lucky Gods, Bishamonten was chosen to participate in Ragnarok as a representative of the gods.

### Ragnarok: Fifth Round

The Seven Lucky Gods overheard Loki and Buddha's conversation in the garden. They heard how Buddha gave the Valkyries their Völundrs through Buddha's power and how Loki deduced that he was a traitor even before Ragnarok started. After hearing the facts from the conversation, they made their appearance by singing a short tune and deciding that Buddha deserves "Heaven's punishment" for treason.

Loki stopped the Seven Lucky Gods from engaging in violence against Buddha as he intimidated them and told them that only he will kill Buddha. Kojiro Sasaki, Soji Okita, and Isami Kondo then appear before the gods on the side of Buddha to help him fight against Loki and the Seven Lucky Gods. The fight, however, is halted before it can start by the appearance of Odin and Zeus. As the Seven Lucky Gods depart from Buddha and company, Bishamonten warns him one last time.

### Ragnarok: Sixth Round

Bishamonten, Fukurokuju, Jurojin, and Daikokuten were about to visit the other Lucky Gods as they caught Göll eavesdropping on the medical ward. The Lucky Gods turned their attention towards Göll as Ebisu angrily questioned about her eavesdropping. Göll was panicking from the gods until Jack the Ripper entered the room with a teapot and cup while quoting a Shakespearean line. Then the Lucky Gods left the hospital.

Bishamonten and the Seven Lucky Gods later made their appearance in the arena on a flying boat while singing a short tune on how they will now deliver "Heaven's punishment" to Buddha. Zeus entrusted the task on Bishamonten to kill Buddha as the gods representative in the sixth round. Heimdall announced Bishamonten as the god's sixth fighter and told the other Lucky Gods that only Bishamonten can fight the sixth round. Bishamonten corrected Heimdall on how the Seven Lucky Gods were originally one god. The Seven Lucky Gods fused together into Zerofuku to fight against Buddha.

## Trivia

* Excluding Ebisu, six of the Seven Lucky Gods have originated in Indian and Chinese myths and folklore, and have later entered Japanese lore through Chinese influence starting from the 6th century AD.
* Fukurokuju was not always included in the earliest representations of the Seven in Japan. He was instead replaced by Kichijōten (goddess of fortune, beauty, and merit). He is now, however, an established member of the Seven Lucky Gods and Kichijōten is mostly no longer included.