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Tenjin agreed to send Yato and Yukine up to Takamagahara to confront Bishamon
for taking Hiyori hostage on the condition that afterwards Yato would sever
ties with Hiyori.

[![Tenjin's conditions for sending Yato up to
Takamagahara](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HFlSg.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HFlSg.jpg)

In Episode 6, when he returns, Tenjin brings it up and he wields Sekki to cut
ties with her but she keeps refusing. However, it never shows him actually
severing ties with her. Regardless of that, I don't think Tenjin would allow
him to break his agreement. Later on in the episode, Tenjin and Tomone see
Yato chasing after Hiyori and Tomone says, "It seems they haven't severed
their ties at all."

[![Tenjin and
Tomone](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZbyrS.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZbyrS.jpg)

Now, I'm sure that they said when a God severs ties with someone from the Near
Shore they lose all memories of that person. It seems like Yato is frantically
trying to get her to know him again, and she seems a little more distant than
before. So, it definitely seems possible that he did sever his ties to her but
then relentlessly harassed her to get her to know him again as sort of a
loophole to his agreement with Tenjin. However, if that was the case, I don't
understand why she would have remembered Yato was the one who helped her
classmate when her classmate approached her later.

[![Hiyori saying it was Yato who helped
him](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QNt4J.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QNt4J.jpg)

So were her ties severed or not? If they were, how could she remember these
details from the past about Yato?


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Did Yato cut Hiyori's ties to the Far-Shore in episode 6 of Aragoto?


I found the perfect answer to this question on
[Reddi](https://www.reddit.com/r/Noragami/comments/3sq0w6/did_yato_just_sever_his_ties_in_episode_7/)t:

> **It's supposed to look ambiguous, but if he had, Hiyori probably wouldn't
> have even seen him in the first place, let alone remember who he is. Plus,
> she runs away from him in her spirit form and even has a conversation with
> him afterwards when she looks for him to tell him to back off. Tenjin also
> confirms that he didn't go through with it.** I think that part is better
> played in the manga - we really had to wait for the answer, since they
> changed some of the order of what happens in the anime and the reason Hiyori
> gets annoyed with Yato as well. If you'd like to see how it goes in the
> manga: Ch.22 P.31 - P.33, then Ch.22 P.38 - P.42, and finally Ch.23 P.43 -
> Ch.24 P.7.

I haven't read the manga myself but based on the anime, I can say that Tenjin
allowed Yato to break his promise since it was Hiyori's own wish to remain
with him.

The last and foremost evidence of her ties not being cut to the far shore is
the fact that she can still turn into her spirit form (with the tail).

**In conclusion: If he had indeed cut the ties, she would have returned to
being a normal human who:**

  * **Would have been unable to convert to her spirit form**
  * **Would have lost all her memories of Yato**
  * **Would not have been able to see Yato**

None of the above happened, so luckily, Tenjin let the promise slide.


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