The weather was great. We left the dormitory and headed to the dining hall to get breakfast.
Mari and Sofie chatted beside me, but their words didnāt register at all as I absentmindedly listened to them. My head was filled with thoughts about what happened yesterday.
āIāmā¦ special.ā
Those words kept on repeating like a broken record in my head.
I clenched my fist, the corners of my lips turned up ā Kami-sama saidā¦he said Iām special.
āWhat does that mean? N-No, it usually doesnāt matter, rightā¦!ā
I may be like this, but Iām still a young maiden, and Kami-sama ā he actually looked like a young man if we disregard his age.
If you considered it from a normal personās point of view, then āspecialā only meant one thing.
In fact, itās serious enough that if the other person didnāt have any deeper meaning when he said that, then he would be teased for the rest of his life, and he wouldnāt be able to escape that.
āBut, thatās only if itās a normal situation, right? Do you think Kami-sama is normal ? That clothed personification of the word airhead, normal!?ā
Ah, but he didnāt wear anything at first, he was totally in the nude.
So that means heās just the word airhead personified, plain and simple.
āItās Kami-sama that weāre talking about so itās only natural if he didnāt mean anything by it. Itās not like he said those with feelings of loveā¦ Worse comes to worst, he might even say āyouāre specialā to any saintess he meets right!?ā
Besides, even after Kami-sama gave me that so-called āgood luck charmā, nothing changed.
Iād been totally mortified, but he acted like it wasnāt a big deal, like, well, like how he normally acted! He took his hand away so casually! He even made me tea as usual, and all we chatted about were trivial stuff, thatās it.
Kami-sama was acting so ānormalā that I wondered whether I was the crazy one for being bothered about it.
āS-So, maybe Iām the only one being so conscious about this, like, Kami-sama doesnāt think itās a big dealā¦?Ah, no, I mean, I-Iām not conscious of him!! Ah, but, argh!!ā
I pressed my cheeks while these thoughts swirled in my mind.
I said I wasnāt conscious and yet my cheeks were flaming.
The thought that Iām about to meet Kami-sama now sent my heart beating in a frenzy.
āAAARRGHHH! Ugh, ugh, ugh!!! How can I face Kami-sama now!!!ā
I inwardly shrieked, my hands still pressing on my cheeks. Well, at least thatās what I intended to do.
ā¦Intended, huh.
Weāre near the dining hall now, and the Shrine basked in the morning sun.
Many saintesses were here to get their breakfast too.
The street was quite busy, so when I screamed my lungs out, the people passing by looked at me quizzically.
āā¦Eleanor.ā
And most exasperated among them was no other than Mari, who was also walking with me.
A shake of her head followed by an ice cold glare ā
āItās too embarrassing being with you, so can you walk farther away from us?ā