“Hey, let’s go? If your eyes meet you can get infected by that incompetent god.”
‘What do you mean by getting infected by the incompetent god!!’
Before I could retort, they already fled away while laughing their heads off.
I didn’t manage to vent since I was left alone, so just settled with grinding my teeth in frustration, instead.
‘Yeah right, the Shrine is a place like this!’
I also studied here in the Shrine when I was aiming to become a saintess, so I know all about it.
The Shrine, the people who aspired to become a saintess –not everyone was good-hearted.
The saintess was a special existence in this country since she was the person closest to the deities and had the greatest power among the humans.
Not even the royal family could underestimate the saintess beloved by the deities. They were the ones allowed to communicate with the deities and receive blessings from them.
Thus, all the humans who sought power naturally wanted to be a saintess.
‘’It’s totally muddy! More so since this is a society of women!’
Just to be precise, there were also males saints along with the saintesses.
In fact, not all deities were male.
There were goddesses, and there were also gender-neutral deities. In the first place, my Kami-sama – just like Crail-sama, there were also those who did not have human-like forms.
Well, majority of the saintesses and candidates were still women, though.
If you got involved in power rivalry, then this world of women would turn into hell.
Dragging each other down out of spite, doing harassments, factional disputes – there’s no end to it.
The priests would also turn a blind eye, so plenty of girls already left the Shrine in tears, unable to endure.
‘Even so, I always thought that the people chosen to become saintesses possessed a pure heart.’
The prerequisites for becoming a saintess were having enough magical power to withstand the divine power of the deities, and being pure of heart.
If one couldn’t think of others and pray for mankind, then she couldn’t become a saintess – that’s what I’ve been told.
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Thanks to that, I was treated as a fool for having insufficient magic. Well, I also recognize that I didn’t have the purest personality.
I’m no stranger to bad-mouthing others and complaining. I also resent others and envy them, and if anyone wanted me to become the sacrificial pawn or scapegoat, I’d immediately refuse – I prioritized self-love, you see.
Of course, I’d get angry if other people said that to my face, though. Especially since after Amalda became a saintess, my father said ‘Amalda has a great personality, unlike this daughter of mine’ without any qualms.
My blood’s boiling when I think of that, so let’s just set it aside for now.
‘Just you wait!’
I glared at the corridor where those girls disappeared while gripping the hem of my dress.
‘That’s why I can’t live in the same room with Kami-sama!’
The me at this time naively thought that only those saintesses would do such things –
Well, at least there was one room outside the Shrine that had became cleaner somehow, so I thought –
How mistaken I was.
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