It might be a good idea to take a rest today – Cleaning could be done another day, need to go out first.
The door closed on Kami-sama’s dark, gloomy room.
Breathe in –- Breathe out.
Those heavy feelings still lingered within me.
Yet Kami-sama had been lugging those around all the time.
‘ — who said he’s an [Incompetent God]?’
“……..He’s not incompetent at all.”
“That’s a given.”
“Whoa!?”
The sudden words startled me, so unwittingly shrieked.
Adoracion-sama was standing there when I whirled around.
‘D, didn’t notice him at all!’
Really, deities are bad for my heart.
My heart was pounding so bad.
Adoracion-sama’s piercing stare dealt a final blow to that heart.
Those eyes were emotionless, freezingly cold – then he spat these words at me.
“Daring to call him as incompetent god – you humans know no fear, but there’s a limit to that.”
“I, indeed, as you sa – hm? Know no fear?”
I was about to agree with Adoracion-sama, but had to stop on my tracks.
He was the deity that had been constantly taking all the filth to himself.
It was extremely rude to label him as the ‘incompetent god’, it’s true that he was awesome – but the words “know no fear” didn’t quite fit his image, like, should he be feared?
At any rate, Kami-sama would still continue to bear the burden of ‘filth’ for the sake of humans, even if they treated him like this.
‘What did that mean?’
Tilted my head in thought, when Adoracion-sama abruptly raised his hand.
He’s gathering magic on his palm!
‘Don’t tell me, Divine Punishment!? For me!?’
Guilty –- guilty as charged.
I called Kami-sama as the incompetent god, and I didn’t want to be a Saintess.
Although being a proxy saintess was already divine punishment enough for a normal saintess, though.
Or maybe it’s my fault for not greeting Adoracion-sama properly.
Adoracion-sama already vanished yesterday before I could do so. We met while I was lying down, so of course didn’t manage to do it too – not even a simple greeting.
‘Doing this to Adoracion-sama… I certainly won’t be forgiven!’
Adoracion-sama was famous for being a scary god, and he never showed any emotion towards humans.
His sense of justice was strong, and he was unrelenting in the face of evil, already knew that.
The magic on his palm was getting bigger by the second.
It’s the end – can’t move –
The next moment –
A fruit-like thing was sitting on top of his palm.
“Here, I’ll give this to you. You’ve been suffering for food, I am sure.”
“…P, please have mercy on me–– Eh?”
Huh?
I was still blinking my eyes in confusion when he threw it recklessly towards me.
Flustered, I hurriedly caught it, and it was fresh and a bit soft. Never saw this kind of fruit before.
“You can eat it as is…. Deities are forbidden to directly interact and help anyone else aside from their own saintesses but – I’m the exception.”
“T, thank you very much…?”
That’s all I managed to blurt out, while feeling the weight of the fruit on my hand.
Can’t be helped that it turned into a question.
I was still in shock for not being punished.
There was no change in the frozen expression of Adoracion-sama.
His face was still icy, his eyes glaring, his tone expressionless as ever.
But this fruit was real.
I never told him about the unsatisfying meal we had, never talked about how hungry we were and yet..
‘He’s unexpectedly kind?’
I was so perplexed, yet he didn’t even bat an eye.
He looked so unconcerned, as if he didn’t want to spare any energy on me.
“I don’t need your gratitude. That person finally ate, after so long. I should be the one to give thanks.”
“N, no, I didn’t do anything…”
“That person, he would never receive anything from the deities. Thank you.”
Adoracion-sama rejected my humble thanks outright and so explained.
I was rendered speechless, so I could only avert my eyes.
‘I didn’t do anything, really.’
For Adoracion-sama to thank me, it’s really more than what I deserved.
‘If its about the meal, anyone else would’ve done the…eh, wait – he would never receive anything from the deities?’
Did he have some kind of restriction?
The deities also laid down rules for themselves in order to limit their interactions with humans.
Adoracion-sama mentioned that ‘deities are forbidden to directly interact and help anyone else aside from their own saintesses’. That’s one of the rules, actually.
Conversations were fine, but they were forbidden to directly interfere with their divine powers, that had been handed down according to the founding myth.
Kami-sama and Adoracion-sama were both deities, but maybe they also had their restrictions.
While immersed in these thoughts, Adoracion-sama glanced at me –
My eyes met his ice cold ones.
“W, what might it be…?”
“Nothing.”
He still stared at me, not caring that I jumped from being startled.
From my head, down to my body, to my feet – as if appraising me. Then he heaved a deep sigh. How rude.
“…Your magic is feeble. You did well in resisting from being engulfed.”
“Yes…?”
Really bewildered now, but it’s not as if the deities were obligated to explain.
“If you have stronger powers, then maybe you’d be able to purify that person, and return him to his former appearance. What a pity.”
Adoracion-sama was mumbling to himself, his tone full of regret.
Suddenly, he vanished, as if he hadn’t been here from the start.
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