“Huh!? You don’t have any pride remaining huh, trying to sponge food from somebody else!!”
“What a hypocrite, aren’t you doing the same thing as what you’re blaming me for!? Saying stuff like you don’t have a place in this Shrine, aren’t you just freeloading here in Adoracion-sama’s mansion, right!?”
“That’s none of your business! The other deities are doing the same! And they have a lot of room over here! And their food is unlimited!!”
“Not only food but even lodging, huh! You’re a far worse leech than me!!”
We moved from the dining hall to the parlour.
I was holding the black tea that Lidianne brewed in one hand as I engaged in a verbal war with Lufure-sama.
The fact that he was the third highest deity already flew out of my mind.
Lidianne just turned a blind eye as I scandalously quarrelled with him, as if he was just somebody that was at the same level as me.
She continued to sip her tea elegantly while I threw a dirty look at Lufure-sama.
“You have your own magnificent mansion, in the first palace! Go back to your own place!”
“Over my dead body! Adoracion-sama’s divine aura masks mine! That hag would definitely chase after me if not for this!”
Lufure-sama hugged himself as he shuddered.
That meant the other deities were also taking refuge in this place that was brimming with Adoracion-sama’s divine aura, based on his story.
There were deities who couldn’t get along with their saintesses, and there were those who distanced themselves because they didn’t want to appear in public due to some circumstances, so aside from Lufure-sama, there were a lot of ‘guests’ who visited this place.
Again, based on Lufure-sama’s story, it was only understandable given the current situation in the Shrine.
The deities who didn’t want to do anything with humans were increasing — it made me feel strange about this, but then, those were their problems.
As for Lufure-sama, he should be more proactive, at least in my opinion.
“We experienced a lot of bad things because of your Saintess! Be more responsible and deal with her!”
“I already told you, she’s not my Saintess! I don’t want to have anything to do with that hag!!”
Lufure-sama snorted, then he roughly grabbed the tart that Lidiane prepared, and started to attack it with his fork.
I also did the same, and placed the piece that I stabbed on my mouth —
“Whoa! So delish!!!”
My anger vanished in an instant and I pressed my lips in delight.
It was sweet but not overly so, and the sourness of the berries complemented it to a T.
The tart’s dough base was crunchy when I bit it, but it crumbled into goodness inside my mouth.
It was the melt-in-the-mouth kind of tasty, and I inadvertently let out a gasp in awe.
“This is the first time I ate such a scrumptious tart!”
“I-is that so?”
Lidianne, who had been watching nonchalantly and drinking tea unruffled as we fought, suddenly answered.
“I-its not a really that great, you know. F-for it to be that delicious….”
That’s what she was saying, but she kept on sneaking furtive glances at us as we ate the tart.
That manner, that way of averting her eyes, this attitude —
“Why can’t you be honest for once. You can just say that you made it, you know.”
“As I thought!”
“She’s been practicing for a lo~ng time so she can serve this to Adoracion-sama, who’s a workaholic that works until its late. A pity that guy doesn’t notice – he’s dense, after all.”
“Lidianne will never say it on her own, so of course he’ll never know!”
She probably didn’t even ask how it tasted, based on that personality of hers.
That’s why she couldn’t help but be curious about our response — well, I was pretty sure about it.
‘I see, I get it now.’
I agreed with Lufure-sama — our quarrel just a while ago was already forgotten.
Both of us turned to look at Lidianne, and she just bit her lips without a word.
Her eyes wandered about as if trying to escape from us, and she played with her hands — however, she couldn’t endure it any longer.
She balled her fists and glared at us.
“Wha — what! Do you have any problem with that!? I never knew that you two are already acquainted!!” “That’s because I never told you.”
“I didn’t say anything, right.”
“And why on earth are you in sync during stuff like this!! Ugh!!”
She yelled with flushed cheeks, when the door of the parlour opened almost at the exact same time.
We simultaneously turned towards the door.
“—A”
Lidianne was the first one to raise her voice.
“Ah, Adoracion-sama…! This is…!”
Lidianne tried to gloss it over, or maybe it was more accurate to say that she tried to grimace in her fluster.
The lord of this mansion stood on the spot she was looking at.
Flaming scarlet hair. A well-chiselled, handsome face reminiscent of sculptures.
Adoracion-sama, who was supposed to be expressionless —
“…I’m surprised.”
He looked dumbfounded as he batted his eyes perplexedly, staring at the spectacle inside the room.
“I thought it was rare for Lidianne to invite some guests, but…”
Adoracion-sama’s gaze swept through each of us in turn —me, who was teasing Lidianne with a tart in hand, and Lufure-sama, who had been cheering, too.
And most of all, Lidianne, who was desperately trying to gloss over everything with a scowl on her beet-red face.
A slight smile appeared as naturally as possible on his face just like that.
“I never expected it would be that esteemed person’s Saintess. Are you friends now, Liddy?”
This icy cold, rigid, unforgiving deity that was feared by all said that, and he also gently smiled at Lidianne.
But.
“She’s not my friend! Please don’t randomly assume things!”
Lidianne turned her face away from Adoracion-sama and retorted. This was the moment when her tsun tsun attitude was at its peak for today.
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