Vol 3 - Chapter 36

Volume 3 Chapter 36

‘Anyway, we should wake everyone first in the meantime!!’

Kami-sama and I split and we shook the five people who collapsed.

Kami-sama was the first thing that the two underlings saw the moment they opened their eyes, so they shrieked in fright. Let’s set aside our squabble earlier for now —

The two minions and Lidianne woke up.

They were trembling because of what happened to Rozalie, and also from being exposed to the Filth, but other than that, their bodies seemed to be fine.

Lufure-sama was a deity, as expected. He already woke up on his own without our help.

He was also like how he had always been. The blackened arms had already returned to their original color even before he opened his eyes.

Rozalie was the problem.

She wouldn’t wake up no matter what. She just continued sleeping with a peaceful demeanor.

We needed to report this to the priests and have her see a doctor — and so, the underlings left to call the priests. We couldn’t leave Rozalie outside, though.

And so, I asked for help from Lidianne and Lufure-sama, and we managed to carry Rozalie to Kami-sama’s room. After that —

“In other words —”

Rozalie was lying down inside Kami-sama’s room.

We were listening to Lufure-sama’s story while waiting for the priests. I had never shown such a grim face more than I did now.

“Lufure-sama took on too much filth so he became too weak, and the reason why you were running away from Rozalie was because you couldn’t win against her magic, and you didn’t punish her, not because you wouldn’t but you couldn’t!?”

What’s more, it wasn’t true that he didn’t hold any interest in humans. Even though he was in such a predicament, he was bothered so he decided to go to the Shrine to check the situation.

He had talked to Rozalie several times, trying to persuade her to undergo rehab, but she just became increasingly impudent.

He couldn’t do anything but run away — he said.

“What a liar you are! And yet you had the nerve to act so high and mighty!?”

“Shut up, too noisy! What’s wrong with that! Nah, yeah, I know it’s wrong! Sorry for being the bad guy, blast it!”

“And why are you honestly owning that up!? I’m not saying that you’re bad! No, your attitude is bad!!”

It had been really bad when we first met, enough for me to wonder what’s up with him.

“You could’ve just told us! You said you don’t care about the humans, and yet you can’t even bring yourself to abandon us!”

“You didn’t have to rub my weakness on my face, idiot!”

Lufure-sama tsked, then he scratched his head, obviously annoyed.

“If I can abandon you, I already did ages ago! Even now, only idiots remain inside this Shrine! They just accumulate filth, and they can’t even do anything about it in the end!”

“Stop saying that! Aren’t they praiseworthy!”

“No way, they’re just a bunch of overreaching, arrogant fools! Not one of them can even do the things this person can!”

Kami-sama was trembling while trying to stop us from arguing, but Lufure-sama grabbed him while saying ‘this person’.

He kept poking him mercilessly with his fingertip, but there was a hint of reverence in his actions. Kami-sama quivered, seemingly troubled as usual.

“It’s weird that he accepted filth until he became like this! In the end, everyone is just on the brink of becoming the Evil God! Dimmit!”

“Hey! Stop touching my Kami-sama as you please!!”

I pulled Kami-sama, who shrunk his body as if trying to curl into himself, from the opposite side.

Lufure-sama shrieked when he saw Kami-sama’s body stretch.

He hurriedly gathered Kami-sama in his arms as if trying to cover and protect him against me.

“He’s not your Kami-sama! Don’t handle him so roughly!”

“I don’t want to be told that by you!!”

Lufure-sama and I stared daggers at each other with Kami-sama sandwiched between us.

Kami-sama looked so uncomfortable, his body stiff while Lufure-sama clutched his body on one side and I pulled him from the other side.

His soft, jelly skin felt a little bit hard just now.

Lufure-sama had his cheeks against mine as we was about to continue squabbling, when —

“That’s enough! Crail-sama is already troubled, can’t you see!”

Lidianne had been watching, but now she yelled at us.

She inserted herself between us and took away the troubled Kami-sama.

“It’s not even the time to be quarreling right now! Why don’t you think about how we’ll explain Rozalie’s situation and the filth to the priests!?”

I bitterly gulped my retort to Lufure-sama when I heard Lidianne’s words.

She was too reasonable.

We couldn’t even say anything in reply. Lidianne stared at us, and she heaved a sigh with a grim face.

“The filth has appeared inside the Shrine, and this is a huge problem. They’re going to trace the cause, and it’ll be a disaster if Lufure-sama’s story comes up then. If they knew that you’re staying inside Adoracion-sama’s mansion instead of your own, that could pose even more of a problem than the filth.”

‘True enough.’

The Shrine would be turned upside down if it was known that Lufure-sama avoided his own saintess and yet stayed with Lidianne, Adoracion-sama’s saintess.

The saintess was the spouse of the deity.

If we were to put this into a very crude way — it wouldn’t be odd if he was accused of adultery.

“Even if Lufure-sama explains himself, if he does it awkwardly, there might be a chance that he will be perceived as weak and be disrespected. I’m not sure how Sofie will explain the situation, but they probably don’t know the details — so, I have to properly control the damage.”

“Liddy?”

Can Liddy do it? — I wouldn’t say such boorish words.

I peered at her profile, and I could see her determination and strong sense of duty, befitting of a second rank saintess and young lady of the duke’s household.

“If we’re going to trace the origin, then Rozalie’s matter started with me. I didn’t manage to properly warn her and I just let her be.”

Her resolute eyes were clouded with regret.

She would never bow her head, but — she averted her eyes in an attempt to hide her expression from us.

She turned her eyes towards the door, looking but not seeing.

“Everything became like this in the end… Instead of being of use, all I can do is bring trouble.”

She laughed mockingly at herself.

There was a trace of bitterness in her face as she continued on —

“Maybe it’s a blessing that Adoracion-sama isn’t here in the Shrine. I’m going to take this opportunity to solve the problem and stop being a nuisance anymore…than……..”

She didn’t finish her words.

She stood dumbfounded, staring straight ahead.

The door had been thrown open — and Adoracion-sama, who was supposedly not in the Shrine now, stood there, his breathing ragged.

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