Vol 3 - Chapter 46

Volume 3 Chapter 46

‘You still plan to come here tomorrow’… he said…

“K-Kami-sama…”

Kami-sama didn’t so much as ripple this time around.

He didn’t even look as if he’s joking around, and I felt my heart squeeze painfully.

“D-did I do something bad for you to be unsatisfied with me…?”

It was scary asking this, but I couldn’t stay still without knowing anything. My voice trembled as I posed my query.

I was trying my best, but may be I did something that offended him?

Offending Kami-sama….

‘Yes, I think I did something like that.’

The realization hit me, and for an instant, I had a distant look in my eyes.

I couldn’t clearly say that I didn’t do anything. In fact, there’s a lot of stuff that could be the reason.

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In the first place, I’m just a substitute saintess, one that didn’t even possess much mana.

Even though it  couldn’t be helped if he was to say “you can return” at any time, I still did a lot of rude things to him.

I poked him even though he hated it, stretched him, and last but not the least, I even used him as a rug to seat on.

Not to mention a deity, it was definitely rude even to a mere human being.

Actually, it’s short of a miracle that Kami-sama hadn’t lost his temper all this time.

‘T-there’s nothing to do but apologize!!’

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I couldn’t refute it if he were to fire me as the saintess.

The blood drained from my face — but Kami-sama slightly shook his body in dismissal.

“Ahh, no, I’m not dissatisfied with you, Eleanor-san.”

Relief washed over me when I heard Kami-sama’s gentle words, and I sighed.

Kami-sama saw me like this. His body swelled then deflated, looking like he also sighed alongside me.

Afterward, he continued on, his voice laced with a tinge of anxiety.

“It’s just that  I thought Eleanor-san will no longer return to this room on your own volition.”

“…Me?”

“Yes.”

It didn’t make sense to me, but Kami-sama just nodded.

His voice was calm as ever, but there was a faint hint of melancholy in it.

“That Child of Light proposed to you, didn’t he? He invited you to become his Saintess. The position of being his Saintess is such a tempting offer for a human, after all.”

“Child of Light?”

It was an unfamiliar address to me, but by becoming Saintess of Light… was he referring to Lufure-sama?

Lufure-sama invited me and I will become his Saintess, so I will no longer come to Kami-sama’s room — is that it?

That’s probably why he said that. I get it now — was initially what I thought, but I realized something. I glared at Kami-sama.

“W-why does Kami-sama know about that!?”

It is true, Lufure-sama did invite me.

It happened yesterday on our way back to the lodging house after we were done explaining the matter to the priests.

He had softly murmured that to me.

‘B-but!!! There shouldn’t have been anyone there when that happened!!!!’

I didn’t do anything bad, but I felt nervous for some reason.

Kami-sama stared at me as I restlessly fidgeted, then he bitterly sighed.

“Somehow, I guess.”

Kami-sama’s body was swaying more quietly than usual.

His body seemed like it had somewhat stiffened, and the black, undulating surface reflected my face.

“It is very rare that he would show such honesty…. I can see it in the way that he looked at you.”

“………………..”

I couldn’t muster any words to retort.

For a brief moment, I just stared at Kami-sama wordlessly.

Kami-sama’s body was swaying disorderly — this body was different from that of a human.

He didn’t have a proper body, a face; he didn’t even have eyes or mouth.

There should have been no way to discern his expressions, and yet — I understood that he seemed upset, and it made me laugh at myself.

“…I’ll be back tomorrow.”

I turned to Kami-sama and said those words, a smile still lingering on my lips.

Yes, Lufure-sama did ask me, but —

“That’s only a joke for Lufure-sama. The person himself already said that, he’s just treating me as a fool in the end, hmpf!!”

I bristled at the memory of Lufure-sama’s attitude, and I snorted.

That cheeky brat, I’m so gonna make him pay! — okay, let’s set aside these pent-up grudges in the meantime.

“Besides”

I shook my head at Kami-sama who was still standing stiff.

“Even if he is serious about it, I will not become Lufure-sama’s Saintess.”

If he proposed to me back when I was aiming to become a Saintess, then I probably accepted it with in a heartbeat, and was probably over the moon about it.

But now, even if it’s not Lufure-sama, no matter who or what deity proposed to me, my answer would remain firm.

“…It’s because”

I was reluctant initially. A substitute saintess, a genuine fake saintess.

I also have a fiance, and it’s not like I have already given up on marriage.

But right now, without a doubt —

“I’m Kami-sama’s Saintess!!”

I pushed my hips back and slammed my hands on the table, and said these words to Kami-sama’s face. His stiff body visibly loosened and finally softened.

He stretched his body as if peering at me, then he slowly shook his relaxed body.

It’s as if he’s laughing.

The gently rippling figure made me gulp my breath for an instant.

The smooth, glassy black body and the surface that was became a bit enticing as light hit it —

He wasn’t supposed to be beautiful, what with that body that didn’t resemble a human in the slightest — and yet I was captivated.

“…Eleanor-san. In that case, then please, I am in your care again, from now on.” There was no trace of loneliness in his voice anymore. I slapped my cheeks in a fluster.

I shook my head in an attempt to gloss over my momentary fascination with him, then I faced him properly once again.

Then, after inhaling deeply —

“Yes!!”

I nodded energetically, and it felt as if Kami-sama’s smile deepened.

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