Kami-sama wriggled in my arms, apparently baffled.
“…My appearance?”
He seemed really confused, then he looked down at himself — or appeared to do so as he bent his body.
He twisted to the right, then to the left, before stretching his upper body.
It was as if he was tilting his head upwards.
“Er, I’m not sure about it myself, but…is there something different with me?”
“N-no, you haven’t changed right now…!”
Kami-sama then asked me, so I was momentarily stumped for words.
He swayed uneasily, and there wasn’t any trace that he was lying as he looked up at me.
In that case —
‘Perhaps…He’s not aware about it?’
Or, was it me thinking too much about this?
I inwardly shook my head in denial of that thought.
If it was just a simple misunderstanding, then how should I explain the biscuits on top of Kami-sama’s head?
“It’s not right now, I mean, when I’m not looking — Kami-sama, did you grow taller? See, you can’t reach the shelf all this time, so how on earth did you get those biscuits?”
“Taller?…”
Kami-sama didn’t seem to get what I was saying/
He tilted his head in bewilderment with the biscuits still sitting on his head.
After a while, he mumbled as if something fell on the pit of his stomach.
“Perhaps, you’re referring to ‘this’?”
This?
I was about to ask, but Kami-sama already shook his entire body with huge movements.
He wriggled, as if shaking my hand off him, then he shrunk back once as if he was about to be crushed.
Afterward, he stretched his entire body with great gusto, as if trying his best to become taller.
“………………………”
If I were to compare it to something… he’s like a dough before being baked?
If he stretched this much, then it’s understandable, yes, he could reach that shelf and get the biscuit or tea set or whatnot.
I see, I see. So this answers all my questions, huh —
‘— as if, there’s no way that’s true!!!!!!’
How dangerous, I was about to agree, so I slapped my cheeks in a fluster.
A human’s presence is super different from a stretched out dough’s presence, right.
Not only that, this explanation doesn’t even solve the mystery of the sounds of footsteps!!
“Kami-sama!!”
So, is it true that Kami-sama doesn’t have an inkling about this?
Or, did he notice the transformation of his body, even for a slightest bit?
I vigorously stood up from the chair in order to interrogate him/
I took a step towards Kami-sama with that same momentum, when —
Not sure if I overexerted myself when I stepped down, or if the exhaustion accumulated over these past few days finally took a toll on my body — my feet didn’t land on the ground properly.
‘Ah!’
It happened faster than my inward scream
My foot slipped, then my entire body lurched forward in a great arc towards Kami-sama’s body.
It felt as if my heart was squeezed when I momentarily got suspended in the air.
I tried to brace myself for the pain, reflexively closing my eyes tightly shut, and the next instant —
“Eleanor-san!!”
The flustered voice rang beside my ear.
The pain I braced myself for didn’t come.
Instead, what I felt was the sensation of being embraced by someone who caught my fall.
It was tall, different from the body of a woman — a huge, angular, sturdy body supported me.
“I’m so glad you didn’t fall. You’ve been too hasty, right?”
My eyes snapped open when I heard that relieved voice, but the sensation also disappeared in that same instant.
The one before me was no other than the dough that had been really stretched — it was Kami-sama.
There’s no other feeling but the soft, glutinous, puffy texture.
‘But…’
“Let’s calm down, shall we? Are you alright?”
I’m NOT okay.
There’s no way I can calm down.
I could only blink while being supported by Kami-sama.
There’s a lot of things I wanna say, like, it’s definitely weird, and, what’s up with that sensation that I felt for an instant —
But all of those thoughts had already flown away from my head.
‘That’s…see here…’
Wrapped in the jiggly, puffy texture, my breath stopped.
No, no, does this mean — I’m being embraced by Kami-sama!?
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T/N: Tuesday chap! Sorry, Saturday chap will be on Monday, need to sleep T.T
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