Novel Full Chapter 1119: Second Meeting With Srii
Chapter 1119: Second Meeting With Srii
I entered the temple grounds once again, though this time I was alone.
The kids were still here, though Millie and George were no longer here so I assume they must have already gone back to their parents.
The moment the kids saw me, they predictably ran over to me while cheering.
“Big sister! It’s the pretty big sister!”
“Hello big sister! Play?”
“Big sister, Play!!”
I waved my hands at them, “Sorry, sorry, but I’m a little busy right now… Where is Tom?”
Another kid raised his hand, “Tom went to get food for us! For dinner!”
The other kids also nodded their heads, “Big brother Tom went to work! Work to give us more bread!”
I grimaced.
That means Tom was most likely with those illegal slavers right now…
Great, Eins, please go and inform everyone about this so they don’t accidentally kill Tom thinking he was one of them… In fact, try to get him alive to also find out if there might be anyone else who was working with the illegal slavers against their will.
She didn’t exactly appear before me after I gave off those instructions mentally but I saw part of my shadow shift unnaturally so I guess she had already gone out to obey my instructions.
I nodded at the kids, “I understand… In that case, what are all of you doing?”
“We’re playing while waiting for big brother Tom! Big sister play with us?” Another girl cheered.
“Ah… Unfortunately I am a little busy now so maybe later? I need to pray inside the temple again.”
One of the kids raised his hand, “Oh! Oh! Is big sister going to use your magic to talk to the Gods again? Sister Millie told us you were doing that this morning and it was dangerous so we couldn’t watch!”
I gave the kids a serious look, “That’s right. What I’m doing is very dangerous and if anyone else were to distract me, it could become a really big problem. So could you all promise me that none of you would do that?”
“Yeeeeeess!” All of them cheered.
So cute.
The kids all promised me that they would stay outside the temple so I walked inside until I was standing in front of Srii’s statue.
Looking at it right now… It certainly wasn’t depicting her well at all despite the fact that the statue was purposefully hiding the face of which goddess it was depicting. There was a distinct lack of the feeling of cuteness coming from it since the actual goddess herself is so cute.
Anysay… I suppose the main problem now is figuring out how to talk to her… Do I just call out to her like how I do with Hiandoca?
Hmm… Srii? Can I talk to you for a moment?
…
…
Nothing happened.
As expected, it wouldn’t be this easily after all…
Does that mean I actually need to give her some kind of offering before she would manifest herself?
Do I really, really need to do that?
Just as I was wondering if I should just call Zwei to come out and help me, I felt the entire atmosphere of the temple change.
I immediately turned around to look behind me and… There she was, the goddess of Death herself leaning towards me while tilting her head in the same pose of someone who had found something interesting and was leaning forward to examine it.
“Oh, hello Srii,” I greeted her.
“Hello Aster. Have you come to marry me? Here you go~”
Something appeared out of thin air before it floated down to land in front of me.
I looked down at it before I realised that it was a marriage registration form from my old World.
How the heck… Ah… She’s a goddess, so of course finding out something like this would be easy I suppose…
“Err… I don’t think I’m ready to do that yet, Srii…” I told her, trying to reject her as softly as possible.
Srii tilted her head the other way, “Hmm… I see… I suppose I should work harder then.”
With a poof, the goddess disappeared before I could say anything else.
Eh… Eh? Wait, I didn’t even ask her what I wanted to ask yet… Srii?
She suddenly popped back into existence in front of me, “Welcome, Aster. Would you like a bath, dinner, or me?”
I stared at her after she delivered the lines that you would hear from a newlywed wife.
The only problem was that she delivered in such a deadpan voice that it felt like it was a joke instead.
She frowned, “Hmm… So the delivery needs work… I wonder why Hiandoca didn’t tell me that? Hmm… Perhaps I should have just gone with the naked apron strategy from the start instead of waiting for the third visit?”
Ughh… I should have known Hiandoca had a hand in this… Whatever, I have something else that’s more important that I want to know right now.
“Umm… Srii?”
“Yes, Aster?”
“Is it ok for me to tell others that I’ve met you and you’ve allowed me to call you by your name?”
She tilted her head, “Why not?”
“Err… I don’t know, I was scared that I might be overstepping my bounds a little by assuming too much…”
“How?”
“Like you know… It might seem like I’m using you to boast or something?”
“What’s wrong with that?” She asked, looking genuinely confused about it.
“Umm… Just out of curiosity… What would happen if someone else were to address you directly?”
“They die.”
I blinked at her, totally not expecting that straight of an answer from her after how nonchalant she had seemed about everything else.
“Erm… Could I ask why?”
“My name isn’t something that anyone can just call out casually with disrespect in mind. At least, that was what I was told to say.”
“Ah… So… You don’t actually care that others might call your name without attaching any honorifics to it outside of that reason?”
“Why would I care about something like that?”
“Err… So… Who told you to say that?”
She opened her mouth before another hand suddenly appeared and clamped over her mouth, stopping her from saying anything.
“Srii… What did we tell you about saying things that shouldn’t be said?” Hiandocca growled, the goddess appearing out of nowhere and still naked as usual.
Srii tilted her head at her and mumbled something into her palm, not looking bothered by her position of being muffled at all.
Hiandoca turned to me, “Forget whatever this idiot may have said, Aster. I’m pretty sure she does this on purpose just to piss us off sometimes…”
“Err… So she can’t tell me who told her to say that? Is there some kind of higher being or something?”
Srii managed to pull Hiandoca’s hand away from her mouth to answer, “Not at all, Aster. We are the highest beings.”
As though to contradict her words, Hiandoca slapped her hand over Srii’s mouth once more and pulled her away from me.
“Forget what she said, Aster! Forget it! This idiot’s just being an idiot again! I’ll explain everything later so forget it!”
The both of them then disappeared, leaving me standing inside an empty temple awkwardly.
A few seconds passed and Srii appeared again, though this time she was alone.
It didn’t look like anything changed with her but somehow her aura seemed a little different?
Srii tilted her head at me, “Hmm? What is different?”
Ah, she can read my mind…
I gestured vaguely at her, “I don’t know but you feel a little more… Tense? Or I guess annoyed would be a better word?”
She paused, “You can tell?”
“Err… Sort of? There’s like a different feeling about you…”
“Aster… Let’s get married.”
Not again…
She came up to me, “Is there something that you find inadequate, Aster? Which is why you are putting off our marriage?”
She’s acting like as if our marriage was a matter of time already I see…
I scratched my cheek, “Well… As I said already… It’s not you but the circumstances I’m in right now doesn’t really make marriage something that I am willing to go through at the moment… Which reminds me… You don’t mind me marrying other girls as well, right?”
“Hmm? Why would I?”
I thought she would say that…
Anyway…
“So I just want to make sure again… You have no problems with me just calling by your name even in front of other people, right?”
“Of course not, Aster. Please continue to do so and then we can get married sooner.”
I decided to ignore the second part and asked, “What about other people calling you by your name then?”
“Hmm… Hiandoca told me to tell you that you are the only one allowed to do that so don’t encourage anyone else to do that or else they might really die.”
Ah… Ok… I guess that’s all I needed to know then…
And I also have a feeling that I shouldn’t ask who might be the ones killing them…
So… Is Hiandoca going to explain about the higher beings thing or not?