Chapter 96 – Fight Ends and New Trouble
“………”
“Uuu~ It is really difficult to wash the mud off you know~”
The heavenly(?) mud wrestling catfight contest ended with Floria in the upper hand.
Divine power? What is that? Food? The two fighters seem to forget all their glamorous skill and grandeur as the battle turns into an unsightly catfight. They just simply smear mud and curse at each other. The level of the fight just falls down hard until the point where the two divine beings do not seem any different from normal mortal women in shuraba with each other.
Just what are these beings that are called gods?
As the match has been concluded, the two goddesses are taking a break from their fight and they are currently trying their best to clean up the mud that completely smeared their bodies.
Even after winning the fight, Floria is still stuck in her sour mood. So in order to fix her mood, Renya gallantly helps her to wipe her hair.
Floria just obediently let Renya wipes her hair but Renya could not stand the oppressing atmosphere from her silence so he tries to bring some topic up.
“Floria, it’s about time for you to release your anger”
“…… I’m not actually angry at the moment…… it just that I kind of feeling some self-hatred now”
“Why? I personally feel happy that you are getting angry because of me. I could also understand the reason why you get angry so I don’t really see any problem there, do you?”
“That’s not the problem. It is just that this is my rare chance after a long while to show my cool side to you, Renya, but it ended up with this kind of unsightly victory like this”
“…… So your self-hatred is not caused by your action but rather the context? I feel like I’m taken a loss for worrying”
But well, he really could not even compliment that battle and win as a beautiful one.
Usually, when a woman shows her ugly side like that, they would end up feeling ashamed for that. But in Floria’s case, she does not even consider that shameful.
And Renya actually thinks highly of such a personality.
Renya actually has mostly good feelings towards Floria’s rather weird personality. But even so, he still could not deeply understand how her logic works when it comes to her concept of maiden heart, jealousy, and romantic relation between man and women.
He still doesn’t know how far her tolerance is.
He still doesn’t know what would trigger her anger.
What should he bear in mind? What kind of attitude should he display?
Not to mention, Renya does not have any experience having a normal love relationship. Floria’s generosity in their relationship in a sense is stunting his growth in this part.
But then again, it is a good thing that he managed to understand how he should interact with women like Ishuteria.
Even Floria could not forgive an infidel who is indiscriminate with her targets.
As he gains a great harvest from the incident, Renya thinks that Floria does not have to feel down because of it so he gently hugs her body that feels a bit cold from the water tightly.
“Good heavens, when you said that it is fine for me to be the way I am, you are actually eager to show your cool self to me. Aren’t you going to say anything, Floria”
“…… Well, love is like that after all so it can’t be helped, can it?”
She just kept her sour expression and Renya just could not understand the meaning behind it. On the other hand, the other girls could see it. When Renya hugs Floria, their expressions become slightly softer.
In that part, it would be bad manners to disturb the moment so they would not say anything about it but the real problem is that it is not good to let Floria stay in this condition for long.
“Thank you for getting angry in the stead of the other girls. I should also be more assertive in the way I act so I don’t give you any unnecessary worry”
“You have already given her a clear refusal, right? It was just me being unable to control myself”
“But thanks to that, I have a new understanding to not easily accept seduction from strangers. And you also managed to chastise Ishuteria. See? There is nothing bad with this conclusion”
“Uu~”
Even when she knows that Renya only tried to cheer her up, Floria still could not easily swallow the bitter pill. In exchange, she turns her body around and buries her face in Renya’s chest, and starts rubbing her cheek there. She acts like a spoiled cat begging for attention.
It’s like a form of skinship communication that does not need words. Or maybe, she is just trying to gloss over her bashfulness. Whichever it is, her actions make her look endearing and it tickles Renya’s instinct to protect.
“Renya, you only act kind in situations like this. It’s not fair!”
“I treat you gently yet you still complain. I don’t even……”
“That is because you made me want to get spoiled by you. Spoiling someone rotten is MY job you know? As I am the goddess of magnanimous love and deep passion”
“If you want to spoil someone the correct way then you should also have the experience of being spoiled or you will end up losing your way. In conclusion, your complaint is rejected”
“You are a century too early to teach me about being a god~”
Cat Floria who seems to be satisfied with rubbing her cheek to Renya’s bosom seems to recover her mood and returns to her usual self.
“…… There are other people around yet you guys just ignore us all and entered a world only with the two of you present~ It is a torturous sight for someone single like me who is especially sexually frustrated~”
But there is still someone who dared to throw toxic remarks at the two couples who are showing their intimacy in public. Yes, the goddess of abundance cut in their lovey-dovey mood with a jealous tone that came deep from her heart.
Her appearance has reverted back to her previous clean and majestic self but her momentum has been dulled. Of course, everyone would feel tired after exerting themselves from the wild catfight before but it seems that the view in front of the goddess of abundance saps her strength a lot more than that.
“You other girls also~. How could you guys still act calm even in this kind of atmosphere~?”
Ishuteria whispered quietly. It seems that she could not understand why the other girls that Renya brought with him could still act normally even under such conditions.
“…… Well, even I sometimes do the same thing in front of the others as well”
“When Renya-sama grants us his attention, he rarely cares about the surrounding situation after all……”
“I also got pranked like that from time to time desu……”
“…… Oniichan…… doesn’t really care for TPO”
Hearing Ishuteria’s grumbling, Brenda and the other girls mostly react in the same way between turning their face away and or having beet red cheeks.
Looking at their reaction, Ishuteria could only let out one long sigh.
“I see, so Renya-kun is not someone who sits on top of the harem, his harem is the type where he and the harem members create a single circle where they understand each other~. So it is not weird for Floria-chan to get mad~”
“I thought I told you that I can’t do anything dishonest to my harem……”
“I’m sorry for not listening, okay~”
“I don’t see any sign of you feeling guilty from what you’ve done”
Well, Ishuteria should have experienced similar trouble before with her sexual tendency. But seeing from how she still continues on being a predator like this, Renya feels that it would be a wasted effort trying to chastise her so he just gives up.
In the first place, it is hard to say that the gods have the common sense of mortals from just peeking at a few of their myths and legends.
Leaving other matters aside, Renya then asks Ishuteria for the important thing. Which is about the corruption that happened in her territory in detail.
Although she only brings trouble to his party so far, he feels that it would be too childish to just ignore her trouble because of that. Renya doesn’t mind being looked down on as a soft and kind person because from his experience so far, ignoring stuff like demonic corruption could be a spark that triggers even bigger trouble in the future.
And that great fire of trouble that most likely would happen would end up raining down upon Renya’s group also in the end. To ignore a ‘stagnation’ that could even trouble an ancient god-like Ishuteria is nothing but a foolish move.
“Let’s see here~. You should know that there is a lake behind this castle right~?”
“I’d say rather than that, the castle is being built on an island in the middle of the lake”
Just like what Floria said, the castle is completely surrounded by water. Renya’s group also reached the castle via a bridge. The water in the waterways that runs along all over the city also comes from this lake.
“That’s right, in the bottom of the lake~ there is a stagnation that gives me a creepy feeling~. I could sometimes feel a wave of divine power~ but I can’t really tell for sure~. That kind of feeling~”
“Brenda, I suddenly have a pretty bad feeling about this”
“What a coincidence, I also feel the same”
A stagnation from where divine power could be faintly felt.
Things that could be associated with that phrase are not that many.
Again? Really? While Renya holds those impressions in mind, he waits for Ishuteria to finish.
“Currently~ That stagnation does not yet show any effects on the water~ but that stagnation~ seems to be pulsing~ or rather, I feel that it is doing something stealthily~. It also appears suddenly~ just by the time around when Renya-kun’s group ending the recent war~”
“Oniisan…… Isn’t this”
“It definitely is…… No matter how you look at it”
The timing just coincidentally matches with the end of the war.
According to Renya group’s familiarity with these kinds of events, they somehow concluded that only ‘them’ would move at such perfect timing.
“In the territory that is directly controlled by me~ some ‘thing’ just suddenly appeared and it even let out waves of divine power although it is indeed miniscule~. That sensation shocked the hell out of me just like when someone licks on your nape when you are sleeping~”
“Why did you analogized your shock with such a sultry example, you ERO goddess”
“Okay okay, Floria, calm yourself down~”
It is not clear whether Floria is still emotionally unstable or whether Ishuteria’s slow speaking manner irks her that made Floria snap again but Renya quickly calms her down and asks Ishuteria to continue on with her story.
“And then~ when I tried to check inside the water for a bit~ I found this weird black lump of mud-like thing pulsing in the bottom of the lake~”
“Okay. We have a decisive clue here”
“As we expected, is it? I don’t know if I should praise them for making their next action this quick……”
When all the evidence they heard matched with that group they are familiar with, it would be harder to deny that conclusion. Elvira let out a sigh after she said that and everyone else also acted mostly the same way as her.
Maybe it was just another operation of theirs that is running parallel to the other one or maybe it was like the emergency measures taken from their loss in the war. Who knows.
Well, no matter what the reason is, as thinking about it would be counterproductive, they could already tell the mastermind behind this incident. It would most probably be those racketeer religious organizations, the Ordough Sect. Everyone seems to be thinking about the same thing in their mind.
“Well~ of course, I also tried to purify it by myself but as I have told you before~ it was impossible for me to do it alone~. That’s when I suddenly remembered Renya-kun~. I know it’s not good but I manifest myself for a bit and ask the kingdom to help me summon you~. I have to praise Alexia-chan after this~”
“Rather than that, the root cause of why you summon me here is, in a way, is all caused by that straight-laced thunder god saying something unneeded, right? ……”
“Maybe Alberg also finds it troublesome to deal with this goddess so he uses you, a god who still actively moves around, as a scapegoat. The probability of that happened is quite high I should say”
“I don’t think that guy is someone who likes to play small tricks like that. He might be just simply telling others about his current condition in which my name would naturally come up as we have dueled before and he does not have any complex meaning behind it. But still, next time I meet him, I’ll definitely make sure he pays for what happened today. Even if he didn’t mean any harm, he still almost caused my harem to collapse after all”
He decided to take revenge on Alberg but he has to put it away for now as the pressing problem in front of him needs to be settled quickly.
It currently does not have any negative effects but as the lake’s water flows all over the capital city through the waterway, the potential disaster is dangerously high.
There is a high risk of the black mud’s evil influence spreading all over the capital city. Renya has to act immediately to prevent it.
“Ishuteria, do I need a permit to go to the lake?”
“The shore is open to the public~ so there is no problem with that~. I will explain the situation to Alexia-chan~ so wouldn’t it be better for you to go through the castle’s back gate to reach the lake directly~”
“Understood. Then I’ll go destroy that”
“I’m sorry for troubling you~. If I do it myself and get forced to do something excessive then the divine power of the land in the kingdom would probably get exhausted and that’s would be bad~”
“Ah, I see. A territorial god’s power is literally taking roots in the land……”
Although it needs more care in management and maintenance, territorial gods could easily evoke miracles through divine powers to the land they owned. In reverse, if those gods were to exert more divine power on something else, of course, the land would be burdened with some negative effects.
“…… In a meaning, as long as it never progressed into a great holy war that will exhaust divine power, cleaning up the aftermath would be a cinch”
If Floria and Ishuteria previous battle gets heated up from just a quarrel into a full-scale war then Renya would probably fall into a situation where he has to provide Ishuteria with divine power.
Of course, Renya would take a more decent method to transfer his energy but he does not even want to imagine how the girls would reaction toward that act afterward. He has a hunch that this development would not end well so he secretly feels glad that the battle between women ended safely.
Author’s note:
Yup, the plot progression ended up with ‘that’ again just as you all expected.
And after beating her opponent, she still gives the coup de grace by flirting in front of her opponent.
Floria really has the blood of war god running on her veins.
Chapter 96 – Fight Ends and New Trouble
“………”
“Uuu~ It is really difficult to wash the mud off you know~”
The heavenly(?) mud wrestling catfight contest ended with Floria in the upper hand.
Divine power? What is that? Food? The two fighters seem to forget all their glamorous skill and grandeur as the battle turns into an unsightly catfight. They just simply smear mud and curse at each other. The level of the fight just falls down hard until the point where the two divine beings do not seem any different from normal mortal women in shuraba with each other.
Just what are these beings that are called gods?
As the match has been concluded, the two goddesses are taking a break from their fight and they are currently trying their best to clean up the mud that completely smeared their bodies.
Even after winning the fight, Floria is still stuck in her sour mood. So in order to fix her mood, Renya gallantly helps her to wipe her hair.
Floria just obediently let Renya wipes her hair but Renya could not stand the oppressing atmosphere from her silence so he tries to bring some topic up.
“Floria, it’s about time for you to release your anger”
“…… I’m not actually angry at the moment…… it just that I kind of feeling some self-hatred now”
“Why? I personally feel happy that you are getting angry because of me. I could also understand the reason why you get angry so I don’t really see any problem there, do you?”
“That’s not the problem. It is just that this is my rare chance after a long while to show my cool side to you, Renya, but it ended up with this kind of unsightly victory like this”
“…… So your self-hatred is not caused by your action but rather the context? I feel like I’m taken a loss for worrying”
But well, he really could not even compliment that battle and win as a beautiful one.
Usually, when a woman shows her ugly side like that, they would end up feeling ashamed for that. But in Floria’s case, she does not even consider that shameful.
And Renya actually thinks highly of such a personality.
Renya actually has mostly good feelings towards Floria’s rather weird personality. But even so, he still could not deeply understand how her logic works when it comes to her concept of maiden heart, jealousy, and romantic relation between man and women.
He still doesn’t know how far her tolerance is.
He still doesn’t know what would trigger her anger.
What should he bear in mind? What kind of attitude should he display?
Not to mention, Renya does not have any experience having a normal love relationship. Floria’s generosity in their relationship in a sense is stunting his growth in this part.
But then again, it is a good thing that he managed to understand how he should interact with women like Ishuteria.
Even Floria could not forgive an infidel who is indiscriminate with her targets.
As he gains a great harvest from the incident, Renya thinks that Floria does not have to feel down because of it so he gently hugs her body that feels a bit cold from the water tightly.
“Good heavens, when you said that it is fine for me to be the way I am, you are actually eager to show your cool self to me. Aren’t you going to say anything, Floria”
“…… Well, love is like that after all so it can’t be helped, can it?”
She just kept her sour expression and Renya just could not understand the meaning behind it. On the other hand, the other girls could see it. When Renya hugs Floria, their expressions become slightly softer.
In that part, it would be bad manners to disturb the moment so they would not say anything about it but the real problem is that it is not good to let Floria stay in this condition for long.
“Thank you for getting angry in the stead of the other girls. I should also be more assertive in the way I act so I don’t give you any unnecessary worry”
“You have already given her a clear refusal, right? It was just me being unable to control myself”
“But thanks to that, I have a new understanding to not easily accept seduction from strangers. And you also managed to chastise Ishuteria. See? There is nothing bad with this conclusion”
“Uu~”
Even when she knows that Renya only tried to cheer her up, Floria still could not easily swallow the bitter pill. In exchange, she turns her body around and buries her face in Renya’s chest, and starts rubbing her cheek there. She acts like a spoiled cat begging for attention.
It’s like a form of skinship communication that does not need words. Or maybe, she is just trying to gloss over her bashfulness. Whichever it is, her actions make her look endearing and it tickles Renya’s instinct to protect.
“Renya, you only act kind in situations like this. It’s not fair!”
“I treat you gently yet you still complain. I don’t even……”
“That is because you made me want to get spoiled by you. Spoiling someone rotten is MY job you know? As I am the goddess of magnanimous love and deep passion”
“If you want to spoil someone the correct way then you should also have the experience of being spoiled or you will end up losing your way. In conclusion, your complaint is rejected”
“You are a century too early to teach me about being a god~”
Cat Floria who seems to be satisfied with rubbing her cheek to Renya’s bosom seems to recover her mood and returns to her usual self.
“…… There are other people around yet you guys just ignore us all and entered a world only with the two of you present~ It is a torturous sight for someone single like me who is especially sexually frustrated~”
But there is still someone who dared to throw toxic remarks at the two couples who are showing their intimacy in public. Yes, the goddess of abundance cut in their lovey-dovey mood with a jealous tone that came deep from her heart.
Her appearance has reverted back to her previous clean and majestic self but her momentum has been dulled. Of course, everyone would feel tired after exerting themselves from the wild catfight before but it seems that the view in front of the goddess of abundance saps her strength a lot more than that.
“You other girls also~. How could you guys still act calm even in this kind of atmosphere~?”
Ishuteria whispered quietly. It seems that she could not understand why the other girls that Renya brought with him could still act normally even under such conditions.
“…… Well, even I sometimes do the same thing in front of the others as well”
“When Renya-sama grants us his attention, he rarely cares about the surrounding situation after all……”
“I also got pranked like that from time to time desu……”
“…… Oniichan…… doesn’t really care for TPO”
Hearing Ishuteria’s grumbling, Brenda and the other girls mostly react in the same way between turning their face away and or having beet red cheeks.
Looking at their reaction, Ishuteria could only let out one long sigh.
“I see, so Renya-kun is not someone who sits on top of the harem, his harem is the type where he and the harem members create a single circle where they understand each other~. So it is not weird for Floria-chan to get mad~”
“I thought I told you that I can’t do anything dishonest to my harem……”
“I’m sorry for not listening, okay~”
“I don’t see any sign of you feeling guilty from what you’ve done”
Well, Ishuteria should have experienced similar trouble before with her sexual tendency. But seeing from how she still continues on being a predator like this, Renya feels that it would be a wasted effort trying to chastise her so he just gives up.
In the first place, it is hard to say that the gods have the common sense of mortals from just peeking at a few of their myths and legends.
Leaving other matters aside, Renya then asks Ishuteria for the important thing. Which is about the corruption that happened in her territory in detail.
Although she only brings trouble to his party so far, he feels that it would be too childish to just ignore her trouble because of that. Renya doesn’t mind being looked down on as a soft and kind person because from his experience so far, ignoring stuff like demonic corruption could be a spark that triggers even bigger trouble in the future.
And that great fire of trouble that most likely would happen would end up raining down upon Renya’s group also in the end. To ignore a ‘stagnation’ that could even trouble an ancient god-like Ishuteria is nothing but a foolish move.
“Let’s see here~. You should know that there is a lake behind this castle right~?”
“I’d say rather than that, the castle is being built on an island in the middle of the lake”
Just like what Floria said, the castle is completely surrounded by water. Renya’s group also reached the castle via a bridge. The water in the waterways that runs along all over the city also comes from this lake.
“That’s right, in the bottom of the lake~ there is a stagnation that gives me a creepy feeling~. I could sometimes feel a wave of divine power~ but I can’t really tell for sure~. That kind of feeling~”
“Brenda, I suddenly have a pretty bad feeling about this”
“What a coincidence, I also feel the same”
A stagnation from where divine power could be faintly felt.
Things that could be associated with that phrase are not that many.
Again? Really? While Renya holds those impressions in mind, he waits for Ishuteria to finish.
“Currently~ That stagnation does not yet show any effects on the water~ but that stagnation~ seems to be pulsing~ or rather, I feel that it is doing something stealthily~. It also appears suddenly~ just by the time around when Renya-kun’s group ending the recent war~”
“Oniisan…… Isn’t this”
“It definitely is…… No matter how you look at it”
The timing just coincidentally matches with the end of the war.
According to Renya group’s familiarity with these kinds of events, they somehow concluded that only ‘them’ would move at such perfect timing.
“In the territory that is directly controlled by me~ some ‘thing’ just suddenly appeared and it even let out waves of divine power although it is indeed miniscule~. That sensation shocked the hell out of me just like when someone licks on your nape when you are sleeping~”
“Why did you analogized your shock with such a sultry example, you ERO goddess”
“Okay okay, Floria, calm yourself down~”
It is not clear whether Floria is still emotionally unstable or whether Ishuteria’s slow speaking manner irks her that made Floria snap again but Renya quickly calms her down and asks Ishuteria to continue on with her story.
“And then~ when I tried to check inside the water for a bit~ I found this weird black lump of mud-like thing pulsing in the bottom of the lake~”
“Okay. We have a decisive clue here”
“As we expected, is it? I don’t know if I should praise them for making their next action this quick……”
When all the evidence they heard matched with that group they are familiar with, it would be harder to deny that conclusion. Elvira let out a sigh after she said that and everyone else also acted mostly the same way as her.
Maybe it was just another operation of theirs that is running parallel to the other one or maybe it was like the emergency measures taken from their loss in the war. Who knows.
Well, no matter what the reason is, as thinking about it would be counterproductive, they could already tell the mastermind behind this incident. It would most probably be those racketeer religious organizations, the Ordough Sect. Everyone seems to be thinking about the same thing in their mind.
“Well~ of course, I also tried to purify it by myself but as I have told you before~ it was impossible for me to do it alone~. That’s when I suddenly remembered Renya-kun~. I know it’s not good but I manifest myself for a bit and ask the kingdom to help me summon you~. I have to praise Alexia-chan after this~”
“Rather than that, the root cause of why you summon me here is, in a way, is all caused by that straight-laced thunder god saying something unneeded, right? ……”
“Maybe Alberg also finds it troublesome to deal with this goddess so he uses you, a god who still actively moves around, as a scapegoat. The probability of that happened is quite high I should say”
“I don’t think that guy is someone who likes to play small tricks like that. He might be just simply telling others about his current condition in which my name would naturally come up as we have dueled before and he does not have any complex meaning behind it. But still, next time I meet him, I’ll definitely make sure he pays for what happened today. Even if he didn’t mean any harm, he still almost caused my harem to collapse after all”
He decided to take revenge on Alberg but he has to put it away for now as the pressing problem in front of him needs to be settled quickly.
It currently does not have any negative effects but as the lake’s water flows all over the capital city through the waterway, the potential disaster is dangerously high.
There is a high risk of the black mud’s evil influence spreading all over the capital city. Renya has to act immediately to prevent it.
“Ishuteria, do I need a permit to go to the lake?”
“The shore is open to the public~ so there is no problem with that~. I will explain the situation to Alexia-chan~ so wouldn’t it be better for you to go through the castle’s back gate to reach the lake directly~”
“Understood. Then I’ll go destroy that”
“I’m sorry for troubling you~. If I do it myself and get forced to do something excessive then the divine power of the land in the kingdom would probably get exhausted and that’s would be bad~”
“Ah, I see. A territorial god’s power is literally taking roots in the land……”
Although it needs more care in management and maintenance, territorial gods could easily evoke miracles through divine powers to the land they owned. In reverse, if those gods were to exert more divine power on something else, of course, the land would be burdened with some negative effects.
“…… In a meaning, as long as it never progressed into a great holy war that will exhaust divine power, cleaning up the aftermath would be a cinch”
If Floria and Ishuteria previous battle gets heated up from just a quarrel into a full-scale war then Renya would probably fall into a situation where he has to provide Ishuteria with divine power.
Of course, Renya would take a more decent method to transfer his energy but he does not even want to imagine how the girls would reaction toward that act afterward. He has a hunch that this development would not end well so he secretly feels glad that the battle between women ended safely.
Author’s note:
Yup, the plot progression ended up with ‘that’ again just as you all expected.
And after beating her opponent, she still gives the coup de grace by flirting in front of her opponent.
Floria really has the blood of war god running on her veins.
