Chapter 74 (1/2)

Volume 1

Chapter 75

Ch 75 — The Companion Goddesses (Part 1)

Before Sui and I returned to to our room Fer reminded me, “Shouldn’t you be making an offering to Ninril-sama sometime soon?”

His reminder was a surprise . It’s not been a week since the previous offering but I had completely forgotten about it . Again . It might help, shameless goddess if you sent me an oracle from time to time to remind me . . . Saying that though she can get a bit shrill when she starts complaining to me telepathically about me being late with the offerings .

I opened up the Net Super and started rummaging through the menus to choose what I’d offer up this time .

“Western confectionery and Japanese sweets seem to be to her taste, so what would be good this time around . . . ?”

This world doesn’t have chocolate or other such sweets from my world . I also need to think about choosing snacks that will keep for a while . That disappointing goddess will have to wait a week after this offering before I make the next one after all .

I decided to put American chocolate-chip cookies in the Net Super’s shopping cart, about twenty packs or so . I thought that would satisfy her for a time but when I went to buy them that shrill voice which had become distressingly familiar recently echoed in my head .

“Insufficient . I want more . ” Twenty packs of chocolate-chip cookies, and you still want more?

“How much sugary food can you eat?” I enquired, a vision of a fat goddess appearing in my mind . The deplorable megami-sama was silent, for once .

OK then, what else do you want?

“Hufufufu, I was waiting for you to ask . Some of those Western-style cakes and puddings and daifuku and sweet bean jelly and, oh I absolutely must get some dorayaki and . . . ” I held up my hand, hold on hold on . That’s quite a big order to keep track of . I ticked them off on my finger . Cake and pudding, daifuku, youkan jelly and plenty of dorayaki? That’s it . . .

Right then, cake?  I chose Mont Blanc and chocolate cake and added them to the cart . Pudding, the same custard pudding and pudding a la mode as before . Daifuku, I bought two bean daifuku and two strawberry daifuku and followed up with a complete box of youkan jelly . Oh, and ‘absolutely’ dorayaki, three off . Will that do?

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“Fine, fine . Just hurry it up . ” Don’t rush me, disappointing goddess .

“Wow, no, no, no, why are you here?” The goddess said in a squeaky voice .

“Nice to meet you, other-world-guy-kun . ” A different female voice sounded in my head .

“The same, other-world-guy . ” Yet another female voice chimed in, gruffer than the previous one .

” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ” Yet another voice? Huh? What? Who?

“I saw what was going on the other day, Ninril-chan receiving delicious sweets from a different world . She was keeping it a secret from her fellow gods and goddesses to monopolise the source . Sneaky, huh? So I told everyone what she was doing, eating delicious sweets all by herself . ”

Oh, they are companions of the goddess . So the secret is out, finally .

“Don’t hide yourself away, Ninril-chan . If you are eating delicious things, please let us know . ”

“That’s right . It’s not fair if it’s only you who gets to eat such sweets . ”

” . . . . . . ” (A silent voice nodded in my head)

“Sh- sh- Shut up! Th- th- this guy, I- I gave him my blessing, it’s the only reason I get offerings and prayers from him! Th- th- that’s why it doesn’t concern you lot . ” The deplorable goddess was panicking now .

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“Ohhh, so that’s how it works? Then I will give my blessing to this other-world guy and receive offerings and prayers from him too . ” came the first voice .

“If it means I’ll get to eat something delicious then I’ll do that too . ” came the second voice .

“……Me too . ” came the silent voice . How did that work? I wondered . It’s silent but I can hear it somehow . . .

“Y- y- you can’t, you can’t you can’t you know—” Panicking, definitely .

“Oh, it’s not up to you to decide such things, Ninril-chan . ”

“Ho ho ho, true that . ”

” . . . . . . . . . . . . ”

These strange voices echo in my head, just what was going on in the world of the gods?

“I am the Earth Goddess Kishar . ” the first voice explained . “Hello again . Well, I guess you overheard our discussion just now? The Fire Goddess Agni and Water Goddess Rusalka are with me . ”

“Hello there . ” the second voice said . Fire Goddess Agni, I presume .

” . . . . . . ” Water Goddess Rusalka-sama?