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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
The reason why Floria, Sylvia, and Peach were present at the table this time was not by chance, but each of them had their own purpose.
As for Floria, one of them was to practice being able to use <Intimidation of the Champion> against human opponents.
Karl was a completely harmless opponent to practice with, so she was able to do so without any worries.
In that sense, it can be said that Floria had already achieved her goal.
But that did not mean she could just say goodbye and leave.
The person who received the experiment was in a state of rag, but they expected it as soon as the power of the blessing was released.
“This… What in the world did you do to me?”
To those around him who did not understand what Floria had done, it seemed as if Karl had suddenly become angry, but she did not care about that.
The mysterious condition that had just occurred was assumed to have been done by Floria.
It was just a guess, but this time he was right.
But Floria, not feeling the need to bother telling him that, just shrugged her shoulders.
“So what is this about? I just don’t like it when people get angry at me all of a sudden at a table like this, you know? You see, the people around me are wondering about it, too, you know?”
Kousuke and the others, who knew what was going on, almost laughed at Floria’s words, but managed to hold back.
Incidentally, although there were people from the executive branch present, they did not know about Floria’s power.
That was why, just like the officials of the Kingdom of Gates, they had a curious look on their faces when Karl suddenly became angry.
Karl, who saw the situation for what it was, realized that what had just happened was completely directed only at him.
He knew that if he made any more noise, he would only seem even more crazy. Karl stopped saying anything in words, but his anger did not subside, and he looked at Floria with a piercing gaze.
Floria, though, was easily able to ignore his gaze.
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Ignoring Karl’s angry glare, Floria continued her story.
“So? Aside from me, the little girl, what did you mean when you spoke to Kousuke-sama, a God in presence?”
Karl sniffed as he had done before, perhaps having regained some of his composure at Floria’s words.
“I think it’s more problematic that someone who is not doing godly work is calling himself a god, as well as the fact that he calls himself a god despite being in this land, don’t you?”
“Oh, this is a strange thing to say. Isn’t it a well-known fact that it doesn’t matter whether one is a god or not, whether one is in a sanctuary or on this land? Don’t you know that as well?”
Floria gave Karl a look of blatant contempt.
Of course, she was trying to provoke Karl based on her insight into his character.
Unfortunately, at this time, he did not fall for the provocation.
“This is the Temple speaking, not me? Don’t you know that?”
On the contrary, he responded to the provocation with a provocation.
Of course, Floria would not be offended by such a thing.
“A temple…. By the way, which temple is it?”
“Hm… It’s a temple in my country, and it’s officially announced.”
Karl looked at Floria with a look that said, “What do you think?”
It was normal to pull back if provoked by what the temple was saying.
Moreover, what Karl said was true, and in fact, a temple in the Kingdom of Gates had made such an announcement.
This was not unusual.
Depending on the circumstances of the temple, they may or may not recognize a god.
Even if the actual Gods said otherwise.
It was common for a deity recognized in one temple to be unrecognized in another.
This was not to imply that the gods were not angry, but they had no direct control over such matters.
Some temples were daring to make such announcements because they knew this from experience.
Kousuke and the others knew through Sylvia that there would be such temples.
“Oh, I see, I’m sorry. I didn’t check every single thing that was said in one temple in one region.”
Karl, of course, knew about the situation on the temple side, so he didn’t go into it too deeply.
However, he did react to Floria’s “a region” comment, but did not say anything in response.
“You call our country a region? You are a barbaric continent that has no nation, and you worship a presumptuous god.”
“Well, well. Is it the temple’s opinion that you are presumptuous? If so, that’s quite a problem, don’t you think?”
“Problem? What’s the problem?”
Karl came on strong with the temple’s denial, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The conversation turned to the treatment of God, and now Sylvia came out.
“Kousuke-sama is recognized as a God, something the other gods also recognize. There are cases where the temple does not recognize him due to circumstances, but that is not relevant to the Gods, you know?”
Sylvia said, giving off a hint that she didn’t know such a thing, and started calling it presumptuous.
It was a rather harsh tone from the usual Sylvia, but unfortunately, Karl, who did not know the usual her, did not notice such a thing.
“Hmph. What do you mean, the Gods in the Divine Realm, but our temple does not?”
“You should ask your temple about that. That is none of our business.”
“Then we don’t need to treat him as a God either, do we?”
Karl said this with a look of triumph on his face.
In fact, he was not so wrong.
Although he did have to add the warning that this was not the way the temple had always done things.
But it didn’t matter to Sylvia how things had been done up to this point.
Sylvia, who had dared to direct the conversation up to this point toward Karl, suddenly turned the brunt of it towards the priestess who was standing by Karl’s side.
“Is this man’s opinion to be accepted as the opinion of your temple? Temple Director Dominic.”
Dominic, suddenly called out by name, was overly upset.
He had never made his position clear here before.
“Hey, what are you talking about?”
Sylvia let out a sigh at Dominic’s upset.
“I am in the position of Kousuke-sama’s priestess, you know? Did you not think I could at least see your name even without any tools?”
Sylvia’s words caused Dominic, who had been upset, to calm down somewhat.
He understood the logic and, to some extent, not to mention the power.
The fact that the temple did not recognize Kousuke as a god was put aside for the moment.
He regained his composure and answered the previous question.
“It is a well-known fact that we have no idea what the Gods are thinking. But we are only concerned that the young God over there is not doing his job as a god?”
“What do you mean the God is not doing his work?”
“It goes without saying. You are not even accepting the Divine Service in the Temple of the Tower, and you are not responding to the voice of the people. How can you say that you are doing God’s work?”
Sylvia was baffled by what he was saying in front of Kousuke.
“That’s funny. Since when did the temple decide what a God’s work is?”
“I’m talking in general.”
“But the Goddesses have never said they would entrust their work to a temple, and they have never descended to simply respond to what the temples have to offer. Wouldn’t your temples deny all Goddesses the right to be Goddesses?”
“That’s a change of subject. You are a God in this world, and you are in this world. Then why not respond to the voices of the people?”
Dominic said, and his expression turned to one of, “Isn’t that obvious?”
From Kousuke’s point of view, this was ridiculous.
After all, what Dominic was saying was tantamount to saying that he should respond to the voices of all people.
Not even Goddess Elisa Meir, the supreme deity, did that.
It was based on the completely self-serving logic for the Temple that if a God was on the ground, they should do so.
Dominic was not even aware of this, but he was not the only one to blame for this.
After all, there were other priests who expressed similar opinions.
In a sense, Dominic was a representative of such people.
