Chapter 158 – The Favors of a Divine Maiden!

“I think it would be faster for you to just read minds.”

“Oops, told you I wouldn’t do that, plus I don’t like prying into other people’s privacy.” The godly girl crossed her arms over her chest, her tone a little haughty.

“Gods aren’t omniscient.” Aoi asked the question.

“That’s just omniscience from a human perspective, as a god, there’s a lot you can’t do as well.” The Divine Maiden turned to pull over the chair with rollers on the side and directly reclined on it.

“It feels as if you’re in a bad state of mind, that’s why I’m stepping in once again, and as the rule maker, I suppose I’ve favored you more than anyone else in the world.”

“Sort of.” Aoi Natsuki did admit that, this guy was godly, but he did bring a whole new way of thinking, or worrying, to himself every time he appeared.

Aoi Natsuki’s heart at this time gradually became eased after the appearance of the godly maiden, perhaps there was a higher dimensional being present by his side, then any troubles in his lower dimensional world could be adequately resolved.

He sat back down on the side of the bed and began to talk about the strange things that had happened today, and after that he traced back to the previous days, when he met Sakurajima, he would think of Hayakawa, but when he met Hayakawa, he would think of Sakurajima… what was the matter with this sentiment?

Up to five minutes of telling, the Divine Maiden was just listening throughout, and her overall state didn’t become a bit rushed because he recounted a strange phenomenon, leaning on the back of her chair as always, her featureless face full of a shining star, and she simply couldn’t tell any of her moods at this time.

“Well, that’s just it ……”

“So do you have any solutions to tell me? I seem to be heading in the wrong direction.”

“Mistake? How do you define the word mistake, Aoi-kun?” The godly maiden asked casually in return.

Aoi Natsuki froze, then after thinking about it, she replied, “No matter which way you look at it, it feels wrong ah, it’s hard for me to feel good in my heart, and I believe that if they knew about it, they would be equally unhappy.”

“But isn’t this bitterness the bitterness of youth?” The Divine Maiden suddenly snaps.

“You ……”

“As long as you’re human, there’s no guarantee that your behavior will always be correct, and what you think is wrong is just ordinary in everyday life, and being sweet all the time isn’t an emotion, you’ve done a very good job, Arai-kun.”

Aoi Natsuki hadn’t expected her to deny this in essence, but for a moment he couldn’t think of any rebuttal.

“But didn’t you start out thinking I was moving too slowly and wishing I could speed things up a bit.”

“At that time ……” the godly maiden spoke with a noticeable pause, then continued, “I just didn’t realize you were such an interesting guy, though that said your speed of raiding is really the slowest of anyone I’ve met eh. “

“Ah! Surely I had such an encounter, all because of a match between you gods!”

“Ahahaha, yes and no, let’s see oh, according to the feedback from the other gods, the shortest person at the moment only used 12 days, while the longest person used 102 days to reach it, and you have long exceeded 180 days nowadays, and are currently at the bottom of the ranking.” The godly girl couldn’t help but cover her mouth and snicker, when her eyes looked at Aoi, she noticed that his face looked a bit angry, then she gathered her temper and sat slightly upright.

“But as far as process evaluation is concerned, you are an existence that has always been appreciated among all of us gods.”

“Process evaluation?”

“Well, in past history, whether it was people who appeared in the Celestial Kingdom, Thailand, the United States, Australia, and other regions, at the beginning of our announcement that this was a love game, they tried to do everything they could to get through immediately, and speedy passage brought with it hypocritical flattery and treacherous schemes, and at the beginning, we thought it was an interesting game experience, which is why when I first met you, I would have emphasized to you that whatever means are used, fast is the standard, and that human weakness will be exposed when the end is reached through despicable means.”

“But I didn’t expect …… you guys, really serious about love, hahaha, your ideas and thoughts cause us to pay attention, favor not just me alone, but a group of us gods, your seriousness, your upward mobility, you will think about the problem for the sake of the girls, to understand and explain. “

“You never thought of them as game characters, but real live human beings, and you have earned the favor and respect of all of us gods, so while you are suffering now, I have come and am going to explain to you that there is nothing wrong with what you are doing, that you are just caught up in going into adolescent angst, and that you are truly feeling in love.”

The godly girl stood up and took a step towards Natsuki Aoi, finally giving him a gentle hug.

The body of a god had the same sense of touch and temperature as a human, and Aoi Natsuki was still in a daze.

Jumping from one incomprehensible hoop into another even more incomprehensible one.

“……” Aoi couldn’t speak, but his impatience slowly eased with the hug.

The chest was no longer stuffy, and gradually the breathing flowed.

“Your distress stems from your kindness, the emotion inside you is not in remorse that you like two girls at the same time, but in fear that by liking two girls, you are doing them a disservice, it is a sign of your kindness, it is not a fault, in my eyes, it is a sparkle of light in you that can’t be hidden by anything.” The godly maiden came up to his ear and whispered softly to comfort him.

The efforts he had been making all along he couldn’t confide in anyone because it was against the rules of the game, only when the godly maiden appeared could he give vent to the dissatisfaction and disbelief he had been repressing, the results of having tried so many methods that couldn’t even make the favorability level rise a little bit nearly made him break down, the verbal insults from the females around him that he didn’t know, the contemptuous gazes thrown by those on the street when he was going to school, he really didn’t care about that, did he really not care about it? He does care, despite his big heart, he still gets hurt, people can really get suffocated you know!

“…… “Aoi Natsuki held her hands on her knees, and after a long time of silence, she finally nodded her head gently.

“Thank you for the enlightenment.”

“No, it doesn’t matter. ……”

“Then can you tell me what I should do in the future? I harbor such feelings always towards them ……” Natsuki Aoi put her hand to her chest.

“It’s okay, my advice is only one thing.” The divine maiden straightened up again and said gently, “Just follow your heart, treat them wholeheartedly, whether you like Hayakawa Keiko, or Sakurajima Apricot, or Takahashi Ayano, Yugi Ryuusakura, and so on, it doesn’t matter, just follow your heart, and in the end it’ll tell you the answer, don’t ever have any regrets, Aoi-kun.”

“Don’t have any regrets ……” Aoi Natsuki frowned slightly, that sounded like nonsense again, never mind, let’s just listen to it as nonsense, he followed it up with a helpless smile, but he did feel a lot better when he was spoken to like that by the godly maiden, and after a couple of seconds of silence, he nodded his head and said, “Thank you for being able to show up, I feel much better.”

“Hehehe, that’s good~ I hope you can understand me, that would definitely be a great help to you.” The godly girl giggled playfully.

Natsuki Aoi moved her body around, her mood improving and her stomach getting hungry, no, extra hungry!

“I can’t carry on, I’m going downstairs for dinner, you want to go ahead ……”

“Good! Trying to shoo away the guests are you!” The Divine Maiden crossed her arms and huffed.

“Hahaha, sorry, make yourself at home then, I’m going downstairs.”

“Well well well, you don’t want to see me, I’ll go okay.” The godly girl inclined her head, her body a little bit and turned into a little bit of stars again, “Then …… I’ll see you next time, Aoi-kun, I hope that next time, you can guess my identity oh.”

Uh-huh?

Aoi Natsuki then remembered that there is still this play, aiya, I am so stupid, it is not easy to meet a godly girl, I should have more conversations with her, listen to the clues in her tone, I am still not as thoughtful as Sakurajima na.

Shaking his head, he finally opened the unlocked door to his room, and because of the sudden surge of hunger, he only managed to hold onto the stair railing and walk to the first floor, only to realize that the lights were still on in the dining room on the first floor.

The surroundings were quiet, he touched his body and didn’t have a cell phone with him, so he didn’t know the time, he walked to the door of the dining room, the first thing he saw was Lina sitting at the dining table, Lina was sitting in a very peculiar position, because the dining room was connected to the living room, so she turned on the living room’s TV set and sat on the dining room’s chair, sitting backwards and watching the TV.

“Lina?” He shouted.

Lina stopped her swinging feet instantly and turned around with full surprise written on her face, her mouth hanging open as she quickly ran down to the ground and was about to sprint in his direction when she turned and braked again, turning back to grab the writing pad from the dining room table as well as the grease pencil, biting the tip open and scribbling down a few quick words on the pad, lighting it up in front of him.

“Dinner!”

With his hand, he kept pointing to the rice cover on the table.

Natsuki Arai understood in seconds, and with a faint smile on her face, she reached out and rubbed Lina’s little head, “Thanks ……”

Side-stepping into the dining room, he approached the dining table and reached out to lift it, three home-cooked meals still in place.

Followed closely by the sound of rushing footsteps in his ears.

Aoi Natsuki glanced sideways to find Rina trotting into the kitchen, and from his line of sight, she moved a small bench, stepped on it, picked up the rice spoon with the bowl that she had prepared long ago, and opened the rice cooker with her elbow, serving him one spoonful of rice after another.

A bowl full of it.

Drawing two chopsticks from a frame aside, she carried the steaming rice and reentered the dining room, placing it on the table before pulling him up in a chair in style, all in one move.

Aoi Natsuki’s gaze was slightly surprised, followed by a warm smile, unable to carry the hunger in his stomach, he picked up the rice and began to eat it in large mouthfuls.

On the side, Rina climbed into a chair and watched Natsuki, who was feasting on her food with a smile on her face, her eyes mesmerized into slits.

In this cozy atmosphere, Aoi Natsuki dried two big bowls in a row, and after the meal, he cleaned the dishes, then picked up Rina and prepared to go upstairs to rest.

I hadn’t thought that Lina was still shy, and come to think of it, she was in the second grade after all, not really a kid anymore.

“Sorry haha, won’t do that again.” Aoi patted Rina’s head, choosing to hold her hand as they went upstairs together.

“Humbug ……”

“Okay, okay, I promise, when I’m in a bad mood, I’ll definitely talk to Lina, let’s keep our promise, if you’re not happy, look for me, and if I’m not happy, I’ll look for Lina, okay? Good boy, now go to sleep ……”

……

Back in the room.

Now that the time was approaching ten o’clock, Aoi Natsuki’s eyes noticed the cell phone on the nightstand, turned on the electric light, bent down to get it in his hands, and when he lit up the screen, it contained many text messages from the girls.

There’s also a missed call.

“Missed call from Hetty?”

In order, respectively, at 2:45, Sakurajima sent, “Is something happening?”

2:46 p.m. Sakurajima: “Is something not going well?”

2:47, Sakurajima: “?”

6:15 p.m. Hayakawa: “Feeling better now?”

6:47pm, Ryuzuru: “Natsuki, are you not feeling well? It’s a rather confusing day, it’s easy to catch a cold if you’re not prepared, have you taken your medicine?”

7:30 p.m., Takahashi Midori: “It’s not a problem with the food, is it? Aoi, say something back when you see it.”

7:47 p.m. Ayano Takahashi: “Is everything okay?”

……

And so on and so forth in a series as long as eighteen.

The last sentence fell on “I’m going to visit you at your house?” sent by Sakurajima. , the message stopped five minutes ago, Aoi Natsuki saw it and hurriedly wrote back.

Messaged all the girls who sent messages back, as well as apologized.

Because of his own capriciousness, he had worried them.

Who knew what kind of feelings they were actually harboring in those few short words they sent, Aoi Natsuki pursed her lips and took a deep breath, the godly maiden was right, they were a great bunch of girls.

It’s important to follow your heart, treat them wholeheartedly, and return the favor.

Whatever the outcome!

Aoi Natsuki secretly made up her mind, the gloom in her heart was swept away, then she had a few more exchanges with Sakurajima and Takahashi Mito, and went to bed to lie down and rest.

……

A handful of pink and colorful tulips in a rather linear tall porcelain vase.

Not far from the porcelain vase, Ayano was propped up at her easel, her plaid bandana tying up her hair, the end of the brush in her right hand resting against her lips as she painted oils, attempting to paint for the first time in an attempt to find a hint of inspiration.

“Huh? Ayano? What are you doing?” Midu Takahashi, who had come down from the second floor, was startled by her sister in the living room.

“I’m looking for inspiration for my comic and painting canvases to get a feel for it ……”

“Ha…… that’s pretty hard work for you, I’m going out first, Auntie asked me to look after Mayo, you’re on your own for lunch today.”

“Good.”

Ayano stared blankly at the canvas paper in front of her until the sound of the door closing rang in her ears.

“……”

After a few seconds had passed, she put down the paintbrush in her hand, stood up, took a step towards the toilet, came to the mirror in front of the sink, and untied the bandana tied around her head a little bit.

DUANG.

A long purple curl cascaded down in response.

“……”

Ayano looked at her own image in the mirror for a long time.

This is bad ……