Volume 15 Chapter 5, Consultation

It was obvious to him that there would be nothing to find.

On the other hand, if he were to hide his name and search in secret, that would be a problem in itself.

This, of course, meant that it might not be possible to find a suitable candidate.

“Hmm… I guess I’ll try summoning them.”

As Kouhi and Mitsuki had done when they summoned Shrein and Liston in the past, it was not impossible to increase the number of friends by summoning.

“Why don’t you try summoning a being who might be your kin?”

At Mitsuki’s words, Kousuke’s expression turned sullen.

“I want to avoid doing it because I can see a future that’s not going to be good…”

Summoning one’s kin means that it depends on the power of the sorcerer.

If the summoning of their kin that depends entirely on the will and power of the sorcerer was not successful, it wouldn’t end well.

By the way, the successful example was the summoning of Wahid and his friends by Kouhi and Mitsuki.

[I didn’t understand it at the time, but now that I think about it, I can’t help but feel that it was a masterstroke that they were able to get such consistent hits.]

Although Kousuke had become a God and had been told many things by the people around him, he remained basically unconvinced of his own power.

This was both a good thing and a bad thing about Kousuke.

Mitsuki and Kouhi, who had been working with him since he came to this world, understood this very well.

And how to solve it.

“Why don’t you ask for a consultation?”

“Consult? Who would I talk to?”

“You may be a God, but you’re still a young God. That narrows down the list of people you can ask, doesn’t it?”

Kousuke could tell right away that Mitsuki was speaking in a very vague way.

“That’s… Is it okay?”

“On the other hand, I don’t think there’s anyone else you can talk to about it, you know?”

It was definitely true, as they said.

“Hmm, okay. I’ll go there tomorrow.”

Mitsuki let out a sigh at Kousuke’s casual remark.

“I don’t think it’s a place you can go so casually…”

“Hahahahah…”

Kousuke gave a dry laugh to Mitsuki, who was looking at him with a scowl.

Incidentally, Kousuke immediately went out the next morning, but it was another story that the members of the group had their heads in their hands for when they heard the destination from Mitsuki.

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“Welcome!”

Kousuke suddenly appeared in his own office, and Asura greeted him with a smile.

No matter how much of a complex return circle he created, it would still take some time for him to come to the Garden of Everlasting Spring, the Garden of God.

That was why the time of his arrival was predictable.

“Hey there. Long time no see.”

“It really has been, hasn’t it? If you wanted to come, you could come over anytime.”

Kousuke smiled back at Asura, who was slightly grumpy.

“No, no matter how much you want to, you can’t come that easily, can you?”

Although the return circle itself could be activated at any time, there was still a cool-down like in games.

Of course, if he came to a special place like the Garden of Everlasting Spring, that cool-down would be longer.

Although it could be shortened depending on the level of the practitioner, the Garden of Everlasting Spring was not a place where Kousuke, as an incarnate deity, could come and go so easily.

“Well, I guess so, though…”

“…Asura?”

Asura smiled at Kousuke’s curious face.

“So? You wanted to talk to me about something, right?”

“Yeah, well. I was hoping to find a friend I could trust. I didn’t think it would be that easy to get more.”

“Actually, you don’t have anything to worry about, you can increase the number of your friends as you like.”

Kousuke was taken aback by the simple reply.

“Is it really that simple?”

“It’s not a problem. When I sent you away from here in the first place, I told you to live your life as you wish, didn’t I? Just because you became a God doesn’t change that, okay?”

Kousuke replied after a bit of a pause.

“I see.”

Kousuke had taken it as a kind of greeting, so to speak, and didn’t think it would be effective until he became a God.

“But, isn’t it pretty dangerous to be allowed to do whatever I want even after becoming a God?”

Asura chuckled at Kousuke’s comment.

“Since you have the personality to say something like that, I feel comfortable telling you.”

“Ah~… I feel like I’m being manipulated…”

“Oh, you don’t like it?”

Kousuke thought about Asura’s question for a moment and shook his head.

“No. Strangely enough, I’ve never felt bad about it.”

“…Is that so?”

Kosuke, who saw Asura’s expression when he said that, believed that she thought he would dislike it.

“Wha!?”

Kousuke couldn’t help but remove his gaze from Asura, who turned red as if in a panic.

He had forgotten that Asura could easily read Kousuke’s thoughts.

The two of them were in a somewhat delicate atmosphere, but then a helping hand came.

“Asura-sama, may I?”

The voice that came from outside the door was Elise.

“…Yes. Okay. Come in.”

Asura replied with a slight delay, and Elise entered the room with a slight tilt of her head.

When tilted her head looking at Kousuke who was somewhat stiff.

“Am I interrupting something?”

Kousuke was tempted to ask her what she meant by that, but he was afraid he would end up getting into trouble if he did, so he decided to give her a safe answer.

“Oh~. No, um… That’s not true, is it?”

He wasn’t sure if he had answered well.

“…So, Elise, are you ready to go?”

“Yeah. Of course, I am.”

“…Ready?”

Kousuke tilted his head at the exchange between the two of them.

Of course, she knew in advance that Kousuke would be coming to the Garden of Everlasting Spring.

He knew that he could do as much as he wanted to prepare, but the question was, what was he preparing for?

Asura and Elise were both smiling, and Kousuke, who had a curious expression on his face, felt a bad premonition and his face tightened.