Volume 16 Chapter 7, More Title Holders?

The two wolves that came to the Administration Floor decided to go to a different Floor in the future.

They haven’t decided if that would be a Floor for the existing wolves aside from the 81st Floor, or a completely new Floor.

Whichever it was going to be, it would be after the Golems were created.

When moving them to an existing Floor, the number of people that needed to be taken care of would increase.

If they were moved to a different Floor, they would summon new wolves.

Since it was still a long way off, they were sent back to the 81st Floor, where they were before.

For the time being, they had not decided if the king and queen would be separated yet.

If it was just the name of the race that changed, it would have been fine, but if they were actually a king and queen, there was no option of separating them.

There was no way Kousuke could understand the mannerisms of the wolves, so he was going to check with Nana later.

The reason why Kousuke said ‘later’ was simply because Nana was not around.

Thus, he went to send the two animals, the White Wolf King and the White Wolf Queen, to the 81st Floor.

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“Nevertheless… This timing is quite perfect, isn’t it?”

Collette asked.

Kousuke didn’t even bother to ask what she was referring to.

“Well, I suppose it’s because the last time something like this happened was when we went to the Shinto shrine.”

“Was it the Wind Spirit Goddesses and Earth Spirit Goddesses this time?”

“Yeah. They were. Do you know anything about them?”

He was going to ask Sylvia about it later, but if Collete knew, he wanted to hear about them.

“I don’t know much about it… They’re the Goddesses that are called Spirit Kings or Fairy Kings among the Elves.”

“I expected that to some extent, but… Are they big names by any chance?”

“Yes. There are many races other than Elves that worship Spirits.”

The beings presiding over those Spirits would be the Goddesses of Wind and Earth Spirits.

He tried to remember if there were beings like that among the Goddesses he had met in the divine realm, but he could not remember.

Firstly, at that time, they only told him their names, and only a few of them bothered to mention what they were the Goddesses of.

He didn’t particularly care about it, but it made sense.

“…Am I reading too much into this?”

Kousuke muttered, but in fact his prediction was correct.

Firstly, only the Goddesses that inhabited the realm of the Goddesses had the habit of naming themselves after their domains.

Furthermore, the name ‘Goddess of XX’ was given by the inhabitants of Earthgard, not by the Goddesses themselves.

Therefore, in the divine realm, it was possible that only their original names were used, so they rarely mentioned their divine names.

It would take a bit longer for Kousuke to learn of these circumstances.

“Well, okay. More importantly, if Kousuke and the Goddesses can increase the number of dependents with titles just by meeting them, then the number of dependents with titles from Goddesses will continue to increase.”

The situation was about to get outrageous simply by imagining it.

“… If possible, I don’t want to think about it too much.”

While Kousuke welcomed the idea of his dependents becoming stronger, it was only fine to think about it inside the Tower as there was no telling what would happen if word got out about his dependents holding titles.

It was going to get more troublesome no matter what he decided to do.

Kousuke also didn’t think that he could keep the existence of his dependents of the Tower hidden forever.

The reason for this was simple: there were people who maintained Towers in continents other than the Central Continent.

He did not think that only the Towers in the Central Continent had the ability to summon dependents.

In fact, he believed that it was natural for the other Towers to be able to summon them.

For now, foreign attention would be focused on the city of the 5th Floor, but they would eventually turn their attention to the rest of the dependents.

He didn’t have to think about what would happen if it became known that there were many people with titles from the Goddesses.

It would not be a pleasant situation by any stretch of the imagination.

“That’s fine, but… Can we stop it?”

Collete pushed him, and Kousuke became reluctant.

No matter how he looked at it, Kousuke didn’t think he could stop the Goddesses’ actions.

He knew why they were giving blessings to Kousuke’s dependents in the first place.

He could imagine that it was an expression of their desire to maintain a connection to this world.

If Kousuke were in the same position, he would do the same thing, so he could not complain about it.

In a way, it was one of the jobs of a Goddess, so he was not going to stop it, nor would he be able to stop it.

“It will be impossible for me… If I tell them that I absolutely hate it, they’ll stop, but it’s not like I hate it all that much. I’d rather not bother because I know what’s going on, and can empathize with them. So, I’m not going to stop them.”

“Are you okay with this, then?”

“…Yup.”

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As Kousuke crossed his arms and pondered, Sylvia suddenly interrupted him.

She returned after finishing her Tower Administration and was listening to the conversation from the middle.

“I think it would be better if it became known that there was someone with a title given by a Goddess within the Tower.”

“Why do you think so?”

“Well, it’s because this is something the Churches do.”

What Sylvia was trying to convey was that the Churches were recruiting people with titles to protect them.

It was an obvious fact that temples with many people who bore titles had more power.

“Just like the Churches, huh…”

Kousuke, who didn’t have a very good perception of the Churches, let out a sigh.

“Kousuke, no. Kousuke-sama, I understand that you don’t have a good perception of the Churches, but for most ordinary people, a place of worship is necessary.”

Otherwise, religion wouldn’t have been created in history.

“I understand what you are saying, but….”

Kousuke knew the need for a temple.

As long as there were Goddesses in this world, it would be strange not to have temples.

In that sense, the fact that there were so many dependents with titles from Goddesses was an unparalleled power.

“The difference is in how Kousuke-sama uses that power. Those who hold the titles are innocent of any wrongdoing.”

“Well, that’s true. But it is also true that having that power increases the number of uninvited guests, right?”

As for Kousuke, he really didn’t want to cause more unnecessary trouble.

However, Sylvia and Collete’s faces turned into scowls when they heard that.

“Kousuke… It’s already too late for that, you know?”

“Are you telling us you don’t know?”

“What? What? What do you mean?”

Kousuke was surprised, and they both let out a sigh.

“Hey, Kousuke, haven’t you forgotten that you’re a living god?”

“I don’t think I’ve forgotten. Though, I have to admit that I don’t understand the magnitude of the impact.”

“”It’s already too late for that.””

Kousuke sank as the two of them gave him another lecture.

It wasn’t that he had forgotten, but as Sylvia had successfully guessed, Kousuke hadn’t properly understood the magnitude of the impact of becoming a living god.

This was the downside of being confined within the Tower.

“I see. I see. It’s too late for me now, is it… If that’s the case, I won’t hold back anymore.”

Looking at Kousuke’s face, which had regained its composure rather than falling apart, Collete and Sylvia had a bad premonition.

“So that’s why, I will no longer need to hold back.”

Kousuke didn’t do anything in particular.

He merely muttered that.

However, Sylvia sensed that something had indeed changed.

It wasn’t that Kousuke himself had changed, but his atmosphere had changed.

“… Did I say something I shouldn’t have?”

Seeing Kousuke’s facial expression, Collete quietly whispered to Sylvia.

“No. I’m pretty sure this would have happened sooner or later.”

“Then it’s good, isn’t it?”