Volume 18 Chapter 5, Peach Fortune Telling

In front of Kousuke, Peach was looking at the table with a serious expression on her face.

On that table were several cards.

Even Kousuke, who was not familiar with fortune-telling, knew this method of card fortune-telling.

The expression on Peach’s face was serious because she was the one doing the fortune-telling.

Even Kousuke could sense that she was nervous, as if she knew that things would not go well.

He couldn’t resist and called out to her.

“Um, Peach, if you’re that nervous, I don’t think you’re going to get anything, right?”

“Mu, I can’t~”

At Peach’s reply, which sounded like she was bloated with food, Kousuke looked at Sylvia, who was watching from the side.

Sylvia, too, had a puzzled look on her face.

Every once in a while, the other members of the group, except Kousuke, had Peach read their fortunes.

She was from a family of succubus and was known to be very accurate.

The Peach of then and the Peach of now were entirely different.

“Peach, you don’t have to be so nervous, you know?”

“I can’t, I’m too intimidated by Kousuke-san.”

“In, intimidated…!”

Kousuke, who was completely unaware, tilted his head.

In addition, Sylvia had the same strange expression on her face.

Sylvia, who was standing right next to him, did not feel anything akin to intimidation.

“When I tried to read the fortune, I felt a kind of pressure from Kousuke-san…”

Peach, who was explaining this, seemed to be unable to express what she was feeling.

Hearing this, Sylvia remembered that she had felt something similar before.

It was the first time she had received an oracle from Kousuke.

“Peach, that is Kousuke-sama’s Divine Power as a living god. Don’t try to resist it, just accept it. If you have been trained as a Miko, you should be able to do it.”

To be precise, it was also necessary to be recognized by Kousuke, but she left that out because she felt no particular explanation was necessary.

“Accept it, huh~…. Ah.”

After Peach listened to Sylvia’s words, her eyes were still and closed. Soon, a sigh escaped her mouth.

The next time Peach opened her eyes, the tension she had felt earlier was gone.

Then she stared at the card on the table.

What Peach was able to read from the card was not specifics, but something that pointed ahead.

“Instead of gaining new power, it looks like the original power will grow or develop -“

“You mean the Status indicator?”

“Hmmm. I’m not sure about that. It’s not exactly different, but it’s more like a fundamental power.”

Peach also tilted her head as she gave her answer.

“More fundamental power, huh?”

Kousuke, who was told to do so, also tilted his head.

It was Kouhi, who was listening on the side, who offered help.

“Isn’t that the <Left Eye of God>?”

“Ah! Oh, I see. That’s what it means.”

To begin with, the Status display was a power manifested through the power of <Left eye of God>.

However, it does not mean that Status display = <Left eye of God>.

Kousuke thought that the status display was an easy-to-understand display of the information obtained by <Left eye of God>.

It was based on his experience when he first manifested the power of <Left eye of God> in this world.

“So, will we be able to see something else besides the Status display?”

Peach tilted her head at this.

“Hmmm, I don’t know~? I’m not sure about that.”

“I see. That’s such a shame.”

Peach’s ambiguous answer caused Kousuke to stop going into any particular depth about it.

He thought that it was not good to force information out if it was vague and strange in the first place.

“Did you find out anything else?”

Sylvia urged Peach, who was tilting her head, to go on.

“Yes~. It looks like it will be a little while before we can do that. So it’s not right now. There are some conditions that are out there.”

“Conditions, huh?”

He did not ask specifically what they were.

Because from Peach’s answer, he didn’t seem like he would get the answer even if he asked.

As he had thought, Peach responded with uncertainty.

“Sorry~. I don’t know what the conditions are. However, it seems that it will not be far off in the future that you will achieve them.”

“Hmm. Not too far off.”

Kousuke nodded back at her answer, which was very much like fortune-telling.

“Are you planning to do anything unusual in the near future?”

Peach’s abrupt question made Kousuke look confused.

“Huh? No, there shouldn’t be anything in particular?”

“I see. I’m sure it has to do with that unusual thing you’ll be doing.”

Both Peach and Kousuke nodded their heads, but had no idea what the unusual thing was.

Kouhi again offered Kousuke help.

“Aren’t we supposed to be going to the sanctuary soon?”

He had promised to visit the sanctuary regularly, and the time was coming soon.

For Kousuke, this was already his third visit, so he was not aware of anything unusual.

However, from a general point of view, a visit to the sanctuary could be said to be unusual enough, no matter how he thought about it.

“You are going already~. So, it’s about that, then?”

At Kouhi’s words, Peach nodded.

Peach knew that Kousuke was supposed to go to the sanctuary regularly, but did not know when he was supposed to go.

From Peach’s perspective, it hadn’t been very long since his last visit, so she assumed it was still a long way off.

“So, Kousuke-sama, will you gain new powers there?”

At Sylvia’s question, Peach shook her head.

“It’s not like he gains it all of a sudden, but more like he takes a step forward or gets a hint or something like that~”

“Do you mean like gaining an opportunity?”

“Yes, yes, it’s like that~. Until then, there doesn’t seem to be any significant progress.”

Advancement or not, it was like grabbing a cloud, and since they rely on fortune-telling, there was nothing they could do about it.

Rather, it was a good thing that something concrete like what had just been said came out.

But whether going to the sanctuary was really the way forward, they didn’t know.

“Hmmm. Well, I guess I understand, or not. Anyway, does that mean that the next time I go to the sanctuary, there will be something there?”

“I guess so~.”

Every time Kousuke goes to the sanctuary, though he had only been there twice in the repatriation, he comes back with something happening, so he was hoping that this time, if possible, nothing would happen, but it seems that is not the case.

Kousuke, thinking that this time he would end up just interacting with the Goddesses, let out an involuntary sigh.

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“How was your reading?”

Sylvia asked Peach after Kousuke left.

“I want to avoid doing it again if possible.”

Peach said and looked limp.

“It’s okay. You’ll get used to it as you do it over and over again. Just being able to do divination in the first place is enough to qualify you.”

There was no way that an ordinary fortune-teller could divine Kousuke, who was a living god.

Only another deity would be able to divine Kousuke, who was essentially a deity.

If there was someone who could do it and was not a deity, it would only be someone who was recognized by Kousuke, like Peach this time.

“Will there be another fortune-telling?”

“I don’t know. I guess only God knows, don’t you think?”

They both laughed at Sylvia’s answer.