Volume 21 Chapter 2, Racial Characteristics

Kousuke told Sylvia that her title had Divine Protection, and now he checked it with his right eye.

Before the DIvine Protection, Sylvia had an <Evolution Sprout>, but now that she had DIvine Protection, he was expecting to see if anything had changed.

And, as he predicted, <Evolution Sprout> changed and became <Evolution Growth>.

It was hard to understand, but perhaps it meant the evolution had started its growth process.

Still, it was a long way to go, but there was no doubt that progress had been made nonetheless.

“…Kousuke-sama?”

Sylvia called out, a bit shocked.

For a few moments, he was lost in thought right in front of Sylvia.

“Yeah, I also checked with my right eye, and there was a change.”

“Really! And in what way did it change?!”

He intended to be casual about it, but Sylvia’s reaction was so strong that he was taken aback.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I just got too excited.”

“Ah, no, it’s fine… So, there was indeed a change, but <Evolution Sprout> only turned into <Evolution Growth>.”

“<Evolution Growth>?”

“I guess the implication is that this is where the growth starts? Since the previous one only mentioned what was missing.”

Sylvia was puzzled by the ambiguous statement.

Kousuke, who was talking to her, also chuckled a bit.

“Has anything else changed since you obtained the DIvine Protection?”

“Yes, I do feel that something has changed, but… I’m not really sure about it.”

Kousuke stared at Sylvia, who tilted her head.

“Hmm. It certainly feels like my power is there, but… I don’t know how you could manifest it.”

Kousuke was also new to this, so there was no way he could give precise advice.

“But maybe, just possibly, if you can master that Divine Protection, I think something will change in the evolutionary process.”

This statement was based entirely on Kousuke’s intuition, but somehow did not feel out of place.

“I see. The first thing to do is to learn to master this power.”

“It seems strange to me, too, considering I haven’t mastered it myself.”

Neither his right eye nor his left eye was completely utilized along with his authority.

“I feel like that is all we can understand right now… I wonder what more is there to it?”

“Well, currently, I don’t know. Maybe there isn’t anything, and perhaps things won’t change as they are now. I’ve tried everything, but I don’t see any signs of change other than the evolution process.”

As for his left eye, it served no other purpose than to see status.

Thinking back, when he first came to this world and used it for the first time, he felt like he could see many things more than usual.

He couldn’t remember what he was seeing at all because he was unable to control it.

It could be possible that subconsciously, he was controlling it so that it would not run out of control, making it possible for his current use.

But he had no idea how to remove that unconscious control.

“I will go tell everyone that I have obtained DIvine Protection from Kousuke-sama.”

“Hm?”

Sylvia smiled at Kousuke, who wondered if he needed to bother telling them.

“If they knew I’m the only one with it, they’ll all be mad at me.”

“Oh, I see. Right.”

Even if only by a test that he tried to give DIvine Protection to her, and he was not expecting it to work, it wouldn’t be a good idea to keep quiet about it to everyone else, unless it was something dangerous.

“Yes. That being said, Kousuke-sama, please be prepared to give everyone DIvine Protection.”

Sylvia said and stood up from her seat.

She was going to tell everyone as soon as possible.

Kousuke would just sit there and wait for everyone to arrive.

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It did not take long for Sylvia to summon everyone there.

After everyone had gathered, Kousuke decided to give everyone DIvine Protection.

They were in the order in which Kousuke thought it was easiest for him to grant it.

More specifically, the order was based on the order in which Kousuke’s Divine Power had accumulated.

Of course, the strongest was Sylvia, but she had already been given DIvine Protection, so she was excluded from the list this time.

The next strongest was, unexpectedly or perhaps as expected, Peach.

Sylvia often mentioned that Peach had the potential to become a priestess, and this may be a factor.

Next was Shrein, which was influenced by her consumption of Kousuke’s blood.

As for the later two, Collete and Floria, they were about the same.

However, this did not mean that they had limited power, and DIvine Protection itself could be given to them without any problem.

All members were able to get Kousuke’s Blessing.

At the same time as gaining DIvine Protection, <Evolution Sprout> was changed to <Evolution Growth> in all members.

This proved the point that getting DIvine Protection was one requirement for Evolution.

In a sense, this was a reasonable result, since it was true that the summoned beasts, until now, did require it for their evolution.

“Ah!?”

Peach suddenly shouted as Kousuke was checking everyone’s status.

“What happened?”

“I was just surprised.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Did something happen?”

Everyone nearby was also surprised by Peach’s condition.

“Well…. I’m starting to see something that looks like status too…”

“”What?!””

The members, except for Kousuke and Peach herself, shouted in surprise.

“Whose, what kind of things are you seeing?”

“Is this… I’m uncertain if what I see is a name or species-? It’s kind of vague, so I’m not confident about it.”

“…Vague?”

Kousuke, who had only ever seen things clearly, tilted his head.

“It’s like, when I’m doing fortune-telling, I can’t see the future clearly, and I can only understand vague information~.”

“That’s… I wonder what it is?”

Kousuke had never been in such a state.

“Maybe it takes some training to be able to see properly?”

“Possibly so.”

“Wait a minute.”

Sylvia interrupted their conversation.

“Sylvia?”

“Peach-san, are you sure what you are seeing is status?”

“Eh~? Well, all I can see clearly is the name and the race…? Eh, eh~?”

Peach tilted her head as she talked.

“It’s true, although I did mention that it was similar to the feeling I get when I’m doing fortune-telling. It feels more powerful.”

Sylvia nodded in agreement to Peach’s words.

“What do you mean?”

Kousuke asked Sylvia, who seemed to understand on her own.

“Maybe what the person can see is limited to the field in which they specialize.”

“What? Well, she does specialize in fortune-telling, right?”

“That’s right. I am not specialized in fortune-telling. So perhaps the strongest of the race’s characteristics would be visible.”

“I see. As I recall, succubus originally had a keen intuition, didn’t they?”

From there, they have historically developed a special skill called divination.

“So, to make it easier to understand what they call intuition, it’s made visible in the form of fortune-telling.”

Collete nodded in agreement, as if he somehow understood what Sylvia was trying to say.

“I see. A race trait, huh?”

Shrein, a vampire, also had easy-to-understand racial characteristics, so it was somewhat easier to get to understand her.

Collete’s race, the elves, also had easy to understand race characteristics in that sense.

The problem is….

“What is the race characteristic of humans?”

Floria questioned Sylvia.

“…I would say that having no race characteristics are a human’s race characteristics.”

At Sylvia’s answer, both of them simultaneously lowered their shoulders in disappointment.

“No, no. If that’s the case, then my power would also not have manifested.”

Aside from the power in his right eye, the power in his left eye had already manifested way before Kousuke had become a living god in the first place.

“Well, there seems to be a variety of abilities within the same DIvine Protection, so it would be better to check them carefully before using them.”

When Kousuke closed with that, everyone nodded in agreement.

Kousuke was tempted to pray that the power provided by Kousuke’s Blessing could manifest within humans.