Volume 22 Chapter 6, Granting of Blessings

At that moment, Lirica seemed calm, but just to be certain, Kousuke looked at Sylvia.

Sylvia, who understood exactly what he intended, only nodded in return.

In short, he asked her to confirm that everything was all right.

The fact that the confirmation was made was significant.

The main subject would be from now on.

“Have you calmed down?”

Sylvia already confirmed it, but he made sure to confirm it with Lirica as well.

There might be some discomfort that others would not be able to understand.

“Oh, yes. I’m fine.”

Lirica was still not used to having a conversation with Kousuke, and Kousuke chuckled inwardly.

He thought that there was no need to be so nervous, but of course, he didn’t say it out loud.

He understood that it was pointless to say such a thought, especially since it might make the situation worse.

“So, here’s the thing…”

“…Hai!!!?”

Lirica tried to respond to Kousuke’s statement with a nod, but after starting with those lines, she was a bit distraught.

What happened earlier was surprising enough, she thought, but what kind of joke was it was to start with that conversation?

However, she quickly remembered who the other person was and hurriedly bowed her head.

“Oh… I, I’m sorry!”

“Ah, that’s enough. We’re not going to get anywhere with the conversation if you’re going to bow down all the time.”

“But, you see…!”

Sylvia, who couldn’t help but be amazed at their interaction, decided to intervene.

She thought that if Kousuke said anything more, it would only have the opposite effect.

“Lirica-san, it’s okay if Kousuke-sama says it’s okay. I’d have you listen to what he has to say first.”

“Ye, yes!”

Lirica straightened her back, this time with a snap.

At this point, Kousuke was beginning to get a grasp of Lirica’s personality, even if somewhat vague.

He wondered if she would be okay, and finally decided to talk about the main issue.

“This is sudden, but would you be willing to accept my blessing?”

Kousuke asked, but there was a long pause before her next response.

“….Haaii?”

“Well, as I have been trying to tell you. I want to grant you my blessing, would you accept it?”

Kousuke tried again, but this time there was no response from Lirica.

To be precise, she was trying to answer somehow, but her mouth was moving but not her voice.

“Kousuke-sama, I think that was too abrupt, you know?”

Alec advised with a wry smile.

Since Lirica, a third party, was present here, the response was taken completely out of context.

“Huh? What?”

Kousuke tilted his head, not understanding the meaning.

Giving blessings was something that Kousuke had never given to an outsider before.

After all, the only people he had given blessings were the Tower members, and he had given countless blessings to his dependents as well.

He felt that one more person would not be a big deal.

Unfortunately, however, this was significantly out of line to the public’s way of thinking.

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Alec looked at Sylvia, holding her head in her hands.

“I think this is because of you, you know.”

With that, she pointed out Sylvia’s lack of training.

“Oh my. I can’t be blamed alone. Besides, it is true that for Kousuke-sama, giving blessings is not a big deal.”

“Even so, we have to at least teach him how it affects the people around him, don’t we?”

“Well, well, what’s the use of you two arguing here?”

Floria interrupted the two arguing.

“For now, Kousuke-sama. You know what it means to get a blessing, just remember what happened to me… you see?”

Kousuke understood what she was trying to say, although Floria was speaking in her usual manner, the speech that was coming out was tinged with suspicion.

At the same time, he understood Lirica and Alec’s reaction.

Usually, if one were to receive a blessing, they would either be used as a political tool or, at best, they would be pampered and surrounded by church people, also wanting to receive a blessing.

At the very least, it would be impossible to be an adventurer as Lirica was now.

“Mmm, mmm… I see… Oh, that’s right. I’ve got a good idea.”

“A good idea?”

She had a somewhat bad feeling about this, but just in case, Floria asked.

“If no one’s going to discover that Lirica-san received the blessing anyway, all we need to do is to keep quiet about it.”

Everyone’s heads went blank as Kousuke nodded his head at the good idea.

“No, Kousuke-sama, that’s… I don’t think it’s possible.”

Sylvia, who was the first one to recover, except for Mitsuki, said so.

“Why?”

“Why, because… It’s almost impossible to hide the fact that you have a blessing.”

“Really? How do you know if someone had a blessing?”

“Well, the Church… What?”

Kousuke nodded to Sylvia, who tilted her head.

“Maybe they would receive an oracle from the Gods to find out? If so, all we have to do is keep quiet about it.”

“”Ah!””

Peach and Floria, who were listening, agreed in unison.

“Speaking of which, that’s right. There was no particular problem, was there?”

Sylvia nodded again.

“If there’s a possibility that it could be found out, I think it would be on the Crown card, but I could always just hide it.”

“You’re certainly right.”

Floria nodded again as if to conclude.

“No, wait. Are you certain you’re okay with this?”

Alec asked the entire Tower crew.

“Well, Alec-sama, let me ask you the opposite. How else would the church know that a person received the blessings of the Gods?”

“It’s… The high priesthood would know?”

“That’s unlikely.”

Alec’s opinion was brushed aside by Sylvia.

“How can they know about the blessings that represent the power of the Gods themselves if they don’t even know about the power of the Gods in the first place? It may be possible to feel the divine power of a blessing, but that’s more or less a given for those in the clergy.”

“…You mean?”

“It means that Lirica-san has no obstacles in obtaining Kousuke-sama’s blessings.”

That was the opinion of Sylvia, the expert, and Alec had no choice but to remain silent.

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Lirica had been listening to the conversation so far with a stunned expression on her face, but she was inwardly panicking as she felt the outer moat in her mind was being filled.

If this continued, she would be certainly given.

The deterrent was Kousuke’s next words.

“Don’t you want my blessing? If you don’t, I’ll stop.”

Seeing Kousuke with an apologetic look on his face, Lirica completely lost her mind.

There was no way she could refuse if the God himself gave her such a look right in front of her.

She felt somewhat more at ease now that she had reopened her mind to the fact that he was such an ungodly deity.

“Um…”

“Yes?”

“I don’t mind, but what am I supposed to do with the blessing?”

At Lirica’s question, Kousuke looked at Sylvia.

“What? Did the person who received blessings have to do something?”

“Usually, it’s to act on behalf of that deity, or to give an oracle, although in Kousuke-sama’s case, neither of those things are required.”

Always present in this world, Kousuke had no particular need for moveable hands in this world. At least not at the moment.

“I suppose. Well, if there was indeed a purpose that I had to say, it would be to confirm whether they could receive the blessing.”

Currently, the only people who have Kousuke’s blessing are those who were close to Kousuke, except for the dependents.

He would like to know if others could also receive Kousuke’s blessing.

Of course, it could not be just anyone, and there would have to be some conditions for those who could be granted the blessing.

Fortunately, Lirica was found to possess those conditions, which was why he brought up the subject.

Kousuke was concerned about Lirica because he knew that she had the conditions to be granted the blessing.

Overall, after Lirica listened to their conversations, she decided to accept the blessing.