A pathetic voice echoed in the Asura’s Mansion, located almost at the center of the Evergreen Garden.
The owner of that voice was currently buried under a mountain of documents.
Despite processing them, the documents showed no sign of decreasing; on the contrary, they continued to increase, and the owner of the voice finally broke into lamentation.
“Sis! It’s impossible! Absolutely impossible! I can’t possibly process this alone!”
It was Jal who let out that shriek.
The application documents from goddesses who wanted to connect with Kousuke were not decreasing, but increasing, finally exceeding Jal’s processing capacity.
The mountain of piled-up documents made it clear at a glance that it wasn’t because Jal was slacking off.
Seeing Jal surrounded by that mountain, Eris, who had been asked for help, let out a sigh.
“I can see that, but… why are you processing it all by yourself?”
“…Huh?”
To Eris’s simple question, Jal involuntarily let out a startled cry.
“Wouldn’t it be better to use subordinates or someone else to process at least a portion of it?”
Hearing that, Jal looked utterly bewildered.
“I… I didn’t think of that. Then, all this effort so far…?”
“Well, I suppose it’s a case of serving them right?”
Hearing Eris’s merciless words, Jal slumped onto the desk as if burned out.
“You’re so mean, Sis.”
Knowing Eris, she probably knew from the beginning that the processing wouldn’t be completed in time.
This meant that she also knew the solution of using subordinates.
By the way, according to their rules, it was not common to use subordinates or followers.
Normally, one was expected to handle the scope of their own work themselves.
However, for situations like this, there were always exceptions.
“If you had asked me from the start, I would have taught you properly. Although, normally, you should know these things too?”
“Ahahahahaha…”
Eris sighed at Jal, who tried to brush it off with laughter.
Eris and Jal were among the Three Great Gods in the world of Asgard.
Naturally, they had a lot of work associated with their position.
For Eris, if she were to handle all her work alone as usual, she would inevitably fall behind, so she used several people who were in a subordinate position.
However, in Eris’s case, entrusting the processing of problems that occurred in Asgard to each goddess was also part of her job.
Jal, who held the same position as one of the Three Great Gods, should naturally have been able to use people in such positions, but Jal, who had no memory of ever using such people before, had completely forgotten about it.
In Eris’s opinion, Jal, who diligently processed her work without using subordinates, was indeed amazing.
Unfortunately, it was obvious that she would get carried away, so Eris had no intention of expressing it.
Incidentally, the reason Jal is often scolded by Eris every time she has a Divine Union with Kousuke is that she temporarily abandons her duties to engage in Divine Union.
Even if she tried to prohibit Divine Union, she always finished her work properly, so she couldn’t do that either.
As for Divine Union, she couldn’t strongly criticize others, as she herself was not in a position to do so.
Putting aside such digressions, due to the increased administrative processing that started with Kousuke’s remarks, Jal decided to recruit subordinates for the first time.
When she put out the call, the number of applicants far exceeded her expectations.
The reason was simple: the underhanded motive of increasing their chances of getting closer to Kousuke if he came next by getting close to Jal.
Although she hadn’t set this as a condition for recruitment, such assumptions had spread on their own, leading to the high number of applicants.
The fact that she didn’t bother to correct these assumptions further fueled their spread.
Jal also didn’t correct them because they weren’t entirely wrong.
In fact, when Kousuke came next, she intended to properly introduce them as her subordinates, so it wasn’t a lie.
After various interviews and other processes, she managed to narrow it down to two subordinates.
What these two would do was already decided.
They would be responsible for sorting the excessive documents.
The problem was that there were too many deficiencies in the documents, and very few were actually approved.
They would discard documents with simple omissions or errors in writing.
The result was a great success.
The accumulated backlog of documents was processed in a few days.
After that, it was just a matter of processing the documents that arrived normally.
“Mufufufu.”
Jal was in a good mood, freed from several days of clerical work.
It wasn’t that the documents Jal had to process had disappeared entirely.
By simply excluding the ones with deficiencies, the amount Jal had to handle was significantly reduced, creating free time.
“Lady Jal.”
“Wakyup…!? Wh-what is it? I thought I finished today’s work…”
Surprised by Meal’s sudden appearance, Jal responded in almost the same way she did to Eris.
Meal was one of the two who successfully passed the recent recruitment.
By the way, the other one was Helen.
Both were hired after impressing Eris, and they demonstrated an astonishing aptitude for administrative procedures.
Despite it being their first time doing such work, they had managed to clear the mountain of documents in just a few days.
“…But.”
“Although I had finished, more documents have arrived, so please process those as well.”
At Meal’s words, Jal’s face twitched.
“Ad-additional ones?”
“It seems that with our addition, those who were hesitating before have also started sending in documents.”
Jal sank at the casually delivered words.
“Eh, hesitating…?”
“The situation before had reached even people like me, so it seems they were holding back in various ways.”
“You mean, *that* was considered holding back!?”
“It seems so.”
Jal gave Meal a resentful look as she stated it so casually.
“Staring at me like that won’t reduce the documents. Please get to work.”
After receiving the final notice from Meal, Jal was led away like in “Dona Dona.”
As Meal said, the number of documents to be processed had indeed increased significantly.
However, just because the number of documents increased, it didn’t mean the number of those meeting the approval criteria increased.
On the contrary, the number of approved documents had decreased.
“Ugh, it’s one thing to be rejected because you barely meet the criteria, but I wish they’d stop submitting applications when they clearly don’t meet them.”
“Everyone knows that a large number of documents arrive here daily, so they seem to be hoping that by some chance they might pass.”
It was Helen who responded to Jal’s complaint.
Indeed, as Helen said, there were quite a few people who submitted documents in the hope of a mistake.
“Huh!? Is that so?”
“It seems so.”
“Eh? What’s that? Even if the paperwork passes here, it’s meaningless unless it’s actually attached to a title, isn’t it?”
At Jal’s words, the expressions of the two changed.
“You mean it’s not attached!?”
“Oh? You didn’t know? The document screening is intended to prevent unnecessary use of divine power.”
In the first place, there used to be no document screening.
It was decided to insert document screening to prevent the use of divine power for efforts that were known to fail from the outset.
“If only we had known sooner…”
“We’ll issue a notice.”
While Jal casually discussed these matters, her two subordinates frantically sprang into action.
The truth is that while older gods have existed for a long time, newer gods are often unaware of the document screening process.
This is precisely why such a situation has arisen, but Jal, one of the Three Great Gods, had not known about it.
Even if the document screening passes, it’s meaningless if the divine power isn’t actually used.
If she had known that, such a vast amount of unnecessary documents wouldn’t have piled up.
The notice issued on that date resulted in a significant reduction in documents, which was a positive outcome for everyone involved.
As a result, free time became available, and Jal was often seen with a cheerful face, but…
“That’s perfect, Jal. You seem to have some free time.”
“Wakyup…!? Sis!?”
A scene similar to before unfolded, and nothing changed.
Ji: “Do we really need that last bit?”
Sak: “I-I’m sorry. I just… I felt uneasy if I didn’t write it.”
Ji: “…*sniffle* >_<"
