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Ultimately, I couldn’t understand anything about this new power until my regular visit to the Divine Realm.
Peach’s fortune-telling mentioned that my existing powers would grow rather than gaining new ones, but in the end, I still don’t fully understand it.
The feeling I had when I saw the Black Wolf still remains, but I haven’t felt it with any of my other summons besides the Black Wolf.
To be precise, I was able to feel it within a very limited range, specifically a part of the Black Wolf on the ninety-first floor.
Although I visited the Black Wolves several times after getting my fortune told by Peach, nothing changed except for that strange feeling.
As time went by, the period for my regular visit to the Divine Realm arrived, so Kousuke decided to give up for now and check things thoroughly when he got there.
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“That, I don’t know either,” Asura replied when I asked her first upon arriving in the Divine Realm.
“Huh? What? Is that so?”
Kousuke felt a sudden sense of disappointment, but it was his own fault.
After all, Peach’s fortune-telling only indicated that something would happen if I went to the Divine Realm; it didn’t promise that Asura would provide the answer.
“Even so, I don’t see through everything, you know?”
“Huh? What? Is that so?”
I repeated her exact answer, intentionally, of course.
“That’s right. There are things I can and cannot do. Of course, there are things I know and things I don’t. Especially when it comes to you, Kousuke, I suddenly become clueless.”
“Eh? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It’s a subtle difference.”
“Isn’t it a good thing? If I told you everything from one to ten, it would be boring, wouldn’t it?”
“Well, I suppose so. …Ah, no, wait. That’s only for me, right?”
In response to Kousuke’s question, Asura casually averted her gaze.
“Well, that’s how it is. I’ll answer before you ask: it’s because your soul came from another world.”
“Is that so?”
“That’s right. If your soul were from this world from the beginning, I could provide most of the answers. But you are different.”
Asura said this to Kousuke with a serious expression.
Kousuke’s only reaction to this was, “Hmm.”
He couldn’t really grasp the fact that Asura considered him special.
Of course, this was a first for Asura, and it was a very significant matter for her, but unfortunately, Kousuke didn’t seem to grasp it.
However, Asura had no intention of conveying that to Kousuke.
She was confident that even if she did, Kousuke’s attitude wouldn’t change.
Therefore, she saw no need to deliberately tell him.
“Well, that aside, since Peach did your fortune-telling, why don’t you relax here for a while?”
“Hmm. I’d love to, but I was told to come back quickly.”
“Oh. That’s unfortunate.”
Asura, too, had a busy schedule, so even if Kousuke stayed for a long time, she couldn’t be with him the entire time.
“Well, however long you are here, I’d appreciate it if you could provide as much support as possible to those girls.”
After all, the reason Kousuke started visiting the Divine Realm regularly was to meet with the goddesses.
Naturally, this visit also had a packed schedule.
Kousuke, who had braced himself, could only manage a bitter smile when Eris handed him the schedule as soon as he arrived.
However, it was a small relief that the schedule wasn’t as packed as it had been before.
Because Kousuke had promised regular visits, things hadn’t become as unreasonable as they were last time, allowing for a more relaxed schedule.
“Kooooosuuuuuukeeeeee!”
As Kousuke was relaxing in his assigned room after the day’s only event, dinner, Jal suddenly visited him.
Behind her were Eris and Spica, who wore wry smiles.
“J-Jal…!? What’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong, you ask!”
“Wha…!?”
“It’s all your fault that we’ve been so busy lately!”
Kousuke, bewildered by Jal’s outburst, looked towards Eris.
“Please don’t mind her. It’s just her idle chatter.”
“Hahaha. Well, whether she’s joking or not, it’s true that Jal is complaining.”
Faced with their relentless words, Jal drooped her shoulders, leaving Kousuke even more perplexed.
“Don’t worry about it. Jal’s workload just increased significantly because of a single word from Kousuke.”
“A single word? Did I say something?”
“You did! You said not to hold back!”
Kousuke tilted his head for a moment, but couldn’t recall anything.
“Sorry, what are you talking about?”
“As I said, please don’t worry about it. It’s regarding the titles of the summons.”
“…Hm? …Ah! Right, I remember saying something like that. The number of title holders has indeed increased since then, but it really had an impact?”
“A huge impact! …Mogomogo.”
Just as Jal was about to continue, Spica covered her mouth.
“Alright, alright. Let’s stop there. If we go on, Eris-nee-sama’s wrath will fall upon us, you know?”
Jal’s protest immediately ceased at Spica’s threat.
Jal, who looked fearfully at Eris with just her eyes, trembled for a moment.
Eris was smiling at that moment, but her usual experience told her that it wasn’t a good smile.
Eris let out a sigh and said to Kousuke,
“So, please don’t worry too much about it. It’s just that the paperwork for Kousuke-sama’s familiars to try and give themselves titles has increased.”
“Oh? You have paperwork for that?”
“Yes. Most of them are rejected, though.”
Kousuke’s cheek twitched at this answer.
“…I thought quite a few people had gotten titles?”
“In reality, less than one percent of the submitted applications actually get titles.”
Jal, now free from Spica’s restraint, glared at Kousuke.
“Seriously…!?”
“Seriously?”
“So, Kousuke-sama, I’ll say it again, please don’t worry too much. Even though the paperwork has increased, we’ve started using subordinates recently, so I’ve managed to find some free time.”
“Ah, yeah. That’s good and all, but…”
“It’s good!?”
“Is it really okay for so many people to gain titles?”
“He’s ignoring me!?”
Kousuke, smoothly ignoring Jal’s rambling, asked Eris.
“There are no particular problems. After all, blessings and the like have conditions that must be met, so if there are too many, it means those conditions are not being met.”
“Ah, I see. In other words, if they become too numerous, the number of title holders will stop increasing?”
“That’s correct.”
Kousuke nodded at Eris’s explanation, but something from her earlier words caught his attention.
“Hm? Conditions?”
“Yes. To exert divine power in that world, there are various conditions…”
“Ah, no. I wasn’t talking about titles… or maybe it’s related to titles?”
Kousuke tilted his head, not understanding, and Eris also tilted hers, confused.
“What are you referring to?”
Kousuke told the three goddesses about Peach’s fortune-telling, which was one of his objectives for this visit.
He had already told Asura, but not the other three.
“I see, is that the case? If so, it’s Jal’s specialty, but…”
“Impossible! If Asura-sama doesn’t understand, there’s no way I can!”
Kousuke could only offer a bitter smile at her firm reply.
