I, Illume, am wandering in the forest with Mr. Shehan, a magical swordsman. This forest is a dangerous place full of demons. If I had entered such a place alone, I would have been in trouble. I was glad that Mr. Shehan was there.
Thank God you were there.
I see."
Shehan-san somehow turned away when I thanked him. I asked him if I had said something offensive, but he did not tell me why he turned away.
I have gone deep into the forest in pursuit of the Goddess of Mercy. I don't know if He is really here, but I have a feeling that He is here in this forest. It is not a certainty, just a feeling, somehow.
Even if Kamiko-sama is not here, I don't really care. I just want to know what is ahead of me if I follow my hunch. Besides, I think this premonition is a kind of guidance. I believe that everything I did and said, and everything that happened as a result of them, was guided by God. So I don't care what kind of future awaits me if I follow my hunch. If possible, I would like to meet Kamiko-sama. I would like to meet the Divine Child-sama and fulfill His will that God is loving. That is what I think as a priest in the service of God.
"---A divine child, or a person loved by God? Is there really such a thing?
Yes, there is. Don't you believe in such a thing, Mr. Shehan?
I don't believe in such things. I don't know if this is the right thing to say to you, a priest, but I don't believe in God. All I believe in is my own power.
Shehan said something like that. He does not believe in the existence of God. He believes only in his own power.
I don't blame him for that.
I don't blame him for that. I understand that there are many different people who have different ideas about God. And I would never try to force my faith on them.
I will continue to believe in what I believe. I will always keep that mindset.
Shehan believes only in his own strength. I think that is also a form of belief.
You are searching for the godchild under the protection of the kingdom because he is a fake, right?
'Yes, that's right. Due to a mistake on our part, we protected the wrong godchild. Even though all the oracle recipients, including myself, were unconscious, it should not have happened.
Receiving the oracle, it was really a difficult thing. The actuality that it was so difficult even with many priests, the existence that had the power to receive the oracle alone was really a precious and amazing existence.
I wonder if someday in my lifetime I, too, will be able to become a being capable of receiving an oracle all by myself. That is what I think and hope to become.
If I had even a little bit of consciousness left in me, I would have been able to properly tell them about the existence of Kamiko-sama. I could have told him my age and whereabouts, but I didn't think that he would be a twin and that his parents would hide the Kamiko-sama from me. By coincidence and coincidence, the existence of the Godchild was not protected by the Kingdom. But that, too, may have been God's guidance. Maybe it was destined that way.
All events are connected, and each of our actions are all tied together. The fact that Kamiko-sama was not protected by the kingdom and had to wander around, the fact that I was ordered to search for him, and the fact that I am now wandering around the forest with a magical swordswoman... surely, everything is connected. If I did not meet the divine child-sama, it would only mean that I was destined to do so, and if I miraculously met the divine child-sama, it would mean that I was destined to be able to meet the divine child-sama.
Shehan-san and I continued walking through the forest. We were searching for the existence of the divine child-sama, who may or may not be in this forest.
In the midst of all this, I saw something strange.
I could faintly see --- a girl. A girl with green hair, clothed in some mysterious atmosphere. A girl alone in a place like this? That made me feel strange.
The moment her eyes met mine, the girl looked surprised and disappeared.
I turned to Mr. Shehan and told him about the girl. Shehan-san was also looking at me, so he must have seen the girl. But he said, "What are you talking about? He said.
You were right in front of me, weren't you?"
No, I didn't see anything.
When I heard this, I wondered for a moment if I had seen it wrong. But I quickly shook off that thought. Because I had seen it with my own eyes. I thought that perhaps I was the only one who could see it.
And I rejoiced that the presence might be connected to the being called Kamiko-sama.
---- Priests and Guidance
(The priest witnesses the existence of the priestess. And perhaps he is delighted to be connected to a girl who is a goddess)