Chapter 112: Divine Command (6)
Kwaaaaang!
A loud noise erupted from the speaker as <Lightning Arrow> struck the ground.
I moved my finger away from the angel named Aronia, who I was aiming at, and looked at the smartphone screen with a bewildered expression.
It was not because Estasia, who was in the range of the skill, blocked Aronia.
The reason why I stopped my finger was the ominous message that appeared in front of my eyes.
The moment I was about to shoot lightning at Aronia, a new message popped up.
-[Sudden Event]
-For 20 seconds, there is an added chance of summoning a high-grade creature from [Random Creature Summoning Ticket (Low-Grade)].
-Remaining time 00 : 00 : 19
Sudden event.
It was the first time I saw this type of event message.
My finger, which was looking at the message, stayed still.
I still couldn’t grasp the situation properly.
Why did such an absurd event exist, and what was a high-grade creature?
I kept staring at the message with such questions in mind.
-Remaining time 00 : 00 : 11
Soon, the time had decreased to only 11 seconds left.
There was no time to think long for an event with a time limit.
I quickly moved my finger and opened the inventory.
Then I scrolled down and started looking for [Random Creature Summoning Ticket (Low-Grade)] somewhere in the inventory.
I moved my eyes busily and scanned each item’s location.
But finding the desired item in the inventory quickly was not an easy task.
The item that I could easily find normally was not visible when I tried to find it urgently.
-Remaining time 00 : 00 : 06
“Ah, no… Where is it? Where is it?”
My frantic finger scrolled up and down the inventory.
The more anxious I became, the harder it was to find the item.
I couldn’t even identify the icon of the item that I was familiar with.
The colors of the items that came into my eyes were also blurred and indistinguishable.
I shook my finger and moved the scroll from the top to the bottom of the inventory.
Meanwhile, the time on the message box kept flowing.
-Remaining time 00 : 00 : 02
-Remaining time 00 : 00 : 01
Remaining time 2 seconds. And then 1 second.
I moved my finger to find the item and hit the screen randomly.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
The sound of scratching the smartphone screen echoed with a rough noise.
I hoped that one of the items I pressed would contain a ticket.
As I hit the screen like that, in front of me, the countdown mercilessly approached zero.
“Huh…?”
The whole screen was wrapped in light, and Aronia, who was lying in front of Estasia, disappeared.
Aronia, who disappeared from the screen, began to descend while receiving light under the sky where lightning fell.
The sky opened and light poured out from beyond the clouds.
The bright beam of light that came from beyond the open clouds illuminated Aronia’s figure.
Despite being a scene where an angel descended from heaven, Aronia, who had been battered, was still lying down.
Aronia appeared with a brilliant glow and landed in front of Estasia’s eyes while lying down.
Aronia, who came down to the ground while lying down, landed on the spot where he had been lying before.
As a result, nothing had changed.
-You have summoned [Seraphim: Aronia].
-[Seraphim: Aronia] respects you with awe?
-<Heavenly Calling of Karma> converts [Seraphim: Aronia]’s actions into your causality rate.
As Aronia came down from heaven and plunged into the swamp again, several messages poured out from the message box at the bottom of the screen.
[Seraphim: Aronia] was newly summoned, or <Heavenly Calling of Karma> would now be affected by Aronia.
Most of them were similar to when I created Estasia.
I looked at Aronia with a dumbfounded face as I saw the messages that appeared in front of me.
I used it because they said there was a chance of getting a high-grade creature if I used it within 20 seconds, but what actually appeared was Aronia who had been there all along.
This is hardly ‘random’.
Not to mention that it wasn’t even a proper ‘summon’.
“What is this? No, you said it was a summoning ticket…”
I felt empty as I saw the ticket that disappeared without a trace.
I used it hastily because there was a time limit, but the result was a summoning in place.
I don’t even know what I was aiming for when I used the ticket in 20 seconds.
Of course, it’s better to be recognized as a creature than a fanatic.
Maybe if I had a rare creature in front of me, such a sudden event would happen to the ticket holder.
It could be seen as a capture event in its own way.
The more I dug into it, the more I realized it was a game with no foundation.
“Well, whatever… I guess it’s fine since I succeeded in taming?”
Since I got an angel, a rare species, in my hands, I didn’t feel too bad about the cost of one ticket.
I got Estasia-level power for a cheap price.
Maybe it was a creature that was much stronger than Estasia.
I decided to move on with a good mood, thinking about the future possibilities.
The more powerful characters I had, the better.
Tuk.
I closed the inventory with my finger and turned my gaze to the angels on the screen.
Aronia and Estasia, who were summoned by using the ticket, were having a conversation.
-“Aronia.”
-“…Estasia.”
-“There are a lot of good humans here.”
-“…”
-“Strawberries and grapes come out every day.”
Pfft.
I couldn’t help but laugh at the conversation.
That was because Estasia was making her followers bring them to her.
Anyone who saw it would think there was a vending machine that produced unlimited strawberries and grapes.
Aronia also smiled faintly at Estasia’s words.
-“That might be a little nice.”
-“Yeah.”
-“I think I kind of understand why you want to stay here…”
I didn’t know the details of what happened between them, but from listening to their conversation, it seemed like Aronia had tried to take Estasia away.
Maybe he wanted to take Estasia away because they were both angels.
When I learned the truth, I felt a bit sick.
I picked up my smartphone with one hand and looked at the two angels who were talking on the screen.
They looked tilted.
“How dare you laugh at me?”
Thud. Thud.
I tapped Estasia and Aronia’s heads with my finger.
Screams filled with screams rose above their heads.
After confirming that, I turned off the screen of my smartphone and put it down on the table.
I was so engrossed in playing the game for a while that I felt more tired than I thought.
It would be nice to take a break and turn off the game for a while.
I locked my smartphone and started putting cold chicken in my mouth.
The crispy chicken in my mouth was more delicious than ever in this good situation.
***
A week later.
Estasia was drinking strawberry juice as usual and looked down at Aronia below.
Aronia, who had healed his wounds completely, was busy cleaning Estasia’s room.
Even though Aronia was working hard to clean the room, Estasia didn’t lift a finger.
Rather, she gave him some advice in a relaxed manner towards Aronia who was cleaning.
“Aronia. There’s dust over there.”
“…Estasia.”
“You can’t move the ring down there. It’s my favorite.”
Estasia gave Aronia some advice and sipped her strawberry juice.
She enjoyed her leisure alone while passing on her work to another angel.
This was the scene that Estasia had always dreamed of.
Of course, Aronia’s expression was not good as he received orders from Estasia.
He moved his broom hard with a dissatisfied expression on his face.
He flapped his wings and protested to Estasia who was eating and playing.
“When I was in heaven, I was your boss…! How can you boss me around like this!”
“Aronia. This is natural here.”
“Ugh…”
“Estasia is on top here. Yeah.”
Estasia reminded him of their positions with a confident face.
After Aronia surrendered to the evil god and joined the cult, he had to follow Estasia’s orders.
Their master confirmed that Estasia’s position was higher than his.
There was no one higher than Estasia in the Ceterant branch of the cult.
Even though he was a fallen angel from heaven, he couldn’t go against Estasia’s orders.
Maybe it was because he was being bossed around by an angel who used to be his subordinate.
Aronia had to complete his assigned tasks with his face flushed with shame.
“Just wait. Someday I’ll fix your lazy personality…”
“…I don’t like that. Aronia do it for me.”
“Estasia! Aaargh…!”
“Aronia. Do you want a strawberry?”
“Yes please.”
Aronia, who was moving his broom with anger, stopped in front of Estasia.
Estasia put a plump ripe strawberry in Aronia’s mouth.
They were high-quality fruits that the cult’s followers had brought with difficulty.
Aronia shivered and flapped his wings as he put a strawberry in his mouth.
The halo above his head also flickered brightly.
A few white feathers fell to the floor from Aronia’s wing flapping.
“You dropped some feathers. You need to clean those up too.”
“Ugh…”
“I wish I had known you were good at cleaning. I would have asked you to do it when we were in heaven.”
“You wouldn’t have listened to me anyway! I was your superior and you were my subordinate!”
Aronia expressed his short displeasure and resumed his sweeping with a depressed look.
He had to clean up the feathers that had fallen to the floor because of his wing flapping.
His expression turned gloomy as he looked down at the floor and swept.
Estasia, on the other hand, didn’t care whether he was sad or not. She just ate fruits and watched.
She teased Aronia while putting an orange in her mouth and asked him another question.
“Aronia.”
“Yes. What is it this time?”
“Why did you come to the master?”
Estasia’s question was unexpected.
Aronia’s broom stopped again as he was moving busily.
His eyes gazed blankly at the sky as he stopped his broom.
The sky beyond the window was filled with a sunny autumn scenery.
Blink. Blink.
He opened his mouth with a hollow voice as he stared at the sky blankly.
“I don’t know. I really don’t know.”
“…”
“Maybe it was because of what the goddess said at the end…”
He closed his mouth tightly as he was about to say something.
Estasia looked at him with a puzzled expression.
But there was no continuation of Aronia’s cut-off words.
He shook his head slightly with his mouth closed.
Then he turned his gaze to Estasia and spoke in a slightly lowered voice.
“No, it’s nothing. I just hated being hurt.”
“Aronia. You’re weird.”
“The weird one is not me, but Estasia.”
“Hmm…”
Estasia doubted Aronia for a moment, but soon put down the fruit basket and lay down on the bed.
She decided not to dig deeper if he thought that way.
She wrapped her body with her wings and rolled around on the bed.
Only Estasia’s face hidden in her wings peeked out from the outside.
She spoke to Aronia with her face sticking out.
Let’s have a snack together when you’re done cleaning. It was a simple promise.
“Let’s eat fruits together when you’re done with that.”
“Okay. I’ll finish quickly.”
“Yeah.”
Aronia continued his sweeping at a faster speed than before after hearing Estasia’s promise.
Of course, because Aronia had cleaned up the chapel by himself, they could only eat fruits together after an hour had passed.
It was a bonus that half of the fruits in the basket had already disappeared into Estasia’s stomach.
