Goddess Beside Me!

Chapter 3

"I hate to disappoint you, but I can still hear you talking from this distance!"

At this moment, a cold female voice resounded from the other side of the lake. The sound was pleasant to listen to, but it contains strictness with a hint of majesty.

On the edge of the lake, a goddess with aqua-blue hair, two long bangs, two strands on the sides, and a partly braided tail in the back came towards the circle of the girls wearing a white bathrobe interrupting their conversations.

Her otherwordly figure is vividly displayed under the wrapping of the bathrobe, highlighting her beauty like a goddess.

She had green eyes intertwined with awe and calmness.

There's no doubt she's a stern goddess.

It takes a single glance for one to come to this conclusion.

There is an essential difference between gods and mortals. Even if a god tries their best to hide their supernatural power and identity, it takes a simple glance from the mortal to identify them.

'Ah, this is a god/goddess!' One can feel awe and reverence with just a glance.

"..."

After hearing the voice, the little face of the brown-haired girl that complained before wilted immediately.

She was just like a child who did something wrong and was discovered by her parents. So, she immediately raised both of her hands near her cheek and made an expression of apology.

"Sorry, Artemis-sama... I was wrong~"

"It's too late for that! Chloe, before going to bed, come to my side!"

The goddess Artemis had a solemn expression and decided on the punishment for the girl with no room for refusal.

"Hmmm, I understand!"

The brown-haired girl named Chloe responded aggrievedly. She had already begun to prepare herself for the tragic fate that awaited her tonight.

Teaching from the goddess is not so easy to tolerate, so it seems that she can't sleep well tonight...

To be more precise, she can't fall asleep tonight!

Even if she is lying inside the tent, her ears will be full of the goddess's teachings, right?

This is not an exaggeration but a fact that has been confirmed repeatedly by her predecessors in the familia.

After dealing with Chloe, Artemis briefly glanced at the girls who had spoken 'dangerously' before.

She was acting like a teacher who wanted to remember the appearances of problem students in the class. She gave those with a guilty conscience a warning via eye contact so that they dared not do it again.

But, who knows if they forget about it the next day?

Maybe the next time, one of them will commit the same crime...

After a long while, the serious goddess finally retracted her gaze and left the scene, relieving her familia members.

Rethusa glanced at the retreating figure of the goddess and tried to say something. But, due to some hesitation, she couldn't say it out in the end and just sighed and left the scene.

After she left, the other girls looked around like thieves, especially staring in the direction where Artemis went. After repeatedly confirming that the goddess had no sign of returning, they recontinued their chat and discussion.

Although they are cowardly in front of the goddess, their enthusiasm for romance is not so quickly suppressed.

...

After changing her clothes on the shore, the goddess walked back to the camp with the bathrobe in her arms. Artemis rubbed her eyebrows helplessly and sighed.

"Just wait for the time to pass..." The goddess softly whispered.

As the main god and the head in charge of the familia, she naturally knows about the situation of the girls in her family very well.

They thought they could outsmart her by pretending to be cute; she didn't know what to say?

More than half of the girls in her familia were brought and raised by her. It would be a joke for her to not know about their enthusiasm!

She just didn't want to participate in such a topic...

Of course, there are some reasons why she didn't know what to say.

After all, to put it lightly, Artemis is a virgin goddess who has never been in love~

At such a time, she will blame the girls' behavior on adolescents' restlessness and try her best to suppress these feelings, slowly waiting for this period to pass.

Initially, Artemis wanted Rethusa to go and check the condition of the rescued boy before.

But, now it looks like Rethusa will not be the only one to visit the boy if she does so.

Artemis, the mama-san, is very fond of her familia members and hardly refuses their requests. Not to mention trivial things like 'taking a quick look.'

So, it looks like she needs to go there on her own!

This thought flashed through her mind.

But, what is unprecedented is that Artemis didn't realize any rejection of the thoughts in her mind.

She readily accepted it and decided to visit him.

Inside a temporary camp,

It didn't take long for her to arrive because the camp was not too far from the lake.

After putting her bathrobe back into her tent, the goddess came to a tent on the edge of the camp with some complicated thoughts and opened the curtain to enter.

There is nothing noteworthy to describe the scene inside the tent. It was very monotonous. After all, a tent is only a temporary shelter for the night and is disassembled during the day.

The rescued boy was still lying on the bed, with a small piece of white gauze on his forehead. His body was covered by the quilt with only the head exposed, and it didn't look like he was going to wake up anytime soon.

"Hmm...!?

Artemis, who slowly walked to the boy's side and sat on a nearby chair, caught sight of the other's face. She felt there was something off about the boy... but couldn't tell herself.

She had this feeling ever since the first sight. But, it was during the time of the battle, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

But now that she realizes it, she finds that this feeling is undeniable.

It was bizarre... and intimate...

Artemis was immersed in this feeling and slowly lost her mind.

At the same time, Sirius went back and forth in the awakening phase. He felt that he was about to wake but indulged in the feeling of sleeping for more.

However, this feeling didn't last very long. And soon after, Sirius's consciousness gradually recovered.

The dark vision slowly opened up, and his mind was empty for a while. After blinking two or three times, his brain gradually sobered up.

Cloth ceiling... he's presumably lying inside a tent now?

Sirius made a quick judgment about his situation based on surrounding information.

Did someone rescue him?

Although he didn't see the situation clearly at that time. But before fainting, he vaguely remembered that there was someone by his side...

No... not just one. There was a group of people nearby!

A touch of blue at the corner of his eyes caught his attention of Sirius, so he turned his head in that direction.

After tilting his head, he captured the ethereal figure of a person sitting beside his bed.

He determined that the girl beside him was not a mortal with just a glance. It was inexplicable to him just how quickly he decided her identity.

But it looks like the other party seems to be in a trance and didn't realize that he was looking at her.

"Hiss..."

Sirius couldn't help narrow his eyes and lean back tactically, taking a deep breath.

Why lean back?

He didn't know why he did that, but there was a more important question. Who can tell him why there is a goddess beside him after just waking up?

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