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Godou wanted to reach up and scratch his hair, a habit he'd always had when he got embarrassed, but stopped when he saw all the blood dripping from his fingers. "I'm...bleeding?"
"You didn't notice?" Shakti sounded surprised. "You were holding on to the spiked part of the whip for so long—obviously it would have cut you. Honestly, for what you've gained in return, it's a small sacrifice."
Godou blinked. He'd been holding onto what was basically barbed wire for a few minutes, and its barbs had sliced a good portion of his hand. And he hadn't even noticed? Had he been that engrossed in the fight? Even now, he felt no pain, but he was certain once the adrenaline wore off, it was going to be a different story.
"Drink this," Shakti said, pulling out a vial of blue liquid. "It's a healing potion."
Godou took it with his healthy hand gratefully and chugged it down. Since it was a potion, his natural magic resistance wasn't as big as a problem and he felt instantly refreshed. He watched the purple-black splotch on his arm turn pink as the bruises on his arm healed. Skin and tissue re-knit itself on his other hand, and when he wiped the blood away, all that greeted him was rosy, unmarred skin.
"Thanks," he said, giving Shakti back the empty vial.
"No," Shakti said. "I must thank you, for turning our finale into such a stunning success. I was against it at the start...but now," she gestured around her, where the audience was still going crazy, "I think I will not mind witnessing it a second time." Her lips twitched upwards into a smile.
"No," Godou said immediately. "Once is enough."
Shakti burst into laughter.
"Amazing! Absolutely marvelous! Like watching a miracle before my eyes!" trumpeted Ganesha as the god walked up to them, his hands stuck in applause. "I am Ganesha!" he reintroduced himself to Godou.
Godou felt annoyance slowly replace his victory euphoria.
"So, are you satisfied?" he asked the god. "Did you see what you wanted to see?"
The god nodded his head enthusiastically. "And even more! I had my doubts at first, but now I do not regret picking you at all!"
"...doubts?" Godou repeated.
"Yes. I had not meant to call on you at first," Ganesha confessed sheepishly. "I had wanted that lovely maiden next to you at first, but when you saw me pointing in your direction looking all so stunned, I thought it would have been a funny prank to play, but you ended up playing along before I could clear things up. Now I know that it was fate nudging me in the right direction!"
"A...funny...prank?" Godou must have misheard. Ganesha had meant to choose...Syr? "So...you never planned on choosing me?"
Ganesha folded his arms. "Of course not! Why would I? You never raised your hand!"
"So...you don't know who I am?" Godou asked, his mind still in a daze as he tried to understand the circumstances that had led to him fighting a Battle Boar in front of over a thousand people.
"I know who you are," Ganesha said very seriously. "My memory is not so bad. You are Godou, a chef from..." the god trailed off. He turned to Shakti, who had been watching the exchange from the side with an amused grin the whole time. "Shakti my dear, do you recall where our dear chef works?"
"He never said," the girl answered.
"No wonder," Ganesha said. "Please, Godou. Tell us where you work and where we can get a chance to sample your food. If you can cook half as well as you can fight, I'm certain it will be beyond delicious!"
He didn't know. Ganesha had no freaking clue who he was. He hadn't needed to come down and do this. Wait, but if Syr had been chosen instead...there was no way she could've accomplished the task without getting hurt. He nodded to himself. He did the right thing by going instead of Syr. That self-comforting realization made him take a deep breath and brought him back to reality, where Ganesha and Shakti were still waiting for an answer.
Mama Mia would never forgive him if she learnt that he gave up the chance to help her gain the patronage of a whole Familia. "The Hostess of Fertility," he said dejectedly. "I work there."
"A splendid name for a splendid chef, who is also a splendid warrior! I shall see you there tomorrow night, Godou!"
With that, Ganesha turned and left, just in time for a masked adventurer to whisper something into the god's ear.
"The Hostess of Fertility, huh?" Shakti said, not choosing to leave with her god.
"You've heard of it?" he asked.
"It's the favorite haunt for a few Familias, though I've never personally gone. But I guess you'll be seeing me there a lot more from now on, Godou."
"But you've never even tried my cooking yet. What if you don't like it?"
"It's all the better if you're a bad cook!" laughed out Shakti. She took a step closer to him, giving him an alluring look. "It's not your food I want, Godou, it's you."
Godou immediately stumbled backwards, realizing just how close Shakti was to him. Alarm bells went off in his head. Certainly, the age gap between her and him wasn't as big as that with Syr, but it was still very big. "No, you don't want me. I'm just humble chef."
"Oh Godou. " Shakti adjusted her hair and turned around. "I'm not going to stop pestering you at the Hostess until you've agreed to join our Familia," she said as s
he walked off.
Oh no, Godou realized. Here comes another one.
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