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Chapter 289: Gratitude

「You… Why the heck did they increase!? 」
That’s the first thing Dinosso said as soon as he returned.

Starting with Zabuton, the room was packed to the brim with the light spirits from the temple.

「It is due to a certain guide that a group of them arrived here. 」
No, I didn’t summon them. Because all of them are Lightball’s underlings, they weren’t able to reach my house, and this unfortunate event occurred.

The spirits I requested to move separately from us were mixed with the spirits who deserted the temple and were led here by Mischt and Halalfa, so it’s quite a spectacle. I didn’t know there could be so many varieties of light spirits.

Purely light spirits weren’t the only ones in here; there were also many mix types. The moonlight spirits with a tinge of darkness look exquisite.

Dean and Chris looked around the room dubiously. Khan, stop staring at me as if I’m the root of all this.

「What the heck are you talking about— Noth? 」
「It is beyond my purview. 」
「Hey, don’t reply right away with that smile, what happened? 」
Dinosso clutched his head.

「By ‘increase’, are you saying it’s the light spirits that followed after us from the temple? So is that why the room seems brighter than usual? 」
Dean can’t See, but he apparently felt the change in the room that was packed with light spirits.

「It’s as if we’re in a salubriously immaculate space! It is far more refreshing than the brothel. 」
Er, Chris? Is the brothel a refreshing place? Oh, come to think of it, isn’t that the place that completely replaces the fabrics everytime the customer changes, and is considered to be an exceptionally sanitary place unprecedented in this world?… so, is it refreshing over there?

「Two gorgeous deities named Mischt and Halalfa visited earlier. 」
Ash smoothly interjected.

For some reason, Dinosso was staring at Khan with a face that looked like he swallowed a bitter pill. Khan noticed it and he returned the gaze with a raised brow, before wordlessly turning away.

「Halalfa, isn’t that the Goddess of Beauty!? 」
Dean caught the bait.
「Both of them are deities fervently worshiped by women — although if they are real, they’ll probably have devout male believers instead. 」
Chris commented as he stood beside him.

「Eh, wait a sec, two deity-class spirits came here? 」
Dinosso seemed to have been enlightened because of the duo’s words.

「Mm. 」
Ash nodded.

Dinosso turned to Butler as if asking for confirmation.

「It is beyond my purview. 」
Butler slowly shook his head, and Dinosso collapsed on the bench.

「Well, that also happened. 」
「What the heck!! 」
Dinosso retorted loudly as he suddenly raised his head.

「By the way, where is Retze? 」
「Don’t gloss over it! 」

Dinosso couldn’t calm down for a while, but Butler just continued grinning.

「Retze’s talking to people here and there. He said he’ll be back by dinner. 」
Dean explained.

「How diligent. 」
「Chris and I are also doing that, but Retze’s good at knowing who to contact and what’s appropriate. 」
「He did say even before that doing so will save his job if he were to get promoted to Silver. 」
Chris’s brows looked like 八, the Japanese kaniji for eight, as he chuckled uneasily.

「Don’t make him worry too much. 」
Dean circled his arm around my neck while his other hand ruffled my head.

Right, didn’t he say before he came to the rental house that he’ll have a wife if he gets promoted to Silver rank?

「Retze is good at taking care of people. 」
Ash commented.

Seems like he’s concerned about me.

「Alright, I’ll strive to be better so that I won’t worry him. 」
「So obedient!? Then why don’t you consider my painstaking efforts too!? 」
Crying Dinosso was too noisy. That trait of his is kinda weird, but it also makes me a bit happy.

「I’m grateful for Retze and all of you guys here. I never thought I’d want to stay with other folks for this long before, after all. 」
Bickering happily with each other is unexpectedly fun. Still, I didn’t think my relationship with them would last this long, so it’s quite surprising that I’m included to go home to Canum.

「…You… 」
Dinosso mumbled before zipping his mouth. The mood turned awkwardly embarrassing —

「Just put the light spirits away first, will you? 」
Nope, it didn’t.

「So mean. I was being direct with my thanks, and yet you’re being like that. 」
「Yeah, it reached me, it reached us properly. So hurry up and put them away. 」
Dinosso urged me so I named them all and dispersed them.

「Oy, what are you gonna do with that huge thing under your butt? Hey, don’t crush that spirit. Or did you capture it? 」

「I’m planning to take Zabuton with me and use him as a cushion. 」
It’s comfortable to sit on, or should I say it feels weightless, so it’s pleasant.

「Hm? Zabuton…? 」
「It’s the spirit that possessed the Acolyte. 」
Dinosso seemed to get hung up on the word ‘Zabuton’, so Butler answered him.

「Jean, you mean to say you laid out a mighty spirit capable of restoring lost body parts under your bum!? 」
Chris screamed exaggeratedly.

「That’s because it’s a floor cushion. 」
「Your way of handling spirits is way too weird!! 」
Eh, but it’s a floor cushion, you know? Ahh, how unfortunate that you can only See the spirits as balls of lights.

「Didn’t you just say that you won’t cause people trouble? 」
「It’s fine, I asked the other spirits not to appear in front of people. Ah, but that’s impossible for the Deities. 」
Actually, I already told the spirits not to show up in the Canum house.

「But the appearance of the Deities is the most worrying matter of them all… 」
Butler was smiling with a subtle hint in it, but sorry, no can do.