Chapter 135: Matched Up / It Matches

The keyword "friend" gave Darkness a start; she hurriedly produced the black crystal of an Eris believer, dropped to one knee, and began offering thanks with an excited face.

"Lady Eris, is this Your guidance — letting me encounter a sincere friendship in a place like a beauty pageant?"

"Wait, you're one of Eris's people?"

"Yes, I am a Crusader who serves Lady Eris. What of it?"

Aqua crossed her arms, her small face scrunching up, and asked, "Have you ever thought of converting to another god — say, joining the Axis Cult and believing in the Water Goddess?"

Hearing that, Darkness went a bit dazed, but still shook her head: "How could I? The Axis Cult — I hear only people with brain problems join that sect, and my brain doesn't have problems, so how could I join a sect for people with brain problems?"

"Huh?!"

Aqua's eyes went wide, and her fists clenched tight.

"Besides, my family has been Eris believers for generations; even if the Axis Cult were a more normal sect, I could never change my own faith and serve any god other than Lady Eris."

Darkness's faith in the Goddess Eris is unwavering; this is also the faith passed down through the Darkness Family for generations.

"Then do you mind marrying a believer of the Axis Cult?"

Aqua suppressed the impulse to beat someone and asked again.

"Would you marry someone with brain problems?"

A normal person would probably counter with that question, but is Darkness a normal person? No, she isn't — she's a masochist.

So she seriously considered the future spouse she would marry: if it were a believer of a sect reputed to have brain problems, just how much trouble would that person bring her? Perhaps that person would get drunk and beat her, or want a beautiful wife like her to go out and earn money to support the family, supporting a good-for-nothing partner...

"I would be very del— cough, Lady Eris said to help those in need, so I wouldn't mind marrying someone who needs me as the other half of their life."

After a thought, Darkness added, "No matter how terrible that person is, and no matter what their faith is."

"Eh?!"

Aqua was a little surprised; she hadn't expected Darkness's answer to sound quite like that of a virtuous Crusader.

At the same time, Aqua's mind set at ease: "In that case, there's no need to make my disciple withdraw from the Axis Cult."

"Huh, that child is an Axis Cult believer?!"

Hearing Aqua's words, this time it was Darkness's turn to stare wide-eyed.

"What, you wouldn't stop wanting to be friends with him just because my disciple is an Axis Cult believer, would you?"

Aqua fixed a scrutinizing gaze on Darkness; if Darkness were the kind of hypocrite whose words didn't match her heart, she couldn't get past this goddess master.

"Nothing of the sort — how could I be unwilling to be friends with him?!"

Darkness hurriedly denied it; this was the guidance Lady Eris had given her.

【As expected of Lady Eris — Her heart is so broad, She even guided an Axis Cult believer to me as a friend...】

Darkness sincerely thanked the Goddess she served in her heart, because the Goddess had completely guided a new friend to her according to her own fetishes.

Wait, fetishes, friend? No, this isn't a friend anymore — it's the other half of one's life.

It matches, completely matches.

This morning's prayer in the church was exactly that — to gain a friend who would never abandon her.

And what friend would never abandon you? Why, the other half of your life, of course.

【Thank You for Lady Eris's guidance!】 Although she still wasn't familiar with the specific circumstances of that boy judge who would soon become her friend, Darkness had already prepared herself to date a fetish-match (scum-type opposite sex) and decided to accept the fate guidance her served Goddess had given her.

【Just how will that child treat me?!】

Darkness thought with some anticipation.

Aqua watched Darkness suddenly fall into a delusional state, not quite understanding what was wrong with this girl, but since the other party was still willing to be friends with Broly after learning her disciple was an Axis Cultist, that was enough for her, as the master, to acknowledge her.

"Good, tonight I'll take you to meet my cute disciple, and let you go make friends with my cute disciple."

Aqua said.

"Eh, this fast?"

"Making friends — of course the faster the better!"

"Then please allow me to prepare properly."

Darkness had never made friends this formally, showing some fluster, but her noble upbringing still let her calm down.

She absolutely had to attend tonight in full dress, to leave a very good impression before the new friend Lady Eris had guided to her.

Darkness seemed to have forgotten that the scene of her smashing boulders on her chest on the beauty contest stage had already left a deep enough impression on people.

Meanwhile, in the Spring City 【Axel】, the white-haired Goddess who had secretly descended from Heaven to answer a believer's prayer, preparing to become Darkness's friend under the alias Chris, was currently in trouble.

"You Eris Cult bastard, how are you going to compensate me for the antique bottle you smashed into me?"

The Axis Cultist said.

"I'm sorry, may I ask how much I need to compensate?"

Eris had never encountered this kind of situation; she could only keep apologizing to the person before her and prepare to take out her wallet to pay.

"Eh?!"

The extortionist Axis Cultist froze, not expecting this thief girl to be so easy to handle; his eyes turned, and he prepared to swindle her hard.

"This bottle of mine is from a hundred years ago..."

Just as this person began the bottle's history, an angry roar came from behind.

"You Axis Cult bastards, I've told you not to come out running extortion scams, ruining Axel's reputation!"

"Damn it, it's the City Guard! Hmph, you got lucky this time, but next time I'll make you, this evil Eris Cultist, lose everything!"

The Axis Cultist left those words and fled in another direction.

"Are you alright, little girl?"

"What on earth is this?"

"You almost fell for it, right? Those Axis Cult bastards, who knows where they learned the trick of staging accidents on passersby, then dragging them into the cult..."

The Security Officer grumbled and cursed, and only then did the Thief girl React, pointing at the Forest Elf's Shattered bottles on the Place and asking, "So, this isn't an antique anymore?"

"Of Course Not an antique, this is the Axis Cult's bulk Purchase of defective goods from the ceramic workshop, Place On a roadside stall it would sell for only four or five hundred Eris, and even then not necessarily Magic Have anyone want it……"

(Chapter End)