She wasn't surprised that the shrine priest and others chose Riki Tsunomiya after she lost in the end.
However, in that case, the game would be considered lost.
After the selection process ended and she returned to her room, Su Deng opened the game system control panel to check the data.
The sections for combat strength and weapons have both become blank.
Health Points: 75
good.
"Haruko."
At that moment, Quan Gongsi suddenly entered from outside.
Su Deng put away the panel.
Quan Gongsi asked her, "I watched you train. Your full skill level is much higher than this, and it's impossible for you to jump so badly. Did you deliberately lose to Tsunomiya Riki?"
Su Deng: "...No."
She simply hasn't learned it yet; she can't jump it well.
But Konji-no-miya didn't think so. She sighed and said, "Jimiya Riki is indeed better than you in many ways, but beauty is also your weapon. Don't be sad if you don't get selected. You can go to the shrine and become a little shrine maiden."
The junior shrine maidens have very low positions and their duties mainly involve greeting guests, doing odd jobs, and serving those who come to make prayers.
Su Deng smiled and said, "I'll consider it."
After Kōji left, Tsunomiya Riki came to find her again.
Riki Tsunomiya held Acha, who had somehow returned to find her, her expression complex, her eyes filled with deep pain: "Haruko, I'm sorry."
Su Deng said, "You haven't done anything to wrong me."
Riki Tsunomiya lowered her head: "If I hadn't come back, you would have been the priestess."
Su Deng smiled faintly: "You don't think I'll hate you because of this, do you?"
Riki Tsunomiya opened her mouth, wanting to say something but unable to. She carried Acha to the window and looked at the red maple tree on the hill behind the house that never withered throughout the year. After a while, she finally spoke.
“Haruko, we both have reasons for becoming shrine maidens. Although we have only known each other for a short time, you are my second friend since childhood. Whether you consider me a friend or not, you are my friend.”
She pursed her lips: "But I will not forget or abandon my responsibilities and the destiny I was born with because of my friends."
“My fate was sealed from birth. I had no choice but to become a priestess.”
"Haruko, do you know why I let you escape?" Riki Tsuyomi turned her head to look at Suden beside her, her eyes filled with even more pain: "Because, a shrine maiden is a sacrifice to the gods."
"The Witch God Festival is a grand ritual to worship the gods. They select the purest and most beautiful human girls to become witches and offer them as sacrifices to the gods at the festival. It is a painful ritual."
"But they depicted this offering in great detail as the bride of the gods, the spokesperson of the gods' will to the world..."
"Even so, I will become a priestess at all costs, and dance the dance that I have been practicing since childhood and have been forced to dance thousands of times, to the god, to become his bride, to become his sacrifice."
"If you die because you can't be a priestess, I can only apologize to you, but I can't give you this position, because I have never had any choice since I was born."
Riki Tsunomiya's voice choked with emotion. She closed her eyes, then opened them again: "If I could, I wish I had never been born. I wish I hadn't been born into the Tsunomiya family, hadn't had to learn to dance, and hadn't become a sacrifice to the gods."
She also longs to go back to many years ago, to become that innocent little girl dancing in the snow, who met a little monster and a cat.
They watched her dance the dance she had performed countless times for the gods. She liked them and wanted to dance for them. At least, at that time, she was happy and doing it willingly.
And now, she is finally going to perform that dance for the gods.
Even if I don't want to, even if it's painful.
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