Chapter 11
“So, you’re telling me to go meet that dog called Collie?”
“Yeah. Dogs can talk to each other, right?”
“Same dog?! I’ve told you multiple times that I’m not a dog, I’m a divine beast!”
“So, you can’t communicate? With a dog?”
“I can.”
“Good, that’s settled then.”
“Arf…….”
Lunchtime.
I met Tofu in the grass next to the prayer room of the substitute temple that Pepper visits every day.
‘Pepper said she visits the temple around this time every day.’
I have to return to the dressing room within an hour, so she’ll probably come within that time.
“By the way, Tofu.”
“Hm?”
“Your outfit looks a bit flashy today?”
Why are you wearing a hat? I chin-pointed at the yellow fedora Tofu was wearing.
At my question, Tofu raised his chin.
“I’m now a divine beast assisting the Magic Saintess! I wore it to look dignified!”
He looks funny.
“Can’t you take it off?”
“Arf arf…….”
“No, why are you barking…….”
I just told the truth, yet I have to see a puppy’s pathetic little front teeth.
“No matter how much you bark, the fact that you look ridiculous right now doesn’t chan—.”
“Woof!”
“Did you just bite me?!”
Just as we were butting heads and fighting like that for a while.
“Woof! Woof!”
“Don’t do it! Collie says it’s lewd!”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
“!”
What the—!
“It’s the direction of the prayer room waiting line!”
I scooped up Tofu, tucked him under my arm, and ran toward the sound.
When I pushed through the landscaped grass, I saw people lined up to enter the prayer room.
Somewhere in the middle was Pepper.
But the situation was.
“Woof!”
“I told you not to!”
Pepper was hugging a golden retriever bigger than herself and on the verge of tears, the golden retriever (probably Collie) barking “woof woof,” and two boys shooting a toy gun right into that Collie’s black eyes……
Two little boys?!
You crazy—!
“What the hell are you doing!”
I ran over and snatched the gun away.
The boys who had been giggling “Idiot, you missed” suddenly looked up in surprise at the adult who intervened.
More than ten tiny fingernail-sized rubber bullets were scattered on the ground.
These little shits……
“You mannerless brats, didn’t anyone teach you that shooting a dog with a gun is called execution…….”
“Seraphina!”
Tofu, who urgently cut in, whispered.
“You have to maintain dignity as the Magic Saintess!”
The Magic Saintess doesn’t execute people!
“Really?!”
What a bothersome rule!
Forcing the corners of my mouth up into a smile, I asked.
“Kids. What. Is. Going. On?”
The boys started yelling indignantly.
“She started it first!”
“Yeah! We were just trying to play with the dog, but she glared at us and told us to get lost!”
“That’s not playing! You were pulling Collie’s tail and bullying him!”
Pepper shouted back without backing down.
“You kept kicking him even though Collie was trying to run away!”
“These crazy…….”
They even kicked the dog?
“Instead of execution, flogging…….”
“Seraaaphinaaaaa!”
“I can’t even flog?!”
At that moment, a man who had just come out of the bathroom came running over in a panic.
“What’s going on here, young lady?!”
“Uwaaaah!”
“Daddy!”
The intimidated kids immediately hid behind their dad the moment they saw him.
“Is this gentleman the father of these children?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you perhaps see this?”
Your sons shot a speechless dog with guns.
Please take them home and teach them some manners. I said while maintaining the saintess’s smile.
“What?”
The man’s eyes widened after hearing the whole story.
Right? Even you’re shocked…
“You caused all this fuss over one damn mutt?”
“…?”
Did I hear wrong?
But the man was confident.
He looked at me once, then at Pepper behind me. After assessing our side’s forces, he rolled up his sleeves and raised his voice.
“My kids are only twelve, it’s the age when they love hunting games, of course they’d be excited seeing a dog! You’re yelling at kids just for kicking a damn dog a little? This is exactly why young women these days are the problem!”
As if that damn mutt is his own child!
“At the prime age for marriage, hugging dogs instead, no wonder you can’t tell what’s important!”
Great shooting! Straighten your shoulders!
“Real men don’t get discouraged over something like this!”
He even patted his sons shoulders for extra measure.
“Huh.”
Excuse me, sir! It’s my spirit that’s getting crushed! Is that okay?!
“This is unbelievable…….”
I adjusted Tofu under my arm and let out a hollow laugh.
“What the— there’s not just one damn mutt!”
Only then noticing Tofu, the man pointed aggressively. The fedora Tofu was wearing got knocked off by the man’s finger and flew away.
“Kyaa.”
Tofu shrank back.
That’s where my patience ended.
‘Fine. Let’s resolve this like a proper Magic Saintess.’
Like a Magic Saintess.
♡☆♧I slammed the two toy guns I was holding onto the ground♡☆♧
☆☆I grabbed the wrist of the man who was still pointing☆☆
♡Pyorong!♡
“Wha… what the!”
What do you think.
“Let go of this?!”
No.
“Let g— UAAAARGH!”
Surprised? I’m a bit strong.
The power of justice☆
“UAAAH! AHH!”
I yanked down the screaming man’s wrist.
“Sir.”
Uooorgh! I whispered softly to the man who came stumbling toward me.
Gently.
Like a Magic Saintess☆
“Dogs at least wear leashes if they can’t be controlled, but your kids have neither control nor leashes…… So what makes them better than dogs?”
If you’re going to raise kids worse than dogs, put leashes on them.
“Here, leash for you first, sir.”
I took a cheap ribbon from my pocket and tied it around the man’s thick neck. The man with the ribbon wrapped around his neck coughed, “Kgh.”
I grabbed the tightly tied ribbon and shook it lightly while speaking.
Listen well, the Magic Saintess’s admonition☆
“Yes, kids can be like that. They’re twelve. But are you twelve too, sir? Why aren’t you apologizing?”
“Kgh, kegh….”
“Apologize while I’m still asking nicely. I’m also at the age where I love hunting games♪”
It took less than a minute for the ribbon-necked man and his two boys to apologize and scram.
I told the people around who were staring at me.
“That gentleman was really weak.”
Probably used up all his strength letting his kids play hunting games.
“He couldn’t even beat a frail woman like me, the future of this country looks dark, doesn’t it?”
I clicked my tongue watching the man frantically running away.
Justice served☆
“Seraaaphinaaaaa….”
I shrugged while looking down at Tofu who was groaning from under my arm.
“I did talk it out, didn’t I?”
This is what a new-era Magic Saintess is like, so you adapt.
If you don’t like it, find someone else☆
“But why do you keep adding stars at the end of your sentences?”
“To look like a Magic Saintess☆”
“You looked like an outlaw saintess☆”
“Still a saintess though☆”
It’s fine. That man was just stretching his legs according to his sleeping space.
Think about it. If I were a big young man, would that man have raised his hand first?
“For example, someone like Arden…….”
“Why me?”
“Huh?”
I turned around.
I don’t know when he arrived, but Arden in the imperial knight uniform was standing behind me.
Arden alternated looking at me and Tofu tucked under my arm, then frowned.
“Were you just talking to a dog?”
“Nooooo?”
“I heard a voice.”
“I was just talking to myself.”
” Hahahaha”, I laughed and denied it.
Arden, not withdrawing his suspicious gaze, pressed further.
“I heard another person’s voice too.”
“You must have misheard.”
There are lots of people here!
“Hahahah”! I pointed at the crowd around us.
From the side, the golden retriever Collie looked at me and Arden, laughed “heof heof,” and wagged his tail.
“Friend, friend!”
I quickly pointed at Arden.
“See! That guy has yellow fur too! Go stick to him!”
“Woof!”
As if he’d been waiting, Collie put his front paws on Arden’s leg.
Yellow fur instantly conquered the black trousers.
Arden froze solid.
Because of his mysophobia he can’t stand it, but Collie is too excited so he can’t shake him off either…….
“Get away…….”
“Woof!”
‘Phew.’
I was letting out a sigh of relief watching Arden whose nerves were now completely focused elsewhere.
Someone tugged at my skirt from below.
“Big sis.”
“Mm?”
Pepper, with her sparse hair neatly tied into twin tails, was looking up at me.
“Big sis, big sis.”
Pepper asked.
“Um… can you make my dad disappear like that uncle from earlier too?”
“Oh.”
Pepper, you shouldn’t say things like that out loud.
People are looking……?
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