After that event, the high priest decided to exile the both of us from the temple entirely. But before he does that, the high priest does something to me and I do feel something was taken from me. He also does the same for the fake goddess… though I do know whether the fake goddess has that same feeling or not since she's not from here.
When that happens, all of the acolytes there seem to look at me in an ashamed look. As if we did something horrible here. We are simply chatting and that's all there to it.
Of course, I did try to explain but the effort was mostly futile since the high priest didn't listen to any of it.
"Listen! All of you shouldn't be doing this act, you all should know well that purity is the one that allows us to use lights magics and it will make us stronger!" The high priest said that towards all of the acolytes there.
Upon hearing that, I figured out that all of them were virgins. Since if the high priest mentions purity, that might be the case here as there's no other way to describe it.
Who has thought that purity is one of the factors to our strength as this is the first time I ever heard about it. Well of course the anime had this kind of stuff already but mostly it only applied to female priests… not a male ones.
I guess there's a lot of things that I didn't know yet in this world.
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With all of that, the high priest then kicked us out just like that from the temple. He wouldn't even give me time to gather my stuff at my room as he just does that. Even our actoylets cloth were taken as we are just given some dirty rags to wear as the high priest kick us out.
So we left the temple without anything in our hand, not even some coins…
It was absolutely the worst case here but what else could we do unless to just move on from this place. No matter how hard we beg them, I'm sure that they wouldn't let the both of us enter the temple again as for them… we are a disgrace for doing something that we haven't done at all.
The best we could do now was head to the nearby village, which is kinda far from here but if we start walking right now. We should at least be able to reach it before dusk… At least that's my estimation.
The only reason I knew there's a village in the first place was because I walked past that area before…
Because when we arrived at that village, the first thing I needed to do was figure out what I would be doing next. Since all of this has somehow been altered from what I went through before and of course the case about this fake goddess as well.
There's a lot I wanted to ask about that stuff but this place isn't good to be having a conversation since the temple guards are kinda glaring at us right now. Surely if we stay here for a bit longer, they would soon take action so it's best for us to just leave on our own.
"Let's go… just follow me as I wouldn't want you to get lost here." I said that as the both of us began walking away from the temple.
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The atmosphere between the both of us was kinda awkward, as none of us dared to speak anything. Some part of it was because I was kinda mad at her, as she had lied about being a goddess.
Though I know for a fact that even being a fake, she isn't a normal being at all. As there's no way she could be in the realm of the dead or that would be called that place. So the possibility of her being one of divine beings is still there but probably as an angel.
It doesn't feel right to not have a few words along the way and if this continues, for sure the both of us would be having a hard time communicating later on.
So regardless of my angry feelings towards her, I need to break the ice by at least saying a few words to her.
But before I could even say anything… The fake goddess held my hand all of the sudden.
With that, I quickly look towards her to ask why she does that but after seeing it. I just let it be… why? Because she shows the expression of being afraid right now. Thus I realized something about her and that was she's pretty scared of what's happening now.
Even if she's a being higher than us humans, for sure this is a terrifying experience for her to be in right now. As she didn't expect that she could be here and without having no knowledge about this world. It's only natural for her to feel that way.
Because the same could be said to me when I first woke up in this world, I did have that kind of feeling as well but I somehow managed to act fine in front of others. All because of one reason, that's I was a loner back then and I always suppressed my emotions within me.
But for her, it might be a different case and I was the only person that she knows in this world.
So seeing her act like this, my anger was somewhat subdued as I know even she doesn't want this to happen. Also there might be a reason why she lied in the first place… though I do not know why.
I hope that it's a good enough reason at least but for now… I think it's best for me to just assure her that everything is fine so that she wouldn't be this scared for now.