"Riku! Are you okay?!" shouted the goddess and she immediately ran to me.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine" I replied with bickering. I can't believe she's actually worried about me. Our relationship shouldn't have gotten that far yet, when have I ever waved the flag?
But, it seems I've misunderstood.
"You idiot, you really are the stupidest human I've ever seen!" said the goddess while pulling my collar very hard.
It made my eyebrows twitch.
Even though I'm here willing to sacrifice myself to save her, but what's with this bad treatment?
Shouldn't she be thanking me here while looking at me with the gaze of a person in love?
I really have misjudged her.
"You—" I wanted to reply. However, my eyes opened wide in shock before I could say anything.
She suddenly hugged me.
"...." Instantly, I froze.
My body froze, I didn't even know if she was going to hug me, so I didn't know how to respond.
What is it?!
Why is she suddenly hugging me?!
S-Should I hug her too?!
Seriously, how do I respond to this?!
How will the protagonists out there react when they find themselves in this situation?!
W-What to do?!
"Umm, Kami-sama..." I called out, but she didn't say anything at all.
This made the atmosphere awkward. My stomach is getting sicker.
Please, please say something. I can't hold out much longer.
I'll apologize if I'm wrong, so please don't stay silent, please do something about this atmosphere?!
Someone, please save me!!
As I screamed like that inside, I turned towards the Elf girl and the Elf who were also there with hopeful eyes. However, they immediately averted their eyes from me, and just walked away leaving the two of us behind.
No! That's not a signal to leave us!
Please save me from this situation!
Do not leave me alone!
However, they didn't understand what I meant at all and walked away leaving me with the goddess who was still embracing me.
Now there were only the two of us left, making the atmosphere even more crowded.
Seriously, what to do?
As I was thinking of you that, it suddenly started to rain and slowly extinguished the fire that had spread throughout this forest.
"...."
My face looked up at the sky, and looked back at the goddess who was still hugging me tightly. My mind is now a little calmer after the rainwater hit my head.
"Kami-sama..." I called out. But as I expected, she didn't reply at all, and just buried her face in my chest.
After that, I placed the glass on her shoulder gently. "Kami-sama, I'm sorry for making you worry. Now it's fine, I'm still alive," I said.
It was then, after several seconds had passed, that the goddess finally wanted to speak.
"Do you promise you won't do this again?" she asked and hugged her tighter, hers voice also sounded a little shaky.
I let go of hers arms from me, and there I could see hers crying face, along with the rain that kept on drizzling.
Her cheeks were also slightly flushed. Seeing that, I smiled and directed my hand to gently wipe away her tears.
"I promise I won't make you cry again," I answered clearly.
Then, she tightly gripped my chest and looked straight at my face with hers watery eyes. "Do you promise you'll never leave me again?" she asked.
Just then, I closed my eyes briefly, and after that, I embraced the goddess's body.
"Sure, it's an honor to always be with a beautiful woman like you. I may look like this, but I'm a real man who always keeps his word," I said confidently.
At first she was surprised, but slowly she also started to hug me too tightly.
She smiled faintly. "You're shaking."
"Noisy, I've been trying too, you know!"
"Fufu, could it be that this is too much for a virgin? If you continue like this, you will never be able to make your harem forever."
"Well, then I just had to go with the flow, and enjoy myself letting my girls fight over me."
"Oh my, you are really stupid. What do you think there will be a girl you like?"
"T-That we also don't know, right?! The world is still very wide, so I'm sure there are lots of girls out there who like me sincerely!"
"Really? So, for example, this time I said if I liked you, what would you do?" asked the goddess, making my eyebrows raise in surprise.
Then, I answered without the slightest bit of hesitation while giving her my thumb firmly.
"Of course, I will never let you go, and promise to give all my love to you!" I answered confidently.
"Is that so?"
"Well, no need to ask anymore!"
"Do you promise to give all your love without having to give it again to another girl?" she asked with a big smile teasing me and looking at me straight.
I immediately froze.
"T-That... O-Of course, I promise!" I answered in a trembling voice.
Hearing that, she chuckled.
"That sounds very dubious."
Uuh, I really suck.
"My goodness, weren't you the one who told me to promise?"
"But, you could be lying, right?"
"Then what should I do? Do you want me to prostrate before you while swearing that I won't lie?"
"Do you want to do it for me?"
"No, I was just kidding. Please forgive me."
"See, you can never be trusted."
"Uuh..."
"Well, forget about that. I understand what kind of character you are, so you don't need to worry about it."
Hearing that, I couldn't help but laugh stiffly.
Then, we continued chatting casually while embracing and getting wet by the rain.
This might just be lip service, but somehow it's really really fun.
After that, she finally decided to let go of the hug first, and at that moment, she looked at me with a serious look.
"...." I paused.
But, just when I thought she wanted to say something serious, she said.
"Alicia."
"Eh?"
"My name is Alicia. Haven't I introduced myself properly?" she said, smiling gently at me.
My eyebrows rose.
"Ah?"
Just then, she ran away from me while laughing loudly, then as she turned around to see my expression. She closed one eye, put hers hand over hers head in a cat-like fist and stuck out hers tongue in a grimace.
"Sorry~★"
Seeing that, I realized that she had been playing a trick on me.
It seemed she also realized that I had been thinking about hers name all along and waiting for the right time to ask. However, she instead told me hers own name without waiting for me to ask. Even though I intended to make this a heartwarming scene, she ruined it instead.
My goodness, she really is an annoying goddess.
I sighed in resignation, after that I chased her who had gone far away.
"Hey, wait! If you knew from the start, why didn't you tell me?!"
"Fufu, think for yourself!" she answered and kept running.
But, as she said that with a triumphant face, she suddenly tripped over a tree root and fell face down onto the wet ground, leaving hers face covered in dirt.
Seeing that, I laughed loudly at her.
But, she replied to me by throwing a lump of mud right at my face and started laughing loudly too when she saw me coughing and swallowing the mud.
My eyebrows twitched in annoyance.
It seemed that she wanted to start a war.
"...."
Then, right then and there, we started fighting by throwing mud at each other in the middle of the pouring rain.