第６５１堀：巫女 (Part2)
Kagura looked at me with hollow eyes. I immediately handed her the core as I saw her slowly reach out with her left hand.
As I did, the light that had been flowing into Kagura surged toward the core instead.
It was just like a kerosene pump, wasn't it?
Kagura quickly pulled her hand away from the jewel and poured the light stored within her body into the core I had provided.
"What's the status inside the jewel?"
"Indeed. The presence of the Goddess's offspring is gone."
"Good."
I confirmed this and immediately used the magic hand to shove the jewel back into the magic-skill-sealing safe.
"Steve, secure it!"
"Understood!"
Steve immediately set off to transport the hazardous material.
While that was happening, Kagura seemed to have finished transferring what was called Hairen's spirit into the jewel, and she collapsed into a sitting position.
"Kagura!? Kagura!?"
Princess Carrie was desperately checking on her condition.
As for the Kagura in question...
"St-stop shaking me!? Y-you're making me dizzy!?"
The way Kagura reacted as her body was being rattled back and forth didn't seem like a problem at all.
Actually, if she kept that up...
"St-stop. Ugh!?"
Naturally, she felt sick and emptied the contents of her stomach.
"Eek!? Kagura!? Kagura is—!?"
"Wait, calm down. Princess Carrie!? You're going to kill her!"
Princess Carrie panicked even more at the sight. Enora tried to restrain her, but it wasn't going well.
Seeing this, Rurua stepped in...
"Honestly. Princess Carrie, stand up!"
"Eep!?"
"You're in the way of the treatment. About-face and take a seat!"
"Yes!"
Princess Carrie immediately obeyed, reacting to Rurua's command with a spinal reflex.
Well, when it comes to medical matters, no one would dare defy Rurua.
"Honestly. Now, Kagura-san, other than feeling nauseous, is there anything else wrong with your body? A tremendous amount of magic power was flowing through you into the core just now. Even the smallest detail will do."
"N-no. Nothing besides the nausea... I mean, why do I keep throwing up like this..."
Kagura looked dejected.
Ah, well, it must be hard for a young girl to be seen vomiting in front of others.
Still, given the situation, it couldn't be helped.
Actually, the cause was...
"Hey, you water lizard. Properly apologize to Kagura."
"Indeed. This time, the water is at fault."
"Ngh. It is true that I spoke without thinking. I am sorry, Kagura."
Perhaps realizing that the water was indeed at fault, it apologized honestly.
However, it was only natural for Kagura to be intimidated by an apology from the god she served.
"N-no. It's not your fault, Mizutatsu-no-Mikoto-sama. For some reason, at that moment, I just felt that if there was a way, I had to touch it."
She replied as such, but it was a kind of trance state, and it was only natural for a shrine maiden to accept the words of the water she recognized as a god.
For now, Kagura seemed normal aside from feeling ill...
"Wait a minute!? Kagura's hair? Her hair!?"
"Hair?"
At my words, everyone's gaze shifted to Kagura's black hair.
Since they weren't close by, they didn't know what had started to change, but Rurua, who was closest, noticed the anomaly.
"Her hair is turning red!?"
Yes, just as Rurua said, the black hair was turning red starting from the roots.
"Eh? Eh?"
The person herself couldn't check her own head, so she had no way of knowing and looked puzzled at the black tips of her long hair, but the others couldn't hide their surprise as they watched the hair turn red, visible even from a distance.
"Kagura. Even from Mikos-chan's perspective, it looks like your hair is turning bright red."
"U-um, Kagura-senpai. A-are you okay!?"
"Eh, um, I don't really feel it, wait—oh, you're right."
While she was talking to Mikos and Solo, even the tips of her hair turned red, and Kagura transformed from a black-haired girl into a red-haired one.
We were confused as to why this was happening, but Enoru-san, the Archbishop, and Enora sensed the situation and called out to her.
"Say, Kagura. Did Hairen leave you with any messages?"
"Indeed. That beautiful red hair should be the symbol of the Goddess Hairen of the Hairen faith."
"If you passed Hairen-sama's spirit through your body, it wouldn't be strange if you heard something."
"Eh? From Hairen-sama? ...Huh?"
Asked this, Kagura seemed to feel something strange in her head, covered her face with one hand...
"Hi-hi! Hello everyone. It's Hairen."
Such a carefree voice emanated from Kagura's body.
Ah, I could tell. That was the sort of thing an evil spirit would do.
A "useless goddess," as the name suggests.
Kagura, who serves as a shrine maiden in her true capacity.
But even so, the one who descended was one of the useless goddesses.