As Expected, She's a Useless Goddess (Please Vote)

"Roar..."

Low growls began to echo through the air, reaching everyone's ears with startling clarity.

"—!"

At that moment, Kazuma froze, Megumin froze, and even Aqua, who had been waving at everyone, froze in place. Beads of sweat began streaming down her once-beautiful face.

"Tap... tap... tap..."

Footsteps sounded softly behind Aqua.

Hearing them, Aqua did not turn around to look behind her. Instead, she wore an expression as though she were about to cry.

"Hey... you're all working together to fool me, right? Why are you all making those faces? Like there's some kind of monster behind me, right? You really shouldn't make jokes like that, okay? Scaring a Goddess can bring down very severe divine punishment, you know? Right? Right?"

Even as she said that, Aqua's voice trembled.

Seeing Aqua like that, even cold sweat began to trickle down Kazuma and Megumin's faces.

Then, the footsteps behind Aqua stopped.

Yet the indescribable silence completely ignited the fear in Aqua's heart instead.

"Roar—!"

Accompanied by a beast's roar, shadows sprang up behind Aqua and pounced toward her.

"Waaaaah!"

Almost at the same time, Aqua screamed and took off running for her life toward Fang Li's group.

"Don't come over here!"

"This is bad! Bad! Really bad!"

Kazuma and Megumin cried out at the same time, immediately turning around and running away without hesitation.

They could not help it.

What lay before them was simply too much of a test of courage for ordinary people.

"Save me! Save me! Don't run away! Please!"

Behind Aqua, who was sprinting toward them with tears streaming down her face as she wailed, several snow-white wolves were chasing after her desperately.

Not only were those wolves enormous, each one comparable in size to a sturdy horse, but the one in the lead was as