"To be precise, I was thrown here to save Ms. Adwina." Listening to Grossel's question, Sno put on a show of scratching his cheek, then spread his hands with an exceptionally harmless expression.
"Actually, I still haven't figured out what exactly is going on. Um, Ms. Adwina, could you tell me what sort of crisis you're in?"
"..." Adwina's expression turned slightly strange. Before praying to Paradox, she had also prayed to the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, but received no response.
That might have been perfectly normal for an ordinary believer, but Adwina was different.
Although, from certain perspectives, most people in the Church of Knowledge were not particularly devout, as a Pirate General backed by the Church of Knowledge, she held a certain status within it. By comparison with the Church of the Evernight Goddess, she would have been qualified to serve as an Archbishop at an ordinary city cathedral, or become one of the leading members of an elite squad like Goddess's Sword.
Under normal circumstances, if she prayed repeatedly, the God of Knowledge should have responded. Yet in reality, there had been no response at all.
After accidentally entering this world, she had prayed more than ten times without receiving any response. That was precisely why she had put on that ring and recited that honorific name, hoping to give it a try.
She had already prepared herself for either receiving a response or receiving none, but she had never expected the possibility of simply having a subordinate thrown over to solve the problem.
Could it be that, while a subordinate could be sent in directly, she could not be pulled out because this book was so high-level that one could only enter and never leave? Or was there some other scheme at work?
As she