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"Ugh..."
"Ah..."
In the shrine corridors, one priest after another collapsed onto the ground, looking as miserable as though they were suffering from motion sickness.
That was only natural.
Unlike the Shrine Maiden Princess responsible for remaining here, although some of the shrine's full-time staff possessed some training in sorcery, none of them were particularly proficient.
The Shrine Maiden Princess assigned to remain at a given shrine was a spiritual practitioner formally commissioned and dispatched here by the Orthodoxy Compilation Committee.
Because the locations they were dispatched to were important spiritual sites throughout the country, with entirely separate command systems, even the head priest of a shrine could not give orders to a Shrine Maiden Princess. Instead, they were treated as honored guests.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the most accomplished sorcerer in a shrine would likely be the Shrine Maiden Princess stationed there, rather than the shrine staff.
Using the entertainment industry as an analogy, it was simply the difference between a celebrity and the staff.
As a result, these shrine staff members, whose sorcery training was not particularly advanced—or who had no attainments in sorcery whatsoever—were all overwhelmed by the Cursed Power fluctuations filling the air like crushing pressure.
Under such circumstances, Yuri Mariya, Ena, and Toma Amakasu desperately raised the Cursed Power within their bodies, resisting the pressure around them as they struggled forward as though walking against an invisible gale.
Glancing around at the shrine staff lying on the ground in agony as though suffering from motion sickness, Yuri Mariya spoke worriedly.
"They should be all right, shouldn't they?"
"Don't