"This..."
Faced with Kaguya's question, the God of Matchmaking awkwardly didn't know what to do. She was too embarrassed to answer.
She actually hadn't had a proper meal in several days. As a deity with barely any believers, she didn't even have offerings now.
But Inari was different.
Inari had a vast number of followers and shrines. The daily offerings were merely put out for show, so... the God of Matchmaking felt it was necessary to help this senior deity use up some of those offerings.
"You're such a pitiful god. No one even makes offerings to you?" Kaguya shook her head. This was the first time she had seen a deity this poor.
"So what if I'm poor! One day, I'll be as prosperous as I was before."
"But staying alive comes first for now!"
With that, the God of Matchmaking turned and walked over to Inari's offerings, taking more than half of the apples before her...
Inari received so many offerings every day that a few apples would hardly matter.
"..."
Kaguya and Fu Hua watched the God of Matchmaking's actions in utter speechlessness. If Inari saw her so unceremoniously claiming the offerings as her own, how would she feel?
"All right, I'm going back to find those two elders. No one is allowed to sever the threads of fate I protect! Those two are destined to marry, and I said so!" As she spoke, the God of Matchmaking took a fierce bite out of the apple in her hand.
Lovers were meant to be together. Even if they couldn't, they had to!
"You can barely take care of yourself..."
Kaguya looked at the suddenly confident God of Matchmaking, unable to understand where her confidence came from. She was a minor deity with hardly any believers and no