The Bed Is Quite Big 1

As evening fell, the sun drew in its dazzling rays and became a glittering golden disc. The cloudless sky stretched for miles, blue as a clear heavenly lake. Slowly, its color deepened, as though the waters of the lake were continuously growing darker.

At this moment, the modest shrine was bathed in the sunset's glow, covered in a layer of golden light and looking especially magnificent.

There was a stone bench on each side of the stone table in the shrine courtyard. Kujo Oto, Kazuko, and Kano each sat on one of them, watching Seele take some tea leaves and steep them once in an old-looking cup before pouring the tea into the other cups. Only after completing this ritual did Seele place the tea beside the three of them.

It was a way of making tea they had never seen before, but Kujo Oto did not know how to make tea either, so she did not ask. She simply assumed it was Seele's unique style.

"So Kano is Seele's divine messenger now?"

Kujo Oto looked at Kano before her. After knowing Kano for so long, this was the first time she had seen her sit there so obediently, without her usual arrogance.

Could it be... that becoming a divine messenger had changed Kano's personality so much? But no matter what... it was a good thing.

"As you can see!"

After pouring each of them a cup of tea, Seele finally poured one for herself and sat down on a stone bench.

"Kano, what happened that day? That demonic aura was so terrifying. When I went back, I found that the barrier had disappeared, and you were gone too. I... I thought..."

Kazuko clenched her hands tightly together. She had thought something had happened to Kano and had felt guilty