Tonight was finally the night to learn from Mue how to use divine power. The anticipation was great, as it had taken a long time.
Looking at my sparkling eyes, Mue stroked his chin with short arms and spoke with some thought.
“But how should I teach you?”
“……What?”
This damn god.
“You said you’d teach me, Mue.”
“I’m confident in teaching. But since I’ve never taught before, I don’t know how to do it. I’ve understood how to use my power from birth without learning.”
“What about the priests?”
“Priests do well without teaching. And there’s a difference between the priests’ power and your power. The priests’ power is borrowed from me, but you have my power itself.”
I resisted the urge to grab the hamster’s head and smiled as I answered.
“You can tell me how to use the power when I want to use it, Mue.”
“Hmm.”
Mue pondered for a moment and then answered crisply.
“Feel the power inside you and just think you want to use it, and it’ll be used at will?”
“Shall I hit you?”
Oops. I said that out loud.
“Don’t hit me, then stretch out your arm.”
I stretched out my arm as Mue said. This time it really feels like he’s going to teach me something.
“I’m going to attack you, so think about defending.”
“Okay.”
“Surround yourself with a shield based on divine power.”
“Okay.”
“Try it.”
Do you think I can just do it if you tell me to?
It seemed like he was really going to teach me something this time, but it must have been a misunderstanding.
I recalled the feeling of drawing up divine power when I healed Levanfell’s body and used it in the proxy war last time.
“Hiyah!”
……I even shouted with some force, but there was no reaction. My face was flushed with embarrassment for saying it out loud.
Thump!
Meanwhile, the hamster bodyslammed my leg. Mue, who ran into my calf with all his might, fell back and rolled away.
“……Are you okay?”
The distant hamster looked at me with incredulous eyes.
“……Can’t you do this?”
It was like a sword master, a genius in swordsmanship, berating, ‘If you swing the sword, you become a sword master, can’t you do that?’
“It’s not that I can’t do it, it’s that you can’t explain it, Mu.”
“Heh. I thought it would be easy to teach, but there’s this language barrier.”
“You didn’t teach me anything with your words, did you?”
“Don’t you feel that the garden has become more desolate?”
At Mu’s question, I turned my gaze out the window. I hadn’t noticed because it was a scene I saw every day, but the garden seemed more withered than usual.
‘Could it be that destruction is getting closer?’
Mu stroked her chin and told me with a serious expression.
“The power is not just for healing. It’s life itself, so it can create a barrier to prevent evil energy from approaching, and sometimes it can attack to repel evil things.”
“Elihu only heals.”
“The use of power is different. The power that child uses is only borrowed from me, and you have it yourself. So I told you I would teach you how to use it. You should learn to defend first. You must know how to protect your body.”
“Uhm.”
“And.”
Mu’s eyes flashed strangely, and she murmured coldly.
“Don’t treat that rotten child tonight.”
The rotten child? Is she talking about Levanfell?
“No, not just tonight, it would be better not to treat that rotten child for the time being.”
Mu advised seriously.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
