Ch 75 -- The Companion G.o.ddesses (Part 1)

　　Before Sui and I returned to to our room Fer reminded me, "Shouldn't you be making an offering to Ninril-sama sometime soon?"

　　His reminder was a surprise. It's not been a week since the previous offering but I had completely forgotten about it. Again. It might help, shameless G.o.ddess if you sent me an oracle from time to time to remind me... Saying that though she can get a bit shrill when she starts complaining to me telepathically about me being late with the offerings.

　　I opened up the Net Super and started rummaging through the menus to choose what I'd offer up this time.

　　"Western confectionery and j.a.panese sweets seem to be to her taste, so what would be good this time around...?"

　　This world doesn't have chocolate or other such sweets from my world. I also need to think about choosing snacks that will keep for a while. That disappointing G.o.ddess will have to wait a week after this offering before I make the next one after all.

　　I decided to put American chocolate-chip cookies in the Net Super's shopping cart, about twenty packs or so. I thought that would satisfy her for a time but when I went to buy them that shrill voice which had become distressingly familiar recently echoed in my head.

　　"Insufficient. I want more." Twenty packs of chocolate-chip cookies, and you still want more?

　　"How much sugary food can you eat?" I enquired, a vision of a fat G.o.ddess appearing in my mind. The deplorable megami-sama was silent, for once.

　　OK then, what else do you want?

　　"Hufufufu, I was waiting for you to ask. Some of those Western-style cakes and puddings and daif.u.ku and sweet bean jelly and, oh I absolutely must get some dorayaki and..." I held up my hand, hold on hold on. That's quite a big order to keep track of. I ticked them off on my finger. Cake and pudding, daif.u.ku, youkan jelly and plenty of dorayaki? That's it...

　　Right then, cake? I chose Mont Blanc and chocolate cake and added them to the cart. Pudding, the same custard pudding and pudding a la mode as before. Daif.u.ku, I bought two bean daif.u.ku and two strawberry daif.u.ku and followed up with a complete box of youkan jelly. Oh, and 'absolutely' dorayaki, three off. Will that do?

　　"Fine, fine. Just hurry it up." Don't rush me, disappointing G.o.ddess.

　　"Wow, no, no, no, why are you here?" The G.o.ddess said in a squeaky voice.

　　"Nice to meet you, other-world-guy-kun." A different female voice sounded in my head.

　　"The same, other-world-guy." Yet another female voice chimed in, gruffer than the previous one.

　　"........................" Yet another voice? Huh? What? Who?

　　"I saw what was going on the other day, Ninril-chan receiving delicious sweets from a different world. She was keeping it a secret from her fellow G.o.ds and G.o.ddesses to monopolise the source. Sneaky, huh? So I told everyone what she was doing, eating delicious sweets all by herself."

　　Oh, they are companions of the G.o.ddess. So the secret is out, finally.

　　"Don't hide yourself away, Ninril-chan. If you are eating delicious things, please let us know."

　　"That's right. It's not fair if it's only you who gets to eat such sweets."

　　"... ..." (A silent voice nodded in my head)

　　"Sh- sh- Shut up! Th- th- this guy, I- I gave him my blessing, it's the only reason I get offerings and prayers from him! Th- th- that's why it doesn't concern you lot." The deplorable G.o.ddess was panicking now.