Miss Player, please don't cast spells on me.

Kiyono Hui brewed a cup of hot tea for the two goddess ladies and then sat down opposite them.

"Nothing."

Rena Takigami took the hot tea handed to her by Hai Kiyono and took a big sip. Then she exhaled a breath of hot air and stretched her legs out on the tatami mat to sit comfortably.

At the same time, she stretched her little foot forward, probably to relieve leg fatigue.

Judging from Takigami Rena's contented expression, she seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed her dinner.

Rena Takigami has the face of a Japanese princess, but when she relaxes in private, she can look rather sloppy.

In contrast, Sayaka, who sat next to her, always sat there gracefully and... extremely imposing.

"I came here simply to thank you... Xia..."

"Kiyono Hai, Takigami-senpai, you can just call me by my real name." Kiyono Hai took this opportunity to give a brief introduction.

"Well then, Kiyono-kun, I came here simply to thank you. As for the reason for my gratitude..."

Suddenly, Rena Takigami braced herself on the tatami mat with one hand, made a gun gesture with the other towards Kai Kiyono, narrowed one eye, aimed at Kai Kiyono, and then gently fired.

"You should understand this very well, shouldn't you?"

The fact that Rena Takigami made this playful little gesture actually reflects the changes in her mood throughout the afternoon.

She initially learned that the screenwriter who wrote the eleventh episode of "21 Rain" was likely Kiyono Hai.

Rena Takigami just wanted to run up to Hai Kiyono and grab him by the neck to question him.

Why add such a shameful lesbian scene to 21Rain?!

When she actually arrived at the producer's house, Rena Takigami calmed down a bit.

No matter how outrageous the lesbian scenes written by Kiyono Hai were, he successfully pulled back the declining popularity of "21Rain" with this episode.

During her journey, Rena Takigami was only looking at her phone when she saw the online discussions about this episode, which had completely exploded.

Within just a few hours, discussions about episode 11 of "21 Rain" climbed to tenth place on the trending list of the animation section on BluePush.

This led to the situation where Rena Takigami should have loudly reprimanded Kiyono Hai after seeing him, but unfortunately, the eleventh episode of Kiyono Hai's "21Rain" was just too good.

After Takigami Rena tasted Kiyono Hai's excellent cooking, even the last bit of resentment in her heart disappeared.

Finally, when she sat facing Kiyono Hai, all she could think was a slightly indulgent thought: "I really can't do anything with a junior like you who's causing trouble!"

"Of course I understand. Is there anything else besides that?"

To increase his own fame, Kiyono Hai directly asked Sakai Iori to add his name to the screenwriter's list for episode 11 of "21 Rain".

Therefore, it's quite normal that after Takigami Rena learned her real name, she realized that she was the culprit behind the lesbian scenes in "21Rain".

"Anything else?"

After Takigami Rena's little feet tapped restlessly under the table for a while, she decided to make a very strange request to Kiyono Hai.

"That's probably because I hope Kiyono-kun will treat my followers well and not abandon them after starting something."

"believer?"

The moment Kiyono Hai heard this keyword, he immediately thought of a very special category of deities that exists among the world's gods, namely...

"Takigami-senpai, are you perhaps a descending god?"

"You know information about the Descent Gods? That makes things much easier. Yes... Sayaka and I are both Descent Gods."

Rena Takigami pointed to herself and then to her friend sitting next to her.

The gods in this world can be roughly divided into two categories.

One type is the most common native god, like Kiyono Hai. To become a native god, one must either be born with divine blood or be chosen and transformed into a god through a performance ritual.

The second type is 'descending gods' like Rena Takigami and Sayaka.

As their name suggests, although they have the bodies of female high school students, their inner souls come from the true 'gods' of various other worlds.

Of course, Takigami Rena and Sayaka's mental age should still be no different from that of seventeen or eighteen-year-old high school girls...

They only have memories of their past lives as gods in another world, but their divine personas disappeared when they came to this world.

Kiyono Hai has heard many different explanations for why gods from another world are reincarnated into this world.

One theory is that this world is a source of faith power, and they are here to compete for the faith power of the people.

Another possibility is that their own world is on the verge of destruction, so they choose to be reborn into this world in search of a chance to survive.

Rena Takigami is clearly the latter.

Because gods who come to steal the power of faith generally do not reincarnate their followers into this world along with them.

In battles between gods, mortals will always be a burden.

Rena Takigami, however, brought a group of believers with her to be reincarnated into this world.

That means the world she originally lived in was on the verge of destruction, or had already been destroyed.

However, believers are unable to retain their original memories when they are reborn into this world.

They will become like ordinary people and blend into the world, and only their respective gods will be able to distinguish them.

"Did Takigami-senpai ask me not to abandon your followers after starting something? Is it because one of Xia Nuo'er's admirers is a follower of Takigami-senpai?"

Kiyono Hai quickly deduced the reason why Takigami Rena made this strange request to him.

"Yes."

Rena Takigami felt a headache coming on again and gently rubbed her fair forehead with her hand.

"Because of my special arrangements, most of my followers are female high school students from Xinyuan High School or surrounding high schools."

"The game 'Rose Kingdom' seems to be popular among them, so I'll give them the faith power they need."

"I just hope you can treat them well, like not disappearing after the third playthrough... accompany them through the whole process, and give them a happy ending when the show ends."

While Takigami Rena was entrusting these things to Kiyono Hai, she lightly swiped her finger... and a notification popped up in Kiyono Hai's eyes: "Received 500 points of faith power from Miketsukami."

A full 500 points of faith power—judging from the fox lady's expression, this should just be a deposit.

"To be honest, I have mixed feelings right now."

Looking at the tip from Miss Fox, Qingye Hui felt a very complicated feeling.

"How complicated is it?" Takigami Rena thought this deal should be a good deal for Kiyono Hai.

"How should I put it? It's kind of like a mother paying money to find male escorts for her unmarried daughters...?"

The moment Kiyono Hai said those words, Sayaka, who had been silent all along, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

It took Takigami Rena a few seconds to react, and the next second her face turned bright red, down to her ears.

The little foot under the table suddenly kicked at Kiyono Gray.

"What nonsense are you talking about! I'm just responding to the wishes of my followers!"

Kiyono Gray originally wanted to grab the little foot that the fox lady was kicking at him, but since Kiyono Gray and she weren't familiar with each other yet.

So Kiyono Hai could only use the cushion to block Takigami Rena's kicking foot, and casually asked a question that he cared about a lot.

"Takigami-senpai, as a god, is it necessary for you to grant such trivial wishes to your believers?"

"It's just dating characters in a game. If your divine duty is to be a god of love, shouldn't you find them suitable husbands in real life? That's what makes them happy, isn't it?"

Kiyono Hai answered calmly, so calmly that Takigami Rena began to believe producer Sakai Iori's assessment that "this kid seems a bit frigid?"

Kiyono Hai's questions touched a raw nerve with Takigami Rena.

This made Rena Takigami take a deep breath, and then she suddenly stared at Hai Kiyono with an extremely serious look.

"Because they won't live much longer."

"My believers, your lovers in the game, or rather, some of the heroines in the game who love Shanor the most... they won't live much longer in reality."

When the fox lady stated this fact in a heavy tone.

At that moment, Kiyono Hai suddenly realized a way to enter the heart of this fox lady.

But what I care about more than this ash is...

"Takigami-senpai, could you tell me the reason in detail? It's about your followers all having short lives."

Chapter 22 The Way to Redemption

When Kiyono asked her about the lifespan of believers, Takigami Rena didn't hide anything.

The fox lady told Kiyono Hai a story in a somewhat sad tone.

A story about what happens when a world reaches the end of its lifespan and is on the verge of destruction.

Just as Kiyono Hai had predicted, this fox lady came from a dying other world.

The country that the game "Rose Kingdom" is set in happens to be in this other world.

However, according to Rena Takigami, the country where "The Principality of Roses" is set is too far from the country that believes in her, and the performance is of too low a level, so for her, it only serves to waste her time.

That being said, during the time Kiyono Hui played Shanor in "The Principality of Roses," he never felt that there was any part of that world that gave him the feeling that "the world is about to end."

Even if Shanor didn't have much contact with the otherworldly people in "The Principality of Roses".

Kiyono Hai could also sense that the people of that world were still living in a state of 'keeping the music playing and the dancing going'.

Rena Takigami's answer to this was... "The way to die is different in every world."

The way she died in her original world was like a clock that got stuck, constantly rewinding to a certain point in time.

Time in that world was frozen in the last 180 days, which meant that time would rewind every six months.

No one except the gods can escape this regression; whether it's memories, personality, or even death, it will be erased by this regression.

It's no wonder that when Kiyono was playing Xia Nuoer, she was completely unaware that the world was on the verge of death.

Because 'time rewind' and 'world line reset' are the most common game mechanics.

However, Kiyono Hai did not expect that this mechanism was not brought about by the "performance", but that the world itself was like this, and the "performance" was just helping to reset it in advance.

"The world will be constantly reset. To put it pessimistically, isn't that equivalent to immortality?"

Kiyono Hai shared some of his thoughts on the situation in Takigami Rena's hometown world.