Goddess Kaleidoscope

"Aina, do you know where Kanna ran off to?"

"I don't know either! It'll be fine, she'll fly back on her own when she's tired of playing... Ah! Senior sister, you stole my meatball again!"

Aina, seemingly nonchalant, was grabbing food from Shanis while simultaneously giving Ludl an "OK" sign. As the chief goddess, Aina could always sense the state of her divine messenger, so when she said Kanna was alright, she truly meant it.

However, just as Ludwig relaxed, a woman's scream suddenly came from outside. Ludwig was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized that it was Olivia's voice.

"Holy crap! What's going on?"

Hearing Olivia's scream, Lude quickly put down his chopsticks and rushed out, followed closely by Romian. The remaining three looked at each other, their eyes darting between the hot pot and the doorway for a moment, before simultaneously shoveling the food from their bowls into their mouths and running out together.

Soon, the group followed the sound to the temple's backyard. Rud was the first to arrive and saw Kanna in her transformed state squatting next to the fish pond that Rud had recently set up, using her front paws to pin someone down in the pond.

Seeing this, Lude quickly stepped forward to stop Kanna's actions, then pulled her out of the pool and saw that it was Olivia, who looked completely terrified.

"Kanna! You've arrested the wrong person! This isn't a thief."

"Awoo!?"

Hearing Lud's words, Kanna, who had just been puffing out her chest in pride, looking like she wanted praise, was immediately dumbfounded. She looked down at Olivia, who was soaking wet, and realized that she was indeed just a young human girl. She scratched her head, then suddenly transformed back into her dragon form, threw herself into Aina's arms, and hid under the southern hemisphere, pretending to be pitiful, trying to get away with being cute.

Seeing this, Lu De could only shake his head and sigh speechlessly.

"You! You!"

In fact, the reason things turned out this way cannot be entirely blamed on Kanna. She had never met Olivia before, and when she flew back to the temple, she happened to see Olivia sneaking around the backyard "scouting" the place, so she mistakenly thought that the other party was a thief.

At this moment, Olivia was pulled out of the fish pond by Romian. It was now completely dark, and the temperature was approaching zero degrees Celsius. Olivia had been splashing around in the bath for a long time and was soaked to the bone. A cold wind blew by, making her shiver.

The little girl was still in shock. The water in the pool was not deep, only about ten centimeters deep, just enough to cover her ankles. Although Olivia was being held down in the water by Kanna, fortunately her face was up and her paws were on her waist, so she wasn't being hurt or drowning.

But Ophia, in her panic, screamed and struggled, which resulted in her current miserable state, soaked to the bone.

Ophia saw that the monster that had just attacked her had turned into a cat-sized creature in the blink of an eye, hiding in the white-haired nun's arms and refusing to come out. She pointed at Kanna with a trembling hand and said.

"What...what kind of monster is this!?"

"Her name is Kanna, and she's a two-year-old dragon. You just arrived at the temple today, and she hasn't seen you before, so she probably mistook you for a bad person. Don't be so scared; this little one is actually very well-behaved."

"A young dragon?"

Because she had been arguing with him on the way here and refused to speak to the knight who was escorting her, Olivia did not get much crucial information from him. She thought this place was just like the monasteries she had stayed in before, only smaller and more remote.

So when Olivia suddenly met Kanna in this way, she felt that her brain was a little slow to react.

Even if Ophia was completely naive, she didn't know what dragons were. They were the strongest beings in the world besides the gods. In many books and picture books that Ophia had read, there were "fairy tales" about evil dragons turning human cities into a sea of ​​fire, which could be called children's horror books!

But now Lud tells her that the creature that just pinned her to the pool was a giant dragon that hadn't yet reached adulthood, and that it attacked her because it mistook her for a thief. It's as if it's talking about a guard dog, but how could a temple in this world use a giant dragon as its gatekeeper?!

Olivia felt her worldview was severely shaken, and it wasn't until she sneezed several times in a row that she finally came to her senses.

"Luo Mi'an, quickly take her to the bathroom for a hot bath. It's so cold, she's easily getting sick from being wet like this."

"Okay, Master."

Taking off their coats and draping them over Olivia, Romian and Shanis each supported the still-shaken young lady as they ran towards the bathroom. Left behind, Lud glanced again at Kanna, who was nestled in Aina's arms, gazing at him with large, watery eyes, like a harmless kitten.

Just then, Hydra noticed something floating on the surface of the pool and scooped it up and handed it to Lud.

Lud took it and saw a half-drawn map, which looked like the structure of his temple. The drawing looked like graffiti and was obviously not done by a professional.

Looking at the map, Ludwig roughly guessed Olivia's purpose.

He didn't doubt that this rich young lady was an undercover agent; after all, in his professional opinion, he'd never seen such a mediocre colleague. The only possibility was, as Knight Lawrence had told him before, that this brat had already started plotting something on her very first day here.

End of this chapter

Olivia, who had just been taken to the bathroom, was still not fully recovered from the shock. She was in a daze as Romian and Shanis stripped her naked and pushed her into the steamy bathroom.

Olivia looked around and found herself in a very strange room. The walls of the room were made of milky white stone bricks of unknown texture, and the ground was covered with grayish-brown rocks. They were a bit rough to walk on barefoot, but that meant they wouldn't slip and fall.

In the very center of the room was a huge hot water pool that occupied two-thirds of the area, and the steam rising from it made the whole room misty.

Olivia murmured with some confusion.

Why is there a bathroom here?

Olivia knew that bathrooms weren't very common in the Kingdom of Duran. Most of the lower classes had no concept of hygiene, and many might not bathe even once every year or two. Nobles preferred to wipe themselves with soft, damp cloths, while only the imperialists in the south liked to soak in large pools.

Of course! It's not that all Durans dislike taking baths. At least Olivia's mother loved it. Her castle had a bathroom, and her mother hired a craftsman from the Empire to build it. Even Olivia, who didn't have much of a concept of money, thought that the gold coins spent on building that bathroom were a lot.

So when Ophia discovered that this seemingly unremarkable, remote little temple actually had a bathroom, she couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Just then, the bathroom door opened again. Hearing the noise, Olivia jumped aside like a startled rabbit. Turning around, she saw that it was the two nuns who had just helped her in. They had also taken off their clothes and entered. Both of them were only wearing towels, allowing Olivia to visually estimate the size of certain parts of their bodies.

Olivia, now fourteen, is the eldest daughter of an upper-class noble family. She has been raised in luxury since childhood, and her physical development is naturally much better than that of her peers. However, her figure, which she was once proud of, is completely inferior to the two people in front of her.

A very strange thought began to form in Olivia's mind.

"Could this temple possess some kind of extraordinary secret technique?"

At this moment, Romian, who loved to take care of others, noticed that Olivia was still standing blankly by the pool without going into the water, and couldn't help but ask her what was wrong.

"Don't just stand there. If you catch a cold, you need to take a hot bath to warm yourself up, otherwise you'll catch a cold. Is the water too hot?"

"Ah, I..."

Seeing Romian's concerned expression as she asked her, Olivia was momentarily at a loss for words. Although she had experienced bathing in a public bathhouse at a young age thanks to her family's circumstances, she had never bathed with anyone other than her mother, so she was somewhat at a loss for words.

Shanis, who had come in with Romian, had already taken off her scarf and was standing under the shower, washing herself. Even though Olivia didn't have that kind of fetish, her gaze still unconsciously drifted over.

Although she looked lazy and listless, Olivia thought that this black-haired nun was definitely the woman with the best figure she had ever seen in her life. Her hair was long where it should be long, and her eyes were round where they should be round. Her beautiful curves were a kind of perfect maturity that made the young girl who was still developing very envious.

However, the other party also gave Olivia a very dangerous aura. Not only were his eyes a bit scary, but he also had black tattoos that looked like snakes on his body, making people afraid to get close.

With Romian's enthusiastic guidance and help, Olivia also stood under the shower and rinsed herself thoroughly before tiptoeing into the water and hiding in a corner of the tub, keeping her distance from Shanis, who was sitting in a "boss pose".

The moment her body was fully submerged in the warm water, Olivia felt all her fatigue and cold vanish.

"This place... isn't entirely without its merits!"

Soaking comfortably in the pool, Olivia felt a rare moment of solace for her depressed mood that had been building up all along.

At this moment, Romian also finished showering and entered the pool. Seeing Olivia's beautiful light golden hair casually draped in the water, she took the initiative to help her put her hair up and wrap it with a towel.

Caught off guard by the sudden touch, Olivia instinctively shrank her shoulders, but when she saw that it was Romian who had reached out, she involuntarily relaxed. Although the other person was a demi-human girl with horns on her head, and Olivia didn't even know her name, she just didn't feel that she could trust her.

As the most popular junior sister in the entire temple, Lude always felt that this girl had the potential to become a "useless (god) manufacturing machine"! Not only is she very gentle, but she is also very willing to take care of people.

In her own words, as long as she sees the happy smiles of those she helps, she can also experience the taste of happiness, just like an angel!

"Okay, it's done."

Olivia reached out and touched the hair wrapped in a soft cloth (towel) on her head. She thought to herself that this was much better than her own maid's. She subconsciously wanted to say something "commendatory" to the other person, but she was embarrassed to find that she still didn't know the other person's name.

Olivia thought carefully. She had only been here for a few hours and only remembered that the priest in charge was named Lu something, but she didn't know the names of anyone else.

In fact, Ludwig had planned to introduce everyone to Olivia one by one during dinner, but she threw a tantrum and ran back to her room by herself, so it took her a long time to finally manage to utter a single sentence.

"Well, you did a good job, you deserve praise."

"???"

"Hey! Watch your mouth, you little brat!"

Before Romian could say anything, Shanis, the "Senior Sister of the Inner Sect," couldn't stand it anymore. This blonde little girl had annoyed her from the very beginning. Not only had she not enjoyed the hotpot dinner, but now she dared to speak rudely to Romian, who was treated like the "group's darling." If Lu De hadn't repeatedly warned her, Shanis would have loved to transform into her "second form" and show her her clingy little darling!

Olivia, who was already somewhat afraid of Shanis, was rendered speechless by this remark. She didn't understand what she had said wrong, since she always praised the servants like this at home, and everyone was happy to hear it.

Feeling like she'd been yelled at for no reason, Olivia wanted to retaliate, but she was completely overwhelmed by Shanis's aura. Just one fierce glare from Shanis was enough to frighten the young lady into shrinking back, looking so wronged she was almost in tears.

End of this chapter

Olivia felt that she had suffered more in this one day than in the previous fourteen years of her life. She secretly resented her mother's cruelty for leaving her alone in such a far place from home without even arranging for a maid or guard.

The naive young lady had no idea that even if she brought a hundred knights as bodyguards, she would still be no match for Master Lu!

Just as Olivia was secretly plotting how to escape, the bathroom door opened again, and two more large-breasted beauties, one in white and one in purple, entered. The white-haired girl was also holding a cute, black and white, fluffy creature the size of a cat.

Upon seeing the two enter, Romian greeted them with a smile, calling them "Senior Sisters." Olivia's gaze, however, was drawn to the adorable creature, which was also staring at her with its big, watery eyes.

Ophia recognized the little creature as the monster that had attacked her in the courtyard earlier; its size seemed to switch between tens of meters and tens of centimeters. The people of the temple said it was a dragon, but now, Ophia felt it was completely different from the dragon illustrations she had seen in picture books.

Well, in the dark, when Ophia couldn't see clearly, Kanna in her transformed state definitely scared her half to death. But now that they were in bright light, Ophia, while still shaken, couldn't resist reaching out to touch her. This adorable little creature perfectly embodies all the qualities of the ideal pet in most girls' hearts. In short, she's incredibly cute!

"Is this... really a dragon?"

"Yes! But Kanna is indeed quite different from ordinary dragons in many ways. Master calls this mutation."

Olivia nodded as if she understood, then looked around. There were now five girls and a baby dragon in the pool, including herself. The pool, which she had thought was quite large, now seemed a bit crowded.

Seeing that Olivia's expression was still very reserved, Romian seemed to understand what she was thinking, so she spoke to her in a generous and open manner.

"Oh, right, you just arrived today, so we haven't had a proper introduction yet! My name is Romian, and I'm currently a nun in the Medicine God Cult, undergoing training as an apprentice priest. This is our senior sister, Shanis; she's a very skilled martial artist, stronger than many knights. This is our second senior sister, Aina... well, she's a very kind and easy-going person. This is our third senior sister, Hydra..."

With Romian's introduction, Olivia greeted her fellow female students soaking in the same pool in an extremely "frank" manner. Looking around, she finally confirmed a sad fact.

I seem to be the youngest in every way!

For the girls living in the temple, taking a bath has become an indispensable "life ritual" every day. After everyone had bathed enough, Romian took Olivia back to the changing room. Her original clothes were already soaked, so Romian offered to lend her a set of her own nun's clothes to wear.

In terms of status, Olivia is an "outer disciple" of Ludwig, and since she has not been baptized, she is not considered a nun and is not required to wear the uniform. Sharing the same status are Ger, who is currently studying medicine at the boarding school, and the Viscount's twin siblings.

The two women appeared to have similar builds, but Olivia discovered quite a few differences after actually wearing the clothes. Aside from the diamond-shaped opening on the back designed to reveal the wings, which made her slightly uncomfortable, the most subtle difference was the slightly loose fit around the chest area, which dealt another blow to Olivia.

The two returned to their dormitory together, and Romian helped Olivia put her clothes from her suitcase into the wardrobe, explaining the temple's rules as she did so.

Olivia hated hearing this the most. The reason she caused trouble in other monasteries was because she couldn't stand the constraints of those rules and regulations. But to Olivia's surprise, this temple, although it had many rules, didn't seem to be as strict as she had imagined.

Seeing that Olivia still looked confused, Romian smiled and said that she would take her around the temple and town tomorrow, and she would get used to life here in a few days.

Perhaps because of the day's ordeal, Olivia was truly exhausted. Not long after Romian turned off the lights, Olivia, who had previously complained that the bed was too small, quickly fell asleep.

At that moment, a semi-transparent figure suddenly passed through the wall, strangely poking half its head in. After looking at the two girls in the room and confirming that they were indeed asleep, it quietly turned and left, returning to the temple's basement to report to Lud.

"Master, they are all asleep."

"Very good, then we can begin!"

In the temple's vast underground hall, humans, gods, the undead, monsters, and dragons gathered together. Besides the "old guard" that Lud had personally cultivated, Fran also brought along the Hearth Goddess residing within her.