I found a great opportunity to give Sherria a voice while simultaneously explaining how the world works, so I added in this scene right before the end of chapter 40:
"Ii-na."
The crowd of girls sighed morosely. When Cute-sama reached for the
offered snack bowl Sherria quickly withdrew her hand as though
escaping from a hot pan.
"You
can go first." Cute-sama gave Sherria a perplexed look, worried
she had somehow violated good manners twice in a row.
"No,
I mean, you're a God and I'm a God Slayer, so I was worried if we
touched you might dissolve or something. . ." Sherria blushed
nervously.
Cute-sama
gazed at Sherria with wide-eyed shock, and then broke into laughter
so fierce she had to clutch her stomach.
"Oh
but don't worry!" Sherria waved her arms defensively. "I
was only raised to slay warui kami! Cute-sama is our Cupid, in other
words ai, so I'd never harm you!"
Cute-sama
looked like she was taking critical damage already. She wiped a tear
from her eye and seized Sherria's hands in hers, looking directly
into her face to show there was nothing to fear. "It appears
Gods are taken a little too lightly where you come from, so it might
help to think of me as a reality programmer instead. Reality is
exactly what I've made it to be with each passing second, the world
is newly created according to my blueprint with each tick, so it's
impossible for any power to go against me. In fact, every power
every one of you possesses is actually your minds sending a prayer to
me for the world to be changed in x manner, after which I remake the
world such that the prayer is granted, so long as it's in accord with
what your source works say your powers should be able to do.
Otherwise the paradoxes from clashing laws of nature would multiply
endlessly."
"So
that's how it works." Sophie nodded to herself satisfiedly.
There are other unfortunate maidens with only one word of dialogue -- Rinoa only ever got to say "Quetzlcoatl", but that's just how these things go. Maybe someday I'll find an opportunity for them to spread their wings too. At least now the number of victims can be reduced by one.
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