Chapter 11 (1/2)

11、Bread, Thunder Clouds, and a Red Horse (A-side)

Not enough.

How strange, it wasn't nearly enough.

I panic and start patting down my clothes and feeling around for something, while Eleena gives me a strange look.

She holds a slender finger up to her lips and adorably tilts her head. It was an adorable gesture, but I have no time for that right now.

”Please pardon me for asking, but what are you searching for, Evil G.o.d-sama?”

”Ooh, Eleena. Actually, my Karma seems to have diminished from what I last remember.”

”I see...Karma, is it?”

After I bought clothes in the Celestial Realm I still had about 400,000 leftover, but now it’s only  about 350,000.

Also, the Karma is kept on something akin to paper money making it extremely convenient. They even have coins of it. I had always lived a modest life, so I knew the value of saving but...

“Ahh.”

It was then that I realized something horrible.

Could it be...

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Up until that point the sky had been clear, but then it suddenly became overcast and thundering.

Large raindrops began to pelt the earth, and it instantly became a dank downpour.

The slanted rain mercilessly bombarded the mossy walls of the abandoned castle.

”What the h.e.l.l is going on?!”

Drake ran in a panic, having seen an Evil G.o.d in the sky outside the castle.

He ran like some idiot had taken off with his wife.

”E-Evil G.o.d-sama?”

”Ah, it's you Drake.”

Dispirited, his shoulders dropped, and entered the abandoned castle as the Evil G.o.d waved to him.

Drake didn't have any rebuke to tell the careless G.o.d.

I found the cause.

Before I experimented, I had 354,317 Karma in my wallet.

The experiment was having thunder in the background when I ”say something important”, and the instant I used it I could see the Karma disappearing before my eyes. Now there was only about 300,000 left. In conclusion, if I call down thunder once, I can kiss 50,000 Karma goodbye.

All the more reason to save. I've got to save, however...

”Evil G.o.d-sama, we present to you our offering.”

”Oh, yeah.”

This is also a problem. Not only the expenditures, but also the revenue.

I take the bread Eleena holds out for me. I take it, but it also remained just like that on top of the tray.

Receiving the offerings was more like receiving the ”Essence” of the offerings. The way Eleena explained it, the things in this world and my world are overlapped, so what I take is my side of it. That's deep.

So, what I'm eating is my side of the bread. The leftover material substance of it...what happens to it?

”......Evil G.o.d-sama, this...it's most disgusting.”

Eleena knitted her brows together and stuck out her tongue.

But, she quickly remembered she was in my presence, and reverted her face back to normal.

d.a.m.n, that's adorable.

And so, the ”Essence” of the bread given as an offering is its deliciousness, or something like that.

Eleena ate the physical bread on the material plane, but you can see the results of that.

It may even have sapped the nutrients out of it.

And thus, my first great master plan fell apart.

The plan went thusly: