"Please help yourselves." Tengen Uzui placed the last dessert on the table.
Since they were willing to forgive them just for treating them to a meal, then they would treat them. It wouldn't cost much anyway. The money in the Celestial Realm was just a number to them, merely symbolic.
The Celestial Realm naturally had its own currency, called "Divine Coins," which were created by the Little Angels.
"That's more like it, but what do you call me?" Aqua picked up a small cake, stuffing her cheeks like a squirrel, her eyes bulging.
"Great Goddess of Water, Lady Aqua." A tic mark appeared on Tengen Uzui's forehead, and he couldn't help but clench his fists. His fists hardened, but he endured. Who told him he couldn't beat her? Once he became a god, he would definitely make her call him back, make her loudly call him 'Lord God of Splendor'.
"Your voices are too quiet! Haven't you eaten?" Aqua slapped the table in self-satisfaction. "Also, is this coffee? It's clearly just plain water!"
Tengen Uzui's face was now completely filled with tic marks. He swore that if this seemingly unintelligent woman continued to scold him, his rock-hard fists would immediately land on her hateful face.
Although he had to admit that this Goddess of Water named Aqua was indeed impeccably beautiful, he just couldn't help but want to punch her.
And do you think I'm blind? You're the one who turned the coffee into water! You lie through your teeth without batting an eye, your shamelessness is unbelievable!
"Why aren't you speaking? Are you mute?" Aqua was completely unaware that she was about to ignite a powder keg.
"Go to hell! What goddess? Take a punch from me first!" Tengen Uzui exploded instantly.
Before he could even land a punch, Kyojuro Rengoku and Sanemi Shinazugawa firmly held him back.
"Tengen, don't be impulsive, you can't win."
"That's right, Tengen, just bear with it. No need to get angry."
"Let go of me! Look at her attitude, so foolish. Where's the dignity of a god?
Even if I can't win, I'll at least scratch her face." Tengen Uzui was burning with rage.
"What? You're scolding me again? You're just a mere Apprentice God. Not bowing down immediately upon seeing the great Lady Aqua is a great disrespect!" Aqua's cheeks puffed out even more than when she stuffed them with sweets, and she commanded Kyojuro Rengoku and Sanemi Shinazugawa: "My servants, drag this disrespectful fellow who disrespects Lady Aqua out and execute him!"
"Huh? Servants—" Sanemi Shinazugawa's face darkened, and he loosened his grip on Tengen Uzui.
"Sanemi!" Kyojuro Rengoku's face changed drastically.
"Kyojuro Rengoku, this is no longer a simple matter." Sanemi Shinazugawa looked at Aqua, cracking his knuckles with a dark expression.
"Heh heh, well done, Sanemi." Tengen Uzui also grinned, cracking his knuckles.
..."
Aqua's expression stiffened as she looked at the two individuals whose magic power was rising. Cold sweat involuntarily broke out on her forehead.
She didn't know why, but even though she was a true goddess, an elite among goddesses, she felt as if she would be beaten black and blue in front of the aura of these two 'Apprentice Gods'.
"I, I am the Goddess of Water—"
"Heh heh heh—Goddess of Water, huh." Sanemi Shinazugawa and Tengen Uzui sneered.
"He, help!" Aqua, frightened by their two sneering faces, got up and ran, shouting for help as she went.
"?" Sanemi Shinazugawa and Tengen Uzui froze, looking at each other in confusion.
Both of them had prepared to fight with all their might and face a brutal beating, but they didn't expect the true goddess, who was so much stronger than them, to simply flee.
This isn't right, is it? Was she scared enough to call for help by them, two weaklings?
"Hmm?" Kyojuro Rengoku was also full of questions. What was going on? He was about to intercede for Sanemi and Tengen, but the goddess had run away instead.
"Oh no!" The goddess's cry of distress brought them back to their senses.
Upon closer inspection, they realized that the goddess had run directly into Lord Xia Wei, who had appeared out of nowhere, and then fallen flat on her backside.
Aqua looked up, her eyes brimming with tears, and threw herself onto Xia Wei's waist, crying loudly with all the grievance she could muster.
"Waaah, Xia Wei, these three Apprentice Gods bullied me! After scolding me, they not only didn't apologize, but they even tried to gang up on me! You must help me!"
Cold sweat broke out on Kyojuro Rengoku and the other two.
What's going on? Reporting directly to Lord Xia Wei, are you a child?
"Is that so?" Xia Wei looked at Kyojuro Rengoku and the other two.
Kyojuro Rengoku, Sanemi Shinazugawa, and Tengen Uzui all broke out in cold sweat. Aqua hid behind Xia Wei, smirking at the three of them. Coupled with the tears on her face, it didn't make her look pitiful at all; instead, she looked particularly annoying.
"Um, Lord Xia Wei, the matter—"
"No need to say anything. Is there anything I don't know?" Xia Wei said, and then delivered a hand chop to Aqua's head.
"Ouch! Waaah—" Aqua crouched on the ground, holding her head.
"Aqua, you—sigh, just leave it at that." Xia Wei didn't know what to say about Aqua.
"Waaah—" Aqua, after being hit on the head, instantly threw herself onto the ground and rolled around, her voice full of grievance: "I was clearly the one being bullied! No, I won't!"
"...—" Sanemi Shinazugawa, Kyojuro Rengoku, Tengen Uzui.
Alright, they understood now. Although this goddess was a true goddess, she was an abnormal goddess.
What normal goddess would act like this?
This was clearly an idiot, a fool.
'Forgive me, I actually argued with a foolish goddess.' Tengen Uzui's eyelids twitched. He shivered at the thought of others knowing he had argued with a fool.
Sanemi Shinazugawa exchanged glances with him and also shivered.
They quickly stepped forward and shouted loudly and sincerely.
"We are sorry, Goddess Aqua, it was our fault. You are the great Goddess of Water, please be magnanimous and do not stoop to our humble level."
"?" Aqua instantly stopped rolling on the ground, her expression surprised, but she quickly stood up as if it were only natural, patted the dust off herself, and raised her hand in a goddess-like manner.
"Since you have realized your mistakes, then this goddess will forgive you."
"Thank you for your generosity." ×3
Xia Wei patted Aqua's shoulder, speaking with the tone of someone caring for a fool: "Aqua, eat well first. This is their apology gift."
"Shopkeeper, serve another portion to Goddess Aqua." Tengen Uzui waved to the coffee shop owner.
The shopkeeper nodded nervously, wiping cold sweat: "Yes, yes, yes." Oh my god, folks, who knew? To let him see this scene, he wouldn't be demoted to reincarnation, would he?
"Alright, Kyojuro, Sanemi, Tengen, the three of you come with me."
Xia Wei simultaneously notified all the dependents who had already acquired divinity.