Soon, Satou Kazuma entered the house, and it was already full of people.
He barely found a place to stand, casting his gaze into the distance—
In the open space in the middle was Aqua.
"You, do not hold back. Drink when you want to drink, eat when you want to eat, because you might not be able to eat tomorrow!"
At this moment, Aqua had her hands crossed in front of her chest, acting like she was praying.
Suddenly, she took out a fan in each hand.
Looking at these props, Satou Kazuma already knew what she was going to do.
Flowers, birds, wind, and moon...
As several streams of water gushed out from the fans, extremely enthusiastic cheers erupted from the audience.
"So strong, Aqua-sama!"
"Long live Aqua-sama!"
"Ooooh!"
Satou Kazuma turned his head to look around; the others were completely shocked by Aqua's performance.
Then Aqua started a new performance.
She then called a 'lucky audience member' to the stage, then took out a cup of water, dipped her finger in the water, and started painting on the wall.
In just a few minutes, a painting exactly like the other person was created.
Satou Kazuma widened his eyes in surprise.
How did Aqua do it?
As a goddess of talent, it was reasonable to paint such a painting.
But why did she only use plain water at the beginning, but the painting on the wall has color?
So amazing!
Wait, wait.
Why am I saying it's amazing?
Satou Kazuma reached out and slapped himself in the face; his thinking was actually led astray by this person.
A very likely guess couldn't help but arise in his heart—
Aqua, didn't she learn painting skills or something?
Speaking of which, it seems like I haven't learned any new skills for a while, after all, I've been busy doing other things recently.
He took out his Adventurer Card, and it really showed that he could unlock new skills.
[Learned skill: Magic-type skill, can use low-level magic of various attributes such as water, fire, earth, and wind.]
"Oh? Oh!"
Satou Kazuma couldn't help but exclaim, but when he found that others were staring at him intently, he quickly lowered his head again.
Magic-type skill, I finally unlocked magic!
Could it be because my mana has been constantly absorbed by Beatrice, so it's considered using magic?
Betty, I now declare that you are the best young girl!
Although it's just low-level magic, it should definitely have a very good effect, such as spitting fire, freezing, etc.!
Moreover, I heard from Betty before that ordinary people only have one or two attributes of mana, which limits the types of magic they can use.
And it seems that I don't have to worry about such problems at all?
The storage capacity of mana may not be enough, but for Satou Kazuma, this is already a very good start!
"I have to find a chance to cast magic later! Betty seems to understand this area quite well, maybe it can help me break through!"
Satou Kazuma smiled and muttered to himself.
At this moment, Aqua's performance on stage seemed to be coming to an end.
"Thank you for choosing the Axis Church! As long as you become a member of our church, all subsequent performances will be free to watch! Please leave in an orderly manner. There will also be people responsible for distributing small gifts outside. The peripherals about this goddess are also being produced urgently, and they will be sent to everyone according to the registered address at that time!"
Aqua said to the others present in an incredibly gentle voice.
In her eyes, these people are already her incredibly cute believers.
Soon, Hambali and Gaston also came out from somewhere, starting to guide the audience to leave and distribute gifts at the same time. In a short while, there were not many people left in the huge space.
"Ah, so tired. Let's tidy up a bit and then go greet the next batch of believers!"
Aqua moved her neck and stretched again.
"Useless goddess!"
At this moment, Satou Kazuma had already come to Aqua's face aggressively, staring at her with an expression that looked like he was going to swallow her whole.
"Hey, Kazuma, you came too! Are you finally willing to join this goddess's church?"
Aqua completely didn't sense the seriousness of the matter, just smiling as she looked at Satou Kazuma.
"Hey, hey, you set up so many things, it must have cost a lot of money!?"
"Of course, renting such a big venue, as well as various supplies and merchandise, it definitely costs a lot of money!"
"You seem very proud! Do you know that all our money has been spent by you!"
Satou Kazuma then gave Aqua a crushing blow to her forehead.
"Ahhh! Kazuma, you actually hit me! You clearly told me that I could spend the money however I wanted!"
Aqua hugged her head and crouched on the ground, crying.
"Geez, I thought you would at most buy some wine or something, who knew you would do something like this! And even spend all the money directly!"
"I also just realized that it would cost so much money! And so much money, isn't it because of this goddess's charm that I was able to get it!"
Aqua stood up again, proudly puffing out her chest.
"Although what you said is true, we don't have a single penny now!"
"Then just go ask those people for more!"
"How can there be a reason to ask others for money again in such a short period of time! And is this really something a goddess can say?"
Satou Kazuma's heart was completely helpless.
The money they had before could be said to be funds provided by the other party for their election.
But if they knew that Aqua spent all the money on holding such a strange performance, I'm afraid things would be difficult to deal with!
"Don't worry, Kazuma~"
Aqua scratched her head a little guiltily, then suddenly seemed to think of something, turning her head to say to Satou Kazuma,
"I just gained a lot of believers, and recovered a super amount of power!"
"Oh?!"
Hearing the other party's words, the expression on Satou Kazuma's face instantly changed.
Although it can be said that she used almost fraudulent means, if the other party's power can really become stronger with the increase in the number of believers, then it's not unacceptable.
At least evolving from a useless goddess to a somewhat useful goddess is possible.
"Then what power did you recover?"
"Watch carefully!"
Aqua's face once again showed a smug smile, and she then used her signature skill again.
Fan spraying water, oh no, it's Nature's beauty
"?"
"Didn't you notice? The water column sprayed out is thicker! I can summon more water now!"
"..."
Satou Kazuma felt suffocated at this moment.
He seemed to have unnecessary expectations of Aqua.
"By the way, what was that ability you used to paint with water just now?"
"It's the painting skill I learned not long ago! I was originally better at this kind of thing, but after learning that skill, I can turn various liquids into different paints! How is it, am I amazing!"
"So.....you used valuable skill points to learn this ability?"
"Of course not just that!"
Aqua patted her chest,
"I also learned another super amazing skill!"
"Oh? what is it?"
Satou Kazuma had a little expectation in his heart again.
But soon, he regretted having expectations.
Aqua cleared her throat, and then made the exact same voice as Satou Kazuma.
"Oh my, let's play rock-paper-scissors, the loser has to take off a piece of clothing!"
"?"
"And and! Next is Betty's voice, this is a bit difficult, you have to make a sound similar to a newborn duckling - BaKazuma, Betty is not a young girl!"
"I only know that if you tell Betty these words, you should be dead..... Wait, is this also a skill you learned?"
"That's right, this is a voice mimicry skill! Amazing, right!"
Before Aqua could finish speaking, what greeted her was another electric shock from Satou Kazuma.
"Kazuma, you hit me again! You will be punished by the heavens!"
"Ughhhhh! Useless goddess! You not only wasted money, and then used skill points and recovered power to do such things?!"
"Isn't it just money! Think about it, as long as there are enough believers, things like fundraising will be very simple, right!"
"That's true!"
Satou Kazuma's face then showed a smile again, gently supporting Aqua.
"Then how much money did you raise today?"
"Today.....I forgot to arrange the fundraising part."
"It seems that only one of us can leave here!"
Just when Satou Kazuma was about to get entangled with Aqua, a sound of footsteps rang out from the side.
"Aqua-sama, I didn't expect that you would have to do everything yourself today, I really admire you."
Satou Kazuma turned his head to look at the other party, it was a thin middle-aged man, wearing very high-end clothes, with dark yellow hair, and those fox-like cunning eyes cast on them.
"Who are you?"
"Aqua-sama hasn't told you about me, right? Then please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Russell Fellow, and I am the accountant of the Royal Chamber of Commerce."
Russell had a polite smile on his face, and bowed to the two of them.
The person Rachins mentioned earlier was him.
Russell is a realist who is shrewd with money. He tends to make decisions based on profit and risk, and is only interested in how to earn the most, leading him to be described as a mosquito wanting to drain other people's money.
Yesterday, Russell on the street noticed Hambali and Gaston, who attracted a lot of viewers. As a businessman, he smelled business opportunities and took the initiative to extend an olive branch, wanting to invite the two of them.
However, Russell did not expect that these two people were backed by Aqua, one of the candidates.
Previously, due to causing a miracle, Aqua's name was well known by many people.
And after the royal selection wine party - meeting - yesterday, the identity information of all candidates was also made public, and everyone already knew of Aqua's existence.
She is already a well-known figure in Lugunica.
After Aqua found him and explained her idea of cooperation, Russell did his best to support it.
This is a big business for him.
What's more, it's a good opportunity to get closer to a candidate.
Although Russell actually has trade relations with other candidates, he doesn't mind giving himself another path.
"You are Russell."
Satou Kazuma looked at the other party unhappily.
This guy is the one who tricked Aqua into spending money!
Unforgivable!
"Aqua-sama, your plan today is really great. I think the other candidates certainly didn't expect you to use such a method!"
Russell said to Aqua with a smile.
"Huh?"
Aqua's face had a dazed expression.
"Most of the people who came here today are commoners. You also know that because the royal family died half a year ago, Lugunica almost fell into chaos. Although it can still operate in front of you, Lugunica's economy is declining at a visible speed. The lives of the people are not optimistic, and Aqua spent a lot of money today to prepare so many materials, just to win over the hearts of those commoners."
"Huh?"
"The other candidates are trying their best to win the support of the nobles, but only you set your sights on the ordinary people - the most important part of a country is the ordinary people, which allows you to gain support from the lower people, which is your advantage."
"..."
"And you also use some kind of church to do camouflage, packaging yourself as a goddess. This idea feels very absurd at first hearing, but after thinking about it carefully, I can't help but admire Aqua-sama's idea. Combining it with the miracle you caused earlier, it's easy to make those people become your followers. Coming to the stage in person today is also for this purpose, right."
"What do you mean by packaging, I was originally a—"
Before Aqua could finish speaking, Satou Kazuma pinched her thigh, preventing her from continuing to speak, and he himself was smiling as he looked at the man named Russell in front of him:
"It seems that Russell already knows our purpose!"
Since the other party has said so, then he can only choose to go along with the situation.
After all, the fact that 'Aqua just wants to use acrobatics to trick others into joining the church' can't be said.
Aqua understood, and could only nod vigorously.
"You two have worked hard. I am very much looking forward to your performance in the royal selection. Please contact me if you need anything in the future."
Russell looked at the two people in front of him and said with a smile.
It's just that in the corners of his raised mouth, some unknown ideas seemed to be hidden.
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