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When I kissed Hana’s lips, I could see a golden light beam coming down from the sky hitting our bodies.

Baaammm...

The golden light was like a spear thrown from the sky towards us.

The sparks of the sparkling golden pillars seemed to indicate the birth of a Saintess that I had felt before. In this case, I visibly witnessed the birth of a new Saintess who was directly appointed by the Goddess Aurora.

I only followed the Goddess Aurora’s request to kiss Hana’s lips and accidentally got involved in the birth process of a Saintess that felt majestic like this.

Baaammm...

The golden glow seeped into Hana’s body and slowly began to release my kiss that locked her soft lips.

"Puuhaaa!!" when our kiss broke, I could see Hana’s facial expression filled with a bright red shy along with the golden glow of light containing holy magic energy that surged from her body.

"I..."

"It seems like I remembered my life in the past timeline," Hana said in a soft tone her gaze directed at me.

"Onee-san... I-I... Uhh... What is this awkward feeling when I remember my old life as the Saintess of the Goddess Aurora and I am reborn as a little girl who is still prayed on the Goddess, that I miss," Hana looked surprised after her body received a blessing from the Goddess Aurora.

Under the rays of the Goddess Aurora’s holy magic energy, we were pensive for a moment.

"I can’t believe that in this second life, I am still the Saintess of her choice, I’m so happy!" Hana exclaimed with a happy facial expression filled with the rays of golden holy energy.

"But it also makes me sad as a Saintess who was directly chosen by the Goddess because I have to live without having a sense of love. Even though I just met a little girl who managed to make me feel like I fell in love," Hana’s expression changed to gloomy with her low gaze directed at me.

When the golden light faded and revealed our bodies, a golden mark appeared in Hana’s pupils. The bright blue pupils that matched her bright blue hair were replaced by golden pupils that became a mark of a chosen Saintess who could read lies from her eyes.

Some commoners whispered around me and I could see my father looking relieved as he said, "Luckily Alice and Alyssa are still sleeping. If only they saw their older sister making out with another woman. I didn’t know what to do when my family got into a fight with the Aurora Goddess Temple."

It was a statement that I didn’t want to hear but it wasn’t wrong because for some reason my twin stepsister seemed hostile towards Hana as if fighting over something.

I saw Hana’s gloomy face after her consciousness returned to being the Original Saintess who was directly appointed by the Aurora Goddess through the Linked Ritual that I used.

"Hana, are you okay? Why are you so gloomy?" I asked Hana who had been silent and lowered her face to look at the ground.

"Onee-san, I was scared and felt lonely when I realized the burden of being a Saintess appointed directly by the Goddess Aurora. I felt happy and sad at the same time. Happy because I was bound again with the Goddess Aurora and sad because I had to bury my love for Onee-san as a Saintess who was not bound by worldly love," Hana said in a melancholic tone.

Ugh, does being a Saintess have such a heavy burden, my Goddess?

Rather than guessing and giving the wrong answer, I asked my Goddess.

[ If it was a Saintess in the past timeline, of course, yes. We as Goddesses who are in charge of creating, organizing, supervising, and judging are always protective of our Saintesses who are prone to falling in love with men. So we made a little rule about Saintesses who will lose their blessings and powers when they have a love relationship with a man. ]

Isn’t it a shame to be a Saintess who was appointed directly but not allowed to fall in love with a man?

[ Yes, we as Goddesses prioritize the purity of a holy woman rather than a woman who is already carried away by worldly pleasures. ]

[ But for Lily-chan there is a big exception because... Uhmm... Yuri relationship is moving towards more than pure love. ]

Uh, huh?

What does that mean?

[ That’s a secret, Lily-chan will find out someday. By the way, it seems like Hana misunderstood one thing. Didn’t the Goddess Aurora give Lily-chan the freedom to make Ritual Linked contact with Hana? ]

Yes, I did get permission from the Goddess Aurora to establish a Linked Ritual with Hana.

Is there a problem with that?

[ Yes, how do I explain it? Officially, Lily-chan has been acknowledged to be allowed to establish a relationship with Hana by the Goddess Aurora. Now that I think about it, the Goddess Aurora is indeed too lazy to explain her Saintess, which makes her Saintess herself have an unhealthy burden of thoughts and mentality. ]

[ Can you solve the problem of Hana’s excessive thoughts and mental pressure who is already very depressed like that, Lily-chan? ]

[ At least make Hana happier because the Goddess Aurora has a hobby of not explaining her chosen Saintess. Tell Hana that she is allowed to establish a romantic relationship with Lily-chan because she has been acknowledge by the Linked Ritual suggested by the Goddess Aurora. ]

Un, I understand, my Goddess.

Under the twilight sky that almost makes the sunlight sink and be replaced by night, I grabbed Hana’s hand which felt weak when she underwent an official promotion as a Saintess who was directly appointed by the Goddess Aurora.

The memory of her past self seemed to make her feel awkward when her hand was touched by me.

"Hana, can I say something?" I asked Hana who looked sad because she thought that if she was reborn as the Original Sainess, she would have the same heavy burden again.

"I met the Goddess Aurora in my little dream together with the Goddess I worship… Umm…" I was a little confused when explaining this part.

What kind of relationship would be suitable between me and my Goddess?

I also rarely worship her.

I don’t know the name of my Goddess either.

Our relationship seemed like I was to make contact to close to another woman and my Goddess gave me a blessing that I didn’t know the effect of.

[ Lily-chan, I’m a Free To Play Goddess who don’t needs something like pray or something annoying like that. ]

[ Lily-chan just needs to show me how colorful life is with Lily flowers blooming and intertwined with other flowers in Garden Eve. ]

Yes, sometimes my Goddess also gives a speech that I don’t understand at all.

But I still consider her as a versatile Goddess who always helps me in times of trouble.

[ Is that a compliment? It must be a compliment, right? ]

[ Thank you for complimenting me, Lily-chan. ]

[ I was so touched when I heard that. ]

"Onee-san?" When I was silent, Hana grabbed my hand tightly and distracted me from talking to my Goddess.

"Oh, sorry, I was talking to my Goddess. Even though we serve different Goddesses, our duties as Saintesses are the same, right?" I said to open a new topic of conversation.

"Haha… Onee-san seems very close to the Goddess you are attached to," Hana said in an awkward tone.

"Yes, we can be said to be very close because my duty as a Saintess is to watch over other Saintesses who are in trouble. Previously, I helped two Saintesses who served two different Goddesses but were tied to the same problem."

"Haa… are they girls?" Hana asked while gripping my hand even tighter her golden pupils staring at me sharply.

"Yes, they are girls. More precisely, the fox girl and the heavenly dragon girl," when I replied, I could feel Hana’s grip tightening and making me feel like she was locked in her heavy arms.

"Have Onee-san… Umm… ever kissed their lips?" Hana asked with her gaze approaching my lips as if wanting to see my confession.

"No, we just bite each other’s tails," I answered while holding her body that was leaning more on me.

"Biting each other’s tails?" Hana said while tilting her head.

"Oh, you don’t understand it because you’ve never seen it, huh?" I then tried to change my appearance into a fox girl that I rarely used anymore.

Fluffy…

Puuff…

When my fox ears and fox tail came out, I could hear some screams coming from the commoners and the line of soldiers who were guarding around me.

My fox tail moving right and left behind cape seemed to attract everyone’s attention including Hana’s. My twitching ears became more sensitive because the twilight air approaching night felt cold to my sensitive fox ears.

"It’s like this, we share bites to replace kisses on the lips," I explained to Hana.

Kraaakk...

When I explained that, I could feel the incredible silence. My father and mother seemed to pat their heads when they heard my words that had changed into a fox girl.

"Onee-san... is it appropriate for a Saintess to easily establish a relationship like that with another Saintess?" Hana asked with a facial expression filled with the darkness of the twilight shadow.

"What’s wrong with that?" I asked while holding back Hana’s body shaking as she seemed to want to jump and hug me. Because my body had turned into a fox girl, I became more sensitive to her body movements which were still holding my hand tightly.

"Onee-san... Saintesses must be pure without being tainted by love like that!" Hana exclaimed with a sharp gaze.

"Eh? But my Goddess said that I must help other Saintesses with fair love and make them comfortable in my kisses."

"What kind of Goddess is that? She was very different from Goddess Aurora who is very strict about the rule of not feeling love!" Hana shouted in a loud tone.

"Eh? But Goddess Aurora told me to kiss your lips to return to being her Saintess!" I replied in a loud tone too.

"Eh?" Hana looked confused.

"Eh?" and so did I.

We stared at each other before Hana pulled my body and kissed my lips once more.

Chuu...

"If that’s true, I shouldn’t have lost my power because I fell in love with Onee-san!"

By chanting the holy spell that Hana had learned as the Saintess of the Goddess Aurora, I could witness a miracle from Hana’s high-level spell that emitted a warm light.

"Advanced magic… Heal Purification!" Hana said while concentrating her holy magic energy in all directions.

Under the setting dusk sky, I could feel the overflow of Hana’s holy magic energy that seemed to restore my fatigue.

"I-I can use the Saintess’ holy magic energy even though I’m in love with Onee-san? I’m so happy!"

When Hana was screaming like that, I was just happy because Hana looked like she had found the answer she was looking for.