Chapter 255: Chapter 254: Grand Narukami Shrine

"Why are you still wearing a mask? Don’t you already have a face? And a pretty good one at that. Is there a need to hide it?"

Durandal tried to take off the mask on Hanachirusato’s face, but Hanachirusato suddenly became bold and grabbed Durandal’s hands, stopping her from touching the fox mask.

[Crap!]

Realizing it, Hanachirusato realized that his behavior was too rude. Facing Durandal’s gaze, Hanachirusato tried hard to find a seemingly reasonable excuse.

"Um... I’m sorry, Lady Durandal. I’ve always been wearing a mask, and it has almost become a part of my body. I feel more at ease this way than taking off the mask."

He could take off the mask when he was with Durandal, but Durandal planned to take him to meet other people, so the mask had to be on his face.

"Really want to wear a mask?"

"Please forgive my rudeness, Lady Durandal."

Durandal stared at Hanachirusato for a while. Just as Hanachirusato was considering whether to take a step back and wear the fox mask on the side of his head, Durandal relented.

As expected, Lady Durandal was still very considerate of himself. If she gave him a little more time, he believed that he would definitely be able to face other people without a mask in the future.

"How long are you going to hold on? Aren’t you going to let go?"

Huh? Hanachirusato then realized that he was still holding Durandal’s hands and hadn’t let go.

Oh no ( キ ｀? Д? ’)!! A big deal has happened. This is not only rude, but also disrespectful! As Durandal’s Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess), such behavior is too rude.

"I’m... I’m sorry, Lady Durandal. I was too rude."

"...Don’t do it again."

It was just this level of intimate contact. She has a lot of close contact with Shenhe every day, and she wasn’t too angry.

The main thing is that familiar people are in contact with her. If unfamiliar people grab her hand casually, it is estimated that she will be dissolved by her poison in the next moment... Exaggerated, but it is still possible to give him diarrhea for a few days.

Back to the topic, Durandal was going to take Hanachirusato to a place. Although Hanachirusato was her Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess), there was a formal Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess) organization in Inazuma, the Grand Narukami Shrine. It was inappropriate for Hanachirusato, an unregistered Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess), to appear outside in this attire no matter what.

In order to make it easier for him to live in Inazuma, Durandal was going to meet the highest person in charge of the Grand Narukami Shrine, Yae Miko, whom Raiden Makoto had mentioned to her some time ago, and get Hanachirusato’s legal Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess) status from her.

"Actually, it’s okay not to do that. I’ve been living like this all these years. It doesn’t matter if the Grand Narukami Shrine doesn’t recognize my Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess) status. Because, I belong to Lady Durandal’s Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess), don’t I?"

Since she was a Shrine Priestess (Head Priestess) who only belonged to Durandal, there was no need to care about the Grand Narukami Shrine’s opinion.

"I don’t care about that Grand Narukami Shrine either. It doesn’t matter even if they come to make trouble. But I want to meet that Guuji Yae. Your identity is just a side issue. Don’t take yourself too seriously."

"...Yes, Lady Durandal."

"You guy... Were you smiling just now?"

Although it was blocked by the mask, Durandal still keenly captured Hanachirusato’s faint laughter. This guy laughed when she said that, right?

"I’m... I’m sorry, Lady Durandal. I lost my composure."

It’s been like this since just now. After the filth was eliminated, did you unleash some instinct? It feels completely different.

"Because... I’m already Lady Durandal’s person, so I don’t need to talk to you with such a distant attitude, do I?"

"Respect? Where did your respect for me go? This is a very important thing."

"Of course it’s in my heart. Verbal respect is meaningless. Only respect from the heart is true respect, isn’t it?"

"...Eloquent, you must be smiling now, right?"

Durandal was right. The face behind Hanachirusato’s mask was indeed smiling, unable to suppress the smile.

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