I'm counting on you all!!

After that, the hired adventurers came back to eat senpai's cooking.

Oh, Shieldon-senpai and Sekko-senpai managed to slip in too.

"Hey, I picked up some pretty crazy news. You can keep eating, but hear me out."

"What's up, Blade?"

"Hm? More importantly, who's that?"

I'd already slipped into my Healer disguise. No need to reveal my divine messenger status to anyone outside the senior circle.

"Apparently… the Goddess is furious… with, uh, this country's new king."

"Huh?"

"… Seriously?"

At Blade-senpai's words, all eyes in the room turned toward me, a stranger most of them had never seen before. The Healer getup was suspicious as all heck. If you tried to peer under the hood, all you'd find was inky darkness where a face should be.

"Blade. Is that person involved?"

"Yeah. This is… the Apostle-sama. They've come to deliver the Goddess's message."

"For real!? I can't believe it, nya!! Show us proof, nya!!"

Hey, Misha, don't sneak in with that side! I never asked you to be a plant!

"That's right. Even if you say 'Goddess,' we can't just swallow that out of nowhere."

"If anything, it's way more believable that they're lying, y'know?"

"… But I can't picture Blade buying into lies or gibberish without a reason. There's gotta be something to this, right?"

I expected way more pushback, but Blade-senpai's sterling reputation speaks for itself!! And the one complaining the loudest? Misha, of all people.

With that, I decided to show them Spatial Magic as proof.

"… You see that castle wall over there—the one that's been sliced and shifted out of place? That's a scar left by the Goddess's wrath. But—"

There happened to be a wall right there, sheared diagonally and shifted out of alignment, so I pointed at it. Then I activated Spatial Magic. As I raised my finger, the wall rumbled and slid back into its original position. While I was at it, I fused the seams together.

"—There. All fixed. If you'd like a demonstration of the reverse, shall I knock it askew the other way?"

"… Huh!?"

"W-Wait a second. Isn't this some kind of trick? I'll go check it myself."

Sekko-senpai grabbed a few others and bolted off to verify, then returned. Since I had nothing better to do while waiting, I decided to hover gently off the ground.

How's that? Do I look like a divine messenger? Should I add a glow while I'm at it?

"Hey! It really was fixed… wait, whoa, they're glowing and floating!?"

"Do you believe me now?"

"Y-Yeah… well, I believe you. At minimum, you could probably slice that wall the same way it was before… plus, y'know, the whole glowing thing…"

Tch. Should've led with the glowing from the start.

"… Allow me to convey this once more. The Goddess does not permit anyone to claim the name of the Chaos God. Only the true Chaos God may bear that name. And no, tacking on 'True' doesn't make it acceptable. Divine punishment will be delivered."

If anything, slapping "True" in front is practically picking a fight. Seriously, why did the king of the New Alchemia go and call himself that?

"The deadline is three days. Hand over the false Chaos God, or this country will be razed to dust! So let's at least keep the casualties down by offering up the 'True Chaos God' as a sacrifice! Please!?"

Hey, don't just throw away your dignity like that! Blade-senpai shot me a withering look, but I don't have the luxury of maintaining appearances here!

If you people can find them, I'll snatch them up with Spatial Magic!! I'm counting on you all!!