The Priest of Complete Dispel ~ Every Time I Save a Cursed Beautiful Girl with My Status Abnormal Cure Skill, For Some Reason Her Dependence on Me Maxes Out ~

Chapter 9: Something’s Off with Amelia

“Shu, good work with practice today. Here, a towel.”

“…Thanks.”

A few days later, I continued training. There was combat practice with monsters, but I also kept up with regular practice in front of the house. They told me the enemy wasn’t just monsters—sometimes it was people—so I was learning how to fight humans too.

After practice ended, I was washing off sweat at the water spot in front of the house when Amelia brought me a towel.

Ever since she finished her treatment, she was full of energy, back to her normal life so quickly it was hard to believe she was ever sick.

But since then, something about Amelia seemed off.

Even today, despite having church duties soon, she brought me a towel in the morning and was just… really kind.

She never did anything like this before…

After wiping my sweat, I sat on a random stump, and Amelia sat next to me. I decided to ask her something.

“Hey, what’s up? Amelia, you’re acting a bit weird.”

“Weird? I’m not weird!” she snapped.

But instead of answering, she just turned away.

“You never did stuff like this before,” I said.

“Maybe not… but you get it, right? You saved my life…”

It seemed Amelia felt grateful to me.

She was a shrine maiden candidate, set to take over from the old lady. There were no other candidates in the village, and if Amelia was gone, the village couldn’t renew its pact with the sacred beast Keryneia.

Maybe she felt pressure because of that.

“I’ve got this skill, so it just happened to fall on me. If someone else had this skill, they would’ve done it. I only saved you by chance.”

“Shu, you’re such a pain sometimes,” she said.

“What? Why?” I shot back.

The skill was amazing, but I wasn’t. I tried to tell her she didn’t need to be so thankful, but her response wasn’t what I expected.

“…You touched my breast a lot, didn’t you?” she said.

“Uh… yeah,” I mumbled.

“You got really close and smelled my sweaty scent a lot.”

“That… that was unavoidable…”

“My embarrassing voice even leaked out beyond the door.”

“That wasn’t my fault…”

“You saw a lot of my embarrassing parts, didn’t you?”

“Yeah, but…”

As she spoke, Amelia’s cheeks turned red with embarrassment.

Normally, she’d get mad and hit me or something, but today, she didn’t.

“So… how was it?” she asked.

“How was… what?”

“My body—my breast! You touched it for thirty minutes, so you must know.”

“Uh, well… it was soft and amazing, I guess.”

“~~~~~~!!”

The moment I said it, Amelia’s face turned bright red, like steam was shooting out of her head.

She made me say it, and now this…

“Huh… so that’s it. You enjoyed groping my breast,” she said.

What the hell was this conversation?

If it was so embarrassing, why bring it up?

It seemed like Amelia wanted to keep talking, but then the conversation took a turn—

“…Shu, are you going to leave this village?” she asked.

“I don’t know yet… but I’ll probably end up leaving.”

Since coming to this world, I felt curious, like when I was a kid in my past life. They said this village was on the edge of the world, and since I was in a new world, I wanted to see other cities and countries.

But staying in this village forever wouldn’t let me do that.

I didn’t have a reason to leave yet, but if I got one, I would probably go.

“…Then, until you leave… just until you leave… go on lots of dates with me,” she said.

“…Seriously?” I asked.

“Seriously…” she replied.

Her eyes trembled as she looked straight at me, and with her shy expression, she was just too cute.

Her straight blue hair peeked out from her wimple, and it shone in the morning sun. She looked even prettier than usual.

The cutest girl in the village said that to me—how could I not be happy?

She didn’t say, “Don’t leave.” Maybe she couldn’t.

I didn’t know her true feelings.

But I wanted to respond to the feelings she showed me.

“Alright… let’s do it. Let’s go on dates. But I’ve barely got any experience with this stuff, so don’t get mad if I mess up.”

“Hehe, thanks… then—” she said.

The next moment, I felt something soft on my left cheek.

It was a sudden kiss from Amelia.

“Dating… involves stuff like that?” I asked.

“If we’re going to part someday, it doesn’t matter if we’re lovers or not. I have my role as a shrine maiden, so I can’t leave the village for long. So… while you’re here, I want to do lots of date-like things…”

Amelia was so cute.

Her fidgeting made my heart skip a beat.

“Put out your hand,” she said.

“Like this?” I asked.

“Yeah…”

When I held out my left hand, Amelia touched it and intertwined her fingers with mine, holding hands like lovers.

With a big smile, she stayed like that for a while that morning.

From then on, Amelia and I weren’t exactly official lovers, but we went on dates in the village and the forest, growing closer.

Two years later, a turning point came for me.

When a certain person arrived in the village, my fate started to shift dramatically.