CH 2.1

Today’s Faith Has Been Recharged (1)

After sleeping peacefully in her room for a night, Lucia got up in high spirits.

After breakfast, Anna said that she was going to the nearby temple of goddess Jormundra to pray.

“The nearest temple is still three streets away. I’ll take you there after dinner,” Athos explained, “The ones living here are mostly merchants, so the nearest temple is the temple of Kulatha.”

“Alright.” After Anna said that, she looked at Lucia who had been trying to shrink her sense of existence, “Lucia, you go to the temple with me.”

“Please let me off.” Lucia was lying on the table sadly, “I don’t want to go.”

“No. Are you going out to play again?” Anna said seriously, “We’ve only been here for a day. Don’t run around.”

“I won’t!” Lucia felt that she was being wronged, “I’m very good and obedient!”

She was not stupid. Since she knew her future, she wouldn’t run around to avoid being targeted by the evil cults.

“I don’t believe you.” Anna looked at Lucia seriously and began to recount her naughty deeds.

Climbing trees or walls were the smaller ones; she would even sneak out at night when the adults were asleep, and dig out sweet potatoes from someone else’s field with her little friends. When the adults went to hunt, she would call her friends and dig traps in the forest – as a result, they caught a forest wolf and scared everyone.

Athos was stunned and couldn’t help but look at his sister.

This delicate and pitiful little girl’s blue eyes were filled with tears of grievance. Her slender brows were scrunched together, and her pink lips were pursed tightly, as if she was holding herself back from crying.

—no matter how you looked at it, this was a gentle and lovely little girl that had nothing to do with the troublemaker Anna was talking about.

“Mommy, no.” Lucia denied weakly, “We didn’t do that.”

“Heh.” Anna smiled coldly, “Anyways, you’re coming with me to pray today.”

Lucia gave Ram an aggrieved and helpless look, but he only said that he couldn’t help.

“Brother.” Lucia’s big blue eyes looked at Athos as she said pitifully, “You try to persuade Mommy too. ”

“Uh…?” Athos looked at Anna.

“Eat!” Anna said domineeringly.

Athos immediately went silent.

It seemed that she would have to follow Anna to the temple.

Lucia was suffering. She really, really, really didn’t like going to the temple with Anna.

Anna was a devout believer of goddess Jormundra, and spent more than two hours praying every week.

Every time she went to pray, she would take Lucia with her.

When she first transmigrated here, Lucia did not believe in the existence of gods at all, so she hated praying. She thought that it was just purely superstition and a waste of time.

Now that she had found herself transmigrated to the world of the novel <Problematic Luck With Women>, she knew that gods did exist in this world.

…but even if she believed that gods existed in this world, she still didn’t like praying!

But even if she was ten thousand more times unwilling, the eight-year-old Lucia could not go against Anna and was taken to the temple of goddess Jormundra.

The church was not big, and there were already three or four people sitting there. Anna gently sat at the back, folding her hands together and prayed, “Oh Great Mother, goddess of harvest, guardian of nature, goddess of autumn Lady Jormundra. Your faithful follower Anna prays to thee…”

Lucia sat upright for a short while before she couldn’t stand it anymore and leaned backwards against the chair, letting her back relax. Five minutes later, she moved her butt to the front again. After another five minutes, her empty eyes froze staring in front of her, to the place where Jormundra’s golden ears of wheat symbol was.

No, no more. She couldn’t bear it anymore.

Lucia felt as if there was a thorn in her butt. She twisted and turned for a long time before she could finally hold on no longer. She quietly jumped off the chair, ready to slip away.

Anna who was praying devoutly opened her eyes and fiercely stared at Lucia.

“I’m just going to play inside the church.” Lucia pleaded in a low voice.

Anna closed her eyes and continued praying.

Lucia breathed a sigh of relief and quickly slipped away.

She really couldn’t understand someone like Anna who had faith in gods. Even if there were gods in this world, she was the only one who could solve the problems facing her.

So, Lucia only believed in her own ability. But Lucia could not change Anna’s mind, just like Anna could not change Lucia’s mind.

Within the family, Anna was a follower of goddess Jormundra, while the carpenter Ram believed in Duma, the patron god of craftsmen.

Only Lucia was a staunch follower of materialism.

“Haiz.” Lucia sighed.

“Why are you sighing?” A deep male voice suddenly came from the nearby room.

Lucia jumped up in surprise. She turned around and found a familiar door nearby.

“Who, who is it?!” Lucia stared at the door like a cat.

A deep laugh came from inside the door. “What’s wrong, when you last came to the temple three days ago, didn’t you just tell me that you were coming to Serancha? Have you already forgotten about me?”

The familiar voice and that incident made Lucia suddenly remember.

“My-mystery!” Lucia was shocked. “Why are you here?!”

“Can’t I be here?” The voice inside the door, Mystery, asked curiously, “Why is that so?”

“This, this is too far from Aranthal! And the ones who boarded the plane… pterosaur from Aranthal was only our family!”

The man who spoke from inside the confession room was Lucia’s good friend from her hometown.