Kami Sen 3

Chapter 03

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Text on the left: Why are they eating in their swimsuits? Don't worry about that kind of thing!
Title: Night 3 "A Great Victory and Defeat Due to the God of Poverty!"

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Makoto: Hello!
Makoto: Welcome to Izumi Hot Spring!
Sign: Izumi Hot Spring
Text: The famous hot spring, Izumi Hot Spring, is back in business!

Makoto: Right now, we're having a special because the spring came back.

Makoto: Please go ahead and stay at the tradition-filled Izumi Hot Spring!

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Koutarou: Sorry for having you do this on a Sunday.
Koutarou: But you're being a huge help.
Makoto: Oh, don't worry about it.

Makoto: You'll have gotten some employees before long, right?
Makoto: And I'm already used to this job.

Woman: Koutarou-chan!
Woman: Isn't it great that your hot spring came back?
Koutarou: Oh, the old lady from the Ebisu Shop.
Koutarou: Thank you very much.

Woman: And it's a relief to see you here, Mako-chan.

Woman: Because, y'know...
Woman: After you get out of school, you'll be a permanent employee, right?

Makoto: A...
Makoto: permanent employee!?

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Makoto: No, I won't!
Text right of Woman: Ga ha ha
Woman: Kidding, kidding.
Woman: How passionate!
Woman: It's so hot I think I'll go take a dip right away...

Makoto: Geez!
Makoto: She's always making fun of people!

Koutarou: But...if you came here, it'd be a big help, Makoto...
Makoto: What!?

Makoto: What are you saying!
Koutarou: Ohh, so that's it. You don't want to.

Makoto: I-it's not that...I don't want to...
Makoto: I guess I would just have to think about it...

Koutarou: Well it would be a huge help if you came and worked here!
Makoto: ...What? You're talking about an actual job...?

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Koutarou: Eh!? You weren't?
Makoto: Enough of this, you idiot!!

Makoto: Oh, where's the god of poverty?
Makoto: Is she behaving?

Koutarou: Well...
Koutarou: Konoha-sama is trying to help us out in a lot of ways to prove she isn't a god of poverty...

Koutarou: But as you would expect of a god of poverty...
Text right of Konoha: Woah!?
Koutarou: everything she touches breaks.

Koutarou: We had no choice, so we told her she should stay in the bath.
Koutarou: There's nothing she break while in the water.

Konoha: Mhhh...

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Konoha: It's hot! It's too hot!
Konoha: I've had enough of this!!

Konoha: Hey! Old man!!

Gramps: A god loses her majesty if she runs around naked.
Konoha: Shut up! I was naked to begin with!

Konoha: Staying in the bath like this is going to make my beautiful skin swell up!
Konoha: Will this really prove that I'm not a god of poverty!?

Gramps: Of course it will!
Gramps: Since you're not a god of poverty...

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Gramps: you will actually call customers to us!
Gramps: And besides that...!

Gramps: If someone as beautiful as you is in our bath...
Gramps: our inn's fame will skyrocket!

Gramps: And then we'll flourish! You're such a wonderful god, Konoha-sama!!
Konoha: Oh!

Gramps: And with that, you need to get back into the bath.
Konoha: Hmm...I get the feeling I'm being tricked...

Woman: Waaaah!

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Woman: I-I'm thiiin!!

Woman: Look, Jun-san!
Woman: Is this a new effect of your hot spring!?

Gramps: Um...
Gramps: Who might you be?

Woman: What are you talking about? It's me!
Woman: The hostess of the Ebisu Shop!

Gramps: At the Ebisu Shop...
Text below woman's old face: Gu ha ha ha
Gramps: Eh!?

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Gramps: Ehhhh!?

Text above woman: Gu ha ha ha

Koutarou: That's the old lady from the Ebisu Shop?
Makoto: What happened!?
Gramps: Hmm...

Koutarou: Oh! I know!

Koutarou: This is probably...
Koutarou: due to Konoha-sama's powers!

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Koutarou: Konoha-sama's power absorbs fortune gotten with bad deeds, right?
Text right of arrow: God Power
Koutarou: The fat collected on one's body is like the fortune gained from the evil of gluttony.
Koutarou: So when one enters the same bath as Konoha-sama, it gets taken from them!

Makoto: Yes...
Makoto: If you think about it like that, it makes sense.
Makoto: Which means that the merit of calories has changes since the old days...

Gramps: We can use this...

Gramps: We can use this!!

Makoto: Use this...?
Koutarou: You couldn't mean...

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Gramps: That's right! Any power can be made useful!
Gramps: When the times change, the merit of things does as well!

Gramps: A disaster can be turned into good fortune!
Gramps: We can do this.

Gramps: We can make a killing off of the God of Poverty Diet!
Gramps: We can do this!

Text right of Konoha: Achoo

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Text at top of panel: We got this thin!
Text at bottom of panel: Get thin! Miraculous Effect! The Diet Hot Spring! Izumi Hot Spring

Makoto: That old man...

Makoto: When did you take that picture!?
Makoto: And don't use me for your advertisement without permission!!
Gramps: What? It's not a big deal!

Konoha: Hey.
Konoha: What is a diet?

Gramps: A diet is...
Gramps: a magic word that gets you tons of money!

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Gramps: All you have to do is stay in the bath like you have been doing.
Konoha: Oh, so I have to stay in the bath after all...

Konoha: Well, fine. If it'll make the inn successful, I'll do it.
Konoha: But never treat me like a god of poverty again!

Koutarou: Isn't this actually proof that she actually is a god of poverty...?
Koutarou: You're gonna get punished again.
Gramps: Heh.
Gramps: If you're afraid of punishment, you'll never make it in the business world!

Gramps: You all need to prepare yourselves!
Gramps: This is a crucial time!

Woman: Jun-san!

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Woman: I brought some customers for you!

Koutarou: Wow...that's somehow amazing.
Makoto: Yeah...

Woman: Hey...will this really make me thin...?
Gramps: Yes! Of course it will!
Gramps: But the bathing fee...

Gramps: is now ten thousand yen.

Koutarou & Makoto: Huh!?

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Crowd: Hey! What's going on!
Gramps: Oh, there was a sudden rise in the price for fuel.
Crowd: It was only 600 yen yesterday!

Gramps: I'll give you a full refund if you don't get results!
Gramps: Are you fine with that!?

Woman: Well, in that case...
Woman: Here's your ten thousand yen.

Koutarou: Gramps! You're way overcharging them!

Gramps: I'm prepared for punishment!
Gramps: And where else can you find a diet with a 100% chance of getting you thin!?

Koutarou: Well, that's true. I guess...
Makoto: But what about him.
Makoto: If he gets too caught up in this, who knows what'll happen.

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Woman: It wooorked!!

Woman: What an amazing effect! That's miracle water!
Gramps: Ha ha ha. True enough!

Woman: Like this, even a hundred thousand would be cheap!
Woman: When you compare how much it costs compared to a beauty salon, this is practically free!

Gramps: I see...
Gramps: A hundred thousand, you say...?

Koutarou: Waah...
Makoto: See, he's getting carried away.

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Box: Because of the hostess of the Ebisu Shop's "fat network"...
Box: Talk of the diet hot spring spread and customers started coming even from distant places.

Sign: The bathing fee has gone up.

Box: The bathing fee passed a million yen, but the customers kept coming.

Box: Gramps had the idea to start selling new products.

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Box: And a week later...

Makoto: Waah!?

Makoto: Amazing! You got all this in a single week!?

Koutarou: Even in a recession, there's money out there.
Koutarou: But for a diet to get us this much...

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Makoto: That reminds me. Where's your grandfather at?
Makoto: I haven't seen him.

Koutarou: Gramps's body is...well...
Makoto: What? Is he not feeling well?
Koutarou: No, it's not that...

Koutarou: I'm more worried about Konoha-sama.
Koutarou: She says she's fine...
Koutarou: but she's been in the bath whenever she isn't sleeping all week.

Koutarou: We've already made plenty of money, so we need to quit doing this before long. Or else...

Gramps: No!
Gramps: No!!

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Gramps: We need to make even more money off of Konoha-sama!
Sign: Do not enter! Keep out!
Gramps: You mustn't let her out of the bath!!

Makoto: He sounds energetic enough to me.
Koutarou: Well, he is energetic, but...

Yuujirou: Bro, emergency!

Yuujirou: Konoha-sama passed out in the bath!
Koutarou: Eh!?

Koutarou: I knew this was too much!
Koutarou: Makoto! Get the customers out!
Makoto: Okay!

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Koutarou: Konoha-sama.

Konoha: Ugh...
Konoha: It's so hot...

Koutarou: Are you okay!?
Koutarou: We'll cool you off right away!

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Makoto: How is she?
Koutarou: She's calmed down quite a bit.

Makoto: Even gods get dizzy from staying in the bath too long...
Makoto: They have some very human-like aspects.

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Makoto: I'll look after those staying in the inn.
Makoto: If something happens, call me.
Koutarou: Okay, thanks.

Konoha: Ugh...

Koutarou: Ah, you've come to, Konoha-sama.

Konoha: Oh, Koutarou...
Konoha: So? Is the inn doing well?

Koutarou: Yes.
Koutarou: It's doing very well indeed thanks to you.

Konoha: I see...
Konoha: Now you won't suspect that I'm a god of poverty.

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Koutarou: Whether you're a god of poverty or not...
Koutarou: you're still the guardian deity that saved my family.
Koutarou: Don't push yourself or you'll worry me.

Konoha: Quit joking around.
Konoha: Don't be so conceited as to worry about a god.

Konoha: I...
Konoha: have to prove it to you even if I do have to push myself.

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Konoha: What I want is for you all to be blessed.
Konoha: That's what being a guardian deity means.

Konoha: And...
Konoha: I can't give you that if I'm a god of poverty.

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Koutarou: ...I see...She doesn't want to prove she isn't a god of poverty for her own sake...
Koutarou: It's for our sakes...

Konoha: But now I'm at peace.
Konoha: I just have to wait until my memories come back.

Koutarou: ...No...
Koutarou: I can't keep lying to such a kind god...

Koutarou: I can't!

Koutarou: U-umm! Konoha-sama!
Koutarou: The truth is...

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Konoha: Whaaaaaaat!?

Konoha: Grrrr. I thought something seemed odd.
Konoha: And I helped that old man carry out his evil deed!

Konoha: His last punishment was too light!
Konoha: I won't hold back this time.

Konoha: Hm?

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Konoha: What's with this!?
Sign: Do not enter! Keep out!

Koutarou: Gramps has been holed up in there for 3 days...
Konoha: ? Why?

Gramps: Konoha-sama, you mustn't open this door...
Gramps: If you do, something horrible will happen...

Konoha: What ridiculous things are you saying!?
Konoha: I'm opening it!!

Konoha: Wha...!?

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Konoha: Wh...
Konoha: What is this!?

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Koutarou: The truth is, the fat that was being taken from people...
Koutarou: all gathered in gramps for some reason...

Gramps: This is fine.
Gramps: I'm fine with things like this.
Gramps: If I can get money, this is fine.

Konoha: ...Seriously now.
Konoha: You're one stupid old man.

Konoha: You're just...

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Konoha: obsessed with money!!
Gramps: Gyaaaah!

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Koutarou: In the end, paying for the repairs to the inn used up all the money we made.
Koutarou: And now we've got a bad reputation right after reopening.

Headline on newspaper: Hot Spring Gas Explosion!?

Koutarou: I'm worried about what's to come...

Makoto: Well, I think all this was less due to the effect of the god of poverty...
Makoto: and more to do with reaping what you sow.

Makoto: And what about your grandfather's punishment?
Koutarou: Yeah, well, gramps is...

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Koutarou: Over there.
Makoto: What!? He was turned into a goat again!?

Koutarou: No.
Koutarou: Not the goat. Look further down...

Makoto: The goat's hairball!?

Makoto: Yeah...that's pretty bad.

Koutarou: Well, Konoha-sama...
Koutarou: can give some pretty scary punishments...
Koutarou: but she's actually a really kind god.

Koutarou: So...
Koutarou: If she really is a god of poverty...
Koutarou: she might put herself back in the stone when she gets her memories back...

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Makoto: And then you think you'll be lonely?

Koutarou: I...
Koutarou: I didn't...say that...

Konoha: What!?
Konoha: So you're flirting while I'm not looking!
Konoha: So you really do have feelings for each other!
Makoto: N-no, we don't!!
Text: Next Chapter: The exciting school edition! (That's the plan, at least.)

Yuujirou: I glued gramps to it!
Koutarou: Don't do that!!