I am the Goddess Destined to be Devoured by the Protagonist - Chapter 02

========== EPISODE 2 ==========

A job has come up for this transmigrator.

Let’s nip the seeds of future problems in the bud!

First, let’s stop the useless stamina drain. Everyone has been starving for days, so they must be struggling just to stand.

To do that, I had to send Sirius something—a message or whatever—via Sponsorship.

I examined the system window, looking for a way to send a Sponsorship. But all I saw were icons in shapes I’d never seen before.

If I had to describe the shape of one of them, it looks like my future.

It means it looks hopeless.

What am I supposed to press to sponsor? Couldn’t they just make a button that says “Sponsor”?

But I couldn’t just sit here doing nothing. I’ll just press something…

[Do you need a helper character for beginner gods?]

[Yes] / [Yes]

A window popped up, as if to save me from my confusion.

Does this mean they’re giving me a helper NPC? I don’t know what it is, but since it’s a “helper,” it should help me, right?

I just pressed a random button. It’s not like there was any choice other than “YES” anyway.

[Creating helper character…….]

[A character reflecting your tastes will be created.]

It even creates a character reflecting my tastes. What an amazing system.

I wonder what kind of character will come out. It would be a disaster if it gave me a bald middle-aged man in a lovely pink sailor suit, claiming it was a “taste I wasn’t aware of.”

[Character creation complete.]

Not long after, a new system window appeared, and light emerged from it, floating in mid-air.

For the record, I was lying flat on my bed right now. Just like many transmigrators wake up on a bed, I had done the same.

But the reason I hadn’t gotten out of bed was that there was no particular need to move, and the bed was so soft and cozy that I didn’t even want to get up.

The reason I’m mentioning this is to let you know that the light was floating above my body.

If it was in my field of vision while I was lying flat without even turning my head, it was only natural that it would be around there.

Everywhere I looked, it seemed like a character or whatever was about to appear from that light, and it’s floating above me?

I tried to scramble off the bed quickly. I didn’t want to get crushed by someone I was meeting for the first time.

“Hello!”

But the character’s appearance was faster.

My surprise was short-lived; fortunately, I wasn’t crushed by the weight of a human.

The character was much smaller than expected. So much so that it could fit on the palm of my hand.

And it was very fluffy and round.

I easily recognized what appearance this character had taken.

It was a hamster. With a snow-white body and only its ears tinged with a light gray color.

The hamster that had been floating in the air slowly descended and landed softly on my body—or rather, on the blanket covering my body.

I shouted inwardly.

Cu, cute!

Was it because I regretted not being able to keep a hamster before I transmigrated because my house was too small? To meet a pet hamster like this—I’m so happy I could dance.

[Please name your helper character.]

The hamster was shining its eyes from beyond the system window. It seemed to be waiting for its name to be given.

I thought about it carefully and touched my finger to the holographic keyboard that appeared below the window.

[Ham]

No matter how much I thought about it, only names like “Britney Chunja” came to mind, so I decided to just give it a safe name.

When I pressed the confirm button, the corners of the hamster’s mouth went up.

“I am your helper, Haemi! Thank you for naming me! If you have any questions, feel free to ask!”

Ah. Cute. So cute.

I was intoxicated by Haemi’s cuteness for a moment, but then I heard something I couldn’t ignore, and my gaze naturally returned to the window where the broadcast was playing.

-Just looking at them, they’re an orphan, so who would care if they starved to death?

How could they say such a terrible thing? The kid who is the subject of that comment is listening too!

As I peered into the broadcast screen, Haemi also floated over, settled down next to me—specifically on my pillow—and looked up at the screen.

Then, after assessing the situation, it pointed at Sirius with its small, light pink front paw and asked.

“Do you want to sign a contract with the streamer, Sirius-nim?”

Contract?

Come to think of it, the Listener had also sponsored after signing a contract. Then shouldn’t I sign a contract too?

When I nodded, Haemi pointed at Sirius with its small front paw.

“Try clicking on that person.”

When I clicked on Sirius, who was floating on the screen, a list appeared as if I had right-clicked.

One sentence among them caught my eye.

[Request Contract]

This is it!

I pressed it immediately.

At the same time, a system window appeared in front of Sirius.

[The observing god, ‘Listener of Wishes Drawing Lines’, has proposed a contract. Will you accept?]

[Yes] / [No]

The exact sentence I had seen in the novel was written there.

I was watching it without much thought, but suddenly the “No” button caught my eye.

Surely they wouldn’t refuse, right?

The current Sirius had relatively little reason to accept a contract. That might be why the Listener suggested a contract at that timing in the original work.

I observed Sirius’s reaction. His eyes, fixed on the system window, had widened slightly.

When Sirius suddenly looked at the empty air in surprise, the Hopeless Trio muttered a few words in confusion. But there was no way it would reach his ears.

Ah, this is what they call a “system window.”

To him, who had never played games or read novels with system windows, it was so unfamiliar…….

[Streamer ‘Sirius’ has accepted the contract.]

[Congratulations! You have successfully signed a contract!]

Huh? They accepted this quickly?

There was even a button at the bottom right of the system window that said ‘About the contract with the god▼’, but they didn’t even press it?

I started to worry about Sirius.

What if they just accept without even looking at the contract terms? They’ll get scammed.

“I was going to explain the contract, but it seems they already knew!”

Ah. That wasn’t something for me to say.

I had pressed the contract request button so quickly that Haemi didn’t have a chance to explain.

A guy who suggests a contract without knowing what it is, and a person who accepts it without knowing what it is.

This combination…… is it okay?

Since I knew nothing about the contract, I should have listened to the explanation, but I decided to listen later. Solving the situation comes first now.

“How do I sponsor?”

“You can do that by pressing this icon.”

[Sponsor]

A speech bubble appeared over one of the icons I didn’t recognize, as if telling me to press it.

That weird symbol is the Sponsor icon?

It was absurd, but I had no choice but to press it obediently.

[No sponsorship items exist. Would you like to go purchase some?]

[Yes] / [No]

Ah, I had to buy them?

Come to think of it, I had never thought about where the Listener got the items they sponsored. I had guessed they didn’t just pop out of thin air, though.

Even if one is a god, they wouldn’t have the ability to make all of that, right?

When I pressed the “Yes” button, another window popped up next to the broadcast window.

[Purchase Sponsorship Items]

[Old Helmet]

[Old Breastplate]

[Old Leg Guards]

[Old Cloak]

[Old Sword]

[Old Shield]

[Clump of Trash]

Why do they all look so crappy?

No matter how much I scrolled down, there were no good-looking items.

“Don’t you sell any good items?”

“You can’t buy them yet because your god intervention level is low.”

What do you mean I can’t buy good items because my level is low?

None of the internet broadcasting platforms I know have a system like that. There were even sites where you could sponsor 1++ grade Hanwoo beef on the very day you signed up.

Judging by Haemi’s tone, it didn’t seem like there was a way to level up right away. If there was, it would have told me.

Do these guys not want to make money? Sell expensive stuff and take a huge commission!

Even after sighing to myself and looking again, only the crappy lineup was visible.

But there was no choice. I had to find something usable among these.

I scrolled up and down repeatedly and then clicked on the Old Sword.

[Old Sword]

[It is an old sword. It looks more suitable for bludgeoning than cutting.]

[Price: 100p]

It was unsettling that this was the very sword the Listener gave Sirius in the original work, but there was no other choice.

When my gaze reached the price at the bottom, I felt absurd. It meant that even gods here needed money.

The fact that you need money to buy things is so obvious that even some dogs know it, but it lacked style.

Somewhere, there might be a god struggling because they have no money.

But does the Listener have money right now? Where can I see the amount of money I have?

“Are you worried about your points?”

Haemi asked. It seemed like it was because I had stopped my gaze on the price.

“Yeah. I’m worried I might not have any money.”

“Then shall we check your held points?”

Haemi kindly guided me even at my strange remark about being worried I might not have money.

But what is this?

I stared blankly at the window Haemi had popped up.

[Held Points: 9999999]999999+

The numbers are spilling out of the system window.

Listener…… why are you so rich?

“It won’t go wrong if I use this, right?”

The amount, which exceeded my expectations, was terrifying. Especially considering that the owner was the Listener.

What if it’s money collected through fraud or money borrowed and not paid back!

“Yes?”

Haemi asked back as if the sentence “points that go wrong if used” couldn’t possibly exist in the world.

Seeing it so surprised, is it okay?

I hesitated for a moment and then pressed the purchase button for the Old Sword.

[Held Points: 9999999]999999+

Even then, there was no change in the held points.

It’s scary, so let’s stop looking.

I closed the window where the held points were displayed. And I returned to the broadcast window and pressed the Sponsor icon.

Then a list of sponsorship methods appeared. It seemed like it was set up to allow sponsorship in various ways, just like broadcasts on Earth.

I fixed my gaze on one of the lists.

[Message Sponsorship]

This seems to be a feature that allows sponsoring along with a message.

It’s seen a lot in personal internet broadcasts, and it appeared in novels too. Though it was different in that TTS voices didn’t come out in novels.

My finger pressed the message sponsorship button…… no, it didn’t, I twisted my wrist and pressed a different button.

[Mission Sponsorship]

This was presumed to be a feature where you give the streamer a mission and sponsor them with a reward if they succeed.

[Please enter the mission content.]

I entered the content into the blank space, and soon a window appeared in front of Sirius.

He slowly read the contents of the window.