What Do You Mean There Are Other Transmigrators In My Harem Fantasy?

"Mistress?"

I looked up when I heard Katsuki's voice, finding my maid looking at me with a face of concern.

"Mistress? What happened?" She asked.

I hung my head again, "Katsuki… I screwed up…"

There was a slight pause before she asked, "Is it because of Lisa, Mistress?"

Ah… She must have saw the Infrid that was still sleeping on my bed. Explore hidden tales at мѵʟ

I shook my head, "No… The fault lies with me… I screwed up, big time…"

She knelt down beside me, "I do not believe you did, Mistress… But may I ask what made you think so?"

I sniffed before looking at her, "Do you have a--"

"A cookie, Mistress? Right here," She answered even before I could finish my words.

As expected of Katsuki, she already knew what I wanted even before I asked for it.

I couldn't help but let out a smile at her before I took the cookie from her gratefully.

With deliberate slowness, I opened my mouth before taking a bite of the cookie.

I closed my eyes and I felt the sweetness envelope my mouth and I basked in it, right before it disappeared from me and I was left with a sense of emptiness.

Katsuki reacted almost immediately, "Mistress?! Was the cookie not to your liking? I have more!"

Out of nowhere, she pulled out even more cookies and shoved them into my hands, making me wonder for a moment just where she was keeping them.

I shook my head, "It's not the cookies, Katsuki… I am the reason why I no longer react the way I did…"

"What does Mistress mean by that?"

I was about to tell her when I stopped myself.

I turned back to see Lisa still on the bed before turning back to Katsuki, "I… I think we should get the others as well… So I don't need to say this more than once."

Katsuki pursed her lips, "If you would prefer… I could be the one to share the information with the others instead, Mistress."

I considered it for a moment before nodding, "I'll leave it to you then, Katsuki… I trust you."

"Of course, Mistress. Should I get you anything beforehand?"

I sucked in a breath before letting out a sigh, "No, it's fine… You know that I am an Off-Worlder right?"

She nodded, "Of course, Mistress. And that doesn't change my view of you."

I smiled at her, "Thank you, Katsuki."

"Am I right to assume that this has something to do with your status as an Off-Worlder?"

I nodded, "I'm not sure if I mentioned this… But every year on my birthday, I may get some blessings or curses from the gods…"

I decided to call them blessings and curses instead of boons and banes since that would save me the explanation of what they were.

Katsuki seemed to understand immediately, "And Mistress received a curse last night?"

"Ironically… This is considered a blessing… The blessing is supposed to make me more resistant to being 'overwhelmed'... Like if I were to be stabbed, instead of being overwhelmed by the pain, I could potentially endure it and not pass out. If I were to be placed in a stressful situation, I would not have a panic attack so easily… But that also applies to being overwhelmed with sweets it seems…"

Katsuki's brows furrowed, "Is there no way to cancel out its effects or to specify what the blessing does not affect?"

I paused for a moment.

I actually didn't think of that.

Hey! I was too preoccupied with the sweets ok?!

I closed my eyes and thought about preventing the boon from resisting the effects of sweets before I picked up another cookie that Katsuki had shoved into my hands to bite into it.

Mmmm!!! Sweet!!

It's so good! So… Ah…

The feeling faded away.

I shook my head at her, "It does not seem like that's possible."

Katsuki thought about it for a moment before speaking again, "Does Mistress want to keep this blessing?"

I hesitated for a moment, "I suppose… It is undeniably useful in most situations but I don't know if I can live with losing this feeling when I'm eating sweets… It's a hard choice…"

"If Mistress wishes to get rid of it… Is there a way?"

I sat up, "There actually is one. Could you get my Pack of Folding?"

Katsuki's figure disappeared and reappeared, holding the bag in question.

I reached into it and started pulling out the plates until I found the one that I was looking for and returned it back to its normal form.

One of my extra Divine Communication Stone appeared in my hands and Katsuki recognised it instantly.

"A Blessing Stone?"

I nodded, "That's what you call them. But for Off-Worlders like me, this is known as a Divine Communication Stone. It grants us a chance to… Well… Change our blessings and curses at the temple."

Katsuki tilted her head slightly at me, "In that case, does that problem not solve itself? Or is Mistress only able to just remove it completely instead of changing it?"

"That is precisely the problem."

She looked at the stone in my hand, "How does it work though? Does Mistress also pray in front of the altar and wish for the blessing to be removed and the stone gets consumed in the process to remove it?"

"Err… Not exactly… It basically lets me meet one of the gods and talk to them about it."

Katsuki froze and stared at me for a good few seconds.

"The stone allows Mistress to meet the Gods? Like face to face?"

"Err… Did I never talk about this before? Yes, it does…"

"I do not believe Mistress has talked about that before… As expected of Mistress."

"No, no. This isn't limited to me, the other Off-Worlders who use it can do the same thing as well."

"Mmm… But if Mistress is able to meet with the gods directly… How does the conversation go?"

"Eh? Just normally I guess? I'm not sure what to tell you about that?"

Katsuki froze again, this time needing almost half a minute before she recovered.

"Mistress… You talk to the Gods as you would normally like how we are talking right now?"

I tilted my head at her, "Yes?"

"... As expected of Mistress."

"No, no. They're pretty chill, you know? I've met Drebann, who is the one who handles this, so if I want this changed, it'll most likely be him who will handle it. I've also met Nilali though that was just a brief exchange before she sent me over to Drebann for the first time I used the stone. And then there's also Hiandoca--"

"Hiandoca?!!" A voice cried out, right before Lisa sprung out of bed and practically materialised before me.

"You've met Hiandoca, Aster?!" She asked, her eyes wide.

Were you listening the whole time, Lisa? You were, weren't you?

Katsuki was shooting her a glare but my Infrid ignored her in favour of directing her attention solely on me.

"Yes, I did… A few times actually. She appeared before me during one of my Dungeon dives."

Lisa gasped, "You… Did you go to her tower?!"

I shook my head quickly, "No, no. It was just a… Well… A lewd Dungeon. I went there during the training camp with Mary."

"What did she say? Did she demand anything? Did she change you? Did she ask you to punish me and make me your obedient little sex slave?"

Err… Calm down Lisa… Also what the heck was the last one?

I cleared my throat, "Ahem… She was masquerading herself as a succubus at that time so there wasn't really much to say… She didn't specifically demand anything, did not change me and most certainly did not ask me to punish you."

For some reason, Lisa seemed the most disappointed at the last part.

"However…" I continued, taking a moment to dig through my Pack of Folding again. "She did give me this though."

I pulled out the gold coin that had Hiandoca's face on it to hand it over to her.

Lisa took it and beheld the coin, only for her expression to turn into one of shock when she saw it.

"Aster… Do… Do you know what this is?" She asked, her hands visibly trembling.

"I err… No I don't… Is it something important?"

She looked back up at me with even wider eyes, "Aster… This coin marks you as someone who has Goddess Hiandoca's favour… You are, in the eyes of those who worship her, her champion. The last time anyone was given this was at least a century ago!"

I blinked, "What does it mean to be her champion?"

"It means you are to be treated like you are someone she favours! To Infrids like me, it's like you have been personally chosen by her to speak in her name! If you told me to worship you right now, I would!"

"You already do that, Miss Lisa," Katsuki pointed out.

"Oh right. Yes, I do worship you, Aster, ehehehe~ But I think you could just use this coin at the nearest temple devoted to Hiandoca and she might even hear you out to help you with this! Let's go right now!"

Huh… I guess that's worth a shot. Though I wonder if meeting Hiandoca again would be a good thing…

Fine, let's do it for the sweets.