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Summary

To save my master, I knelt up a thousand steps to the temple of the Medicine God.

I never expected him to be the same young disciple I had once saved from a demon.

The goddesses behind him looked at my tattered clothes with disgust.

"My Lord, isn't this the former partner you were forced to wed after losing that bet with the Spirit God?"

The young disciple's eyes met mine, his voice dripping with hatred. "Partner? She was nothing but a desperate, power-hungry user."

I bit my lip, closed my