Kate came to see me while I was taking care of Ariel. Ariel can also replenish her energy through photosynthesis, so it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t eat.
Still, the reason why I’m keeping her by her side is simple. Because he was so cute and adorable when he slept.
From the characteristic plump breasts of a child to the buds above the head and angel wings. Cuteness is the appearance that seems to have poured out all the cuteness.
I didn’t even think to wake him up like that, and while I was staring at him, Kate came into my room.
“······sorry.”
“Yes?”
And apologized for no reason. I was a little embarrassed, and looking at her face, I couldn’t help but be more embarrassed.
It was because she was holding her skirt tightly with both hands while making a face that looked like she was about to cry.
The lights were turned off for Ariel’s nap. Because of this, only the lamp next to the bed illuminates her slightly.
Seeing the blue-glowing eyes moistened with moisture, she looked like she was about to cry.
“········What happened?”
I decided to figure out what was going on first. I have no idea what’s going on, since I’ve apologized all the time.
When I asked in a slightly subdued voice, Kate shook her head and slowly lifted her head.
Eventually, our eyes met, but for a moment, it immediately descended to make a beep sound.
He seems to have committed a sin that he could not bear to say. Feeling more and more puzzled, I shifted my gaze to Ariel.
“Koh…”
Ariel is sleeping without knowing anything about the world. However, if you break up in the middle of a conversation like this, it can be cut off.
There is a room in the dormitory that is not yet used, so we can go there and talk.
“Follow me for now. It’s a little too much to talk about here.”
“yes······”
It’s Kate who follows me with her head bowed down like a real criminal. I walked out of the living room, moving carefully so as not to wake Ariel.
When I came out of the living room, I could see Adelia and Marie talking to each other honestly.
By nature, Adelia tends to listen to all of Marie’s conversations, and Marie leads most of her conversations.
“Huh? Where are you two going?”
At the right time, Marie asked with a smile if he had found us. Adelia followed the question and looked at us.
I scratched my head in embarrassment and looked at Kate. She still has a gloomy look on her face, not even raising her head.
I think it will be quite a story.
“I have something to talk to Kate for a moment. When will the meal be ready?”
“Well. Adele sister?”
“It will be over in 20 minutes at the latest.”
“I’ll be back in 30 minutes with plenty of room. Are you okay?”
“It’s fine, but…”
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Marie faltered and turned to look at Kate with a curious expression.
About the time when she became a little uneasy at the gaze, she opened her mouth.
“Maybe… Ah, no. 30 minutes is probably not enough.”
“It’s not like that.”
I think I know roughly what you were thinking. As much as she knows me, I can read her thoughts to some extent.
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Marie giggled like a naughty boy when I answered in a weak voice. Look at it because it’s pretty.
“Okay. Then we’ll be slowly preparing, so let’s talk. Don’t worry about Ariel.”
“Thank you. Kate?”
“yes······”
So me and Kate went to the empty room. As it is the highest-class dormitory provided by the academy, there are many empty rooms.
Originally, it was a place where maids or servants and the employees who took care of them lived.
However, Adelia is cleaning the unused rooms thoroughly because of her savvy personality.
Drooling-
I seated Kate on the soft bed, then dragged a chair and placed it across from her.
Even as she sat down on the bed, Kate still had her eyes down, as if she didn’t want to raise her head.
After I sat down on the chair, I looked at her. It’s very different from usual.
She is a woman who always smiles with a frenzied belief in God, but today, for some reason, she is depressed.
‘Looks like I had a conflict with my grandfather…’
This is the only assumption I can make for now. Clark, apparently, was a skeleton resurrected by a special magic.
For Kate, who is a fanatic, she is a target to be slaughtered, and a dead person who has rejected God’s rules.
She has grown from the time she asked for seeds, but her fanaticism is still there. I’d say it’s actually worse than it was back then.
“Mr. Kate.”
“······yes.”
“Can you tell me why you apologized?”
However, all of this is only conjecture. You have to listen to her to make sure.
Kate trembled again at my question and clenched her fist on her lap.
In response to the complex emotional response, I decided to take my heart a little more seriously.
“······· Sir Isaac.”
“Yes. Please tell me.”
“I have sinned.”
Kate confessed her guilt. It is similar to the sacrament of confession, in which one confesses sins before God.
If so, what was the crime she committed? I put my face closer in a more listening position.
Then, with her head still lowered, she began to reveal her sins one by one.
It was a crying voice, but it was a pity that he was trying to keep up with the words somehow.
“According to God’s word, we headed to the ugliest place in the world, where Clark was. It was to bring a distinguished guest to the oracle.”
“·······”
“But I met Clarke, and there was a circumstance that he wasn’t evil, and I attacked him at will.”
Also as expected It would be weirder that Kate doesn’t fight because of her personality.
At the same time, I had a question. Why did Luminous give Kate such an ambiguous oracle?
The original oracle is ambiguous, but it varies from person to person. I don’t even own the future at all.
The same goes for Kate. After punishing the fallen cardinal, she can speak directly to Luminus just like me.
But looking at such an oracle, Luminus must have a purpose.
“I was a disobedient person as I had always believed, and I did harm to Clark-sama without giving in. If I had thought a little more deeply, if I had listened to the people around me, at the very least, this would not have happened if I hadn’t been self-righteous. will.”
“Do you regret it?”
“Yes. The thing that made me hate myself more than that…”
Kate clenched her teeth while speaking. Her closed lips are trembling, and her fists on her knees are trembling.
Jureuk-
In the end, as if he could not overcome the guilt that came from within, a single stream of tears flowed down his white cheeks.
I was surprised to see it, but for a moment I watched it silently without wiping it. Now was the time for repentance.
Of course, I am not a real priest and I am not a great person to accept the Sacrament of Confession, but I can think of it as counseling.
“It is that I resented Luminous-sama for giving me such an oracle, even for a moment.”
“·······”
“It was my fault… I misinterpreted and acted as I wanted… It is so disgusting that I tried to shift the blame to him…”
People are really cunning He doesn’t like to take responsibility for his own faults, trying to pass it on to someone else.
Kate is going through the same situation right now, but as you know, her head is full of fanaticism.
It is unacceptable as a fanatic to pass the blame on to a god who can even lay down his life.
That doesn’t mean your fault goes away. It is a problem whether we take responsibility for our mistakes on ourselves, or whether we pass it on to God.
All of this happened because of Kate’s fanaticism. If it was a person with a normal mindset, I would have apologized and ended it.
‘This is why the trust was vaguely dropped.’
It seems that Luminus was also aiming for this point. Although he smells like a human, he has great insight like a god.
Then there is only one thing for me to do. Slowly stripping away the fanaticism from the confused Kate.
I looked at her, almost sobbing now, and opened my mouth with a grin.
“Okay. Did Grandpa Clark say anything?”
“Hey, yes. There is nothing more irresponsible than judging everything based on what you have seen and heard with your eyes and ears and dismissing it as God’s will.
“That was the first time we met, wasn’t it?”
“yes······”
After all, he cannot ignore the magnificence that comes from his own time or experience. Even though it was their first meeting, he clearly saw through the essence and contradictions of Kate.
I reached out slowly to Kate, who was sobbing without even wiping her tears. Then, he gently grabbed his cheek with one hand.
When I put my hand on my cheek, she flinched and lifted her head slowly.
It wasn’t that she was crying uncontrollably, but a picture-like beauty was caught in her sight. How can you be so pretty when you cry?
“Mr. Kate.”
“yes······”
“Didn’t you feel that something was wrong in the process?”
Kate blinked slowly at my question. It seems that the root cause has not been found yet.
In this case, it is convenient and quick to present a very appropriate example. I carefully wiped her tears away and began to speak.
“I’ll give you one example. One day, my husband stole medicine to treat his ill wife. The medicine was too expensive, and the house was so poor that he had no money to buy it.”
“·······”
“And stealing is one of the sins ordained by God, not by humans. If Kate committed a crime in this situation, would you punish her husband?”
It can be seen as a difficult problem that causes a lot of thought in many ways. The husband must have committed a sin, but the reason is to cure his ailing wife.
The situation is not favorable, so the husband has no choice but to commit a crime. If you leave it alone, your wife is in danger.
Unfortunately, there will be people who punish them because they think sin is a sin, and there will be people who want to take care of it just once.
So, what will Kate do? I quietly waited for her answer.
“I······”
Kate couldn’t easily give an answer because she had been through a similar situation. It’s probably pretty confusing.
If you have committed a sin that God has set, you should be punished, but knowing the circumstances makes you feel sorry for yourself.
If it had been Kate before, she would have ignored everything and punished her. If you are a fanatic.
“······I do not know.”
“You don’t know?”
“Yes. If it was before, I would have put him in jail… now… I don’t know.”
But now I have an entirely different answer. It’s not that they’re sternly punishing, but they’re arguing over how to make a decision.
This is a common phenomenon when the belief that has been believed in the past is shaken. The appearance of moving back and forth without being able to react firmly.
You have to speak well here. It can be said that this is the most dangerous moment as it can lead the road in a completely different direction if done wrong.
I smiled and gently stroked her cheek. He spoke quietly, like a parent teaching a child or a teacher teaching morals.
“I don’t know about anyone else, but Kate-san has a good way. Kate-san also feels sorry for that family, right?”
“Yes. But I have committed a sin…”
“Then why don’t Kate treat his wife or pay for the medicine instead of paying for her, and the husband be kind? This is not something Luminus-sama decided, but Kate’s own judgment. And Kate has the ability to do that.”
“·······”
Kate blinked at my words and then raised her head to look at me. The two bright blue eyes are wide open, expressing surprise.
This is something only Kate can do. Kate’s divine power and status would be enough to save the family.
It’s not about following God’s will, it’s about doing it while thinking for yourself. A way of thinking that is completely out of fanaticism.
I looked at Kate as she realized something, then lifted her hand from her cheek. Then he gently grabbed both of his hands and spoke softly.
“It is not blindly following the will of God, but acting on your own. Understanding the other person’s point of view and thinking that you should change if you are wrong.”
“·······”
“It’s not about putting the blame on God, it’s about taking responsibility for yourself. God loves us so much, but He doesn’t cover our sins. He just blinds us with a shadow.”
“It’s just a cover…”
Responsibility is easy to say, but really heavy. Sometimes the reason why some people say I will take responsibility and not to worry is because the weight of that responsibility is so heavy.
If you are willing to take on that heavy responsibility, even if you fail, you will grow further.
To get rid of Kate’s fanaticism entirely, it’s best to start by realizing the importance of responsibility at home.
“I want Kate to take this opportunity to reflect on herself. Of course, for Kate-san, Luminous-sama is her parent and her entire life, so it can be difficult.”
“·······”
“But Mr. Kate. Birds are the safest in cages, but they are not born to die in cages. Just like a child raised by a parent becomes independent on their own, Kate will one day have to walk her own path, not the one Luminous suggested. That’s real growth.”
Kate didn’t say anything as she listened to me and looked at me blankly. It’s unfamiliar because it’s the first time I’ve seen him, but he still has a beautiful appearance.
I slowly removed the hand she was holding to make time for her to think.
“Well… that’s all I have to say. Is there anything you want to ask?”
“·······There is something I want to ask you.”
“what is that?”
“only once······”
She hesitated a little, and then continued with a hint of shame.
“Can I hug you just once?”
“You want a hug?”
“yes······”
A request that feels a bit absurd. I put on a puzzled expression on her face, but she did what she wanted.
Then I got up from my chair and slowly opened my arms. Kate also stretched her arms and waited patiently for me to hug her.
“ha······”
“Hmmm.”
Finally, as they hugged each other, Kate let out an exhilarating breath. I also coughed awkwardly at the soft feeling I felt under the nuns.
Kate slumped, not thinking of falling out of bed, but we held it for a while.
In the meantime, she rubs her face on my neck or wiggles her body. He seemed to be holding back on something.
“········ Sir Isaac.”
“tell.”
“I’m sorry for all this time. Looking back, I did a lot of things on my own…”
I finally figured it out! I delighted in her apology. It seems that he has finally escaped from that ferocious fanaticism.
So I hugged him even more strongly. Stroking your hair is a bonus.
“It’s okay now that you know. You should do that in the future. However, you must take responsibility for your mistakes. Okay?”
“······yes.”
“Okay. Then…”
I slowly released my hug and faced Kate. Her face, which turned red as if embarrassed by the hug, caught my eye.
A reaction like a pure country girl having physical contact with the opposite s*x for the first time. For some reason, I feel more pure than before.
“Shall we go eat?”
“Yes Yes!”
Kate jumped up at my words and headed straight for the living room. When I woke up, my posture was very strange, but I didn’t really care.
Then, as I was about to go outside, I noticed something strange in the seat where she was sitting.
I don’t know what happened in that short time, but Kate’s seat was damp. The white blanket makes it stand out more.
“…it’s not.”
it will be sweat cancer. don’t sweat
I groaned and headed to the living room. and······
“Huh? Kate?”
“Did you go back to your dormitory for a moment?”
“why?”
“I don’t know. I heard you have a stomach ache? Something was strange when you left.”
“·······”
I realized that even though the fanaticism was released, the desire remained the same.
You shall not escape from snu snu with Kate lol