069. Guest from the South (3)
A day when the business district welcomes guests and students enjoy their return holiday.
Unfortunately, the priests who raised their enemies to the Church of Light were busy.
It was a phenomenon that occurred because holidays used to disappear when worship services were held for believers who visited the church, and volunteer activities were performed for those who were groaning at the bottom of society.
“Oh, Holy Lady. You are more beautiful today.”
“hehehe, is that so?”
“You really have become a full-fledged woman now.”
“Sister is also true!”
Moreover, after Saint Cecilia entered the academy, the number of her visitors and church members increased explosively.
Cecilia, like the mascot of the academy church, is an idol in name and reality. Her interest naturally poured into her was also unusual.
“By the way, I hear there are guests coming from the Holy Land?”
“Wow? Are you a guest?”
At the words of her fellow priest, Cecilia tilted her head.
A guest, a guest. In her experience, most of the guests from the Holy Land had bad intentions.
“Yes, Yunapint-nim said he was coming.”
“Yeah, that’s right. It’s the first I’ve heard of it.”
A young priestess who reveals the truth with an innocent face. However, Cecilia couldn’t help but smile bitterly at her words.
Priest, Yunafint Lunaciel.
A girl like Cecilia who is one of the candidates for a holy woman chosen by God.
She gave up becoming a saint herself for some reason, but Cecilia had no idea what purpose she was coming to the academy for.
She pondered for a moment, then Cecilia jumped up from her seat. Putting aside the fact that a rival from the old kingdom was coming, she came up with something more important.
“Oh!”
“Huh? Why are you like this, saintess?”
“I forgot! She had a must-attend seat at lunch!”
“Is that him again?”
“…… Yes? Hey, I’m going to go! Hi!”
“Whoops, you’re really lovely.”
Cecilia blushed as her explosion occurred. Then, as Cecilia moved away from her crouch, the priestess looked back at her with a hearty smile.
* * *
“Bring the information. Stop talking nonsense.”
“My dear. Information is not something that is easily obtained.”
“The purpose of your coming to the academy is because of the information. Then why can’t I find their hideout?”
“Hmmm.”
The Grand Duke slightly averted his gaze at Veris’ words full of frustration.
The place where the Archduke and Veris are now sitting is the high-class restaurant where Arwen and Cecilia had eaten together in the past.
Although the voice came out unsuitable for the intimate conversations on the third floor where customers were extremely rare.
“This is a person who is only ahead of his will, and is very frustrated.”
“Everything is frustrating?”
“That’s right. I thought I would start working right away because I wanted to borrow my power, but what is this?”
Archduchess Evangeline bit her mouth tightly at Berry’s scolding.
Well, it was also a situation where she had nothing to say even with ten mouths.
Obtaining Veris’ cooperation was definitely a meaningful achievement, but I didn’t know where the most important meeting place was!
“And, something is strange.”
“…… What do you mean?”
“The information you got. How did those who couldn’t even catch their tails let the information flow to you? Couldn’t that be what the devil’s cult intended?”
“… ….”
“You didn’t come running out of a vengeance without even suspecting it, did you?”
This is Verice’s question that hits the mark once again. Again, unable to come up with the answer she deserved, she just watched the passing clouds outside her window.
“This may be strange.”
“Did you feel that way now?”
“Hmmm, I will admit it. It means that the mindset to exterminate them came first.”
“Huh.”
A collapsed sound leaked from Veris’ mouth. Arwen, who had been silently watching the conversation between the two, took her luck.
“Wouldn’t it be faster for Veris to find it?”
“It could be. The only problem is that the city is too large to find every single person who has the dark mana.”
Arwen nodded her head in agreement with Veris’ answer.
It is an academy with a scale similar to that of a city where more than tens of thousands of people live.
In this vast academy city, it was too inefficient to simply scatter mana to find disparate demonic cult tools.
“I have a good idea.”
“What are you thinking?”
“If I remember correctly, I heard that the followers of the Demon Cult have learned Dark Mana.”
“Yes. It must be true.”
“The mana that is extremely incompatible with the mana of darkness is divine mana that the priests have mastered. Isn’t there someone who has trained the divine mana to the extreme beside Veris-sama?”
“Whoa.”
Veris, figuring out what Arwen meant, stroked her chin.
Cecilia de Frey. If the child roamed all over the city spewing divine mana, there was a chance that the reaction would come out.
For example, Arwen wants to use Cecilia as her radar. Or a drug detection dog or something like that.
“… Where is Cecilia?”
“Maybe she is at church. She is also a priest with a true heart.”
“Let’s go.”
There was no way she could help her plan by sitting pointlessly, so Veris immediately jumped out of her seat and got up.
The destination is a church located in the eastern part of the academy. The goal was to secure Cecilia.
* * *
“Lulul, huh? Berrys!”
Cecilia, walking down the street bathed in the warm summer sun, witnessed her welcome face.
Veris, Arwen, and even a woman named Grand Duke of the Kingdom of Gaul who has been strangely circling Veris lately.
Cecilia ran to Verice and asked, blinking her large emerald-like eyes.
“What are you up to here? You rarely come to the Eastern District.”
“I came to pick you up.”
“Really? Cecilia was impressed!”
“Yes, yes. By the way, what should I do….”
For now, it is Veris who comes to pick up Cecilia, thinking that Arwen’s opinion is good.
The problem was the method.
The method of just ignorantly carrying Cecilia or carrying Veris around would be a method, but wouldn’t that draw too much attention?
“How do you do it?”
Cecilia asks in a friendly way, whether or not she knows Veris’ black heart.
If she had her own tail, she would spin around excitedly. Since she looked like an excited puppy, Veris ate her bad heart.
Still, he’s a human being, so carrying around like carrying luggage must be a handshake.
“Ah.”
“…… ?”
But Veris clapped her hands at a good idea that suddenly came to her mind. Yeah, why did I just come up with this idea now?
“What is that? Cecilia?”
“Yes! Can you tell me any time?”
“Dating…… Won’t you?”
Kwakwang.
Cecilia de Frey, the Saint of Charity was sunk.
* * *
“Heh heh.”
“What a grotesque laugh.”
“Has Arwen ever dated Veris?”
“Surprisingly, on the first day I came to the academy, Berrys-sama and I slept in the ‘same room’.”
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Cecilia pouted her lips at Arwen’s blunt attitude, apparently not even intending to argue.
“Even though nothing happened.”
But she seemed to think that it was okay that her face started to loosen up again soon after.
“A date, a date.”
“… ….”
Cecilia in casual clothes, taking off her priestly clothes, was obviously hard to see.
To be honest…… Cecilia is a girl with a beautiful appearance. However, her priestly clothes, which made her skin invisible from head to toe, had a knack for reducing her appearance.
But today is different.
It hasn’t even reached the promised noon yet, and anyone will be able to tell by looking at Cecilia’s outfit that contains her deadly will.
A flowing black skirt and a pure white blouse with red water droplets on it gave off the feeling of an academy girl of this age.
Then she put a light green shawl on her shoulders for the last time, a color very similar to the color of her own hair.
Is that all?
Cecilia’s pretty, shiny hair, which was not visible because she usually wore a hood, was neatly arranged and fluttered.
“When are you coming?”
Cecilia waited for him, stomping her feet, as Berrys left her mansion for a while, saying she had something to discuss.
And that…… Strangely enough, it was a point that stimulated Cecilia’s love affair with her.
‘It’s like a lover.’
Yes, she is the lover she promised to date. Waiting for the man you love to pick up on the promised day, like the main character in a romance novel.
Lunch should be eaten at the reserved steak house. She ordered different cuts of steak…… They put chunks of meat in each other’s mouths…….
She feels good just by imagining it, and it feels like the corners of her mouth go up. But in front of Arwen, who will be looking at the house alone, that might be too rude.
Cecilia continued to paint her paint on her imaginary drawing paper, trying hard to catch her expression.
At night, we should go to a restaurant in the commercial district where lovers often go. With a light meal, drink special wine grown in the vineyards of that Gaul.
And the two drunk men and women…….
Woe!
Cecilia’s face turned red in an instant. However, since it was so severe, sparks flew in Arwen’s eyes as she quietly watched Cecilia do what she was doing.
“Are you having bad thoughts again? ‘Saint’ Cecilia.”
“Muh, what do you mean? I don’t have dirty thoughts like that, right?”
“Dirty thoughts? I didn’t mention it was a dirty idea. It is truly unusual.”
Smart.
At the sound of a knock on the door of her mansion just in time, Cecilia stuck out her tongue.
“I am going. Today is a really happy day.”
Thinking that Arwen’s dissatisfied face is really interesting, Cecilia opened the door to her mansion.