48-4. A social gathering under the moonlight.
***
Chartines was familiar with the golden-haired woman in front of her.
Nex’s biological mother. Living sun.
One of the ten girls who played an active part in the Demon War.
“..Sorry for the first meeting. Mother.”
“You did that even though you knew that.”
Without even making eye contact with her, Asha was sipping her black tea.
“How long have you known Nex?”
Asha first got to the point. Because the party has already vacated the seat.
“Probably, about three years ago..”
I met Nexu in the courtyard of a social church a few years before entering the academy.
“It must be because of you that the spirits of Nex appeared. It’s the same with the recent adulthood.”
As if she finally understood it, Asha tidied up her hair.
“Yes.. Because Nex saved me from being kidnapped by the cult of warriors….”
“..Ha.”
Asha’s eyes flutter as soon as she hears the word Brave Cult.
Because she lost her loved ones.
“Is that why you fell for Nex? Doesn’t she not know the position of the second generation saint?”
With her intentionally avoiding gaze fixed on Sartine’s, she opened her mouth.
“I know that. Mother.”
Ku-wook, Chartines said while holding the black nun’s uniform with both hands and sweeping it down.
“It is a position that only one person in this world can receive, chosen by the god of light.”
The purple rosary on Chartines’ neck sparkles.
“Still, I have no intention of giving up my happiness. Mother.”
Chartines, with red eyes and fangs, maintains a dignified attitude.
“..For the sake of Nex, I will even give up my position as a saint.”
He began to speak boldly. He straightened her shoulders and pushed her chest forward.
“You are greedy.”
However, despite her will, Asha is aloof.
“To be honest, everything else makes sense.”
She gritted her molars as if she were looking at her younger self.
I mean the self in the days when I was full of vain thoughts that the world would recognize me if I only loved.
“It doesn’t matter if your status is low. Because I have done that too.”
Looking at her princess, Asha opened her mouth.
“It’s as easy as Locke did to silence a few people.”
Fine watches Licht from afar, wagging her wolf tail and looking restless.
If you don’t look at it, the hardships are obvious. Of course, a man who was captured by the Rang tribe, who is full of monopoly desires when it comes to his spouse.
“But you have a lot of problems.”
“….”
Vampire’s unique red eyes and pointy ears. Already, she has a memory that Asha can’t forget.
“Do you know how the first saintess died? Chartines.”
“Yes, I know. Betrayed by a vampire….”
A tragedy that occurred during the war.
“Right. Because of that, there must be a lot of people who are dissatisfied with your position now.”
The reason why the good man who took care of the sick and healed people before anyone else died was because of Ainjong.
“If a saintess who is a child-servant gets married, don’t even think about receiving hospitality anywhere.”
The scars of war have not yet healed, and the empire is like patched up leather.
For a saintess to marry in such a place is unacceptable, just like what Licht was confused about before.
“Let’s break up with Nex. Saint Chartines. I apologize for being harsh with her earlier.”
Asha apologized to Chartines. Because being cold and being rude are different.
Earlier, Nex was with her and her feelings were mixed, so Asha tried to calmly control her mind.
“..I don’t like it. I need Nex.”
Chartines shook her head and expressed her refusal.
If you’ve talked about it this much, you might have given up enough. Why the hell
“Asha-sama… I was born as a vampire… I was abandoned in front of the Cardinal’s cathedral.”
Asha already knew this. Chartines referring to her own life as if to do her confession.
Since childhood, Chartines has been raised in Beatrice’s cathedral.
“I spent time trying to overcome the urge to suck people’s blood and doing what God said.”
Characteristics of the race. She was the one who tried to overcome even that with her faithfulness.
“..Sometimes people in my church humiliated me and spoke badly of me, but I persevered.”
Chartines holds the purple rosario that Nex gave her.
“However, until I met Nex… I was questioning the fact that I was a saint.”
The same color as someone else’s color.
When she was kidnapped by the Dragon Cult, the man she loved resembled her weeping eyes.
“Because my body and holy power are against it.”
Dark and light attributes. Attributes that are diametrically opposed to each other tend to rebel.
“..Like this.”
She clenched her fists with divine power, gritted her teeth and endured the pain of her skin peeling off.
“My God. So you’ve been through with your reason until now…?”
Asha squinted her eyes. I didn’t think it would be to that extent anyway.
“Yes, it was possible because of Nex.”
Her saintess, now in front of her own eyes, did not change her expression even in the pain that burned her whole body.
Rather, her peaceful and benevolent smile resembled the first saintess who turned gray when she used her divine power.
“The sincerity he showed me always gave me strength.”
Sartines said in a calm tone.
“When I felt empty in my title as a saint, Nex encouraged me.”
Nex’s courtship was fervent enough to bring Chartines, who had low self-esteem, back to the surface.
“..Because you first told me that I was a saint.”
A light word from her at the first meeting was enough to save Sartine’s.
Because people are saved by such common words.
A common and obvious miracle. It is a magic that can be called love.
“….”
The two women who were sitting and watching each other looked exactly alike.
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A life saved by losing one’s parents and becoming a loved one.
A love that had to transcend social status.
The way you rush at it even if the end is destruction.
“..I see. Just wait for Nex to come back. Chartines.”
It was like a phoenix that burns its body even if it turns to ashes.
Asha nodded her head as she pulled her body forward.
Asha also realized that no matter how much she tried to convince her here, it would be useless.
—Clanging.
At that time, the silence was broken by the sound of someone breaking a glass.
***
As I followed Nex into the ballroom, I saw a strange sight.
There are several women wearing fancy costumes. Chartines is surrounded by other young ladies.
“Those people….”
These are the Nex harem members I knew from my original game knowledge.
Why are you like that? It’s like they’re going to eat Chartines.
With her arms crossed, Asha silently watched the situation. Her eyes look angry.
“Marrying that idiot, only because of a b*tch like this.. I….”
“That’s not even funny. The second-generation saintess got engaged?”
I see several women who are ridiculing Chartines.
The buzzing atmosphere of the social gathering place. At first glance, it was a mess.
Damn, things got messed up. It must have happened while Nex was away.
“We have to stop….”
“I’ll go. Junior.”
Nex stopped me from jumping out with his arm. She’s her own business, never mind the attitude.
“What the hell is going on? Lady Aqua.”
The one who threw the glass at Asha and Chartines was a woman who looked similar to Chartines.
“Nex, was the only reason you broke your engagement with me because of this vampire?”
Long black hair. Although she was a person who looked so much like her that it was almost believable that she was a sister.
“In the end, you are saying that you will enjoy both the title of a saint and the wealth and glory..?! A saint like this should be excommunicated..!”
The personality was the exact opposite.
She didn’t feel anything even after being released from the head’s ignorance.
A young lady of Aqua who remains the same as Nex knew.
Ah, another young lady who was rejected by Nex poured wine on Chartines.
“..NEX!”
Nex hit it with her body instead. Her purple hair was dyed red.
Nex that looks as if blood has flowed out of it. Even though the red liquid was dripping from the suit.
“I’m sorry. Char.”
He never lost his composure. You might be angry, but Nex is acting like a gentleman.
“If I had met you sooner, I wouldn’t have acted like an idiot.”
Even when the young ladies whose marriage was broken by Nex show contempt, he tries to smile as if to be relieved.
“..Mother.”
“Why did you call me that? Why don’t you tell me to go home as usual?”
I said while looking at Asha behind me. Nex looks like a fox with a smile.
“Because Frey Aureus is my father.”
“..How can I do that?”
As soon as she heard that, Asha’s eyes widened.
“Obviously. Who do you think this unique smile resembles?”
Yes, I told you. As a parent, you should think about talking to your children.
“Mother, I know that vampires can’t live in the sun.”
Nex gets down on one knee and speaks to Asha.
“Surely, if she stays with a strong sun like me, she will turn to ashes and disappear.”
He didn’t stop talking even when the young ladies next to him spat vicious words.
“That is the position of the nobility. Nex.”
Asha looked at Nex with cold eyes. She gulped at the freezing air.
“..But the phoenix is a creature that rises from the ashes.”
With a snap of his finger, Nex blocked the gossip girls around him with the power of the phoenix.
“If it’s a problem that Char is a vampire, I’ll just have to give up the name of Aureus.”
Nex tore off the golden phoenix seal from his clothes.
“So, please formally approve the marriage with Chartines. Mother.”
Nex to tidy up the clothes sprinkled with wine.
He said confidently, showing off his black tailcoat with a hollow chest.
“….”
A brief moment of silence.
I didn’t know it would turn out like this either. Use soundproof magic and speak.
If it was a problem for a vampire saintess to marry an aristocrat, the story that she would let go of the aristocrat was a shocking remark.
It’s as if Frey was talking to Asha. At the end of the DLC review article, that phrase appears.
‘Phoenixes are reborn through love….’
A remark that comforted Asha, who was afraid of getting married because of the difference in her social status.
“.. She looks exactly like her father. Nex.”
Hearing that sentence, Asha opened her mouth. A longer-than-usual sigh and a softened expression.
“Yes, I will allow you to marry.”
“Thank you. Mother.”
Nex heard Asha’s response and tried to turn her away. Because she no longer had the status to be in the church she had been to.
“Instead, I will allow you to be Aureus’s mistress.”
The sentence that caught him trying to turn his back.
“Because the name of the phoenix is not something to bet lightly. Nex Aureus.”
It was a belated recognition from the parents who projected their image from their children.