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The ordination ceremony ended with the Pope’s speech.
For those who officially became priests, the flowers were scattered.
The delegation gave congratulations and applause.
In the outer fortress of the city of Nouvel, people were full of the valuable food provided by the denomination.
It was truly a festival time.
“We have prepared a celebration party, so everyone will move on.”
At the banquet that followed, everyone was uplifted.
It was natural.
From the denomination’s point of view, the ordination ceremony could not have been better than this for the denomination’s propaganda, as Ethan’s activity had wrapped up the ordination ceremony splendidly.
From the perspective of the delegation from other countries, they had no choice but to fight fiercely in order to make friends with Ethan.
The same was the case with Aurum’s delegation.
“Why can’t you just talk to Priest Ethan? Look at those people.”
“Everyone knows who the main character of this ordination ceremony is.”
Aurum’s delegation saw an opportunity to approach Ethan.
And after a long wait, they managed to meet Ethan.
“It is an honor to meet Priest Ethan.”
With those words, each of the delegations introduced themselves.
Ethan greeted them politely.
The conversation didn’t go on well and was cut off.
It was surprising to think that he had had conversations with envoys from other countries until now.
The delegation exchanged glances with each other in bewilderment.
‘How the hell did this happen?’
‘I don’t know.’
At Ethan’s cold attitude, Matilda Harper nervously ripped off the feathers of the fan.
People thought that Matilda was strange.
“Miss Harper, is something wrong?”
“it’s nothing. I’m just a little tired.”
Ethan, who had never even pretended to know Matilda, intervened in the conversation.
“Ms. Harper, then, take a break in the break room.”
“yes? It’s not that far.”
“It is not. You haven’t been able to concentrate on the conversation since before.”
The horse was worried, in fact, it was nothing more than a blessing.
Only then did the delegation realize that Ethan’s planting was uncomfortable because of Matilda.
“Hmmm. Miss Harper, leave this to us.”
“Miss Harper, go and rest.”
The delegation pushed Matilda’s back.
Matilda had to step down from the delegation’s stinging gaze.
The blood disappeared from Matilda’s face.
Matilda staggered and leaned against the wall.
‘What about this?’
Far from putting a stamp on Ethan, he was branded as a useless human even by those who came to the delegation.
If I went back home like this, I would not only get angry with my father, but it would also have a bad influence on the social world.
‘Hey, what the hell are you doing?’
Matilda bit her lip nervously.
Meanwhile, Ethan carefully observed Matilda’s back.
‘okay. You’ll think you can’t stay still like this.’
In fact, Ethan didn’t just face Matilda with his bad feelings.
When a person is driven into a corner, he is bound to take sudden action.
If imprisoned in this way, Matilda might shed some clues related to the Dark Followers.
So Ethan roughly finished the conversation with the Aurum delegation and moved to his seat.
‘It’s not a way that works this well, but I’m apparently 15 years old, so I must have been vigilant.’
Ethan chuckled.
‘Do you like being young?’
Excited that things were going well, Ethan asked a passing waiter for wine.
But the waitress smiled and refused.
“The priest is not an adult yet, so I can’t offer you alcohol. sorry. I’ll give you this instead.”
What the waitress offered was grape juice.
‘damn.’
Ethan’s face wrinkled at once.
* * *
As soon as the banquet was over, the delegation rebuked Matilda.
“Without Miss Harper, the conversation went smoothly.”
“No matter how broad-minded you are, if the other person does not concentrate on the conversation, it will be unpleasant.”
“Miss Harper, if you are tired, please rest. It would be difficult if the name came as a delegation, and it would be difficult to hinder it like this.”
Matilda bowed her head as the reprimand continued.
“sorry.”
Among the members of the delegation, there were also dark followers such as Matilda.
I saw them sneering at Matilda secretly.
Even though they were dark followers, it wasn’t that they weren’t in competition with each other.
Matilda’s face turned red with embarrassment.
After leaving the banquet hall alone, Matilda grabbed an attendant she knew and asked.
“Hey, have you ever seen Thomas?”
“no. You didn’t even see me this morning.”
“What?”
Impatient, Matilda bit her nails.
‘Where the hell is this bastard and what is he doing?’
I was trying to get information on what the hell Ethan was doing, but Thomas, who was acting like a limb, disappeared.
An ominous feeling came over Matilda.
‘Are you sure that priest knows something about me?’
It was absurd.
However, the anxiety that came once did not go away easily.
In the end, Matilda, who was isolated, had no choice but to seek help from those around her.