144 – Somewhere Between Incompetent and Competent
Autumn.
It’s the season when the sky is f*cking high and the horses are bulking up.
The shameless trees scattered their leaves on the roadside indiscriminately while changing their clothes, and because of that, the whole place was colored red.
“Sueuu- haa.”
Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I went out, and even the air is refreshing. This feeling is on a different level from when you greet me through the window.
– Basrak.
Every time you walk, the sound of the leaves being stung by your feet is also light.
As expected, people shouldn’t be confined to the house.
I have to walk around outside like this.
However, today’s outing was different from usual, so that’s it.
-Kok.
It’s like a saint holding onto the hem of her dress.
“What is this, saint?”
When asked about the intention of her dainty touch, her saintess stuttered and opened her mouth.
“I-I’m afraid it might run away…”
It’s obvious that he’s cautious, as if he’s worried that my mood will get worse.
Even so, it’s funny how she gives strength to her hand, but if she bursts out laughing here, she might ask to go back as it is, so she barely endured it.
“Oh, how could that be?”
“But you did that just a few days ago…”
The saintess stared at me with a sullen expression.
Anyway, in her mind, it seems that I have already become an ex-convict.
It’s unfortunate. When did I run away?
Suddenly, the past when I ran away as soon as I joined and the incidents that stopped being attempted came to mind.
… It was a pretty reasonable decision.
It is safe to say that her current vigilance towards me is more than a Jindogae.
If you get caught running away in a situation like this, you won’t end up being watched. Perhaps more than that is waiting.
Running away in such a situation?
It is no different from proving yourself a sewage.
For now, it is urgent to restore lost trust by instilling awareness that people will not run away even outside.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
Her personable smile reassured her.
“You lied to me when I first saw you.”
A saintess who refutes our first meeting to put my smile to shame.
The memory of the past when she committed blasphemy comes to mind.
But that was half serious.
“And he said that we should talk the next day…”
Kook.
The hand gripping the hem of her clothes is getting stronger.
Did this escape attempt come as quite a shock?
“Did you not like us, brother?”
The wavering eyes look at me.
“It can’t be.”
To reassure her, she denied her words.
It’s always dangerous, so I don’t like dragging it along. It’s not that the party members don’t like it.
If I really hated it, I wouldn’t have made a fuss by holding the tournament.
“I’m still anxious… I’m afraid even that word may be a lie…”
It’s hard to believe that the saintess is still holding the hem of my clothes, but her strength has slipped out of her hand.
What a man like me that Polaris, the saint of cool beauty, undoes the guard.
Her At that time, she gave her confidence, albeit slightly.
-Isn’t that the saintess?
-I guess that’s right? Who is that person next to you?
-Why with a guy like that….
People are starting to find out about her to see if she still has the fame she has.
“Why is everyone staring at me in horror…?”
She looked around her with a gaze that was different from her usual.
“The saintess is following me around wearing some kind of man’s clothes, so why don’t you look?
“Is it very strange…?”
Very strange then.
“Why don’t you go around more normally?”
“How can it be normal…”
“You can just do it like everyone else does.”
Sure.
At my words, the saintess looked around her.
– Honey. I’m cold
– Yes? Come on, stick a little closer.
Despite the chilly weather befitting an empire with a high birth rate, the lovers showed an image of overcoming the cold by bringing their bodies close to each other with their arms crossed.
“….”
“….”
Did I get the example wrong?
She hurriedly picked up what she had just said.
“…I think I made a mistake, but I think it’s better to stay like this.”
But the saintess accepted my advice straight away.
-Koo woo woo woo.
As a result of benchmarking lovers around me, I felt a tremendous pressure on my arm.
This is a watermelon. It’s a chest.
I was dizzy at the sturdy size that I felt even though it was out of season.
To step into a sacred and inviolable realm that no one else has reached.
You can feel the eyes on her bold skinship.
“…Saint, since others may misunderstand, how about releasing this?”
“It’s okay… Brother is also that… Apostle…”
The saint we cast Namiga on.
What would she do if she was okay with herself? I’m not okay
Her selfish behavior had devastating consequences.
Wriggling.
Because my alter ego has been trying to raise that gigantic body for the first time in a while.
At times like this, you have to think good thoughts.
Let’s see. How did this go on
The West, the location of the next journey, is where the Holy Kingdom is located.
The part where believers who abandon the goddess are born and her demons start playing the game in earnest.
‘First of all, if we bring the pope in here, then we’ll strike the head and launch a sweeping sweep against the rebels….’
Munkle.
The soft yet warm touch interrupted my vision of the future.
Wrong. It is impossible to think of anything else in the face of this violent touch.
Originally, Kyudol would have said something like this, but now Reina has Kyudol.
Because the two of them might run away secretly again.
In the meantime, Kyadol said that he would play with the other spirits, and he followed. This is why raising children is useless.
As I walked while enduring the stinging stares of the men around me, I arrived at a magnificent building before I knew it.
A landmark of the Holy Kingdom located in the Empire.
It was the Temple of Carmel.
‘It’s always amazing to see a place you’ve visited in a game.’
Is this the sanctuary?
Looking at the area separated by bricks of a completely different material as if a line had been drawn, it gave me the illusion that I was in a holy kingdom, not an empire.
As she opened her mouth and held her majestic figure in her eyes, the saintess next to her smiled and asked.
“Is this your first time visiting a temple?”
“Yes. I should have come to see you.”
I had only seen pictures of overseas temples that were all destroyed, but when I saw the temples in operation like this, I immediately understood why they were called places to enshrine gods.
At that time, I was looking for parts different from the game and tearing it apart.
“Welcome, saintess.”
A man with a flawless hairstyle walked out and greeted me politely.
“How are you, Priest Behern?”
“The saintess is in the empire, so there’s nothing she can’t do.”
The man called Behern responded with a smile typical of priests.
Anyway, even a goddess can’t help with hair loss.
Is the disease called hair loss strong or the goddess incompetent?
“But he…”
As I was weighing the incurable disease and the goddess inside, Behern found the saintess holding onto the hem of my clothes and blurted out her words.
Then, the saintess, who had been wrinkly the whole time, straightened her waist and spoke confidently.
“He is an apostle chosen by the goddess.”
No, not like that.
“Ohhh… Somehow, it’s not unusual to be lively…”
No.
People whose heads are full of goddesses seem to regard even my appearance as the will of God.
The interior of the temple, which was entered after accumulating 1 stack of misunderstanding, showed a different landscape from the outside.
Contrary to the exterior where I thought the wind would come through the pillars, the warmer interior greeted me.
What is the principle? Is it divine power?
Behern, who was guiding us toward the chapel, opened his mouth.
“The news of the children you mentioned earlier has arrived. They say they are being educated in the Holy Land.”
Children?
“That’s very fortunate.”
“Though the nun is having a hard time because he’s not very playful, and he’s running around here and there.”
“It can’t be helped at that age.”
What is it? Why are you talking about what only the two of you know?
“Saint, what do you mean by children?”
When I couldn’t help but ask her questions, the saintess answered.
“The children you rescued from Strega Village earlier.”
You mean the children who lived with Cathy?
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He was a bold yet courageous child.
“She looks like she decided to become a nun after all.”
I felt better for no reason at the good news I hadn’t seen in a while.
“Your choice gave the children a new life.”
Then Behern, who was next to him, also helped.
“You were the apostle who saved the children from the evil witch. You did the right thing.”
This is a bit embarrassing.
As I walked, feeling my face heat up, I arrived at the worship room before I knew it.
“Then see you later, priest.”
“Please wait a moment.”
Behern stopped us from entering.
“Saint, can you stay for a while after the service?”
“Yes? That’s…”
She hesitates when she would normally be okay.
Is it because I’m concerned about my shift hours monitoring me?
“Actually, I was about to send someone to the saintess when I heard the news that the crown prince would visit. But I didn’t know you would walk here before that. It’s true that we’re a little worried…”
At those words, the saintess turned to me. She looked at me asking if she knew it would turn out like this.
No, how do I know that. I just came out to get some fresh air.
But since the target was the target, she couldn’t refuse Behern’s request.
“Okay. Then we’ll prepare as soon as we finish praying.”
“Thank you, Lady.”
The priest bowed down on her back and bowed respectfully to her saintess, then left her seat.
It’s a big deal that Arya visits the temple. He’s the one who survives even if she hits a poisoned car with one shot.
I didn’t think it was a big deal, thinking at a glance that it must have been sent by the emperor making a fuss, so I opened my mouth to a curiosity that came to my mind as I was about to enter the worship room.
“Saint.”
“Yes?”
“I have a question. Why is the goddess…”
“Goddess.”
She’s a saint who immediately asks for a correction by giving her a proper title.
I was a little intimidated by her determined attitude.
“…Why doesn’t the goddess have a name?”
The goddess didn’t even mention her name in the game.
Because it is always referred to only as the goddess.
“Because the goddess is the only one. She doesn’t need a separate name.”
Is that so? For a sole god, his authority seemed a little behind.
I wondered if I would be punished for thinking like this in the temple, but seeing that it was quiet, I guess that’s not the case.
As expected, goddesses are incompetent.
***
As I entered the worship room, I felt a solemn atmosphere.
At least here, I could see the scenery where everyone, regardless of whether they were nobles or commoners, were silently praying to the goddess as if their status did not exist.
The only noise is the chorus of the choir.
Avoiding her dazzling sunlight, the saintess and I settled down in a shady place.
She had to pretend to pray, so she put her hands together and closed her eyes.
It’s boring.
Youngseok’s church, which I visited for the purpose of pizza, definitely felt like this.
She slightly opened her eyes and looked at the seat next to her. She saw a saintess sitting in her seat, silently praying.
She usually shows a faint appearance, but only when she prays, you realize that she is a saint.
“Brother, this is a place to pray. Don’t look away.”
She scolded me with her eyes closed, perhaps feeling my gaze.
She eventually turned her eyes away from her and pretended to pray for her.
‘No, but why me?’
As I stayed still, questions about her goddess bloomed.
‘There are still people who clear the game without getting hit even once, and there are also people who carry all the information in the game in their heads. .’
At one point she could find me praying to the goddess. On the subject of why.
Since they came all the way to the temple, I wondered if they would at least give me an answer, but the answer still didn’t come back.
You’re right then. Like a psycho kidnapper.
She was incompetent and a nuisance goddess, and she put distrust into her prayers.
– Boom.
Suddenly, the sound of the choir stopped.
What is it?
I looked around and saw that everyone was staring at me.
-Oh my God, what happened to this….
-Are you giving me some kind of revelation….
The situation where everyone muttered strange things and looked this way.
“Saintess. Everyone seems to be staring at this place, but did you do something…”
“Oh my God…”
The saintess was also looking at me with her bunny eyes open.
What is this?
Suddenly, I felt stronger than before I prayed.
I wondered if it was an illusion, but it wasn’t.
The colorful sunlight reflected on the stained glass was brightly illuminating my surroundings, and the dust passing between them was dazzling like stars.
When a mysterious phenomenon that would not be explained unless it was touched by God, the appearance that seemed to be out of this world was added, and it reminded people who looked at it of a common idea.
The idea that nothing could be holier than this.
‘If you have time to do something like this, could you tell me something… !’
Of course, the person concerned grinded his teeth, saying he was playing with God’s prank.
-Rush.
Soon, people who had been praying began to flock to him with eyes looking at him as if they were looking for something.