146 – Did nothing really happen?
The saintess immediately moved on, saying she would go.
When I came out, I found a child in the arms of her parents, breathing heavily, just as the priest had said.
She wondered if she had just turned five years old.
At first glance, it seemed unusual to see her sweating profusely for her age.
“Holy Lady! Help save my child!”
As soon as she noticed her presence, a man who appeared to be her father knelt down and begged her.
In an era where the mortality rate of infants and young children is high, the fear of losing her child was on one side of their faces.
Where I used to live, I could just take them to the hospital, but the temple was the only solution and attempt for them.
While I was frozen in the devastating reality. The saintess skillfully examined her child’s condition.
“Healing.”
-Paaah.
As warm light leaked from her hand, the frowning child’s expression brightened and she soon began to open her eyes.
“Son! Mother! Are you out of your mind?!”
The child barely nodded her head as if her energy hadn’t returned yet.
“Thank you very much, saintess! How should I repay this grace…”
Her child’s parents always bowed their heads in gratitude, but the saintess opened her mouth with a not-so-good expression.
“It’s too early to rest assured. This is just a stopgap.”
“Yes? Temporarily. What is that…”
“The problem is that I’m too young. At this rate, I’m going to relapse quickly because my immune system is weak.”
The saintess’ healing was a power that could be called a miracle, but her problem was that the principle of her power was close to her rebirth.
“Then my son is probably fine… If the saintess isn’t there on a day when he’s sick again…”
Parents’ expressions darkened once again when they heard that their child might get sick again.
They harden as if they were given a terminal sentence.
“If you have holy water, it’s possible, but…”
“I will pay even if I have to pay the debt! So please…!”
Parents showed a willingness to cure their children at any cost, but the situation was not very good.
One bottle of holy water is left.
Two people are needed.
Even because that one person has the status of the crown prince.
“That’s…”
It was a terrible dilemma.
A prince of the empire or a child of a commoner.
It was then that she was at the crossroads of her choice.
“What are you thinking about?”
I don’t know when they followed me, but Arya was standing behind me.
“Meet the Crown Prince of the Empire!”
Parents fell flat on the spot at the unexpected appearance of a noble class.
“Looks like you’re in trouble because of the holy water.”
“That’s…”
The saintess hesitated.
At the moment, Ai seems better, but if she doesn’t come back in time, things like this will happen again, and Arya is in a position to help considering the relationship between the Empire and the Holy Kingdom.
After thinking for a while, the saintess opened her mouth.
“Could you please give the child some holy water for you?”
Until the holy water was completed, she calculated that Arya would be able to hold out.
Of course, I was prepared to refuse.
Although she said it with the intention of persuading her somehow.
“Let it be.”
“You know how difficult it is… Huh? What did you just say…”
At the moment, she wonders if she heard it wrong, and asks back.
“I told you to use holy water on that child.”
“Are you sure you’re okay? There’s only one bottle of holy water left.”
When Behern asked as if to confirm, her parents waved their hands in contemplation.
“Well, if that’s the case, that’s fine! Your Highness’ comfort is more important than commoners like us.”
“What are you talking about as a parent in front of your children?”
Arya took her holy water from her saintess and approached her parents who were holding her child.
“It’s really good! You’ll be better in a few days!”
Parents who repeatedly refuse to give up holy water.
Arya opened her mouth to them.
“As you said, the child may overcome the disease on his own.”
Then she turned her attention to her child.
“But this child will never forget the sight of you bowing to me. That is not the kind of empire I envision.”
“Your Highness…”
The crown prince came out, but they couldn’t refuse any more, so the parents, who received the holy water with trembling hands, began pouring it into the child’s mouth little by little.
“Thank you very much, Your Highness.”
“It’s done. As a citizen of the Empire, it’s a right you should enjoy.”
After that, the parents who bowed their heads for a long time left.
“Are you okay?”
When asked why she was unable to receive treatment because she gave up the holy water.
“What do you see me as? This level of suffering is nothing to me. I, who will lead the empire in the future, cannot take the lives of the people instead.”
An aria that comes out like asking something like that.
“That’s not it. His Majesty isn’t the only one who’s worried.”
Then Arya answered.
“When Your Majesty founded the Empire, his hands were stained with a lot of blood. I have heard scabs in his ears since I was a child. The Empire was built by tearing down a kingdom that had rotted away, so I should walk a different path from them.”
As if reminiscing about something about her, she continues chasing the air with her eyes.
“How do you see it? What can I say with my mouth, but I think this is different enough.”
He looked at me and grinned.
This bastard… I thought only her face was good, but she was also good-looking at heart!
“It’s different.”
A guy like this should be as small as that.
Otherwise it would be too perfect.
Between people who are too good at it, I feel that I am also a problem. Arya told Behern one thing.
“Please don’t say anything about what happened today until Your Majesty asks first.”
“Okay.”
“I’ll make holy water as soon as possible.”
“Please. That way I can go out for a bit.”
Come to think of it, he was banned from going out too.
It was a time when she felt a sense of identity in a situation where she shared similar pain.
“More than that, the drinking promise we made last time. You sure didn’t forget, did you?”
“What?”
When I asked back, Aria put on a genuinely hurt expression.
“I must have forgotten… Last time I must have served you a drink.”
“Oh.”
Come to think of it, last time she was definitely talking about drinking at the end.
Hey! Wasn’t that a K-promise?!
“Oh, that. Of course I haven’t forgotten.”
“Call me when you have time. I’ll arrange a place somehow.”
Okay. This gave me a reason to come out one more time. I wonder if they will ever let me go.
“That’s right. When you get back, tell His Majesty a word. I’ll visit you soon.”
You fed me, but I can’t leave like this. Wait emperor. I will definitely have to rip it off a little more.
“You dare to serve the crown prince of the empire. Should I really be like you?”
The moment he laughed at my request.
“Your Highness, it is now time for you to return.”
His servants came to pick up Arya.
Looks like there’s a curfew.
“Has it already happened. Okay, I’ll go now… Cool!”
“…Your Highness?”
Arya flinched as her servants’ suspicious eyes turned to her.
“Kuhmm. It seems it’s still too early for the medicinal effect to start working. What are those eyes? Are you saying that I, now the crown prince, am telling you lies?”
“…Nothing.”
Pressing down with her authority, Arya went back to her palace along with her servants.
“I couldn’t help it, but is it really okay?”
The saintess asked me with an anxious tone.
She seems to be bothered by the fact that she just sent Aria away.
“She says that she is, but what can I do?”
I don’t know anything else, but one of her bodies will be strong, so she will hold out until holy water is created.
“Then shall we go back?”
When she said she wanted to go back, the saintess’ complexion turned white.
“How long has it been…?”
***
The saintess and I finally got out of the temple to solidify her drinking promise with Aria.
When I went outside, the sun had already set and it was getting dark.
As I walked down the street where the streetlights that turned on mana instead of electricity started to turn on one by one, I pondered over what had happened today.
‘No matter how much I think about it, this looks like a goddess watching me… ‘
Maybe it’s because she’s a temple, but seeing her out so blatantly, I got a strong impression that she was eagerly awaiting something.
Clearly, Seongguk takes her mercy as her virtue, but why is the goddess like this?
Look around, look around.
She took a quick look around her, wondering what else to do.
“What’s wrong, brother? You suddenly looked around.”
“…Nothing.”
As she watches her tilt her head, she remembers what she said earlier.
-Isn’t it because you want something from your brother?
‘What is it? What does the goddess want to achieve through me?’
It is almost certain that it exists today, but I don’t understand the appearance of a goddess who doesn’t intervene in the world so amazingly.
If I were a goddess, she would have given all her powers and revelations to the party of warriors.
On the contrary, you are reacting like this to my legitimate anger. There’s something strange about it.
“You seem to have a lot of worries today. As expected, what happened?”
She seems to have been puzzled by the way she grunted alone.
“That’s it…”
She thought about having a discussion with the saintess, but she soon gave up.
The goddess you serve has kidnapped people and is dereliction of duty. What do you think about this? How do you ask
“What kind of prayer did the saintess pray in the temple?”
Instead of her, I asked her what she had been curious about before.
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“…Yes?”
A saintess who is very perplexed after hearing my question. It is clear that her eyes looking up are fluctuating.
“That was a little bit of a personal prayer…”
The saintess bowed her head and spat out as if to confess.
I asked because I was curious about what kind of prayer she usually prays. I’m a little surprised
“You don’t have to answer if it’s difficult to say.”
“That’s not it.”
After some hesitation, she finally confided in me.
“I begged my family to have it.”
“Family?”
I ended up asking a question that exceeded my expectations without realizing it.
“Yes. Of course, there are many of them like family. Like the party members, there are no real families.”
I can’t believe it. To think that even the saintess was an orphan….
If Sonia didn’t come in, the warrior’s party would have become a party of orphans.
“It’s a wish that can’t come true that ends in prayer. A high-ranking priest like me can’t connect with the opposite s*x.”
But she looked up at me and managed to smile.
“For such a selfish prayer. You are disqualified as a saint.”
“….”
Behind the smiling face at the time of bash, the psychology of not revealing it could be seen.
It bothered me that he was trying so hard to show a good side of himself, so he opened his mouth because he couldn’t just move on.
“How is it? The saintess from the past also got married, gave birth to a child, and lived well.”
“Yes?! What are you talking about, Brother! If you say such a thing, you will be punished!”
I wonder if my words were very embarrassing.
The saint told me to repent quickly, saying that there would be a big trouble.
“It’s true. The other person was a former warrior. If you have time later, ask the goddess.”
She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know, but she actually doesn’t say that she’s a goddess because a high priest gets married.
It is said that the former hero and the saint became friends with the demon king, but in reality they faked their deaths and dated each other for 100 years.
Perhaps it was because of the stoic problem that such a restriction was imposed in the castle country. Considering the times, it might be enough.
“Is that so…?”
She’s still her eyes wide open, but she doesn’t seem disinterested in asking again.
‘The problem is that this hero is a woman, so even that is impossible.’
If there was a guy who would snatch a saint like that, I would like to see her face. Envious child.
“Before that… I heard from Sister Raina that her brother doesn’t have a family either…”
She suddenly brought up a sensitive topic.
Apparently, the dwarves shared my personal information.
“Have you ever thought that you would like to have a family…?”
Family?
“Why not? Of course there is.”
“Really…?”
“Personally, I would like to have twins, one son and one daughter. This is what I want. More than that.”
If I can’t go back to where I was, I’m confident that I can start a soccer team with the money I have now.
“That’s right…”
I don’t know why, but the saintess blushed and avoided her gaze.
Muttering that it would certainly be possible with that size.
“Are you okay, saintess? You’re not fainting again, are you?”
“Oh no! Nothing happened that day!”
She was saying strange things out of nowhere, and she definitely looked strange.
“…You’re okay, right?”
“Even if it’s true…!”
I don’t know what it is, but I deny it like that, so I shouldn’t bother asking.
“But for that kind of thing, you often cling to me, even when I went to the temple earlier…”
But I can’t stand being teased as long as Dilgak comes out.
“That’s because people around me keep staring at it…! You’re the one who told me to act like everyone else!”
A saintess who quickly dyes her face red and stutters.
“So you said let’s just solve it after that.”
“Brother, you messed up really…”
She kept her mouth shut for a while and walked with the pouting saintess, and before she knew it, she arrived at My Home.
“Let’s go in quickly. If others get caught, I have nothing to say even if I open my mouth…”
-Kik.
It was right after the saintess opened the door dreaming of committing a perfect crime.
“Where did you two go?”
A familiar voice full of anger came from right in front of her nose.
“How did this happen, saintess?”
“Tah, Sister Talia…”
The half-closed green eyes were looking this way.