030 Last and only (2)
Three days passed and it was Saturday.
In the meantime, Cardinal Boutier took one break from school.
We did not know exactly what was going on, but Natalie, the cardinal’s attendant, came directly to the Juliet Palace to deliver the news.
I thought maybe I was in the midst of resolving the aftermath of the ‘Heroes of Mars’ being hung as the winning product of the ‘Great Subjugation of Beasts’.
It wasn’t a huge loss for me.
It’s a class, so you can make up for it later, and it’s better if you don’t meet Kristel or Prince.
“I have no plans other than to go to confession in the afternoon. And this month, the maintenance fee and pension came in, and I put it in the safe.”
“All right······. yes?”
The first time I heard the concept after possessing, my voice was raised.
do i have money
“Dignity maintenance and pension?”
“Yes, my prince. I told you the next morning after entering the palace.”
Benjamin standing opposite the table politely answered.
I tried to trace the memories of the first day of possession.
But the only thing I remember was how I was eating hard, eating snacks with all my strength, and sticking my nose in my notebook.
It seems that the eardrum was down for a while because I was so embarrassed by the possession I was experiencing for the first time in my life.
Why are you leaking such important information?
“Stay on to me. Is the money coming in?”
“That’s right. Every month, the imperial family pays one million francs for the maintenance of the prince’s dignity, and another one million francs as annuities for the priests residing in the imperial palace.”
“Then two million a month.”
“Yes.”
The ‘franc’ is the French currency unit.
I thought that only the names of the people of the Empire had been patched in French, but it seemed that the money was neatly unified.
At this point, I wondered if the new Penetian country would use the euro.
“I have no idea how much two million francs is. I think the price is very different from Shinguk.”
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Of course, the question was brought out to be practical. I thought it was going to be around two million won.
It will be easier for the writer to calculate if the currency in the novel has the same value as the won.
All I did here was listen to people’s confessions, study, eat and play with Demi.
There are no deposits or charters, and the attendants do all the meals, cleaning, and laundry.
“Um, um. If it’s two million… You can buy a nice mansion on the outskirts of the ecliptic. It will be difficult where there is a lake.”
At Canael’s answer, my mind went blank for a moment.
“What?”
“If you build it yourself, it might be possible near the lake.”
Thinking he was disappointed that I couldn’t have a mansion with a lake, Benjamin hurried to add.
I was confused on how to take this.
I wanted to give so much cash to a hostage who only blesses rice with blunt words.
Even prepaid, four million francs, two months worth, are in my safe…
no use for it
I was a hostage whose goal was to go home, in case I had to pack up money and hide in a estate far away from the front line, or make a real estate investment before the war.
“········The Liester Imperial family is very wealthy.”
In the end, the only words that came out were this kind of admiration. Then Canael laughed out loud.
“It is no exaggeration to say that His Majesty the Crown Prince is called ‘the best heir of the empire’.”
I shook my head.
Seriously, if it’s Ropan’s main male lead, his height and face shouldn’t be that good.
“Oh, could you please transfer my money?”
Benjamin looked troubled at my question.
I immediately figured out what he had misunderstood.
“It’s definitely not going to go to a new country. There is no one to receive it.”
“then······.”
“I want to send it to Baron Verang.”
Canael and Benjamin shut their mouths.
I remembered the two twins who were sent from the new country disguised as servants to assassinate me.
When I think of the story of the ‘real’ berang twins that they killed, one side of my heart swells up even while I sleep.
Even though they don’t know their faces, they lost their lives at a young age because of something related to me, and I couldn’t feel at ease.
“I don’t think money can comfort the hearts of parents who have lost their children. just······. The berang twins are the kids who were hired for me. It’s late, but I’d like to add the funeral expenses.”
Benjamin nodded slowly. It meant going my way.
“Please send the three-and-a-half million francs to the barons.”
Astonished, Canael covered her mouth with both hands. I smiled bitterly.
It was empty money to me, and it was money that would come in next month, but I didn’t know if it would be of any significance to the Baron and his wife.
That was enough.
Demi came silently and rubbed her body at my feet.
*
“How are you? As requested, I made the wooden spear wide open in the prince’s seat.”
“It’s really cool, Maxim. thank you.”
When he added, ‘Good job,’ the carpenter of the Imperial Palace scratched the back of the head and smiled shyly.
Not long ago, Maxim made a sign saying ‘The priest is absent’ and ‘You can confess’ at my request.
He was also a friend of Agnes, who worked in the mountains behind the Juliet Palace.
“There is no sound when you open it.”
“We put a lot of work into the hinge. It’s the little things like that that make the difference between high-end and high-end.”
He happily explained.
I let out a continuous sigh of relief at the wooden spear of the confessional that Maxim had fixed.
Also, people need to learn skills.
After the spring ball, they seemed to have some spare time, so Maxim and other imperial carpenters had recently made a confession repair by going in and out of the imperial palace.
Even though I made a bit of an unreasonable request, ‘I wish I could open the wooden window from where the priest is sitting,’ they responded that it was nothing special, just leave it to me.
It was an expression that did not feel any doubt as to whether the priest could face the confessor.
It was fortunate for me.
I asked for such a design because it was for Sadie who didn’t know when to come.
The day before yesterday, the carpenters took off the broken wooden spears and had conversations such as ‘This looks like it was pierced with a knife’ and ‘Is it maybe a knife?’
I’m not like that, but I was stabbed and couldn’t control my expression.
When I met the little boy again, I decided that I had to fix my hand habit.
“The decorative cord for calling is not under our jurisdiction, but when I asked the person in charge, they said that the entire cord had to be replaced. It will probably take some time.”
“All right.”
I replied with a vague smile.
In fact, I took the cut tassels, and I couldn’t bear to say that if I sewed them up and connected them, the string would become new.
Then I’ll have to explain about the little guest who was with me at that time.
“Then, I will go away. Please be healthy too.”
– quiver
Maxim grabbed his tool, put it in his leather bag, and bowed his head, and Demi, who was in my arms, cried a little.
After seeing Maxim off with Benjamin and Canael, I returned to the front of the confessional.
Now it was time to begin the afternoon routine, the sacrament of confession.
“Demi, we’re doing it for a second.”
– Ki-eung
I handed over the red panda to Canael, who had been holding the red panda fairly stably, and received a full-filled picnic basket from Benjamin.
After checking that two people and one of them entered the priest’s room and closed the door, he checked again to see if there was no one in the temple and put up a ‘Priest is absent’ sign.
Then,
– quiver
I entered the empty confessor’s seat. Not in the seat of the priest where I usually sit, but in the next room.
“where······.”
It was rather dark inside, so the seams of the wooden walls were hard to see.
I deployed a circle instead of a cell phone flashlight that I regretted.
Golden ether poured out and drew a circle on the floor.
As I took a deep breath, the area of the sanctuary shrunk.
“I think it might be around here.”
I sat down on the floor and checked near the chairs where the confessors were sitting.
My purpose today was not great.
My heart was light because it was a curiosity that did not necessarily have to be resolved.
First, I tried to press down on the floor just below the chair, but there seemed to be no secret door.
-smart
I tried tapping, just in case, but there was no sound as if it was hollow.
First off, not below.
“Is it the back?”
Since the confessional was in the form of a huge wooden cuboid attached to the wall, it was not possible to go in and out secretly from either side.
Unless you’re coming up from the basement, there’s probably a passage hidden in the back wall.
I slid the chair back and pressed it against the wall behind the seat.
A scene from a spy movie I watched with Eun-seo flashed before my eyes.
When I turn or pull something like a decoration, the door opens with a squeak from somewhere, but this is a temple, so it’s not like this…
– quiver
“·················ogue.”
I heard the sound of the confessional door opening behind me. I clenched my teeth in embarrassment.
No, even if there is a sign saying you are out of the office, people always come in like this…
“What are you doing here?”
It was a familiar voice. I slowly turned my seated body.
Come to think of it, it seems that the first time we met, I got this question from this kid.
“…why are you coming in today?”
Sadie snorted at my question.
The eyes he met were orange, the same as those of the prince he met a few days ago.
*
“Excuse me for a moment.”
I sat on the floor, reaching for my little forehead to check on the kid’s condition.
Fortunately, it was mild.
It wasn’t that I used too much ether as I wasn’t breathing hard or breaking a cold sweat.
Sadie, who sat in the confessor’s chair, merely observed the sheep I was doing, and didn’t respond much.
“Aren’t you supposed to have a priestess partner?”
“·················ogue.”
“Or are you already flying?”
“·················ogue.”
I don’t know why he doesn’t answer questions like this because he resembles someone and makes him feel frustrated.
If you don’t like heavy questions, you have no choice but to start with light questions and go back.
When I ask him why he fought with his friend, he doesn’t answer, but when he asks what snack he ate today, he responds like a six-year-old.
“Did you come in through the main gate of the temple?”
“You went through a path you don’t know, so stop talking about it.”
Look at this, it’s very straight forward.
“rice is? I have a florard, would you like to eat it?”
“Have you been starving in a new country?”
A roar of laughter erupted. I decided to raise the level of the question a bit.
“Did you come out after telling your father?”
“······What?”
Then the boy frowned as if he had heard a nonsensical sentence.
As I lowered my voice and asked for more details, the heavy noise of the temple’s front door opened hit my ears.
But there were no subsequent footsteps.
It looked like someone had opened the door and looked inside. Sadie’s eyes narrowed.
“It’s okay, I put up a sign saying I’m away.”
At my words, the child let out a short breath.
He did not mention the fact that the absent sign has been ignored twice so far.
I unlocked the invisible sanctuary outside, and carefully grabbed Sadie’s elbow.
The boy’s pupils widened slightly when he changed the method of ether transmission through physical contact.
It was definitely effective, and I could feel the ether draining out of me.
I opened my mouth as if I could barely breathe.
“Are you going to take this much for today? It’s dangerous for you because other people come and go.”
That moment.
– click
“Ugh.”
The doorknob of the confessional moved. I reflexively hung on the handle.
Fortunately, the door didn’t open, as if it was worth throwing away.
But what was certain was that there was a person on the other side. My heart was pounding in surprise.
“how······.”
I muttered softly. There was no sound until recently.
The door to the temple had been opened earlier, but there was no pretense of popularity.
“Shh.”
Sadie whispered as if she could hear it. The boy’s lips drew a clear word.
‘Wizard.’
– Rumble
The customer outside twisted the doorknob once more.