I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 45

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45.

 

“When did you become close with Priest Greim?”

 

“He definitely called you by name, didn’t he?”

 

When I returned to my room after the prayer meeting ended, Florence and Leilani asked with excited expressions.

 

That was surely because of Greim, who had mouthed my name and told me to close my eyes when we were about to start praying.

 

Though he said let’s pray, most of the countesses couldn’t take their eyes off Greim’s face, so they must have all seen him looking at me and speaking with his lips.

 

When the prayer meeting ended and we moved to return to our respective rooms, gazes strangely clung to me.

 

The problem was that even Caroline had a curious expression about when I had become so close with Greim.

 

I let out a short sigh and said that when Greim called me over earlier, we agreed to call each other by name.

 

“Actually, regarding the power I used on the countesses, a divine oracle came down about it.”

 

“Ah!”

 

“My goodness!”

 

I decided to tell the two countesses since I had already used black magic on them.

 

After all, these people who had been subdued by my power probably wouldn’t stab me in the back.

 

Of course, it was also because neither of them had the audacity to carelessly speak about the oracle’s contents that the Emperor and Greim hadn’t revealed.

 

If they were the type who could casually divulge such things, they would have talked about my power to the other countesses when we gathered for the prayer meeting.

 

Anyway, it wasn’t good for the Empress to know about my power right now.

 

Only the Emperor should know, and only the fact that an oracle came down saying someone would receive power should be leaked to the Empress, making her search for the oracle’s subject.

 

That way, whether she used black magicians, the request office, or the Imperial Shrine, the tail of wherever the Empress was currently reaching would be stepped on.

 

“Anyway, we just became a bit friendly because of that. Oh, I’m sure you’ll naturally do this, but no one should know about this until a proper oracle is announced. I’m telling you countesses because of the connection we made sharing the same room.”

 

“Of course! Don’t worry, we’re tight-lipped!”

 

When Florence said with sparkling eyes, Leilani beside her also nodded her head rapidly.

 

I smiled at them and then turned my gaze to look at Caroline.

 

She was already looking at me with a face full of curiosity.

 

“Want to go for a walk?”

 

Caroline readily nodded at my suggestion and naturally linked arms with me.

 

Coming outside the Imperial Shrine building with her, I headed toward the greenhouse garden.

 

I thought it was natural for Caroline, who had also fought desperately against the Demon God in the original work, to receive Elim’s power that I had received.

 

I headed to the greenhouse garden in the center of the Imperial Shrine and told Caroline about the power of Elim that Theor and I had received.

 

She first looked surprised, then showed curiosity about whether she could also receive Elim’s power.

 

After thinking about something for a moment, she asked if Greim shouldn’t also receive that power now.

 

I nodded and said it would be good in many ways since he could use it more skillfully if he received it early.

 

“Then, how about having Priest Greim come along too?”

 

My eyes widened slightly at Caroline’s sudden suggestion, then I nodded thinking it would be good for him to receive earth attribute abilities early and develop them into his own abilities.

 

“But wouldn’t he be busy right now?”

 

“He’s probably in the prayer room.”

 

“Ah, then could you go and bring him? I’ll go to the greenhouse garden first.”

 

“Not going together?”

 

“Yeah, I’m too lazy to walk.”

 

I deliberately sent Caroline alone with the excuse that I was too lazy to walk.

 

Since my ultimate goal was to bring those two together, I had no intention of neglecting that aspect.

 

So I used my head to help Caroline get closer to Greim in this way.

 

After Caroline went to fetch Greim, I entered the greenhouse garden and wandered around the sleeping Elim while touring the greenhouse garden.

 

Then suddenly, I remembered a passage from the original work’s description about a mysterious pond with light mist always hanging over the water, so I decided to look for it.

 

Despite being a greenhouse garden, it was larger than expected, and even after walking quite a bit, the pond was nowhere to be seen.

 

It would be nice if there was a map or something, but there was no way such a thing would exist. Was it because I walked too aimlessly? Before I knew it, the Elim tree that should serve as the center of the paths was no longer visible.

 

Should I go back the way I came…

 

Though I wasn’t completely directionally challenged, I was the type who really struggled on unfamiliar paths, so I had no sense of where I was.

 

I decided to give up on the mysterious pond and go back the way I came.

 

As I turned around, I faintly heard a sound similar to bird calls from far away.

 

“Hoo- Hoo-”

 

An owl…?

 

It was definitely a bird sound similar to an owl’s call.

 

I instinctively started walking toward where the sound was coming from.

 

“Hoo-! Hoo-!”

 

As I moved, the crying sound got closer, so I quickly looked around.

 

And after a while.

 

I discovered a pure white bird hanging limply with its body wrapped by a giant snake in the distance, and another bird flying in circles nearby in the air, making mournful cries.

 

It really is an owl.

 

I quickly used black magic to attack the snake that was strangling the white owl.

 

The snake was startled by my black magic, released the bird, and quickly fled.

 

Since the snake was probably just trying to catch the bird to survive, I didn’t feel like chasing after it to kill it.

 

I simply went to the pure white owl that was struggling between life and death due to poison and picked up its limp body.

 

“Hoo! Hoo!”

 

Looking up at the owl circling in the air and crying desperately, I muttered not to worry, then summoned black caterpillars to extract the poison from the white owl’s body.

 

Fortunately, the snake’s poison was easily detoxifiable, so the black caterpillars diligently sucked out the poison.

 

The problem was the bones broken when the snake’s body wrapped around it.

 

I carefully felt the unconscious owl’s body and summoned a slightly larger shadow caterpillar.

 

The caterpillar, large enough to wrap around the white owl’s entire body, opened its mouth and swallowed the white owl.

 

“Hoo! Hoo! Hoooo!”

 

When the white owl, whether friend or family, was devoured by the caterpillar in the form of a black shadow, the crying of the owl flying in the air became urgent.

 

“It’s okay, I’m healing it.”

 

Though it probably couldn’t understand my words, I wanted to reassure it even a little, so I made eye contact while speaking.

 

Then, surprisingly, the white owl’s loud crying stopped.

 

“Did you understand what I said?”

 

After muttering like talking to myself, I looked down again at the white owl swallowed by the black caterpillar.

 

The black caterpillar that had restored the white owl’s broken bones and the caterpillars that had been extracting poison completed their purpose and disappeared like smoke, leaving only the white owl that had nearly died from the snake in my arms.

 

I slightly lifted the white owl’s closed eyelids to check its condition.

 

“Your friend is alive.”

 

When I looked up and spoke to the owl flying in the air, the owl immediately came down and settled on my shoulder.

 

“See, can you hear the breathing?”

 

“Hoo, hoo.”

 

“Are you friends? Or a couple?”

 

“Hoo, hoo.”

 

“I can’t understand what you’re saying, so I’ll just interpret it my own way.”

 

As I chuckled softly and muttered, the owl lying in my arms opened its eyes.

 

“Hoo! Hoo!”

 

“Hoo… hoo…”

 

The white owls began having their own conversation, and I released the now completely healthy owl from my arms.

 

Then the two owls looked at each other and continued making hoo-hoo sounds, then soon looked at me simultaneously.

 

Among birds, owls had a feeling similar to cats, so I quite liked them, and these ones were also very pretty.

 

I smiled at the pair of pure white and pretty owls and said.

 

“Be careful from now on. You can encounter natural enemies anywhere.”

 

That was the moment.

 

Pure white light began spreading from the bodies of the two white owls that were flapping their wings and looking at me.

 

That light instantly engulfed me.

 

Just like when my caterpillar had swallowed the injured white owl’s body.

 

Hmm…?

 

Surprised by the sudden situation, I began blinking and looking around, when I heard the birds’ voices from within the light surrounding my body.

 

[Thank you, human.]

 

[Thanks to you, I lived, human.]

 

“Hoo― Hoo―”

 

“Hoooo― Hoo―”

 

Clearly what I heard with my ears was just the hooting of owls, but voices I could understand flowed through my mind.

 

“What? I can hear what you’re saying right now?”

 

[Yes, I used the light of communication. We are Divine Messengers of Daesinjeon. Since you saved my mate, you human are a being chosen by the gods.]

 

[Since you saved me, I’ll give you our power, human.]

 

What on earth is this….

 

I blinked my eyes looking at the pair of white owls, Divine Messengers that never appeared even once in the original story.

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