I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 10

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I slowly crawled out from inside the drawer cabinet where I had been hiding.

During my detective days when I was proud of my well-built muscles, my whole body would ache whenever I hid in narrow spaces, but hiding in Ordel’s slender body feels quite cozy.

I could even use divine power for physical enhancement, so I wouldn’t need to bulk up like I did during my detective days.

“You, you, you! You, what! Why are you here!”

When I completely came out and stood up while dusting off my clothes, Chef Kento pointed his finger at me.

Should I just break it off?

“Didn’t you tell me to come to the kitchen when night falls? I’m someone who keeps promises very well, so I gladly came. Unfortunately, you’d be locked up in prison and couldn’t come, so I was thinking of looking around by myself.”

“Th-this damn…”

“But since you, who should still be locked up, came in, I was curious about what you were doing here, so I was watching for a bit.”

Of course, that’s a lie.

I had already anticipated that he would escape from prison at night and sneak in here.

According to the original work, Chef Kento didn’t have just one place where he hid money.

I was on a stakeout to catch him in the act.

“Then I discovered this wonderful scene. I must be quite lucky.”

“You were stupid to appear in front of me, so you’re unlucky!”

Chef Kento seemed to have calmed his startled heart and jumped up.

Before I knew it, he was gripping a sharp dagger.

“I’ve been wanting to teach you a lesson anyway. Do you know who I am? Huh?”

“Of course I know. You’re a criminal who got caught embezzling and will be tortured by the high priest tomorrow. And since you even escaped like this, you’ll receive proper torture. Just imagining what kind of torture it’ll be is scary.”

“Talking about torture and such. You’re just a frail guy who’s never held a blade other than a knife for eating. Do you think I’d be afraid of someone like that?!”

…Oh. They say ignorance breeds courage.

Who is Airik?

He’s a male protagonist candidate of this world.

Although he’s not the true heroine who ends up with the female protagonist in the end, he’s still a male lead candidate with countless reader fans.

Male leads in romance fantasy novels do anything for the female protagonist, so how could Airik be frail?

Airik, who couldn’t stand watching Ordel torment the heroine anymore and helped kill her, was one of the most skilled torture geniuses in the original work.

He’s dead now.

“Stop talking nonsense! Do you know who planted me here? It’s Count Kiris! How dare a fake saint interfere with the Count’s work?!”

At that all-too-familiar name, I smiled crookedly.

Right, Chef Kento was the representative of the spies that Count Kiris, who made Ordel a fake saint, had secretly planted in the Grand Temple.

The one who helped him escape must be another spy.

The biggest expenses at the Grand Temple were my dignity maintenance fees—written as dignity but read as luxury expenses—and the food costs used in the kitchen.

Chef Kento always allocated a lot for food expenses under the reason that he had to serve quality meals to the saint.

When poor-quality meals came out, Ordel would always get furious, so Airik had no choice but to tolerate that part.

But he probably didn’t know.

The fact that Chef Kento had been secretly embezzling using that.

And most of the embezzled money returned to Count Kiris through Chef Kento.

The Count had planted him as a spy for that purpose in the first place.

The problem was that Ordel also sometimes helped with embezzlement while pretending to be extravagant.

That way, Airik wouldn’t notice the embezzlement signs.

In other words, I was currently cleaning up the mess that Ordel had made.

“If you understand, kneel before me right now. If you resist even a little, I’ll report everything you did today to the Count in detail!”

Chef Kento pointed the dagger at me.

Looking at his face full of ecstasy, he must be imagining me, a noble and saint, kneeling down miserably…

You’ve got the wrong person.

“Oh my, goodness. So you were sent by Count Kiris. I didn’t know that.”

“That’s right, so kneel down right now…!”

“That means you’re a spy, right? You’re not a follower of the Sun God, right? You don’t believe in our Sun God, right?”

“…What?”

Chef Kento made a dumbfounded expression at my sudden question.

But this is a very important matter.

He needs to not be a follower of the Sun God so that when I kick him out, there won’t be the misfortune of reducing the number of Sun God followers.

“If you were a follower, I would have used all my power to somehow make you repent, but if not, there’s no need to bother.”

Then what’s needed now?

Punishment for one who dared to covet the Sun God’s treasures.

【Activating skill ‘Physical Enhancement’.】

“What kind of nonsense…!”

In fights, always strike first!

I drove my enhanced fist precisely into the center of his pathetic face.

Smack!

With a satisfying impact, Chef Kento’s already low nose bridge completely collapsed.

This is divine punishment delivered in the name of the saint, God’s representative!

“Urgh, gah! You damn bitch!”

“What? Was the divine punishment a bit weak? You’re not falling down?”

During the day, he collapsed from just a flick to the forehead.

This time he’s staggering but still gripping the dagger tightly.

His nose bridge is completely crushed, so his brain must have been shaken again.

“Why don’t you just fall down? You’ll die at this rate.”

During my detective days, I saw someone who showed such bravado and ended up brain dead.

However, despite my sincere concern, Chef Kento didn’t stop.

“Fine, fine, I’ll just take your, your head and go. Then the Count will forgive me, me too!”

His tongue was getting twisted, which looked really dangerous.

Nevertheless, he surprisingly swung the dagger accurately at me.

Just as I was wondering if my enhanced body could block that dagger and was about to dodge—

“Huh?”

Something pulled me back forcefully.

Before I could grasp the situation, there was a clang! sound and the dagger that Chef Kento had been swinging flew through the air.

“Aaaaah!”

Due to that impact, Chef Kento’s wrist that had been gripping the dagger twisted in a grotesque direction.

“Are you alright?”

Then, along with a refreshing scent that lingered around my nose, a heavy voice poured down from above.

I hadn’t noticed any presence until he pulled me back.

Flustered, I hurriedly turned my head.

The first thing I saw was silver hair that sparkled even in the kitchen where moonlight barely entered.

Below short bangs, piercingly cold winter sea-colored eyes were looking down at me from close up.

“Gasp.”

My goodness. You have beauty that shines even at night.

“Are you injured anywhere?”

“Uh…”

“Are you hurt?”

I was so shocked by his beauty that I couldn’t speak properly.

Misunderstanding this, the man glared at Chef Kento with cold eyes.

At the same time, an indescribably heavy aura pressed down on my entire body.

An intangible energy that could never be felt on Earth.

This was both killing intent and this person’s ability.

“How dare you threaten an unarmed woman with a sword in the sacred Grand Temple. Do you want to die?”

Scary.

I thought I could no longer feel things like fear after living as a violent crimes detective…

But this was absolutely unbearable.

At that moment when my legs were trembling with fear.

【AI System has detected fear levels above the threshold in the user.】

【Enhancing user’s mental strength for smooth activity.】

“…?”

As soon as the System Message appeared, my body instantly became calm.

This works better than getting a sedative shot?

System, you’re quite capable, aren’t you?

“I’m not hurt anywhere. I’m fine. Thank you so much for saving me.”

I let out a sigh of relief and escaped from his embrace.

As my rationality returned after being momentarily clouded by the suddenly thrust handsome face, I could recognize who this man was.

Handsome looks that could surpass even High Priest Airik, one of the male protagonist candidates.

If the High Priest was the heroine’s shield, this man was the sword that would eliminate her enemies without hesitation.

Male lead candidate #2 and the commander of the Sun God’s Main Temple’s Order of the Holy Knights.

It was definitely Seth Noel.

I’m sure he’s supposed to be on assignment duty right now, so why is he here?

And why did he have to appear at a moment like this?

I was trying to handle this alone, but this makes things a bit awkward.

“Are you really alright?”

At the handsome Seth’s worried question, I roughly nodded and glanced at Chef Kento.

He too looked just as flustered as I was by Seth’s sudden appearance.

Well, the person who should fear the Order Commander right now wasn’t me but the escaped prisoner Chef Kento.

Then there’s no other choice.

Since this has already happened, I have no choice but to actively use this situation.

“Order Commander, that man was caught embezzling Daesinjeon’s funds during the day and was imprisoned! He even escaped from prison!”

I started by tattling on him first.

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