I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 138

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“You even skipped your morning exercise today, where did you go?”

Seth looked around the empty bedroom with a bewildered expression.

There was no sign of anyone anywhere.

“High Priest, Holy Knight Captain.”

Just then, Monica came running with Idella.

Instead of Airic who was still frozen, Seth asked urgently.

“Where is the Holy Maiden?”

“What? The Holy Maiden? Isn’t she inside?”

Monica was greatly flustered.

“This morning she told us not to wake her until she got up herself…”

Since she had never entered the bedroom at all, Monica had no way of knowing Ortel’s whereabouts either.

Then Airic approached the table. On it lay only a white envelope and some unknown document envelope.

To the High Priest.

It was a letter left by Ortel.

I think it’s time for me to leave the Grand Temple now. So I’m leaving this letter.

Airic swallowed hard.

At his ominous appearance, those with him could only watch him quietly, unable to even ask about the contents.

The reason Count Kiris made me a fake Holy Maiden was actually to destroy the Sun God’s Grand Temple.

I only learned this fact now, but I had been unknowingly supporting the Count.

If I hadn’t come to my senses, albeit belatedly, the Grand Temple would have already been ruined.

So I have no right to stay here. It doesn’t make sense for a fake Holy Maiden like me to continue staying at the Grand Temple in the first place.

Thanks to the potion business and the sacred stones, the Grand Temple has returned to its normal track, so I will now take my leave.

Don’t worry about the sacred stones. I’ll leave behind the deed transferring the rights to the Land of Rubar.

“Ha.”

Airic let out a sigh.

So that’s what those documents were.

So thoroughly like Ortel, it made him laugh.

A bitter, hollow laugh.

I, who have been troubling all of you, will now leave, so please all live happily and peacefully from now on.

I will earnestly pray from afar for the eternal prosperity of the Sun God’s Grand Temple.

I am truly sorry for everything.

– Ortel

“…”

Not Holy Maiden Ortel of the Sun God, not Ortel Kiris, but just Ortel.

The mere letters of her name were so plain, unlike her usual self.

If Ortel was neither the Sun God’s Holy Maiden nor a Kiris, then where on earth had she gone?

“High Priest, what does the letter say?”

Seth asked Airic, who was just staring blankly at the letter.

Since anyone could see the contents by just craning their neck, Airic immediately folded the letter.

So that no one could see it.

“The Holy Maiden has left the Grand Temple.”

“…What?”

“Wh-what do you mean by that!”

Seth’s eyes widened, and Monica screamed.

“She seems to feel guilty about troubling the people of the Grand Temple. She left a letter saying that since the Grand Temple has regained its original glory, she would now let go of everything and leave.”

Monica covered her mouth. Her shocked eyes shook violently.

“But I have no intention of letting the Holy Maiden go like this.”

Airic spoke firmly.

Seth, Monica, and even Idella who was nearby nodded vigorously.

“We need to find out where the Holy Maiden went, so please call Jeremy and the Holy Knights who guarded this place last night immediately.”

“Yes, understood!”

Monica, who answered loudly, left to fetch Jeremy.

Seth also followed behind her, saying he would summon the Holy Knights.

“Miss Idella.”

When only the two of them remained, Airic called Idella.

“Congratulations on awakening as a new priestess of the Sun God.”

“Ah, thank you. I had no idea I would become like this either.”

Idella said in bewilderment.

Until just recently, she didn’t even know of the Sun God’s existence, yet she had awakened his divine power.

And it happened not long after coming to the Grand Temple.

“We should properly celebrate, but given the current situation…”

“Don’t worry about it. Having the Holy Maiden return to the Grand Temple quickly is more important than me being celebrated. Why on earth did she leave…”

Idella said gloomily.

Airic quietly looked down at such Idella.

Certainly, the light emanating from the divine statue and Idella was not at an ordinary level.

No, it was beyond ordinary…

Airic, who was recalling that moment, quickly shook his head.

‘…Now is not the time to think about this.’

As he told everyone, he had no intention whatsoever of letting Ortel go just because she was a fake Holy Maiden.

If it’s because of past mistakes, she should apologize here, not run away somewhere.

Ortel’s place is at the Sun God’s Grand Temple.

She must return here without fail.

“High Priest, I brought Jeremy and the Holy Knights.”

Soon Monica and Seth returned. Victoria was with them too.

She also looked clearly flustered.

After all, she was a guard knight who knew nothing until Ortel left this place.

“Did you see the Holy Maiden last night?”

Airic first asked the two Holy Knights who had guarded the front of the bedroom at dawn.

They answered with greatly intimidated faces.

“Around 2 AM, she went out briefly saying she would meet Jeremy, then returned an hour later.”

“After that, she didn’t come out even once until our shift change.”

The Holy Knights knew nothing.

Then the only person left was Jeremy.

“…”

Even though he was told that the Holy Maiden he followed blindly had left, he showed no change in expression.

As if he already knew.

“When the Holy Maiden came to find you last night, did she hint that she would leave?”

“That’s right.”

At his calm answer, Monica immediately grabbed him by the collar.

“Why didn’t you stop the Holy Maiden!”

“Well, she said she had done wrong in the past and that no one here liked her. She said she was leaving, so how could I stop her?”

At Jeremy’s cold words, Monica was greatly flustered.

It was true that the Holy Maiden had done wrong, but to say no one liked her.

That might have been true before, but not now.

It was a misunderstanding.

“From what I saw, everyone was obviously avoiding the Holy Maiden. Whatever it was, if it was the Holy Maiden’s fault, it can’t be helped.”

“N-no, that’s…”

“So just leave it be. Nothing will change even if the Holy Maiden returns anyway.”

Jeremy wasn’t blaming them.

Yet his words pierced like a dagger.

Tears welled up and Monica buried her face in her palms.

She hadn’t known that Ordel cared about it enough to leave the Grand Temple.

“We found the last person who saw the Holy Maiden.”

Just then, a Holy Knight brought the stable keeper with him.

“When did you see the Holy Maiden?”

Sensing something serious from Airic’s cold expression, the stable keeper confessed everything he knew with a frightened face.

“I-it must have been around 4 AM today. The Holy Maiden said she had urgent business at the Rubar Village Quarry, so I gave her a horse.”

“Wait. A horse, not a carriage?”

“Yes? Y-yes…”

But Ordel doesn’t know how to ride a horse?

That’s why they had prepared a carriage for Ordel as soon as the Grand Temple had spare funds.

“Her outfit was lighter than usual too, and she had no particular luggage, so I thought she was just going to the village briefly…”

“…”

At those words, Monica’s face hardened as she flung open the dressing room door.

And she let out a sigh.

“…One shirt, one pair of pants, one robe. That’s all that’s missing. Almost everything else is still here…”

Someone without money took nothing with them?

It would have been more comforting if she had at least taken something.

In the end, Monica burst into tears.

“…Four hours means she couldn’t have gone far yet. Even if she secretly learned to ride, she wouldn’t be used to it. We need to find her quickly.”

“Let’s deploy the Holy Knights immediately.”

Seth nodded with a stern face and hurriedly left the bedroom with Victoria.

“…Can you find the Holy Maiden?”

Airic asked Jeremy.

Jeremy, who had been looking at the dressing room with sunken eyes, shook his head.

“No. That’s not what the Holy Maiden would want.”

His face shaking his head firmly was as stubborn as if not even a needle could penetrate it.

Airic didn’t force him.

“Right, there should be at least one person who follows the Holy Maiden’s will.”

Since he couldn’t be that one person.

Ordel should be here. Her place is at the Sun God’s Main Temple.

Airic clenched his fists tightly.

* * *

At that moment.

“Ha, it feels good to ride hard after so long.”

Unfortunately for everyone’s assumption that she would be near the Grand Temple, Ordel was already quite far away.

It was thanks to riding non-stop for four hours.

Her face, brightly revealed after removing her robe, glistened with sweat.

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