I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 2

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Whenever I ask anything, it’s all about revealing heavenly secrets or whatnot.

In the end, it’s a system that only picks the annoying words telling me to increase my divine power, but anyway, I managed to extract some gains through persistent questioning.

1. ‘Ortel Kiris’ has weak innate power, so I need to receive power from the Sun God to strengthen my divine power.

2. But the problem is that the Sun God who should give me power lacks intelligence and power, so I can’t receive power right away.

3. So I’m still just a nobody with only 2% divine power.

4. To increase divine power, I need to gather believers to strengthen the Sun God’s power.

After organizing this, I soon wore a pleased smile.

“What gains, there’s really nothing helpful at all.”

It claims to be an AI system that manages dimensions and even communicates with gods, yet it doesn’t seem much different from AI made on Earth.

So it’s better than having nothing, but having it doesn’t make it particularly useful.

I clicked my tongue and looked at the 5th item I added at the end.

5. The current point in time when I possessed this body is roughly 1 year before the original story begins.

In other words, this is before the female protagonist Idella awakens.

If I just wait one year, everything will be resolved on its own, so why did they bother bringing me here?

The useless AI won’t tell me this either, saying it’s revealing heavenly secrets.

Does the Sun God have some great reason for not being able to wait until Idella awakens?

So maybe that’s why they made me possess Ordel, who everyone except a very few believes to be the real saint.

“If I had my way, I’d want to abandon this Quest and everything and just run away…”

Honestly, what do I care about the Sun God’s extinction or whatever?

Why should I obediently comply when the Sun God arbitrarily made my life into a second round without my consent?

Just running away like this, enjoying the possessed life a bit, and then cheering and shouting from afar when the protagonists save the world would be the best happy ending.

“For that, I should go to the temple first thing tomorrow.”

The Sun God’s Main Temple where Ordel is masquerading as a fake saint.

To quit being a saint, I first need to go there and talk to the high priest.

Honestly, there are people there who contributed to killing Ordel, so it’s a bit uncomfortable…

But for a comfortable and smooth possessed life, it can’t be helped.

I’ll have to endure a moment of discomfort.

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“Ugh, I’m dying…”

However, the next morning at dawn.

I was suffering from death threats even before going to the temple.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrowl.

From this insane hunger.

“Please spare me…”

The sound of crying out for food was so loud it even drowned out the sound of carriage wheels racing down the road.

This is all because of those damn Kiris bastards.

‘Drag that thing out right now, lock it in a room, and don’t give it even a drop of water! And tomorrow morning, as soon as the sun rises, chase it straight to Daesinjeon!’

Count Kiris, Ordel’s father, not only starved me all night but also dragged me out of bed as soon as the sun rose and shoved me into a carriage.

And that without even food to fill my stomach, let alone water!

How can a person be so cruel!

“Even if Ordel isn’t his real daughter, isn’t this going too far?”

That’s right. Ordel wasn’t the Count’s real daughter.

When Ordel, who came from a distant branch family, awakened her divine power, the Count immediately adopted her as his daughter.

To put her forward as a fake saint of the Sun God’s Main Temple.

The Sun God’s Main Temple had no choice but to accept Ordel as a saint due to their difficult circumstances.

However, only the Count benefited from this.

He abused and brainwashed Ordel so she couldn’t betray the clan.

Ordel caused trouble at Daesinjeon so they wouldn’t look down on her, and because of this, Daesinjeon became even more unstable.

Only the Count prospered with the glory of having produced a saint.

“With a child raised like this, of course she wouldn’t turn out normal.”

Especially when the real saint, the female protagonist, appeared, it was spectacular.

When she lost even her precarious position as fake saint, Ordel severely bullied the female protagonist.

So I cursed her a lot when I was reading the novel…

But now that I’ve actually entered this body and experienced the abuse, I feel a bit sorry for her.

“I absolutely have to cut ties with Kiris.”

Those bastards are a cancer. Continuing with them will only harm me.

As soon as I arrive at Daesinjeon, I’ll apologize for my past wrongs and say that no matter how I think about it, I don’t seem qualified, so I’ll leave quietly.

Then everything will be a happy ending…

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrowl!

Just then, my stomach made a loud sound as if asking if I’d forgotten about it. I clutched my stomach with a pale face.

“…Before that, let me just ask for one meal first.”

Right, everything we do is for survival. Let’s eat first when we arrive…

But we didn’t arrive at the temple until a full day later.

Having starved for almost two days, I glared at the knights escorting the carriage from outside.

Evil Count’s family knight bastards. How can you not give even one meal, one sip of water?

Isn’t this complete torture? At this rate, I might pathetically end my second life.

“Ugh…”

As soon as the carriage arrived at Daesinjeon, I flung open the door and jumped out.

With motion sickness on top of everything, I thought I’d just lie down on the ground or whatever…

Instead of hard ground, something soft and cozy enveloped me.

Moreover, it had a pleasant scent that gradually calmed my motion sickness.

Ah, I think I could survive with just this.

My survival instinct made me embrace whatever was wrapping around me.

“…Saint?”

Then I heard an extremely sweet voice from above my head.

I see. It’s a person! Since it doesn’t feel like hard armor, it’s not one of those knight bastards who starved me!

“I’m, I’m hungry…”

Relieved, I clung to whatever was gently embracing me and slumped down right there.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrowl.

Along with the loud sound echoing from my stomach.

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Fortunately, that person didn’t abandon me.

Far from it, they were so grateful that they not only helped me to what I assumed was my bedroom but also brought out a meal right away.

Soup with meat, fresh fruit salad, soft and savory wheat bread, and even delicious juice.

Ah, what a wonderful feast.

“Please eat slowly, Saint. I’m worried you might get indigestion.”

I, who had been hastily spooning soup, flinched and stopped at the voice from in front of me.

After taking a deep breath, I slowly raised my head.

…How dazzling.

That person I had grabbed onto as soon as I got out of the carriage. The owner of that sweet voice and mysterious warmth.

Golden hair that seemed to melt the sun’s rays directly, green eyes containing swaying vegetation beneath it, and a gentle impression like mild weather was looking straight at me.

Just from his appearance, I could tell who he was.

The high priest who was barely keeping this impoverished Sun God’s Main Temple running, and the real power here.

And one of the male protagonists who would later fall in love with the female protagonist and kill me.

It was Airic Dert.

“Ahem.”

Perhaps because he was someone who would kill me in the future, I felt somehow burdened and quietly averted my gaze.

At that moment, I noticed Airic’s clothes, which were quite wrinkled around the upper body.

Why would the high priest’s garments, which symbolize purity, look like that? As if they’d been grabbed and torn somewhere…

Wait, could that be…

“I, I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking clearly earlier…”

To carelessly touch the body of none other than the High Priest! Even Ordel, who used to act so wickedly, never did such a thing.

“Ah.”

Airic, who had been looking down at his clothes that were wrinkled enough to be torn, soon looked at me with a strange expression.

“…It’s fine. You looked very tired. You don’t need to apologize over something like this.”

Those are suspicious eyes, but that’s understandable.

Airic Dert was one of the victims who had endured Ordel’s wickedness more than anyone else.

The problem was that he knew Ordel was a fake saint.

He was the very person who had made the deal with Count Kiris’s family regarding the fake saint.

So he had no choice but to silently endure Ordel’s wickedness, but now that same person was suddenly apologizing obediently, so of course he’d be suspicious.

“High Priest, I have something to tell you.”

Is there any reason to delay further? If I have to say it anyway, it’s better to say it as quickly as possible.

“I’m thinking of stepping down from my position as saint.”

Airic’s face hardened.

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