I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 207

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3%!

A whole 3% increase!

When I reached one million followers, it was only 0.05%…!

Ah, this is truly satisfying.

All the effort I’ve put in is finally paying off like this!

【’Sun Risen from Death’ sheds tears of emotion. He applauds enthusiastically, saying this is all thanks to the user.】

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ anxiously bites his nails at the steeper growth than expected.】

【He rushes out hastily, saying he must find a Holy Maiden soon too.】

The Eternal God already has many followers and is much more famous than the Sun God, yet he’s still not satisfied.

How greedy.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ clicks his tongue, saying that’s exactly what he means.】

【He snorts, saying it’s unfortunate since there won’t be a Holy Maiden more excellent than his own anyway.】

I wonder if there’s even anyone who could become the Eternal God’s Holy Maiden in the first place.

Unlike the Sun God or Sea God, becoming the Eternal God’s Holy Maiden or Holy Sage requires certain conditions.

One must experience death or something equivalent to it.

How many people like that could there be?

“You look like you’re in a good mood.”

Lute said to me as I returned to the Duke’s townhouse after leaving the monastery temple.

“Something very good happened. Thank you for spreading the rumors quickly. It’s all thanks to you.”

“I should be thanking you for making that Crown Prince bastard eat dirt. I’ll actively help anytime, so just tell me.”

Lute smiled brightly.

That stupid Crown Prince.

To make an enemy of someone like this.

“By the way, did anything happen while I was gone? Did Jun give you a bad report?”

“Why?”

“You look angry.”

I quietly gazed at his face.

Lute had fallen asleep as if fainting last night and woken up.

Even this morning, he had looked somewhat dazed.

I thought his body was sluggish because the holy gun’s energy was stronger than the blessing.

But in the brief time I was away, the dazed look disappeared and anger took its place.

This was the first time I’d seen Lute this angry.

He even looked angrier than when I came to him after leaving the Sun God’s Main Temple, when he said it would be fine to kill me.

“Does it show that much?”

“It would be strange if it didn’t. Your eyes look fierce.”

And he keeps smiling too.

Though he usually smiles often, right now he was wearing a much more venomous and brilliant smile than usual.

Completely different from the pretty fox-like smile he makes when trying to seduce me.

Anyone could see it was an angry face.

“Even Jun couldn’t tell exactly. You’re amazing.”

Lute laughed lightly.

Ah, now his anger has subsided a bit.

“I had a rather unpleasant dream.”

“A dream? Was it because of my divine power? I thought I had calmed you down, but it seems to have been the opposite. I’m sorry.”

Did the power become poison instead because it was too strong?

“No, it was very effective. So effective that I was able to see the truth.”

The truth?

When I tilted my head, Lute looked at me intently.

As always, his gray eyes were filled with affection for me.

But something was a bit different from usual.

Were Lute’s eyes always this deep?

Both his gaze and expression seemed as if he had gained experience…

“I experienced the incomplete future you had seen in my dream.”

“…”

What?

What did he just say he saw?

“A hell that was the complete opposite of our happiness-filled present, where I received no blessing from you, was controlled by the Holy Relic of Light, and had Jun Ludmin murdered after my parents.”

What on earth is he talking about?

So he’s saying he saw his past life in a dream…?

What exactly happened to Lute last night?

“And one more thing.”

Lute’s hand slipped between my fingers.

I flinched without realizing it, but he firmly intertwined our fingers as if he had no intention of letting go.

As if telling me not to even think about running away.

“You weren’t in the dream.”

“…”

I swallowed without realizing it.

I wasn’t there.

That means…

“Ah, ‘Ortel Kiris’ was there. The fake Holy Maiden of the Sun God’s Main Temple.”

I couldn’t breathe.

“But you weren’t there. The ‘Ortel Kiris’ I saw in the dream wasn’t you.”

How did he figure that out?

“There’s no way I wouldn’t recognize you.”

Lute pulled our intertwined hands closer.

Our bodies pressed closer together as his face approached.

But I couldn’t push him away or turn my head.

Because Lute’s eyes that captured me were filled with joy.

“How fortunate it is. Unlike the dream, you’re here in reality. That’s why when I opened my eyes and saw you beside me, I felt relieved. Ah, I’m living in this kind of reality.”

Lute smiled brightly and lowered his head.

His lips touched the ring finger of my left hand.

“You don’t know how sweet this reality with my savior is.”

Lute said that.

Instead of questioning why the dream and reality were different, or what the identity of that dream was.

He simply rejoiced that I was here now, saying how fortunate it was.

“Ha.”

I let out a sigh that sounded like a lament without realizing it.

I must have been nervous.

Afraid that Lute might interrogate me.

Afraid he might look at me suspiciously, asking what exactly my identity was.

…Afraid that he might no longer trust me.

My heart swelled at his appearance of not denying my existence.

Feeling relieved, I gently rested my forehead against Lute’s nearby shoulder.

“…Lute, your heart is beating incredibly fast right now.”

I burst into laughter at the loud thumping sound.

Lute’s heart was making quite a commotion.

“When you’re leaning against me so naturally, it would be strange not to react.”

Lute grumbled while subtly pulling me closer.

Almost embraced in his arms, I giggled softly.

Even if I had changed, he was still Lute Sieri who loved me.

Without being able to reciprocate his feelings, how could I feel relieved that I was being loved.

I felt sorry and ashamed, yet…

On the other hand, my feelings for him grew even stronger.

When he loves me this much, how could my heart not be drawn to him.

I bit my lips tightly.

“…Aren’t you going to ask? Why the ‘Ortel Kiris’ in your dream and I now are different people.”

“So you really are a different person. My intuition wasn’t wrong.”

Lute hummed a tune.

As if the reason for the change didn’t matter at all.

“I’m happy that you’re here now, so I don’t care about the reason, but I think I know why you changed.”

He thinks he knows?

“Perhaps it was to save the ‘Ortel Kiris’ from the dream?”

“…”

Salvation? Rather, I’m the one who was saved.

Because Joo Hyun-jin, who was the previous life’s ‘Ortel Kiris’ and my friend, saved me.

But why does Lute think that way?

“The ‘Ortel Kiris’ in my dream said this to me.”

‘Who knows? Maybe in the next life, a savior will appear to rescue us wretches.’

My eyes widened.

Joo Hyun-jin had said that?

“You actually appeared as salvation for me, and the ‘Ortel Kiris’ I saw in my dream disappeared. Perhaps you being here instead of that person was salvation for them?”

“…”

“That person really didn’t want to live. Like me, they suffered because they couldn’t kill themselves.”

I felt like I’d been hit in the head with a hammer.

Lute really saw the previous life in his dreams.

He saw the real previous life that I didn’t know about.

Without realizing it, I grabbed both of Lute’s arms.

“The prev-, no, the dream, in the dream ‘Ortel Kiris’ was in a state where she couldn’t kill herself…?”

“She was forcibly injected with ‘Evil’ energy by Count Kiris. We were like comrades in a way.”

Ha!

I squeezed my eyes shut.

Ortel’s diary in my inventory.

All that information written in the diary finally made sense now.

Ortel herself had learned about it, or through Lute.

That’s why the diary was filled with agonizing screams.

“What was that child’s life like? Tell me everything, everything.”

At my earnest plea, Lute didn’t ask for details and slowly began to speak.

“She wasn’t exactly a good person. She squandered the temple’s funds, and when the real Holy Maiden appeared, she tormented her. Her tyranny grew worse and worse.”

This was the same as the original story.

But what came after was so very different.

“Eventually the temple cast her out, and when she became useless, the Count forcibly injected ‘Evil’ energy and threw her to me. Telling me to use her as I pleased.”

“…”

“Only then did that person realize she had been sent as a tool to destroy the Sun God’s Main Temple, and she despaired. She said she had committed unforgivable acts out of thirst for affection. But it couldn’t be undone.”

At this truth more terrible than I had imagined, I squeezed my eyes shut.

【I apologize to everyone who suffered because of me, foolishly being used. But truly speaking, I didn’t want to live like this either.】

The words of regret that filled the diary came to mind.

“So that person chose revenge. Even if it meant sacrificing her own life.”

…What?

My eyes widened.

Looking straight at me, Lute said.

“Because that was the only way to repay the debt to those who suffered because of her.”

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