I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 259

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“…Something feels really empty?”

Jin looked around the bedroom with wide eyes.

“Yeah, I sold everything and used it for household expenses.”

Clean display cases without a single common decoration, an empty dressing room, and so on.

Compared to before, the belongings had decreased so much that there was really nothing left.

Well, the dressing room would soon be full again.

The clothes gifted by House of Sieri and the Imperial Palace weren’t just one or two pieces. It might even be fuller than before.

“Did you sell them?”

“I had Ditrihi do it.”

“You did well.”

Jin nodded and plopped down on the sofa.

Feeling a bit worried, I casually asked.

“Weren’t there any items with memories or that you felt attached to? I did sell everything, but just in case.”

“No. Not a single one. Absolutely none. I’m actually glad you cleared everything out completely.”

Jin shook her head firmly.

“Honestly, if the room I used in the past had remained exactly the same, I would have been extremely embarrassed.”

Her disgusted expression made me burst into laughter.

“That much?”

“Yeah. I really wonder why I was like that back then.”

“So that’s why you were so frugal when you lived with me?”

When we lived together on Earth.

The person who took care of household management was none other than Jin.

I was good at cooking and cleaning, but Jin was much better at keeping household accounts and managing household affairs.

She even studied by watching videos.

Could it be that she became a household genius because of regrets from her previous life?

“Yeah. I learned painfully that there’s nothing left from being extravagant. Besides, you and I had no family to help us. Since we never knew what might happen, I thought we absolutely needed emergency funds.”

“That’s true.”

Just because she lived frugally didn’t mean Jin acted like a miser.

Rather, whenever my birthday came around, she kept trying to give me expensive and nice gifts, so I had trouble stopping her.

“Thank you. Thanks to you saving money so diligently, I benefited in this world.”

I invested in divine power using my death insurance money plus the value of the house she had worked hard to buy.

Thanks to that, I was able to win the fight against ‘Evil’ much more easily.

“Neither you nor I knew it would be used like this.”

“Well, good is good.”

We looked at each other and giggled.

“Don’t just stay in the bedroom, let’s go out. I’ll show you the Grand Temple I worked hard to develop.”

“I was actually curious about that. Even the main gate looked completely renovated, what on earth did you do? And it’s only been a few months.”

“Really… a lot happened.”

When I smiled vaguely, Jin couldn’t ask more and closed her mouth.

I’d been too busy with war and its aftermath to properly tell her about it.

Now I could finally let her know.

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We left the bedroom and toured various parts of the Grand Temple like taking a walk.

Meanwhile, I briefly summarized for Jin what had happened since my possession.

“…So you caught Count Kiris’s spy who was embezzling and squeezed him, scammed Lute Sieri who came looking for the sacred relic of light, used the Lumen Trading Guild to sell potions while you were at it, found the holy stone, and accumulated wealth by selling the holy stone to the Temple of the Sea God at a high price?”

“Hey, I didn’t scam Lute. It was a well-intentioned lie for Lute’s sake. Thanks to that, unlike in the previous life, Lute became an ally and we handled ‘Evil’ well.”

Otherwise, this life would have been hard mode too.

“Wow… You accumulated this much wealth with uncertain information.”

Jin exclaimed in admiration while looking around.

The barren and old Grand Temple had completely transformed in just a few months.

Even the number of visitors, who couldn’t be found even if you washed your eyes before, had greatly increased.

I smiled brightly at people who recognized Jin and me and greeted us.

【’Light of Perseverance and Faith’ is moved and tears up.】

【Wails loudly asking how long it’s been since seeing such a sight.】

Seeing the Sun God crying made me feel really proud.

“…I felt quite sorry for possessing you in my troubled body. Now I don’t think I need to feel sorry anymore. Even if I had returned, I’m not confident I could have done as well as you.”

Jin, who had been looking at the barren field that had nothing but Hias flowers that fed on divine power transform into a colorful flower garden, murmured quietly.

“Mm, honestly I agree with that too.”

“The training ground and the Holy Knights’ armor and clothes were all replaced with new ones. Did you do that too?”

“Yeah. Honestly, the training ground wouldn’t have been out of place being called training grounds. I felt really sorry seeing them train in such a place.”

I felt so sorry for the Holy Knights who trained on dirt floors raising dust clouds.

The silver armor symbolizing the Sun God’s Main Temple made the dirt dust even more visible.

Now seeing them train on floors solidly laid with holy stones felt rewarding.

“Right. I have something to show you.”

“What is it?”

I took out the ‘Box Made Out of Boredom’ that had been shoved in a corner of my inventory.

It was the Eternal God’s divine artifact.

“I found this when I went looking for the ‘sacred relic of light’ that Lute was searching for. The sacred relic was contained in the Eternal God’s divine artifact.”

“The sacred relic of light was?”

Jin, who seemed unaware of this fact, looked at the divine artifact with a surprised expression.

Although one large red gem was missing, it still boasted an absurdly extravagant splendor.

“How on earth…”

“I don’t know that either, but anyway I used it quite usefully. I whacked Jeremy, who was being controlled by the Sea God, with this to wake him up. It has a nullification effect.”

“I wondered how you had Jeremy with you.”

Jin looked at the divine artifact with admiration.

“It was originally in the Sun God’s Main Temple, and I was the one who found it, so I was going to keep it. But since you’re the Holy Maiden of the Eternal God, I’ll give it to you.”

If the Holy Maiden of the Eternal God appeared with the Eternal God’s divine artifact that had never had a Holy Maiden before, the priestesses’ loyalty toward Jin would increase even more.

I’m glad I didn’t give it away when I met the Eternal God’s priestesses before and kept holding onto it.

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ smiles contentedly saying his divine artifact is finally returning to its proper place…】

“No, you don’t need to give it to me. If it helps you, just keep it.”

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’, betrayed by the Holy Maiden he trusted, gapes his mouth open!】

At this bolt from the blue, the Eternal God stopped rejoicing and was shocked.

“Honestly, I don’t trust it much because of the name.”

Jin’s expression wasn’t good, as if she had checked the divine artifact’s information.

I understand that feeling too.

Even so, how could the name be ‘Box Made Out of Boredom’?

When I first saw it, I doubted whether this was really a divine artifact.

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ feels wronged. He protests that he was just too lazy to think of a name.】

That’s even stranger.

With a name like this, even the particularly loyal Eternal God priestesses would doubt whether this is really our god’s divine artifact.

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ lies down flat saying to take the divine artifact to the Grand Temple anyway.】

The Eternal God started throwing a tantrum, but since he couldn’t use any physical methods, it was completely useless.

“It’s better for someone who needs it to have it. Since I can use the nullification ability directly, you keep this.”

Unlike the Eternal God, Jin, who had no attachment whatsoever, firmly returned the divine artifact to me.

Ah, this makes me feel a bit bad for the Eternal God…

“Well then, sure.”

…like hell. Since Jin said it was okay, I obediently put the divine artifact back in my inventory.

Honestly, if I keep it, there will be many uses for it.

Since the Holy Maiden gave permission, it’s fine.

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ sobs uncontrollably.】

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ asks back if we’re really going to do this.】

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ clings pitifully, begging us to reconsider.】

As the Eternal God continued sending messages, we simultaneously turned off the message function.

Well, who told them to place divine artifacts in someone else’s main temple?

But don’t worry.

We’ll return it to its original place before we die.

“Then shall we go eat now? I changed the entire menu too. We even have a chef from the Eastern Region.”

“That’s so like you. I was actually worried about the poor diet here, so that’s a relief.”

We excitedly held hands and headed to the restaurant.

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A week had passed since I returned to the Sun God’s Main Temple with Jin.

Even though I only played with Jin all day, except when giving blessings to people who visited the main temple and actively recommending follower recruitment, time flew by in an instant.

How long had it been since I wrote a letter to send to Rute and fell asleep looking forward to tomorrow’s fun?

“…Hm?”

My sleeping consciousness floated to the surface due to a strange sensation enveloping my entire body.

Something was there.

I felt another presence in this room besides myself.

But strangely, I didn’t feel any wariness.

Rather, it felt somewhat exciting…

“Are you awake?”

The moment I sat up, an all-too-familiar arm wrapped around my shoulders.

Ah, as soon as I heard that voice tickling my ears, I realized why I hadn’t felt any wariness.

“Rute?”

A beautiful face bathed in moonlight was looking at me.

The face of the lover I had missed.

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