I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 42

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Monica, having received Ordel’s consideration, guided her parents to the Holy Maiden’s reception room.

‘Somehow I feel strange.’

After becoming a maid, Ordel’s bedroom and reception room had become one of her main areas of activity.

Seeing her parents, whom she had met for the first time in half a year, in a place that had become as familiar as her own room brought new emotions.

“It’s neat. Clean and tidy.”

Monica looked at her mother, who was calmly surveying the reception room.

Her elegant and flawless demeanor was exactly what she had always wanted to emulate.

“The Holy Maiden of the Sun God seems to be quite a frugal person.”

“….”

She was someone who had pursued the height of extravagance even in this poor temple, but Monica didn’t bother to deny it.

Since she’s been living frugally after disposing of all her luxurious items, it’s not a lie!

“To be honest, I was a bit surprised after only seeing the Holy Maiden of the Temple of the Sea God.”

“Don’t compare that brat to our Holy Maiden.”

Monica, who had been setting down the tea she had personally brewed, glared.

It was an aggressive action to show toward her respected mother, but this really couldn’t be helped.

How dare they compare our Holy Maiden to that Sea God brat!

“…You really have become a follower of the Sun God.”

At Monica’s fierce reaction, Mrs. Hindel made a bitter expression instead of scolding her.

“After making your parents shed tears for half a year, I never thought you’d actually become a priestess here.”

“That’s right! Do you know how shocked Dad was when he heard you were here?!”

The Count shouted loudly in fierce agreement.

He wasn’t angry, but worry and relief filled his face.

“I’m sorry for making you worry.”

Monica obediently admitted her fault.

“But I didn’t deliberately hide my divine power awakening. I suddenly awakened not long after running away from home.”

The divine power awakening that happened unexpectedly while she was leaving the mansion and wondering where to go.

Divine power isn’t passed down through heredity, nor is it something you’re born with.

Since awakening happens suddenly as if blessed by a god, Monica had been very surprised too.

And a few days after awakening, a Sun God priest came looking for her.

Since she had been chosen by the Sun God, she could walk the path of a priestess if she wanted.

He didn’t force me to unconditionally become a priestess.

He simply presented the path, explained it in detail, and gave me enough time to think it over thoroughly.

That moved Monica’s heart, who had never even thought about becoming a priestess.

That’s how she became a novice priestess.

For her, who had lived as the daughter of a Count’s family, life in the poor Grand Temple was never comfortable.

From the moment she opened her eyes in the morning until she fell asleep again, she had to do all sorts of menial tasks, but she never regretted it even once.

Rather, she gained satisfaction feeling like she had finally found the path she should walk.

“I will live my entire life as a priestess. This is truly where I belong.”

“…Monica.”

“So I won’t inherit the clan.”

This was exactly why Monica had stabbed her beloved family in the heart and run away from home.

She was born as the eldest of the clan, so she should rightfully become the successor, but she didn’t want to.

Looking back now, perhaps she felt resistance because it was her destiny to live as a priestess of the Sun God.

“Alexei will inherit the clan splendidly.”

Her younger brother Alexei Hindel, two years her junior.

Her brother loved the clan. He cherished the territory’s people and dreamed of the territory’s development.

Monica knew that heart better than anyone in the world.

So she decided to gladly yield the successor position to her brother.

Her passionate brother would lead better than herself, who had no desire for the head of house position.

“…That matter is already settled anyway. Alexei has decided to become the successor.”

Mrs. Hindel, who had been listening to Monica’s story, spoke with a sigh.

Monica’s face brightened.

“Really?”

“How could we make a child who ran away from home because she didn’t want to become head of house into a successor? Even if we forced you to become head of house, with your temperament, you’d escape again if you got tired of working.”

“That’s right! You really know me well!”

Monica clapped her hands and was very delighted.

As expected, our family knows me best in the world!

“Yes, so now you can do whatever you want, but….”

Mrs. Hindel, who had been watching such a daughter, asked.

“Even so, isn’t this place too lacking for you to stay?”

At her mother’s statement that struck right to the point, Monica’s face, which had been smiling happily, hardened.

Count Hindel also came forward to support his wife.

“That’s right! Looking around, it seems too poor. Moreover, if it’s the Sun God, isn’t it almost on the verge of collapse?”

The couple, who had learned of Monica’s whereabouts after half a year, first investigated the Grand Temple where she was located.

And they were shocked.

Their daughter was in a Grand Temple that was so ruined that even they didn’t know about it—no, it was just completely ruined.

They would have understood if it had been the Temple of the Sea God. No, they could have accepted any other god.

But not the Sun God.

“We don’t understand what benefit there is for you to become a priestess here.”

The couple highly valued their daughter’s talent.

So much so that even knowing Monica hated becoming a successor enough to run away from home, they couldn’t give up.

She was a talented daughter whom they had unhesitatingly designated as successor, even knowing their second child had passion.

But how could they abandon such a precious daughter in such a barren place?

A bigger place would suit Monica.

“Benefit….”

However, Monica’s thoughts were different.

She twisted the corner of her mouth as if it were ridiculous.

“Mother, Father. I’m not here as a merchant or something like that. I’m a priestess who has even been baptized, though I’m still a novice.”

A priestess who serves god, practices the divine power received from god, and bestows it upon those who need divine power.

“Benefit? You seem to be mistaken from only seeing worldly places like the Sea God’s temple, but originally priestesses are people who live by faith alone, regardless of benefit.”

Monica knows.

The Grand Temple where gentle sunlight always shines down, people who live cheerfully despite poverty, and the god who has never once turned away from us.

As long as the Sun God, who loves her blindly, is here, Monica will be here too.

“It’s not because I want to gain something, but because I am a priestess that I’m here. Things like the god’s reputation don’t matter at all.”

To be honest, she was a little disappointed.

She never thought her mother, who was always cool-headed, rational, and intelligent, would say such things.

“…Pfft.”

But wait, instead of getting angry, Mother is laughing?

“Ahahaha! That’s our daughter indeed!”

It wasn’t even mocking laughter, but joyful laughter to the point of doubling over.

“See? I told you Monica wouldn’t come back and would stay here. If she were a child who would give in to our persuasion, she would have returned long ago, right?”

Mrs. Hindel patted the shoulder of her husband sitting beside her.

It was quite different from how she had elegantly treated her husband in front of Ordel.

“Monica, my daughter. Is that really your choice…?”

“Yes.”

Though bewildered, Monica dutifully answered the Count’s question.

The Count sighed and covered his face with his hands.

“Fine, do as you wish. You were never a child who needed our permission anyway.”

“Don’t tell me you were testing me?”

“Testing me. I was just curious about my daughter’s true feelings.”

Monica was dumbfounded by her mother’s innocent response.

Still, she was relieved that they weren’t vehemently opposed.

“However, there’s something I need to correct. While it’s true that the Grand Temple is poor right now, we’ll escape that situation soon.”

Monica informed her puzzled parents about the current situation at the Grand Temple.

Under Ordel’s leadership, they had joined hands with Duke Sherry, and were currently working together on a potion business based on powerful healing abilities.

“What? The Lumen Trading Guild?”

“My goodness, that Duke Sherry?”

The Hindel Estate was located in the eastern region, opposite to this place, so rumors about the potion business hadn’t spread there yet.

Therefore, the couple who had just learned the facts were genuinely surprised.

“Moving the Lumen Trading Guild is something even His Majesty the Emperor would find difficult…”

“Yes, our Holy Maiden accomplished that difficult task. And that’s not all. The Holy Maiden saved me!”

“Saved you? Monica, don’t tell me you were in danger?!”

Mrs. Hindel, who had been somewhat reassured by the fact that Monica had lived at the Sun God’s Grand Temple almost immediately after running away, was greatly flustered.

The Count felt the same way.

“What bastard did what to you!”

Monica immediately tattled to her angry parents.

“Baron Gail, a retainer of the Kiris Family, slapped my cheek and insulted me!”

She told them about being slapped when she had merely asked him to wait for proper procedures, claiming she was brazenly blocking his way.

And not content with that ignorant act, she told them about all the atrocities of that bastard who had belittled herself, the Grand Temple, and even the Holy Maiden!

Naturally, this was followed by the heartwarming story of Ordel appearing just in time to worry about and save her, and how Ordel had humiliated Gail in front of everyone.

Upon hearing that their precious daughter had been slapped, the eyes of the doting parents immediately blazed with fury.

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“…Um, so.”

I looked at the Hindel couple who were fuming in front of me.

“You want to actively support our Grand Temple from now on.”

The couple had rushed over to us four people who were enjoying tea time at a table in the middle of the gloomy garden, and this is what they declared.

“Yes! We want to become patrons of the Grand Temple!”

What’s this. I didn’t do anything, but suddenly a patron rolled in along with the whole vine.

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