I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 44

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【A follower of another deity approaching has murderous intent toward the user. It is advised to be cautious.】

How absurd.

So you’re saying someone infiltrated the Grand Temple to kill me right now?

I’d understand if someone staying at the Grand Temple held a grudge against me.

Since there are quite a few people who’ve been wronged by Ordel.

But why would a follower of another deity?

Ordel is a fake Holy Maiden and doesn’t do any Holy Maiden duties, so she wouldn’t have had any chance to meet people from other Grand Temples, right?

“….”

Though I shuddered with indignation, I closed my eyes again for now. And I pretended to toss and turn as I lay on my side.

Due to Ordel’s particularly foul temper, no one stays in this vicinity.

Moreover, even Victoria has returned, so there’s no one to ask for help.

I have to break through this situation by myself.

【Warning! A follower of another deity is rapidly approaching the user.】

The fortunate thing is that I’m not completely alone.

I stared intently at the AI system that kept displaying warning messages and waited silently.

Beep, beep, beep!

The warning ringing in my head grew faster and faster.

As if someone was continuously approaching.

And then.

Beepbeepbeepbeep!

The moment the warning rang like crazy.

【Activating skill ‘Physical Enhancement’.】

I pulled out the hand I had placed under the pillow and swung it toward the air.

Whack!

A crisp impact sound rang out thrillingly from my fingertips.

“Ugh, gah!”

Along with a pained groan, something heavy crashed down with a clatter.

When I slightly raised my body, I could see some guy wrapped in black cloth from head to toe trembling under the bed.

Seeing blood flowing down from the head he was clutching, it seemed the strike had landed properly, fortunately.

“Wow, this is really perfect as a weapon, isn’t it?”

I looked fondly at what I had swung.

What I had hidden under the pillow thinking it might be useful as a weapon someday was none other than the jewelry box.

In other words, the sacred artifact ‘Box Made Out of Boredom’ that had contained the relic of light.

“So this is why you said sacred artifacts are better than relics because they’re so sturdy.”

I looked at the sword that had fallen next to the guy writhing in pain.

If it’s someone who broke in at night carrying both murderous intent and a sword, it can only be an assassin.

It’s fortunate the sacred artifact was sturdy, otherwise my head would have been cracked instead, and thinking about that made rage surge up from my core.

“What are you?”

I poked the spy collapsed on the floor with my foot.

The physical impact of the sacred artifact must have been considerable, as he couldn’t quite regain his senses.

That’s what you get for approaching an innocent person and ending up like this.

“First I need to tie him up so he can’t escape….”

I naturally felt around my waist but only grasped smooth fabric.

Right, I’m not a detective right now. There’s no way I’d have handcuffs.

Then rope too…. Of course there isn’t any.

Can’t be helped. I started taking off the spy’s upper garment.

“N-no….”

“Stay still.”

Then when he suddenly seemed to regain consciousness and started struggling, I hit him once more with the jewelry box. He immediately became docile.

He listens well.

“I’m not a pervert so don’t worry. I’m doing this because I can’t tear my clothes or blankets.”

When there are already so many things to spend money on, why would I tear my own stuff?

If I tear the spy’s clothes to tie him up, it costs nothing and is perfect.

I completely stripped off his upper garment, tore it into long strips, then tied his arms. And I tore his pants up to the thighs and tied his legs.

Just what kind of terrible training had this assassin received? Though he looked thin, once I stripped his clothes, his whole body was full of weapon-like muscles.

This kind of guy is truly dangerous, and without the system, I would have been helplessly killed in my second life too.

I aimed the jewelry box at his head with cold eyes.

“You, which god sent you?”

Excluding the Sun God from the three main gods, two remain.

Honestly, the answer was so clear that it would be a waste of time to ponder.

“The Sea God?”

I’ve had no contact with other gods at all.

But the Sea God is different. Didn’t I recently do something that would make them uncomfortable?

“Was our potion business that bothersome to you?”

I couldn’t help but laugh.

There’s no law saying only they can do the potion business, and it was originally the Temple of the Sun God’s main business anyway. We restart it and you immediately send an assassin after me?

I expected we’d clash eventually, but who would have thought you’d try assassination right off the bat.

“What orders were you given?”

I grabbed the chin of the guy who kept swaying as if his head hurt and lifted it up.

Through the mask, I could see unfocused, hazy eyes.

Did I hit too hard? I need to get evidence that the Sea God bastards sent an assassin after me, so it would be troublesome if he loses his mind like this.

Can’t be helped.

【Activating skill ‘Blessing’. Healing wounds.】

I’ve never used the healing power through blessing before. Who would have thought I’d use it for the first time on an assassin who came to kill me.

“You should be grateful to me. This blessed…. Cough.”

Drip, drop.

The moment I coughed, I stopped speaking and looked down.

This sticky sensation, this fishy smell.

So familiar, blood.

What is this? Why, why am I coughing up blood?

“Ugh, gah! Cough!”

It wasn’t just my body showing abnormal symptoms. The assassin twisted his body with a single scream.

“Urgh! Cough!”

But I had no time to examine him. Another bloody cough burst out of me.

What the hell is wrong that this is happening!

【The healing power of ‘Sun Rising from Death’ is clashing with the curse of ‘Raging Sea’!】

【The burden on the user’s body is increasing!】

“…A curse?”

‘Raging Sea’ is obviously the Sea God’s epithet, but a curse?

This guy, isn’t he an assassin sent by the Temple of the Sea God? Then he should be a believer, so why is he carrying a curse in his body?

“No wait. Hold on.”

The Sea God’s curse?

Come to think of it, something like that appeared in the original work.

「Idella was horrified.

Jeremy Calse was wearing the Sea God’s curse like armor all over his body.

Therefore, no one’s attacks worked on him, and no one’s brainwashing worked on him.

Because he was already brainwashed by the god.

So that he could never betray the god.

Ah, I see. Idella finally realized.

He wasn’t simply an assassin. Even being a candidate for Order leader was just a name tag others had forcibly attached to him.

Jeremy Calse was a slave of god, branded with a mark.”

Right, that’s correct. There was a scene like this.

Jeremy Calse.

One of the four male lead candidates appearing in the novel 【Holy Idella】 and a candidate for High Priest of the Temple of the Sea God.

And the assassin who had attempted to kill Idella several times in the novel according to the will of the Temple of the Sea God.

That scene was where Idella, having barely captured Jeremy Calse, learns the truth about him.

I immediately removed the assassin’s mask.

The first thing I saw was curly hair soaked with blood and sweat.

It looked almost black in the dark night, but up close I could see it was purple.

And his unfocused eyes, which I hadn’t been able to see properly before, were a rare pink color.

Purple hair, pink eyes, and despite his expressionless, cold face, an appearance that clearly showed his youthful features.

It was exactly as Jeremy Calse, the youngest of the four male lead candidates, had been described.

“Ha, unbelievable.”

I roughly swept back my bothersome hair.

A situation where I unexpectedly encountered a male protagonist.

What should I do about this?

‘I can’t just leave him to die like this.’

Even now, as healing power and curse continued to clash, Jeremy was suffering.

What was terrible was that despite writhing in agony, his face remained completely expressionless.

His body was feeling pain to the extent that suppressed groans escaped, yet his face showed no emotion whatsoever.

I never knew that the god’s curse I had only seen in the novel would be this horrific.

That crazy bastard Sea God. You embedded this kind of curse in a person’s body?

Knock knock.

“Holy Maiden?”

At the voice that came then, I quickly raised my head.

It was Seth, High Priest.

“I apologize. I was passing by, but it seemed like there was a commotion coming from the bedroom…”

Seth’s words couldn’t continue any further.

“Kgh, kgheuuk!”

It was because Jeremy’s scream burst out.

“I’m coming in!”

Seth flung open the door and entered the room as if he couldn’t wait for my response.

“Holy… Maiden?”

He who had rushed inside wore a dazed expression.

Right, it was chaotic enough to leave him speechless.

A beautiful, youthful young man in a nearly half-naked state was rolling on the floor, and I was pinning him down from above…

Wait a minute, this looks exactly like I dragged a man into my bedroom!

“High Priest, please don’t misunderstand. This person is…!”

I was about to say he was an assassin sent by the Sea God’s side when I hastily shut my mouth.

If I said that, wouldn’t Seth go crazy and stab him to death?

That absolutely cannot happen.

Since he’s a male lead candidate, Jeremy will play an important role later, so I must save him no matter what!

…The problem is I can’t say this right now.

This is driving me crazy. What should I do?

Cold sweat trickled down my back.

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