I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 49

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There was one difference.

Yesterday, I just hit his head with a divine artifact, but today I’m maintaining contact with Jeremy while continuously infusing divine power.

So if I pour out more divine power, more blessings like this, it will surely work.

“Cough, kugh!”

Blood kept flowing from my mouth, but it was a cheap price for saving one person. I won’t die just from bleeding.

【Warning!】

【The curse of the ‘Raging Sea’ and divine power are clashing excessively! Continued attempts may shorten the user’s lifespan! Swift cessation is advised!】

“….”

No, that’s not right. I might actually die.

To break a god’s curse, I have to offer my own lifespan too, is that it?

Do you think I’ll give up because of that?

When it comes to stubbornness, I don’t lose to anyone!

“Sun God. If I die like this, wouldn’t that be troublesome for you too? So if you want to live, grab the Sea God by the hair or something and tell him to let the kid go!”

I gritted my teeth and poured out even more divine power. Now it seemed like blood was flowing from my nose as well as my mouth, but I didn’t care.

If I don’t save him, he’ll live as a slave for life and eventually die anyway, so how can I turn away from that!

“So hurry up and come to your senses!”

I pressed down on the jewel box with my knee instead of my hand, and wrapped Jeremy’s cheeks with my now-free hands.

Then I scraped together every last bit of my divine power that barely exceeded 10% and poured it all out.

‘Quickly, quickly! Please!’

The moment I poured out that last drop.

Pop!

“Ah.”

With a sound of something bursting, something trickled down from my eyes and nose.

No, it wasn’t just my eyes and nose? My entire face was damp.

Everything around me was stained red.

Beeeep.

As a ringing sound filled my ears, strength began to drain from my hands.

This won’t do, I still need to do more….

“…Huh?”

It was the moment I was about to stagger and collapse. I definitely saw it.

“….”

Clear, focused eyes staring right through me – those very clear, distinct, and incredibly beautiful pink pupils.

【The Sea God’s curse has been partially broken!】

Seeing the System Message that appeared next, I smiled.

In the end, I won.

Thud.

Perhaps because I thought it was done, I couldn’t hold on any longer and collapsed to the side.

Clang!

Right beside me, I heard the loud sound of metal clashing, but I didn’t have the strength to move even a finger.

This was the first time since dying in my previous life that my body wouldn’t move as I willed it.

But this time I didn’t try to force myself to move. Unlike then, this time I wouldn’t die.

【The user’s body has reached its limit. To ensure smooth activity, the user’s consciousness will be forcibly terminated.】

Looking at the last System Message that appeared, I closed my eyes.

“Holy Maiden!”

A familiar voice reached me from far away.

* * *

“Hey, did you just fall asleep in the middle of our conversation?”

With a sharp sound, my vision suddenly cleared.

“…Huh?”

Confused by the sudden situation, I looked around blankly.

It was a cafe with quiet music playing. In front of me sat an iced americano filled with ice.

I watched the water droplets trickling down the surface of the cup, then raised my head.

My eyes met with a beautiful woman with long black hair sitting across from me.

Coolly elongated eyes, nicely full lips, and an attractive yet fierce-looking beauty mark.

She was so pretty she could be a celebrity – none other than my childhood friend Joo Hyun-jin.

“Huh?”

“What do you mean ‘huh’? Did you really fall asleep?”

Joo Hyun-jin twisted her face into a menacing expression.

I always think this, but it’s really a talent how she can make that expression with such a pretty face.

“Yeah. I guess I dozed off for a moment.”

Suddenly my eyes started stinging painfully. I hurriedly covered my eyes at the needle-like pain.

“Ah, why do my eyes hurt so much all of a sudden?”

“…Does it hurt a lot?”

Then Joo Hyun-jin asked quietly, as if she hadn’t been acting menacing just moments before.

“I can see fine, so I guess I’m just a bit tired.”

“That’s what happens when you try to become a detective!”

Joo Hyun-jin slammed the table. I quickly lifted my drink so it wouldn’t spill.

Right, this is why we met. Now I remember.

“Are you really going to become a detective?”

Ever since I said I wanted to become a detective, Joo Hyun-jin had been vehemently opposed. When I said I’d go to the police university, she cursed me out rapid-fire for hours.

Asking why I wanted to do such dangerous work.

‘If you want to do such rough work, why don’t you just join the military instead!’

I don’t know what the difference between police and military is, but anyway, that’s what she said.

“Yeah, I’m going to do it.”

“You stubborn little brat who never listens.”

When I answered firmly, Joo Hyun-jin gulped down her coffee.

That’s hot americano, is her throat okay…? Does her nasty temper neutralize it?

“Everyone calls me a harsh bitch, but I think you’re worse.”

Instead of denying it, I just shrugged my shoulders.

Joo Hyun-jin had been as fierce in personality as she was beautiful since childhood. That’s why I was her only friend.

On the other hand, I wasn’t picky about personality, so I got along well with not just the bad-tempered Joo Hyun-jin but with other people too.

However, once I became stubborn about something, I was harsh enough that even Joo Hyun-jin would get extremely annoyed and give up.

“But thanks to that, you and I became such close friends.”

It was because of this stubbornness of mine that I became the only friend of Joo Hyun-jin, who used to push everyone away as if she didn’t want to get close to anyone.

“….”

Joo Hyun-jin didn’t give any particular response to my words. She glared at me like an angry person, then suddenly stood up abruptly.

“Where are you going?”

“…To buy cake!”

“Ahahaha!”

Leaving only those words, she rushed toward the counter, and I burst out laughing at the sight.

Since she doesn’t like sweet things, that meant she was going to buy cake for me to eat.

Others ask why I’m friends with such a bad-tempered girl, but if they saw moments like this, they couldn’t say such things.

Even if her personality is bad, if she’s good to me, she’s a good friend.

I watched Joo Hyun-jin standing at the counter aggressively ordering cake and laughed happily.

* * *

The Holy Maiden had collapsed.

And bleeding profusely from all seven orifices at that.

Victoria, who had gone to the prison where the assassin was held and witnessed Holy Maiden Ordel collapsing, still felt her heart sink.

“How is the Holy Maiden’s condition?”

Victoria, who had immediately carried her to the bedroom, called for Airic first.

He, who possessed the strongest healing power in the Grand Temple, was the only hope.

“…Your body is quite damaged, but it’s not something to worry about greatly. You should be fine if you rest for a while.”

Airic, who had been holding Ordel’s hand to check her condition, spoke with a stern expression.

At the words that it wasn’t dangerous, Victoria let out a sigh of relief.

“Thank goodness. I should have gone a little faster… If I had been late…”

“…”

Seeing Victoria blame herself, Airic neither comforted nor reproached her.

She had done nothing wrong.

Whether Victoria was there or not, Ordel would have stubbornly done what she wanted to do anyway.

Couldn’t you tell just by how she broke the lock and went inside when they wouldn’t give her the key?

‘How foolish.’

Airic looked at the sleeping Ordel.

When he saw Ordel lying on the bed, his heart had dropped.

Ordel bleeding profusely from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

He knew she had the will to save the assassin, but he never thought she would act so recklessly.

If he had known it would come to this, he would have somehow insisted on killing him.

‘…No. Even then, she would have somehow gotten what she wanted.’

The reformed Ordel had changed in many ways from one to ten, but only that stubborn nature remained the same. No, it seemed to have gotten even worse.

And there was no one in this Grand Temple who could overcome her stubbornness.

“She’s just sleeping right now, so don’t worry. She’ll wake up once she recovers her strength.”

Airic patted Victoria’s shoulder and stood up from his seat.

All necessary treatment was complete, so now it was time to leave so the Holy Maiden could rest comfortably.

“Come to think of it, how was that man? The assassin imprisoned in the prison.”

Airic, who was about to leave, suddenly remembered something and asked Victoria.

The assassin that Ordel had tried to save even while coughing up blood and collapsing.

Did she really manage to save him? Or did she fail?

‘If she failed…’

Airic narrowed his eyes as he thought of the assassin who had caused all this trouble.

“Ah, that man.”

“…”

“It was quite an unexpected reaction, so I was surprised.”

And at Victoria’s answer that followed, his eyes widened.

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