I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 50

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Victoria headed straight to the dungeon as soon as she finished deploying the 2nd Division, the Holy Maiden’s escort unit.

How shocked she had been when she heard that Ordel was attacked last night.

Moreover, she herself was the last person to be with Ordel before the attack, so she had to suffer from severe guilt.

If she hadn’t left and stayed, if she had disobeyed Ordel’s order that there was no need to guard until dawn since there were no suspicious elements in the Temple.

Then Ordel wouldn’t have faced such danger alone.

‘It’s my mistake.’

The assassin was cloaked in divine power, so even if she had been there, it wouldn’t have been much help.

In the end, Ordel had captured him alive anyway.

Still, guilt wasn’t something that disappeared so easily.

Therefore, the moment she heard someone’s scream coming from somewhere in the prison, her heart sank.

It was a man’s voice, but she wasn’t in the right mind to discern such things.

When she arrived at the prison like that, she soon saw it.

Ordel slowly collapsing, dyed crimson with fresh blood.

“Holy Maiden!”

What a horrific sight it was, with red liquid pouring from her mouth, eyes, and nose.

She was in such a miserable state that Victoria wondered if Ordel might be dead.

Victoria bit her lips tightly and rushed into the prison.

Seeing the broken lock in the process only made her sigh.

Seth or Airic would never have opened it, so Ordel must have broken in herself.

Why on earth. Why did she go this far?

Victoria bit her lips hard and carefully lifted the unconscious Ordel into her arms.

And she glared at the assassin tied to the wall with fierce eyes.

If that bastard was responsible for this, she would kill him right away.

“…Hey.”

However, she couldn’t do that.

The assassin, who had clearly been like a mindless fool with unfocused eyes and no reaction, was now looking straight at her and speaking.

The pink eyes revealed between his purple hair, dirty with blood and dust, were shining with an eerily vivid light.

“…That person.”

His gaze, which had been on Victoria, turned toward Ordel in her arms.

The moment strength reflexively entered her hands holding Ordel.

“Is she… alright…?”

He asked.

Victoria thought she had misheard.

His trembling lips, eyes carefully examining Ordel’s condition, even his distorted face.

Wasn’t this like he was worried about Ordel? Surely that couldn’t be…

“She’s not dead, is she?”

“Shut up!”

At the ominous statement that followed, Victoria reacted fiercely.

How tough Ordel was. She would never die from something like this.

“…Right. Then hurry and take her for treatment.”

His reaction was too leisurely despite being captured, which bothered her, but she had no more time to spare for him.

Victoria said nothing more and left the prison with Ordel.

As she locked the door tightly again with a new lock and departed, Victoria glanced at him once more.

He was just staring blankly at the ornate jewelry box sitting alone on his abdomen.

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“…Did the Holy Maiden really heal that bastard?”

After Airic left and she was alone, Victoria stared intently at the sleeping Ordel.

After explaining everything that happened in the prison to Airic, she learned several pieces of information from him.

In Ordel’s judgment, that assassin seemed to be controlled by the Sea God’s divine power.

So she wanted to liberate him if possible.

‘If the fact that he can speak now, that focus has returned to his eyes, is all because the Holy Maiden succeeded…’

Then it would make sense that Ordel had bled so much.

Breaking a god’s divine power would be difficult even for a Holy Maiden.

The problem was why she would voluntarily take such a risk for an assassin who tried to kill her.

In the past, she was a troublemaker who treated everyone equally badly, but after reflecting, she seemed to have become too self-sacrificing, which was also troublesome.

She couldn’t say the past was better even if her mouth was torn, but she couldn’t say the present was good either.

Would it be better if mixed half and half? Did she have to lean to such extremes?

“Sun God. Please protect your daughter.”

Victoria offered a prayer to the god who would be watching over them even now.

So that the daughter you chose as Holy Maiden because you love and cherish her so much could be safe and happy.

So that she wouldn’t hurt anymore.

Click.

Then the bedroom door opened quietly.

When she turned around, Monica entered with a grave expression. Judging by her face, she seemed to have heard about the situation as soon as she returned to the Temple.

“…Sir Victoria.”

“Shh. The Holy Maiden is still sleeping.”

Monica approached unsteadily and stood beside her.

Her eyes and nose were red as if she had been crying outside.

“Did you see your parents off well?”

“Yes. They left directly from the village without coming to the Temple. It was good that they did so.”

Monica bit her lips once tightly before continuing. Her voice was still full of moisture.

“Of all times, for such a thing to happen when I was away…”

“If you put it that way, I was under the same roof and didn’t know either.”

Although they said the assassin was cloaked in the Sea God’s divine power so even Seth couldn’t notice, leaving the Holy Maiden alone was clearly a mistake.

“And the reason she can’t wake up now isn’t because she was harmed by the assassin. The Holy Maiden captured him well.”

“What? Then why…”

Rumors about the attack had spread far and wide, but the fact that he was cloaked in divine power and that Ordel had fainted from exhausting her holy power was kept secret.

Only Seth, Airic, and Victoria knew.

And since Monica also needed to know as her attendant, Victoria revealed the truth.

“What is that bastard even…”

Monica, who learned everything belatedly, quietly raged.

Seeing her face turn bright red, if Ordel hadn’t been sleeping, she would have been jumping around angrily.

“I also heard it from the High Priest, so I don’t know the reason. I know the Holy Maiden isn’t someone who would act without reason, but…”

Since she couldn’t guess anything, it was hard to understand.

Victoria sighed.

‘Wait, could it be…’

Something suddenly came to mind.

The assassin’s beauty that she last saw in the prison was quite outstanding.

Even though his hair was covered in blood and one side of his face was dirty with blood and dust, his beauty hadn’t completely faded.

Moreover, once focus returned to his eyes, his beauty came fully alive.

The physique revealed because Ordel had stripped his clothes to prevent escape was also solid.

It was clear even to her professional eyes that he had undergone considerable training.

‘Come to think of it, the Holy Maiden was also the one who took the initiative to solve Duke Sherry’s troubles.’

The common point between the two was their exceptionally outstanding beauty.

Could it be, perhaps, that Ordel was weak to beauty…?

This was something she had never thought of since even during her troublemaking days, she had never once brought a man to her bedroom.

“Sir Victoria? What’s wrong?”

Her expression must have been quite serious, as Monica asked carefully. Victoria hurriedly shook her head.

“No. I’m just worried about the Holy Maiden…”

Since it was just her speculation and nothing certain, Victoria decided to keep this suspicion to herself for the sake of Ordel’s honor.

It was a misunderstanding that would have driven the sleeping Ordel crazy if she had known.

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“…”

Ah, my head.

The first thing I felt as soon as consciousness returned was none other than a splitting headache.

It hurt so much that it completely woke me up.

But unlike my mind, my body felt heavy and had no intention of moving at all.

I was bewildered by my body being more stiff than when experiencing sleep paralysis.

“Holy Maiden?”

She must have sensed my will to somehow try to open my eyes.

I felt greatly relieved at Monica’s voice approaching like a savior.

“Just a moment.”

Soon a wet cloth wiped my eyelids and lips.

Thanks to the careful touch, I was able to open my eyes quickly.

The Holy Maiden’s bedroom, which had become as familiar as my room from my previous life, came into view.

But somehow, today I felt a little disappointed that it wasn’t my room.

Without realizing it, a deep sigh escaped me.

“What’s wrong? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?”

“…No. I just had a dream.”

Yes, I had a dream. A dream about years that had already passed in reality.

I wonder if Joo Hyun-jin, my precious friend, is living well.

She cried so much when I died, which was so unlike her.

“What kind of dream did you have?”

“A dream with my friend in it.”

“Holy Maiden, you had friends too?”

However, any wistfulness instantly disappeared at Monica’s personal attack.

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