I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 55

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In the end, Sembeus had to pay me a total of 30,000 gold – 20,000 gold for the ransom plus 10,000 gold in damages.

Even until the moment he left in a hurry with Jeremy in tow, his glaring eyes were so intensely hot.

‘What can I do? My plan doesn’t end here.’

Sembeus would soon be crying his eyes out. It’s a shame I won’t be able to see that sight directly, but it can’t be helped.

I hummed a tune cheerfully while waiting for the events that would soon unfold.

* * *

The shocking news reached Sembeus a day and a half after he had left the detestable Sun God’s Main Temple.

One of the Holy Knights shouted something unbelievable.

“P-Priest! S-Sir Jeremy has disappeared!”

Words that could never be believed.

“What are you talking about!”

Sembeus, who had been eating in the carriage while his servants prepared camp, jumped up abruptly, forgetting that he had a tray of food on his lap.

The dishes overturned and the inside of the carriage became a mess in an instant.

“Where could Jeremy have gone!”

“Well, I just checked to see if he was resting well inside, but the carriage was empty!”

That’s impossible!

Sembeus immediately rushed to Jeremy’s carriage.

In front of the carriage with its door open, people stood with bewildered faces.

He soon wore the same expression as them.

“…Just how.”

The inside of the carriage was completely empty. As if no one had been there from the beginning, there were no traces whatsoever.

“Just how, where did he disappear to…”

Sembeus had deliberately ridden in a different carriage from Jeremy.

Because his expressionless face like a doll was quite creepy and he didn’t want to face it.

Moreover, since he was being controlled, there was no possibility of him escaping on his own, so he had let him ride alone…

“Why didn’t anyone know he had disappeared!”

Sembeus shouted angrily at those who had been guarding the area.

He had brought only three Holy Knights, but there were more soldiers than that. There were also servants attending to them.

Yet no one knew until Jeremy disappeared!

“S-Sorry. Since the carriage windows were covered with curtains…”

The Holy Knight responsible for the escort bowed his head with a pale complexion.

Sembeus held his forehead.

Since the fact that Jeremy was being controlled by divine power was classified, the windows of the carriage he rode in were covered with thick curtains.

Moreover, thanks to the divine power, he didn’t need to eat, so they didn’t bring him meals either.

That was why the discovery was delayed.

“Find Jeremy immediately! If you can’t find him, you’ll all die at the hands of the Holy Maiden and Holy Sage!”

Sembeus began raging frantically.

At the most terrifying statement in the world, everyone turned pale and scattered in all directions.

‘Damn it. Just where did he disappear to? A guy who should have no will of his own because of the Sea God’s divine power…!’

It was already strange that he had attempted to assassinate the Holy Maiden on his own when he was never ordered to, and now he suddenly disappeared without a trace!

Why is he suddenly going berserk?

Could there be a problem with the divine power? No, if that were the case, the Holy Maiden or Holy Sage would have acted directly.

Sembeus frantically rubbed his face.

He had no idea how to handle this situation.

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Knock knock.

I, who was still not permitted to exercise and was lying around aimlessly in my room, jumped up from my spot at the sound of knocking on the window.

“You’re here!”

Outside the window bathed in sunlight, Jeremy was waving his hand.

His focused pink eyes were sparkling brightly under the sunlight.

“Welcome back, Jeremy.”

When I opened the window, Jeremy entered with light movements.

I picked off the leaves stuck in his hair and asked.

“Did you properly deceive that bastard Sembeus?”

“Yeah, moving secretly is my specialty.”

“Good boy. Here, I prepared this for you, so eat plenty.”

I sat Jeremy on the sofa and handed him the cookies that had been prepared for me.

He must have been hungry because he immediately started munching on them.

I watched him with satisfaction.

With Jeremy’s return, the play we had planned was perfectly successful.

That’s right, I never intended to send Jeremy to the Temple of the Sea God from the beginning.

A few days before people from the Sea God’s side came.

I had made a proposal to Jeremy.

‘The Sea God has no intention of letting you go. So people will come to take you back soon.’

‘I don’t want to go.’

‘I don’t want to send you either. So I’ll just pretend to send you.’

‘Pretend to send me?’

‘Anyway, deceiving people and escaping is nothing for you, right? The Holy Maiden, Holy Sage, or High Priest won’t come directly for something like this.’

So I told him to receive compensation from the Temple of the Sea God’s people, release Jeremy, stay quiet for about a day, then escape.

‘Of course, all of this is your choice. Whether you don’t escape, or escape and go somewhere else, I won’t mind. Anyway, my biggest goal is the compensation money.’

As long as I received the money needed to rebuild the Sun God’s Main Temple, I planned not to care what Jeremy did after that.

Because that was his freedom.

‘But if you return here, I promise I’ll give you complete freedom someday.’

‘…’

‘I’ll definitely break the half-curse that binds your body. Even if it takes time, I definitely will.’

Jeremy didn’t give any answer at that time.

Even when he left the Sun God’s Main Temple following Sembeus with a blank face, still pretending to be controlled, he didn’t give me an answer.

That answer, I’m receiving now like this.

“Since you came to me, I’ll definitely free you from the Sea God as I promised.”

I promised Jeremy.

He, who had already finished all those cookies, stared at me intently.

Does he want to eat more?

“…Do you collapse coughing up blood like last time every time you break a curse?”

“I’m not sure about that either.”

Right now my divine power is only about 10%, so it’s like this. Maybe it’ll be fine when I get stronger?

“I can’t say there won’t be any harm. Curses are divine power, and I’m just a human at best.”

“…”

Jeremy didn’t say anything more. Since he was glaring fiercely at the empty plate, seeming to want more food, I rang the bell to call Monica.

“Oh my! You really came back?”

Monica, who entered the room, was startled to see Jeremy sitting obediently in front of me.

It seemed no one knew Jeremy had returned.

“It’s better than running away shamelessly like that, but seeing him comfortable again is a bit annoying too…”

Monica muttered while glaring at Jeremy.

She looked like she was about to smack Jeremy’s annoying head at any moment.

“Monica. Could you go get some more snacks? And also tell the High Priest and the Order Commander that Jeremy has returned.”

I was already suspicious that my head might have gotten worse because of me, and if he got hit more here, it would really be a big problem, so I hurriedly spoke to Monica.

Fortunately, she showed more interest in my request than in Jeremy’s head.

After Monica left, I looked at Jeremy again. More precisely, at the area around his neck.

“The necklace seems to be effective, which is fortunate.”

At my words, Jeremy pulled out the necklace he was wearing with a clink. The large red gem hanging at the end of the necklace was glowing brilliantly.

That was none other than a gem from the jewelry box, or rather, a gem torn off from the artifact ‘Box Made Out of Boredom.’

I had torn one off thinking it would be inconvenient for Jeremy to keep carrying the jewelry box around.

How did I tear off a gem from an indestructible artifact, you ask?

Well, you just use another artifact, right?

Conveniently, there happened to be one among the Artifacts of the Sun God that took the form of a dagger.

‘Holy Maiden, are you really, really planning to do this?’

Of course, Airic had tried to stop me.

It wasn’t enough that I was arbitrarily destroying an artifact that wasn’t even ours, but I was even planning to break it with an artifact of the Sun God.

‘The God will be wrathful.’

‘It’s fine. I’ll be the only one punished anyway. The Sun God will protect you, High Priest, so you don’t need to worry.’

It was a self-deprecating joke about being a fake Holy Maiden, but far from laughing, Airic had turned serious. Not only that, but he even glared at me frighteningly.

I seemed to have no talent for jokes.

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