I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 6

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Before the attendants helping with the temple’s work was only a bowl of soup that was barely more than water with no ingredients whatsoever, and hard rye bread.

What kind of miserable diet is this for growing sprouts.

I stared dumbly at the children’s bowls, then looked over at the meals of the priests sitting beside me.

Good heavens. It’s not just the kids who are starving.

Whether apprentice priests or official priests, they’re all eating just one bowl of soup?

Did they give the children one extra piece of rye bread just because they’re kids?

“…Have the children always had meals like this?”

When I asked Airik in dismay, he answered with reddened cheeks.

“We’re short on funds…”

He too clearly felt ashamed about the reality of having no choice but to provide such meals to the children.

I smacked my forehead repeatedly.

I shouldn’t blame Airik. The reason for the lack of funds is because of Ordel’s extravagance.

Adults slurping down only thin soup? That’s not my concern.

Aren’t they adults who can work and earn their keep if they’re really hungry?

But not the children!

Children who still need to grow so much are having meals without any meat!

“Did you perhaps hear from Priest Dietrich? I said I would sell my possessions.”

“Yes. We plan to proceed according to the Saint’s wishes.”

“Please do it as quickly as possible. And if possible, use those funds to improve the meal quality first. Especially the children’s meals.”

The food I had eaten in this place was completely different from what everyone is eating now.

Thick soup full of meat, soft and fluffy wheat bread, fresh salads with different toppings each time, delicious juice made from freshly squeezed fruits.

Only now did I realize.

The fact that I alone had been living in luxury on everyone else’s sacrifice.

If I hadn’t come to the restaurant, I would never have known this fact until the end.

“From now on, please give me the same diet as the other priests. If you have the luxury to worry about mine, give that much to the children instead.”

I looked at the children with complicated eyes.

They were all so pitifully thin, as if they couldn’t even get proper gruel to eat.

But all of this is because of the owner of this body, Ordel.

This is maddening.

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Leaving behind Airik who asked several times if I was really okay with this, I left the restaurant.

Before returning to my bedroom, there was something I absolutely had to check.

As I strode boldly through the temple, those who encountered me either fled in shock or prostrated themselves on the floor.

I felt a bit sorry, but right now I didn’t have time to worry about that.

“This is really driving me crazy.”

After touring the main temple once, I finally headed to the place marked as ‘Garden’ on the map system.

And I let out a hollow laugh.

“Damn system. How is this supposed to be a garden?”

A place like this with only sparse weeds and not even flowers is called a garden?

Even the soil and gravel weren’t properly arranged, making it incredibly messy and unkempt.

This completely unorganized appearance starkly revealed the reality of the current Sun God’s Main Temple.

Moreover, the problem wasn’t just the garden.

The pillars that should maintain the dignity of the god were cracked in places, and far from being clean, corners were full of dust and spider webs.

Ordel’s room was so splendid, yet the main temple that housed that room was rotting away.

That stark difference looked so bizarre.

I held my head and sat down on the ground.

The Sun God’s Main Temple is poor.

I already knew this premise.

But even knowing it, I showed no interest.

After all, everything would be resolved once the female protagonist Idella appeared.

…I never once thought that the people of the main temple would continue suffering in poverty until then.

“I was stupid.”

Maybe I deliberately tried not to think about it.

Because I was angry at the Sun God for making me start a second life without even getting my consent.

But now that I’ve seen this…

How can I turn away?

Sitting with my face buried in my knees, I raised my head.

According to my will, a Quest window appeared before my eyes.

【【Quest】 Please save ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’!

Currently, ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ is in danger of extinction due to lack of believers.

Become a saint who inherited the power of ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’, increase the number of believers, and grow your divine power to save the pitiful god and world from extinction!

Reward upon success: Wealth, honor, and power as a saint

Penalty upon failure: Eternal extinction of ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ and dimensional destruction】

The failure penalty I had deliberately ignored until now.

The critical reason why the Sun God couldn’t wait for the female protagonist who would appear in a year and summoned me.

And the system’s warning that if I fail, not only the Sun God but this entire dimension would be destroyed.

Combining all of this, I can draw one conclusion.

“This world isn’t flowing exactly the same as the novel 【Holy Idella】 that I read, is it?”

If it were exactly the same world, there would be no reason for the Sun God to summon me while using his insufficient power.

【That question can only be answered with ‘Yes/No’ according to the will of ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’.】

【The answer to the question is ‘Yes’.】

【If you want a detailed explanation, achieve 40% of your possessed divine power.】

Even if I can’t hear a detailed explanation right now, it means my guess is at least correct.

“Haaaaa. This is driving me crazy.”

If I run away, the Sun God will be destroyed, the main temple will collapse, and for some unknown reason, this dimension will also perish.

I wasn’t cold-hearted enough to think of all this as nothing.

Above all, if the dimension is destroyed, naturally I who live in this world will die too, right?

No matter how forced this possession was, I don’t want to die young again this time.

I want to live until I’m old too!

So what choice do I have. I have no choice but to live my second life diligently too.

Above all, I can’t leave those young children starving like that.

“Hey, system. Can’t you add to the reward for Quest success?”

I’m not particularly interested in a successful life as a saint.

In the first place, my job is just to raise the Sun God well so he doesn’t collapse during the year before the female protagonist appears.

The female protagonist can have all the wealth and glory as a saint. What I want is one thing.

“When I die in this life, send me to heaven where I can really rest comfortably without doing anything.”

I absolutely hate the idea of a third life.

Please let me live leisurely in heaven.

【The AI system has received the user’s wish. I will convey this wish to ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’.】

How many minutes had I waited? The system returned with an answer.

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ has accepted the user’s wish. The Quest reward will be changed.】

【【Quest】 Please save ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’!

Reward upon success: Wealth, honor, and power as a saint, plus guarantee of user’s choice of afterlife】

I smiled with satisfaction at the changed reward content.

“Good, I’ll accept the Quest. I’ll diligently raise this damn temple.”

【The user has accepted the Quest. From now on, the user has become a saint of ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’.】

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ has provided a Quest acceptance reward. Would you like to check it now?】

Oh, a Quest acceptance reward?

The Sun God does have some conscience after all.

“But not right now.”

I don’t know what the reward is, but I can’t receive it in such an open place.

Someone has been watching me since earlier anyway.

It’s probably someone who can’t even come out to the garden because of me and is just watching from a corner.

This is serious. Since I’m going to live here from now on, I need to repair my relationships with people, but I’m not sure if it’s possible.

Sighing, I quietly returned to my bedroom, trying to avoid people’s eyes as much as possible.

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The place where Ordel had left.

Two men appeared there.

“What on earth was she doing here?”

Dietrich looked down at the ground with a puzzled expression.

The saint’s footprints were imprinted on the untidy dirt garden.

The footprints were quite deep, suggesting she had been here for a long time.

“Honestly, I thought she was crying at first.”

Though it’s completely unbelievable.

After Ordel ran out of the restaurant, Airik and Dietrich were concerned and secretly followed her.

And they were shocked to discover her here.

Ordel, who never showed weakness.

That Ordel who would throw things and get angry if she even slightly felt someone was looking down on her!

To think she was crouched down on the dirty ground with her face buried in her knees.

Dietrich was so surprised that he unconsciously grabbed Airik’s clothes.

However, Airik looked even more shocked than him.

Dietrich glanced up at him standing beside him.

Airik’s face as he looked down at the saint’s footprints was frighteningly hardened.

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