I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 8

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I ignored the stares of people looking at me strangely and looked around the kitchen.

“This is my first time in the kitchen, and there are so many interesting things. Are these all cooking utensils?”

I tapped at the knives stuck menacingly in the cutting board and roughly examined cooking tools I’d never seen before.

Chef Kento grumbled, apparently displeased with my hands seemingly disrespecting the kitchen tools.

Though he couldn’t say anything outright because of my bad reputation.

“Saint, knives are dangerous.”

Dietrich, who couldn’t bear to watch, stopped me.

He probably thought I was just finding fault for no reason too.

“Yes, Saint. If you’re curious about the kitchen, please come at night. I’ll be able to give you a leisurely tour then.”

“Ah, I didn’t think of that. Then I’ll come at night as you suggest, so make sure to give me a proper tour then.”

At Chef Kento’s brave words, I smiled brightly and turned around.

Thinking I was about to leave the kitchen, I heard everyone let out sighs of relief.

However, my real purpose for coming to the kitchen starts now.

I activated the map system that included all the secret passages.

My target was right next to the storehouse where ingredients were kept.

I knocked on the wall in a steady rhythm, just as I’d seen in the novel.

Tap, ta-tap, tap, tap, ta-ta-tap.

“What, what! Stop! Stop that!”

Kento shouted from behind me.

When I turned around, he was glaring at me with a face pale as a sheet.

Excuse me, you’re making it way too obvious that you know about the secret passage.

Clunk!

“Gasp! What, what is that!”

“No way, there’s a place like that in the kitchen…”

The wall I had knocked on opened, revealing a hidden secret passage.

The kitchen staff were startled.

Though the meaning soon changed.

“But, um, there’s something inside there?”

Several pouches were sitting inside the opened secret passage.

Dietrich, who had been looking back and forth between me and Airik with a flustered face, immediately went into the passage to check the pouches.

Clink.

As soon as he untied the strings, what poured out was none other than money.

And a lot of it—an amount that would be hard to come by in this poor temple.

“Oh my goodness! So much money! I just felt like knocking here for some reason, but I never expected money to come out.”

Isn’t it really amazing?

Having waited for this moment, I laughed cheerfully and exclaimed.

“And it’s money that looks like someone hid it. Did someone embezzle it?”

At my words, Dietrich’s face hardened completely.

Being quick-witted, he must have realized immediately.

A secret passage that no one should know about, money piled up there.

And Kento, who for some reason had tried to prevent this from being revealed.

Anyone could see it was evidence of embezzlement.

“…Chef.”

Airik, who had been quiet the whole time, called out to Kento.

His gaze was so chilling that even I was startled as he glared at Kento.

Well, the chef he had trusted enough to handle everyone’s meals had embezzled funds from an already poor temple, so the sense of betrayal must be great.

“Could you please explain this situation?”

Wow, formal speech can sound this scary.

“I, I don’t know…”

“You won’t say you don’t know. Your reaction when the Saint opened the secret passage was definitely not the reaction of someone who knew nothing.”

That’s right.

Going pale and shouting “Stop!” like a guilty thief, then trying to make excuses now is a bit much.

“I’ll explain, I’ll explain! I can clarify everything!”

“Yes. You’d better explain properly.”

Airik approached Kento, who had turned deathly pale.

Being much taller, he looked down intently at the cowering Kento.

“If you can’t properly explain why a chef with no divine power knows about secret passages, I’ll have to interrogate you as the High Priest who must maintain order in the Grand Temple.”

“That, that…”

“And that won’t be a very pleasant method.”

Airik, who had been elegantly threatening, delivered the final blow.

“There’s also the option of turning you over to the Order of the Holy.”

The Order of the Holy that protects the Grand Temple would naturally be a more fearsome opponent than the High Priest.

Since they’re the strongest in terms of force.

The threat worked perfectly as Kento’s face turned deathly blue.

“So, so, this is, this is what happened…”

Kento slowly approached the open passage as if he would explain in detail.

It was at that moment when his dazed eyes met mine.

“You, you! If it weren’t for you!”

Kento raised both hands as if to strangle me and began charging at me like a madman.

That is, toward me.

“Saint!”

Airik and Dietrich shouted loudly and reached out their hands. They seemed to be trying to protect me…

Though my divine power is far inferior to those two, I can still subdue an ordinary person.

Because I have the system.

【Activating skill ‘Physical Enhancement’.】

How fortunate I am to have obtained this.

“Oh my, you wanted to be punished that badly? Can’t be helped. Since the chef wants it so much, I’ll punish you right now.”

I smiled and extended my right hand.

I filled my middle finger with 5% divine power and flicked it directly.

Where? At Kento’s forehead.

Crack!

A sound like a giant walnut splitting burst out.

“Urgh, urrrgh…”

From the tremendous shock that must have struck his brain, Kento couldn’t even let out a proper scream and staggered.

The bastard who had been glaring at me with bloodshot eyes until the end finally rolled his eyes back and fell backward with a thud.

“…”

“…”

“…”

Silence fell.

Everyone looked back and forth between the unconscious Kento foaming at the mouth and me in a daze.

“Hiiiiik!”

Eventually, seeing Kento’s forehead swelling up terrifyingly, the kitchen staff swallowed hard and huddled together.

Hmm. If I leave it like this, my image might become even worse.

I extended both hands toward the unconscious Kento with a reverent expression.

As if bestowing a blessing.

“I express gratitude for the chef’s hard work in making delicious meals all this time. However, from now on, rest comfortably.”

Perhaps deeply moved by my sincere blessing, one of the kitchen staff huddled together slowly sat down.

“High Priest, please rejoice. To think we’d come into this much money, it seems God has shown mercy to the Grand Temple!”

“…That.”

“Now we can feed the servants more fully with this. Isn’t it really fortunate?”

I smiled brightly at Airik.

Extremely displeased gazes poured down on me.

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While Dietrich organized the embezzled funds, Airik handed over the kitchen servants to the holy knights within the temple.

It was to investigate whether there was anyone who had helped Kento.

Seeing the servants leaving with anxious looks, I made one request to the holy knights.

“Everyone could be innocent, so don’t conduct the investigation too harshly. Remember that until the truth is revealed, they’re all our family.”

As if they never expected me to take their side, the servants’ eyes widened.

The holy knights also looked surprised.

This is all effort for my image change.

“Saint.”

When everyone left and only Dietrich and I remained, Airik quietly called me.

“Are you injured anywhere?”

I thought he would start by demanding to know how I found out.

To think he’d ask about my well-being first.

“I think I hurt my finger a little.”

“You don’t need to do this next time.”

It was a joke though…

Airik infused divine power into my right hand.

It was healing power that I couldn’t use due to my lack of divine power.

Golden divine power wrapped around my finger.

It’s nice because it’s warm and gentle like Airik’s nature, but…

Unfortunately, because he’s concentrating on treating my middle finger, only my middle finger is glowing golden.

Unable to look at the brilliantly glowing middle finger any longer, I pulled my hand away saying it was fine now.

“Could you explain the situation? How do you know all of this?”

The location of the secret passage, the door’s password, and even the existence of the funds Kento embezzled.

Since I’m a fake saint, Airik wouldn’t have told me about the secret passage either, so he must be even more puzzled.

I boldly shouted the excuse I had thought up.

“It’s a coincidence!”

I can’t say I know because I read the entire novel.

Anyway, Airik can’t even interrogate me, so let’s boldly make excuses!

“…Pardon?”

“I have very good intuition. Sometimes I get hunches like this.”

Actually, I could come up with a more plausible excuse, but…

My plan isn’t finished yet.

For now, let’s just say this much.

I left the flustered Airik behind and approached Dietrich.

“How much is it all?”

“Ah, 9 gold and 87 silver.”

Dietrich also seemed to find my statement absurd, but still answered the question faithfully.

Since 100 silver equals 1 gold, it’s roughly 10 gold.

Then if I donate 10 gold, how much would my divine power increase?

It should go up by at least 1%, right?

【It will increase by 0.01%.】

“…?”

Are you in your right mind?

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