The Fortune-Teller Saintess - Chapter 20

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The Fortune Teller Saint

Chapter 20

‘So just leave Nein alone. I’ll handle it myself!’

He probably has no idea that I’m thinking such things.

As I waited for his answer while hiding my nervous feelings, Lucian finally nodded his head.

“I have received your teachings well, Holy Lady.”

“Teachings is going too far…”

I scratched my cheek with an embarrassed expression.

And at his next words, I had no choice but to swallow my cheers.

“I will keep quiet about that mage.”

“Oh…! Thank you so much, Sir Lucian!”

“Not at all. I had no intention of telling anyone from the beginning anyway.”

“…Pardon?”

“It’s something decided by none other than the Temple’s Holy Lady, and telling others would only cause unnecessary commotion within the Temple.”

Lucian spoke matter-of-factly, but I couldn’t do the same.

So right now I…

‘Did I just do something pointless?’

I should have just stayed quiet.

While I was hiding my sense of futility, Lucian’s voice pierced my ears.

“Holy Lady.”

“Yes?”

“May I come visit again next time?”

“Visit who… You mean me?”

“Yes.”

My head tilted involuntarily.

Why would Lucian want to see me… Ah.

‘It’s because of Robelina.’

Come to think of it, he was looking at Robelina earlier too.

As expected, something happened between those two in Ecle Village!

Unable to hide the grin spreading across my face, I nodded vigorously.

“Of course! Come anytime.”

“Thank you.”

A faint smile flickered across Lucian’s lips.

Seeing his smile, I thought:

‘I need to dress Robelina up prettily.’

That dress-up game the maids used to play with young ladies in the original story?

I’ll give it a try myself.

***

After finishing the missionary event and returning to the Temple, we were given sweet rest time.

It would have been nice if during this break, I had escaped this peaceful Temple to spend enjoyable shopping time with Robelina, laughing and chatting…

“Why.”

Sitting at my desk, I trembled as I held my quill pen.

“Why is work pouring in as soon as the missionary event ended!”

Damn it!

Even while cursing, my hand gracefully finished signing. It was quite an elegant signature, whoever had done it.

As my hand moved without rest while I grumbled with my mouth, Robelina, who was helping organize documents beside me, laughed and said:

“To be precise, it’s work that piled up while we were out on the missionary event. Did you think being a Holy Lady would be easy?”

“It looked easy in the original…”

“Hm? What did you say?”

“I said I would work hard.”

Right. The original story’s female protagonist who’s right beside me now managed to do this work, so why can’t I?

More importantly, there was a reason this work needed to be finished quickly.

The spring welcoming banquet to be held at the Imperial Palace in the coming April.

To attend the event location where all the protagonists gathered in the original story, I had to finish all the backlogged work.

‘It’s an important event where the male leads raise their affection toward Robelina!’

However, there was one thing I was worried about. It was the invitation needed to enter the banquet.

The Temple was far removed from the parties that nobles enjoyed. Since it was obvious they wouldn’t participate anyway, invitations had been cut off long ago.

The reason Robelina could attend the banquet in the original story was because Crown Prince Jacad sent her an invitation to treat his curse.

But now, even if the original setting had changed, it had changed significantly.

I couldn’t tell whether Jacad would send an invitation this time too.

‘Still, wouldn’t he send at least one out of courtesy? I heard that invitations came when the previous Holy Lady was appointed too.’

Surely he wouldn’t not send an invitation just because I fought with Jirang? Haha, ha…

“…”

“Ria?”

My motivation suddenly plummeted. At the thought that the event I had been looking forward to might disappear along with the original story.

As I switched to gloomy mode and listlessly scribbled signatures, Robelina said beside me:

“Um, Ria. Want to go out after we finish all this work?”

“Outside?”

“Yeah. Let’s go eat something delicious after so long. And look at accessories on the street.”

“…!”

I lifted my head with a jerk.

Accessories + shopping = Robelina dress-up game!

“Great! Let’s finish quickly and go!”

My motivation returned. I gripped my pen tightly and began completing the remaining documents.

For a moment, I thought I heard someone murmur ‘cute’ near my ear.

***

‘I’m happy.’

We finally succeeded in escaping the Temple… no, going out. And we brought along the generous allowance provided to the Holy Lady.

With that money, we bought delicious food and were casually browsing accessories on the street, just as Robelina had suggested.

“Ria, how about this?”

Robelina held up a white lily-shaped hairpin and asked.

Thinking it would suit her pure image well, I nodded vigorously.

“Yes! I think it would suit you well.”

“I thought so too, right?”

Robelina smiled brightly and pinned the hairpin in my hair.

I looked at her with a question of ‘why are you putting it on me?’ and Robelina just smiled with satisfaction.

“It suits you well, Ria!”

“Uh… th-thank you.”

I scratched my cheek, feeling inexplicably shy.

‘Somehow I feel like I’m monopolizing the female lead’s love instead of the male leads.’

Then the merchant uncle who had been watching us chuckled and said:

“As expected of priests, you look so heartwarming and nice together. As a reward for seeing something good, if you buy one, I’ll give you another one just like it.”

‘This shop has good business sense.’

At those words, I quickly paid for the lily hairpin. Robelina and I each wore one in our hair as we strolled down the street.

“Oh my, priests! Please come here and have some drinks before you go!”

“You’re working so hard. Would you like to have a cookie each before you leave?”

‘So this is the Temple buff.’

Thanks to the Temple being located in the center of the city, this area was one of the places strongly influenced by the Temple.

Moreover, since we were both wearing priest robes, kindness poured out from our surroundings every few steps we took.

It was convenient, but at the same time burdensome.

‘Next time I should change into regular clothes before coming out.’

Still, it seemed like no one had noticed that I was the Saint yet.

Well, women with brown hair and green eyes are pretty common, I guess.

“How dare you! Do you know where you are!”

“Huh?”

At the shouting nearby, both Robelina and I stopped walking at the same time.

People had gathered a little ways away. The commotion seemed to be coming from beyond them.

“How dare a mage set foot in this place, are you out of your mind?”

‘A mage?’

I turned my head to look at Robelina. As if she was thinking the same thing, our eyes met as soon as she turned her head.

‘Could it be Nein?’

As soon as that thought occurred to me, I was overcome with an ominous feeling.

We hurried over there and squeezed through the crowd.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

And I was left speechless by the scene that unfolded.

Two men who looked like they had just come of age were confronting a boy wearing mage robes.

At a glance, the boy was clearly at a disadvantage.

But the two men cornering the boy were novice priests from the Temple.

‘This is the first time in my life I’ve seen priests look like neighborhood thugs.’

I was staring in disbelief when Novice Priest 1 threw a warning at the mage.

“I won’t say much more. Leave this city immediately. This is not a place for mages to set foot.”

“Huh?”

The young mage made an incredulous expression.

He didn’t seem to have an ordinary personality either, as he frowned and fought back.

“Even the Emperor has never said anything to me, so who are you guys? Is there even a law saying mages can’t come to this city?”

“This is the Temple’s domain! Mages are…!”

“So do you have proof that this is the Temple’s domain? And so what if it’s the Temple’s domain, mages can’t come? Where is such a law?”

‘Somehow this reminds me of Nein.’

No wait. If it had been Nein, those priests would probably be stripped naked and abandoned in front of the Temple by now.

Anyway, compared to the novice priests who were just stubbornly relying on the Temple’s authority, that young mage was responding to the argument logically.

Still, someone affiliated with the Temple wouldn’t resort to violence, so he’d probably feel appropriately humiliated and disappear…

“But this mage…!”

No, they are resorting to violence?

In my panic, I stepped forward without realizing it and shouted.

“Stop that right now!”

The novice priest who was about to throw a punch hesitated.

He turned to look at me and stammered with a pale face.

“S-Saint…!”

“That’s right, Holy Prelate!”

I pushed Robelina, who was beside me, forward and shouted confidently.

“What is this disgraceful behavior in front of the Holy Prelate who is out on inspection!”

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