The Fortune-Teller Saintess - Chapter 25
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The Fortune Teller Saint
Chapter 25
“Already?”
It hasn’t even been a full day since I returned from the Imperial Palace?
For reference, Nein already knew that I had met the Crown Prince regarding the drug smuggling case.
After all, it was something he had permitted.
‘If we hide it, it’ll really look like we were the ones who brought it in.’
Along with those words.
The fact that he came looking for me despite declaring he would faithfully cooperate with the investigation meant something had gone wrong.
Nein confirmed my suspicion was correct with his irritated voice.
“Those bastards didn’t even search the Mage Tower and just took Kail away. As if they’ve already decided Kail is the culprit.”
“Kail? What evidence?”
“They say him having the drugs is evidence or something. It seems like they’re trying to pin it on Kail and close the case.”
“Does that make sense? How can they do that without properly investigating…!”
“That’s why I need the Holy Lady.”
“Huh?”
I blinked at the words that caught my attention.
Nein glanced at the bed. Where his gaze was directed, there were the tarot cards I had spread out.
“More precisely, the power of the Sacred Relic.”
“Why the Sacred Relic?”
“The investigation is proceeding too quickly. Something’s strange.”
That was definitely strange to me too. Even though I had reported directly to Jacad, the progress was too fast, even for something that fast.
While I was puzzling over this, Nein continued speaking.
“So I want to use the Sacred Relic to investigate properly. My magic alone can’t uncover the truth of the case.”
“You mean, Nein also thinks Kail isn’t the culprit?”
“That dim-witted, timid guy couldn’t pull off something that big.”
‘So it was a matter of qualifications.’
The momentary emotion that had risen crumbled away.
Still, my heart felt a bit lighter.
‘So Nein was the ally the tarot cards mentioned.’
If that was the case, my answer was already decided. The tarot cards wanted me to take action.
I smiled brightly and nodded my head.
“Good…!”
“That won’t do.”
“Huh?”
I widened my eyes and turned to look at Robelina.
Robelina was shaking her head with a resolute expression.
“Ellia is a Saint. She can’t carelessly get involved in major affairs unrelated to the Temple.”
“Even if I’m asking?”
“Please make a formal request for help to the Temple.”
“Ha.”
Nein let out a hollow laugh.
Somehow I understood Nein’s feelings. He was probably thinking, ‘As if the Temple would readily accept the Mage Tower’s request.’
And sorry to Robelina, but this time I was on Nein’s side too.
“Rina, but the Sacred Relic…”
“Wish voucher.”
“Huh?”
I looked back at him with a puzzled expression at the words Nein suddenly brought up.
Nein smiled slyly and looked straight at me.
“I wasn’t planning to use it now originally, but I’ll use the wish voucher. So you’ll have to help me, Holy Lady.”
“Ah.”
Come to think of it, we had made that promise.
‘A wish voucher. In exchange for keeping the secret. How about it?’
‘Who would have thought the price for protecting two young people’s pure hearts would come back like this.’
I, who had been standing dazed, looked at Robelina and nodded vigorously.
“It’s a promise I made as a Saint, so I can’t back down from this!”
“Ria…”
“And Rina, you want to help Kail too.”
Robelina flinched.
Seeing that clearly, I grinned and asked.
“You’ll come with us, right?”
“…Just this once.”
“Good.”
It was decided.
I confidently turned to face Nein.
Then Nein began speaking as if he had been waiting.
“First, we’ll go to the village where Kail bought the opina flower powder. It would be best to start investigating from there.”
“You’ll use spatial movement magic, right?”
“Of course.”
Nein gestured as if telling us to hurry over.
I grabbed Robelina’s hand, who still looked disapproving, and approached him.
Magical power surged up from the floor as if magic was about to be cast.
“Oh, come to think of it, if there was an investigation from the Imperial Palace, Nein must have met His Highness the Crown Prince too?”
The situation wouldn’t have been good, but my heart couldn’t help but race at the thought of two male lead candidates meeting.
But Nein’s answer went against my expectations.
“I didn’t meet him.”
“Huh? Why not?”
“Well, because the investigator was someone else.”
“Huh?”
But Jacad had said he would personally oversee the investigation?
Suddenly, what Nein had said earlier flashed through my mind.
‘The investigation is proceeding too quickly. Something’s strange.’
‘…Don’t tell me.’
Did they come to search before Jacad even gave the order?
‘But how did they know?’
Flash-
The questions couldn’t continue further. Light erupted from the magic circle drawn on the floor.
When I closed and opened my eyes, a different scenery unfolded before me instead of the Temple.
It was the port village of Rotosu.
***
“I tell you, I’m being wronged?! I also bought it not knowing it was drugs! Would I have bought it if I knew?”
Kail’s aggrieved voice echoed through the interrogation room.
Of course, the interrogator didn’t budge. But when he came out after finishing the interrogation, he tilted his head as if puzzled.
“Hmm, something’s strange.”
“What do you mean?”
“Ah, Duke Berno.”
“I’m the investigator of this case now, so watch your form of address.”
“Understood, Investigator.”
When the interrogator bowed silently, the investigator nodded and asked.
“So, what’s strange about it?”
“Ah, about that young mage named Kail, the more I interrogate him, the less connected to this case he seems.”
“Hmm?”
“He’s too young to be involved with drugs, and as that boy said, how about we investigate that merchant who supposedly sold the drugs…”
“You.”
The investigator cut off the interrogator’s words with a stern voice.
“Are you, who calls himself an interrogator, planning to be swayed by the criminal’s words?”
“Th-that’s not it…”
“Being young doesn’t excuse everything. What matters is the severity of the crime. If you’re a true interrogator, use this time to quickly extract a confession from the criminal.”
“I apologize. I’ll correct myself.”
The interrogator answered with a voice full of military discipline.
The investigator passed by him and clicked his tongue with a displeased expression.
‘How dare he try to do something unnecessary.’
The person who would be disadvantaged if they searched for the merchant that young mage mentioned was him.
Because he was the one who had imported the drugs.
Originally, there would have been no reason to be anxious about drugs being discovered like this.
But when ‘those guys’ came looking for him, things started to go wrong.
‘Duke Berno, you seem to be having quite some fun with drugs.’
‘Wh-who are you people! How do you know that…!’
‘We’re not interested in your business. As long as you help us with our work, we’ll keep quiet about this matter in the future too.’
Of course, he wasn’t one to just take it lying down.
He planned to secretly investigate them and strike their headquarters, but it was his subordinates who got hit instead.
That’s when he realized it. They were people who shouldn’t be carelessly touched.
In the end, he had to obediently follow their demands while his drugs were held as collateral. Fortunately, their demands weren’t too difficult.
If only that merchant hadn’t noticed the plan and sold drugs to that young mage in a fit of anger.
‘Fortunately, that merchant ran away.’
Unless he comes back and suddenly confesses, this incident will end as that young mage’s fault.
And he would make sure it happened that way.
The investigator stopped walking and ordered his knight.
“Find that merchant immediately.”
“Should I bring him back alive?”
“No.”
The investigator shook his head and said coldly.
“Kill him.”
“Understood.”
The knight who received the order disappeared into the darkness.
The investigator’s eyes walking down the corridor had already sunk into a cold depth.
***
“So, what are you going to do now?”
Robelina asked me.
I turned sharply to look at Nein and asked the same question as Robelina.
“Right. What are you going to do now?”
“…”
I could feel Robelina staring at me from the side, but I deliberately ignored it.
Nein, who received the question, looked around the village lightly and said bluntly.
“We need to find the guy who sold the drugs.”
“You mean that merchant who sold drugs to Kail? How are you going to find him?”
“The Holy Lady should know that.”
Nein shot back with an expression that said ‘Why are you asking me that?’
I, who had been dazed, asked with an absurd expression.
“You want me to use the Sacred Relic to find out where the merchant is?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s impossible!”
“Why?”
Nein tilted his head.
It was an innocent yet cruel question from someone who didn’t know Tarot Cards well.
I hesitated for a moment but soon took a deep breath and blurted out an answer.
“My Sacred Relic can’t specify people or places.”
“But before in Periden Village, you found out that the kid’s dad was in the nearby village, didn’t you?”
“To put it differently, with only the clue of ‘nearby village,’ we ran around Ecle Village like we were hunting mice.”
When I spoke coldly, Nein furrowed his brow.
“So, you can’t do it?”
I flinched and finally started thinking.
Then I thought of one method.
“It’s not completely impossible.”
“Tell me.”
“It’s a bit, no, a very troublesome method though…”
A deep sigh escaped me.
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