The Fortune-Teller Saintess - Chapter 27
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The Fortune Teller Saint
Chapter 27
Gulp-
I gulped in surprise at seeing Nein’s unfamiliar expression.
At the same time, I realized.
‘The threats he made to me until now weren’t even real threats…!’
As I newly realized how gentle Nein had been to me all this time, tears of emotion… like hell they flowed. I just realized what a complete bastard this guy was.
‘Still, he’ll talk soon.’
From the merchant’s reaction, he was just one step away from confessing the mastermind.
Sure enough, the merchant who had been trembling while looking at Nein soon opened his mouth.
“The person who gave me the job was Ber…!”
That’s when it happened.
Crash-
“…?! What!”
Suddenly the window shattered and glass fragments scattered through the air.
And through them, black shadows caught my eye.
The moment I was unconsciously drawn to look at them, Robelina’s scream-like shout reached me.
“Ellia! Get away!”
“Huh?”
As I tried to turn my head toward Robelina, I saw something flying toward me.
A thin, sharply gleaming piece of metal.
It was a dagger.
Ting-
Fortunately, it didn’t pierce my throat. Thanks to the dagger suddenly bouncing off as if it had hit an invisible wall.
I noticed it was because of Nein’s magic and said to him.
“Th-thank you, Nein.”
“Tsk.”
Nein clicked his tongue as he received my thanks, then narrowed his eyes and began scanning the surroundings.
Following his gaze, I saw that people wearing black masks had already surrounded us.
“Are we… surrounded?”
“Can’t you tell by looking?”
Nein snapped back bluntly, seeming thoroughly annoyed by this situation.
When I stared at him blankly, Nein grabbed my arm and pulled me close.
“Stay close. It’s hard to protect you if you’re far away.”
“You’ll protect me?”
I looked up at Nein with wide eyes. What’s gotten into this guy?
“I told you.”
Nein smiled coldly as he glared at the masked figures and said.
“I repay favors with favors.”
‘So he’s saying he’ll protect me because I helped him with work.’
That sounds about right.
As I was nodding, I remembered Robelina and urgently said.
“Nein, you have to protect Robelina too! Got it?”
“How troublesome.”
Though he said that, Nein extended his transparent barrier to cover the area where Robelina was too.
Only then relieved, I glanced at the masked assassins.
‘Did they come to kill that man?’
Ting-
As soon as I thought that, one of the assassins threw a dagger toward the merchant behind us. Though it bounced off thanks to Nein’s magic barrier.
I gulped and whispered to Nein.
“Nein, you’ll protect that man too, right?”
“I’d like to throw him to those guys if I could.”
“What?”
When I looked at him sideways, Nein glanced at me and clicked his tongue.
“We need him to clear our names, so I have no choice until then.”
‘What about after that?’
My spine felt slightly chilled, but I forced myself to dismiss the thought.
Well, what happens after that isn’t my concern. Right.
“Everyone attack!”
A shout erupted from the assassins and they moved simultaneously.
The assassins who had surrounded us in a circle unleashed attacks while gradually closing the distance. Some of them seemed to be mages too, as fireballs came flying.
Under the continuous attacks, Nein’s barrier began to gradually weaken.
When cracks appeared in the transparent wall, I urgently shouted to Nein.
“Nein, there are cracks in the wall!”
“I know.”
When he gave such a calm response, I unconsciously hesitated.
When I whirled around to look at him, Nein stared at the assassins and spoke.
“Holy Lady, Holy Prelate. Close your eyes.”
“Huh?”
“Don’t open them until I tell you to.”
Though I was puzzled by his sudden words, I soon closed my eyes as he instructed.
And at that moment, screams erupted.
“Wh-what!”
“Aaaaah!”
“Save me! Please!”
Voices filled with terror. They seemed to belong to the assassins.
At the same time, I felt magical power enveloping the surroundings.
Though I couldn’t see, I could tell.
That Nein was eliminating the assassins with magic.
The screams were frightening as they continued endlessly, but I was also curious.
‘What on earth is happening?’
Just as I was wondering whether to sneak a peek, I felt a hand covering my eyes.
“Don’t open them.”
‘I got caught.’
I sheepishly pressed my lips tightly together and nodded at Nein’s words.
After a while, the surroundings became quiet and Nein’s voice echoed in my ears.
“You can open them now.”
At those words, I opened my eyes with some tension. But an unexpected scene spread before me.
Contrary to my expectation of blood and corpses everywhere, the inside of the house was very clean. And only one assassin was kneeling in the center of the floor.
When I looked up at Nein with eyes asking what had happened, he shrugged.
“The more evidence, the better.”
“Mon-monster bastard…”
“Shut up.”
Nein instantly silenced the assassin and smiled coldly as he turned to look at the merchant.
“You saw, didn’t you? What happens when you don’t cooperate.”
“…”
“Now talk.”
“D-Duke Berno. He ordered me to slip drugs into the supplies going to the Mage Tower!”
As if those words were true, the assassin hung his head low with a resentful expression.
Seeing that, I thought.
‘Is this the end?’
A sigh of relief naturally escaped.
We were safe too, and if we brought the merchant and assassin back, we could clear Kail’s false accusations.
‘I’m glad it ended safely… Huh?’
Wooong-
Again. The tarot cards in my arms reacted once more.
By the time I hurriedly pulled out the tarot cards, the vibration had already stopped.
‘What? This incident is over now.’
I tilted my head in puzzlement.
“Nein? What are you looking at so intently?”
I heard Robelina speaking to Nein and quickly turned my head.
Nein was quietly staring beyond the broken window. I looked to see if there was something there, but I couldn’t see anything.
“Nein? What are you looking at?”
“…Hmm.”
Nein let out a long breath at my question.
Then he turned around sharply with a brief answer.
“Nothing.”
“…???”
My head naturally tilted at his bland response.
I looked out the window once more, but there was still nothing there.
“Holy Lady, if you don’t come quickly, I’ll leave you behind.”
“What? How can you say that! Let’s go together!”
Startled by the voice from behind, I ran over to Nein’s side.
Our great adventure of finding evidence ended like that, leaving behind a bit of uneasiness.
***
‘I’m exhausted.’
Kail let out a deep sigh.
He didn’t know how many interrogations this was. The interrogator kept calling him out to question him about drugs, and Kail repeated the same answers.
That there was someone else who sold the drugs, that he was also a victim.
But the interrogator didn’t believe him. Instead, he pressured Kail even more as if hoping he would confess to the crime.
Eventually, Kail became exhausted before long.
‘Should I just make a false confession?’
He was considering confessing to a crime he didn’t commit.
As tears trickled down, Nein’s words flashed through Kail’s mind.
‘Ignorance is also a sin.’
At the time, he wondered what kind of nonsense that was, but now that he was in this situation, he thought those words might be right.
At the same time, resentment toward Nein welled up.
“I mean, no matter what, a family member from the same Mage Tower got arrested, and he’s acting like it’s none of his business?”
Kail, who had been fuming, eventually shouted loud enough to shake the prison.
“The Tower Master is a sea cucumber bastard…!”
“What?”
“Huk!”
Kail was so shocked he forgot to breathe and pressed himself against the wall.
Nein, whom he had just cursed at, was somehow already inside the prison.
“T-Tower Master? Why are you here… Did you finally cause trouble and get kicked out of the Mage Tower?!”
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
Nein frowned.
That’s when it happened. The outside became noisy.
“This is ridiculous…! This can’t be…!”
“…Tower Master, what exactly did you do?”
Kail, feeling uneasy for some reason, asked Nein.
Nein shrugged and grabbed Kail by the back of the neck.
“You don’t need to know, just get ready.”
“What? Ready for what?”
“Ready for an event.”
“…What?”
Kail made a bewildered expression at the out-of-nowhere comment.
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