The Fortune-Teller Saintess - Chapter 28
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The Fortune Teller Saint
Chapter 28
The place Nein teleported to with his spatial magic was on a bridge in some park.
Kail recognized where this was just by looking at the park’s structures.
It was on the Bridge of Romance in Lubans Park.
‘No way.’
Kail recalled what Ellia had said before he was imprisoned.
‘Unice, Kail says he’ll do an event for you.’
‘An event?’
‘Yes. He wants to meet in front of the Bridge of Romance at Lubans Park in three days.’
Kail’s face turned pale as he belatedly remembered his promise with Unice.
“Today is that day?!”
“Yeah.”
“This is ridiculous! I just got out of prison! I haven’t prepared anything…!”
“Whatever.”
Nein pushed Kail’s back forward and said.
“You just prepare your lines.”
“Huh? What do you mean…?”
“Kail?”
Kail’s body stiffened.
As he turned his creaking head with difficulty, Unice was standing in front of him.
‘I’m screwed.’
Kail made a dismayed expression and quickly turned around.
But Nein had already disappeared.
‘Damn Tower Master! I’ll curse you until I die!’
Shedding tears of blood internally, Kail looked at Unice again.
“U-Unice. How did you get here…?”
“Huh? You asked me to come, Kail. You said you’d do an event for me.”
Unice glanced around and her expression gradually filled with disappointment.
“Or maybe you were lying…?”
“L-lying! It’s not like that! T-there’s something.”
Hiding his desire to cry, Kail squeezed his eyes shut.
“Actually…!”
Boom-
“Huh?”
Kail’s eyes widened.
Fireworks beautifully decorating the sky were reflected in his enlarged pupils.
Unice’s face brightened at the perfectly timed fireworks shot into the sky.
“This is what Kail prepared!”
“Huh? That’s…?”
“I’m so happy, Kail!”
Kail, who had been smiling awkwardly, looked up at the sky once more and felt it.
‘There’s magic power in the fireworks…’
Only then did Kail realize who was orchestrating this fireworks display.
‘You just prepare your lines.’
‘Tower Master…!’
What curse? I’ll pledge my lifelong loyalty!
Kail wiped away his tears of emotion and soon looked at Unice with a serious face.
“Unice, I have something to say.”
“I wonder if it’s going well?”
I peeked my head out, overcome by curiosity.
Then Robelina pulled me back from behind and said.
“We’ll get caught, Ria.”
“We won’t get caught, we won’t.”
I reassured Robelina and glanced at Nein beside me.
While creating such a grand fireworks display with magic, Nein was yawning with a bored expression.
“As expected of a Tower Master.”
“What are you suddenly talking about?”
“Just.”
I giggled and subtly expressed my gratitude.
“Thanks for listening to my request, Nein. Thanks to you, Kail will have a happy time.”
“…I don’t understand.”
“Huh? What?”
“Why do you want to help those guys so much?”
“Well…”
After pondering, I looked at Kail and Unice standing on the bridge and came up with an answer.
“Look how happy they are. When I see happy people, I become happy too.”
“…”
“Don’t you feel the same way?”
“Not at all.”
Nein answered firmly and muttered in a small voice.
“Rather, I…”
“Huh? What did you say?”
“It’s nothing.”
Nein shrugged his shoulders.
I made a puzzled expression and turned my gaze to the bridge, then covered my mouth.
“Oh! They’re hugging, hugging! Kail must have succeeded in his confession!”
“Why are you making such a fuss over a hug?”
“But still…!”
“We’ve already done more than that, haven’t we?”
Nein grinned and spoke meaningfully.
Shocked, I glanced at Robelina and tapped Nein’s arm repeatedly.
“W-what are you saying! What did we do…!”
“Ria, what is he talking about?”
“It’s a misunderstanding, Lina! We didn’t do anything!”
I broke out in a cold sweat and had to clear up Robelina’s misunderstanding for a while.
Finally calmed down, Robelina glared at Nein from behind.
Seeing that, I sighed and glared at Nein.
“You’re really mean.”
Instead of answering, Nein let out a snicker. His gaze was fixed on Kail and Unice.
I also looked at the two people following Nein’s gaze.
A young mage and a Temple devotee.
Watching these two people look at each other and smile brightly made my heart feel warm.
“Hey, Nein.”
“What?”
“Do you think someday we could stand side by side like that too? Proudly in front of people.”
Nein fell silent at my question.
And after a moment, an answer came back.
“No.”
Nein firmly denied it and added.
“That day will never come.”
The bitter emotion embedded in the answer scattered into the air.
***
Scratch scratch-
The sound of a pen moving echoed through the quiet room. Someone sat in the middle of what appeared to be an office.
The person who had been moving the pen with graceful and neat hand movements suddenly paused.
“You’ve returned.”
“Yes, Seer.”
The one called Seer began moving his pen again as if nothing had happened and asked the shadow standing behind him.
“How did the task I assigned go?”
“Seer.”
The shadow suddenly knelt down.
Sensing from his voice that something had gone wrong, the Seer stopped his work.
“It seems things have gone awry.”
“…Gone awry?”
“We succeeded in having Duke Berno smuggle drugs into the Mage Tower, but.”
The shadow hesitated for a moment before beginning to explain the situation.
How the merchant carrying the drugs had acted unexpectedly in the middle, how the Mage Tower was cleared of false charges due to that merchant’s confession, and how Duke Berno was detained.
And how the Tower Master and the Saint had intervened in the entire process.
“The Saint? Are you certain?”
“Yes, Seer. The person beside the Tower Master was definitely the Saint.”
The Seer fell silent as if lost in thought.
The shadow, who dared not disturb his thoughts, remained kneeling in silence.
After a moment, the Seer spoke.
“Interesting. Saints who dare to go against my will keep appearing one after another.”
“What should we do?”
“Stand by.”
The shadow’s body froze momentarily at the unexpected answer.
The Seer chuckled and resolved the shadow’s confusion.
“This Saint is receiving public attention. If we carelessly touch her so soon after the previous Saint’s death just a few years ago, we’ll draw unnecessary suspicion.”
“But…”
“I understand your concern. But don’t worry.”
The shadow looked puzzled.
The Seer turned his back to him and lifted one corner of his mouth.
“Since she’s allied herself with mages, that choice will lead the Saint herself to hell.”
***
Duke Berno exploded.
Of course, he didn’t physically explode, but his evil deeds exploded into articles.
[It Was a Noble, Not the Mage Tower… Duke Berno, the Mastermind Behind the Drug Incident]
[Duke Berno Identified as Main Culprit in Drug Smuggling… Mage Tower Cleared of False Charges]
With such flashy headlines.
Duke Berno was immediately stripped of his title and confined to the Imperial Dungeon. He might spend the rest of his life there.
And Nein, who had revealed the truth behind the drug incident, not only cleared the Mage Tower’s name but also received a reward from the Emperor.
Though he himself seemed indifferent about it.
And I, who had investigated the drug incident together with Nein…
“This is really unfair.”
Surprisingly, I received nothing.
Not just me, but Robelina too.
Unlike me, who was feeling terribly wronged, Robelina smiled awkwardly and said to me.
“It can’t be helped. It wouldn’t be good if word spread that the Saint was traveling with mages.”
None of the articles about the drug incident mentioned me or the Temple.
What Robelina said was the reason.
Though I had agreed to it, seeing Nein receive rewards and praise made my stomach ache somehow.
I sniffled back tears and muttered in a sullen voice.
“If Nein has any conscience, he should split the reward with me fifty-fifty.”
“What would you use that money for?”
“I could use it for anything! First, I’d quit being a Saint and look for a resort…”
“Ria.”
“…just kidding, I’d donate it for poor children.”
Robelina looked at me intently with narrowed eyes.
When I slightly averted my gaze, I heard Robelina sigh.
“You call yourself a Saint and yet…”
“Hehe?”
“Never mind.”
Robelina gave up on me again today.
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