The Magical Holy Woman Seraphina - Chapter 11

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Magic Saint Seraphina
Episode 11
“So you’re telling me I should go meet this Collie character who’s a dog?”
“Yeah. Dogs can understand each other, right?”
“Dogs?! I’ve told you a hundred times — I’m not a dog, I’m a Divine Beast!”
“So what? You can’t understand other dogs?”
“I can.”
“Then we’re settled.”
“Ugh…….”
Lunchtime.
I met Tofu in the grass beside the prayer chamber that Pepper visits every day at the Grand Sacred Hall.
‘Since Pepper comes to the Grand Sacred Hall around this time every day.’
I had to be back in the Wardrobe Chamber within an hour, and she’d definitely show up by then.
“By the way, Tofu.”
“Hmm?”
“Your outfit’s looking pretty fancy today, isn’t it?”
Why was he wearing that hat? I gestured with my chin toward the Yellow Bowler Hat on his head.
Tofu lifted his chin at my question.
“I’m a Divine Beast assisting the Magic Saint now! I wore it to look dignified!”
It looked ridiculous.
“Can’t you take it off?”
“Ugh…….”
“Why are you barking at me…….”
I was only telling the truth, and now I had to look at that pathetic little dog face.
“No matter how much you bark, the fact that you look ridiculous isn’t going to….”
“Woof!”
“Did you just bite me?!”
We were in the middle of a full forehead-to-forehead argument when.
“Woof! Woof!”
“Stop it! I told you Collie can’t—”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
“!”
What in the world?!
“It’s coming from the prayer chamber queue direction!”
I scooped Tofu up and tucked him under my arm, then bolted toward the sound.
When I pushed through the manicured grass, I could see people lined up to enter the prayer chamber.
Pepper was somewhere in the middle of the line.
And the situation was—
“Woof!”
“I said stop!”
Pepper clinging tearfully to a Golden Retriever larger than her own body, the Golden Retriever barking loudly (probably Collie), and two boys firing a Toy Gun right at the dog’s black eyes—
Two boys?!
What the hell!
“What do you think you’re doing?!”
I ran over and snatched the gun away.
The boys who’d been snickering with ‘You missed, idiot,’ suddenly looked up, startled at the adult who’d inserted herself into their fun.
More than ten tiny rubber pellets, each the size of a puppy’s fingernail, were scattered across the ground.
These rotten little—
“You thoughtless children, did nobody ever teach you that shooting at a dog is attempted murder—”
“Seraphina!”
Tofu urgently cut in, whispering.
“You have to maintain your dignity as the Magic Saint!”
A Magic Saint doesn’t commit murder!
“Really?!”
This was going to be complicated.
I forced my lips up into a smile and asked.
“So… what… exactly… is… going… on… here?”
Then the boys started whining about how unfair it was.
“He started it first!”
“Yeah! We were just trying to play with the dog, but he scowled at us and told us to get lost!”
“That’s not playing—you grabbed Collie’s tail and tormented him!”
Pepper kept shouting, refusing to back down.
“While he was running away, you kept kicking him with your feet!”
“This is insane….”
They kicked a dog? Literally kicked him?
“Instead of execution, flogging would….”
“Seraphina!”
“I can’t even do flogging?!”
Just then, a man stepped out of the bathroom and came rushing over.
“What’s wrong, miss?!”
“Wahhh!”
“Dad!”
The cowed children scattered the moment they saw their father, hurrying behind him to hide.
“Are you these children’s father?”
“What about it?”
“Can you see this?”
Your sons just fired a toy gun at a creature who cannot even speak.
I spoke while maintaining the smile of a saint. Take them home and give them a proper education.
“What?”
The man’s eyes went wide as he took in the full story.
Right? Even you must be shocked…
“You made all this fuss over one mangy mutt?”
“Huh?”
Had I misheard?
But the man spoke with complete confidence.
He looked me over once, then Pepper behind me once. Assessing our side’s strength, he rolled up his sleeves and raised his voice.
“Look, my boys are only twelve—at an age when they love hunting games, so sure, they might get excited and kick a dog when they see one! Are you really scolding children over kicking some mangy mutt? This is why young women these days are the problem!”
As if the dog were their own child!
“You’re at marriage age carrying a dog around—of course you’ve lost perspective on what matters!”
You did well with that toy gun! Head high!
“A man doesn’t get discouraged over something like this!”
Going further, he patted his sons’ shoulders encouragingly.
“Hah.”
Wait, sir! My morale is the one that’s crumbling! Is that acceptable?!
“This is ridiculous….”
I let out a hollow laugh while adjusting Tofu in my arms.
“Oh, it’s not just one mutt!”
Only then noticing Tofu, the man pointed at him. The Yellow Bowler Hat Tofu wore was knocked off his head by the man’s finger and flew away.
“Yelp.”
Tofu cowered.
That was when my patience snapped.
‘Right. I’ll handle this like a Magic Saint should.’
Like a Magic Saint.
I dropped the two toy guns I’d been holding in my arms to the floor.
I grabbed the man’s wrist mid-point.
Pop!
“Wh—what?!”
What indeed.
“You gonna let go?!”
No.
“Let—ahhhhh!”
Surprised? I’m quite strong.
The power of justice, you see☆
“Ahhhhh! Ahhh!”
I yanked the screaming man’s wrist down hard.
“Sir.”
As he tumbled after me, I whispered.
Softly.
Like a Magic Saint should☆
“If a dog can’t be controlled, you put it on a leash. Your children can’t be controlled either, but they don’t have leashes…. So what makes them better than that dog?”
If you’re going to raise a child like that, you should at least keep them on a leash.
“Well then, let’s start with you, sir.”
I pulled out the cheap Ribbon from my pocket and tied it around the man’s neck. He coughed—hack, hack—as the thick fabric cinched around his throat.
Gripping the firmly knotted Ribbon, I gave it a little jiggle as I spoke.
Listen well now, the Magic Saint’s lesson of the day☆
“That’s right, children can act out. They’re twelve, after all. But are you twelve too, sir? Why won’t you apologize?”
“Hack, cough….”
“I’m being nice about this. Apologize. I’m at an age where I still love a good hunting game, after all.”
It took less than a minute for the man with the Ribbon around his neck and the boy to apologize and leave.
I turned to the onlookers.
“That man is terribly weak, you know.”
Must have exhausted himself letting his children play their hunting games.
“If even a delicate woman like me can overpower him, the nation’s future looks rather grim, doesn’t it?”
I watched the man flee in a panic, shaking my head in disapproval.
Justice served☆
“Seraphinaaaa….”
I looked down at Tofu, who was groaning at my side, and shrugged.
“At least I used my words.”
This is what the Magic Saint of the new age does, so get used to it.
If you don’t like it, go find someone else☆
“But why have you been putting stars at the end of your sentences this whole time?”
“To look like the Magic Saint☆”
“Looks more like a Lawless Saint☆”
“Either way, I’m still a saint☆”
It’s fine. That man just realized where he stood and decided to back off gracefully.
Think about it—even if I were a bulky young man, would he have raised his hand first?
“Someone like Arden, for instance….”
“What about me?”
“Huh?”
I spun around.
Arden stood behind me in the formal uniform of the Imperial Guard, though I hadn’t noticed him arrive.
His gaze flicked between me and Tofu at my side, and his brow furrowed.
“Were you just… talking to a dog?”
“No, no, no, no, no!”
“I heard voices.”
“Just muttering to myself.”
I laughed it off with a heh-heh-heh, but Arden’s skeptical look didn’t fade as he pressed on.
“I could have sworn I heard someone else speaking.”
“You must have been mistaken.”
There are plenty of people around here! Heh-heh-heh-heh! I gestured vaguely at the crowd.
Beside me, the Golden Retriever Collie wagged his tail, panting happily as he watched the exchange between Arden and me.
“A friend! A friend!”
I quickly pointed at Arden.
“Look, look! He’s got yellow fur too! Go make friends!”
“Woof!”
As if he’d been waiting for permission, Collie immediately placed his front paws on Arden’s legs.
Yellow fur quickly covered the black fabric of his trousers.
Arden went rigid.
His fastidious nature was clearly horrified, but Collie was so delighted that he couldn’t bring himself to push him away….
“Get away—”
“Woof!”
‘Phew.’
I was about to heave a sigh of relief at Arden’s sudden distraction when—
Someone pulled at the hem of my skirt from below.
“Big sister.”
“Mm?”
Pepper stood gazing up at me, her sparse hair neatly tied into twin pigtails.
“Big sister, big sister.”
Pepper asked quietly,
“Can you make our dad disappear like that man just now?”
“Oh.”
Pepper, you can’t say things like that so loudly.
People are staring at us……?

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