The Magical Holy Woman Seraphina - Chapter 4

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Magic Saint Seraphina
Episode 4
“That unfaithful customer lodged a complaint?!”
“Ellie was mocking her, apparently.”
“What?!”
“That’s what I’m saying.”
So that adulterous couple had a fight when they parted yesterday.
Right, when you were selling a handkerchief to that handsome customer.
The man told the woman, “Your husband might find out, so don’t send me letters with lipstick marks on them anymore,” something like that.
Ellie was loading the packed dress onto the carriage at that moment.
Then suddenly the woman said,
“Excuse me, why are you laughing?”
“I’m sorry?”
“Why are you laughing? What’s so funny?”
“And right there in front of Ellie, she wrote a complaint letter and left. Saying Ellie had mocked her as a mistress.”
She said to take measures against an employee who lacks professionalism, and that she’d follow up to the end.
‘So that’s why Ellie looked upset yesterday.’
But still.
“Are they really firing her over this?!”
“It’s Mrs. Scrooge’s decision.”
“That’s insane!”
“Where’s the justice in this? Not only do they refuse to protect their employees!”
“It’s too much!”
Everyone protested on Ellie’s behalf, but the Manager only shook his head.
“There’s nothing I can do. Mrs. Scrooge is being firm about it.”
……
“Besides, didn’t Ellie give the customer grounds for complaint in the first place?”
Huh.
I was so exasperated I clicked my tongue.
Ellie, oblivious to her impending dismissal, had come early in full uniform and even swept the first-floor already, looking dazed.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
I grabbed a colleague’s wrist and whispered.
“Is Ellie really getting fired like this? Is there no way?”
“No way… unless someone tells the Adulterous Man’s wife about it.”
“The Adulterous Man’s wife? What does that have to do with Ellie getting reinstated… oh.”
Right—if the mistress found out, she’d lose her mind. She wouldn’t have energy to worry about Ellie anymore.
Then Mrs. Scrooge would probably reinstate Ellie.
There’s no one as talented as Ellie. She’s skilled with her hands, hardworking.
“But we don’t know who the Adulterous Man’s wife is. We don’t even know his name, do we?”
“Right. Who commits adultery without hiding their name and address… wait. No.”
“What, what?”
“Yesterday, the Adulterous Man bought a bonnet for his wife too, remember? He wrote down his address asking us to send it to the Mansion.”
“Oh, then….”
“But what good does that do? We have no way of knowing that address. It’s in Mrs. Scrooge’s office.”
“This is hopeless….”
Only Mrs. Scrooge can enter there. My colleague patted my shoulder as I deflated.
“Seraphina, I’m furious too, honestly. But there’s nothing we can do from here.”
Stop thinking about it. Give up. If you keep obsessing, you’ll only hurt yourself.
“Any of us could lose our jobs just like this someday, so if a customer seems difficult, we just avoid them at all costs.”
My colleague, having offered this advice, disappeared to prepare for opening.
But I couldn’t let it go.
I watched Ellie, dazed and crying, get escorted out by the Manager.
……
‘Right, when you were selling a handkerchief to that handsome customer.’
I was originally the one handling that adulterous couple.
Which meant I could’ve lost my job just like that overnight.
If Arden hadn’t come in and pulled me away from them.
‘Why does it have to be this way?’
Why should Ellie—or I—lose her livelihood?
Over nothing but a customer’s tantrum.
“…….”
Do you know that feeling?
Even if it inconveniences me, even if I take some losses alongside them.
That burning need to punish someone else.
If this counts as justice implementation, then I want to implement justice right now.
So I made a decision.
I’ll find that address myself.
* * *
Night.
One in the morning, with streetlights scattered and dim.
The building’s outer wall catching moonlight, tinged blue. Yellow light seeping through window cracks here and there. Against the city’s nightscape, I was—
Slip.
Moving sideways back toward the Scrooge Dressmaking Shop, which I’d left after work hours.
‘I won’t touch anything else. Just look at the order form and the address, then leave.’
I hadn’t even done anything yet, but my hands were already trembling. I was glancing around the deserted street when I turned onto Demarcy Street, where the dressmaking shop stood.
Thump.
“Oh!”
I collided with some man just stepping out of an alley.
As I stumbled backward in shock, the man lightly caught my elbow to steady me.
“My apologies.”
He nodded slightly, then disappeared ahead of me.
I watched the back of the man in the gray hood.
‘His eyes….’
They were sky blue.
Clear as the ice in a fairy tale.
“…….”
A hooded man jumping out of an alley at this hour.
A pickpocket?
I patted myself down suspiciously.
‘Right. I have nothing to steal.’
I hadn’t even brought a single Gold coin. Because I had nothing.
Well, that’s a relief!
“Where could the files be, I wonder…♪”
The fifth floor, lights off. Mrs. Scrooge’s office.
I used the sharp pin on the back of the Brooch I’d brought to unlock the door and slip inside.
‘Better lock it again behind me, just in case.’
I was rummaging through the desk piled with file folders when it happened.
Click.
“!”
My body moved before my mind caught up.
The door opened the instant I hid under the desk.
“I’m telling you, don’t you trust me?”
I naturally assumed it would be Mrs. Scrooge.
“I trust you. It’s that woman I don’t trust!”
Mrs. Scrooge was here too. But she wasn’t alone.
“He doesn’t even realize you’re using him, and he’s getting cocky about it—yesterday he even sent me a letter telling me to fire an employee… I’m really feeling pathetic over this…….”
“Don’t worry. Once this deal goes through, we won’t have to see him again.”
Mrs. Scrooge, whimpering, held in an embrace by someone pressing their lips to her forehead—
The Adulterous Man from yesterday?!
I was going crazy.
I clamped my hand over my mouth.
I watched their figures reflected in the mirror standing in the corner of the room.
Ha. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
What a complete mess!
‘So that’s why Mrs. Scrooge fired Ellie on the spot.’
His wife, his mistress, Mrs. Scrooge—the man had his fingers in three pies.
“But did you really have your eye on one of our employees? That’s what you wrote in the letter.”
“I’m telling you, no! She was the one showing interest in me, and I just played dumb.”
“Then you won’t mind that I fired her?”
“Of course not!”
Wow, seriously.
While I stood there gaping like an idiot, the two of them kept talking.
“Anyway, sweetie, your brother’s getting thirsty.”
This is ridiculous. He calls Mrs. Scrooge “sweetie” too?
“Heat the milk to seventy degrees, mix in two spoonfuls of matcha powder, add ice, then pour an espresso shot over it. Use sugar from the Eastern Continent, will you?”
He makes her do things like that?
“Seriously. Without me, my brother can’t do anything.”
Mrs. Scrooge left the office. Leaving her lover alone in a room full of sensitive documents.
The twin father left behind kept smiling until the door closed.
Then he walked over to the desk where I was hiding.
“Let’s see now~ where’s that pretty employee file I saw yesterday~”
……
“The young employee next to her was cute too. Now that she’s been fired, I should ask to meet her privately~”
I had no time to hide.
No time to be outraged by the Adulterous Man’s vile words either.
Our eyes met across the desk chair.
The Adulterous Man’s eyes widened.
“What…!”
Here goes!
Crack!
I attacked fast, before the Adulterous Man could recognize my face.
“Ugh!”
Kicked in the knee by my blow, the Adulterous Man tumbled into the corner and crumpled against the wall.
I seized the moment and crawled out from under the desk, ready to bolt through that door without another thought.
“Don’t you move!”
Click!
The Adulterous Man drew a gun from his pocket and aimed it at me.
“Hands up and freeze! Turn on the light!”
“No…!”
Why is he suddenly being so extreme?
“I said turn on the light! Hands up!”
How am I supposed to turn on the light if my hands are up?
“Are you listening to a word I’m saying?!”
That was when it happened.
“Seraphina!”
“Maltese?!”
“Catch!”
I caught the object flying toward me without thinking.
The cool touch of a chain necklace wrapped around my hand. And at the end of that chain hung—
something ornate and shimmering with gemstones whose names I didn’t know, a glittering red heart with delicate little wings, and a mirror that glowed softly from within—
a compact mirror that folded open and shut!
“Here we go!”
You’re going to block the bullet with the mirror!
“Seraphina! Chant the spell!”
“A spell?! What spell!”
“A spell that can make people happy!”
“Happy?!”
“Yes! Dreams! Love! Justice! You know, all that stuff! Bright and hopeful!”
Think about what you want most!
“Oh!”
That’s easy then!
I gripped the necklace and shouted.
“Gold! Fame! Health!”
“Are you serious?!”
“Of course!”
I even made sure the syllables lined up two-two-two, thank you very much!
“I’ll give you a chance to fix it!”
“Is now really the time for that?!”
“Ugh! Fine, fine!”
So then! Maltese, hopping on his short legs, cried out.
“Gold!”
“Honor!”
“Health!”
★★★★★
Magic Saint Seraphina!
Transformation!
★★★★★

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