The Saintess Is Too Good at Lying - Chapter 4

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The Saint Is Such a Good Liar! Episode 004
Silence fell over the room. I glanced at the pair of fallen earrings before turning my gaze back to Lumiel and her brother.
Lumiel covered her mouth with a shocked expression and muttered softly.
“Why would those be in the Saint’s pocket….”
Ah, so now I’m being accused of theft?
I barely suppressed the urge to laugh and looked toward Sergio. His eyes widened with considerable surprise.
Though soon enough, suspicion would cloud that gaze.
Fortunately, the people around us still wore expressions of confusion—they couldn’t yet fathom why the earrings had fallen from my pocket. But that wouldn’t last long.
“Saint….”
Lumiel stared at me with shock written across her face. Her eyes already treating it as an established fact that I had stolen them.
“Surely not….”
If I were Justitia in this moment.
“I-I don’t know how these got here…. I didn’t steal them, Miss Lumiel.”
That’s likely how she would have reacted, and Lumiel was probably counting on exactly that.
“When Miss Cassini’s dress became soiled earlier, the Saint did clean it for her directly.”
“You don’t mean to say the Saint stole the earrings during that moment? But why? They’re not even particularly valuable.”
Listening to the murmurs rippling through the crowd, I calmly picked up the pearl earrings and turned to face Lumiel.
Her expression looked ready to crumble into tears at any moment. If she wanted to cry that badly….
“I apologize, Miss Lumiel.”
Then I should give her a real reason to cry.
Everyone gasped in shock at my unexpected apology. Even Lumiel looked flustered, as if this wasn’t what she’d anticipated.
“I’ve put you in an awkward position. I was planning to quietly return them to you after the Bazaar ended.”
“But why….”
“I would never force charity upon anyone.”
I placed the earrings into Lumiel’s hands and spoke with gentle warmth.
“It’s perfectly fine if your heart changed about donating them. Sharing what we have is never an easy thing to do.”
“…I’m sorry?”
“Of course, I don’t deny the sincerity in your heart when you gave me the earrings earlier. You were genuine in that moment.”
Confused by my cryptic words, Lumiel’s voice caught—but someone in the crowd quickly grasped my meaning.
“Oh my, so Miss Cassini gave the earrings to the Saint first?”
“Then are you saying Miss Cassini orchestrated this entire scene?”
“No, everyone, that’s not it.”
I stepped forward through the murmuring crowd to defend Lumiel.
“Please don’t diminish Miss Lumiel’s sincerity by calling it a performance. If she truly had no intention of donating the necklace, why would she have brought it to this Bazaar in the first place?”
When our eyes met, Lumiel opened her mouth with a bewildered voice.
“Saint, what are you saying….”
“So I ask that you all show her mercy and overlook what you’ve just witnessed.”
I quickly brought the situation to a close and pulled Lumiel into a tight embrace. I felt her shocked body go rigid as stone.
‘That’s right—you’re now the person who said you’d donate, then chickened out and caused a scene.’
At that moment, a status window materialized before my eyes.
[Lie Gauge increased by 0.5%]
[Current Gauge: 1%]
[Today’s limit has been reached]
Life really does come down to one decisive moment.
In the end, Lumiel reluctantly put the pearl earrings up for auction, but everyone believed she had done so only because she no longer wished to lose face.
“Well, even if they’re ‘genuine,’ she must have suffered greatly after leaving home for seven years.”
“It’s understandable that giving away what she owns is still difficult. But surely she’ll adapt in time, won’t she?”
People accepted the earlier situation through such conversations.
Even if Lumiel denied it, they wouldn’t believe her. I had already made my move perfectly.
Lumiel seemed to understand this, as she made no particular effort to clarify. She was certainly more than ordinarily clever.
“But still, I have to hand this over to someone else’s possession…”
Before the second part of the Bazaar began, I gazed at the pearl earrings in the Rest Room with a regretful expression.
Though the earrings had nothing to do with me originally, having inherited Justitia’s memories intact, they felt precious to me as well.
“The Duke is truly too much! I remember that the Saint used to enjoy wearing those earrings, so surely he couldn’t have forgotten.”
“Well, there’s no need to upset the feelings of a newly found blood sibling over such matters.”
When I replied cynically, Nora’s expression became even more wounded.
I reluctantly placed the earrings away and stepped outside.
The second part of the Bazaar had begun. I withdrew the pearl earrings from the basket with a radiant smile.
“The first item of part two is a pair of pearl earrings graciously donated by the Countess Lumiel.”
Of course, I didn’t forget to humiliate Lumiel first.
I could see Lumiel smiling reluctantly with a displeased expression.
As for Sergio beside her, his face was rigid and expressionless.
“There’s an adorable pink ribbon attached at the top, so if a young lady wore them, they would look truly charming.”
I continued speaking toward them with an intentionally brighter smile.
“We’ll start the bidding at one thousand kal.”
Someone raised their hand immediately. It was Sergio. It was unexpected, but I let it pass.
“One thousand five hundred kal.”
No one raised their hand. The price had increased, and they seemed willing to defer to Sergio out of consideration for Lumiel’s wounded pride.
‘I wish someone else had won the bid.’
Even if Sergio won, the earrings would inevitably return to Lumiel’s possession.
If that happened, she might destroy or discard the earrings in anger, having been humiliated by them.
‘But it would be too suspicious if I won the bid myself.’
I had no choice but to declare the sale.
But at that very moment, someone raised their hand.
“Two thousand kal.”
It was a person wearing a deep black robe, and judging by his enormous height and build, he was male.
‘How did he even get in here dressed like that?’
Though the question crossed my mind, what mattered was that an opportunity had arisen to prevent the earrings from going to Sergio. I asked in a slightly excited voice.
“Two thousand kal—do I hear any higher bids?”
At my words, Sergio turned around to find the man who had raised his hand. Then, furrowing his brow, he raised his hand again.
“2,500 Cals.”
“3,000 Cals.”
The Mysterious Robed Man immediately raised his hand to counter.
Two massive men competed fiercely over a pair of infant pearl earrings. The onlookers watched the pair with keen interest.
“Who is he, wrapped up so tightly like that? He must be nobility, right?”
“He has to be—otherwise, how would he have gotten in here?”
Exactly. If someone wanted to hide their identity that badly, wouldn’t they simply avoid attending such an event altogether?
I eavesdropped on the crowd’s whispers while trying to keep track of the rapidly climbing bid.
“6,000 Cals.”
The auction price had finally reached six times the starting bid.
Lumiel grabbed Sergio’s arm just as he was about to raise his hand.
“I’m fine, brother.”
“Lumiel, but—”
“It would be strange for me to own it again anyway.”
Then why didn’t you stop him from bidding in the first place? I swallowed that thought silently.
“7,000 Cals—sold!”
The crowd applauded while casting curious glances at the robed man.
But he never lifted his head once, simply accepted the auction slip and departed the venue with unhurried grace.

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