The Saintess Is Too Good at Lying - Chapter 84

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The Saint Is Such a Good Liar! Episode 084
I felt a hand gently caressing my face. As my eyes opened, I heard a whispered voice.
“Are you awake?”
Disoriented, I turned my head and found Cassandro staring down at me, his eyes sharp with intensity. A ribbon lay on the floor, severed as if cut by a blade.
Ah, that’s right. We were supposed to get kidnapped.
“Did it work?”
“It appears so.”
Cassandro nodded. Looking around, I counted roughly a dozen children scattered about.
Some were unconscious, others awake. Luca was among them.
“Luca!”
I whispered his name softly, and Luca, who had been sniffling, startled and looked at me.
I gestured for him to come closer, and he crawled toward me on his knees.
“Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“Do… do you know me?”
“Yes. Though you wouldn’t know me.”
I exhaled a sigh.
“I told you not to go into the city alone. How could you be so reckless, you foolish child…!”
“I, I’m sorry… The director’s birthday is coming soon, and I went out to buy a gift…”
Luca’s lips quivered, and then he burst into tears.
I shouted immediately.
“Stop! Don’t cry.”
Tears are contagious—if one child cries, they all will!
The children stared at me with frightened eyes. I spoke to them in a stern voice.
“Everyone, snap out of it. If you’re going to cry, do it after we leave this place and get home. First, we need to get out of here.”
“But how do we leave? We’re trapped… We don’t even know where we are.”
“Don’t worry. I promise I’ll get you all back home safely.”
To do that, I’d need to return to my adult body first. There were limits to what I could accomplish in this child’s form.
“Everyone, close your eyes tightly. Keep them shut until I tell you to open them.”
The children looked confused but obeyed. I spoke to Cassandro as well.
“I’m going to return to my original body. It will be better for moving around in this place.”
Cassandro nodded. I furrowed my brow and said.
“You close your eyes too.”
Cassandro seemed slightly taken aback but complied without protest. I then stared into the empty air, and a status window appeared.
[Would you like to return to your original body?]
I pressed the accept button, and immediately felt my body expanding.
The sensation felt strange, so I kept my eyes closed. When the transformation stopped, I opened them to find myself back in my adult form.
“W-Your Holiness?”
Luca, who had peeked open his eyes, gasped in shock at the sight of me.
“That little child was Your Holiness?”
“Yes. Are you hurt anywhere?”
At Luca’s words, the children’s eyes flew open and they stared at me in shock. Tears began to well up in their eyes.
“It’s alright, everyone. Let’s go home now.”
“Really… really?”
“Of course. That’s why I came with you, isn’t it?”
After soothing the sniffling children, I got down to business.
First, I pressed my forehead against Luca’s to activate our shared vision ability.
It was an unpleasant reality, but as the youngest here, Luca had the highest probability of being used as a sacrifice first.
“I’m going to scout the way out. If any bad adults come while I’m gone, I’ll come right back. Don’t worry and just rest, understood?”
Finding an exit was the priority. I set out to explore the cave with Cassandro.
“Where exactly is this place? It looks like a cave, but…”
“Whether they’re heretics or demon worshippers, this must be a temple dedicated to their god.”
I couldn’t believe such things still existed. I’d thought they’d all disappeared long ago.
“Let’s get the children out first. Now that we know the location, we can send Holy Knights here.”
“Once they realize their location is compromised, they’ll burn this place to the ground. It means we won’t be able to stop the same thing from happening elsewhere.”
“I know. But protecting the children comes first.”
I wasn’t without the desire to uncover the masterminds here myself.
But if only we had been captured, that would be one thing—I wasn’t about to gamble with the children’s lives on a reckless challenge.
“We’ve discovered they built a temple in a cave, so we can investigate based on that. Once the Temple moves, they’ll lie low. And it doesn’t make sense for me to clear this place alone anyway.”
“I can do it alone.”
I immediately furrowed my brow.
“I don’t mistake recklessness for courage. We don’t even know how many are here. Right now, without the Holy Sword, I only have a short blade.”
“However many there are, it’s possible. A place like this wouldn’t have a large permanent force. The number of children we found was too small for this to be their main base.”
“You’re usually so cautious—why are you suddenly being so bold? Even as the Holy Knight Commander, this is too dangerous…!”
“Wait.”
Cassandro blocked my path with his arm and stopped me in my tracks.
“This way.”
I hurriedly hid my body behind a pillar as Cassandro led me there.
Moments later, I heard the footsteps of two people approaching. A woman and a man, both wearing robes and masks.
“But why are we suddenly resuming human sacrifices? We’ve only been offering animals as sacrifices until now.”
“Orders came down from above, so we must follow them. Perhaps a great crisis is approaching us.”
“But the High Priest said there has never been a time when our faith was rewarded like it is now.”
“Don’t doubt your faith. There must be a reason the higher-ups made this decision.”
“We’re doing this because the Temple might catch our tail, which is why we’ve been restraining ourselves from human sacrifices.”
“The High Priest said that after today’s ritual, we’ll take a break for a while. For now, let’s focus on today’s ceremony. The sacrifices are still all asleep…”
At that moment, the man’s body crumpled forward. The woman beside him was turning her head when her body also collapsed forward.
‘…What did I just witness?’
Cassandro had moved like a shadow, appearing behind the two robed figures and incapacitating them in an instant—it felt as unreal as a scene from a game.
“Still don’t trust me, do you?”
When Cassandro turned to me and said this, I felt both flustered and wronged. I immediately protested.
“I never said I didn’t trust you.”
“Because you said it would be impossible for you to clear out this place alone.”
“No, that’s… realistically speaking, a thirty-to-one ratio isn’t possible, is it? I was just worried about you, but now you’re misunderstanding me as not trusting you.”
Cassandro’s expression became peculiar. I couldn’t help but ask.
“Is it really possible? Thirty to one?”
“One must be capable of facing enemies in numbers greater than that to be deemed worthy of dispatch as the Holy Knight Order Commander.”
“…Really?”
“You were unaware?”
I had no idea! Wow, Cassandro really was an incredible person?
Until now, the area around Justitia had been so physically peaceful that I hadn’t realized such elite personnel were protecting me.
“Do you still believe my plan is reckless?”
Cassandro asked as though my opinion should have changed by now. To be honest, I was still worried, but…
‘Cassandro has never asserted his opinion like this before.’
He must be confident, which is why he’s trying to convince me. Besides, I trusted Cassandro quite a bit.
“Fine, I’ll trust you this once.”
I looked at him intently and spoke with conviction.
“But remember what I said. If things get dangerous, you run without hesitation.”
“I shall do so.”
Cassandro nodded with the faintest smile tugging at his lips.
“Have no fear. I will see you to safety and escape.”
“No matter how hard I run, I’ll still be slower than you. I’m worried I won’t be able to keep up.”
“There is no need for such concern. I can simply carry the Saint and flee.”
Carry… me? I flinched for a moment and looked at Cassandro, but his expression was utterly serious.
‘What is he saying so casually like that?’
My flustered face grew even hotter from the embarrassment.

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