Chapter 108 – Chapter 104 – The Saint and the Realm of Wishes (5)

A saintess who wants to talk about all the topics that Hernan mentioned.
Sensing her burden for some reason, Hernán turned her head away from the woman sitting next to her.

Then, I saw Leni playing in a flower field full of flowers.

Daughter of Saint Marina and child of Hernan.
As if to indicate that, her hair is dark blonde.

The moment Hernán gradually tried to focus on his cute daughter, her child’s mother opened her mouth.

“First, let’s talk about the right to wish.”

Marina stared at Hernán and continued her words.
Hernan felt her gaze and expected her to tell her the details of her wish.

“When Hernán uses my wish ticket, I want him to do it right here, in the garden upstairs.”

“From here?”

Hernán showed her curiosity as he watched Lenny pick the flowers one by one.

“Do you have any reason to be here? Could it be that it is a problem related to divine power that the saintess can feel?”

“You can do that too.”

The saintess smiled and nodded her head.
And she lowered her voice very quietly.

“It’s kind of like an experiment. An experiment on exactly where the source of the demonic power is…”

“Why are you lowering your voice all of a sudden? It’s just us and our daughter here.”

The garden is an open structure.
There is nothing to block the view except for the space with long chairs and tall flowers placed in the middle.

“Originally, divine power among gods is exclusive.”

The saintess continued with her voice still lowered.

“If you enter the sacred ground of a certain god, sometimes priests of other gods cannot use their divine power.”

“Then, since the holy power of one of the old gods is overflowing here, does that mean the influence of the demons is limited?”

“That’s right. Besides, since there is no magic power, it will be difficult to properly monitor this place even with magic, which is a demon’s organ. Of course, he’s not even present here, so it’s impossible to physically monitor him.”

Hernán continued to ask questions, still feeling curious.

“If that is true, then there is no need to lower your voice, right? Anyway, the demon god won’t notice what’s going on in this space.”

While asking questions, Hernan and the saint’s daughter gathered a bunch of flowers.
And started messing around with it.

“Perhaps… Maybe the facts I just said are changing little by little.”

The saintess seemed slightly out of breath as she spoke.
Maybe it’s because my stomach is full.

Only then did Hernán completely take his eyes off his daughter, and met her eyes with the saintess.

“Would you like to talk in a more comfortable position?”

Hernán changed her posture so that she could lean on her, but the saintess smiled and refused.

“It’s okay.”

She just leaned her body back a little bit and calmed her breath.

“Anyway, if we finish the experiment of using the wishing ticket here, we should be able to know if the Demon God can be sure to keep an eye on this place. Then on to the next topic…”

“What exactly are you going to use for your wish ticket?”

Hernán stopped the saintess from rushing beyond her topic, and she brought up the subject she was curious about.

“You said you wanted to ask about the soul, right? Can you tell me what your soul is asking?”

In any case, even if she obtains her right of wish, she must also obtain Poti’s permission, as her rank as queen is not.

“The odds are low, but if Forty could deny permission. It wouldn’t hurt for me to know the details just in case.”

She said with an attitude that she would listen.
Marina must have felt that will as well, so she nodded her head with a heavy expression.

“That is correct. I will let you know.”

She slowly leaned towards Hernán.
Realizing that she was trying to whisper, Hernán hurriedly took her away.

It was probably intended to make it difficult for the demon to hear.

“Soul. The Demon God will ask if he can take charge of our souls.”

“Are you talking about the afterlife?”

“Of course, this includes the world after death prepared by the gods.”

The two whispered alternately, as if lovers were having a secret conversation.

“But isn’t the soul only meaningful after death?”

“Shouldn’t you be too theological and tell me the core?”

Hernán deliberately shrugged off.
The saintess’ expression was slightly serious, but she regained her composure.

“It would be better to explain this in connection with the second topic, demon worship.”

She has been pressing her body against Hernán to make it easier to talk.

Among the women, it was only swollen here and there, and even the belly was full, so the fuller body hit me.
She listened to her, feeling that her breasts were a little wet.

“Hernan is normal, but have you heard that the human gods lead our souls after she dies?”

“That’s about it, even if you’ve only heard of the temple when you were young, you can tell.”

“Then, what about the demon’s soul?”

The saintess’s chest, which was crushed by her, intensely pressed Hernán’s entire chest.
It was so big that the rim of her chest, which was crushed by her, even rose.

It was even predicted that if the saintess closely adhered to her, her breasts would touch someone’s chin.

“Isn’t it the same with demons? Their souls will be taken care of by the demon god. Coincidentally, since they have only one god, their responsibility should be clearer.”

Hernán saw her breasts touching her saintess’s chin.
The saintess looked down at her slippery face at the touch.

Marina’s face blushed slightly.
I hadn’t seen her so shy since her sex with her first child.

In fact, the sex wasn’t a good situation either, so the image of her that she was ashamed of at the time is not a good memory here either.

So, as now, Marina’s innocently shy appearance came to Hernán quite fresh.

“… The Demon King will also answer that. All demons will learn that way too.”

She continued her conversation by gently removing her breasts.
Hernán felt sorry for that appearance.

The physical part is also disappointing.
But rather than that, it was especially regrettable that the opportunity to get a glimpse into the inner side of the saintess, who is difficult to understand her thoughts or feelings these days, had disappeared.

“But in fact, there is a fact that all high-ranking priests of my church, no, of all the churches that serve the human gods, implicitly know.”

Marina’s face changed to a more stern and stern face, as if she were trying to forget the embarrassing situation she had just been in.
Hernán deliberately asked her with a serious face in order to be considerate of her.

“The churches are hiding more than you think.”

“I can’t help it. Because the gods commanded not to inform the public…”

The saintess glanced sideways at the ceiling where the sun was pouring in with her slightly uneasy eyes.
And she whispered her secret very quietly.

“Demons cannot take responsibility for the demons’ souls.”

I was speechless for a moment.
I didn’t understand exactly what it meant.

A god who is in charge of a huge racial group called demons is not in charge of that race?

“In other words, the possibility of worshiping demons is similar…”

“Mom and dad.”

Both Hernan and Marina turned their heads.
Lenny was standing in front of them.

“You can tell me now… ?”

The child asked with a slightly tired face.
Hernán hurriedly got up from his seat and approached the child.

“Did you stand still because you were talking to Mom and Dad?”

When Hernan knelt down in front of the child and asked a question, Lenny smiled awkwardly.

“Kiss.”

“Huh? Kiss me?”

“No. A kiss with mom and dad.”

The saintess from behind interpreted the child’s words.

“I think he thought we were kissing. Since we were having a secret conversation, it must look like that in the eyes of a child.”

Didn’t you interfere because your parents seemed to be on good terms?

Hernán held her child in his arms, feeling that a part of her heart had been pricked.
After putting off the conversation for a while, she thought she should spend time with her child.

* * *

The time when a child can’t stand the warm sunlight and falls asleep on her parent’s lap.
The two were looking at each other’s hands in a strange atmosphere.

“I wonder if he was jealous of the demon king’s daughter?”

The saintess spoke her words first.
Hernan answered while looking at the light purple flower ring on her finger.

“Are you talking about the corolla? If it was something she envied, she would rather have me or the saint make it. It was made by Sharpie and Potty.”

The saintess also gazed intently at the ring made of her rosemary petals perched on her finger.
And she spoke in an awkward tone.

“Did she know what Ai meant by this?”

“That won’t be it. I am not old enough to understand that yet.”

Perhaps she made this little ring because she tried to make a crown and failed.
And she gave it to her parents as a gift.

Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that she is the first gift given by a child.

Thinking that, her heart tickled.
Will Marina do the same?

“… She shouldn’t be wearing it all the time.”

The saintess said while holding her ring carefully.

“When Hernán and I wear these, they will excite other women. Maybe there will be a competition for ornaments like a fashion once in a while.”

Hernán was silent as he watched the saintess take off her ring.
He looked at her daughter’s face as she breathed evenly without moving.

“Hernan. How about taking it off?”

“I will not subtract.”

The saintess frowned as she held the ring in her hand.

“Do you want to see women compete? I know it’s sad that the child gave it to me, but I’ll look at the whole thing a little more and make a decision…”

“You want to get rid of the saintess?”

Hernan glanced at the saintess’ fingers, which were already empty, and said.
When her saintess nodded her head, he rather slipped her ring on her finger.

“I’ll just wear it. If you explain that it was a gift from a child, no one will care.”

She stroked her daughter’s fine hair and added further explanations.

“And if you tell Lenny that you took it off for fear of ruining it, he will understand.”

Thinking of reinforcing the fragile petal ring, Hernan held out her hand to the saintess.

“Saint, please give me the ring too. I’ll make it stronger later. Still, it’s a gift for my daughter, so it’s better to keep it.”

Marina looked at her hand and held out her slightly crushed ring.

“… All right.”

Hernan put it in his arms and returned to the topic he had stopped earlier.
Remembering what the saintess was trying to whisper, he leaned toward Marina’s ear.

“What are you talking about? A demon god can’t take care of the souls of its followers.”

“This is the content written in the words of the gods that each church has kept from a very long time ago. If you serve the devil, you cannot guarantee your soul. So don’t apostatize…”

“Is that just a word?”

“The gods only let us know that far. Besides, since it was a revelation so long ago, no one will know exactly why.”

Could it be that the human gods with whom they had a bad relationship unilaterally framed the demon god?
It was a blasphemous thought indeed, but Hernán couldn’t stop thinking about it.

That would be true, too, because many of the women who mixed and fell in love with him either served demons or were demons at all.

“The gods of mankind conspire against drinking…”

In an instant, unable to overcome the passion, the words came out.
However, he stopped talking when he remembered that the woman he was talking to was a priest serving the god of mankind.

And he changed his thinking a bit.

“Then, what about the case where demons serve the human god? Or will the humans who served the demons serve the gods of mankind again?”

The saintess hesitated before opening her mouth.

“There is nothing explicitly stated about it. There is only an order not to betray humanity as much as possible.”

“How about the demons?”

“That’s the demon…”

Marina hesitated her words with her even more perplexed face.
However, Hernán said that she would definitely get an answer, and she couldn’t win.

“As the demons have already rejected themselves as a racial unit, they say they have nothing to do with it…”

Hernan realized why the church hates and hates demons so much.

The highest-ranking priests must have known this fact, and if so, they would have regarded the demons as beings that could never mix with humans.
Their attitude would have secretly influenced the lower clergy and believers as well.

“Then Sharpie…”

“Hernan. Not sure yet. According to the records of mankind.”

Marina cut off Hernán’s words as if to soothe him urgently.

“That’s why I want to ask you. Sharpies, of course, and us who have deeply immersed our feet in demons. And even Hernan’s children.”

The saintess spoke slowly.

“Just in case… Whether the demon can take responsibility for all of us souls.”