Chapter 14 – Episode 14 – Saint… Can We Continue? (2)

The table for four people was pretty cool.
It was because a sick Potty and an angry Sylnia weren’t out for dinner, but no one bothered to bring it up to make the atmosphere even more awkward.

Hernán thought of Potty while watching the hero crush the bunny-faced dumplings with a fork.

During a brief conversation with the saintess during the day, I heard that Potty’s ribs seemed to have slightly cracked.
In addition to that, I am very scared, so I have to stay in my room for a while.

In other words, he was locked in a room without moving.

Being trapped inside a confined place again.

Hernan realized that there was a floor under the floor and felt his appetite run away.

However, the demon king, who sat a little away from Hernán, continued to put food in his mouth.

“Eating sweets three times in a row is getting a bit boring.”

Even as he said that, he continued to drink the melted chocolate drink.

“Are you eating more and more?”

“That’s right, the mouth to eat has decreased, so you have to eat as much.”

She looked at the hero and muttered to Hernán.

Hernán sighed, thinking that the atmosphere hadn’t completely died because Sharpie was actively eating.

“There is not much activity here. Aren’t you gaining weight?”

“If you eat deliciously, you won’t gain weight!”

As Hernan and Sharpie managed to keep the atmosphere on the brink of death, the saintess opened her mouth.

“Hero.”

There was a distinct reluctance in his gentle voice.

“You have reconsidered the instructions you gave me this morning…”

Instructions to sleep with Hernán.

Thanks to the content of the saintess’s words, the atmosphere that seemed to have barely returned to consciousness entered a coma again.

The saintess belongs to the fast side rather than the unaware side.
There is no way that she doesn’t know that the words she brings out will make the air heavy.

“Are you not going out of here?”

“But I am a priest.”

The saintess earnestly tried to persuade the warrior, even while making the dinner table at the end of the day uncomfortable.

“I even took a vow of celibacy…”

“Did you even take an oath of service? When I joined the party, I said that I would do my best to serve everyone.”

“There’s no way a pregnancy can go into that service!”

Unlike breakfast or lunch, the saintess came out wearing a priestly uniform.
Because it was prepared for battles and rough journeys, it was a dark-colored suit that was loose but tight as much as possible.

Hernán thought that there was a reason why she was wearing a priestly uniform, who had always worn only comfortable casual clothes after coming here.

“Have you seen any of the people wearing these clothes with children?”

“There were quite a few people rumored to have it.”

The saintess bit her lip as she watched the warrior reply without blinking an eye.

“Of course, not all priests keep their oaths. On the contrary, there are people who break it and still work fine.”

The saintess, perhaps frustrated, put down the simple priest’s hat on the table.
When I put it down, there was whipped cream from the pie, so my hat was soggy.

The saintess seemed so distracted that she couldn’t even notice that.

“But that’s because they haven’t been endowed with divine power by the gods. My case is different!”

“What do you mean?”

The demon king leaned towards Hernan with an incomprehensible face.

“Are there any priests with divine power among the demons? You also drink and serve.”

“Demon God gives magic abilities to priests, doesn’t he?”

Hernan gave a rough explanation so as not to miss the flow of the conversation.

“Let’s say that a person who received divine power disappeared one day. Do people think that there is a problem between him and God?”

The hero opened her mouth at the same time that Sharpie made a face of understanding.

“There was a problem because of the machinations of the demon god. Can’t that be? Anyway, if you capture the demon king and come back, everyone will focus on that and won’t care about such trivial things.”

“It’s not possible! How can you lie like that…”

“Can it be that the person who will become the head of the Order is just so naive?”

The saintess was silent and held the ends of her own pigtails.
Her hand was unsteady, so she seemed to be holding it.

“I won’t speak any louder either.”

Unlike the other members of her party, the saintess was a person with her name from the time she joined her party, and she also has divine authority as a saintess.
Even from the warrior’s point of view, it would be a bit awkward to keep going hard.

“It’s just that the only way to get out of here is to have 19 children.”

The hero got up, picking up her saintess’s hat, which was stained with her whipped cream.

“I would like you, as king, to consider giving it to her saintess.”

Her saintess took the hat with her trembling hand.
For a moment she tried to rewrite it, but she gave up and put it down again.

Probably because she was too dirty to rewrite.

Hernan finally turned his head to Carine.
Having finished her meal, it was her turn to ask her to come in with her.

However, the hero went to his room without saying a word, but he did not call himself.
In the end, Hernán got up and followed her without waiting for Carine’s words.

She guessed why he hadn’t called her, but that made it all the more difficult for her not to follow.

“L…”

Carine slurred her words as she saw her lover following her into her room.

“I told you to sleep in the marina room today.”

“She herself hates it that much, so does it have to be like this?”

“Don’t suddenly say weak things.”

The hero replied that it was Hernan who said that the period would be shortened if at least one more person participated in the morning.
Seeing that the corners of her eyes lifted slightly, she didn’t seem to be all that comfortable either.

“So if you’re pregnant and don’t want to act like a saint or an elf, be considerate. The less I do with women, the better.”

“I should have explained why I shouldn’t get pregnant. Besides, 3 people excluding 2 people to give birth to 19 people?”

The warrior shook his head.

“Time is also time, but the body will be extremely exhausted.”

Since her words were not wrong, Hernán couldn’t think of anything to refute.
However, she did not have the confidence to convince the saint and the elf who refused to have a relationship.

“If I went now, I would just refuse.”

“Don’t judge without trying. At least the saintess will accept it.”

The elf added that he would think about it later, and Karine pushed Hernán on the back.

“Here’s a towel and a change of clothes.”

Pushed to her door, Hernán accepted the things she handed over.
It meant that everyone should wash up and sleep in another room.

“Don’t look at me with those eyes. I am not comfortable either.”

When Hernán sent her eyes that contained her complicated state of mind, Karine also began to have feelings in her eyes.

“Carine.”

Hernán stood by her door and held her hand.
Karine, who didn’t push that far, accepted what her lover was doing quietly.

“I will be back.”

After a short kiss, Hernan opened the door and left.
Carine stroked her lips and muttered.

“Come on…”

* * *

“Saintess!”

Knocking on her saintess’ door, Hernan tried to calm her trembling heart.
However, her tension and anxiety continued to rise in a different way from when she mixed with Forty.

The fact that at her fortieth she might be caught by Karine, and that she did something she shouldn’t be caught, was the cause of that feeling.

But now, he was afraid only because of the saintess’ reaction.

“Hernan…”

The saintess opened the door.
She was still wearing her priestly uniform except for her hat.

“May I come in?”

“If the hero kicked you out, how about sleeping in Potty’s room?”

“Are you saying you grew up with the patient?”

“… Then, how about going to the Demon King’s room?”

The saintess continued to reject Hernán, clenching her clothes to the part of her protruding hips.
Perhaps, thinking that if she was an elf, she wouldn’t have opened the door itself, said Hernan quietly.

“Don’t you know that even the saintess has no way? After all, I will come here every day until the saintess sleeps with me.”

Due to the nature of the bedroom without a lock, the hero may recommend forced entry later.
It would have been better if the saintess had voluntarily opened it.

“Hernan…”

Saint Marina clenched her molars for a moment.
She was the first to see her because she always had a soft expression on her face.

“If you don’t like me that much, just sleep…”

“Come in.”

The saintess opened her door completely.
Hernán stepped into her room after a moment of hesitation.

Unlike the demon king or Potty’s room, where things were a little messy, it was a tidy atmosphere.

The only foreign thing was the hat, which was still smeared with white cream.

The saintess covered it up and invited Hernán to sit down.

The saintess and Hernán, sitting on chairs with small tables in each room, were silent for a while and only glanced at each other.

“Holy Lady.”

“Hernan.”

It was almost at the same time that the silence was broken.

“Tell me first.”

“No. Hernán, please tell me first.”

Afraid of falling into silence again, Hernán did as her saintess said.

“Are you sure you don’t like me?”

“Not like that. Because Hernan is a good person.”

It didn’t seem like it was just a compliment on her lips.
Feeling embarrassed, Hernan continued the conversation.

“I was worried that the saintess might not like my face.”

The saintess laughed bitterly and shook her head.

“You’re trying to lighten the mood.”

Hernán admitted, regretting not having learned a more clever joke.

“Because I can’t be this uncomfortable forever.”

“Hernan is really with me… He wants to make a baby with me.”

“Isn’t there a way?”

To be honest, I wanted to apologize and go back to Karine.
Just being here already made me feel like I had crossed the line a lot in my relationship with the saintess.

“Aren’t you afraid? If it is revealed that you have violated her saintess, her order of knights will not stand still.”

It was a flimsy warning.

“I hope that fact leaks out here. They will come to rescue us.”

The saintess smiled bitterly this time as well, but her smile was slightly softer.

“I can understand why that cold princess likes Hernan.”

“I will be happy if the saintess likes me too.”

Hernán tried to keep the saintess from getting too nervous by recalling the conversation she had with Carine before the sex drive suppression magic was applied to her head.

If you do, it would be nice to do it in the best atmosphere possible.

Of course, if she gave up so easily, her vow of celibacy would be meaningless.

“Hernan. As you may have noticed in our conversation earlier, I am trying to become the head of the Church of Ruiner.”

“Did you cooperate with the hero on the condition that you receive support to become an archbishop?”

“Yes. That’s why I applied despite the church’s opposition when the hero requested a cleric with divine power from the church.”

As the story became more complex than expected, Hernan was told that it was more dizzying.

He never thought the mountain he had to climb would be covered by such a huge and complicated politics.

“Lady. So, are you sure that if you break your vow of celibacy, that is, if you have sex with me, you will never be able to use your holy power again?”

Hernan, who thought that the process would be more difficult if he heard complicated politics and personal history, hurriedly stabbed him to the core.

The saintess affirmed in a more melancholy voice than ever before.

“That’s right. Because the revelation that came down to me was that the Goddess would continue to be with me if I did not keep my virginity and start a family.”

If you lose your virginity, the gods will no longer give you divine power.

Now, the saintess was facing a situation where she would lose her ability to control her divine power.
She only hesitated.

“And the fact that I was canonized as a saint is also thanks to my mighty holy power.”

“Wasn’t it because of helping the needy or helping the poor?”

“Of course, that is one of the reasons and I am proud of myself. However, the fact that the divine power still disappears…”

Listening to her stories, it seemed that she became a saint not simply because of her service to those in need.

“In other words, if Hernan and I mix.”

The saintess cut off her words for a moment and blushed.
And she soon became a dark face.

“I will no longer be a saint.”