Chapter 12 – Preliminary Survey

Ha… It was fun.

I only did a preliminary field trip, but it’s like my work is on display, and the theater advertisement is openly playing.

There are only a few things I really like.

Anyway, since I checked all the places I had to go around, it was time to go back.

I haven’t been around that long, but I have to go back because I don’t know what will happen on the Seongguk side if I stay here any longer.

I looked around and stood up.

However, my appearance may seem suspicious to people, but no one talks to me.

They only treated me as kindly as guards, and no one asked why I came here or what my identity was.

I like it better that way…

Still, I couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.

Anyway… I can’t stay here all the time because I’m uncomfortable, so it’s time to go home.

It’s a house, it’s a place that’s practically no different from a prison to me.

“Ha… “

It’s not that someone is locking me up in particular, but it’s true that I’m in fact half-prisoned because of the escort issue that I have to take with me everywhere I go…

This bastard’s granddaughter, the stupid Pope’s grandfather…

At this point, let’s go back and ask if we can stop carrying an escort on duty.

I don’t think you’ll really listen to me, but if I don’t tell you now, I’ll be frustrated and I won’t be able to stand it at all.

Be prepared

As soon as I get back, I’m going to ask them to let go of the escorts.

I’m one of the few people who knows about my true nature, so I’ll be sincere.

Really.

If you get it wrong, all sorts of double desires might come out.

If you’ve endured so far, I think you’ve endured well enough.

“… “

I’m not a nobleman to listen to that, but… If you don’t like it, “I hate you, Grandpa!” Maybe the time has come to slowly cast .

If anything, I tried not to do that much in order to keep my status as a saint, but now that it’s like this, there’s nothing I can do about it.

Grandpa made me this way.

Of course, the disappearance of escort troops does not mean that you will be able to go out confidently, but there is a big difference that you will be able to go out normally in the future.

Even if it’s just a little bit, I want to live a normal life…

“Ah… “

The once dream passed and returned to reality.

I sighed as I looked up at the gigantic building standing in front of me.

Trash life…

The goddess Ttanye may have reincarnated her around herself for me, but I think that’s what it is because I live a life that is restricted because of that.

The Goddess will be sad when she hears it, but what can I do?

I’m sadder now

Hing.

I crossed the wall carefully as I did when I left.

Landing on the floor, I looked around to see if anyone was around.

Fortunately, no one was around.

It was enough to return to my room as if nothing had happened.

“Saint?”

“Ugh… “

When I heard her familiar voice, I turned her head to see that Lydia was holding her luggage, and she was looking at me with a surprised expression.

I didn’t expect to get caught up here like this.

But, fortunately, it was Lydia who was caught, not the other unknown nuns.

If it were Lydia, even if I didn’t know where I was, she would know that she had been outside, so I didn’t have to worry so much.

“So… Did you have a good trip?”

Lydia asked me.

At this point, I think she deserves to be said to have had a good trip.

That’s satisfying enough.

“Huh… I was satisfied.”

“Is she really not going to tell me where she has been?”

“Sorry.”

No matter how family-like the relationship is, there are some secrets that cannot be told.

Especially since I can’t say that I’m a cartoonist, Lily, and that I went there because I wanted to see a play of my work.

“No, it’s okay. I think you can hide it.”

What.

Was Lydia such an angel?

I looked at Lydia with her thrilled expression and cleared my throat.

For now, I think it would be better to go inside first, because other nuns might see it if I stay here.

“I’ll go in first. Lydia does it while taking a break.”

“Thank you, saintess.”

“Anyway, not the saintess.”

He…

How many years had she been together, but did she intend to call her only a saint?

She thinks it’s okay to let go.

Come to think of it, she hadn’t had anyone like her friends all her life.

She acted like a saint most of the time and had to live as a saint, so making her friends was difficult.

Even though they were like family to me, there was a big difference between when she shared these secrets and when she didn’t.

I laughed and smiled.

“Can I call you Eris?”

“Yes, four?”

“Therefore… When we’re alone, you can call me by my first name.”

It’s me. She’ll stop calling me Lydia, as always.

For a while, she put on an expression that she didn’t understand my words, but then, as if she noticed, her face slowly started to turn red.

“Well, then I… I also want to ask you something, is it okay? ?!”

“Do you want to ask?”

Since Lydia doesn’t ask me much, it was interesting to see what kind of favor she would ask.

I listened as if to say something.

“I… That is… That… Hey, maybe… “

Why do you stutter like this

She was Lydia, who usually spoke well without any stuttering, but she was stuttering her words badly.

Are you so ashamed to ask me?

She thinks she can, but… Probably not.

If she blushed like that, it might not be because she was embarrassed to ask, but rather because it was an embarrassing request.

Lydia’s request of me was not infrequent, so she was willing to listen.

“You can call me sister… Do you have?… “

Even more so, if the request was nothing else, just a request to call her older sister, she could have listened to it over and over again.

It’s not that hard.

I nodded.

“Sister Lydia… ?”

At my words, Lydia froze on the spot.

Speaking of which, I’m a bit ashamed of myself.

“Huh… Eris… “

Ah what a surprise

As soon as I called her big sister, Lydia came up to me and hugged me with a cute look on her face, like she would treat her little brother.

Could it be that Lydia wanted her sister?

Of course, I look a little young on the outside, but… I feel bad for being treated like a child in such a blatant way.

Still…

Well, it’s okay if I can make Lydia’s wishes come true even a little bit.

“Something makes Lydia feel very childish now… ~”

Obviously, if you look at the age difference, I’m younger, but this feeling wasn’t too bad.

I held Lydia in her arms and caressed her back.

Come to think of it, I think it was the first time we hugged each other like family in this way.

I had to live as a saint, so I was always busy, and Lydia was a role that supported me and made harsh noises so that I could become a proper saint, so she was someone I could not like.

Of course, he didn’t really dislike her because he was like her family, and she always thought of her as a nagging older sister.

I started drawing because I was a painter from long ago, so I couldn’t give up painting, but it was also because living as a saint was so difficult that I wanted to escape from reality.

As much as when I was drawing, I was able to be peaceful without being interfered by anyone.

And… I was able to rediscover the joy that I had forgotten about.

“She will continue to call her older sister.”

“Ah… “

“So please?”

I smiled, got up from her seat, and held out her hand to Lydia.

At first I wondered what would happen… I thought she was rather lucky to see that she had gotten along better since I found out about her cartoons I had drawn.

Really…

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“Is that really… ?”

“Yes.”

The princess, Maria, felt a cold sweat while looking at the information in front of her eyes.

At first, I just thought it would be fun if the saintess was really a writer, Lily, and she was the one who drew the cartoon she liked.

It was a story that only bothered me to the end, and I thought it was strange that a saintess from a foreign castle country liked her comics that came out of her own empire, so I asked her to look for them.

However, the information returned was shocking.

“Nonsense… “

The saintess is Lily.

The saintess had drawn such a cartoon, and she had it written in front of her eyes.

Saint, Eris…

Except for meeting for political reasons, I don’t know what kind of person he is because I don’t have any contact with him.

The only thing that is certain is that she looks like a saint on the outside, she is more benevolent than anyone else and is a faithful believer with the greatest holy power ever.

It is incomprehensible that such a person drew such a picture.

“Still… “

She had no intention of intimidating her.

The reason I found Miss Lily was because I wanted to meet her just once, pretending to be a coincidence.

I’ve always wondered why she didn’t reveal herself so much, and now it seems like I know the reason.

More than anything, isn’t it nice to be like that now?

She was just looking forward to it.

It is the relationship that we will meet in the future, the relationship we have been waiting for so long.

A week has passed since then,

The day of the festival dawned.