Chapter 24 – Addiction

Umm…

Omg!

I fell asleep unknowingly.

When I woke up and checked my watch, fortunately it seemed that it hadn’t been long before I fell asleep.

I couldn’t believe it, but I thought I’d pass out as soon as I sat down to draw…

Fortunately, it seems that no one entered my room while I passed out for a while.

I thought it would be better to check it out just in case, so I got up and looked around.

Once there is no trace

“Then… “

When I opened the door, I felt something thump and catch me.

What is this

“Dinner… Is it?”

There was a note, so when I checked it, there was no response when I knocked on the door, so Lydia’s message was written saying that I was just leaving it here.

I never imagined that they would come and go while I was sleeping for a while.

“I bet you didn’t come… ?”

If I had come in, it would have been known that I was drawing cartoons, and that it was me who drew those lily cartoons.

I can only hope it’s not

I believe not.

“Whoa… “

After having dinner, I went back to my room and sat down at my desk again to start drawing while eating dinner.

As much as I decided to focus on painting as soon as I came back, I had to hold back and draw even if I was sleepy.

“It can’t go on like this… “

Still, I couldn’t help but feel sleepy.

It’s a bit like using miracles for something like this, but in the end it’s my power, so it doesn’t matter how I use my power.

Thinking so, I put my hands together and prayed.

Seeing that the tired body returns to its original state just by praying, the effect was certainly good.

“Whoa… “

I slapped myself on the cheek a couple of times to completely blow away the fading energy of sleep and grabbed the pen again. I must have recovered my condition, the things I experienced and saw today… And, I will draw the best of the materials I came up with today and draw a piece of art.

That is why I went through this hardship today.

“This… I should draw a little more idiotically.”

Looking at the character draft for a moment, I thought of Freah.

You have to look dazed, but at the same time have strength.

At first glance, he seems like a person who doesn’t have much willpower and doesn’t know what he’s doing, but when it comes to fighting, when the situation arises that protects the heroine later on, you have to draw it with an appearance that you can rely on.

It’s definitely difficult, but I’m burning with will now so I’ve never had as much fun as today.

This is it

It’s this…

At some point, I completely let go of my worries that I might have been caught by Lydia, and I focused entirely on drawing.

Coincidentally, thanks to her strength and physical abilities as a saint, her drawing speed has become overwhelmingly faster than in her previous life.

Let’s try it!

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“… “

Mind is complicated

Lydia felt that way.

She was a saintess who was cheering for her own love, saying that it was okay until recently, and that from now on she should not fall into such temptation.

“What I saw was wrong… Probably not… ?”

She came out after watching it for a short time, but it was definitely the figure she knew, the master of her comics she knew.

It was a cartoon I had never seen before, so it was clear that it was a cartoon I had just started drawing, but I could never forget the drawing style.

It was the drawing style of Miss Lily who is said to have opened a new horizon for painting.

What happened?

I remember acting as if I didn’t know anything about manga, but I thought it was the person who drew the picture?

The moment she saw the painting, she even felt betrayed.

However, now that I think about it, if I think about why she replied that she could keep Eris, her saintess, in her heart, I felt relieved rather than feeling betrayed by her.

Doesn’t that mean that she thought that even the saintess secretly wanted to have a relationship with a woman?

Lydia couldn’t help but smile at the joy that emanated from her heart when she wondered if she had been hiding such feelings behind her usual good and sincere appearance.

It was like that.

It was like that.

She felt ashamed of herself for not recognizing the saintess’ inner thoughts.

The saintess was secretly wishing for her.

And as she got closer to the correct answer, she secretly seduced her while liking her in her heart. Otherwise, the person who drew the manga was the saintess, and there was no way she would tell me that even though she was a woman herself, it was okay for her to have feelings of love for women.

She couldn’t have said that to herself if she hadn’t been thinking about it, if she was a woman.

Common sense makes it right for women to share affection with men.

It wasn’t written in the doctrine, but it was common sense in the world.

However, the saintess was not like that.

She said that even if she loves as the same woman, she is not strange at all, and she supports love.

Isn’t it strange?

“The saintess is really… “

She didn’t know there was such a person.

She was more shy than I thought.

Come to think of it, she has been secretly shy since the old days.

Even though she was a woman, she was secretly ashamed of seeing a female body.

She, of course, thought she could, so it wasn’t too much of a problem.

But,

‘If it turns out that I know who I am, you’ll have a hard time… ‘

I was thinking of pretending not to know for now.

It would be better for her to keep it a secret until one day the saintess tells the truth.

She probably thought that the reason she said she wanted to go somewhere this time was related to her work. Come to think of it, she heard that a certain festival was held in the empire this time, but maybe she was away to go to that festival.

Anyway, I didn’t want to be hated.

Back in her room, Lydiane quietly took out her crystal tablet.

Things she hadn’t seen before, which she considered sinful, but thinking that they were paintings drawn by someone she loved made her feel completely different.

‘I want to know what it is… ‘

I was curious.

She was curious about what kind of feelings she had now, and also wanted to see how love between women really works.

The cartoon drawn by the saintess, no, Miss Lily, was very touching, perhaps because it was popular.

The comment section was always filled with words praising Miss Lily.

Occasionally, people who were dissatisfied with women making love posted malicious comments, but most of them were blocked by people calling themselves Naridan.

Most of the things that were said to be blocked were swearing and burying the person who said that.

She was the one who thought that if swearing and burying someone was happening, she would have to step in and stop it, but for some reason she didn’t feel that way.

Rather, I only thought that I should curse more at the person who was talking nonsense, how could I say such bad things after seeing a work like this.

‘Oh my, what am I thinking… ‘

It was the first time I had ever thought of someone like this.

Lydia trembled.

“I-I can’t do this… “

Hands keep going

At first, I was simply curious, but after seeing it once, I was curious about other articles, so I kept going.

Because he is a popular cartoonist, there were many comments.

Most of them were articles praising Miss Lily.

Ah… She is also a saint.

She was always smart, and she was amazing without anything she couldn’t do… Who knew you could draw well?

Besides, it wasn’t that it wasn’t fun.

It was so much fun that I didn’t notice the time passing.

It was a comment window full of madness that made her mistakenly thinking that this was another religion, but for some reason, Lydia found it so much fun and seemed to know why they were overreacting.

‘A little bit… Little bit more… ‘

Watching a cartoon, read the comments on that cartoon one by one.

Consciousness slowly sinks into comics.

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“Ah… ?”

Again

When I was concentrating on comics, a long time had passed before I knew it.

“It is late at night… “

Originally, it was time to sleep.

But Lydia couldn’t sleep.

She didn’t want to sleep

“Let’s read a little more… “

Rather than sleeping, my eyes went to the screen right now.

She thought that if she didn’t sleep now, she might be in serious trouble the next day, but it might be okay for a day or so.

Because there were so many comics she hadn’t read yet.

With her eyes bloodshot from focusing on the crystal for so long, she turned her head back to it and fell in love with it.

The night was still long.