Chapter 201 – Episode 201 Demon Lord Army VS Holy Religion Save Point (3)

“Again…”

Failed again.
He couldn’t save her saintess or prevent her from falling.
She was kidnapped by the demon king’s army and eventually collapsed.

“Shit!”

Unable to hold back her anger, Yuna Hong rolled her fists and spat out curses at her.

The saintess’ fall meant her defeat.
It wasn’t because she was essential to the attack.
In this world where there are only others.
Hong Yoon-ah In this world where no one sympathizes with her.

Her saintess was the only one who said she could trust and depend on her.
Let’s save this world that she has fallen and died.

‘It must be the same as the world I lived in before.’

Korea.
What is the difference between her and Korea where there is no one who truly believes in her?
The Pope who frequently targets her body.
The politicians of the kingdom praised the hero in front, but would press him politically, saying that he was useless after catching the demon king.
The zealots of the religions who fall for the instigation of such people and curse the hero as a lie.

Rather, it might be worse than Korea.

Like trying to eat a useless hunting dog.
I didn’t know if I would get rid of Hong Yoon-ah.

I know because I have read many novels.

The conclusion of the hero who subdued the demon lord.

‘There must be a saintess.’

Even in this situation, she who believes in herself and tells only her truth was what her Hong Yuna needed.

On her pilgrimage she spared her own divine power for her sake.
She remembered Hong Yun-ah’s devotion to her saintess, who was willing to spend her own free time.
She knew all too well that she was a good person.

“Never… I will never let that happen again.”

She remembered what her saintess looked like in her previous episode.
The miserable figure of her crawling down the stairs without being able to do anything because her eyesight and divine power were taken away by the demon king.

“I will protect you.”

Certainly.
I’ll protect you.

Hong Yoon-ah woke up.
Let’s go again.
To the room where the saintess is.
She had to make sure she was unharmed.
Just in case.

A little more slowly and calmly than when she first returned, she headed towards her saintess’s room.

I’m about to knock on the door

“Come on in.”

Again, as if she had waited, the saintess’ voice came from inside.
It was a soft, sweet voice.
Same as before.
So her mind was relieved.

The voice was warm and soft.
It was a comfortable voice, not the desperate and miserable voice she heard at the end before returning.
Done.
She too is back to normal.

Yoona Hong opened the door.

The saintess was bathed in the moonlight as she sat by her bed this time as well.
She was looking out of her window with her eyes wet with her melancholy, with her eyes closed.

“I guess you can’t sleep. You’re coming all the way here at this hour.”

Same speech.
Same facial expression.
Hong Yun-ah did not answer and approached her saintess.

“Fortunately, the. Holy Maiden.”
“Hero?”

But one was different.
No, it wasn’t different. Same as before.
The voice of her saintess, calling her her hero and treating her.
But.

‘Thank you. Miss Yoona…’
‘I’m sorry I dragged you into this…’

Hong Yun-ah could not forget the sorrowful voice of her saintess as she called her own name.

“Did you ever dream of me disappearing?”
“Similar… Do.”
“It seems that you have put a lot of thought into my pilgrimage.”
“I guess so.”

Although the details were different, a conversation similar to the previous regression continued.

“Shall I send you another blessing?”
“… Would you please?”

If it’s your blessing, I think this anxious and trembling heart will calm down a little.

“Sure.”

The saintess placed her hand on her Hong Yuna’s head.
Her divine power calmed Hong Yuna’s consciousness.

“Hero, are you feeling better now?”
“Holy Lady.”
“Yes?”
“Name… You can call me.”
“Why all of a sudden…”
“Just. We’ve gotten a little closer, haven’t we?”

It was just a whim.
Maybe it was the guilt of not being able to save her former saint.
Or, it may be that Yoona Hong’s desire to identify the saintess of her previous episodes with the current saintess may have been revealed.

She wanted to hear
Her saintess calling her own name.
This was a manifestation of her will to save the saintess she had not been able to protect before.

“Amazing. I think the hero is such an active person in relationships with people… I didn’t think of that.”
“Is that so? Did I look like that?”
“Yes. A little bit. I felt a bit out of place because I couldn’t adapt to this world.”
“… Maybe so. Because I am a foreigner.”
“I didn’t mean it in that sense.”
“I know. What did the saintess mean?”

A moment of silence follows.

By the time the saintess’ blessing was over.

“Yuna… Sir, can I call you this?”

The saintess called her Hong Yuna’s name.
I don’t know why, but Hong Yun-ah felt something in her heart throb.

“Yes. That’s it. Saintess…”
“Sorry. I’m Yuna… I call you by name, but I can’t tell you my name…”
“No. I know everything about the saintess’ position.”
“Whoops, thank you. Miss Yoona.”

Looking at the saintess smiling at her, Yuna Hong made a resolution.
I will definitely protect her.

In order to protect her saintess, she had to be prevented from being kidnapped by the demon king’s army.
If you are faced with a problem that is difficult to solve.

‘I just need to remove the cause of the problem.’

The root cause of her troubles being kidnapped.
That’s right
Pilgrimage.

I intend to stop her from going on her pilgrimage.

“Holy Lady, don’t go. Pilgrimage tomorrow… Do not go.”
“Yes? What is that…”
“Don’t go on a pilgrimage. You can’t go.”
“Hero, no, Yoona… What does that mean? Do not go on a pilgrimage. Already declared. In order to kill the demon king and maximize Yoona’s power, she will return to her pilgrimage and bless her…”
“I can’t tell you why, but… I can’t go. Something big is going to happen.”

At Hong Yoon-ah’s desperate words, the saintess faced her face.

“You saw something.”
“…”
“Aren’t you going to tell me why?”
“Sorry. I can’t tell you that far.”

Would you believe me if I told you that here and now she experienced her future and returned to her past?
If she told me why she had returned to the past, she would fall into despair.
So no.
To tell you why.

“I’m not saying don’t go on the pilgrimage forever. Just two weeks, two weeks off.”
“… I don’t know why you do that, but I get it. I’ll just delay it for two weeks.”
“Thank you. Really…”
“Since Yoona says that, there is no way. Whoops. I will speak well to the Pope. Pilgrims will come, but… That can be worked out.”

It was not enough just not to go on a pilgrimage.
Yuna Hong grabbed the hand of her saintess.

“I’ll ask for one more.”
“Please speak.”
“Come with me for two weeks. Introducing Saint City. I was busy doing my hero work, but people didn’t know what this city was famous for and how people lived.”
“All right. Let me tell you. Let’s go see what’s famous in this city.”

The saintess laughed lightly and patted Hong Yuna’s hair.

“Yoona, don’t be shaken. I don’t know what you saw, but I saw Yoona save the world. He is our savior. You are.”

The saintess said.
That I saved the world
Really?
I couldn’t stop the saintess from falling, but to say that I really saved the world.
Even if that’s true

‘What does that mean?’

The only person who believed in me and relied on me was corrupted by the demon king…
That it is
Still, the fact that he saved the world.

‘I can’t believe I even killed the saintess…’

It won’t be.
Wouldn’t have
If so…

The saintess couldn’t have seen it.

You said you saw me save the world.
There will definitely be

With her not corrupted, she has a future of defeating the demon lord.

Hong Yuna said, calming her throbbing heart.

“Where is the most famous in this city? I want to go right away tomorrow.”
“Well, there is the famous spire. There is a large tower built when this church was established, and we will go there tomorrow. Let me introduce you.”
“Thank you.”

Hong Yoon-ah made a promise.
I will definitely protect the saintess.

***

“Here. This spire is a stone spire that is said to have risen thanks to the prayers of the first pope and the second saint for a year. It is the root of Saint City.”
“Ah.”

The saintess explained her spire with her excited face.
The spire’s origins, history, and the development of the Saint City it created, and more.
The saintess told the story of the spire with an excited face like her child.
How can you look so pure
But those words did not reach Hong Yuna’s ears.

‘In the end, I stopped going on a pilgrimage… I still can’t feel the position of the Demon King’s officers. Where the hell is she?’

Future measures were needed.
If you change the present, the future will change.
The movements of the demon lord’s officers must have changed, and their attacks will become more stealthy.

It will probably be fine.
This is Saint City, the capital of the Religion.
Elite knights and numerous priests were guarding the city. There, all sorts of divine magic were placed so that demons could not enter.
No matter what they do, you will be able to stop them.

But why are you so anxious?
Her past memories of failing to prevent the abduction of her saintess twice made Hong Yuna nervous.

“Yoona, are you listening?”
“Yes? Oh, I’m sorry. I haven’t heard from the middle.”
“Really, it’s difficult if you can’t concentrate like that. It’s because they postponed the pilgrimage using the historical education of the warriors as an excuse. You have to be focused to let the Pope know that you are actually learning well.”
“All right.”

Yoona Hong continued to look at the profile of the saintess as she explained with a bright smile.
The relief she felt from not using her holy powers eased her mind a bit.
I was so excited that I wanted to keep protecting her as she talked about her.

***

Ten days have passed since then.
The movements of the Demon King’s army officers were still undetectable.

I spent ten days with her saint and wandered around her saint city to learn a little more about her.
She likes history, she likes to help and serve others, and she is happier than anyone else when talking about Saint City and the Church.
It was nice to see her human side when she confessed that she once secretly ate sweet candy sold in the commercial district.

“I never thought I would have such a good time after dedicating my name and eyes to God.”
“Are you having fun?”
“Yes. I’ve never been to a city like this before. I am a saint, and I have always been someone who should set an example.”
“I’m glad you look happy.”
“Is Yoona happy?”

Has the distance between her hearts narrowed?
Her saintess seemed to have gotten used to being called by her name.

“It’s fun.”
“Thank god.”

When she heard the story, she was a sister a year older than her, so she told the saintess to be comfortable with her.
But she.

-No. She is a saint that everyone should respect. She can’t be rude. Instead, I’ll call her Yoona. It’s possible.

She said that and didn’t let go of her words until the end.

“Sister, isn’t the saintess uncomfortable?”
“What?”
“It is such an oppressed life. Isn’t she uncomfortable?”
“Hmm… She never thought of it that way. This is my daily life.”
“Later. If I defeat the Demon King…”

Yuna Hong said to the saintess in front of her eyes.

“Take a trip with me. Show me places other than Saint City.”
“Sure. I will show it to Yoona as soon as I have time.”

The saintess laughed like a child again.
The moment she saw that pure, innocent smile.

Pounding.

Hong Yoon-ah’s heart raced.

‘Calm down… Do not be like this.’

It’s like this all the time.
From one day, when I met her eyes with the saintess, her heart pounded.
When she laughs, she makes her heart beat again.
When she calls her name…

It was strange.
She knew she couldn’t do this.
Before the opponent is a saint.
She was a woman
She is of the same gender as herself.

Does she feel love for a woman?
It couldn’t be like this.
She had never been like this.

But why?

Was it on the fourth day?
When it was time to go back from walking around the city with the saintess.
It occurred to her that she did not want to return to the castle.

She wanted to hold the saintess’ hand and walk around the city more.
She wanted to feel her breath.
She wanted to feel her warmth more, smell her more.

She didn’t want to go back.

Then, seeing her saint for the first time, her heart skipped a beat.

Her feelings to protect her were intensifying, so she knew it was.
But no.
More complex emotions.

Her feelings of wanting to protect her grow and her feelings of not wanting to lose her grow.
Other emotions welled up.

The saintess’s face drew closer and closer.
No, she was getting closer.

When she realized that

Side.

“Yoo, Yuna… ?”

Yuna Hong lightly kissed her saintess on the lips.

“Mi, I’m sorry. Saintess…”

Hong Yuna ran out of her place as if running away.