Chapter 652 – #017. Saint of Light, Christina Luminous (5).

#017. Saint of Light, Christina Luminous.

The children start scooping up the rice without saying anything.
Take a bite of the potato and eat the soup.
It was quiet and nice to see.

“Okay, this is dining etiquette.”

Etiquette of the Eastern country of courtesy, Republic of Korea.
Close your mouth when eating.
Don’t talk
You can’t run around in a restaurant.

The teachers were frightened and grabbed me.

“Hey, you can’t do this here!”

The teachers glanced at the orphanage director.
They were afraid of Maria.
I could see how rough Mary’s personality was usually.

‘… And the fact that they value their children.’

The orphanage director loves children.
That’s why he’s very picky about issues that are directly related to the safety of the children in the orphanage.
It seems that even a single mistake is unacceptable.

Maria glares at me and gestures.
I was called into the orphanage director’s office.

I left the restaurant and headed to the director’s office.
Along the way, a cold wind blew.
A chill seemed to flow from Maria’s body.

“What are you doing in front of the kids, Ryan?”

The moment I entered the orphanage director’s office and closed the door, Maria let out a tantrum.
I’m getting scolded again.
Maria, the orphanage director, pressed her fists to her chest and made her tremble.

“You say and act violently towards children! Pup? Do you eat? Like that for the kids… !”

It is unfair.
I didn’t actually hit him, I just pushed him.
If anyone sees it, they will know that they killed a child.

“… It wasn’t really hitting or anything.”
“So you did a good job, Ryan? A grown-up yelling at pitiful children in an unbecoming grown-up way?”
“…”

It is unfair.
What if I scream with sincerity?
This continent would disappear, not the orphanage.

“Director, you are too strict.”
“Careful? Kankaan?!”

Maria’s eyes gleamed.

“Yes, I am strict. I am a strict woman. That’s why I can’t even get married and I’m just working until I’m old!”
“Suddenly?”
“But I got people’s approval because I was strict. Duke Reinhardt also believed in me and entrusted me with the position of head maid. Because, as Ryan said, he’s picky!”

Maria, who had vomited out all the lumps she had been holding inside of her, glared at me as she breathed.
Then, as if realizing what she had done, her surprised eyes evaded her words.

“… Anyway!”

You can’t escape my eyes.
I read Maria’s mind.

‘Is it like that?’

Maria has been under a lot of stress lately.
Seeing Christina’s baby, Rachel, made it even harder for her.

It was because of the stress she was barely suppressing and the desire to reproduce.

Even the Saints of the Church of Light, who value chastity, have children.
What the hell is she doing?

At the age of 40, today is the youngest day for Maria.
To be honest, it’s still late, but there’s still time.
About 10 years until menopause.

The thought that she should have her child when she is young, even for a day, fills her head.
But it’s not easy.
The female instinct to seek out the male seed hindered her.

Maria is a successful woman.
It is within 0.1% of this dimensional world.
There are very few women who are more successful than Maria.

‘I can roughly count them on my hand.’

That’s the story when I judged it with my values.

By the standards of this world, Mary was nothing more than a failure.
It’s because a grown-up woman can’t have children and is growing old alone.

I can’t even see the good seeds, but my body is getting old.
Even if you find a good seed, receiving and incubating it is another matter.

However, the time that flows like a darting does not wait for Maria.

“Are you listening, Ryan?”

Maria is looking at me.
She scolded me loudly once more, as if the reckless outpouring of her anger wasn’t enough.
As a result, Maria was able to regain her sanity.

“Eh, I’m listening.”
“Please be careful in the future. If you yell at them and press them, it will be easier to control them right now. Other teachers don’t know that either. But children are delicate. Every action Ryan does has an impact on shaping that child’s values.”
“…”

It is a wise word.
It was also the reason why Jinhyeok couldn’t act recklessly in front of him.

“A child is said to be the mirror of her parents. It is used to mean that children learn by watching their parents’ actions. Children in orphanages have no parents. Instead, there are many teachers.”

Maria looks at me intently.
She had been angry before, but buried those feelings deep in her heart.
Now I was talking to give me some useful advice.

“Every action will be absorbed by the children. The teachers at Starlight Orphanage don’t just take care of the children. Like a teacher who was born first and became an adult… They say that they have the duty and responsibility to raise children who lost their parents due to war in the right way on behalf of their mothers.”

Maria was doing her best as head of her orphanage.
She sincerely, she wanted to raise her children upright.
So that children who have lost their parents will not go anywhere and be ignored.

Children have lost their parents.
Each of them has their own story, but the fact that they have no parents is an undeniable truth.
But it doesn’t seem all that sad.
Because the children seem to be doing well in the arms of a great teacher more than anyone else.

I reflected on my own actions.
Maria, the head of the orphanage, had a reason.
The reason why I interfered and tackled every single thing I did, now I understand.

‘… For now, let’s listen carefully.’

In order for Cristina to open her crotch on her own, she must elicit her feelings of affection from Cristina.

Saint Christina of the Church of Light.
I need to start with small things in order to change the way people look at me.

* * *

Maria looked at Ryan disapprovingly.
If it hadn’t been for Duke Reinhardt’s personal letter, I would never have hired him.
It was such a mess.

I chose to do things I shouldn’t have done, such as screaming in front of the kids and showing off my brilliance.
In addition, he repeated the most rude thing to Saint Christina.
She was a man who couldn’t be seen without a good look.

‘… They seem to be talking.’

It gave me a lot of fuss.
At the time, it seemed like he was just listening with a sullen face, so he showed a much different appearance than he thought.

She works diligently on sweeping the front yard, speaks kindly to the children as much as possible, and doesn’t complain about side dishes like an adult.

‘Like an adult?’

Maria watched him for a week.
As the head of the orphanage, she was one of the things she had to do for the peace of the orphanage.

As time passed, the time for the interview came.
Maria regularly takes time to talk with her teachers.

“Director…”

Interview time with one of the new teachers.
It was Loen, a female teacher hired around the same time as Ryan.

Rowen sat on the sofa in her director’s office and sipped her tea.
When she asked if Maria was uncomfortable, she started tearing up and biting her nose.

“The kids… Kids… !”

As Maria knew, Loen was a woman who liked her children.

Although she has become incapable of bearing children since she was taken to the battlefield at a young age and brutally abused.
Even though she was unable to enjoy the happiness of being a woman, she was a woman who smiled heartily as she watched her children grow up day by day.

As she cries, she continues her words.

“Ra, I really like Mr. Ryan… !”
“…”

Loen complained of her regret.

“Me too, I want to be friends with the kids. But the kids only like Ryan.”
“Is that so? I don’t know.”
“Mr. Ryan, Mr. Ryan… !”

Rowen remembered what happened the other day.
She is still vivid in her mind.
The scene is vividly drawn before your eyes.

It was when Ryan and Loen, the two newcomers, were taking care of the children.
Maria, the head of the orphanage, went out for a while because she had business to do outside her home.

‘Is it then?’

While going to her bank to do her errands, Loen was openly compared to her children.

“The kids ask me questions. ‘Teacher, can’t you make lights?’ She said. But common sense tells me how many people can do that.”
“Hmm…”

I understand.
Children’s curiosity cannot be suppressed even by fear.

A person emits light from his hand.
The dazzling light captivated people’s hearts.

The fear in the hearts of the children did not last long.
It couldn’t last long in the first place.
The kids loved Ryan so much.

“Mr. Ryan makes the light. It’s not just spewing out, it’s just amazing.”

Rowen explained by giving her an analogy.
Half saddened by being turned away by children, half admiring seeing a miraculous sight like children.

Rowen’s words were close to her cute grumbling.
It’s sad that the kids seem to like Ryan more than they do, like.

‘It’s a good symptom.’

It is more problematic to have no worries at all or to have emotional pain that you cannot handle.

It is impossible for a person to not have troubles, but the former is hiding something from Maria, the orphanage director, so it is a problem.
There is no way to solve the emotional pain that is difficult to handle, and it is a problem even if you express it to Maria without adding or subtracting.

That’s why Loen’s complaints belonged to the cute axis.

“Loen, children understand their hearts. Unlike adults, they read their eyes and notice their emotions. That is why there are no boundaries. Because you can see it.”

Maria told Enn the advice she had once heard, which she adapted in her own way.

─ It’s not all about doing a good job. This is not a duke’s mansion, it’s an orphanage. Because you are a teacher, not a maid.
“Our Starlight Orphanage does not want good teachers.”
─ Just because you like kids, does that mean they have to like you too? Kids are not dolls. A human being who can see the other person’s eyes and feel their heart. He’s only young for a second, he’s no different from us.
“They need a teacher who can take care of them. Caresses the opponent It’s something you have to do without wishing for something. When taking care of a very small and weak animal, does Loen want something from him?”
“… No. No.”
“Okay. But I’m watching. Children are looking at us with those eyes.”

Maria slowly turned her head and looked out of her window.
One afternoon on a warm sunny day.

“Right now, you might like him, attracted by his flashy light. Children’s curiosity cannot be stopped.”
“…”
“But you will know. Because the children are looking into Loen’s heart, how much Loen likes them.”
“…”
“But what is that?”

Children are huddled together in the front yard of the orphanage.
Standing at the center is Ryan.

Rowen glared at him and grumbled.

“I gather the kids and show them tricks. Kids love to see that. Are you following me very well?”
“Feat?”

Maria got up from the couch and sat near the window.
She watched the situation through the window.

Ryan stretched his arms toward the sky.
And he cries

─ Okay, let’s go. Dragon is Coming!

A dragon was created in the sky.
A dragon made of pure white light opened its mouth wide and fell in the direction of the gathered children.

The dragon that collided with the ground was a baby dragon, and it was divided into dozens and hundreds of individuals.
Children clattering and playing among the baby dragons.
A one-of-a-kind playground that is difficult to describe in words has been completed.

“Director… ?”

Maria came to her senses, albeit belatedly, at Loen’s voice calling her name.
Said Maria.

“The children will also recognize Loen’s heart.”
“Really? Really?”
“Yes, in about a hundred years?”
“… Director!”

Rowen screaming at the drain.
Maria shook her head and ignored the call.

“Are there any other concerns?”
“Director…”
“Then let’s go to work.”
“… Yeah…”

Rowen left the director’s office with his shoulders drooping.

This was a problem Maria could not help.
How do you beat that performance?

‘Saint Christina also has a light like that…’

I suddenly had a question.
How is Ryan using divine magic so great that even the saintess can’t be sure if it’s possible or not?