Chapter 655 – #017. The Saint of Light, Christina Luminous (8).

#017. Saint of Light, Christina Luminous.

I talked to Loen’s mother.
Cristina wondered why Loen was rejecting men.

‘She didn’t seem to hate men,’ she said.

She gave one reason or another, and did not know that she would be delaying the wedding, but she was the Loen that Christina had seen, and she was a woman who loved babies more than anyone else.
So, Loen couldn’t understand her mother’s words.

Is there a reason she doesn’t know about?

“Saintess, please persuade me. She’ll have a baby before she gets any older, so she’ll have to see her grandson…”

Her daughter-in-law is not even married.
This world looks very negatively at a woman who lives alone.
Considering those gazes, Roen’s mother’s urging made sense.

All the village women became grandmothers thanks to their grandchildren, and it wasn’t because the proud of their ugly children made their eyes look cold!
I’m just worried about my daughter.

“I’ll talk to Mr. Rowen.”

Christina didn’t know anything.
She takes care of the children at her orphanage with Loen, but she doesn’t have a very deep conversation with her.

She intended to go back and ask this time.
If you bring up the story of your mother, it may seem too far-fetched, so as a girl of your age, you should hint at it within the range of questions…

Cristina has decided to finish her first laundry and return to her orphanage.
It wasn’t the end of this once.
Since there were more than one or two children from the orphanage, she had to do four or five more rounds of laundry.

“…”

An awkward silence settled between Christina and Ryan.
Ryan, who had been smirking at Loen’s mother until just now, bit her mouth as soon as she came out of her laundry.
As if she was contemplating something alone, her steps gradually slowed down.

Cristina didn’t rush Ryan like that.
She walked beside him, naturally matching her stride.

What she said to him was sincere.
She has no intention of forgiving herself for forcibly transgressing, but is grateful for letting her know her joy as a woman.

What if he wasn’t?
Rachel would not have been born into this world.
She must have lived her whole life as a priest, not as a woman who devoted her virginity to the god of light.

Horrible.
It’s not that she’s relying on the light, it’s that she can’t have a baby.
As a woman, she thought it was too sad.

Christina wanted to help Loen.
To meet a good man and build a happy family.

Even though she likes children, why does she reject and push away men…
She will definitely find out and help Loen with each other.

He went to and from the orphanage carrying laundry.
The two of them did laundry all day long.
Christina’s fingers, which were thin and beautiful, were swollen and rounded with water.

“Loen?”

Just in time, Rachel was near Loen.
Cristina approached Loen, who was staring at Rachel, and spoke to her.

“Ah, saintess.”

She was spying on Rachel.
Roen replied with an awkward smile as if she was embarrassed by herself.
Her hand hanging over her head, Loen just scratched the back of her head.

I was told she had an adventurer job.
Loen’s mother said that she started rejecting men after Loen returned to her hometown, she said.

Before he left for his hometown, he had a childhood friend—married to a village friend three years ago—and a handsome older brother who had been following him around all the time—who was kidnapped to a dwarf village.
He liked men rather than hated them.

He says that he has changed a lot since returning to his hometown.

‘There must have been a problem outside.’

Christina looked at Loen.
The jewel-like walls glisten.

Rowen was too burdened by that gaze.
After the pope, she was the closest woman to the god of light, Loen, also a believer in light, and being a saint was difficult.

Cristina, who is especially innocent than her other clergymen, stood in front of her, and it was difficult because Loen felt like a sinner herself.
Should I say that she seems to see right through herself.

“… Hmm, hmm. Loen.”
“Yes, saintess.”

Cristina hesitates with her words.
Loen understood the fact that she wanted to ask him something.

“… Does Loen have a guy she likes?”

It was a difficult question to ask, but it wasn’t a question I was hoping for an answer to.
A stepping stone to the next level.
It was a question that was squeezed out to open the water for the desired conversation.

Cristina, a flower in a greenhouse that has been living only in the church, and her adventurer start rolling as a mercenary and rolling weeds N.
There was a huge difference from what I had eaten so far.

Of course, Christina did activities in ‘Tower of Struggle’, but it was a little too much for her to say that it was a great experience.
Because she had good colleagues by her side.

‘… Holy lady, what was your routine today?’

Cristina asks, and not too long.
Loen knew Christina’s daily activities in an instant.
And she knew roughly what had happened.

‘You met her mother at the laundry.’

Christina is not like this.
There is absolutely no one who will suddenly ask questions that are inevitably sensitive to women of this age.

Clearly there is an intention.
And that intention will be closely related to oneself.

“The man the saintess is talking about is… Maybe a boyfriend, right?”

Cristina is a sweet person.
Lo Endo, she knows perfectly well that there will be no malice in her dialogue.

“Lo, Loen is prettier and slimmer than me! She doesn’t seem to have any other men to date. I was just asking out of curiosity!”

Cristina, tired of herself, scores her hat-trick.
Rowen laughed involuntarily.

“You are too humble. There is no way I could be prettier and slimmer than the saintess.”
“… Loen is a really pretty woman, but why does a man…”

It was clear that he was trying to sneak up on it, but that wasn’t as easy as it sounds.
Christina’s words and actions were so awkward.
The thought of cheating Loen pricked her conscience.

“Saintess, did you meet your mother at the laundry today? You are my mother.”
“… Hello?”

Cristina shook her head.
Her blonde hair fluttered.

“I promise. If the saintess tells the truth, I will answer honestly.”
“…”

Cristina couldn’t lie any longer.
When she cheated on Ryan, she was fine, but when she cheated on Loen, she was too tough.

“… No, that’s right I came to meet Roen’s mother. He was washing clothes there.”
“I knew it. Her mom is very interested in my marriage. She’s pretending not to be, but she just wants to show her grandson.”
“…”

It seemed so, she couldn’t bear to say.
Because Rowen has sad eyes.
Cristina swallowed her answer hard.

“Saintess, this is only for the saintess. We have to keep it a secret from her mother.”
“… That’s kinda…”

He didn’t do well in deceiving Rowen either.
Even cheating on Roen’s mother, she couldn’t do it properly.

“Then I can’t be honest with you either.”
“It’s different from before. If I tell you, Loen-san will answer honestly…”
“I am different from the saintess. As an adventurer, as a mercenary, to be honest, I have lived in a place where my nose is cut. So my conscience has become dull. It doesn’t matter if you deceive the saintess.”
“Ooh…”

Christina stomped her foot.
Wonder.
She wants to quickly find out why Loen rejected and pushed away the man, and tell her to Loen’s mother.

But she can’t keep a lie out of her mouth.
The moment she hears her truth from Rowen, she must not tell anyone.
That she alone should know.

“It’s the confessional. Does the saintess hear about the sins of the believers and go around talking about them elsewhere?”
“…”

Confession, Loen seeks to confess her sins.
What happened to him in the quiet room of the orphanage.
The truth she had been struggling to keep inside of her.

Christina has no choice but to accept her confession.
The saintess was an agent of light, and her role was also to embrace sinners on behalf of light.

“I know. Loen, tell me. I will not tell anyone of Loen’s sins.”

She did not swear or take an oath in the name of light.
However, Loen believed in Christina.
Because I wasn’t one to lie about things like this.

“Where should I begin…”

Loen’s mouth opens slowly, and she spits out the things she’s been through one by one.
Christina’s expression hardened completely.

* * *

“Christina moved.”

Christina and Loen are talking to each other.
He dragged Rachel outside, not wanting to get in the way.

I already know Loen’s past.
Embracing her dream of becoming an adventurer, she ventured all over the continent.
Luck followed.
Everywhere he went, he hit the jackpot.

Adventurer friends who took a big share of it announced their retirement.
Up until then, the atmosphere hadn’t been bad.
It’s not a loss, it’s a profit. Is there any sadness?

The problem arose from then on.
If everyone had decided to retire, and Loen had followed suit, the situation would have been very different.

But Loen didn’t make her retirement.
To return to her hometown, she continued her activities because she felt that the results were not enough.

At that moment the war broke out.
Between the Kingdom of Jeron and the Kingdom of Valaris.

In order to do something about the poor harvest that lasted for three years, the Kingdom of Geron declared war on the Kingdom of Valaris.
They say that Valaris has put a curse on our land.

Rowen and his mercenaries were put into the kingdom of Jeron.
There was no cause.
It just stuck with the side that gave more money.

Feeling skeptical on the battlefield of dying and dying, Loen decided to leave his mercenary army and return to his hometown.
It wasn’t a mercenary army that would let them go smoothly.

‘Tsk tsk…’

I’m also a former rapist, but…
But I didn’t use drugs cowardly like these bastards.
I put on a mask and bumped into my body fair and square.

The mercenary men threw Rowen into the camp of the kingdom of Valaris.
To be precise, it was handed over to the mercenaries who participated in the war as part of the kingdom of Valaris.
In return, they received another woman from the opposing mercenary.

It was over.
There is no way that Loen, who is not even the Sword Saint, can escape on her own.
In the midst of vicious malice, Loen lost his dreams and hopes.

After the war, he was released safely, but his damaged body could not be restored forever.
Even with divine magic.

The light flashes.
Inside the orphanage, Christina is overusing divine magic.

─ It’s too much. Why do men… !
─ I feel comfortable because I confessed everything. My adventurer colleagues told me. Sorrow is halved when shared…

There are many good men too.
Those mercenaries were just bad people.

─ I also killed people, so I think I was punished.
— … I must… ! I’ll make sure to get better.

It wasn’t that Loen didn’t particularly like or dislike men.

─ Fufu, I’m not trying to ignore the saintess. But I know my body best. Neither divine magic nor other elixirs work at all. It’s unavoidable. I’m sorry mom.

Rowen answered bitterly.
It was full of regret.

— …

The children who were playing in the front yard started to hum.
A light was just flashing inside the orphanage, so they secretly gathered and showed interest.

─ Wait a minute.

Cristina, as if determined to something, came out of her room.
And she comes straight to me.

“Hey, Ryan?”

Tears are welling up in your eyes
Her face was swollen as if she had cried after hearing Rowen’s story.

“Why are you calling me, saintess?”

I held Rachel in her arms and asked calmly.
I know everything, but I wanted to hear it from Christina’s mouth.

“Did Ryan say he was a god? He said he cleared the ‘Tower of Struggle’ and became an existence comparable to a god.”

To be precise, he is of a higher rank than the god of light you believe in.
A god of light can be extinguished in one queue.

─ Ah, no way… !
‘It’s a surprise.’

A god of light who suddenly appeared.
It seems that he has come running, fearing that he will really be annihilated.

“Yes, I became a god. But the saintess doesn’t believe it.”
“I will believe you. Show us the evidence to be credible.”

When I talk to Rowen, she is such a kind saintess, but when she talks to me, I don’t know why she stretches out like this.

“… Why am I?”
“Yeah?”

Cristina puts on a bewildered expression as if taken aback by my brusque answer.
Perhaps it was because of the mixture of crying, and the corners of her mouth twisted strangely.

“Think about it. Cristina lied to me and didn’t do what I asked for, didn’t she?”
“…”
“But I have to do what Cristina wants? Does Cristina do the same to the God of Light?”
“… Mi, I’m sorry. I’ll believe it now Promise too…”

Christina hesitated for a second.
So I instilled courage myself.

“I swear by the name of the light. If you do Christina’s favor, you’ll give me a breast the next time you nurse Rachel.”
“… Are you really crazy?”

Harsh words came out of Christina’s mouth.
This was the most profane thing she could do.

“Then neither do I. Why should I listen to you?”
“Oh really. Even the youth apprentice priests who have just been entrusted to the church will not be so childish.”
“Oh, I don’t know. Originally, gods are childish. Isn’t that right, light?”
─ That’s right… ! Gods are so childish… ! So, Cristina-chan, hurry up and offer your milk to Kim Jin-woo… !

The god of light pounded the crown of her head over Christina’s head.
Fortunately, there was no damage because it was in a spiritual state.

“Light? What kind of stupid things are you doing to the light now… !”
“Therefore? Won’t you help me, Rowen? Speaking confidently and coming out, what would you say if you just went back? I’m sorry, Mr. Rowen. I don’t think there is any way. To say?”
“Eek… !”
“Between us, why sucking a nipple is such a difficult thing, bounce it, bounce it.”
“Mouth! Mouth! Look at that bastard’s mouth!”

Christina pinched my lips.
She stood on tiptoe and struggled.

“The saintess is angry.”
“Wow, the saintess’ face looks like a strawberry!”

The kids are watching.
Seeing the innocent stares of the children, Cristina quickly calmed down and glared at me.

“Like. If Ryan restores Loen’s body… ! So much… !”
“To the light.”
“I swear by rain and light!”
“Tonight, right away.”
“… Okay, okay! Quickly!”

Cristina took her by the arm and led me.
The destination was inside the orphanage where Loen was waiting.