Chapter 8 – Secrets Revealed

Episode 8 The Secret Revealed

Finally, I was selected as a restorative herb supplier!
It is a bonus that the old interviewer, the merchants, and the thick-faced receptionist all wrinkled their faces when the announcement was made.

“Congratulations on being selected as a supplier.
Mr. Camus.”

“Thank you, saintess… !”

Interviews and presentations have been delayed, and the sun is setting.

A saintess walking outside the venue.
When the thin dress is blown in the wind, the Y-zone between the legs and the beautiful silence followed line are clearly exposed.

“!”

The panty line is also faintly visible due to the demon’s sharp eyesight.
Wow! New City Miss Look!

… It’s not that the clothes are dirty, it’s that the body is dirty.
Even if the wind blows, the person facing you
I’m going to spill my coffee…

Chuck. Chuck.

There were four holy knights standing behind the saintess.
All of them have a compact physique.
To be able to see that backside all day behind the saintess is the best welfare group.
I want to see the butt and panty line from the back too~

“The term saintess is too much for me.
Please feel free to call me Marianne.”

“That… I dare…
Would you mind anyway?”

“Sure.
Just as the sun god grants sunlight equally to all, so my name belongs to all.”

Pretending to be hesitant, I bent over her and bowed her head.
Marianne gave me warm words to soothe me.

Your name belongs to everyone, but your body will be entirely mine.
Whoop whoop!

“Shall we take a short walk?”

“Sure, is there any?”

I hold out her hand as an escort in an exaggerated gesture, and Marianne covers her mouth with her hand and giggles.
She holds my hand and walks lightly.
The paladins in the back glared at him fiercely.
The back of my head is hot.

Bubbly.
Beat, beat, beat.

The venue is in a quiet suburb near the royal castle, so there are not many people.
If you leave the venue for a bit, you will see a stream.

“I heard a lot about Mr. Kamu from Sister Livga.
Even the children in the slums talk a lot about Mr. Kamu.”

“You’re welcome.
I just did what I wanted to do.”

“…”

At my words, Marianne stares blankly at my face.

“Why do you say that?”

“Yes?
What did I say wrong?”

Dory dory.

Marianne shook her head, waving her lush hair.
Then he bows down and apologizes to her.

“I have committed rudeness because of my lack of speech.
I apologize.
I mean so… Hmm…”

Marianne, in her anguish, twisting her hair with one hand.

Whether it’s because of her image as a saint or because of her kind and cozy personality, she looks very mature.
Even during the interview, she was not at all pushed back by her maturity, even next to an old interviewer.
A woman who has the ability to make me look younger than she is over 200 years old.

“Didn’t you say ‘what you want to do’ about charity work and relief work?
Usually, no, the people around me answer, of course, ‘It’s something I have to do’.
Kamu’s answer was fresh to me.”

The people around Marianne must be religious people, or people who should look good to religious people.
Since I am answering based on the scriptures of the sun god, there will be many such answers.

“Well. Marianne… Sir.
Is there such a thing as a ‘must do’?”

“Hmm… Wouldn’t it be a natural duty?
For example, when parents have children, they have to support them.”

“But there are too many people who don’t do that duty.
There are many situations in which parents give birth to children to farm or to mobilize labor.
The state also encourages fertility for that reason.”

The paladins also started to glance at us to see if they were bothered by our conversation.

“It is not natural for parents to support their children.
That’s why we do ‘filial piety’.
As a token of gratitude to the parents who performed the duty of support that was not taken for granted.”

“Hmm… I’d like to refute it, but I’ll hear more.
Can you think of it as meaning ‘there is no natural duty to do’?”

“Yes.
So I made a choice to satisfy myself, not an obligation.”

“Why are you satisfied with doing good?”

I looked straight at the woman who healed the most enemies on the battlefield and blocked the most magical attacks from allies.

And I look straight at myself distributing food to those who were not cared for by the enemy.

If the means to realize the goal are seen as good deeds to others, should we call this good deeds?
Wouldn’t this be called hypocrisy?

“It’s a feeling of satisfaction.
If I give someone what I can’t fill even if I have it, it will be filled.
It’s worth seeing.”

Parents and younger brother who died with the demon king.
I was left alone in an enemy place.
The poor and war orphans who lost their heads in the war with the demons.
Can I simply equate this?
… I don’t know.

Marianne smiles and looks at me.

“People of faith carry out the will of the Absolute God, so they are familiar with the concept of duty.
At first, I thought Mr. Kamu was a non-religious person.”

“Now?”

“If you are a person who changes your negative memories into a heart that is kind to others, isn’t the sun god already in your heart?”

“I just gave them what I had.”

“That kind of heart is precious.
In the Hwan Empire, um, did they say ‘sympathy’?
Whether you were born with it or the sun god gave it to you, it is Mr. Kamu who has such a heart.
Because he is already carrying out God’s will.
I think you are a good person, hehe.”

Marianne jumped up with her hands behind her back to see if she was in a good mood.
Marianne whirls ahead of me.

She stands behind the setting sun that colors the sky with a wonderful gradation.
Her gorgeous hair fluttering behind her.
A smile as bright as the sun.

“I think we can become good friends with Mr. Kamu.”

“Friend… What?”

“Yes. Do you like it?”

“Yes… ?
Oh no!
That’s good
Haha!
But why all of a sudden… ?”

“Well, it’s because we’re looking in the same direction.”

To me with a shy smile, Marianne
She held out her right hand with her back to the setting sun.

“Then, please take care of me, Mr. Kamu.”

Ah…
If I hold that hand, my identity might be revealed.
It’s hard to refuse.

I do my best to keep the mana inside.
With a trembling heart, he gathered his courage and held out his hand.

Soft, soft
The skin is like white porcelain.

A short handshake that felt like an eternity.
The saintess turned around casually.

After. Luckily I didn’t notice

I glanced at her ass, which briefly passed by before she came to my side.
Have you ever seen such a chubby loaf of bread?
It’s dangerous.
I’ll stand up…

“Mr Camus.
I used to believe that when the war ended, everything would be resolved.”

“It sounds like you don’t think so now.”

“Yes. I don’t think so anymore.
So I left the battlefield and returned to the capital.”

Marianne bowed her head,
I kicked a stone for no reason.

Degur.

“I want to gather more like-minded people like Mr. Kamu.
Someone who can take care of the weak, set the system right, and embody God’s will into life.”

That’s a dangerous statement.
I couldn’t tell if the paladins next to me were bodyguards or watchers.
Maybe, you could be an assassin.

“War is fighting an external enemy.
There are those who want to continue the war because they want to turn internal dissatisfaction outside.
Or there are people who continue to wage war because they want to satisfy their own desires.
Money, women, power, honor…
As long as there are such people, no matter how many people are saved and the battle is won, people will not be happy.”

“Maryanne.
If so, isn’t it all the more necessary to end the war?
A lot, if not everything, will work out.
I heard that she served for quite some time.”

During the previous corps commander’s days, it was at the beginning of the war, so I did not face Marianne on the battlefield.
At that time, it was also before Marianne was called a saint.

Vandak, her classmate, was in charge of her corps at the time her Saint of the Sun appeared, and used to curse her in private, calling her ‘her big breasted bitch’.
Keep raising human soldiers like zombies or something.

“Yes that’s right.
Countless people dying.
Healed and treated and watched them die.”

“… It must have been hard.”

“Yes, it was very difficult to bear.
But what’s even more difficult is the reality that doesn’t change no matter how hard I try.
No matter how hard you try, people just keep dying.”

“No.
You’ve saved countless lives.
It even changed the direction of the war.
In the war between the races, you showed the maximum capacity that an individual can do.”

At my words, Marianne widened her big eyes.
Oops, I made a mistake because I was excited…

“… There are conscripted people among the people around me.
Everyone praised you.”

That’s right.
The people around me usually called me a ‘bitch with big breasts’ or a ‘zombie maker’.
Wouldn’t it be highly praised to hear such words from the enemy?

“It is overrated.
Even people who weren’t on the battlefield think this way…
Among my comrades on the battlefield, there were many who criticized and looked down on me.”

“? Why?
Is there any other back-up force that needs as much as a therapist?”

“… Because I’m not holding a knife.
That you don’t have blood on your hands.
There was also a feud between the allies.
… Even without war, people constantly want to differentiate.
Strong and weak.
Superiors and subordinates.
Rich and poor.”

Light sigh.
Meaning is heavy.

“It is even more so on the battlefield.
The same goes for allies.
Front and rear.
Fighters and volunteers.
We constantly differentiate and compare.
It was so hard for me to be treated like that by people I considered colleagues…
I think that is the ultimate task that needs to be addressed.”

“… I didn’t know that such a thing would happen to the one called the saint of the sun.”

“Hehe, I’m not special at all.
I just wanted to be special.
That’s why I voluntarily participated in the raid on the Devil Castle.”

“… What?”

Jjoong!

Suddenly the air seems to freeze.
It’s not because the night is coming.
On the special lease of the demon castle attack… There was?
Marianne… You?

“Did you not know?
It’s not unreasonable since Hero Alberic’s activities are mainly known.
Alberic-sama was recognized for his achievement in defeating the demon lord and became the king’s son-in-law.
It is the most famous anecdote.”

It feels like my head is spinning…
Nausea rises…
My parents’ enemies and my sister’s enemies are now in front of my eyes.
At a distance where you could kill him if you strangled him right away.

“Other than that, the achievements of archmage and ranger are mainly known.
I’m in charge of treatment and defense in the special lease, so my ball isn’t that well known.
No, actually, I decided to keep it a secret.
The title ‘Saint of the Sun’ was also earned through treatment and nursing of wounded soldiers.”

I didn’t know…
Funeral for the death of parents and brother…
I have no memory of the shock before and after the funeral…
The Demon King died, and the Demon King’s army was divided.
Because of Rumika’s suitors who tried to keep me in check after the funeral, I returned to the capital of the human kingdom as if being chased.

Come to think of it, the special lease other than Hero Alberic must have been outstanding.
No matter how much you assume that the demon king is alone, ordinary members cannot dare to assassinate the demon king.

“For a moment… Then…
Who else was on the special lease?”

“Hmm… Alberic in charge of the attack.
I was in charge of treatment.
Angela, the ‘Knight of the Moon’ who was in charge of the disturbance.
Although they did not infiltrate directly, Stella, the ‘Princess of the Star’, was in charge of transporting them through space movement.
And…”

Marianne is a wizard, and she picked up a few more names, including a ranger.

Her head seems to be spinning.
My family and the enemy of Cheolcheonji of the Demon King’s army are laughing like this next to me… ?
There is absolutely no sense of reality.
Are these the words of the person standing in front of me?

Marianne teased whether she knew my feelings or not.
… On the way, I imagine slapping that beautiful cheek and punching the stomach.

If you can do that, no, what do you know about the aftermath?
The opponent is completely careless.
You can do whatever you want, blow it up!

No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Have to be patient
Those who killed my parents and brother.
Demon King Assassination Special Task Force.
You have to catch it and make it painful.
To punish them, we need the Saint of the Sun.

So you have to be patient.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

A sudden taste of iron in the mouth.
I am sick of the contradiction in words.

What?
Will ending the war make people happy?
Compassion?
Beautiful heart?
Now that… Are these words from the mouth of the enemy who killed my parents and brother?
Stop talking bullshit with those beautiful lips?

“Mr Camus.
All of the special leases carried out operations as sophisticated as surgical procedures, resulting in maximum effect with minimal damage.
But the war still goes on.
By greedy people.
I want to change this structure.
Poverty relief is just the beginning.
So…
A few days later, in a refugee camp in the northern outskirts of the capital,
I’m going to go to medical support and food distribution.
Would you like to come with me too?
Mr Kamu… ?
Are you okay?”

I untied the fist I was clenching.

The words still ring in my ears.
Maximum effect with minimum damage?
Sophisticated like a surgical procedure?

Sipal!
What bullshit, you bastard!
Cursing rises up to the throat.

Have to be patient…
It is not yet time to step out.
Not yet…
A gentleman’s revenge is never too late even if it takes ten years.
Step by step… I will trample you painfully and cruelly…

Smile.
Have to cheat

“Haha!
Yes, Marianne.
I am honored.”

“Oh, thank you so much!
You must be busy with business…
Thank you so much!”

Marianne bowed and nodded.

I don’t even want to look
It wouldn’t be cool to shove a knife into that white nape right now.
With that kind gesture, I would have sent my family back to the black sun…

“Mr. Kamu, I will give you the schedule and map here.
Let’s go together.
Time is…”

Pointing to the map with a fluttering heart
Marianne explaining the way.

No.
We are not people looking at the same place.
It’s called the adversary facing each other.
Only by stepping on each other can you go where you want to go.
It’s not my desire or my ambition that I’m violating you.
It’s revenge.

I’ll make you cry bitterly
More humiliating than anyone else…
The honor you’ve accumulated while you’re alive, the love you’ve received, the respect…
Throw it all in the trash

Are you suffering from the contempt and neglect you receive from your allies?
Everyone will criticize you and point fingers at you as a lewd woman.
Wait and see

What I’m holding back now is for a greater revenge.
Definitely, definitely do it

My heart is hotter than ever.