Chapter 20 – Karma

“May the blessings of light be with you.. What did you come for?”

As soon as we entered the cathedral, an old nun approached and asked with a benevolent smile.

“I came to see the saintess.”

“Ah.. That maybe..”

“Yes, I am a warrior.”

Saying that, the hero took out a piece of paper from his bosom and the sword in the scabbard.

Did you say that it was the king’s certificate acknowledging that this person was a hero, with the seal of the royal family embedded under a piece of paper filled with something written on it? Even when I was playing the game, as long as I had that item, I did everything for free.

In addition, since he brought a holy sword, he would not be able to be sure that he was a warrior.

“I’m sorry, but… Could you wait in the drawing room until the saintess is brought?”

“All right.”

“The parlour… The nun there!”

At the call of her nun, a woman with a hood attached to a nun’s uniform, who was passing by just in time, turned her head and looked in our direction.

“Could you escort these people to the drawing room?”

At the old nun’s question, the nun who came this way nodded her head.

“Please.”

A young nun who approached us moved alone as if she should go this way. Depending on the person, it was an act that might feel disrespectful, but I didn’t think so because neither the hero nor I was the type to care about such things.

Had it taken that long?

“Excuse me..”

Perhaps the hero felt something strange, so he called for the nun who was walking in the lead, but the answer was still silent.

Uh.

No wait.

Could it be that this was today?

Even in the game, there was a way to skip the troublesome ceremony for the pledge of the hero and the saintess to travel together if the time zone was right.

Could it be that it was just now?

With a curious mind, I looked at the nun who was leading the way.

As soon as they reached the outskirts of the cathedral, the frustrated warrior asked if this was really her living room. The nun who was leading her stopped her body and slowly turned her head.

“Ah, what is a true warrior so impatient about?”

A voice that was even refreshing.

It was the same voice I heard in the game.

She has a confident and cheerful voice unlike a saint, but she is the most popular heroine in the game due to her sacrificing herself while fulfilling her duties as a saint when dealing with demons or standing in front of suffering people.

“Ah, really… It’s frustrating even then, but it’s so extreme that you’re very cheap on me. I can’t even go out on my own.”

Said the nun, putting her hand over her head and grabbing her hood.

She said, “She pretended to be an ordinary nun to go out and borrowed her clothes and came out, but she just ran into her.”

A nun, no Cecilia.

The nun threw off her hood and appeared before us as a saint.

“Nice to meet you, warrior. And you are there too.”

Her graceful hair, which seemed to have been carefully crafted from her silver silk, her blue eyes that shine straight and pure, and even her elaborate and beautiful features, as if created by God, befitting her name as a saint. A saintess who could only come out of a creative work was standing in front of us.

“And I’ll ask you to take good care of me on the road ahead.”

Said the saintess, no, Cecilia, and she smiled.

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The original meeting with the saintess was not like this.

I am also one of the players who fell in love with her saintess’s charm due to the gap between when I first met her saintess and when I faced the real saintess’s personality.

However, after watching the ending, I learned that the real heroine was the magician Rumia, so I switched to Rumia.

In other words, it means that he also grasps the information of Cecilia, the character he was originally digging.

Originally, when meeting the saintess, after meeting the saintess in the drawing room and holding an event to recognize the saintess as a member of our party, the story goes that people from the church heard about the place where traces of the demon army were found and headed there.

And the place where the traces were found is a small village where elves who believe in God live, who escaped from the neighboring country of elves and settled down in the castle country to create a village.

After the traces of the demon king’s army were discovered, the real open world game was unfolded after the tutorial that said that a warrior and a saint would visit and save a village that had been questioned for heresy.

In other words, this process of saving party members itself is a tutorial and one of the important processes to protect the future.

To put it simply, the next heroine will meet Ruril.

However, it would be a big deal if I couldn’t go to the village where Ruril would be from the beginning.

Of course, this is nothing to worry about.

When she encounters the saintess in this way, the pope, who has learned that the saintess has sneaked out, appears just in time to give her information and ends her family reunion before leaving on her journey.

In fact, through the setting of Cecilia sneaking out of the cathedral and going out, you can catch her liveliness and character, but she is strange, so it is said that it is a separate storyline. Of course, when this happens, the Holy Kingdom is overturned, and it is a story that the pope calms it down.

In other words, it’s a story where you don’t have to worry as long as you meet the Pope.

I should..

Obviously it should be…

‘What..?’

The pope isn’t coming…?

Around this time, the pope suddenly appeared and it is normal to help the newbie so that the story can continue properly, but why does it not appear?

“I think it turned out well. Can I call you a hero?”

“Huh. I didn’t know you were a saint…”

It seems that the previous hero went on a trip with her after properly completing her saintly ceremony.

I can see her hovering as if she didn’t know we’d meet in this way.

“What, are you saying I’m not like a saint?”

“No, that’s not it… I was fooled. Huh..”

“Huh, right? Even if it seems like this, I’ve been lying all my life.”

No god

It’s not impossible, but…

There are so many nuns in this cathedral that it is not a waste to say that it is a cathedral, so it is not easy to distinguish one by one. That’s why even if someone you don’t know sneaks in as a nun, it’s hard to check properly.

That’s why I heard that usually they are classified as wearing a verified nun’s uniform.

I don’t know, but looking at the accidents so far, it seems that there is a security device that I don’t know about, so it’s blocking it well.

No matter how much it is, is it possible to lie for the rest of your life?

No, right now, the priority is to figure out what to do with the pope who is going to make a fuss because of the fact that he is heading to that village and the saintess has disappeared…

“The Pope might be worried, but wouldn’t it be better to go back?”

That’s the best way

I don’t know if I’d rather go out for a short time today, but I don’t want to imagine what would happen if I left without properly telling the Pope when I was on an adventure. A hero or whatever, may issue a wanted order to me as well as the hero for daring to take his daughter without permission.

It wasn’t that Cecilia was trembling for nothing.

Yeah, I’m not doing that for nothing.

“Can’t you just hang out with me today?”

“Uh… Huh?”

“Anyway, since you’ve already revealed to the cathedral that you came as a warrior, they’re already preparing for the festival.”

Are you preparing for the festival?

It didn’t look too busy though.

“Me… I want to see the people of this country preparing for the festival. It’s a festival for me… I hate leaving without enjoying anything.”

The saintess made a pitying expression on her face as she said that.

“If I participate in the festival as a saint, I will have to leave the kingdom without enjoying anything as a member of your party.”

And then it was.

When you meet a saintess through the regular route, her affinity for the saintess starts from 0.

Usually, heroines all start from 0, so it’s not that strange, but if you go through the secret route I mentioned earlier, you’ll start with a whopping 30 likes.

That’s the difference…

“So why not?”

The saintess looked at her hero with an expression of sincere request.

No wait

Wait for a sec.

Does the affinity start at 30?

“..!”

No!

It has to be stopped!

Not as good as Cecilia Root!!

I can’t do it, but I have to make sure the other kids don’t do it, so I can drag it out for as long as possible..!

However, her hero sighed with a compassionate expression, as if she had already fallen for her saintess’ wicked machinations.

In case someone isn’t a hero, don’t be needlessly nice..!

“I can’t help it if you say that.. Ha..”

Ah.

No wait.

You really shouldn’t…

“Thank you, warrior!”

Saying that, Cecilia smiled broadly and held out her hand.

She seemed to ask for a handshake.

The hero reluctantly held Cecil’s hand.

Eventually, the promise was fulfilled.

Hey you idiot!!

Aww!!!