Episode 179

It happened one day in her previous life.

'You're usually gentle, but you have a surprisingly reckless side.'

Gaju clicked his tongue. He was looking over her chessboard. Elisha sat across from him.

The aged patriarch often felt lonely. He called Elisha over to talk about her or to play chess with her.

The family head was generous towards Elisha. But he was like everyone else, he hated seeing ugly things. So, Elisha covered her face in front of the householder. Half of her face was covered by the mesh trim on her hat that day.

'Your blonde. Was it originally that color?'

Suddenly, the housekeeper asked. He was watching Elisha's golden hair flowing down beside her ears.

'I do not know. I think the light has faded a bit as my health has deteriorated.'

'Women from the kingdom usually have blonde hair that is as vibrant as summer flowers. I guess your hair was originally that color too.'

Said the housekeeper.

'Imagine that, who do you resemble?'

'Who are you talking about?'

'You resemble Saint Undine. Don't make that face. It is known that she was a great beauty, but she is remembered more for her physical features than for her beauty. When my wife was healthy, she was often visited by Undine to bestow her blessings……. Now both of them are gone.'

The family head, who had been talking nonchalantly, shook his head as if recalling the past. And she said let's replay her chess.

Elisha was quick to notice her. In chess games with Gazoo, her odds of winning were half and half, but she usually lost on purpose except for about once in five. So, the head family enjoyed a game of chess with Elisha.

'You look like a different person when you play chess. Try to break every word like there's no tomorrow. But with that kind of attitude, you will inevitably get hurt someday.'

Elisha said softly.

'The last number…….'

'What?'

'If you don't take the last move, you don't lose. Right? You only need to have the most valuable numbers. It just needs to go undetected by anyone.'

Elisha was holding the king of households. The family head looked into Elisha's eyes with interest. Her faint radiance flickered.

'You're not wrong. You're right.'

The housekeeper said as if muttering.

'It's so strange. When you look at me like that, it's like a different person. A child who seems to be there or not usually.'

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Okay. It was. As long as the last move is not taken away, it is okay to collapse a little. Elisha thought. Her expression turned cold.

“Lucerne.”

Elisha said softly.

“Are you not going to focus? Undine is telling a story you like. It's about the secrets of the Cartier family.”

Elisha gently held Lucerne's hand.

“If you don't listen closely, you will regret it. I am not the one you should be focusing on right now.”

Elisha whispered in Lucerne's ear.

A faint pity and pain passed through her eyes as she said that. But that soon disappeared. Elisha's eyes calmed down.

Bang!

The organist got up to avoid his seat. When the eyes of the VIPs and other people focused on the silk fabric above my head, I seemed to be frightened. The organ lid slammed shut as he scrambled, and the sound was solemn, as if announcing the beginning of an exposure.

Just then, Undine, projected onto the silk cloth, grinned.

– You would think that I was sick and rarely came out of the world. But the truth is different. The Cartiers are experts at hiding and restraining women.

I'll tell you a story from when I was healthy.

It was when I was 19 years old.

At the time, I was 'on loan' to the Cartier family for three years to bless them.

You must know that the saintess is the most valuable being in the temple. So they say that she lives her whole life under the protection of the sanctuary. It's a bonus that sometimes, on the pretext of psychiatric illness, we stay away for years. Besides, her saintly blessing is really effective, and she says that no one in power can receive it at will.

However, reality is often different from what you used to know.

The Cartier family's money makes anything possible. So it is possible for her to monopolize my blessing as a saint for several years.

Undine said as if mocking or joking. Still, she seemed strangely benevolent.

Elisha stared at her face. Undine's age is unknown, but it is generally accepted that she was in her early thirties at the time of her death. Even considering that, she was too young. She looked like she was in her late teens, depending on the expression on her face.

– For those of you who are curious, I'll tell you first.

No matter how much this is my will and message, I don't want people to make things up about me behind my back.

The Cartier men never laid a hand on me. For once. Because they like women who can abuse them best.

Besides, what they like most is money, not women. So how much did you want to receive my blessing? You don't have to touch me, do you?

Undine smiled with her eyes. As for who had named her Undine, Elisha thought the name suited her very well.

When she was normal, she was like a lady, and when she smiled, she was like a spirit that would soon disappear. And she…… It was so beautiful. Even her easy-going attitude seemed terribly aesthetic.

-You must have paid a lot of money to attend here tonight, aiming for the holy power that would come out of my corpse, right?

Do not worry. My holy power and the story I will tell you from now on are all true.

Elisha glanced at her cap.

“What are you doing! Stop right now! What the hell is this! The Great Pope of Rosaria!”

However, the priests had already run out in the evening to stop Undine from talking. Rosaria also jumped up from her seat. Rosaria was the face of a truly ignorant person.

“Oh, no. It never stops. The holy power coming out of the coffin is too great to approach!”

One of the priests shouted.

'Anyway, I wonder if the Undines took any action on the coffin.'

Undine was the strongest saint of all time. She was the greatest miracle in the temple that no other saint could compare to.

She said that she was a saint and that she was the reincarnation of a goddess who had descended to the human world. In other words, even after she dies, she still has the power to transcend humans.

It was the first time the priests had seen anything like this, and they didn't know how to stop. In order to stop it, she had to put her hand on Undine's corpse, which was emitting mad holy power, but going near her coffin would loosen the legs of the priests who were overwhelmed by her powerful holy power. One priest even collapsed, bleeding from his nose. The same was true when the knights approached.

Besides, they feared that if they touched her Undine's corpse by mistake, she would be cursed. In order for Undine to remove the projected silk cloth, they had to climb the railing past her coffin, so they did nothing but wander around her.

'Oh, you are sensitive. You'll have to be patient today.'

Elisha heard the cry of her head and thought.

'It must have started now.'

Meanwhile, Undine's cheerful and sweet voice began to resonate louder and clearer.

-You might be wondering what kind of grudge did this saintess have against the Cartier family to prepare such an exposure? But it's no fun if I show you the correct answer right away. First, we'll tell you the secrets of the world's most famous family that you've been wondering about.

She pointed at people with her graceful fingertips. And soon, the bombshell secrets of the Cartiers spilled from her mouth and began to spread to every nook and cranny.

Undine calmly recited many things. Among them, there were stories that only came and went, and there were great secrets.

From the time when the Cartier family monopolized the right to sell water in a small country, took away all the property in that small country and bankrupted it, the existence of the mansion's 'collateral'.

A story about a magic crystal mine secretly held by the family and the people who died to keep the secret of the mine.

The tricks the Cartier family has been destroying small shops to steal patents or rights.

It also included what kind of ugly games the Cartiers and their collaterals were doing and what contraband they liked.

Commonly, there were stories of art smuggling and secret patronage of temples that produced relics of evil spirits.

The householder eventually came to Lucerne.

“At least, make sure that the sound is not amplified! Lucerne, do something!”

It was the first time Elisha saw the swaying state of the household. He ran amok like a man who had lost his temper.

However, no one stepped forward for the homeowner. Lucerne just stared through the silk with a stiff expression, like a possessed person.

-And, most importantly. Stephen. Are you listening are you still alive

Did I predict your death? Then he might be dead by the time this is revealed. Then you should come even as a ghost! Because what drives me to death right now is with you.

Undine burst into laughter and continued.

– You may have already heard rumors about Stevan's perverted tendencies. Right. That idiot doesn't know what's what, and he doesn't even know who he wants.

Stevan and his wife, Rosiehin, were a very close couple. But you know what? During Rosyhin's life, Stevan and Rosyhin always had a maid.

The maid rarely goes out, and she lives in the deepest room of her outbuilding, which is only used by Stevan.

She says the maid is called 'Put Nose'. If she's got a snub nose, she says her nose was snub when she was little. That nose feature of hers slowly disappeared as she grew up, but she kept that nickname to herself.

She must have noticed by this point. Stevan and his wife, Rosiehin, are gross perverts. That's why she says she can't go to bed without a snub nose. It is said that the three of them always enjoy kinky sex.

Stevan is so obsessed with her snub-nosed that he locks her up and lives with her. And Rozhin says he accepts it without the slightest jealousy. So few people actually saw her upturned nose.

She surprises everyone that the only woman an arrogant man like Stevan is obsessed with is her illiterate maid. Even Stevan himself. So he kept the woman's existence a secret for a long time.

She said in her dignified tone.

-This is the most important part of my grudge. It's cumbersome to explain each one, and it's boring.

Undine whispered.

-I'll just show you my memories.