Chapter 15

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“This is a setup!”

The temple turned upside down at dawn.

“I’ve never seen a ledger like that in my life.”

“Selling children?”

“Hey, look!”

The High Priest, Chason, and the other priests who had been the servants of the department came out one by one.

“Wow. The work is done very quickly.”

Hannah admired the cinematic sight from her distant feet.

The ledger we dug up at dawn was in Curtis’s hand, and Hannah did not know when so many paladins came.

“There is a ledger here, and the password on the ledger is beautifully written on the back of a picture frame in the office. The organization that the priest sold the children to would be in the same situation as it is here now. A test subject for black magic. The servants of the gods do that?”

Curtis, who initially continued to speak in a plain tone, raised his voice at some point showing how angry he was.

He was likely to kick the high priest if he gets the chance.

“Come on, please do me a favor.”

The High Priest had already intuited that he was wrong, so he crawled on his knees and prayed at Curtis’ feet.

“I think I did good enough for not cutting you off with the holy sword right now. Haah..”

Behind Curtis, Cesar yawned and appeared with a sloppy face. Just looking at it, it looked like he had just woken up and pulled out his slippers.

At his appearance, the Paladins stood aside and made way.

‘The High Priest of the Central Shrine seems to be a very high person.’

Despite his messy appearance, I could feel even from a distance that the paladin knights were on high alert.

Maybe it’s because of his special ability.

But when did Cesar check all the ledgers and call the paladins to a secret organization and a temple?

He looked new, who was like an incompetent fool.

I wonder if he’s always tired because he’s the type of person who works at dawn.

“What’s that, sir?”

While hiding behind the pillar and enjoying the sightseeing, Marsha’s voice was heard from behind.

“Wow, there’s a bunch of knights!”

An excited Jeremy raised his voice.

“Is the temple gone now, teacher?”

Ian, who was quick-witted, seemed to have already figured out the situation.

“What, the temple is gone?”

“Is it because of the minister’s fault that our temple disappears?”

Ian’s words showed signs of uneasiness among the children.

“No, it won’t go away. Don’t worry.”

Hannah squatted down to make eye contact with the children.

“Really?”

The children looked anxious.

Even grown-ups are afraid of change, but it was not necessary to think about how anxious children would be if they thought the temple where they had their homes would disappear.

“But that’s how he’s being taken.”

“Don’t worry.”

The teacher recognized everything, but only the bad guys were taken.

The temple remains the same.

“You guys will still stay here.”

Hannah stroked Masha’s red-eyed hair.

“What about you?”

Jeremy asked such a Hannah.

“Teacher is ···.”

I couldn’t bring myself to say that I might not be able to stay with them.

“Where are you going?”

I was worried that the corners of my mouth that I forced myself to raise might shake.

“Gasp!”

It was the cry of Kkokko that broke Hannah’s feeling of sadness.

Surprised by the croaking cry, Hannah wrapped her hands around the beak of Kkokko in Masha’s pocket.

“Masha, you can’t bring Kkokko to where the others are.”

The sudden appearance of Kkokko chilled my spine. Masha’s Kkokko was growing day by day by day.

It was concluded that this was never an ordinary bird, as the three-day-old boy was already flapping his wings on his fluffy fur.

Even the horns are getting harder!

“Absolutely not with others around···. Especially, you know, it shouldn’t be seen by the people of the temple. Do you understand?”

“Pick, pick!”

Kkokko, who had a beak in Hannah’s hand, struggled to take it out.

Ha, how the hell did you manage that?

If I have to leave the nursery school, should I steal Kkokko and run away?

I was at a loss for words.

Like this.

Kkokko, who was twisting her body, eventually pulled out her beak and bit Hannah’s finger.

Hannah had to clench her lips not to scream.

‘What the hell are you doing to me? Really!’

“Are you in a lot of pain, teacher?”

Ian asked carefully as Hannah held her hand and bowed her head with tears in her eyes.

“It’s all right.”

Hannah smiled at the children until the end, though.

‘I’m going to make a soup out of Kkokko and eat it. Seriously.’

* * *

“Goodbye. Take care.”

In front of the main gate of the temple, Curtis said goodbye to Hannah and the children.

“It’s a farewell without a hitch.”

I didn’t really talk to Curtis all his time here.

No wonder, it’s because he’s been too busy since he got here.

However, it is amazing that he always treats people with a smiling face mechanically, leaving the impression that he is a polite person.

“If you’re in the temple, we’ll be connected again.”

“Yes, take care.”

Hannah was not fired from the nursery school.

The temple rather decided to raise Hannah’s salary in that she had no contact with the head priest and contributed to finding the books.

It was a very big gain.

“Excuse me…”

Jeremy, who was holding a skirt next to Hannah, shyly opened his mouth.

When Jeremy stumbles so shyly, he was about to make a mistake!

“The sword, can I touch it once?” Jeremy said, pointing to the knight’s sword.

“Oh,” the knight laughed and asked Jeremy to come up.

Fortunately, it was not an accident.

With a sigh of relief, Hannah looked at Masha.

In particular, she scanned with hawk eyes what was in his pocket.

“Phew.”

There was nothing wrong.

Ian had nothing to worry about.

Rather, he seemed to want to go in after this greeting was over quickly.

“Yo,” waved Cesar, who appeared late in the yard.

He was such a great human being.

How can he stay the same all the time?

“Kids,”

Cesar looked at the children slowly and met eyes with them.

“Mister Priest.”

“I’m a substitute.”

Why do you have to pick up the difference with the children?

A smirk came out of me at his childish attitude.

“Thanks for kicking out the bad head priest!”

Masha said to Cesar, smiling brightly like a sunflower.

“Can I tell on anyone else if they’re being mean?”

Masha seemed to think of Cesar as a hero.

“No,”

Hannah frowned at Cesar’s determined refusal.

You can just say yes and go!

Why did you hurt our Masha and make a fuss?

“You tell this teacher.”

“Teacher?”

“This teacher works better than I do.”

Hannah’s mouth corners rose slightly at his words, and her shoulders became a little puffy.

“Yes! Our teacher is the best!”

Ian nodded at Masha’s words.

Hannah’s heart moved as she looked at them.

Still, it was the fact that the efforts she’s done so far were not wasted.

“Let’s go,” said Cesar, who had shown Jeremy the sword. Jeremy showed signs of regret.

“Goodbye. I hope you don’t get away with it.”

I felt sorry for being attached to you only for a few days.

Cesar moved away, waving his trademark dryly.

A procession of paladins followed, and instead, the head priest and its companions followed along with the cart tied together.

Hannah waved her hand at the head priest instead of the distant Vihrud.

“It was dirty to meet you, let’s not see each other again.”

We’re all relieved.

As long as I watched those who were leaving, I turned my back refreshingly.

“Now, shall we go back to the happy nursery?”

Those who have left are those who have left, and those who remain must live another day.

“Yes! Are we eating snacks?”

“I haven’t even eaten lunch yet.”

“Snacks are meant to be eaten every time you feel good?”

“I’ll start with Kkokko!”

The children became noisy again.

Jeremy bickering, Ian, and Masha, and the singing Kkokko.

“It’s a happy time.”

Though the children’s frantic rhetoric continues to diminish their energy.

But this fuss, for one, was happiness.

* * *

It was a smooth day.

The temple without the bad guys was peaceful.

“Jeremy! You stepped on the laundry!”

Hannah was hanging it out in the garden again today.

Thanks to the neat Ian, I couldn’t filter out the sun disinfection when the weather was good.

Jeremy was stepping on such a precious quilt.

“Oh, teacher! Kkokko has taken my snack!”

“What the hell is wrong with you?”

Kkokko hasn’t been identified for two weeks.

It was a pain in the neck that a kid as big as a fist became as big as melon in two weeks.

“Teacher, fly!”

“Don’t say terrible things.”

How do I explain to others the grey bird flying with horns?

“Practice him to walk on two feet, Masha.”

Hannah cried as she saw her running after Kkokko.

“Teacher.”

“Huh?”

Ian approached the frantic Hannah.

Hannah looked back at Ian, dusting off the rest of the laundry.

“I think someone’s here.”

“Who’s coming?”

I looked down the hill and saw the temple crowded.

“Who is it? Oh! Recruits?”

The vacancy had not been filled for nearly two weeks since the Vihrud substitute was taken.

(tl/n; I can’t seem to get another translation for this ‘vihrud’.)

However, it was not noticeable without them, perhaps because it was a temple that did nothing.

“Masha!”

Hannah came to her senses.

If new people come, I’m sure they’ll come to check on the nursery!

“Masha put her in the coop! And quickly put the skulls and ghostly dolls in the room in a treasure box!”

Now the nursery bomb was Masha.

When someone looked at Masha’s strange taste and asked why she was raising her child like this, there was nothing she could say.

On top of that, that friend is a new sprout of a black wizard, so it can’t be said that his taste is like that.

“Put Kkokko in the coop first.”

The biggest problem was Kkokko.

Hannah threw out the laundry roughly.

Ian frowned on her, but that’s not the problem now.

Hannah ran at full speed and headed for Masha’s room.

“Argh!”

In Marsha’s room, a skeleton, a cursed doll, a teddy bear with a missing eyeball, and an ugly curtain welcomed Hannah by pouring red paint.

Hannah had to tidy up her room faster than ever.