Chapter 68

I fell down in front of the temple head and was returned to the accommodation room by the gray priest who was called by the temple head.

As a result, I couldn’t sneak in the toilet alone and was taken care of by a shrine maiden.

«The act of being supervised by others and tears, and the shyness and embarrassment that caused me to clean up I couldn’t meet the shrine maiden. I wanted to, but I couldn’t do it if my body didn’t have power.

¡Lutz, who stretched out on the bed and was disappointed by his inability to do so, came to see Lutz after the baptismal ceremony. Lutz glances at the sight of a beautiful room with a guard and rushes to the side of the bed.

“I did something, Mine!”

“Well, I got lost looking for a water spot … collapsed”

Lifting his head gently from the bed and answering roughly, Lutz, who was looking at me with a gentle gaze, shook his head with his arms crossed.

“That’s not all, say everything”

“Ugu … Well, I found the library and got excited …”

Lutz narrows his eyes and tilts his neck in the middle of the word.

“What is a library?”

“The paradise of this world, made up by God”

“Huh?”

“… a room full of books”

“Oh … well, it’s okay. I don’t have to say it all.”

Lutz shook the other hand while holding the forehead with one hand. Because the story was cut off, I picked up my bedside hair ornament to get ready.

“Do n’t you say anything important? The young lady fell down in direct appeal to the temple chief,”

As I rounded my hair, the watchmaker who was listening to our conversation gave up his shoulder with a amazed face.

気 Rutz, who is freaking out, picks up my cheek and pulls it.

“What are you doing, stupid!”

“I’m sorry, I’m sure I was a little too excited”

I wish I could carry things a little more calmly and intelligently, but the result was all right. He also gave him a chance to become a shrine maiden, and was able to read the scriptures in the room of the temple head. I reflect on it, but I don’t regret it.

“I’ll go home before I do anything more”

Supplied by Lutz and left the temple under the guidance of a shrine maiden, we waited for us to come out in the plaza in front of the temple with a frustrating appearance of our father.

“… I’m picked up. Well then, this is me.”

“Thank you for your help”

As it was, I was carried on my back by my father. While listening to Lutz’s brief report to his father today on the way, he feels sleepy when left to shake.

“I’ll go home after signing up at the store”

When I suddenly returned to Lutz’s voice, it was in front of Benno’s shop. In this state, you can’t stop at Benno. Lutz, who goes to today’s report and apprenticeship contract, will be split in front of Benno’s store.

Marc who noticed us came to meet us from the store. I waved to Marc from my father’s back.

“Thank you, Marc-san. It’s impossible to stop by, so I’ll come again.”

“Take care”

“Lutz, contract, firm”

“Oh, take a break”

I went home with my father, waving to Lutz and Marc to see me off.

Celebrating a festive dinner for a celebration, I saw my father drinking tea with my family. You have to talk about wanting to be an apprentice.

“Hey, dad”

“What?”

My father puts a mouth on the cup and includes a bite.

“I want to become an apprentice shrine maiden”

My father’s smile disappeared in an instant.

Next moment, Dan! A big noise was made and the cup was struck on the table. The tea that jumped up in the cup falls on the table like a patter.

“… what is it? Try saying it again”

I was amazed by my father’s terrible low voice, and I blinked my eyes. The anger and disgust that exaggerated the back muscles were stripped, and the heart made an unpleasant noise.

“… the shrine priestess apprentice”

“Don’t play! I will not put my daughter in the temple”

“Dad, why are you so angry?”

I don’t know why it suddenly changed, and I can only be confused. I thought I would be opposed, but I didn’t think my father would ever get angry with disgust.

“Apprentices and shrine priests are orphans! It is inevitable that an orphan without a parent and a guardian will live. It will not be Mine!”

“What is an orphan?”

“Oh, yes. It’s not like a mine with parents. Don’t say it again!”

I was just stunned by the attitude of my father, who has no island. On the other hand, I was able to convince my father’s words.

It was just a little caught. To the reaction of the temple chief who didn’t think that there was an apprentice to a shrine maiden apprentice, or to the word “a child in your family”.

“Günter, Mine didn’t know, so don’t tell me so hard”

“… Oh, that’s right”

My father breathing slowly and stroking my head so as to exhale annoying emotions. And my mother leaned a little while wiping the table where the pots and tea flew.

“But why did Mine suddenly say she wanted to be a shrine maiden?”

Sense of discrimination against priests and shrine maiden can be seen through the ends of their parents’ words. I was surprised because I thought that priests and shrine maidens were rather respected occupations.

“I fell lost in the baptismal ceremony and then lost my way looking for the water.”

“Would you stay in a room? If you leave the room, you probably have a water basin”

dad twisted his neck after listening to the situation easily from Lutz. Certainly, large rooms used by commoners often have water nearby.

I swung my head small.

“… I had a gorgeous outfit, so I was really mistaken for a lady, so I was passed into a room where a merchant who brought me a noble introduction was staying. …… “

“Oh, that clothes can’t be helped”

My father asked me several times. Both mother and Turi are satisfied.

“While hesitating, he entered a place that aristocrats would use”

My parents turned pale. Because it is an identity society, it is thoroughly divided. If you get lost and wrecked aristocrats, your chances of ending there are high.

“I never met a nobleman because a shrine maid found me, but there was a library. There were so many books. I wanted to read, I wanted to read, I couldn’t stand it. And I don’t put it … “

“What is the book?”

My father’s eyebrows moved.

“When I asked how to put it in, I was told that if I became an apprentice priest …”

“So you thought you would like to become an apprentice without thinking? … Hah. Give up the book. Just make it yourself.”

“Huh?”

I couldn’t believe that I was going to give up the book, so I stared at my father. My father looks at me with a serious expression with no smile.

“Which Mine chooses to live as an apprenticeship in an orphanage to read a book, or to spend the same time with a family?”

My head turned completely white when I was asked to choose between family and books.

I want to stay with my family until the last minute of eating. During that time, I wanted to make a little book and read and be satisfied.

Today, I was excited to find a library and read books, but I never thought about leaving my family.

“… Do you have a relationship with your family?”

lips shake and do not make a decent voice. When asked with a drowning voice, his father nodded seriously.

“Yes. The shrine apprentice will live in the temple. The job is hard, and the only people I work with are orphans. I can’t be a eater. I can’t even manage my physical condition. What work can you do when you fall down at the baptismal ceremony, and the books are expensive, are they rare enough to be protected by magical tools or something to prevent strangers from entering? Is it something that can be touched immediately? ”

Father’s words are the best, and there is no room for objection.

My head is answering that it is impossible to become an apprentice. However, I don’t want to give up showing that many books.

Turi took my hand when I was biting my lips with a feeling of crying. I have tears in my eyes and hold my hand when I can’t take my hands off.

“Does Mine want to be a shrine maiden? Do you want to be a shrine maiden to break the promise?”

Turi’s words hit Scon and the chest. I swung my head sideways, feeling that my body was losing power.

“… Yeah, I just wanted to read the book in front of me. I didn’t want to be a shrine maiden”

The apprenticeship is not just a means. I don’t want to make my family cry and stay away from it.

Turi shines my face in my answer, but still makes me feel a bit of anxiety.

“It was good … Mine will be with you? Promise you?”

“Yeah … If you feel better, you will be refused by the temple head.”

Listening to the answer I gave, my father exhaled a relief as if the chest was down and hug me tightly.

“I’m glad you understood. You are my precious daughter. Nothing in the temple.”

Even though there was certainly a heart to think that it was good to not grieve the family, the heat of eating started to spread in the body as soon as the way to the library itself was closed.

“Mine, the fever has begun to rise?”

“Did you fall down many times a day? The conversation was over and the tension was broken. Sleep now.”

When I was in bed, I slowly closed my eyes, feeling the heat of eating slowly spreading.

I never thought I couldn’t choose a book.

Until now, there was no choice in me not to choose books. If you were in Reino, you should have taken a book with an immediate answer and left your family. Whatever you put it, it was a book.

However, now I can’t choose a book with an immediate answer. I thought the family was the most important because there was no book around, but it seems that the family was as important as the book.

But I found it with much effort. I want to read a book.

I can’t choose between a family and a book, but I can’t cut down a book. Even if you try to push the heat in such a state, it will not work as usual. The heat of eating is gaining momentum as if ridiculing the unstable mental state that remains unskilled in the library.

I felt frustrated by the heat that didn’t work as I expected, and I began to look for my own compromise by balancing my family and books.

Is there no way to read a book without becoming an apprentice? If you talk about donations, your attitude has changed, do you earn a little more, try to accumulate money and get permission to enter the room? I don’t feel like mimicking someone’s cheek with money, but you can’t change your stomach on your back?

For the time being, can you be a little satisfied if you go to the room of the temple head and read only the scriptures?

After all, it took two days to suppress the heat of eating. At last, my fever fell and I got up, but my body was still sluggish. The heat of eating was caught, so if you sleep a day today, it will recover.

Lutz, who came to see the scene, had a difficult face looking at me.

“I still have a bad face. My husband told me that I wanted to talk to Mine, but it seems impossible today.”

“Lutz, do you have any plans for tomorrow? I want to go to the temple, then Benno-san, but can you come with me?”

Lutz leaned slightly to my question.

“Temple? Well, what are you going to do?”

“Reading the scriptures …. I refuse to talk about apprenticeship with a lady”

“Hey? Apprentice shrine maiden? Where did you come from?”

Speaking of which, the shrine maiden said that she had fallen directly to the temple chief, but she did not talk about the direct complaint.

“Did you say you found the library at the baptismal ceremony? Because it was said that only the people involved in the temple could enter it, I thought I would become a person involved in the temple.

“I’m more reckless than I’m a travel merchant? Look at reality for a moment. Rather than jumping forward, it’s Mine who taught me to find a possible detour?”

Lutz’s words that changed from a boy who had a dream that was convenient to him to a boy who chased a dream with a foot on the ground painfully pierced the chest.

“… I was only thinking about reading books on the shortest route”

“When it comes to books, Mine really can’t see the surroundings. Wouldn’t it be better to stop going to the temple anymore?” Isn’t the heat of eating violent? “

“At the very least, I thought that I would read the scriptures alone and kept the heat of eating away”

Lutz looked down at me with an indifferent face and slammed his head with a laugh.

“Did you conclude yourself? I didn’t expect Mine to give up on the book. I did my best …. Well, if I just feel like just going to the temple. I think it’s impossible to live in the city. “

“Yes, I know”

Next day, I went to the temple with Lutz. I’m going to a store in Benno, so I wear new beautiful clothes. The temple head’s room is gorgeous, so I thought it would be better than usual clothes.

Tell your gatekeeper your name and tell the temple head that you want to meet. The story seems to have already been communicated, and a gray priest appeared and was guided through the temple.

“What do you do with Lutz? If you come with us? If you’ve studied a lot at Benno’s shop? When you’re done with the temple, will you go to the shop?”

“If the bell of 5 rings, I will come to pick you up, wait. Don’t flutter?”

“I understand”

I was guided by a gray priest and went to the room of the temple head, but the temple head was absent. Instead, the priest wearing blue clothes greeted me.

About the same generation as my father, with light blue hair stretched to his shoulders. The temple chief is a grand and grand grandpa, but the chief is quite tall and thin. It looks like a tricky person who puts people together on a practical level and runs around.

“You are Mine? I’m listening to the head of the temple. Come on.”

“Thank you”

“I am asked to read the scriptures until the temple head returns”

The priest seems to read me, but what did I do to receive the hospitality of the priest himself? Oh, donation?

Since he is a partner who donates a large amount of money, he must be polite. Apparently, the amount of donation presented has a considerable impact. This may open the way to the library depending on the negotiation.

“Please listen there”

The priest started reading at the table in the center of the room, but I was sitting in front and could only see the cover of the book. Apparently it won’t let me touch the book. It is a hospitality with vigilance about what I do and what I am thinking about.

“That’s the priest, I don’t want to hear the story, I want to see the book”

“Why is that? You didn’t want to know the story of God?”

“I want to know the story, but I want to learn a word I don’t know”

«The priest became an expression of my imagination in my words. After thinking for a while, crawl deeply.

“… I see. But this is a valuable scripture. Can you promise to never touch it?”

“I will”

The priest reads me, putting me on my lap and making the scriptures visible. Flowing beautiful characters are spelled on the parchment that is yellow when touching the edges and pages. He breathed the smell of old paper into his chest and exhaled.

The story of the baptismal ceremony seems to have been bitten by a simple wording. Sounds quite different.

¡Learn new words while reading the scriptures by the priest. It’s interesting to see a series of common nouns and verbs that I’ve always wanted to know.

When I was pointing and reading a word that I knew well, so as not to touch the scriptures, an interesting priest came to teach me the word.

“You are very well remembered. It is worth telling you that absorption is so good … Are you not an aristocrat? Is there a possibility that one of your parents is drawing noble blood?”

“I don’t think at all”

“Yes, I’m sorry”

I don’t know why the chief regrets. However, I think that this priest may be responsible for teaching priests and priests like Marc. Marc is like a teacher or is used to teaching people things.

“Oh, did you come here, did you seem to wait?”

When the temple head came back, I was told to go back to the chair and the scriptures were carefully bound by the chief and returned to the shelf.

“I was able to have a very meaningful and enjoyable time because the chief read the scriptures. Thank you for your kindness.”

The head of the shrine sat down on the chair where the head of the priest sat down and the head of the priest stood beside him.

“So what about your parents?”

“The shrine maiden is an orphan, so he was told that he was no good”

I dropped my shoulders in the words of the head of the temple, who opened his eyes to expectations.

The temple chief sighed and shook his head. The priest opens his mouth from the side of the temple head.

“It’s not decided that there will be an orphan. There are some aristocratic children. Certainly, priests and shrine maidens are more likely to be orphans, because they can’t take on other professions. Limited, there is no way but to become an apprentice of a priest or shrine maiden. ”

I blinked several times in the words of the priest.

“Why can’t I get another job?”

“Because there are no people to introduce or take care of”

I was very convinced. The employment system in this city, which determines whether you can become an apprentice by introducing relatives or relatives, is certainly not kind to orphans. You can’t imagine the struggle of an orphan who can’t even search for a minister, even though he has a hard time just choosing a job other than his parent’s job.

“You can become a shrine maiden if you are not an orphan. I want you to understand that.”

“Yes, but the apprentice lived in the temple, and the weak I couldn’t do the hard work of the apprentice.”

“Isn’t it bad, is it usually weak?”

The temple chief traces a white beard with a slight eyebrow. In the corner of my head, I wanted to put on Santa’s costume in the winter, and I apologized and affirmed.

“Yes, eating is sick”

“Eating up?”

The head of the temple, who was moving in a relaxed and relaxed manner, stood open with his eyes wide open. The standing priest, holding hands on the van and the table, leaned toward me.

“If you eat!”

“Yes, what is it?”

Refused by two people who changed their blood phases, I pulled my body reflexively. The temple chief points to the door with a small trembling hand in front of me, asking if I have said something wrong.

“President, bring me that”

“I know”

The light-headed priest walks with Stasta with his long legs. Although it is elegant at first glance, it is extremely fast. The door that the priest came out has been left open.

At the edge of my sight, I was sent off and the head of the temple turned to the shelf where the scriptures were decorated.

“Pray to God!”

Suddenly, I was raised only by my hand with the head of the temple, who suddenly started to pray.

“Thank God!”

¡Looking at the back of the head of the temple, who is sitting on the ground with a flowing movement, what happened is frightening.

Clearly, I feel that something has gone wrong. I want to get away from here, but I don’t think it’s easy to get away from the sword curtain.

I slowly turned away from the head of the temple who kept praying while sitting in a chair.

«If you think that the crisp and footsteps are approaching at a very high speed from the other side of the door, the chief will come back with something wrapped in cloth.

It was the Holy Grail held by the stone statue in the prayer room that was carefully placed while removing the cloth on the table.

“Touch this Holy Grail”

“Eh? Can I touch this?”

“Oh, early”

Reach out to the holy grail placed on the table. Two people who are staring at their eyes are scary.

As soon as my fingertip touched, the Holy Grail lit a dazzling light.

“Wow! What is this?”

If you hurry and pull your hand, the light of the Holy Grail disappears. In front of me comparing my fingers and the Holy Grail, the head of the temple and the head of the priest looked at each other and whispered.

“Mine wants to talk to your parents”

I’m sorry, father, mother.

It seems that something has become important.