CH 102

Enoch walked in and stood in front of Nicholas.

“I have come to report the investigation of the temple that Your Majesty ordered.”

“….” 

“As the revelation of the Lord Primera actually came true, we, the Paladins, have no justification to investigate the Seraph Temple as heresy.” 

“…What?” 

He was confused for a moment. 

Nicholas remained silent for a long time and doubted his ears.

Then he turned his eyes still and looked at Ramon, the aide behind Enoch.

He’s trembling.

Seeing the reaction, he didn’t even have to ask.

“The revelation… came true?”

Nicholas blinked very slowly.

“yes. As interpreted by the Great Temple, today the 225 sick people who were treated at the Seraph Temple were healed, and even the chief priest who had a chronic disease rose from her seat.” 

“….” 

“Congratulations, Your Majesty. “

Congratulations? Nicholas’ mouth fell open.

“It has been proven that God still exists.”

Enoch added with a laugh.

“Isn’t it something that will please Your Majesty, the owner of this glorious Empire, the most?” 

“Ha, Hahaha… Yeah, it is…”

Arrogant punk.

With a smile on his face, he is mocking him.

Nicholas widened his eyes to correct the whitened vision.

“What I’m saying…” 

He couldn’t believe it.

As he gradually became aware of the reality, his anger soared. 

“…Good, job. You can go.” 

“Yes, Your Majesty.” 

Enoch bow a little and leave—.

Clank! Clank! Clank! 

At the same time, the windows were shattered, overflowing with uncontrollable anger.

“Y, Your Majesty. Please calm down.”

Aide Ramon hurriedly fell on his face.

“Oh, this. What the hell is this? What the hell is going on?”

Nicholas’s eyes were bloodshot after being pushed to the limit. He still couldn’t believe it. 

Revelations come true?

Doesn’t God disappear?

“Ha, haa, ha…” 

It felt like his throat was tight. Nicholas’ eyes, which were tightly gripped by his collar, met the statue on the desk.

Primera, who took the form of a beautiful woman. 

“…Ha, haha, hahaha.” 

They seem to know.

Primera still doesn’t appear in the imperial family.

A God who performed miracles in the Old Church.

God still looks down on this place and abandons the imperial family. 

“This, damn it….” 

Nicholas held the statue with trembling hands.

Crack—!

Soon, unable to overcome his rage, he threw the statue against the wall and shattered it.

“Damn it…” 

Nicholas murmured as he glared at the statue’s neck as it rolled and tumbled at his feet.

His own justice was denied by God.

Now, one by one, they will begin to doubt the justice he has so firmly guarded.

It was a shocking situation.

* * *

It’s been a week since the sick at the Seraph Temple got well.

Things were tense in the capital.

Many people were delighted that the fact that God was alive and well was proven, and some nobles began snooping around the Seraph Temple while secretly watching.

“Wuhehe.”

“What are you laughing at so sinisterly?”

“Why are you smiling so insidiously?”

“Oh, Master is here!”

Today, as usual, Oscar appeared in the study room, sat down next to me, and asked.

“Did you do it?”

“Yes?” 

“Why are you pretending you don’t know?”

Aha. It seemed that he was talking about the current revelation commotion.

I hesitated, then nodded.

“Yes~” 

“You are smart.”

“Really? Did I do well?”

“Yeah.” 

Oscar smiled and patted my head.

“It couldn’t have been better to deceive the emperor. This master is very proud. Wherever you go, be sure to say that you are my disciple.”

“Huh? Deceiving His Majesty?”

When asked what he was talking about, Oscar raised his eyebrows.

“What? Didn’t you aim for it?”

“Yes?” 

“The next Primera keeps not coming out. If the emperor is a man with a head, he will always be suspicious. I wonder if Primera was born somewhere else.”

“Ah, yes! That’s right.” 

For Primera to come out of a place other than the imperial family is truly unreasonable.

So, fortunately, he still endured without questioning my existence—.

‘That’s right. The Emperor can be suspicious at any time. That’s why I’m scared.’

That’s why I want the revolution to progress faster than the original.

Only when the Emperor disappears I can live comfortably.

“The next Primera didn’t come out, so there was a lot of talk about how God abandoned the imperial family, but just then, a revelation from God came down that completely denied the imperial family’s teachings.”

Oscar chuckled.

“Isn’t it a situation where God has turned around, no matter who sees it? The emperor probably thought that God had abandoned him. He never imagined Primera from another house could have caused this commotion.” 

“Oh oh! Then His Majesty the Emperor, is he think God is angry and misunderstanding that Primera is completely gone?”

“That’s it. No, but you. Didn’t you do this to aim for it from the beginning?”

“Ah, well. I wasn’t really aiming for that….” 

She did it because, with just 15 minutes of life force, she could help sick people and speed up the revolution.

“Then?” 

“Mmm.”

But I can’t tell him the truth.

“I just want sick people to get better. But it’s a bit strange if they get better suddenly, so I lied to the priest….” 

When I answered that, Oscar stared at me.

He didn’t seem to like something.

“Why?”

“If you see sick people on the road, will you treat them and go to their grave the day after tomorrow?”

“N, no… As you can see, it only cost me a little while to heal it. It only took 15 minutes.” 

“Does less or more matter now? You, would you have used it as much as you could if it wasn’t obvious that you were growing?”

“….”

“Don’t do anything like this from now on.”

Oscar’s expression when he said that was very frightening.

But, 

‘This, you’re worried about me… right?’

From some point on, Oscar’s intentions seemed transparent.

“Open the book.”

I pondered as I looked at the expression on Oscar’s face, who quickly became upset.

‘Should I ask for help?’

In the original story, Oscar didn’t help Dad until the end.

However, unlike the original work, if Oscar helps, Dad will be able to create a revolution much faster.

“Aren’t you going to open the book?”

“Ah, yes!”

I quickly opened the book and looked at Oscar timidly.

“What are you looking at?”

“Are you angry?”

“Yeah.”

“Because I use my life force to save people? But anyway, if I don’t want to be caught, I have to use my abilities little by little and grow up quickly….”

“Then you get used to it.”

Oscar added in a low voice.

“…I hate it.”

“….”

“I know how your Dad teaches at home, but listen carefully.”

“….”

“If you give your bread to a hungry guy and take off your clothes to a cold guy, what about you? Do you have no choice but to starve and freeze to death?”

“Ah, yes. I understand.”

“Now open the book.”

“Yes, Master…. Thank you for your concern….”

I glanced at Oscar again with a pen.

He was reading with indifferent eyes, with his legs crossed in an arrogant pose, as he always did when I was solving problems.

“If you have something to say, say it.”

“Ugh.” 

Does he have eyes on his side? 

Startled, I turned my head to the book and asked cautiously.

“Master, by any chance. Do you… like His Majesty the Emperor?”

“No.” 

“Then do you hate him?”

“Yeah.” 

I got excited when I heard the answer, so I turned around and looked at Oscar.

“T, then what about my Dad?” 

“I hate him more than the Emperor.”

“Yes?”

I expected it because he said he didn’t like the Emperor.

When he replied that he hated my Dad more, I drooped.

“Why do you ask that?”

“Why my Dad? My Dad is a really nice guy. My Dad is…”

“Yeah. That’s why I don’t like it. It doesn’t suit me.”

Oscar was adamant.

“Why do you ask that?”

“Master.”

“What?”

“Then… If my Dad goes to the Master and asks for something later, then won’t you listen to it?”

Oscar, whose eyes were fixed on the book, smiled.

“You’re not going to listen, are you? Right?”

“Yeah. I will listen if it’s something nice.”

“Haa.”

“I should do it if you wants to ask.”

….?

I opened my eyes as I was drooping.

“Are you listening to my request?”

“Yeah.”

“Wow! Can I ask you anything?”

“Yeah.”

“M, Master! Then about my request. Master will listen to my Dad’s request later!”

“Yeah, okay.”

Really? I opened my mouth when I saw Oscar nodding his head without thinking.

“All requests?”

“I got it.”

“Really? Do you promise me?”

“I told you I got it.”

Oscar, who smiled again at me, who was so excited, chinned the book.

“Hurry up and solve it.”

“Yes! I’ll solve all 100 questions today!”

I’ve got Oscar, so a hundred questions is not a big deal!

I put all my strength into my head and began to solve the problem diligently.

How long has it been?

“Lilith.”

“Yes!”

Excited at the sound of the call, I turned my head to see Oscar staring at me with his chin resting.

He smirked and murmured.

“…now answer.”

“Yes?”

What is he talking about?

“Did you always answer well?”

“Huh. I solved it right.”

Oscar casually turned his eyes back to his book.

“….”

I couldn’t hold the pen again.

‘Why…?’

The affectionate, very old-looking eyes that sometimes look at me.

Surprisingly, the favor that shines unconditionally to me.

Every time I meet Oscar, I can’t help but wonder what is the reason for his affection towards me—.

‘It’s frustrating.’

There were only speculations and I couldn’t ask it easily.

I never know what questions might touch the restraints that bind him.

‘I wonder what Oscar and I had to do with each other.’

I wish I could tell by my ability.

‘What I was to Oscar, and what Oscar was to me. Please, I want to know.’

Looking at the bracelet, I thought about it a thousand times already.

–

But as always, the same reaction.

It was beyond my ability.

“Master.”

“Yeah.”

“Me, I can always answer when Master calls.”

Oscar looked at me.

“I’ll answer anytime, at any time…”

“….”

“So please call me a lot.”

“….”

Oscar didn’t answer.

We looked at each other for a long time like that.

Soon he said with a smile.

“Yeah.”

It was a somewhat sad smile.

*****

I grew up a lot using my powers and when I was in the training center.

After coming out, I was using my abilities in my spare time and matching the growth rate with my peers to the extent that I wouldn’t be suspected.

So that I can hide my identity safely.

However, there was an unexpected problem.

‘I, I’m in trouble…’

I stood in front of the mirror looking into my mouth, then ran to the bed as soon as the door opened.

“Princess! Dad is coming!”

“Eung.”

Dad, who came in well-prepared, shook the toothbrush.

“Come on, my princess! Let’s brush your teeth and sleep!”

“You don’t have to! I did it earlier.”

“Eung.”

“I, I did it alone. Clean every corner…”

“….”

Dad stood there staring at me and blinking.

“I’m going to bed now! I’m sleepy.”

I swallowed my saliva and pulled the blanket over my head.

Dad didn’t say anything.

My chest tightened with tension.

‘I don’t want to today! It’s scary!’

Tak, tak. I could feel my Dad’s approaching steps.

Dad seemed to stand next to me instead of lying in bed.

Being silent all the time, I sneaked down the blanket.

“Hiik!”

Dad’s face was right in front of me.

“W, why…?”

“My princess.”

I prayed inwardly.

‘Please, Dad! Just for today, please be the ignorant main character!’

Dad smiled insidiously, then pulled his face closer and said.

“So it’s shaking?”

“Hmph.”

…Ah, please, someone, please steal the main character’s attention.