EP 4 - Aira Gets F*cked At The End(3)
Lucius' position is a Southern High Priest.
Not an inquisitor, paladin, or battle priest, but a high priest.
What is a high priest? In [Heroine Legend], Lucius' role as a high priest was not well portrayed because he just breaks monsters' skulls with a mace. However, a regional high priest wields absolute power within their jurisdiction among the followers.
He holds the authority over the appointment and transfer of priests and nuns, and also have the power to mediate complaints and disputes raised by them. To put it bluntly, if he didn’t care about the aftermath, he could sleep with every nun in the southern region.
Why am I bringing this up?
Because using this power makes it incredibly easy to block that dirty NTR scenario. The day after I carried out the appropriate ‘punishment’ to Aira, I used the power of the Southern High Priest to summon Sieri to my domain.
Name: Sieri
Job: Nun affiliated with the Southern Branch of the Great Celestial Church
Favorability: 78
Level: 10
Stats
Strength: 5
Agility: 10
Intelligence: 24
Luck: 10
Traits
Skilled Accountant
A talented individual who has managed the finances of an organization for a long time. Organizes the estate's finances more efficiently.
Woodworking
Can create tools using wood.
Naivety
Having devoted herself to religion, she still knows nothing.
Walk her through step by step.
Sieri’s stats were much better than expected. Managing the branch’s finances and household account alone, it was expected that she would have the accountant trait. However, she also unexpectedly had a woodworking trait and the naivety trait, which can only be described as s†upid.
Moreover, her favorability for me was over 70. I still don't know what's the maximum favorability in this game yet, but if a childhood friend character has 78, it’s likely 100 was the maximum.
“Ah, greetings, My Lord...”
Sieri hesitated, bowing her head in greeting. As she slightly lifted the hem of her skirt, her white ankles were revealed. When she bowed her head, her neatly grown orange hair cascaded down like a waterfall. I wanted to bury my face in her lustrous hair, but I had to restrain myself for now. Sitting like a lord, I began to admire Sieri's face.
Seeing Sieri for the first time since the NTR development in the game, she was truly a beautiful girl. Her large green eyes evoked a protective instinct, and her delicate features seemed to plead innocence, ‘I don't know anything.’
Although her chest was a bit small, it was only small compared to a cow like Aira. She was about the size of an average adult woman. I didn't know about her butt yet since I hadn't seen them bare. But the nuns' skirts were quite billowy, making her look like a fashion model for a hip photo shoot.
“Nice to meet you, Sieri. Have you been doing well?”
“Ah... well... yes...”
Sieri nodded hesitantly. She was lying; she couldn’t have been doing well. Her territory's lord kept pestering her, her family was buried in debt that couldn’t be paid off with a nun’s salary, and the church itself was struggling financially due to a lack of donations. With the main branch of the Southern Great Celestial Church right next door, donations didn’t flow into Sieri’s territory's church.
The wealthy sent their donations directly to the Southern Great Celestial Church branch where I served as high priest, trying to gain my favor. The poor couldn’t donate much, and even when they did, it wasn’t substantial.
I could solve both the donation issue and Sieri’s debt problem. First, I planned to transfer Sieri to my mansion. With the estate suffering from financial difficulties and having reduced staff significantly, there were many empty rooms in the mansion. It would be easy to feed and house one Sieri.
Since Sieri's family originally lived by farming, I could just give them a bit of land. Their debt, though significant for commoners, was trivial from the estate’s perspective.
“Actually, I was planning to transfer Sieri.”
“Yes. It was Karl, the warehouse thief. This morning, I slapped him a few times to interrogate him, but he didn’t wake up. So I checked his pulse and found he was already dead. We’re now handing him over to his family.”
It seemed that he killed the bastard after repeatedly smashing his head against the stairs. From Robin’s perspective, Karl died early this morning, but to me, it was clear that he was already dead when Robin dragged him to the basement. Poor Karl. I mourned his death silently.
“Have you explained the circumstances of his death to his family?”
“Not yet. I haven’t explained it...”
“Tell them he died while we were subduing him during his attempted warehouse theft.”
Saying he was repeatedly bashed against the stairs might be too much.
“Yes, understood.”
I instructed Robin on how to handle the situation and turned away. I needed to check on Aira in the basement to see if she had bitten her tongue or hanged herself.
But seeing that Robin, who visited the dungeon at dawn, hadn't said anything, it seemed she was still alive.
When I opened the door to the dungeon, I was greeted by the musty smell of moss and the damp air. The stone walls of the dungeon were covered with much moss and mold, that it felt like you'll contract every disease in the world just by touching them.
Aira was confined in the far corner of the dungeon. Chained by her ankles, she simply looked at the floor with a resigned expression.
“Are you reflecting on your actions, Aira?”
Aira didn’t respond and kept her eyes on the floor. Was she pretending to be crazy to gain my sympathy? I checked Aira’s status window.
Name: Aira
Job: Swindler
Favorability: 0
Level: 6
Stats
Strength: 3
Agility: 7
Intelligence: 7
Luck: 0
Traits
Accountant
As a result of working with finances for many years, she has become very proficient in accounting.
Automatically organizes the territory's operating expenses.
Actor
Can act other jobs.
Currently acting as: Madman
Skilled Thief
Can unlock all locked doors below current level. This value is further modified based on the tools used.
Imprisoned
Currently restrained and detained, resulting in stat penalties.
She can even act as a ‘madman’. It was definitely a great talent. If I could somehow persuade her, she might be useful as a spy. But she would surely continue pretending to be insane no matter what I said, so I decided to leave her alone for now.
When I went up to the first floor, there were large wagons waiting in front of the gate. I knew what those wagons were. They belonged to the tenant farmers who paid rent and farmed the land in this territory.
Come to think of it, I need to deal with those bastards too.
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