CH 44

Someone who fell out of nowhere while the prayer was going on.

With Elodie’s appearance, the  great War of Ishtar meeting was literally turned upside down.

Among them, the most excited were by far the faithful servants of God, the priests.

There was an existence that appeared simultaneously with the notice of the oracle’s savior!

Moreover, after the meeting began, it was impossible to enter because a barrier throughout the temple would be activated.

If it was an existence that broke through that barrier and appeared, it could be said that this was the person chosen by God.

“Oh!”

The priests rushed to Elodie, knelt down and praised her.

“Our savior!”

“No, I’m not…..”

“Oh, God has given us the savior!”

“You’ve got the wrong person.”

It was almost like a battle between a spear that penetrates anything and a shield that blocks anything.

As everyone watched them, the High Priests’ eloquence continued endlessly.

“No. God has proclaimed the savior as a savior, therefore the savior is a savior!” 

Aargh.

I hated it and closed my ears.

‘What the hell is going on?!’

After touching the seal stone of Greed, I was moved to a place where a collapsed temple was, and when the transaction was over, I suddenly fell from the sky and fell into the water.

I wouldn’t have thought that it would be the Ishtar Temple.

For some reason, the sin of Greed, which should have escaped together with me, was nowhere to be seen.

‘You damn sin bastard, did you jump out? After you threw me in the temple?’

It wasn’t easy to vent my anger on the small fox. Because the shouts of the priests filled my ears.

All the people stared at me; I felt bad because I was wet, and the priests made a lot of noise….

I, who had already been feeling unwell during the transaction with Greed, looked with my eyes around and around.

My gaze, looking around anxiously, soon stopped in one place.

‘Help me.’

The person with the strongest power to get me out of this situation.

After watching the situation silently, the duke took action when I looked at him with mournful eyes.

The Duke of Perdia intervened with a declaration.

“This is my daughter. She is not the savior.”

At the duke’s words the priests opened their eyes wide and looked at me and the duke alternately.

“Huh? This person can´t be…….!”

They couldn’t even recognize me.

The people of the temple saw my face only a few times when I was young.

“Stop it. The prayer meeting is over.”

The duke, who finished the prayer meeting of the temple with his own will, passed by the priests who blocked him without hesitation.

The duke stepped into the fountain with even less hesitation and picked me up; he didn’t care that his pants were getting wet.

“Oh!”

“Hold tight, Elodie.”

“Yes, yes.”

Only then, as I looked around, did I hug the Duke’s neck and move on.

I hid my face in the duke’s wide chest as I was burdened by the eyes of countless people looking at me.

Then Jansi approached and covered my body with a coat.

“It’s rather cool here, so you can catch a cold even in summer, Lili.”

“Thank you, brother Jansi.”

“You don’t have to thank me.”

As Jansi took a step back with a smile, the duke passed him and slipped out of the fountain.

When the main character of the commotion disappeared, the atmosphere became noisier.

Both the priests and the remaining direct descendants were busy saying a word about what happened in front of them.

“How did Lady Perdia get in here?” Dorothea Angellus asked haughtily.

The Duke of Angellus answered Dorothea’s question with a gracious smile.

“Wouldn’t her father have used his hands? Rumors say that he cares about his daughter lately, so he must have wanted her to be involved in the meeting somehow.”

“Is that what happened? After the meeting already started, all so she could come in?”

“Sylvester Perdia would be able to do it. He can buy anything.”

Duke Angellus blasphemed that Duke Perdia was deliberately cheating.

Duke Kreundel was silent.

Felix Hicklemeyer, the nephew of the Duke of Severes, murmured Elodie’s name meaningfully.

“…….Elodie Perdia. Hmm.”

Lastly, the Perdia family…..

“As expected, my sister is amazing. Falling from the sky. Is she an angel?”

“Carlot, you’re embarrassing, so be quiet.”

“Why?! Mother, you saw it too. Sister Lili was falling from the sky like an angel!”

Carlot, who was determined to become a sister’s fool, made as much fuss as the priests.

Jansi watched this scene with a smile, then looked around and found someone.

At the end of his gaze was the first prince, Adenmir, who attended as a direct descendant of the imperial family.

Jansi approached him and spoke to him first.

“I think it’s the fiancés job to take off his clothes when she’s trembling with fear.”

Adenmir turned his eyes to Jansi, who approached and talked to him.

Jansi added a word.

“Isn’t that so, Your Highness?” 

Adenmir couldn’t say anything to Jansi’s subtle question.

He couldn’t refute it, because Jansi was right and he was also unwilling to refute it.

“Elodie Perdia……break off the engagement.”

Adenmir, who had often thought about Elodie recently, thought of her more after hearing his father’s words.

‘….break off engagement.’

The emperor wanted it.

Elodie also asked him to break off the engagement.

In the first place, it was an engagement that was carried out for political reasons without emotion. He had never been a proper fiancé.

Because he absolutely had no desire to live up to the other person’s expectations.

Jansi Perdia was right. In general, it was right for a fiancé to jump out and take off his clothes without any thought in the same situation as before.

But he couldn’t.

‘It’s really rude.’

Adenmir laughed bitterly, mocking himself for his indecisiveness.

He felt like he had to talk to his fiancée.

***

It was said that no priest could figure out how I entered through the barrier.

There wasn’t even the slightest wave in the barrier.

However, once the meeting began, you couldn’t leave until it was over, so I had no choice but to stay in the Great Temple.

“First of all, we’ll give you a room, so you can relax.”

“Yes, the Savior doesn’t look well.”

I was too busy worrying that I would be detained until the Great Temple came to a conclusion to look well.

Anyway, I concluded that I would stay with my family in the Great Temple until the meeting was over.

It was unprecedented for a person who was neither a direct descendant nor an authorized representative to attend the meeting.

‘Moreover, it would be the first time for an illegitimate child to attend.’

Strictly speaking, the comatose Duke of Severes was my biological father, so I would be a direct descendant, but unless there was a way to prove it, I was just an illegitimate child.

A priest guided me to the room where I would stay, holding a change of clothes.

But the problem was….

‘How long do I have to stay like this?’

It was the fact that the duke was still holding me. 

I was too shocked to realize it earlier, but it was a really embarrassing posture.

“Father.”

“…….”

“I can walk.”

I have two feet!

I appealed that fact actively, but the duke didn’t listen to me at all.

After entering the room like that, I was finally able to set my feet on the ground.

“Elodie.”

“Yes.”

When I replied nervously to his way of looking at me, the duke sighed.

“Wash up. I’ll come back later.”

“Yes, see you later.”

Click.

As soon as the duke went out, I slid down on the spot.

“Phew.”

A sigh of relief burst out at the thought of finally being left alone.

In the space where Greed was sealed, my head was throbbing and I felt sick as if I was about to vomit, but I got better after falling into the temple of Ishtar and now I didn’t feel sick.

I stood up, got in a bathtub filled with warm water, washed up, and changed into the clothes given to me by the priest.

It was a rather modest dress, but it was manageable.

After drying my wet hair, I returned to the room and took out the sealing stone that I had kept well in the meantime.

“Greed, where the hell did you go?”

When I was seriously considering whether I was a victim of a fraudulent transaction, a black fox popped up in front of me.

[Here.]

“What? Since when have you been there?”

[I was with you the whole time.]

“You were with me?”

[That’s right.]

We? Together?

“……!”

I opened my eyes wide with a hand on my mouth.

“You mean you saw me taking a bath? You pervert sin!”

[No way. Don’t put me on the same level as Lust! In the first place, I am asexual.]

Greed jumped up from its place with rage. Then it shook its head coyly.

[A human woman’s body is nothing impressive. Don’t misunderstand.]

This Sin.

“Get down. It’s an order.”

I ordered coldly and resolutely, squinting my eyes.

Flat…..

Without any resistance, Greed sprang to the floor.

[This is….]

Greed tried to get up a few times, flinched at how weak its legs were, and soon threw a resentful look at me.

Greed responded to my orders more immediately than before, perhaps because the deal was done.

“If you answer my question honestly, I’ll let you go.”

[You are a human being more evil than a sin.]

“Thank you for the compliment.”

To be called evil by a sin, my life was very well lived. Smiling, I soon began to ask questions.

“First. How did you hide yourself?”

[You made a deal. Then you’ll always stay with your partner. I stayed in the sealed stone for a while so I wouldn’t stand out to other human beings.]

It seemed that it could freely go in and out of the seal stone.

“Okay, then the second question. Why did you drop me off here in the temple?”

I asked it to be returned where I came from, and it dropped me on the temple out of nowhere. I just couldn’t let this pass.

However, Greed wrinkled his nose and answered with resentment, as if it was unfair.

[Unfair. I don’t know either. As soon as we left, we were suddenly dragged here.]

“Really?”

[Really. Do you think I’m that crazy to go to the temple of Ishtar, who is an enemy of the great God Irkala?]

That was quite a point.

The gods Irkala and Ishtar are sisters, but it was stated in mythology that they didn’t get along.

By the way, if we were suddenly being led, does that mean someone intervened?

‘Is it the real god Ishtar?’

I thought about it, but I quickly brushed it off.

That was impossible. Regardless of whether it was an oracle or a god, it was unrealistic to me.

As long as I knew that this was a world in a book, I wondered if there really was a God.

Naturally, saying it out loud would be blasphemy, so I had to think in my head.

There was a bigger problem than that.

It was Raeyan.

‘Raeyan would be worried.’

I suddenly disappeared right in front of his eyes, so he might be looking for me by now.

But, since I was currently inside the Temple of Ishtar, where all contact with the outside world is blocked, I was unable to disclose my location.

I had to stay tied up here until the meeting was over.

[Human. Shouldn’t you let me go now?]

“Mhh.”

[Let me go.]

“Mhh….”

The voice of Greed, which constantly asked for release while lying flat on the floor, was used as background music while I was in deep thought.

‘Raeyan’s personality may not worry so much.’

There was a possibility that I would come back, so maybe he decided to wait and see the situation.

Judging by the way he treated his subordinates, he didn’t seem to have such an affectionate and friendly personality.

“Well, it will be fine.” 

There was nothing I could do anyway, so I had to be as positive as possible.

Greed, who knew nothing, answered disgruntledly.

[Not okay.]

***

And at that time.

Mario, the vice-captain of the Earth Hawk Mercenary Corps, looked at his boss in bewilderment.

“What do you mean?”

“Find her.”

“If you suddenly say that–”

“Find her, even if you have to search all over the continent.” 

Elodie’s expectations for his reaction to her disappearance were very off the mark.

Raeyan’s eyes widened erratically. So much so that it wouldn’t be strange no matter what he did right now.