Chapter 398 – Day 56 – The Princess Reasoned to Find the Saint. And She Heads to the Room She Shouldn’t Enter
“To think that the saintess was kidnapped… It was something she never even thought of as a joke…”
The princess, whose hair was pounding, took the cold wet towel Ceres had brought her and rubbed it on her forehead, sighing that her land her would be gone.
“The situation outside… Whoa, I think it’s been sorted out to some extent. Princess.”
“Good work, Hedone…”
The princess and Hedone looked very tired.
A demon who suddenly appeared openly kidnapped her saintess and took her away. Even the festival was in full swing, so many people watched the scene.
Naturally, all the believers were started and panicked, and a great chaos almost ensued.
“If Princess Venus wasn’t here… I honestly can’t imagine what would have happened. Thank you.”
Grace, who had a haggard expression on her face her, bowed over him so much that she wondered if his back her would break, expressing her gratitude her. Grace felt so much gratitude that she would want to lick the princess’s feet if she could.
“Certainly… If Princess Venus wasn’t here…”
Gulp, Lucia swallowed her saliva with her bluish face.
The confusion that was about to spread uncontrollably did not spread as the princess shouted. There were still some believers who looked at her high priests with uneasy eyes, but the princess made a promise.
The saintess said that she would definitely bring her to the church of the saintess, and that she would definitely rescue her saintess who had been kidnapped by her wicked demons, so she shouted to believe in the royal family of the empire where the sun never sets and wait.
Perhaps, if Grace, including Lucia, had said such a thing, not only the followers but also the ordinary people who participated in the festival would not have believed it.
“The foolish princess… Made a promise at the right time. Thanks to her saying that at the moment when everyone was about to shout one word at a time… Everyone could follow the words of High Priest Grace and High Priest Lucia to finish the festival. There was.”
“…Isn’t it the duty of the imperial family to protect the people of the empire from the demons? Rather, in front of my eyes, the saintess… It’s too bad that I couldn’t hold her to the end.”
Seeing the princess muttering with a confused expression, Grace shook her head.
“I saw it too. The princess… The saintess… Was hoping that Messalina would capture her. She even gave me this eyepatch. Obviously, something we can’t easily imagine… Something… “
“… Uhh… I can’t imagine!”
The princess, feeling frustrated in her heart her, cried out loudly. No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t figure it out.
‘Why! What did the saintess think that she was kidnapped by Messalina?! Even if she is taken away by the demons, she is not from the royal family without any problems with her life her! What kind of profit could she get from being captured by the demons?!’
I don’t know what the saintess was planning, but the church was getting confused little by little.
First of all, since the ‘saint’ of the ‘Order of Saints’ disappeared, it was only natural that there would be an uproar. Grace was doing her best to take care of the priests, but the fact that the saintess disappeared gradually turned into fear and confusion.
There was.
“…In the first place… Didn’t I tell you…”
Lucia lets out her breath with a troubled look on her face her.
“I had to kill Messalina!”
“Sister Lucia! Don’t say that! You understood it then!”
“Convinced! Didn’t this happen because she did n’t kill Messalina ?! She killed the woman! She killed the monster! This festival would have ended more perfectly than any other!”
When Lucia shouted, Grace got up from her seat, unable to contain her anger.
“Sister Lucia is always like that! Killing doesn’t solve everything! In the first place! You didn’t!”
“So, the saintess! Did she see the future where she was kidnapped by her demons?! You didn’t tell us about it!”
“That’s it. There must be a reason for that!”
“That’s ridiculous! Sister Grace! Oh my God, that…! That!!! That!!!!!”
Lucia stood up from her seat trembling as she spoke her words her. The two of them were determined to fight head to head.
“Grace! Lucia! Enough with both of you! Stop talking in anger about the past!”
“Be, Princess Venus! It’s useless! This is really important!”
“Grace! We have no idea what the saintess was thinking when she gave herself up to Messalina!”
“Heh, you speak well, Princess, but I still…”
“Lucia, too, will keep her mouth shut!! The saintess believed in us. She believed in Grace and me, and Lucia believed in you too! She must have received some prophecy. She had no choice but to give herself up to Messalina There must be an inevitable reason. That’s what! You should think about that! What’s the point of having an emotional fight over the past!”
When the princess shouted at a story that was more normal than expected, Lucia and Grace quietly shut their mouths and put their buttocks on the chairs.
“…Princess Venus is right. Even if you fight… It won’t change.”
“I’m sorry. Sister Lucia…”
At Grace’s apology, Lucia bowed her head and apologized in the same way.
“…Since the saintess disappeared, it can’t be helped that the feelings between the two of you are intensifying. Besides…”
One of the high priests of the church was actually a demon?!
The people of the empire had already begun to hear the whispers because something absurd had happened in reality. The roots of the church were not shaken, but if the saintess did not return after a week or a month…
‘The Church will surely collapse… Does it make sense to have a Saint Women’s Church without a saint…’
The princess swallowed her saliva and looked at Grace as she let out a sigh.
Her hand her was still holding a white eyepatch.
“Umm… First of all, Ceres. How was the situation outside?”
“Contrary to the worries of the princess and her high priests her, it seems everyone has gone home first.”
“There were a few nobles, but they don’t seem to be taking issue right now…”
“If the current situation continues, the Imperial Council may be held.”
“…You know that…”
Her head her was pounding. There were many aristocrats itching to make trouble for the Church of Saints, the state religion of the empire.
The saintess is fake! There were even people who hated her so much that she made a radical expression, “She is deceiving the Empire!” There were also people who drool over the small territories the Order had, so it was highly likely that they were thinking of eating the Church, which had begun to smell like her blood.
Of course, they are not impatient.
If the saintess does not return even after 30 days, and even her high priests cannot properly control the believers because the church is sick inside her, then she will happily dress up in her bib and tear the church apart.
‘It shouldn’t be like that… What sins do those who belong to the Church of Saints have?’
After taking a long breath, the princess looked at Grace’s eyepatch again.
“Um… Grace, that eyepatch… Something, uh… Something, something… Something…”
“…There was no note or anything like that.”
Grace bowed her head.
At the last moment, she seemed to have no secrets in what she had given her. It was all white on the outside and black cloth with a beautiful night sky on the inside.
“There were no secret writings that appear when you inject divine power.”
“Ah, that’s right… I-Sister Lucia and I tried everything together as much as we could. But…”
Dori dori, Grace got a somber expression and shook her head.
“Keuk… You mean there’s no answer…”
Feeling stuffy inside her, the princess lowered her head and let out a long breath.
“If only we could have stopped Messalina from the start…?”
The princess, who was talking to herself, clapped her hands and looked at her Grace her.
“Grace! Today, I… Keuheum, are the strange-looking strings filled in Hedone’s and me’s genitals the sacred relics managed by the Church of Saints?”
“Ah, yes, yes! That’s right! The relic is right!”
“Is it originally Messalina’s job to manage all the holy relics? Grace, you embrace the general believers, Lucia leads the heresy purifiers, and Messalina manages the holy relics, right?”
At the princess’ rapid-fire words, Lucia nodded her head at first. It was literally. So in the first place, strange rumors did not circulate even though Messalina did not show her face to ordinary people.
“But… Since Messalina has become like that, there must have been a sister who usually took care of the relic. Is that right? I brought a huge mirror to my birthday party the other day, and today I had a huge mirror around Messalina’s neck.
It was written on both the body and Hedone’s body.”
“Yes, that’s right. You can’t use a dusty relic. The sisters have all been taking good care of it.”
“The relics that he took care of so diligently… I mean. How likely is it that the relics Messalina last touched five years ago will still malfunction?”
“I’ll say it sternly. No. I take it out and check its operation once a year while doing a deep cleaning.”
At Lucia’s words, the princess smiled.
“Then the answer comes. Messalina…She herself said it proudly, but she wasn’t actually locked up for five years!”
“… Uh, what do you mean… That I had an affair with Messalina…?”
“What strange words are you talking about? Lucia… Of course you’re not guilty! Messalina just! Of that prison… Yes! She wandered out through some secret passage! In the first place! The sisters are in the dungeon 24/7 Isn’t it stuck?
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“…That’s right. It’s a shame… We’re suffering from a labor shortage…”
There was no need for that. Because the door that was thoroughly sealed by the divine power was doubly imprisoning Messalina.
Sometimes it was all about serving food at a set time.
“Hmm… I’m sure you all already know this, but didn’t the saintess disappear yesterday?”
“Yes, that’s right. Princess. The princess brought it to me.”
“The truth is. Kheum … The saintess and I entered her room directly through a secret passage.”
“Muh, uh… What?”
Lucia’s expression collapsed once again in real time. I don’t know how many times she is shocked today…
“Keuheum! The important thing is that there is a secret passage in this building! You can walk to the saintess’s room without going through the front door.”
“…Ah, then…? In Sister Messalina’s prison cell?”
“Kuh.. Ugh! Shit!! I didn’t even know that!”
Lucia put on a look of great regret and chewed her lips carefully, shaking them.
She herself thought that she had been locked up well for five years, but it turned out that she was free.
“I can’t really figure out how the saintess gave us this blindfold, so first of all…”
Widely! The princess snapped her fingers and smiled.
“Let’s find out what Messalina was thinking of kidnapping her saintess. If she investigates the aisle he passed through, she’ll find some information.”
At the words of the princess, Grace and Lucia nodded their heads as they looked a bit hopeful.
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As the princess reasoned, there really was a secret passage in Messalina’s prison cell.
“I hoped it wasn’t…”
Lucia had a desperate look, but she couldn’t help it.
“Turn it off…!!”
There was a secret passage beyond the wall that even the princess could lift with a little strength in her arms of her, so it was only natural that Lucia could not imagine it.
“Is this passage… A secret passage?”
Hedone, who had thought of a secret passageway as a secret room for a tryst, was a narrow passage leading to such a place, and was surprised.
“Isn’t the musty smell too strong? The light is coming on properly.”
At Grace’s words, the princess swallowed her gulp and carefully walked through the aisle where about 3 people could walk around.
“Something… It’s quite strange? What kind of stone is it made of to have such smooth floors and walls? It’s a secret from the beginning…”
This is not a secret passage. There were various thoughts in the princess’s mind.
‘Isn’t this… Just a hallway…?’
Confused, the princess calmly moved her hand on the wall and arrived at a fork in the road.
“…Exit…”
“Looks like the left side is the way out of the Church of Saints. Hmm, then let’s go right.”
The princess took the lead first. It was the moment that reminded her of the academy’s graduation exam.
‘I’m sure… I’ve been in a dungeon like this a long time ago… I went through a lot of hardships with Hailey sunbaenim…’
Moving her feet cautiously, the princess was able to arrive at the long, endless hallway again.
Pure white light filled the corridor, and the party moved while enduring the smell of dust that was unavoidable because it was underground.
“Ah, stupid princess. Look here.”
“…For a moment.”
The princess swallowed her saliva and looked at her Grace, who stopped in front of a certain ‘room’.
“…Lucia, Grace. Do you know that the saintess has another room?”
“Yeah? What the hell… No, ha ha…”
Lucia pressed her forehead with her hands as if her head was about to explode.
“… Did the saintess say that? She said she had another room for herself?”
“Yeah, they said they don’t sleep in rooms we know.”
“…We thought he was sleeping. He, and he never even went to the bathroom!”
When Grace said that, Hedone sighed and laughed.
“You can’t do that.”
“Ha, but she’s it’s the saintess. She’s always sitting on the bed in that pure white… Saintess’s room…”
“Did you think I was living?”
At the words of the princess, Lucia and Grace nodded.
“…Anyway, it seems that the other side of this room is the room of the saintess. It is also a secretly used room that even the high priests do not know about.”
“…… Alas, my God. Forgive me for my blasphemy.”
Grace suddenly fell to his knees and began to pray.
Even Lucia sat down and prayed.
“The saintess… Tried not to be seen by us… Forgive us for trying to see the private parts…”
Seeing the faithfulness of the two, the princess sweated.
‘Joe, religion is as difficult as expected…’
Looking at the two of them praying, the princess swallowed her gulp and reached out her hand to the burnt white door.
“Then I will open the door.”
As the princess cautiously brought her hand her to her door her, something was strange.
“Yes…?”
“I think it’s a sliding door.”
“Ah! It’s a sideways pusher!”
The princess took her hand her and tapped it, and the door opened coolly.
At that moment, the princess saw the saintess’s room, which had not been open to anyone for a long time.
There was a large bed in the room with pink wallpaper and ■■■ on the wall. I saw a ■■■ ■■ that was bigger than I thought, and in the corner of the room, there was a door to the bathroom that seemed like it could be used even now.
“Is this… What the hell…?”
As the princess looked at the room full of objects of her unknown identity, her heart pounded her painfully.
