The na Pala is common, but the surna Pelleve is not.
'To think that Pala is the Pala I know!'
Pala is a saintess? It was news like a bolt from the blue.
In the end, Lucas, who had given up on his al, left the restaurant after placing the paynt for the food on the table.
It was not difficult to find Pala.
"Saintess-nim!!!"
"Please look this way too, Saintess-nim!"
A place where a crowd had gathered. The people there were madly calling out Pala's na.
"The Saintess will look at you in order. Please do not push the person in front of you."
And there were even knights standing guard, protecting Pala from them.
'Hah.'
Pala had beco a perfect saintess here in Rieberk.
Lucas, who saw Pala's appearance, thought.
'What should I do?'
The power Pala possessed was surely the sa as that of the leader of the Resurrection Cult.
'I should just catch her and kill her right away...'
But seeing Pala's face smiling at the people, he couldn't bring himself to do it. Every ti she smiled, Pola's face overlapped.
'Don't have any foolish thoughts. Still, it can't be helped.'
He urged his hesitating steps several tis.
'Go and kill that wench right now.'
To him, Pala was nothing more or less than a re human. And she was now no different from his enemy.
'Damn it.'
But his steps wouldn't move.
"Thank you. Thank you, Saintess-nim."
A man tearing up as he looked up at Pala. Lucas, who saw the man's face, finally teleported and disappeared.
"...?"
Pala, who had noticed sothing strange, looked back, but Lucas had already left.
***
In the end, Lucas, who had returned to the Count's estate without being able to do either, first looked for Pola.
"Where is Pola?"
"Ah, young master. Lady Pola is in the garden right now."
At the servant's answer, Lucas moved his steps and headed to the garden. Then he saw Pola sitting on a long bench, reading a book.
"Pola."
She was so engrossed in her book that she didn't even notice Lucas coming.
"Rookie!"
Pola, who had flinched slightly as if surprised by Lucas's voice, soon smiled brightly and called Lucas's na.
"What book are you reading?"
"You don't need to know!"
At that, Pola quickly closed the book and hid it behind her. Judging by the title he had glimpsed, it seed to be a romance novel about the love story of a man and a woman.
"You ca early this ti?"
"Yeah. By any chance, where are the others?"
"Um~ Nella is busy learning sothing these days, and Skir is also busy trying out the artifact you gave him. He's determined to find out what desperation ans, or sothing."
Lucas nodded his head and thought. Whether he should tell her about Pala or not.
'Do I have to tell her?'
He had co to find Pola first out of frustration, but he still hadn't made a decision.
'What will change if I tell her? It's not like I can let that wench live.'
Countless thoughts ca and went in his mind.
"Rookie? Why aren't you answering!"
"Ah, sorry. What were we talking about?"
"Tsk. I asked if you were participating in the festival that's being held in Sitata this ti."
"...?"
A festival? It was the first he had heard of it.
"What. You don't know? There's a festival being held in Sitata! It's the first festival the Count is holding... the Count will be disappointed."
"I see."
But there was no way he could hear about a festival right now.
"Sothing's wrong with you, isn't it? You have sothing to tell , right?"
"..."
In the end, Pola, who had noticed sothing strange, asked him.
"No, it's nothing like that."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
At that, Pola smirked and tapped Lucas's shoulder.
"Hey, Rookie. If you ever have any worries, co and ask this big sister."
And seeing her fiddling with the romance novel in her hand, it seed she thought the worry Lucas couldn't talk about was about a love consultation.
"Pola."
"Yeah, yeah. Tell ."
In the end, Lucas made up his mind.
'She has to know.'
It was a cruel act, but it was a decision he had made because there are no eternal secrets in the world.
"Hurry up and tell ."
Pola urged him on, shaking his arm with an excited expression.
"I found your sister."
"..."
Pola's expression hardened rapidly.
"Your sister is..."
"S-stop... don't say it."
The hand that had been holding Lucas's arm dropped.
"Don't. Please..."
"Your sister is in danger. You might never see her again."
At that, Pola's hands began to tremble.
"So?"
Unlike her trembling voice, Pola's gaze was firm.
"So what do you want to do? Am I supposed to go and save her?"
"...Pola."
"Is that it! My sister left without a single word to . I waited for a sister like that like an idiot. Even though I knew she had left, I wondered if she would co back, if I had done sothing wrong. I worried and worried for days and nights. I couldn't sleep or eat!"
The tears that had been welling up in her eyes were now falling and soaking Pola's face.
"But, but what do you want to do? I'll just pretend I don't have a sister like that, so don't, don't ever ntion it to again."
Lucas didn't know what to do at Pola's firm attitude.
"Can you not regret those words?"
"Yes."
"Even if your sister dies."
"...Yes."
At that, Lucas got up from his seat.
"Then don't cry."
Pola bit her lip hard to swallow her tears and then nodded her head.
"And it's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong, so don't even think that it's your fault."
Lucas took out a handkerchief from his bosom, handed it to her, and then turned around.
***
It was too hard anymore.
In fact, when he had found Pola, Lucas had hoped she would stop him.
"Hah..."
But Pola was not the person he knew, but acted coldly with a completely different look in her eyes.
'The wound must have been that big.'
It was as if he had asked for Pola's permission to take Pala's life.
Even though she was covered in tears and couldn't speak properly, Pola gave the sa answer. That it had nothing to do with her.
Therefore, he had even said that Pala might die, but the answer was still the sa.
'It feels like I've done sothing bad.'
Lucas also knew well what Pala ant to Pola.
'But to have nonchalantly said that Pala could die...'
Now that it had co to this, he didn't think he could kill Pala with his own hands.
'Let's just watch a little longer, a little longer. It's not that urgent a situation yet, is it?'
He thought there must be a way to solve it without killing Pala.
'Even if it takes a little ti...'
He had to find a way.
A way that wouldn't hurt Pola.
***
Stun and the priests of the Resurrection Cult had now begun to settle in Rieberk.
"Will this be enough?"
"Yes. That should be perfect."
Stun first went to the king of Rieberk and asked if there was any land he could give to the Resurrection Cult. Of course, the answer that ca back was 'no'.
Since Stun had expected that, he imdiately took out his next card.
'Isn't money the best?'
The next card was a huge amount of money. Rieberk was a small island nation and a country that didn't have much.
And as the saintess appeared and people from other countries began to co and go, the king also began to see the small problems of his country.
Old inns and poor infrastructure. But since the king couldn't fix all of those things with the national treasury right away, he had been planning to do it gradually with an uneasy heart.
But when the suddenly appeared Resurrection Cult said they would pay for all of it, his heart was swayed. But if that was all, he might not have accepted it.
"This way, please, Saintess-nim! Here, please sit here."
"It's still a bit ssy, but it will all be organized in a few days."
"Yes."
But they had promised to make the saintess, Pala, stay here until the end.
"Today is the day of the prayer eting."
"It will start at 3 p.m. and is scheduled to end around 5 p.m."
The priests surrounding Pala began to report the day's schedule.
"Ah, and we have proceeded with everything as the Saintess said."
"Is that so."
"Yes. It was a truly excellent decision."
Pala's eyes were empty as she answered.
"Yes. We also thought we needed a new na to match our new master."
"We will now beco the new na, the Saintess's Society, and take care of the people."
Stun walked out from among the priests and knelt at Pala's feet.
"There will be glory under the Saintess's care."
At that, all the priests knelt and prostrated themselves before Pala, saying.
"Reniento."
***
"The na of the Resurrection Cult has changed?"
"Right. They say it's changed to the Saintess's Society. They say the forr leader passed on his power to the current Saintess and disappeared."
The Resurrection Cult had only changed its na to the Saintess's Society, but all its systems, including the positions of the priests, were the sa as before.
"The na changed because the master changed?"
Therefore, it was to the point where anyone who didn't know that the Resurrection Cult had changed to the Saintess's Society was a fool.
"So they say. But they say they are recruiting new mbers... no, should I say mbers now? this ti."
"Eh? mbers?"
At that, the man nodded his head.
"Right. mbers. They say they are charging an entrance fee this ti."
At that, the people began to murmur.
"My goodness! An entrance fee? The Resurrection Cult didn't have anything like that!"
"That's right. We even paid the dowry freely, what does that an?"
"How absurd."
At the people's grumbles, the man opened his mouth again.
"Right? And they say they are selling the holy water and other things they used to give out for money!"
"That new saintess must be a person who is crazy about money."
"To sell holy water for money!"
The people's complaints grew even stronger.
"Hmm... but I think it's okay to charge for everything."
A man who had been listening to the people's complaints opened his mouth.
"What does that an? No, they're saying they'll sell holy water for money!"
"Right. But they say anyone who pays the entrance fee can receive the saintess's treatnt."
"Eh?! Is that really true?!"
The people who heard those words began to stir violently once more. To think that anyone could be treated just by paying a fee? This was a groundbreaking condition.
"Right. Didn't they say that in the old Resurrection Cult, you had to pay a huge dowry to receive treatnt from the leader?"
"That's right. I've heard that too. They said if not, you had to catch the leader's eye sohow."
"Right. That's how it was."
"That's right."
Public opinion changed in an instant.
"So how much is that fee?"
"They say it's 3 gold a month."
"My goodness! If you just pay that, anyone can be treated?"
The amount of 3 gold was an amount that a normal family of four would spend when eating out. But to think that anyone could be treated directly just by paying 3 gold a month!
"So where is the Saintess's Society now?"
"They say it's in Rieberk."
"Rieberk? Not Arant?"
"How do we get to that island nation!"
The people's grumbles erupted again.
"As for joining, they say there are branches in each country, so you can just pay the money there. Since you don't know when soone might get sick, wouldn't it be better to join? I also heard a rumor that they might not accept mbers later..."
At that, the people nodded their heads and said.
"Right. That's right. It would be a real disaster if they don't accept you when you go to get treatnt."
"People like us can't even dream of a temple, so we'll just be going back and forth to the pharmacy every day."
"Let's go quickly."
And so, the mbers of the Saintess's Society increased in an instant.
[End of Chapter]
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