Volu 3, Chapter Tenth Requirent of Rescuing a Princess: “Develop a Romantic Relationship with the Princess”
Translator: dahlys
Ah, the Church of the God of Light! Ah, my Holy Temple! The mont I saw the grand and magnificent Church of the God of Light, my heart was unspeakably touched. I felt like a wanderer who had finally returned to his hotown and leapt into his mother’s arms after several decades of traveling…
Finally, I have returned! Returned to my wonderful life as a church hermit!
Although I maintained my elegant deanor, the mont I jumped off the carriage I could not help but walk faster and faster in order to see the room I had said goodbye to for more than a month. However, I noticed many people gathered at the Holy Temple’s plaza as I was passing by. I frowned as I sensed two familiar people in the crowd.
Roland and his vice-captain, Tyler.
Even though both of them were completely surrounded by the crowd, I could hear constant sounds of swords clashing. I was stunned for a mont before becoming furious. How dare they hurt one another inside the Holy Temple!
I shoved my way through the crowd. At first, the gathered holy knights turned around impatiently. However, the instant they saw that it was , they imdiately jumped aside in shock to let through.
I squeezed my way to the center of the crowd and indeed saw the two people fighting with swords. Their strokes were amazingly fast and rciless. Suddenly, I was afraid that if I stopped them a second too late one of them could be badly injured.
“Both of you stop this!”
I imdiately shouted at the two of them. When I saw that both of them had indeed stopped fighting, I felt a little relieved. I then hollered angrily at the most familiar person in the crowd watching the fight. “Adair, why didn’t you stop them?”
Adair was stunned for a mont. He then quickly ran to my side and explained in a low voice, “Captain, it’s all right. Knight-Captain Hell was just exchanging blows with his vice-captain. For the past month, they have been sparring at this ti every day. Sotis, Knight-Captain Judgnt will also join the fight.”
Once I heard that, I imdiately looked at Roland and his vice-captain, Tyler. The two of them had already stopped the match and were both looking at . They didn’t look like they were going to kill each other at all…Oh no! It seems I misunderstood, and I could not help but laugh at myself. Leaf’s death appears to have made my nerves too tense. No matter what, this place is still the Holy Temple’s plaza, which is always full of people. Could one of the Twelve Holy Knights or a vice-captain really die here?
Even if Adair did not stop them, Judgnt would not possibly allow sothing like that to happen.
At this point, Adair whispered into my ear, explaining, “Captain, actually, Knight-Captain Hell promised Tyler that if Tyler defeated him, he would give the position of captain away to him. But after ten days of sparring, Tyler conceded defeat wholeheartedly. Now, Knight-Captain Hell is just instructing Tyler and the other mbers of the Hell Knight Platoon on their swordsmanship.”
I asked softly, “Has the problem really been solved?”
“Yes.” Adair nodded and said, “Now, if anyone dares to question Knight-Captain Hell’s authenticity, Tyler would be the first person to jump out to defend him.”
Extrely satisfied, I nodded and said, “Help explain my actions. I want to go back to my room and apply a facial mask.”
“Captain?” Puzzled, Adair looked at .
“…I an, I want to return to my room to rest.” After suddenly realizing that I had spoken the truth, I quickly ca up with another excuse.
“Yes sir, thank you for your hard work.”
I turned around and left. When I had walked far away, I vaguely heard Adair giving the crowd a one sentence explanation, “Nothing happened just now, understood?”
The crowd replied in unison, “Understood.”
Adair really deserves to be my vice-captain. He has the sa style as his captain, being too lazy to even co up with a reason.
“Grisia!”
I turned my head around and said to Roland, who had chased after , “Are you getting used to life in the Holy Temple?”
“I’m used to it, but is it really okay for to continue living like this?” Roland caught up with and slowed down to walk alongside . With a little hesitation, he said, “If my identity is revealed, you…”
Annoyed, I rolled my eyes and said, “Do you still not understand even after living in the Holy Temple for more than a month? If Judgnt and I work together, even if we pointed at an apple and called it a tomato, then from then onwards apples would be called tomatoes.”
Roland frowned and did not speak.
“Don’t worry, even if your identity was exposed, the worst that could happen is that you will need to be burned to death.” I purposely said, “If that happens, as long as you are willing to be burnt to death, then nothing bad will happen to . So, are you willing to promise that if you are ever exposed, you will let tie you to a stake and burn you to death?”
“Yes.” Roland imdiately nodded resolutely.
I smiled. As long as he could solve the problem by sacrificing himself, Roland would not worry. He was most afraid of implicating others, so this was the best way to convince him not to be worried. Judgnt would not be so easily fooled. If he were the one being deceived, he would probably continue asking, “Then are you willing to swear to the God of Light that you would really burn to death if the ti cos?”
“Okay, Knight-Captain Hell, you should continue educating your vice-captain. Sun is tired and wishes to rest.”
“Sure.” Roland nodded his head cautiously. He said sternly, “Grisia… No! Sun, I swear to you, I will definitely do my best to fulfill my responsibilities as Hell Knight.”
On hearing this, I heaved another sigh of relief. The problem involving Roland has been solved, so it looks like I have many more relaxing days to look forward to!
A few days later, the Kingdom of Moon Orchid dispatched another secret emissary here. This ti, even His Majesty, the king of my country, was shocked. He was particularly concerned about whether the Church of the God of Light had a secret agreent with the Kingdom of Moon Orchid.
Under the attentive gaze of the Twelve Holy Knights and Elijah, the knight specially sent by the king, the emissary from the Kingdom of Moon Orchid pulled out a stack of letters while grinning widely and said, “My country’s Princess Ann wishes to pass these items to Leaf Knight of the Church of the God of Light.”
Everyone glanced at the letters that were sared with perfu and stacked as high as the pile of work docunts in Storm’s arms.
One by one, the Twelve Holy Knights began to smile derisively.
Elijah scratched his head, and the serious expression he originally had disappeared without a trace.
Leaf bowed his head as he accepted the letters. At this point, the emissary from the Kingdom of Moon Orchid was still unwilling to leave. He said to Leaf, “Princess Ann ordered to return only when I have your reply.”
By now, Leaf’s jaw was almost at his chest. He answered in a very small voice, “Okay.”
Then, with everyone watching, he fished out a few dozen letters from his shirt pocket (there was no perfu sared on those letters, but that was probably because Leaf was simply too poor to afford perfu) and gave them to the emissary from the Kingdom of Moon Orchid.
After the satisfied emissary from the Kingdom of Moon Orchid had left carrying the few dozen letters, Blaze was the first to leap onto Leaf’s back and pound it, bellowing, “Leaf, you little brat, you’re actually dating a princess!”
“Dear God of Light! The good guy, Leaf, actually beca the first among the Twelve Holy Knights to win a princess’s heart!”
In reality, Elijah was the first to win a princess’s heart, I refuted silently.
Earth Knight said bitterly, “The world has changed; princesses even fall in love with good guys now!”
Two streams of tears running down his face, Moon Knight swore to the symbol of the God of Light, “I want to be a good guy too!”
On hearing this, I felt deeply wronged.
I’m a good guy too! I’m even the leader of the Twelve Holy Knights, I look more handso than Leaf, and my pay is higher than his! So, why do all the princesses in the whole world only know how to call ‘despicable?’
Boo hoo, I-I…had no choice but to give myself a small source of comfort by going to the corridor specially ant for church hermits to search for a window with a good view of the beautiful female clerics in the Sanctuary of Light next door.
Damn it! I want to be a church hermit for the rest of my life! I wailed in my heart.
At this mont, Knight-Captain Judgnt walked toward , leaned on the sa windowsill, and stared at the corridor in the Sanctuary of Light next door. After a long ti, he finally opened his mouth and said, “The Sanctuary of Light is having a day off today.”
“I know that.”
“Then what are you looking at?”
“I’m looking at empty space and feeling miserable…”
Both of us looked at the empty corridor in the Sanctuary of Light for quite so ti before Judgnt opened his mouth and said, “Previously, when Leaf requested aid from the Holy Temple, he said that there seed to be sothing wrong with your eyes.”
My heart skipped a beat. I shrugged and said, “He was too nervous. Do I look like a blind man at all? A blind man going to look at beautiful girls – what a joke.”
Judgnt said plainly, “Then tell , what color is that bird on the windowsill?”
I was silent for a mont before replying cautiously, “It’s white.”
There was a long silence. Judgnt finally sighed faintly, “…Grisia, do you still intend to continue hiding this from ?”
Sure enough, there is no deceiving Judgnt… I smiled a forced smile.
In the beginning, I used the excuse of being weak to lie down in Forest Leaf Town for several days. It looked like I was resting, but I was actually desperately practicing my ability to “sense the elents.” I didn’t sleep much during those ten days, so I thought that I had trained until my ability beca flawless. Even when I went to seek revenge, Princess Alice, Awaitsun and Pink did not realize I was blind.
After that, on the way back to the Holy Temple, my sensing ability improved even further. I could even pick out the fine details of an object by piecing different elents together… What? This statent is too complex and you don’t understand it? Sigh! To put it simply, I could even tell how many buttons there are on a shirt.
In the end, I could tell, roughly, what a person’s face looked like and sense what expression a person had on his face… I nearly convinced myself that I wasn’t blind.
But no matter what, I could not sense “color.” Also, I could not differentiate between beauty and ugliness. In the mountain cave, when Alice asked whether she was beautiful or not, I really didn’t know how pretty or not she was. In my mind, her features were made up of a combination of many elents and no longer had anything to do with “beauty” or “ugliness.”
Judgnt frowned and said, “You didn’t tell that Resurrection exacted such a high price from the caster.”
“There was no need to pay such a high price.” I said plainly, “It’s just that when I was performing Resurrection, I prayed to the God of Light, saying that I was willing to ‘pay any price’ for Leaf’s complete revival. You should know that I am always careful, so I would never gamble on that 25% chance. I cannot afford to gamble on it!”
Judgnt fell silent for quite so ti before saying, “Since that is so, you should stop blaming yourself for Leaf’s death. Every ti you look at Leaf, you have an apologetic expression on your face.”
I sighed and said solemnly, “I will never leave any comrade behind again, never!”
Judgnt said plainly, “I will also warn them that even if they have to jump off a cliff and die without a complete corpse, they must not die in front of you. Otherwise, who knows what you will co back missing next ti.”
“…” I thought silently to myself. Even if they jumped off a cliff, as long as there is half a head left, I could probably revive them. It all depends on what price I will need to pay.
Judgnt sighed and said, “You cannot save everybody, Grisia. I hope you understand this.”
“I understand.” Probably…
“Besides being unable to see color, does being blind have any other effect on you?” Judgnt asked ticulously.
I tilted my head to the side and thought about it. I probably don’t have to ntion the point about beauty and ugliness, do I? I answered honestly, “At first, there were so problems, but after practicing my elental sensing, I no longer have any issues. I can now “see” more things than before and my field of vision is almost three hundred and sixty degrees. Still, I cannot see color.”
“Speaking of which…” I could not help but ask curiously, “Just what color is that bird on the windowsill?”
Judgnt was silent for a mont. He then replied, “You were right, it is white.”
“You tricked ,” I said expressionlessly.
“Yes, I tricked you.”
Judgnt nodded and admitted to his deception without feeling any guilt. He then added, “If you dare to hide anything from again, regardless of how confidential the matter is, I will expose you in front of all the Twelve Holy Knights. Right now you should first think about how to apologize to Knight-Captain Hell, because I am going to tell him that you are blind. That will make him pay more attention to your safety.”
I wanted to cry but no tears ca out. I pleaded, “Nooo! If you do that, then Roland will follow around all day. He doesn’t even need to sleep, go to the toilet, or eat… Dear God of Light! I really don’t want to be stalked by a man all day! I would definitely go crazy!”
“Hey, hey! Judgnt, don’t go away! Listen to , as long as you don’t tell Roland, I’ll do anything you say. Lesus? Judgnt…”
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