Hush Now, Saintess! - Chapter 136

Chapter 136

Translator: Yonnee

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Once again, Roella got the upper hand.

Clap, clap—

As Roella lightly clapped her hands, the event staff began to move in perfect unison.

Betty, caught off guard by the sudden turn of events, was momentarily flustered. She was supposed to faint, but there was no chance to do so.

‘W-What’s going on?’

Unable to proceed, she thought, I’ll just wait a bit longer to faint.

Fainting now would likely go unnoticed.

Rattle, rattle.

From all around, staff members rolled out several mysterious devices. They looked like square containers with round, cylindrical attachments.

People began murmuring, curious about the unfamiliar contraptions.

“What are those?”

“Looks like some kind of container…?”

With all eyes on the devices, Roella called out confidently.

“Turn them on!”

Click.

At her command, the staff members pressed the buttons on the devices simultaneously.

But that was it—nothing seemed to happen.

“What’s going on?”

“Is there supposed to be a change?”

People tilted their heads, confused, as there was no grand reveal.

Betty felt the same, beginning to think she had tensed up for nothing. She steeled herself once more.

‘This time, I’ll faint perfectly!’

Placing her hand on her forehead, she let out a louder sigh.

“Oh, the heat…”

But then, Betty couldn’t finish her sentence.

The heat, the heat was…

“It’s… not hot?”

She couldn’t feel the heat at all.

What was going on?

It wasn’t just Betty who noticed—others began picking up on the subtle change.

“Doesn’t it feel cool all of a sudden?”

“You’re right. It was so hot before, but now it’s not hot at all.”

“There’s a nice cool breeze blowing.”

A refreshing breeze was blowing in, completely clearing away the oppressive heat.

Betty slowly lowered her hand from her forehead, covering her mouth in dismay.

‘I can’t faint now, can I?!’

Demos’s plan was an utter failure.

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Even from a distance, Roella could see Demos’s shocked expression.

And there was the small, frail-looking noble lady casting glances his way, equally stunned.

It wasn’t hard to piece together the situation.

‘Were they planning on faking heatstroke?’

How petty.

But it wasn’t a bad strategy.

If someone had collapsed from heat exhaustion, it would likely be blamed on my insistence on holding the event.

‘But that’s only if they’d succeeded.’

Now, their plan had gone up in smoke. At this point, anyone who fainted would just look like they were doing it on their own, unrelated to the heat.

‘I thought it might get too hot, so I had these made, and they’re really coming in handy.’

It had all started with a lesson from my teacher, Victor.

After hearing about the unusually hot weather this year, I wondered if this world had any cooling devices. As it turned out, there weren’t any.

Not even fans. The most they had were ceiling fans, at best.

Nobles usually relied on magic stones for cooling, but their performance wasn’t worth the cost, and they were useless outdoors.

As I searched for a solution, I came up with those—portable cooling fans.

I didn’t know enough to make an air conditioner, and fans seemed too weak. But a cooling fan, something I could explain roughly, seemed like a good compromise.

I asked Hamelle to create it.

Honestly, I wasn’t sure if my explanation was clear enough, so I thought there was a chance it might not work.

‘Who would have thought she’d whip it up in just a few days?’

Not only that, she upgraded it beyond what I described. She had made it so the magic stone acted as both the battery and the coolant.

My initial thought was to use water-cooled fans since we couldn’t rely heavily on magic stones, but Hamelle found a way to use only a small amount of magic stone energy to maximize efficiency.

—Magic stones are cooler and last longer than water. What do you think? Isn’t it great?

That day, I clapped until my hands were red.

This brilliant mad genius.

And so, today, I was able to debut the cooling fans…

As you can see, they worked like a charm.

I couldn’t have been prouder.

“It’s so refreshing!”

“Where can we buy one of these?”

Hearing the voices of the people, I couldn’t help but smile.

‘After the ceremony, maybe we could develop these further and sell them?’

It felt like we’d managed to promote them well here.

‘I’ll definitely need to discuss this with Hamelle.’