Hush Now, Saintess! - Chapter 69
Chapter 69
Translator: Yonnee
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—First, why don’t you experience it firsthand? Experience it yourself, and when you feel that it’s a sufficient catalyst, then make your decision.
Hildeon believed that it was the right course of action.
To experience it firsthand and then make a choice.
‘I heard about the fountain she made…’
Maybe he could approach her that way.
There was still no clear solution to the curse, but it wouldn’t be a totally useless endeavor to meet her.
After leaving the high priest’s office with a strange feeling, he headed towards the rarely visited western gate.
“Ugh…”
Suddenly, pain surged through him.
This happened from time to time.
The subtle agony that had been lingering suddenly overwhelmed him like a massive tidal wave.
“Damn it.”
He muttered a brief curse and hurried his steps, opting to hide somewhere rather than continue toward the western gate.
‘Perhaps there…’
In his confused state of mind, he chose the abandoned temple he had discovered in his childhood.
Hidden by the western forest’s thickets, it was a temple untouched by human presence.
He had even regarded it as a secret place in his younger days.
Hildeon struggled through the dense undergrowth and finally arrived at the abandoned temple.
And that was where his memory ended.
‘I’ve never experienced such excruciating pain before.’
Even facing the battlefield and being pierced by a sword was less agonizing than this.
Even if he rolled in the dirt and had bones broken, it wouldn’t bring tears to his eyes.
But this sensation now…
Through the cracks in his crumbling mind, someone’s face flickered.
“Ah, how cute.”
In the midst of this apparition, she blinked in surprise, her rabbit-like eyes wide open, and she fled.
Her pink hair tumbled behind her.
He tried to reach out for the apparition.
His vision darkened, becoming hazy.
Then, the apparition of the woman reached out her hand to him.
The moment their fingertips made contact, just as he had experienced before, all the pain throughout his body disappeared at once.
And like that, he lost consciousness.
.
.
So, back to the present.
‘Am I dreaming like this because I fainted?’
Hildeon thought.
He slowly got up. Even if this was a dream, he didn’t want to face her as he was lying on the hard stone floor.
Roella hesitated and reached out to him.
“Are you okay, Your Highness? Shall I help you?”
“……”
Hildeon silently looked at the outstretched hand.
‘When this hand touched me back then…’
“Ugh.”
A shallow groan escaped from his lips.
He still thought it was a dream, but his consciousness had awakened, and the pain had come to life.
“W-Where does it hurt?”
Roella knelt down in front of him, becoming a bundle of nerves. Now that she’s been caught, the best course of action was to nurse him… or at least pretend to nurse him.
‘If I’m going to be involved with the main characters, I need to leave a good impression.’
Then, once it’s time for her to say, Goodbye, everyone! I’m leaving in search of freedom! they would all send her off with, Haha, alright. She didn’t deceive us on purpose!
It was then.
“…Touch me.”
What Hildeon mumbled.
However, Roella didn’t hear what he said.
“Excuse me?”
She looked at him with her eyes wide open as she asked back.
At this, Hildeon’s ears turned bright red.
‘Even if it’s just a dream, it’s embarrassing.’
But even in a dream, he wanted to relive that moment.
If the pain in this dream was so vivid, perhaps the experience from back then could also be vividly reenacted.
He took a deep breath and then spoke.
“Please, haa… Touch me, Saintess.”
* * *
‘What did he just say?’
I doubted my ears.
Did this guy just say…
‘Touch him?’
And in the middle of it, wasn’t there a ‘haaaa’ sound in his breathing or something?
I jumped to my feet and took three steps back from him.
“…What are you saying, you cutie?”
—…What are you saying, you pervert?
However, unlike my original intention, different words slipped out of my mouth.
Ahh, my bad. The censorship.
I belatedly tried to shut my mouth, but the words were already out.
Thanks to that, the scene became even more bizarre.
A man, trembling and asking to be touched.
A woman, calling him a cutie.
‘This novel… was it R-19?’
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