Hush Now, Saintess! - Chapter 94
Chapter 94
Translator: Yonnee
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“Anyway, I couldn’t stand the filth anymore and had to leave. I like magical research, but I can’t endure anything unseemly.”
“But, what does that have to do with becoming a priestess?”
“Ah, about that. I—”
“Just a moment.”
Roella cut off the priestess, who was about to eagerly speak.
Thinking about it, she hadn’t come here to listen to these stories.
She had temporarily forgotten it, too intrigued by the ‘journey of a mage from the Magic Tower to priesthood’.
“Never mind that. You don’t have to tell me. More importantly, I came here today because of a debt.”
“A debt?”
“Remember the bet we made last time? I’m here to give you your share.”
“You were really going to give it to me?”
“Of course.”
Roella responded more decisively than ever before.
To someone as money-crazed as Roella, playing games with money was out of the question.
Whether it was her money or someone else’s.
The priestess’s eyes sparkled with emotion.
“My goodness, as beautiful as your face is your heart. Truly, beauty saves the world.”
What are you talking about, really.
“As for the money…”
Roella pretended not to hear, fumbling in her pocket.
But her hand found nothing.
After rummaging through the empty pocket several times, she remembered she had entrusted the money to Gaston.
What should she do now.
Searching for Gaston now would likely just lead to missing each other on the paths.
It seemed better to wait here.
This place was in front of the main hall, so he would inevitably pass by if he circled around the temple.
“I’ll give it to you when my knight arrives, so please wait a moment.”
“Oh! Then, may I present what I’ve prepared in the meantime?”
“You prepared something?”
“Yes. I’ve prepared something to give to your Ladyship.”
“…You don’t even know when we’d next meet, but you still prepared that?”
“If we couldn’t meet, I could have sent it to Your Ladyship’s residence!”
Ah, right. Of course.
She herself didn’t know the priestess’s name, but the priestess knew who she was.
‘Come to think of it, I forgot to ask her name.’
While Roella realized her mistake, the priestess fumbled in her pocket.
“Ah, found it!”
After rummaging through her pocket for a while, she pulled out her hand with a bright smile.
And, in the next moment.
Roella could not hide her astonishment.
‘What is that…?’
It was unbelievably large to have come from a palm-sized pouch.
White, elongated, and looking heavy, could it be…
“A statue?”
“Yes, that’s right! It’s made in Your Ladyship’s likeness!”
A statue made to look like her?
Roella felt a strong aversion, but before she knew it, the statue was nestled in her arms.
How did things get to this point?!
Her bewildered eyes scanned the statue in her arms.
As the priestess said, the statue was indeed modeled after her.
…It looked excessively like her.
Initially bewildered, Roella could not help but admire it as time passed.
The intricacy and beauty, the overflowing liveliness.
The statue perfectly replicated the mad beauty of Roella.
If it were only a bit bigger, people passing by might say, ‘Roella, you look rather pale today?’ because it looked exactly like her.
“How about it? Do you… like it?”
The priestess asked Roella, half nervous and half shy.
Roella was dumbfounded.
‘Do I like it?’
How could she ask such a question.
Instead of answering, she clenched her fist tightly.
And then.
“Be mine.”
With a confession and a thumbs-up.
Roella’s not-quite-confession made the priestess’s face turn red.
“I’m not ready for marriage yet….”
“What are you talking about, I’m asking you to become my sculptor.”
“Oh right. That was it. But, becoming a sculptor is impossible for me.”
“Why?”
“This isn’t so much sculpted as it is magically created.”
“Can’t magic create large statues?”
“No. It varies from person to person, but I can create them easily.”
What a talent to desire even more.
“So what’s the problem?”
Roella’s eyes blazed with eagerness.
The perfect sculptor she had been searching for in the span of such a long time was right before her.
No matter the problem, she was overflowing with the will to solve it and bring them along.
Then, the priestess hesitated and finally spoke.
“It’s that, my magic is tied up as collateral. So, I can’t use it freely.”
“…Collateral? You can use magic as collateral?”
“Yes! Mages who leave the tower can have dependency contracts between individuals or between an individual and a household.”
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