This BL Novel Is Ruined Now - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155

Translator: Yonnee

RP: Haebaragi_syk

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Every single person in the elder council flinched slightly, feeling the jagged edges of her words. If they each had a conscience, they would realize that they never truly ‘cared’ about Reina’s situation.

Openly smirking at those people, Reina took one, two, three steps closer to the elder council. Then, she tilted her head to the side and spoke in a confused tone.

“So, you’re telling me to spend the rest of my life with an unmarried man who isn’t Ethan?”

“That’s right.”

Nodding exaggeratedly a few times, Reina then paused for a moment. And, once the air had risen to the highest tension, she opened her lips to speak again.

“I would like to have those options tweaked a little bit. After all, the dynamics between you, the elder council, and me have changed considerably, so shouldn’t the options be changed? Oh, and the side who chooses, too.”

“Hoo…”

Lowering her hand, she looked around at the elder council, lightly ignoring their disapproving sighs.

“So, you can choose.”

As she raised one finger to show them, Reina smiled as she said,

“One. Respect my opinions without any qualms.”

“What a cheeky…!”

“Oh? You don’t like the first option? Then, shall I tell you about the second?”

Raising one more finger, the woman widened her eyes and pretended to be naïve as she suggested the next option.

“Two. Watch as this talented member of the family turns to religion and enters the Utta Temple.”

As she made this proposal, she immediately clapped once with an exaggerated gesture.

“Oh! For your information, I’m not telling you to choose, alright?”

In the end, the elders could no longer hold back their anger.

“Reina…! With what kind of insurance are you even basing such decisions on!”

“What kind of insurance?”

Reina’s expression hardened as she turned her gaze towards the man who was shaking his clenched fist. It was her father’s cousin.

“But Uncle, who exactly are you interrupting right now? I’m sure you know that I’m not the same as I used to be.”

For all those immature and incapable of understanding logic, ‘power’ was the only solution. And, as Reina had already expected, the elder council was feeling overwhelmed by her new status of ‘advent-level saintess’. They could do nothing but huff and puff angrily.

When talking to these people, Reina took the calm approach, yet never deigning to give them any patience.

She conveyed her intentions clearly with a poisonous tone.

“So, this is a threat. Do not try to control me anymore. Do you all understand?”

“…Reina, child.”

The tender and kind granduncle called Reina’s voice sweetly, but she simply raised one hand as if to block his words.

“Thank you very much for protecting me. However, I will not change my mind on this.”

“…Child, that’s not what I mean to say.”

Reina paused for a moment as she listened to the elder council’s chairman, who was speaking with a weak tone. Then, with furrowed brows, he murmured softly.

“I… I should have told you in advance… I’m sorry.”

Suddenly, a cold sensation crept up, starting from her toes.

Unlike the other elders who were unable to respond, the cousin of Reina’ father smirked mockingly at her, and she inadvertently caught a glimpse of this.

‘He’s… laughing?’

Why? He shouldn’t be in a position to laugh though?

But before Reina could even finish the thought, the council chairman explained the situation.

“Child, yesterday… The Utta Temple has officially requested your return.”

“…What?”

What was he talking about? Was the temple hitting her on the back of the head the moment she turned away from them?

“What did the Utta Temple say?”

She had already received several summons from the holy curia while she was in the Launcer Village.

And that’s when Reina had delivered her clear answer to their message.

“There are many people in the world who need me. I cannot be confined to the Utta Temple.”

The envoys from the holy curia expressed their sympathy to her sentiments, and with tears in their eyes, they left just like that. But what’s this now? What’s the Utta Temple doing now? Did they seriously contact her family directly behind her back?!

“I don’t know exactly what you’ve talked about with them, but they said that they fully ‘understand’ your will and that they would support your pilgrimage across the entire country. However, it would be after your ascension as the Utta Temple’s Saintess.”

“……”

Reina quickly got her brain rolling, thinking of a way—any way at all—not to let her ambitious threat plummet to the depths of crisis.

‘What should I do. Should I backtrack?’

…No. That’s impossible. She couldn’t just take back the ‘options’ she offered just two seconds ago only because the situation had changed.

But if she were to double down here… The other side might show their crazy side, too.

‘Then, how should I go about this?’

Utta Temple, those little sh*ts… She was wondering if they had finally come to their senses while she was at the Launcer village, yet they’re seriously causing a scene like this?

As he was quietly watching the situation unfold all alone, Ethan came forward just as Reina’s brain was starting to throb painfully.

“Reina.”

He went in front of her, his back turned to the elder council. His broad chest was covering her line of sight, so she couldn’t see the council at all.

“Huff… That’s why I said that it shouldn’t be this child, tsk!”

As expected, the elders are still criticizing him, but how dare they scoff at my Ethan like this!

With a unique smile, Ethan took Reina’s hand and leaned close to her, matching her gaze.

“Just as I thought, my method is the most reasonable one, isn’t it?”

She couldn’t say anything against that.

Of course, that didn’t mean she was fully agreeing to him setting fire to the elder council, but…

‘The method that I came up with has turned to ashes.’

Perhaps it’s because of this that she couldn’t think of a good excuse to turn him down on this.

And with this, Ethan seemed to have read Reina’s mind. His long fingers gently swept the back of her hand.

“Don’t worry, Reina. I won’t kill them.”

…You won’t kill them? But what, you’re still going to attack?

“Ethan, wait a minute—”

Unfortunately, however, before she could even finish speaking, her vision turned upside down at once. Rather than a man of words, Ethan was more of a man of action.

“Huhp…!”

Then, utter brightness burst forth and painted her vision white. Then, right after, everything around her became hazy, and soon, the floor on which she stood just now had collapsed completely.

“Oh my gosh…!!”

As she was absolutely surprised, she clutched the hand that was holding hers tighter, and a low rumble of laughter came from above her head.

Ethan embraced the rigid woman’s waist strongly, hoisted her up into a princess carry, and whispered,

“Keep your arms around my neck. I’ll be done in just a minute.”

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