Time-Limited Saintess, You've Been Caught by the Tyrant Once Again - Chapter 48
Chapter 24.2
“…So annoying!”
What made her anxious was the lack of magic stones.
Now, she had become a ‘real saint’ who could wield divine power. Moreover, wasn’t there a ‘miracle’ where she healed injuries during that performance?
Of course, that was someone she had mobilized.
As soon as one person made the claim, others also said that their wounds were healed, revealing to the people that she was an official saint, but she couldn’t keep doing this indefinitely. Magic stones were about the size of a fingernail and could be used for a small amount of power, but she had received only a few. The fact that the number of uses was limited meant that she had to be extremely cautious when unleashing divine power.
If someone was sponsoring her, couldn’t they be a little generous?
With the imminent baptism of the princess on the horizon, Lilliana’s anxiety grew even more.
Her plan to show off her nobility in front of Angelias, priests and paladins had strangely started to go awry. Some of the Angelias hadn’t been polite to her, or even Maynard, who was already blunt but had become oddly quiet lately, and High Priest, who had taken her to the underground torture chamber and given her a warning with a smiling face…
She had thought it would be enough just to get rid of Ellin, but in reality, there were things that needed to be done.
“Erich!”
She gritted her teeth.
Paul’s appearance was a nightmare, but she couldn’t forget Erich, who had threatened her with a gentle face even with the gruesome sight of Paul beside her.
The owner of this temple was the Pope, but she was also the Saint! It was necessary to show who was in charge.
“Lisa, Lisa!”
She called Lisa with a sharp voice.
“I have to meet His Holiness!”
After completing her preparations, Liliana headed straight to the Pope’s residence.
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Pope Antero, who had been handling his duties, seemed to be resting his senile body for a while as he leaned his head on his hand and closed his eyes.
“Your Holiness!”
As soon as she received permission to enter, Lilliana sat down in front of Antero and took his hand.
“Saint, what’s with your hurried gait?”
Lilliana tried to conceal her annoyance at the leisurely words of the old man. Then, with tears welled up in her eyes, a rather pitiful appearance emerged from her.
“Your Holiness. You know that I’m doing my best not to cause trouble for you, right?”
“Of course, I’m well aware of that.”
“I’m really trying my best, even though I may fall short. I study hard, and I also visit His Majesty.”
Strictly speaking, the Emperor summoned her in the Pope’s absence, and she acted without permission. Still, although it was not a good appearance, Antero didn’t point it out.
“But it seems my efforts are inadequate. Everyone seems displeased with me.”
She sniffled with a pitiful expression.
“What on earth happened?”
“Well, High Priest Erich… He had accused me of driving away an Angelia, whom he cherishes.”
Antero’s fingers twitched at the mention of Erich, but Liliana didn’t notice.
“…High Priest Erich threatened the Saint?”
“Yes, that’s right. Of course, he cherishes Angelica. They were really close, close enough to be given the Golden Bible… so High Priest Erich’s feelings were undoubtedly special. How could anyone not like that beautiful Angelia? Moreover, she attended his lessons with particular diligence.”
Bringing up Ellin’s appearance had a certain nuance. Antero understood that.
“I was always compared to her. It’s natural, she was faithful even though she was a commoner. And I have been living a life of faith, but I haven’t studied academically… So, I understand why she is cherished.”
“….”
“Still, it’s not my fault that Angelica did something wrong? She committed a sin, so why… why did he show me the cruel, no, heartbreaking sight of Paladin Paul, who received punishment for conspiring with her… I can’t sleep.”
“….”
With a considerable sense of injustice, her words seemed plausible.
The Pope, who had been looking at her in silence, finally spoke.
“I was inadequate, and I didn’t know everything about the temple.”
Lilliana smiled brightly.
Most of the people in the temple listened to her words, especially the Pope, who was quite lenient with her. When she approached him like this and pleaded, he usually granted her every request.
“Ignorance may not be a sin, but it can be a source of disgrace.”
“…Yes?”
“Despite the fact that the Saint was born with noble blood, the fact that you’re less educated than a commoner isn’t something to be proud of.”
[ T/N: LOL THE BURN OMG (◍ ⸝⸝ ´ ꈊ` ⸝⸝ ◍) ]
“Your Holiness.”
“And if High Priest Erich did something like that, there must have been a reason.”
“Your Holiness, right now…”
‘…Is he siding with Erich over me?’
She wanted to ask that, but she couldn’t. It was because Antero was staring at her as if he could see through everything.
“Didn’t you also say Paladin Paul did that to himself?”
“Yes…”
At that, the conversation ended. This was because Antero raised his head from the bowed position, looking straight ahead, whether she was there or not, as if he didn’t want to continue the conversation anymore.
Lilliana’s heart pounded.
‘…No way. Could it be that he knows my relationship with Paul?’
Why did the conversation end here, of all places? Lilliana’s fingertips trembled slightly.
…She gained nothing.
He wasn’t listening to her.
Something strange was going on.
“Do you really think I’d just stand by when you touch my people?”
“Did you really think I would just stand by and watch after you harmed my person?”
With Erich’s voice lingered in her ears, her hand trembled.
She had an ominous premonition, a very ominous one.
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