Time-Limited Saintess, You've Been Caught by the Tyrant Once Again - Chapter 77
Chapter 39.1
Maynard pierced his heart without missing a beat… so quickly that Ellin couldn’t even use her divine power. As he peacefully closed his eyes while blood dripped from his mouth, the room was filled with the pungent smell of blood.
Everything was terrible.
The end of the noble paladin, who had always stood by her side and cared for her, was so pitiful and miserable.
Ellin, who had rarely expressed emotions at the time, let out a scream of sadness for the first time in quite a long time until Erich rushed in and carried her crying into the room.
“Saintess.”
Maynard’s face, which looked at her warmly for the last time, haunted her until her death.
“Uh, ah…”
“Ellin!”
Seeing Ellin in a state of panic, Maynard clicked his tongue before he pulled her into an embrace. As he wrapped her in his wide arms and gently patted her back with a hand that wasn’t stained with blood, she came to her senses.
She looked up at Maynard, who had calmed her down.
He was alive.
He didn’t die. He hadn’t died so tragically. Thankfully, God had given her another chance to see him alive. Eventually, she opened her mouth in a trembling voice.
“Sir Maynard… please show me your hand.”
He mustn’t be injured. He mustn’t shed blood. He mustn’t die.
Never.
“It’s okay.”
She desperately wanted to sever their relationship. But now that she had seen it, could she turn away from him when he was shedding blood?
Ellin’s fingertips were trembling.
She spoke with quivering lips as she tried to ignore the image of Maynard covered in blood overlapping with his current, alive appearance.
“You got hurt while helping me.”
“I can show this much to the priest.”
“Even if you’re Sir Maynard, you shouldn’t shed blood like this. Since the temple is on the outskirts of the capital, it’ll take time to get there, and you’ll need to ride on a horse.”
As Ellin said this, she suddenly tore the hem of her skirt.
“What are you doing?”
“Treating you. We need to stop the bleeding before you go to the hospital for disinfection.”
“….”
Contrary to her calm and composed demeanor, her hands tearing the skirt were incredibly rough. As soon as she tore her skirt, her white legs were revealed, and Maynard hastily averted his gaze. She then wrapped a bandage around his arm. It was a familiar gesture.
“Where did you throw the gauntlet?”
Seeing him look the other way, she sighed as she picked up the gauntlet.
“That…”
“You should preserve the temple assets.”
Maynard didn’t say anything. Instead, he finally opened his mouth when he looked at the dead bodies around him.
“Aren’t you scared of these corpses?”
“…Should I be scared?”
“You were so scared when you saw me bleeding. Strange.”
Of course, it wasn’t pleasant to witness people dying for her. However, she had already experienced death herself to feel pity for them. No matter how horrible and terrifying a corpse was, would it be more frightening and dreadful than seeing your own corpse?
Ellin forced herself to swallow those words.
“Is something… wrong?”
“No, it could be. Weren’t they the ones trying to harm you?”
“That’s right. I don’t really have any feelings except for the wound on the paladin right now.”
Maynard said as his expression darkened.
“Well, I guess you didn’t grow up as delicately as the Saintess.”
As he uttered, recalling the Saintess who went out on a service and was greatly surprised by a child, he quietly looked at the bandages she had wrapped in silence.
“Does the Saintess have a weak heart?”
Maynard frowned at Ellin’s insistence.
“You seem quite interested in the Saintess.”
“….”
That meant that was as far as he would say.
Ellin kept her mouth shut. This was their boundary. The one who had once looked at her with guilt and committed suicide was now gone.
“We were conducting a search due to reports of a heretical group. Then, because of a strange explosion, I came here. I saw you there and followed you.”
Saying so, he gestured to her with his chin.
“Why did you follow me?”
At her question, he frowned.
“That’s… “
“….”
“I wanted to apologize.”
Ellin’s eyes widened at his words. On the other hand, Maynard stared straight ahead with a stern expression.
“What apology?”
“I know of you’re innocent.”
“….”
“I said I know, but it seems like you don’t, so I want to say it again.”
Ellin stopped walking. He spoke as if he had expected this.
“There’s a paladin named Paul. It seems he stole your Golden Bible.”
“….”
“The reason I didn’t protect you there is because I couldn’t be involved. I thought it would be best to just give you money and let you leave.”
“….”
“I thought that was the best way.”
Maynard turned his head to look at Ellin’s face.
“But I don’t think that was the right answer. As you said, it wasn’t justifiable for the sake of the Saintess. I didn’t think about you, about your heart.”
“….”
“In the end, even though I came from a commoner background, I was the same. I unconsciously took your sacrifice for granted and didn’t consider your feelings.”
Her face stiffened at Maynard’s words. He continued to speak as if repenting for his sins.
“I searched for you after you ran away like that. I felt I should at least ensure your safety.”
“….”
“I found out that High Priest Erich brought you here to provoke the Saintess, and that’s why your presence was unwelcome. That’s also why I treated you that way. It wasn’t that I truly looked down on you or ignored you.”
He doesn’t lie.
If that was the case, then this was the truth.
Despite feeling offended, Ellin felt a strange sensation. Wasn’t she just a passerby to Maynard? Still, why did he care so much about her?
“If you want to go back to the temple, do so. High Priest Erich will look after you.”
“….”
Ellin’s face hardened at the mention of High Priest Erich. Even though she tried to hide her expression, it was too late after Maynard had noticed.
“Why, what’s going on?”
“….”
“High Priest Erich believed in you from the beginning. He sent you away with a conclusion similar to mine.”
“I’m not going back to the temple.”
Ellin replied firmly. Now that it wasn’t the same relationship anymore, it was better than being disappointed by another relationship.
“In that case, I’ll support you.”
“Why do you care so much about me?”
“It’s a sense of responsibility.”
Maynard answered calmly. Listening to him, she felt that she might understand him but also that she couldn’t.
“Sir Maynard, the fact that I was wrongly accused doesn’t go away. I also feel humiliated and angry.”
“….”
“I was somewhat happy there because it was like my home.”
“Home? What do you…”
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