Chapter 44. Even If You Have To Search All Over The Continent
Someone who fell out of nowhere while the prayer was going on.
With Elodieâs appearance, the great War of Ishtar meeting was literally turned upside down.
Among them, the most excited were by far the faithful servants of God, the priests.
There was an existence that appeared simultaneously with the notice of the oracleâs savior!
Moreover, after the meeting began, it was impossible to enter because a barrier throughout the temple would be activated.
If it was an existence that broke through that barrier and appeared, it could be said that this was the person chosen by God.
âOh!â
The priests rushed to Elodie, knelt down and praised her.
âOur savior!â
âNo, Iâm notâŠ..â
âOh, God has given us the savior!â
âYouâve got the wrong person.â
It was almost like a battle between a spear that penetrates anything and a shield that blocks anything.
As everyone watched them, the High Priestsâ eloquence continued endlessly.
âNo. God has proclaimed the savior as a savior, therefore the savior is a savior!â
Aargh.
I hated it and closed my ears.
âWhat the hell is going on?!â
After touching the seal stone of Greed, I was moved to a place where a collapsed temple was, and when the transaction was over, I suddenly fell from the sky and fell into the water.
I wouldnât have thought that it would be the Ishtar Temple.
For some reason, the sin of Greed, which should have escaped together with me, was nowhere to be seen.
âYou damn sin bastard, did you jump out? After you threw me in the temple?â
It wasnât easy to vent my anger on the small fox. Because the shouts of the priests filled my ears.
All the people stared at me; I felt bad because I was wet, and the priests made a lot of noiseâŠ.
I, who had already been feeling unwell during the transaction with Greed, looked with my eyes around and around.
My gaze, looking around anxiously, soon stopped in one place.
âHelp me.â
The person with the strongest power to get me out of this situation.
After watching the situation silently, the duke took action when I looked at him with mournful eyes.
The Duke of Perdia intervened with a declaration.
âThis is my daughter. She is not the savior.â
At the dukeâs words the priests opened their eyes wide and looked at me and the duke alternately.
âHuh? This person canÂŽt beâŠâŠ.!â
They couldnât even recognize me.
The people of the temple saw my face only a few times when I was young.
âStop it. The prayer meeting is over.â
The duke, who finished the prayer meeting of the temple with his own will, passed by the priests who blocked him without hesitation.
The duke stepped into the fountain with even less hesitation and picked me up; he didnât care that his pants were getting wet.
âOh!â
âHold tight, Elodie.â
âYes, yes.â
Only then, as I looked around, did I hug the Dukeâs neck and move on.
I hid my face in the dukeâs wide chest as I was burdened by the eyes of countless people looking at me.
Then Jansi approached and covered my body with a coat.
âItâs rather cool here, so you can catch a cold even in summer, Lili.â
âThank you, brother Jansi.â
âYou donât have to thank me.â
As Jansi took a step back with a smile, the duke passed him and slipped out of the fountain.
When the main character of the commotion disappeared, the atmosphere became noisier.
Both the priests and the remaining direct descendants were busy saying a word about what happened in front of them.
âHow did Lady Perdia get in here?â Dorothea Angellus asked haughtily.
The Duke of Angellus answered Dorotheaâs question with a gracious smile.
âWouldnât her father have used his hands? Rumors say that he cares about his daughter lately, so he must have wanted her to be involved in the meeting somehow.â
âIs that what happened? After the meeting already started, all so she could come in?â
âSylvester Perdia would be able to do it. He can buy anything.â
Duke Angellus blasphemed that Duke Perdia was deliberately cheating.
Duke Kreundel was silent.
Felix Hicklemeyer, the nephew of the Duke of Severes, murmured Elodieâs name meaningfully.
ââŠâŠ.Elodie Perdia. Hmm.â
Lastly, the Perdia familyâŠ..
âAs expected, my sister is amazing. Falling from the sky. Is she an angel?â
âCarlot, youâre embarrassing, so be quiet.â
âWhy?! Mother, you saw it too. Sister Lili was falling from the sky like an angel!â
Carlot, who was determined to become a sisterâs fool, made as much fuss as the priests.
Jansi watched this scene with a smile, then looked around and found someone.
At the end of his gaze was the first prince, Adenmir, who attended as a direct descendant of the imperial family.
It was said that no priest could figure out how I entered through the barrier.
There wasnât even the slightest wave in the barrier.
However, once the meeting began, you couldnât leave until it was over, so I had no choice but to stay in the Great Temple.
âFirst of all, weâll give you a room, so you can relax.â
âYes, the Savior doesnât look well.â
I was too busy worrying that I would be detained until the Great Temple came to a conclusion to look well.
Anyway, I concluded that I would stay with my family in the Great Temple until the meeting was over.
It was unprecedented for a person who was neither a direct descendant nor an authorized representative to attend the meeting.
âMoreover, it would be the first time for an illegitimate child to attend.â
Strictly speaking, the comatose Duke of Severes was my biological father, so I would be a direct descendant, but unless there was a way to prove it, I was just an illegitimate child.
A priest guided me to the room where I would stay, holding a change of clothes.
But the problem wasâŠ.
âHow long do I have to stay like this?â
It was the fact that the duke was still holding me.
I was too shocked to realize it earlier, but it was a really embarrassing posture.
âFather.â
ââŠâŠ.â
âI can walk.â
I have two feet!
I appealed that fact actively, but the duke didnât listen to me at all.
After entering the room like that, I was finally able to set my feet on the ground.
âElodie.â
âYes.â
When I replied nervously to his way of looking at me, the duke sighed.
âWash up. Iâll come back later.â
âYes, see you later.â
Click.
As soon as the duke went out, I slid down on the spot.
âPhew.â
A sigh of relief burst out at the thought of finally being left alone.
In the space where Greed was sealed, my head was throbbing and I felt sick as if I was about to vomit, but I got better after falling into the temple of Ishtar and now I didnât feel sick.
I stood up, got in a bathtub filled with warm water, washed up, and changed into the clothes given to me by the priest.
It was a rather modest dress, but it was manageable.
After drying my wet hair, I returned to the room and took out the sealing stone that I had kept well in the meantime.
âGreed, where the hell did you go?â
When I was seriously considering whether I was a victim of a fraudulent transaction, a black fox popped up in front of me.
[Here.]
âWhat? Since when have you been there?â
[I was with you the whole time.]
âYou were with me?â
[Thatâs right.]
We? Together?
ââŠâŠ!â
I opened my eyes wide with a hand on my mouth.
âYou mean you saw me taking a bath? You pervert sin!â
[No way. Donât put me on the same level as Lust! In the first place, I am asexual.]
Greed jumped up from its place with rage. Then it shook its head coyly.
[A human womanâs body is nothing impressive. Donât misunderstand.]
This Sin.
âGet down. Itâs an order.â
I ordered coldly and resolutely, squinting my eyes.
FlatâŠ..
Without any resistance, Greed sprang to the floor.
[This isâŠ.]
Greed tried to get up a few times, flinched at how weak its legs were, and soon threw a resentful look at me.
Greed responded to my orders more immediately than before, perhaps because the deal was done.
âIf you answer my question honestly, Iâll let you go.â
[You are a human being more evil than a sin.]
âThank you for the compliment.â
To be called evil by a sin, my life was very well lived. Smiling, I soon began to ask questions.
âFirst. How did you hide yourself?â
[You made a deal. Then youâll always stay with your partner. I stayed in the sealed stone for a while so I wouldnât stand out to other human beings.]
It seemed that it could freely go in and out of the seal stone.
âOkay, then the second question. Why did you drop me off here in the temple?â
I asked it to be returned where I came from, and it dropped me on the temple out of nowhere. I just couldnât let this pass.
However, Greed wrinkled his nose and answered with resentment, as if it was unfair.
[Unfair. I donât know either. As soon as we left, we were suddenly dragged here.]
âReally?â
[Really. Do you think Iâm that crazy to go to the temple of Ishtar, who is an enemy of the great God Irkala?]
That was quite a point.
The gods Irkala and Ishtar are sisters, but it was stated in mythology that they didnât get along.
By the way, if we were suddenly being led, does that mean someone intervened?
âIs it the real god Ishtar?â
I thought about it, but I quickly brushed it off.
That was impossible. Regardless of whether it was an oracle or a god, it was unrealistic to me.
As long as I knew that this was a world in a book, I wondered if there really was a God.
Naturally, saying it out loud would be blasphemy, so I had to think in my head.
There was a bigger problem than that.
It was Raeyan.
âRaeyan would be worried.â
I suddenly disappeared right in front of his eyes, so he might be looking for me by now.
But, since I was currently inside the Temple of Ishtar, where all contact with the outside world is blocked, I was unable to disclose my location.
I had to stay tied up here until the meeting was over.
[Human. Shouldnât you let me go now?]
âMhh.â
[Let me go.]
âMhhâŠ.â
The voice of Greed, which constantly asked for release while lying flat on the floor, was used as background music while I was in deep thought.
âRaeyanâs personality may not worry so much.â
There was a possibility that I would come back, so maybe he decided to wait and see the situation.
Judging by the way he treated his subordinates, he didnât seem to have such an affectionate and friendly personality.
âWell, it will be fine.â
There was nothing I could do anyway, so I had to be as positive as possible.
Greed, who knew nothing, answered disgruntledly.
[Not okay.]
***
And at that time.
Mario, the vice-captain of the Earth Hawk Mercenary Corps, looked at his boss in bewilderment.
âWhat do you mean?â
âFind her.â
âIf you suddenly say thatââ
âFind her, even if you have to search all over the continent.â
Elodieâs expectations for his reaction to her disappearance were very off the mark.
Raeyanâs eyes widened erratically. So much so that it wouldnât be strange no matter what he did right now.