chapter 23
23 – Saint Irina (3)
Saint Irina (3)
Esmeralda was in a very delicate mood right now.
When I faced the trap designed by a demon called Lilith, I felt cold. She was there because she couldn’t stop her if she said Jim would have to live with her family from now on.
But Jim stupidly backed off, not even knowing it was a strategy.
Just thinking about that makes her stupid enough to laugh.
However, she felt bad for Esmeralda…….
[Remark: She could escape if she affirmed here, but I firmly refused because I thought it would not have a good effect on her opponent.]
Although she didn’t know it was an operation, she knew it was an opportunity.
She didn’t even think of taking advantage of someone she really didn’t know might have lost her son.
She thought so much that she wanted to escape from the warrior party.
Esmeralda had no choice but to admit her mindset of never harming ordinary people. She
She Come to think of it, she was like that when she first infiltrated. It was a crude method, but he decided to create a virtual village.
It would have been easier if he had really destroyed and destroyed the original village.
“Jim. Now it looks like he’ll be arriving soon. Thanks for your efforts.”
So Esmeralda approached Jim with her softer attitude.
Of course, there were other reasons why she was nice to Jim.
“Aren’t you excited?”
“…… Yes, I see.”
Aren’t they on their way to the Holy See Church’s Vatican with her demons?
In effect, Esmeralda was taking Jim to her place of execution.
Esmeralda felt pity every time Jim’s complexion turned pale with every step and his surface mind was shaken unsteadily. If she goes there, Jim will have trouble breathing.
But she can’t help it. Esmeralda could no longer bear the s*xual harassment that continued in her Jim’s head.
And even if it’s not time to bandage her, it’s not a good thing to leave her wounds alone for long.
Since she was injured by a high-ranking demon, she can’t heal well without her divine power, so Esmeralda needs to find her temple as soon as possible. She can’t help it.
And it’s okay, isn’t it?
“Since Jim is neither a demon nor a criminal, it is okay to go to the church, right?”
“…… Yes.”
“Yes.”
Because she even got her own permission!
Of course, I won’t deny that it’s like eating mustard while crying.
However, I’m not denying it, but I’m not going to reflect on it.
‘I need to get into discipline soon. I don’t like the way she looks at me.’
I am uncomfortable with Jim, who has recently started seeing Esmeralda from a ‘stupid idiot’ to a ‘nevertheless woman’.
Isn’t that reason enough?
She is even embarrassed and tired of s*xual harassment, like a delusion of adolescence, that pops up out of nowhere.
Like that, Esmeralda endured her one-sided attack and reached the Order.
“I was waiting for you. Warrior. And Mr. Jim.”
“Yes, how are you, Irina?”
The saintess of the Celestial Church, Irina Saintis, welcomed the two. She was smiling broadly as if it was really nice to meet the two of them.
[Note: I am really happy to have met you two.]
Esmeralda nodded her head after reading Irina’s surface psychology.
Well, she is still a saint of the church.
She can’t just think that every day she grinds herself into a holy object.
She’s been with her for a long time and has built up a good relationship with her, so she won’t think of replacing her for free.
‘Well, even though I’m a b*tch shedding tears when I die, I’m a b*tch who will grind up a corpse and make a sacred object.’
b*tch without conscience.
Esmeralda replied with her true heart behind her smile.
“I heard she had an encounter with the corps commander. That he stopped by our temple to treat his injuries.”
“Oh, yes. Yes.”
Esmeralda shuddered at the movement of her grasping her own hand, and then nodded her head with her trembling expression.
Esmeralda nodded her head at the feeling that she was being grabbed, but she subtly tried to get out of her hand.
Fortunately, she wasn’t held tight, it was just like Irina’s habit, so it wasn’t hard for her to break free.
‘What is it?’
Irina, reflected in Esmeralda’s eyes, still only shows feelings of joy. But what? Somehow this feeling is uncomfortable.
‘Is this my prejudice?’
Esmeralda didn’t let her guard down even though she didn’t think much of it.
“Take the warrior with you.”
“Yes, saintess.”
Irina commanded her priests with skillful commands, befitting the real power of her church.
After a while, the priests appeared carrying a stretcher, perhaps for transportation.
“Oh, I don’t need this much?”
“No. Warrior. You’ve been overdoing it with your injured body until now. It may have been fine up until now, but since you’ve come this far, please try to rest as much as possible.”
“Is that so?”
Esmeralda looked back and forth between the stretcher she had prepared for herself and Irina, then laid herself on her stretcher.
After lying down, she couldn’t be more comfortable. Well, she only bandaged it, but the wound didn’t heal. So it’s nice to be able to lie down and go comfortably like this.
Just like that, Esmeralda was looking at her dazzling sunlight and frowning her eyebrows for a moment.
Clap.
Esmeralda, who was lying on her stretcher and feeling the warm sunlight with a smile, tilted her head at the restraints that suppressed her body.
She stared blankly at the restraints that her body was being filled with, then Esmeralda looked at Irina again.
[Note: I plan to secretly send it to the laboratory.]
Since Irina was implicitly aware of her hero’s abilities, she intentionally manipulated her superficial psychology to harass her hero.
She prepared a kind of show because the look in her eyes from a while ago seemed to subtly disregard her own goodwill.
With that alone, Esmeralda started breaking out in a cold sweat.
Now Irina’s suspicions are one step closer to the truth.
“Uh… …. Irina?”
“Hero, please rest well. You’ll be fine after a few days’ sleep.”
Irina inserted a syringe into her Esmeralda’s throat with her unchanging smile.
“Sleep…… 100 Million?!”
Esmeralda thought as she slowly lost consciousness as her mysterious syringe was inserted into her throat.
‘As expected…… I am…… Not wrong…… No… Ok… Uh….’
She collapsed like a genius detective facing her end.
As if mourning her death, after a while I heard her snoring.
Drreong~
Thanks to Esmeralda, who hasn’t slept well for the past few days, she’s been able to fall asleep.
Jim, who was looking at Esmeralda with her shocked eyes, noticed the gaze directed at him and only belatedly turned around. There was a smirking Irina.
“Then Jim, let me show you inside the temple.”
“Oh, that’s fine. I stayed at a nearby inn…….”
At that moment, Irina’s gaze, which had been dripping with love, turned cold.
“Why? You’re not a demon or a criminal, so don’t you mind going to the temple?”
“That, that, that can’t be?! Great. May I ask for guidance?”
“Of course, just trust me and follow me. Mr. Jim.”
Irina held Jim’s hand with a smile that bloomed like a flower.
She then took her pack and ran off like a child.
Her direction is first of all to the chapel, which is often heard by ordinary visitors.
It was also a place where weddings were sometimes held, so the place has a special meaning.
However, it was impossible for Jim, who was thrilled by Esmeralda’s small kindness, to even think of such a sweet thought.
For him, a demon spy, it was just like going to hell.
‘Ah, come to think of it… ….’
Jim stared blankly at Irina’s hand, which was holding her own.
Usually, just the flow of divine power would have been painful, but for some reason, it was fine now.
It was only then that I felt Irina’s gentle touch.
‘Oh. No, this is not it. Won’t this crazy bastard come to his senses?’
Jim reprimanded himself for his heart beating at the touch of that hand even as he was being dragged to hell.
‘But it’s soft.’
However, thoughts were not so easily controlled.
***
At first the chapel.
And then the garden, the place where the statue of the god is, the quarters where the priests stay, and the place where they work.
The Vatican of the Celestial Church had many different buildings than I thought.
Among them, there was a building whose purpose was hard to guess…….
“This is a heretical kyohwaso. Even if it’s me, this is a place where outsiders aren’t allowed in, so I think it’ll be difficult to show the inside.”
“That’s fine… ….”
After listening to most of the explanations, it wasn’t a place I really wanted to know about.
Perhaps it was because of my mood, I felt like I could hear a faint scream, but since I hadn’t heard it before, it’s highly likely that I was mistaken.
I’m sure that’s what caused me to hear those hallucinations.
“Okay then, this is the place I definitely want to show Jim next time.”
30 Minutes to explore the inside of the Celestial Church, guided by Irina’s hand.
She said that she had just returned from her journey, but she was dragged around like this. Well, I knew the saintess’ innocence well. Because of that innocence, I had to shed tears incessantly.
That’s when he was half-running around inside the Vatican, led by Irina’s hand.
The moment her steps gradually slowed down as if hesitating, then came to a complete stop.
I could see that Irina had reached her stated destination.
It looked desolate, but it was a rather suspicious place, with flowers blooming through the soil and rocks.
“Mr. Jim.”
Irina, who had been silently watching the scenery for a while, opened her mouth.
“Mr. Jim, do you know about the infidelity of the Celestial Church?”
I only understood that it was an extremely difficult question to answer.