I’m a Fake Saintess But the Gods Are Obsessed With Me

I smiled bitterly for a moment at his words.

“He’s busy these days.”

[The God of Art, Mond, makes a sullen expression.]

Kyle didn’t ask any more questions.

And soon the topic changed to something else.

“The Imperial Palace Hunting Festival will be held in a week. It seems difficult for the High Priest to attend, so I hope you will attend like you used to.”

The Imperial Palace Hunting Festival held in the Kinston Mountains was an annual event that required a blessing from the temple.

I smiled brightly and nodded.

“Sure. However… Are you sure you will participate in person this time too?”

Customarily, the Emperor doesn’t directly participate in the Hunting Festival.

The reason he went to the hunting grounds with me in the past was because he was the Crown Prince.

However, Kyle participated last year as well.

“Sir Shane will nag you again.”

Kyle took a sip of tea and had a slightly complicated look in his eyes.

“Actually…”

His lips slightly moved.

“There are sinister rumors circulating in the Imperial Palace.”

“A sinister rumor?”

Something vaguely occurred to me.

Could it be that he’s talking about that rumor?

“That’s why I plan to find out the truth at this hunting festival.”

I stared at Kyle with a stern expression.

And I spoke.

“But… something dangerous could happen. It might be a trap. Wouldn’t it be better to just ask the soldiers to investigate?”

“No. I want to investigate it myself. If the rumors aren’t false, I must do it myself.”

After thinking about his words for a moment, I opened my mouth.

“Then I will go with you.”

Kyle’s eyebrows twitched.

“Are you saying you want to participate directly?”

After purifying Els Valley before, there was no need to purify it again.

“Yes.”

“It’s dangerous.”

“When I say it’s dangerous, you’re so stubborn. Is there any way that even if you tell me it’s dangerous, it will work?”

Kyle frowned at my stubborn words.

“I didn’t mean to go with you.”

I could guess what Kyle was worried about.

“There is nothing to be afraid of when I’m with the Sword Master.”

“You sound like the old days.”

Kyle took a deep sigh.

But I had no intention of sending him alone.

“The old days, you say…”

I smiled brightly at Kyle.

His red eyes twinkled gently.

***

The sunlight coming in from outside the window illuminated Reihausd’s pale skin.

His blonde hair sparkled like gold, and so did his downturned eyelashes.

The sight of him leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes looked like a beautiful work of art.

However, the calm didn’t last long.

“Huwaaaaa—”

He quickly woke up to the sound of crying and picked up the child on the crib.

The child with beautiful blonde hair and light sapphire-colored eyes that looked just like Ariel was shaking and crying.

“Huwaaa—huwaaaa—.”

Reihausd hurriedly hugged the child and began to comfort him.

“Good boy, Lane.”

Only after he stood and consoled the child for a long time did the child’s cries subside.

The door opened diagonally and a priest made eye contact with Reihausd.

He glanced at the priest as if telling him to get out.

The priest quietly closed the door again.

“Are you hungry?”

After hearing his words, Lane was looking at his father with innocent eyes that knew nothing.

“So you’re hungry.”

A smile appeared on Reihausd’s lips.

After a while, he went to the window and gave Lane a baby bottle.

Lane, who was just six months old, held the bottle tightly with both hands.

Reihausd watched for a long time as his small mouth twitched.

“My baby is eating well.”

***

“Isn’t he going to collapse, this way?”

Dwayne had a heavy expression on his face at the words of the junior priest.

For six months after the child was born, the High Priest didn’t appear in public and remained attached to the child.

Even when Ariel asks him to share child care, he says she can’t and just holds the baby all day.

Even priestesses and maids couldn’t approach Reihausd.

Although the birth of the baby was a joy to the temple, many people were worried about Reyhas.

As he watched the door to Reihausd with mixed eyes, he heard people cheering.

When Ariel appeared a moment later, Dwayne’s expression brightened.

“Saintess!”

“What about the High Priest?”

Dwayne shook his head.

And he asked with a worried face.

“I heard that His Imperial Majesty the Emperor came.”

“Yes, he just skipped tea time and left.”

“High Priest, too… it’s not the time forhim to be here like this.”

I know what Dwayne is worried about.

The High Priest is the head of the priests and the face of Elium.

As he stayed in his room for six months without doing any external activities, there were worrying rumors going around here and there.

“Can I come in?”

Dwayne lowered his head at my words.

“Of course. Please wait a moment.”

After a while, Dwayne came out of Reihausd’s room and led me inside.

And closed the door so us two could spend time together.

There was a soft smell in his sunny room.

“…Sir Reihausd.”

At the sound of my voice, the man who was absentmindedly putting the baby to sleep by the window turned to me.

His beautiful blonde hair, golden eyes, and angelic appearance hadn’t changed since the day we first met.

The only thing that broke my heart was…

“Ariel.”

A beautiful bass sound flowed into my ears.

I raised my hand close to him and stroked the area around Reihausd’s red eyes.

Anyone could see that he looked tired,

Moreover, he had lost quite a bit of weight and his collar looked loose.

The cause is… This is the baby held in Reyhas’s arms.

Lane, my youngest. And Reihaud’s son.

“Have you eaten breakfast?”

“Yes, of course. What about Ariel?”

“Me too.”

He answered, but I knew that there was more than half of the food left in the bowl he put out after eating breakfast.

But no further questions were asked about this.

“Lane…“

He said, looking at Lane in his arms.

“He fell asleep again. I think he took four naps.”

“Babies usually nap often.”

“But if I put him down, he quickly wakes up…”

The end of his voice trembled slightly.

“The way he sleeps is so adorable.”

Lane was a very troublesome baby.

Moreover, he has been covered since he was 100 days old, and when he’s held in the arms of someone other than Reihausd, he cries at the top of his lungs.

“Still, you can’t hold him all day.”

I reached out to him to ask for the baby.

Yet he shook his head.

“But if he leaves my arms, he’ll wake up and start crying.”

“Even if he does… you can’t keep going like this.”

Reihausd’s golden eyes twinkled at my words.

When I saw his sad eyes, my heart throbbed.

“It breaks my heart to hear Lane cry. I feel like I cried like this when I was little too….”

“Sir Reihausd, Lane is… Lane.”

I spoke in a firm voice.

I agree that we need to create the most comfortable environment for the baby.

However, I couldn’t stand to see Reihausd getting thinner as opposed to Lane gaining weight.

“And I’m Lane’s mom. I have the sole responsibility to raise my child.”

His eyes twinkled at my words.

“I will hold him. Please lie down and rest for a bit.”

After hesitating for a moment, Reihausd carefully gave Lane to me.

Lane twitched his eyebrows for a moment and then fell back to sleep.

It seems like I made a good decision to put Reihausd’s handkerchief on my chest chest on purpose.

After handing Lane to me, he looked restless.

“Rest now, Sir Reihausd.”

“But…”

“Please.”

At my gentle request, he managed to lie down on the bed.

With a very uncomfortable expression.

“Close your eyes.”

Only after giving one more command did he close his eyes.

Lane was sleeping soundly like an angel in my arms.

I sat down on the chair where Reihausd would have been sitting, holding Lane.

It seems that Reihausd turned over on his side and started to sleep.

I guess he stayed up all night last night too.

“Lane…what should I do for your dad?”

I thought seriously and said to myself.

The current Reihausd is definitely… having postpartum depression.

He also has some separation anxiety.

The sight of him wiping away tears as soon as I came in was clearly not a mistake.