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

***

It was well after noon when Reihausd opened his eyes.

After staring blankly at the ceiling for a moment, he stood up in surprise.

The narrow space where he was lying was shaking.

“Baby… Lane!!”

As he looked around in surprise, he saw the coachman’s face, who turned his head back.

“Are you awake?”

“Where are we?”

“You can read the letter.”

This was none other than a carriage.

Reihausd found a letter by his bedside and began to read it.

[I’ll be watching Lane myself all day today.

High Priest, please inspect the Temple of Hetuse.

I get a headache from handling Elium’s affairs alone.

After inspecting the temple, we’re going on an outing.

This is my order as the Saintess, so please listen to it.]

It was Ariel’s handwriting.

Reihausd shook his head.

“But… Lane would cry if it weren’t me…”

Then, in his mind, Lane, who was held in Ariel’s arms before falling asleep, came to mind.

He was sleeping soundly while looking comfortable.

He also remembered what she had said.

As Ariel said, she was Lane’s mother and had the right to take care of her child.

However, from the moment Reihausd first saw Lane, he was completely enamored with the baby, and it wasn’t often that Ariel held the baby, let alone the maids who could take care of the baby.

He felt anxious when the baby wasn’t with him.

“…”

It was still like that now.

The baby was a token of his nobility, love, and of course, the most important meaning of his life.

“We have arrived.”

As he was fiddling with his empty hands, the carriage stopped.

The carriage stopped in front of the Temple of Hetuse.

He had been there before too.

He remembered him feeling frustrated and his heart being blown out of his chest.

Reihausd got off the carriage and stood still for a while, looking at the temple.

It was at a time when he was thinking about going back to Elium and hugging Lane.

“

, I’m greeting the High Priest.”

Priestess Mariare recognized Reihausd and bowed her head.

He let out a small, inaudible sigh.

There’s no going back now.

“I received a contact from the Saintess. The High Priest himself is coming to inspect the Temple of Hetuse. It’s an honor.”

Reihausd, who had barely been exposed to sunlight for the past six months, had a rather gloomy expression indoors, but now he smiled slightly, looking the same as before.

“Thank you for the warm welcome.”

Many priests from the Temple of Hetuse were seen coming out.

***

Believers in the God of Justice, Hetuse, had something in common.

They’re more knowledgeable than others and their thinking is less flexible.

Although they rarely committed sins, their obsessive thinking style sometimes led to minor problems.

The same was true of Cain, who came to the temple of Hetus today for confession.

Cain grew up receiving a strict education from his parents, both followers of Hetuse, and was now a promising young bureaucrat.

But now he entered the confessional with a guilty conscience in his eyes.

The priest opposite him had no face.

Even at a glance, he could tell that he was a priest he had never seen before.

Elium is the best temple in the Empire and has many excellent priests.

He might have gotten better advice from an Elium priest, and he was secretly looking forward to it.

“Priest, I… I committed a sin.”

“What crime did you commit?”

The priest’s voice across from him was so low and clear that it made him flinch.

Cain was dazed for a moment, then cleared his throat and continued speaking.

“I have a fiancée who I promised to marry, but.”

“…you had your heart set on another woman.”

“No, no.”

Cain waved his hand.

It’s impossible to leave his fiancée behind and have someone else in his heart.

“I keep having bad feelings… to her.”

After a moment of silence, the priest opened his mouth.

“If it’s bad feelings, you want to kill her…”

“

, no way. How could I harbor such feelings?”

Cain’s face turned pale at the priest’s words.

Then he hesitated and spoke.

“I… I want to kiss her, I mean… I want to hold her hand, and whenever she speaks warmly to me, I feel a change in my body profanely…”

“How old are you.”

“T… Twenty-seven.”

When the priest interrupted him and asked her age, Cain answered as if he were puzzled.

Why are you asking my age?

“You have never met a woman other than your fiancée?”

“Of course. For five years, it’s always just Mary for me.”

He could vaguely see the priest’s silhouette as if he was pressing the spot between his eyes.

Ellium’s capable priest seemed to have a headache.

“I want to always keep my heart pure, as God Hetuse taught me. In fact, last night, when I was taking Mary to her house, she told me to have a drink before I go. It was late and she said I could sleep in her bed, but…“

“…”

“I refused because I couldn’t trust myself. If I had any ill feelings towards Mary…”

“···.”

“Be… Before… while I was eating, Mary accidentally reached out with her foot and touched me between my knee and thigh. If I hadn’t pushed her away then, I might have done something bad to the innocent Mary…”

Cain was distressed, covering his face with his palms because the story seemed too shameless for him.

“Mary even sighed and told me she felt frustrated. She may have noticed the messy thoughts going through her head.”

After a long silence, the priest across from him opened him mouth.

“Sir Believer… doesn’t need to do the confession.”

Cain couldn’t help but be confused by those words.

And a thought crossed his mind for a moment.

Since he was a priest of Elium, not a temple on the outskirts, his purity and nobility must have been unimaginably high, and his confession may have felt very unclean.

While he was making a sullen expression, the priest continued speaking.

“Instead… I think you need other knowledge.”

The priest’s voice, which seemed to be talking to himself, was heard next.

“…I forgot about it… For a while… .”

Cain asked back in shock.

“If it’s other knowledge… what are you talking about?”

“It’s the knowledge that makes both men and women happy.”

***

[The God of Knowledge, Hessed, asks Mond what it means to ■■ ■■.]

[The God of Justice, Hetuse, wants to expel Reihausd, who is polluting his believers, from the temple.]

[The God of Destruction, Ciel, blushes and wags his tail.]

[The God of Art, Mond, nods his head, saying it’s necessary.]

[The God of Benevolence, Oman, lies down with a satisfied expression.]

Several hours have passed since Reihausd was sent to the Temple of Hetuse.

Though I didn’t know what was going on, it seemed like the Gods were having a very difficult conversation.

“Mmm, ma!”

At first, Lane, who was whining while looking for Reihausd, was grinning as if he had adjusted to me.

“Say, Mom.”

“Mmma.”

He even says ‘Mom’ to me.

Lane’s hair bounced as if it were made of shiny gold thread.

How did he look so pretty?

I rubbed my cheek against Lane’s chubby cheek.

[The God of Art, Mond spits and praises Lane’s beauty, asking how a baby can be so beautiful.]

Lane was so cute that I wanted to bite his puckered lips.

All babies are cute, but Lane was even more adorable because his eyes resembled mine.

There are differences depending on which God one serves, but what all priests have in common is the ‘spirit of service.’

Following Gods’ will and benefiting many people.

These are people who consider that to be the reason for their existence.

As the High Priest, Reihausd must also have this spirit embedded in his roots.

He’s been stuck watching Lane, but I hope that just today he can help people with peace of mind.

My heart still throbbed when he remembers how tired he looked, as if he was about to collapse at any moment.

He can get energized by helping people at the Temple of Hetuse, and take a look around the streets before returning.

Wouldn’t it be possible to regain his previous condition?

“Hehehe.”

A smile appeared on my face when I heard Lane giggling.

“Mom will play with you a lot today.”

Lane seemed to understand what I was saying and smiled brightly.