My childhood friend the hero was genuinely angry

15 – The Man Loved by the Goddess (3)

Instead of Damon coming into the room and asking what happened earlier.

I hurriedly changed the subject.

“hahahaha… Nothing. So what happened?”

The important thing now is why Damon came to see me.

I asked Damon about the reason, and I heard some surprising news from him.

“Yes. That’s why a guest came to see the Prime Minister.”

“Yes? A guest? Who is that?”

“This is the saintess. The saintess has come to see the Prime Minister.”

The news was quite unexpected that the goddess cult saintess, Alkena, came to visit me.

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Goddess Religion is the state religion of the empire, the strongest country on the continent, and many other kingdoms also use it as their state religion.

Even if a country does not adopt the Goddess religion as its state religion, many commoners and nobles personally follow the Goddess religion, and those who believe in the Goddess religion account for the overwhelming majority on the continent.

Of course, there may be people who do not believe in the Goddess Church, but in this situation where it is only a minority, in this continent, the Goddess Church is a religion of a position that can never be ignored.

So I couldn’t choose the option of not meeting the saintess.

A person in the position of a saint was an existence that even the aristocrats and imperial families of the empire could not treat lightly, and the chancellor of a country was not in a position to refuse her request to meet her face-to-face.

That’s why I was on my way to the plaza of her kingdom where she is now, as requested by her saintess.

“…But why are you calling me?”

However, along the way, I couldn’t help but have a lot of questions.

The saintess who suddenly came to our kingdom to meet me, I had no idea why the saintess came to visit me.

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t think of a reason for the saintess to visit me. I couldn’t come up with a reason for a person the size of a saint to visit the chancellor of a small kingdom.

‘Is there something wrong with me, the wizard of the warriors’ party? I don’t think that’s the case either…’

That’s why I thought of myself not as the chancellor of the kingdom, but as the wizard of the exiled warriors’ party, and she thought about the reason the saintess would come, but she also had a hard time coming up with the right answer.

The saintess I know had absolutely no reason to visit me for any reason.

“Prime Minister, do you know the saintess? I hope you know her name…”

As I was thinking about the saintess, Damon, who was next to her, asked me.

I know the name of the saintess, originally most of the people did not even know her name.

In many ways, the existence of a woman called Saint is shrouded in a veil, so it seems strange that I know her name.

Damon wondered if he knew anything about the saintess and what kind of woman she was.

“… It’s not like I don’t know, but… I don’t know in detail either. If I had to insist, I’d say they were acquaintances of acquaintances.

I gave a sorry but ambiguous answer to Damon.

I know, but I don’t know. I had no choice but to give him this really vague answer.

Because I and the saintess have never met in person.

I just found out when I joined the warrior party.

In fact, the seat I occupied in the warrior party was originally the seat of a saintess.

‘Didn’t Chloe originally say she was going to recruit Arkena instead of me?’

In fact, no matter how mysterious her saintess is, if she is a hero, she will be able to meet her.

A warrior party with a just cause of defeating the demon king and preserving peace on the continent, the Goddess Church would never allow such a warrior party to meet a saintess.

So, in the past, Chloe met her saintess and tried to recruit her into her party. When she becomes a saint, of course she is certain that she is a competent person.

‘But did you say that the recruitment was canceled because of me…?’

But Chloe suddenly canceled her recruitment. And she says that instead of the saint, she hastily changed her direction by recruiting me.

I don’t know why she put me in instead of a saint, but maybe she gave me preferential treatment because she was a childhood friend? Want.

This is roughly the end of my relationship with the saintess. It just felt like the saintess would have been at the party if it wasn’t for me.

But for some reason, the saintess said she was coming to see me.

In this situation, it was true that I had no choice but to worry about why they came to me.

Because the saintess and I will have no choice but to meet and have nothing to do with each other.

Why is the saintess really trying to find me?

‘Are you… Trying to retaliate against me?’

As I was thinking about it, I had an idea.

Is she trying to get revenge on me for taking her place? It was a momentary thought, but it passed.

But that’s never going to happen. No matter how you think about it, it doesn’t seem like it at all.

I’ve already left the warriors’ party, and she can join the warriors’ party if she puts her mind to it.

So, you won’t come to me for such trivial things.

‘Well, if I go, he will answer me.’

In the end, the question mark was the starting point, but I was able to reach almost all the way to where the saintess is now.

Now, you should meet the saintess and hear from her. I decided not to think too hard.

So I went to the plaza of her kingdom where her saintess was waiting. And finally I met her.

“Hello, Holy Lady. My name is Xerath. I am currently in charge of the Chancellor of Alprada Kingdom.”

When I arrived at the plaza, I saw a silent prayer with eyes closed.

A pretty beauty with silver hair and light red eyes, cold looking but benevolent on the other hand, that woman is probably the Saint Alkena.

I greeted her politely.

“…You must be Xerath.”

The saintess looked at me, and she greeted her too.

And after that, she kept an eye on me.

“I hear you’ve been looking for me. For what reason?”

“…”

After greeting each other, I asked the saintess who was looking at me about my business.

As for why the hell you came to find me…

When I asked that question, I heard something really unexpected there.

“Sin.”

“…?”

“I have come to judge you for blaspheming the goddess.”

Suddenly, what the hell is this all about? Did I blaspheme the goddess?

I don’t know why, but the saintess had hostility towards me and started glaring at me fiercely.

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A saintess of the continent, she was a person in a very important position as a representative of the goddess, and such a saintess was not to be recklessly moved.

If someone acting as a representative of the Goddess moves carelessly, it would surely lower the dignity of the Goddess. That is why the saint usually spends her time praying in church all the time.

However, even she did not unconditionally stop moving. In situations where she has no choice but to move, she moves.

And that situation was bound to be a very serious one.

She only works in very critical situations, such as someone blaspheming the goddess.

“A few days ago, a star fell from the sky. You dare… Do something like that without the goddess’ permission… I really can’t forgive you.”

Zerath of the warrior party in front of her, he was a sinner who had blasphemed God.

A wizard named Xerath who dared to drop a star from the sky without the permission of the goddess was never something to be taken lightly.

Touching the stars is something only a goddess can do, and she was something only she, her surrogate, could do.

However, it was absolutely unforgivable for a mere human wizard to touch the stars in the sky.

“From now on, I will regard you as an evil pagan sorceress who blasphemes the goddess.”

So this sin deserved to be judged. The saintess, the representative of the goddess, had to judge Xerath, the evil wizard who insulted him.

The evil pagan wizard who dared to drop the stars from the sky could never be forgiven, even if he had been a member of the warrior party before.

Now, no matter what the reason, he was just a fool who blasphemed God.

Because of this, the saintess was about to judge him.

“What…? What’s going on?”

While the saintess’ inquisition was taking place, people began to gather.

Apparently, this place where the saintess and the minister of her kingdom were together was a place that could not be passed lightly, so people gathered.

People began to gather and fill the streets. The situation seemed a little confused, but the saintess thought it was just fine.

“Listen, everyone. He is an evil sorcerer.”

The saintess told the truth to the people of the kingdom.

People deceived by an evil pagan sorcerer had a right to know the truth.

That’s why I had to tell you about an ugly pagan mage named Xerath.

“That’s why, as a saint, I will judge the author. But before that, those who have been used by that evil wizard must have the right to judge.”

And I think they should also have a chance.

The poor inhabitants of the kingdom who were tricked by the evil wizard, they had to give themselves a chance to punish the evil pagan wizard.

“Pick up the stones that have fallen on the floor. And pass judgment on that evil sorcerer.”

The saintess shouted while looking at the people of the kingdom.

Go ahead, pick up a stone and throw it at that evil wizard right away.

Go ahead, put your hatred on it and throw it at that blasphemous wizard.

“… I see… That’s how it turned out. They were trying to trick us.”

“I guess I should throw it.”

“Yeah… To trick us, I guess I’ll throw this right.”

The inhabitants of the kingdom heard the saintess’ words…

They listened to the saintess’s words and remained silent for a while.

And then everyone started picking up stones.

“I can’t forgive you for hearing that…”

Certainly, as the saintess said, this was absolutely unforgivable.

You dare to deceive them.

This deserves a stone throw.

You and I were holding handfuls of stones. The people of the kingdom grabbed the stones and threw them with anger.

Puck…!

And it hit.

“Aww…! Why are you throwing it at me?”

However, the countless stones they threw did not reach Xerath. Rather, all those stones were flying toward the saintess all at once.

At first, the saintess thought they had just made a mistake, but the situation was too strange for her to think it was just a mistake.

“Throw it to the wizard over there. Throw it to the evil wizard.”

What the hell is this situation? Why are you throwing stones at yourself?

The saintess began to keep an eye on her situation while deploying her protection magic, and only then did she realize.

“Don’t f*ck with me, you witch b*tch.”

“What kind of evil wizard is our Prime Minister. Do you want to die?”

“How dare you curse the prime minister of our kingdom? You are not a saint, but a witch.”

The residents of the kingdom were not angry with Xerath, but with the saintess.

It was a situation where they were throwing stones at themselves, saying that they dared to frame their Prime Minister.

“What the hell are you guys doing? That’s an evil wizard. You want to follow an evil wizard?”

What kind of absurd situation is this?

The saintess had no choice but to persuade the inhabitants of the kingdom once again.

It wasn’t him who was doing the wrong thing, it was that wizard.

I told the people of the kingdom that we should immediately stop this foolish behavior and learn the truth.

She must throw stones at the evil sorcerer, not at herself, she cried out once more.

“He brings rain to a kingdom that was in a drought, and gets rid of the dreaded Masusan. What kind of evil wizard is such a good person?”

“The prime minister always thinks of us and protects us. How can we throw stones at such a prime minister?”

“We will follow the Prime Minister even if he is not an evil wizard but a demon king.”

But even so, the stones of the people of the kingdom never touched Xerath.

They continued to throw stones at the saintess.

“What…!? What is this situation…?”

What the heck is it really? No matter how much I say it, I am not persuaded.

Seeing this situation for the first time for the saintess, she couldn’t help but be perplexed.

She’s a saint, she’s stoned herself… Something’s wrong with this.