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20 – The Man Loved by the Goddess (8)

“I’m sorry. I was wrong.”

Now I’m faced with a slightly… No, quite absurd situation.

The saintess Alkena suddenly began to undress in front of my eyes.

What kind of situation is this? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t quite understand this situation.

“Um…”

I couldn’t help but be embarrassed by such an appearance.

Surely, until recently, she called me an evil pagan sorceress. It was so out of the blue for her to appear like this.

What is her purpose in doing this? No matter how much I thought about the reason, I couldn’t come to a reasonable conclusion.

“Is it a dream?”

Could this be a dream? If I actually lost in the battle between Alkena and me earlier, I thought that I was dreaming right now.

This was quite possible. As a woman who almost became a warrior party, she may think that her power is similar or that I am lacking. It didn’t make much sense.

So I was dreaming, and in that dream I thought that Alkena was apologizing to me.

“What is it?”

But it doesn’t seem like that either. I pinched my cheek once to see if it was a dream or not, but I still felt a familiar pain.

As long as you feel this kind of pain, of course this is definitely not a dream or anything like that.

The place I am now was an unmistakable reality, and what Arkena was doing was also an unmistakable reality.

‘Is this a strategy to catch me off guard?’

Then why the hell does the saintess do this to me? I thought again and came up with a second hypothesis.

The second hypothesis I came up with was that it might be all smoke now.

Now the saintess has taken an unexpected action to catch me off guard, and perhaps she intends to continue the battle? That thought crossed my mind for a moment.

‘No… No matter how I look at it, I don’t think that’s the case…’

But it didn’t seem like that either. Saint Alkena did not show any fighting will.

Far from fighting, she kept begging me for forgiveness. If you see something like this, you probably don’t want to fight anymore.

Also, no matter how common sense makes you want to win a battle, it would be abnormal to act like this.

‘Let’s ask first.’

In the end, in this situation, no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a good reason for her doing this, and after thinking about it for a while, I decided to ask her directly.

I asked her to slowly calm her bewildered mind.

“Why are you suddenly apologizing?”

“Goddess…”

“Yes…?”

“The goddess told me that Xerath did nothing wrong. I’m sorry. I’m sorry I tried to attack you innocent…”

“Hmm…”

After I asked her arcenna, she found out why she was apologizing like this now.

She said that the arcenna was her goddess, perhaps because she mediated the conflict between me and her arcenna.

So, in this situation, it seems that the goddess herself intervened and conveyed her truth to Arkenna.

‘It can’t be a lie.’

I have a slight doubt about the truth of her words, but the chances of her telling her lies are extremely low.

As someone who has actually met the goddess, she already knows how good and good the goddess is.

If it were her, there would be a possibility that she would intervene in this fight and clear up her misunderstanding. Her words were credible.

Moreover, Alkena looked like a saint no matter what. She wouldn’t be able to sell out the goddess she serves.

For a saint, she has a lot of radical thoughts, but I don’t think her nature is bad.

After putting all of this together, I couldn’t believe that she was lying.

So, I decided to trust her. It was better to believe.

Above all, since her apology was so sincere, it was only natural that I believed it.

“Forgive me. I misunderstood…”

“…”

Then now the next question was about the one I should forgive her for.

The saintess now prostrates herself in front of me and begs me to forgive her.

Looking at such a saint, I was a bit angry about trying to attack innocent people in the kingdom earlier.

No matter what anyone says, the things that just happened were the saintess herself’s fault.

“Whoa…”

If she did anything wrong, an innocent person could have been injured or even killed.

So shall we forgive her? I thought.

Her goddess has already decided to take my side, but I guess her choice of not being able to forgive her is now new.

“Please forgive me.”

But she also thinks it’s better to just forgive.

I wouldn’t have known if there had been casualties, but it was true that no one was injured, let alone dead.

Also, the goddess is probably hoping for reconciliation between me and her saintess. Perhaps from the goddess’ point of view, both me and her saints are precious.

If I didn’t forgive her, it might cause quite an awkward situation for her goddess.

In addition, this incident was nothing more than a misunderstanding.

The saintess was just trying to do things in her own way, but there was an unintentional misunderstanding.

It would be hard to completely blame her for this.

“Okay. I’ll forgive you.”

“Really…? hehehe…”

So she decided to just forgive me.

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Alkena sincerely apologizes to Xerath.

Arcenna spat out her words as she buried her head under Xerath’s feet.

It was her heart that somehow she wanted to be forgiven by him for the wrong she had done.

‘Sure… Will you forgive me?’

However, while she begged like that, she honestly thought that she was brazen about herself.

She

She said she was trying to kill Lars herself. She also tried to kill the kingdom’s citizens.

Will she be able to receive an apology for such a thing? Of course she couldn’t have been.

Would you forgive someone who tried to kill you?

She did it, and it was clear that she would never be forgiven.

Arkenna never expected that she would be forgiven.

[Alkena. She quickly goes and apologizes for being sorry.]

[By the way, if Xerath does not accept your apology, I will not accept you as a follower.]

[Do you know what that means? From now on, it means heresy.]

Then she remembered what the goddess had said to her.

If she does not receive an apology from Xerath, she will be cut from her position as a saint and will be banished from the Goddess Church.

Also, it was said that she would never see her goddess again or even offer her prayers.

“Huh…”

In an instant, sadness came to Alkena.

Al Kena had been a nun all her life serving her goddess.

In addition, when she was old, she was selected as a saint and lived for her goddess.

Her For her, her goddess was her everything and something she could never let go of.

What could she believe in without a goddess? To her, her faith was like her life.

‘I won’t forgive you…’

That’s why she couldn’t help but be desperate, but she couldn’t expect it.

If Xeras does not forgive herself, she herself will no longer be a saint.

I want to be forgiven, but I won’t be able to.

‘Huh…’

She herself said today was the day she lost everything.

Abandoned by her goddess, unable to find her own faith, she had to live with her deep, wailing guilt.

Her For her, this must be her greatest pain and punishment. Arkenna understood that and prepared to accept her.

“I’ll forgive you.”

But I heard something really unexpected.

It was Xerath’s words that he would forgive himself.

Hearing her words, Arkenna couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.

What the hell did she hear? Hearing those words, which she couldn’t believe, she had no choice but to ask again.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

She did. Upon hearing that answer, Arkenna couldn’t help but shed tears once more.

At the time when I thought I would give up everything now that I would never be given another chance, I was given another chance.

A man named Xerath forgave the saintess who tried to kill him.

At first, Xerath’s words did not resonate with me, and I wondered if he was really forgiven, but this was unmistakably true.

“Ahhh… Thank you..”

Thank you so much.

And I felt even more apologetic.

He knows that he can’t be forgiven for attacking and trying to kill such a person, but he was very grateful for his forgiveness.

“Thank you… Thank you very much. From now on, as the goddess said, I will give birth to five babies for Xerath.”

So this gratitude had to be repaid.

I had to pay for this guilt.

Arkena swore here. To repay him for them.