chapter 5
5 – Episode 5. Jill Diner (3)
“Newbie! What are you doing!”
“Ah. It’s okay. Because you saved me from falling into a pit.”
“Really? Who on earth would make a hole in a place like this?”
The people who came running in surprise breathed a sigh of relief.
It was around this time that the saintess smiled awkwardly and gave an explanation.
I was frozen in place for a long time.
‘Oh, it’s dirty? Smell like a commoner?’
Something is wrong.
Jill Diner is devoting herself to countless volunteer services for the poor.
A Jill like that would make a face in the face of the person who saved her and mutter something dirty?
This is a serious character breakdown.
Something is wrong.
Such a conclusion comes naturally.
The good news is that at the perfect moment, the saint’s face was hidden behind my back, so other people couldn’t see it.
“Oh wow. Newbie. Is there a crisis detection sensor?”
“hehehe. Thank you for saving me. What’s your name?”
“This is Eugene.”
“Thank you, Eugene. You almost got hurt. And if you tell anyone else, you’ll die.”
“······.”
Jill smiled gently, cupped my dirty hands, and whispered quietly in my ear.
In the meantime, Jill maintained the appearance of an extremely benevolent saint.
If I say here that Jill called me dirty, her face scrunched up and she threatened me, she would be immediately put in a mental hospital.
To that extent, the query image and the dialogue just before do not match.
‘This crazy system…’
It is obvious whose prank is.
This may also be a setting created due to system calibration.
While I was writing my own dialogue, there were times when I wondered if there was such a perfect superhuman in the world.
I thought the line was pretentious more than once.
In addition, all people around the saint, including her close associates and guard knights, who do not discriminate based on social status, are only nobles.
No matter how you look at it, it is a contradiction that leaves a hole in the probability, but none of the game users tackle this.
However, the corrections made in the process of porting the game to reality seem to only work if all probabilities are matched.
The lines and smile that seem somehow pretentious, and the suspicious fact that the only people around her are nobles can all be clearly explained by establishing that the saint is actually a hypocrite who is pretentious.
‘No, my heroine!!!’
It does not cause any particular conflict with the existing settings.
As stated in the setting book, the saint is said to ‘insist’ on the abolition of her caste system.
In fact, it is not contradictory even if you only claim in words and in your heart you add the setting of Alphano mindset, such as the abolition of social status.
That’s right. In order to attract the support of her commoners, Saint Jill Diner only superficially loved the commoners, but in reality, she disgusted them.
She was so f*cking bad.
She says that characters with flaws are more popular than perfect characters, but isn’t it okay to not have the flaw of being a hypocrite?
‘If I do this, doesn’t that mean I can’t even be an escort driver?’
If it is true that Jill hates commoners, the likelihood of me being selected as an escort is close to 0.
The main character in the game was also an adventurer, so he was looked down on, but he was also from a noble family.
In Jill’s opinion, the difference between the game protagonist and me is the same as the difference between a man who looks like a scruffy beggar and a monkey dressed in a neat suit.
It’s dark.
Since I knew Jill’s personality, tastes, and every little habit, I thought her strategy would be a piece of cake.
If this continues, even access to her will be blocked.
“I’ll leave now. Enjoy your meal, everyone.”
“Please take a look, saintess!”
Jill gets back on the carriage, receiving a 90-degree bow from the workers.
If it wasn’t a mistake, right before the door closed, he definitely smiled at me.
I guess it was a warning once again.
Forget what happened earlier.
If you speak out, I will kill you.
You may wonder what kind of power the saint has that allows her to kill people.
But considering the power of speech that a saint possesses, it is no wonder that she socially kills even a commoner.
“To achieve balance like this…”
My teeth are grinding apart.
It looks like targeting Jill Diner will be a long-term project.
There is a lot to prepare.
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“Haaa…”
The sound of a deep sigh fills the conference hall.
In the empty convention hall, Jill scratched her head as she looked through the pile of resumes.
“It means there’s something wrong with everything.”
The competition was held for a total of two days.
Actually, the competition was all about receiving a resume in advance, a short interview, and a swordsmanship demonstration.
Even though the screening time per person did not exceed 10 minutes, it took this long.
Approximately 200 people gathered.
The competition attracted so many people that some even came from other countries.
However, among them, there was no one that Jill liked.
“There was just one person. I had a feeling for someone.”
There was one person.
Ah, the person I think is this person.
A man who submitted his resume before anyone else and got the first interview opportunity.
As soon as Jill first saw the man, she failed to control her facial expression.
“Hello, saint. My name is Eugene.”
“Ah…”
Eugene.
It was the dirty worker who dared to grab her vagina with his dirty hands and make her face distort at a construction site a few days ago.
I almost didn’t recognize it.
Eugene appeared with her neat face and chain mail covering her entire body.
A wealthy-looking outfit, easy-going conversational skills, and excellent manners.
After asking several times, it seemed like the level of education was high.
This is a condition that is difficult to find even among nobles.
There was no need to make him draw his sword.
What a saint needs now is an escort with good visuals to help create her image, and she doesn’t even need top-level skills.
If your skills are so serious that you can’t ignore them, you can just train them yourself.
If there is a secret rank that has been passed down through generations in the family, it would not be unreasonable to make him a man worthy of a knight.
“I’m eliminated…”
But Jill had to grit her teeth and eliminate Eugene.
I can’t have that man close to me since he saw my private parts.
If anything happens, you have to destroy him by slandering him, but it is never a good thing to bury your own bodyguard socially.
“I understand. Goodbye, Saint.”
He left the competition without saying a word, without asking why he was eliminated or protesting.
Rather than trying to threaten me using my personal information, he didn’t even mention what happened back then.
As if there were no regrets at all.
It was such a clean surrender that I wondered if he was someone who had come to Hameln, where there was nothing, for four weeks and waited.
After he left, Jill faced countless applicants, but she couldn’t get Eugene out of her mind.
There were countless people who showed off better swordsmanship than Eugene.
There were also several nobles who were fine.
If it were originally, I might have chosen one of them as an escort.
But when I think of Eugene, who was eliminated in the first round on the first day…
“I’m eliminated.”
“You are eliminated.”
“Unfortunately, you are eliminated.”
None of them caught Jill’s eye.
If you choose an escort driver, he must be a man with better visuals than Eugene.
But how can you save a man like that in Hameln, where there is nothing?
I missed a terrible opportunity.
I was so surprised at that time that I couldn’t hide my expression…
“Even though I hate commoners, I don’t hate smart and polite commoners…”
I never knew that the dirty worker could be such a sane person.
He probably ended up giving that man a bad impression.
The man will live his whole life with his perception of his saintly woman solidified.
Because of my momentary mistake.
Jill covered his face with both hands and shuddered in shame.
“Saint. The cathedral has been completed. Would you like a consecration ceremony?”
“Please tell me I’ll be there soon…”
Even if you are upset, you have to do what you have to do.
Jill finally got her mind together and stood up.
You can find an escort driver later.
In the end, being an escort driver is just a facade.
Here in Hameln, guard soldiers are sufficient for escort.
“Are you here already? Please come inside. Everyone is waiting.”
“······?”
As soon as I arrived, the priest rushed over and hit me.
Everyone is waiting.
The consecration ceremony usually ended with the saint alone, sprinkling her holy water and infusing her magic into the foundation.
But since the cathedral was completed, did quite a number of people come to see the ceremony?
I don’t think I can finish this ceremony roughly.
Jill grumbled internally and walked down the wide hallway with her priest.
“It’s really dark inside?”
“Because the lights haven’t been installed yet.”
The place we arrived at after passing through the dark hallway was none other than the charnel house within the cathedral.
Judging by the people wearing hoods sitting together, it seems like they are planning to hold a ritual here.
Although she thought her choice of location was a bit odd, Jill stood in her center without any doubt and prepared for her consecration ceremony.
However, every time she glanced at the audience members who were sitting motionless, she felt an inexplicable eerie feeling.
“Priest. What is your name?”
“Yes? Why are you suddenly asking that?”
“I’m curious what kind of priest you are working under…”
At that time, a tall man in the audience stands up and heads to a corner.
Then he opened the lid of the coffin on the floor, revealing the inside of the coffin, which could barely fit one person.
No one looks strange even after seeing that gruesome act.
Jill was not naive enough to not even realize what was going on in this situation.
“This. You’re quite perceptive.”
“······.”
Suddenly, the audience stands up, takes out daggers hidden in their arms, and reveals their true colors.
This is also an assassination attempt by opponents of the saint.
I knew long ago that there was a force that denied quality, saying that a living saint could not exist.
But I didn’t know she would try to get rid of it herself like this.
“If you believe in God, you would know that this is not right.”
“······.”
Jill flinched and stepped back in surprise, but her escape route was already blocked.
All the soldiers brought as escorts are waiting outside.
If you scream for help, you will die.
If you stay still, you die.
In this situation with no answer, the only outcome is death no matter what.
“Ask your heart. Are you really doing the right thing?”
“······.”
They keep asking questions that are obvious to not get an answer.
I do know that there is no way they will be stopped by such naive persuasion.
I’m just trying my best to buy time.
Because Jill is still somewhere inside her, waiting for her hero to come along and save her.
“Ugh.”
The tall man who opened the coffin lid strides forward and grabs Jill’s wrist.
Ah. You’re dying.
I am entering that coffin.
It was around the time when my mind became paralyzed with such thoughts.
For some reason, I felt that the rough grip on her wrist seemed familiar.
“Saint. We need your cooperation.”
“What…?”
The man lifted her hood and revealed her face.
The face revealed from inside looked very familiar.
The face that had tormented Jill ever since the moment she saw it yesterday, she couldn’t get it out of her head.
It was Eugene.
“What is that guy? Why is he acting like that all of a sudden?”
“Listen carefully, Saint. From now on, you must trust me completely. And you must rely on me. Only then can you survive. Do you understand?”
“Hey! That guy isn’t on our side!”
Thump.
The assassins quickly sensed something was wrong and rushed to Eugene from the ground.
Even as daggers came pouring in from all directions, Eugene’s eyes remained unwavering and firm.
Jill met those eyes and held Eugene’s hand.
When it comes out like this, I have no choice but to believe it.
Although his arms are extremely unreliable and unreliable, I have no choice but to rely on him.
Now he was the guardian knight of Jill.
Quang!
“What, what?!”
“Suddenly disappeared!”
The assassins’ daggers split the air.
Jill felt dizzy and held her head because her vision had suddenly changed.
And right after that.
Jill realized that Eugene was holding her and taking a step back.
It literally happened in the blink of an eye.
“Eujin…?”
His condition is strange.
He only looked fine, but I thought he was a weakling who could barely hold a one-handed sword.
He was now lightly supporting his vagina with his bulging muscles that seemed ready to explode.
The spirit that Eugene was giving off right now was clearly not his usual spirit.
At that time, Eugene also sensed changes in his body and thought.
[The characteristic ‘Guardian Knight’ is activated.]
[Stats]
[Strength: 9(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]
[Stamina: 7(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]
[Magic power: 12(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]
[Agility: 18(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]
[Luck: 14(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]
This is a cheat-level fraud characteristic.