I’m Not Coming Back to Earth With a Girl Like You

36 – #036 What are you thinking?

I headed to the center of the church following Captain Raella pulling the chains on the handcuffs.

“This is it. Then.”

Raella brought me to a flower-filled garden and opened the glass garden entrance at the back of the garden.

The flower garden, where the interior cannot be seen through the divine barrier, was a very familiar place to me.

And inside, as always, she was waiting for me, dressed in a modest saintly dress.

Fluffy blonde hair.

Eyes that seem to contain the clear sea.

Eyes that look cold but bend like half moons when looking at me.

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

If there is one peculiar thing.

Excluding the eyes, she slightly resembles Chae Yu-ri.

There were times when that bothered me a bit, but now I’ve reached the stage where I don’t care about that at all.

“It’s been a while, Mr. Undertaker.”

“I don’t think it’s been that long, but I knew it because I was far away.”

After closing the door, I walked over to her and got down on one knee.

“I missed you, saintess.”

“Don’t do this. You can’t let the warrior kneel down like that to me.”

“In this world, did a knight say it was polite to do this to a lady?”

“Really…Then you know how to do it like this, right?”

The saintess held out her left hand to me, and I immediately kissed the back of her left hand.

Doesn’t make a sound.

Fearing that he would stain her hands with saliva, he deliberately left a light kiss so that only his dry lips touched the back of her hand.

“Saint.”

I pulled out a white ring from my bosom.

It was the ring that other warriors and witches so longed for.

“Please come with me.”

“…Yes.”

The saintess nodded her head to me with a smile full of anticipation, and I carefully put the ring on the ring finger of her left hand.

“…….”

“…….”

No response.

Just in case, I also wore my share of the ring, but no reaction occurred.

“…Wait a minute.”

I tried putting my black ring on her saintess’s finger, and also tried putting the two rings on different hands.

I even mobilized my right hand.

I tried ‘again’ every conceivable number of cases until I was about to lose my mind, but to the dismay of the goddess, there was no response.

“Tsk. She’s like an incompetent goddess.”

“Oh my. To curse the goddess in front of the saintess of the goddess. It’s blasphemy.”

“What punishment will you give me?”

“This is such a punishment.”

The saintess held my head with both of her hands, pulled her face, and buried me in her chest.

“To blaspheme the goddess, it must be because the undertaker did not receive enough blessings from the goddess. I will bless the undertaker instead. Blessings of praise and encouragement.”

“…….”

The saintess patted my back with her hand, and stroked my hair with her other hand.

“You worked hard. And thank you so much. It wouldn’t have been easy to make a decision, but you worked hard because of me.”

“I can’t go back alone.”

I raised her head and met her gaze with the saintess.

“I want to go back with the saintess, and the saintess responded to my words. But how can I leave her saintess and go back to Earth with other ungodly women?”

“Every time you say that, I’m very grateful and happy. Can you feel it? My heart is beating faster and faster than when I heard the words of the Goddess. Really… I feel like my heart is on fire.”

“You shouldn’t say that. You’ll see it burn for real soon.”

“Whoops.”

After the saintess stroked my face again, she held me to her chest again and hugged me.

“Really… He’s someone I want to have by my side for the rest of my life.”

“Me too, saintess. But…How long are you going to keep doing this?”

“Continue.”

“…That I don’t like.”

I freed herself from the restraints of her saintess, lifted her body slightly, and held her saintess in my arms.

“I want to do this, so please understand.”

“…I like earlier.”

“Since the saintess embraced me first, it is my turn to embrace the saintess.”

I patted her saintess on the back with her face buried in my neck.

“Thank you for your hard work. Thanks to the saintess somehow tying up and subduing those witches and telling her the truth, I was able to ‘handle’ them safely.”

Lian Hwang.

Sena Min.

Now that the two that seemed to be the most difficult were processed the fastest, the only thing left is the red wizard and the hikikomori who disappeared to nowhere.

“The church is doing their best to find out where they are. As soon as we know where they are, we will inform the undertaker.”

“Thank you, saintess.”

“But.”

The saintess gripped the hem of my clothes with her hand.

“…A little bit, even if you’re busy, can you be greedy like this?”

“Of course. I don’t even know where the two of them are right now, so there’s something I need to do here right now.”

Dang, dang, dang.

The bell rings.

The saintess pouted the corner of her mouth as the bell rang to signal that it was time.

“…Of course.”

“Let’s go, saintess. It’s not too late to play with fire last night after the sun goes down and the moon rises.”

“Wasn’t he leaving right away? After the ‘burning ceremony’?”

“Sure.”

I stroked the head of her saintess who was looking up at me with her rabbit-like surprised eyes.

“Honestly, if it was a damn thing to leave a day late, I think it would be a damn thing to do anyway.”

“…Then.”

The saintess put her body on top of me with a light smile.

“As soon as the proof ceremony is over, will you join me right away?”

“Are you proof of me?”

“Yes. During the night… The world will believe it if I say that the saintess purified her Undertaker while watching from her side.”

“Doesn’t that make you believe?”

“Taek.”

The saintess lightly placed her fist on my belly.

“Believe comes from the heart, so how dare you force it? If the warrior tells you to believe in the goddess, will you believe it unconditionally?”

“Isn’t that what the saintess is saying?”

“It’s all right. If all goes well, I won’t be of this world anymore.”

The saintess raised my left hand and lightly kissed her ring finger.

“… She will be the woman of the hero, not the saint of the goddess.”

* * *

After a while.

In front of the Vatican, a long steel pillar was erected at the altar in the middle of the plaza, where at least tens of thousands, no, if you add a bit of exaggeration, close to 100,000 could gather.

“What is it, the burning ceremony? Who else betrayed humanity and sided with the Demon King’s Army?”

“Hush! Lower your voice. It’s a very dangerous situation right now.”

“What a dangerous situation… Huh, that’s…!”

“Commander Trollian…?”

And the person entwined with a rope around the steel pillar is none other than the hero known as Trollian, Hwang Lian.

Except for one piece of clothing that was almost like a pile, Huang Lian’s head, neck, and torso were all fixed with ropes to a steel pole.

“No, why is the hero…?”

“Burning a warrior? Are you insane?”

Dung, Dung, Dung.

With the sound of drums, priests dressed as Heretic Questioners climbed the altar.

“Listen to all who live on this continent! I won’t talk too much!”

The representative of the Heretic Questioner, the leader of the Knights Raella, shouted at everyone with a torch in his throat.

“This is Hwang Lian! As you all know, our hero came from the other world at the will of the goddess! However, after the demon king wiped out the last ‘raid’, she betrayed humanity and sided with the demon king. Stand up!”

The square began to be colored with astonishment and fear.

“Could it be that the rumors were true?!”

“Crazy. Then the Undertaker is a traitor…”

“Shh. I don’t know yet. Let’s see.”

Those who are confused, those who do not believe, and those who are calm all just observe the situation.

“Ah, listen! We succeeded in capturing Trollian! And she insisted to the end that she did not conceive the devil’s seed! She said she was not a witch!”

The devil’s seed.

Witch.

Since it is a symbol of fear that is already widely known to the world, no one dared to open their mouth.

“We will start the ‘verification’ from now on! In our traditional way! To purify the heresy by burning it, and to cleanse the evil energy! We will purify the witch with fire!!”

Before people could say anything, the priests began stacking bales of anointed straw firmly under the pillars.

The movements were so systematic and rapid that no one could say ‘this is strange’.

“In the name of the goddess!”

Because before I could even speak, the fire was already lit.

Hurry up.

The flames quickly caught on to the straw and started to burn, and the priests brought more straw and threw them into the flames.

“Kyaaa!!”

Watching humans burn is always a terrible and painful thing.

Women’s screams resonated, and people prayed with their hands together in a situation where humans were burned, earnestly hoping that unclean things would not spread.

“This is something strange! The hero is a witch! The hero is…Wow?!”

Someone pointed a finger at the altar and shouted, but he was soon overpowered by nearby priests.

“You defend witches! Are you also a remnant of the demon king’s army?!”

“That can’t be! I’m not the remnant of the Demon King’s Army!”

“Then what’s wrong with this ‘Witch Execution Ceremony’?!”

“That, that’s…!”

Avoiding the eyes of the evil priests, I lowered my head slightly to the side, and all the priests were holding thick maces in their hands.

“I, what I say is strange…That, that’s it!!”

The man pointed to the top of the altar.

“My body is on fire, but I’m not screaming!!”

At the man’s words, everyone began to pay close attention to the warrior in the altar.

And they saw.

“The body…”

“It doesn’t burn…?”

“Wait a minute, that’s a hero, so it’s only natural… Huh?!”

The questioning voices are silenced by the priests.

“Ser, no way…!!”

As if in a play, someone screaming.

“Isn’t it because she’s a witch that she can’t burn?!!?”

Under the name of the goddess, the witch trial began to cover up the truth.