chapter 23
6-4. There is a one letter difference between misunderstanding and understanding.
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According to Chartines, the first place he met Nex was in a socialite’s courtyard a few years ago.
“It’s boring. Even if it’s for the Church of Light…”
At the recommendation of Cardinal Beatrice, she attended a banquet where nobles gathered, and it is said that she left the seat beforehand because she did not fit her atmosphere.
“No one treats me for being a vampire. There is only Meow here.”
“Meow.”
Petting her stray cat, who had come to her side before she knew it, she fell into her gloomy mood.
‘This is the new saintess chosen from the Church of Light!’
She
She said that she said hello to those around her, and all that came back was contempt or strange eyes, and she wanted to cry.
A person after the 1st saintess is a vampire. There were nobles who whispered that it was blasphemy.
“It’s unfair. I didn’t do anything…”
While she was sharing her story with her cat as her companion.
With a female scream.
“This spirit can’t use it!”
─ Clink.
As fate would have it, there was a sound of glass breaking.
Because of that, the cream-colored cat jumped out of Chartines’ arms.
“Meyaaaong!!”
“Aww! Meow-san, don’t run away!”
At the sound of a glass thrown by someone, the startled cat ran after it. A long nun’s robe that made it difficult to move.
“Ouch!”
In her haste to run, she tripped over a rock and fell. A hot sensation rose on her face.
“uuu…”
“What’s going on here? Female.”
I looked up at the sky without thinking.
There was a man with purple hair wearing a phoenix badge.
“..Nex Aureus Count?”
One of the ten girls. It was Nex, son of Asha Aureus.
The descendant of a legendary figure in the spirit realm called the Living Sun. He’s here. I heard he attended a social event, and it was real.
Took. A sound rang through the grass.
“Hey, wipe your nosebleed.”
“Ah, thank you.”
Once he had fallen on the floor, he noticed that his nose was bleeding and handed him his handkerchief.
At this time, Chartines thought a little that the man was different from the rumors.
“Meow.”
“You seem to have attached even the most troublesome things.”
Seeing him healing the cat by gently stroking it, he felt something strange.
“This kind of person is the 2nd generation of saints, even the cardinal is crazy.”
“…”
A strong smell of alcohol came from the man who used a harsh tone.
‘He looks more sad than someone in a bad mood.’
When Nex, who had a grim expression on his face, rebuked him in contradiction, she saw through his true feelings. She had a little idea that bad people couldn’t heal animals.
“Why don’t you get angry. Vampire.”
“..Because it’s true. That I am not welcomed by others.”
“So, why are you out in the garden like this?”
“Right.”
When Nex heard that, she just touched her forehead and smiled. Maybe she got the feeling that she was different from the ladies of the social club.
“..I look like garbage to you too.”
“Yes? Why?”
“I’m asking because I feel like a vampire. Female.”
An attitude that seems to deliberately push people away.
The man with purple hair contorted his face again, donning a frightening mask.
“I don’t know.”
“Huh, then why don’t you leave?”
“Because he looks like someone who lies and says bad things.”
“..Because I’m dumbfounded.”
She felt something different about her, having heard countless of her noble ladies’ daggers until just now. Intuition that this is a lie.
“I am called the family’s illegitimate son? Do you think of me as pathetic?”
“Yes..? Isn’t it?”
“…”
She looked at her red eyes, the purple ones staring at each other for a few seconds, then her nex opened her mouth.
“It’s true when you read the expression. You really are a saint.”
“..What are you doing?”
“Um.”
He suddenly calmed down after hearing Chartines’ answer. It was as if he had woken up from a tingling intoxication all at once, and he was shocked. Nex’s eyes were untied with brilliance.
“..Saint, do you accept confession?”
“Yes? Mmm. He healed the cat too. Maybe?”
‘I heard that this person, as the cardinal said, is an idiot who shouldn’t be involved.’
Nex has been asking her for her advice in her calming voice. She honestly wanted to refuse her like a chimney, but she looked like someone who had collapsed somewhere and was stepped on in her eyes.
The man started talking, stroking her purple hair with one hand.
“This is the 23rd time that I have already been asked to marry. Throwing her glass at her end because she can’t get her own way.”
“Ah.. So..”
“My name is the eldest son of a duchy, but everyone stayed quiet as if they knew nothing would happen even if they touched me.”
The man sighed and smiled slightly, twisting to see if there was any tingling sensation left.
“Young Ae’s side is also a powerful family, but don’t you think this is wrong? Saintess.”
“I see. Are there only bad people gathered at this social gathering?”
“That might be right. I mean, I am.”
She saw a small scar on Nex’s cheek. She was struck by shards of glass and appeared to be scratched.
‘..What?’
Is this what caused the commotion earlier? No matter how much you throw a glass at your 10-year-old son, nothing will happen.
“Do you not heal?”
“If you do or don’t do it, it’s okay. Rather, this way is better.”
It was as if she were seeing herself as a vampire saint, and she felt sorry for her.
“Reading her face, several said, ‘Looks good! You bastard!”
“That sounds like self-consciousness..”
“You are too naive. Saint Mary.”
Her purple eyes curved like crescent moons.
A face that looks like a fox. Perhaps she was crying a little, she noticed that her eyes were red.
“This world is full of cheaters and cheaters. Stupid guys. I’m not at the venue by now, so you’ll be at ease, right?”
A man with his arms wide open as if feeling relieved, shouting loudly.
“Ah, even if you touch that guy, the family won’t take care of it! It’s because the spirits don’t even come out!”
“I don’t think so…”
She was pure in the idea that this person named Nex was like a person who lied because she didn’t want to look weak.
She doesn’t want to get hurt, so she’s more like an animal that bites as soon as she touches her.
“Then what do you think? Second generation saintess.”
“.. I think she is like a cute fox.”
“What..?”
At that time, Chartines looked up at his face.
“..Doesn’t it look like a monster?”
“Yes. He was just a little handsome.”
“Um, um.. Is it real? Aren’t you lying?”
Purple and red eyes that don’t look at each other strangely. Nex’s expression was stained with wonder.
“Then am I a monster too? I am a vampire.”
“..It won’t be. Maybe.”
“I’m glad you knew. Count.”
She placed her hand on his cheek and healed her, and her glass shards healed.
“People are not all about appearances.”
“Oh, what? Saint.. Why?”
At that time, Nex’s face looked a little red, probably because he was drunk.
“A handsome face becomes ugly.”
“…”
Borrowing his words later, it was the first time someone spoke purely of himself and not of spirits.
And from that day on, Nex’s love offensive began as if people had changed in the opposite way.
A fresh charge as if you were in love for the first time. Rather, she says the part was to her liking.
“Count Aureus..?”
“I came to pray at dawn. Saintess. It’s been a while.”
“It’s still three hours before the church opens.”
“..That can’t be.”
She looked cute because she looked like someone who had no female preferences at all.
“That, St. Chartines. This is a donation from the Aureus family to the Church of Light.”
“Thank you. Count Aureus.”
“Do you have free time in the evening? Second generation saintess.”
“It’s not empty.”
“Uh… Ah, I’m sorry. Then I’m done.”
She often saw a man with purple hair who came to pray every day with a small donation.
“Why are you volunteering all of a sudden?”
“Ah.. Um! The family was punished, and the church was being cleaned. Never mind. Saintess.”
“Anyway, I don’t think it’s something nobles should do…”
“That… That’s not true. The saintess might not know.”
A few days later, she found her Nex removing self-deprecating graffiti and signs near the church where she works.
It doesn’t look like she’s been punished at all, seeing as there are traces of magic on her back and hands hidden behind her back.
“Can I move here, saintess?”
“Wow!! You can’t eat an organ that moves with her divine power like that!!”
“Oh, sorry. Saintess.”
The awkward relationship lasted for several months. She pushed him away and tried not to pay attention to her, but her person seemed nice, so she opened up more and more.
“Look at this! Saintess! It’s a spirit!”
“Oh, Count Aureus. Congratulations!”
“..Can you stop talking honorifics to me, saintess?”
“What if you don’t too?”
Perhaps thanks to his ardent courtship, it is said that his spirit awakened soon after.
“Tits!”
A purple phoenix, like a sparrow.
***
“So…. You are saying that we are currently in a relationship.”
“Nex liked me very much, so it happened. Junior.”
A soft smile appeared on Chartines’ lips as she said that.
Just thinking about each other seems like a good thing.
‘Nex was definitely a different person here. After all, it must be because of this saint named Shar.’
He’s a bad guy to other people, but he’s infinitely softer to me. Is there anyone who doesn’t get hit by this difference, and that’s a lover who can understand similar wounds?
‘The case is similar to mine.’
Knowing how he felt, he nodded slightly.
I remembered the expression of the gray-haired wolf that seemed cold to me. Your smile was cute
The figure of her who stood firm even in the position of a saint. She must have heard bad things about her because she has animal ears.
In an instant, I felt my heart become heavy.
“Licht Junior. So why did you ask this?”
“I just look envious.”
I smiled at the nostalgic feeling.
Hasn’t it been five years since I haven’t seen it yet, how can I find it and protect it? There must be some vicious routes here as well. I’d like to help if possible.
“..What?”
Then Mardol looked at me.
“This is a tickling feeling in the chest. A love story.”
I quickly thought of an excuse in my head and spit it out. No matter what, I couldn’t give the flag to the crown prince any more.
“I, I don’t know.”
Why, what. You didn’t think look elsewhere
Only at times like this is the reaction sharp.
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Does he have a good eye or a good sense? How can I feel that my heart is being penetrated even though I am wearing a helmet? I turned my head to express indifference.
“Whoops. You look good. Two.”
“Wrong.. Ah..”
“Lies, Licht.”
Even though I bit my teeth and said it, the dark-haired nun didn’t stop laughing at me.
As expected, this person is difficult to deal with, similar to Nex. I never thought I would feel the saying that if you love, you resemble a game. It was a little bit strange.
She laughed between Mardol and me, then suddenly looked at the clock tower and said to us.
“..Oh, the time is already like this. I’m sorry for holding you back. Junior.”
“Thank you for telling me a good story today.”
“Be careful, go.”
Because it was getting too dark, Sartines stood up.
Me and the glass knight greeted her and sent her away,
“Licht juniors!! Get along well with our Mardol!”
The second-generation saintess gave me an unreasonable burden until she disappeared.
The reason for this was that this, overflowing with pink waves, jumped out in front of her eyes.
Now, the status window even has a sticker attached to it.
[You found the hidden love line!! Congratulations!ヾ(> ᵕ < 。]
After all, this is not real-time synchronization. It didn’t even come out before I found it, and I recognized it when Kainel and Ariel.
[As expected, a single-minded player with the nickname ‘Pure Love Black Knight’! Lee Soo-hyun!]
[You are preoccupied with the route of the nameless saint!]
[If you couldn’t find this, you wouldn’t have seen the Grand Route… Thank God. (ᴗ_ᴗ]
Creator of the Black Heart. Are you a human Where else did you hide our precious blue rose?
[Chartines♡Nex 55%]
I really can’t sell this useless status window anywhere.
My head hurt. I’m afraid it’s not a game company obsessed with easter eggs, so I’m going to have a trap like this.
This is why I want to find the saintess and make her happy. This game world is too hard and harsh.
“A purple fox… And a vampire saint.”
We need to protect these people too.
I spoke briefly to myself. I know a few routes to Nex. The variable is on the side of Chartines.
Because he is the first person he sees, he doesn’t know how to attack. Maybe something big is going to happen soon.
“Yes. That’s right.”
Ignore the glass knight who answers me for a while.
I can’t be with you if I want to take the route of our saintess. Go away.