I Received The Holy Sword By Dawn Delivery (4 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 84

You don’t help the pitiful, nor comfort those in hardship.

Lucena, who had secretly hoped for a single warm word, murmured with a hollow smile.

“But there’s a saying: the one who never makes mistakes is the one who never dares try anything new.”

“Huh?”

“If you, Sister, are this world’s mistake, then it must mean the world is attempting something new. And that…”

The High Priest reached across to Lucena’s table, plucked a small sweetmeat, and held it up.

“…could be interpreted as the world’s resolve to overcome a tragic ending. Thus, Lucena Closet, having returned once more, is both the world’s past mistake and the sole variable capable of altering its predetermined future.”

At the High Priest’s calm murmur, Lucena’s lips parted and closed again without sound.

‘What kind of comfort is that?’

Ugh—she wanted to retort sarcastically, “Oh, thank you, how very kind of you,” but her voice caught in her throat.

Because calling herself a mistake and a variable somehow sounded like she was this world’s hope.

And because it felt like a quiet, gentle consolation offered by the High Priest, she couldn’t bring herself to speak.

“Judging by your expression, my words were rather moving. Do I now seem like a proper High Priest to you, Nain?”

“…No, you don’t.”

“Despite working day and night—even at my age—for the peace of this world, that’s rather disappointing.”

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