“I do feel like a ball is bouncing inside my body.”

“That’s strange.”

At my grandmother’s words, I blushed.

‘Could it be related to the ‘reincarnation penalty’ I have?’

However, I shook my head inwardly.

The ‘reincarnation penalty’ that the deity told me had nothing to do with magic. It only hindered me when I tried to actively use the knowledge of this world.

“I’ve never seen a case like this before.”

Leonhardt quietly added from the side.

“Take off the fairy necklace, genius. It might be because of that.”

But my grandmother cut him off with a sharp retort.

“No. It’s not because of that fairy necklace.”

“Ah……”

I tried to say something, but paused.

‘There’s something wrong with my body for an unknown reason. Moreover, my magic capacity is at its lowest.’

Mountain after mountain, as the saying goes. There’s only one month left until the villain who will kill me and my father arrives!

Even if I steal the protagonists’ artifacts, it would still be a problem.

Because to utilize artifacts of intermediate level or above, magic might be needed.

I looked at the Duchess despondently and was about to nod in agreement with her words. But my heart was too sad to know if I had nodded properly.

My face, which had become gloomy in an instant, made the Duchess’s face sink as well.

“Are you disappointed?”

“No……”

Ah, it was an obviously disappointed answer.

Grandmother looked at me and thought for a moment.

“Um……”

“Is there another…… way I can become as strong as you?”

“Yes. Well, not being able to handle magic means, in a way, cough, you’re a special child. Don’t be discouraged. I was also once like you……”

I was also once like you, I became curious about what the next sentence would be.

I looked at my grandmother, waiting for her next words. However, the answer I had been waiting for didn’t come, and instead, Leonhardt, who was standing next to me, continued the conversation.

“A special child……. As expected……. ”

Ignoring Leonhardt, who kept looking at me with a melancholy gaze, I looked at my grandmother with sparkling eyes again.

But it seemed like my grandmother had no intention of continuing what she said before.

“Well, anyway, Cien. I guess I need to teach you in a different way.”

“……A special way?”

In response to Leonhardt’s question, my grandmother nodded.

“I’ll have to wait a bit more and think of a way to groom you properly. With your clever brain, you’d be good as a bureaucrat.”

I shook my head vehemently in my mind.

Bureaucrats are weak.

Just sitting down and thinking might get me killed by Axel in one blow.

‘I can’t be a bureaucrat, and I don’t have time to wait until I gain power!’

I clenched my fist and looked at my grandmother.

My grandmother was slightly taken aback and asked,

“Why are you opening your eyes so wide, my child.”

I loosened my clenched fist and tugged at my grandmother’s dress.

‘If I can’t become strong, then I need to fill my surroundings with the strong.’

In this world, ‘special people’ were not just magicians. And I knew roughly who the strong ones in this world were.

“Grandma!”

“……What is it?”
“Do you have a place to take me!”

I reinforced the grip on my grandmother’s garment.

‘If I don’t have any magic, I can just use the knowledge I know as a reincarnate!’

My request was to go to the ‘Senoa Shrine’, a subsidiary shrine of the Papal State. The excuse was to go there and pray to God for abilities.

My grandmother rubbed her dry eyes a few times at my sudden request and nodded. She muttered something about how touching it was that my wish was to go to the shrine.

“Grandmother?”

“……There is a gift bestowed upon you. Have you received it?”

“A gift?”

As I tilted my head, my grandmother murmured.

“Not yet. It’s nothing significant, but it will prove useful.”

I wasn’t sure if something considered insignificant by my villainous grandmother would also be considered insignificant by me. But the important thing was that my grandmother immediately complied with my request.

‘I felt like she was pitying me, but it’s fine. The important thing is that I was able to enter the shrine.’

Thanks to my grandmother’s chance, I could directly enter the shrine. Even though she was a figure despised by the villainous Duke family, her once held prestige seemed important.

‘I’ll surpass my grandmother. Go for it!’

It didn’t matter whether ‘go for it’ was an appropriate proverb for this situation. I took a deep breath while looking at the subsidiary shrine of the Papal State before me.

“Huff, ha. Huff, ha!”

There seemed to be a group of fools staring strangely at me as I heavily breathed, but I didn’t care. I was determined to shake off the nerves that dug into my heart.

‘Calm down, Cien. Don’t be too nervous.’

I, who clenched my soft hands until they stiffened, blinked and entered the shrine with force.

I marched on, striding confidently, just like a soldier.

Yes, I certainly followed the steps of the shrine maidens and walked step by step with effort.

It felt a bit strange. I had been walking fervently, but the shrine gate was still not in sight after a long while.

“Heu.”

“Shall I carry you, baby?”

“Ung!”

As I was hoisted onto the shrine maidens’ back like a sack of potatoes, I thought. I’m glad I brought our muscular shrine maidens because it’s dangerous!

This is a small shrine located in the suburbs, but a shrine is a shrine, and it was not very close with the villainous family.

There could be people who hate me.

My grandmother provided me with minimal safety measures on my journey to the shrine. Leonhart held my hand tightly and didn’t let go for about three seconds.

There’s just about a month left before Axel Mirmod returns.

There wasn’t much I could do.

Gather allies, disrupt Axel Mirmod’s ‘war’ to delay his return as much as possible, and gain enough power to confront him in the meantime!

‘Let’s just get in!’

I didn’t have a moment to waste.

I wiggled my short and chubby legs, snuggled into the arms of the shrine maidens, and entered the shrine.

After entering the shrine.

I took a quick look around the interior and reviewed the contents of once again.

The Saintess of God, Melodia.

She dyed those who did not believe in God with love. She even comforted those who committed evil acts with a kind heart.

She was not only outstanding in divine power, but she also confronted the villains, including the Mirmod family, based on the holy relics bestowed by God and the dignified knights.

And this shrine, the Senoa Shrine filled with irises, is where she first became known as a Saintess.

Although I was in a hurry, I couldn’t snatch all the holy relics and knights that Melodia found.

I was just thinking of being greedy for one thing.

‘I’m going to bring the most powerful knight Melodia has.’