Feeling the vibrations through the tip of my toe, I was startled. Outwardly, I furrowed my brows with an air of arrogance.
“Don’t do this, High Priest.”
“To you, I am not the High Priest but a mere servant. Please deliver an appropriate punishment.”
His expression was determined, as if he wouldn’t rise until receiving the punishment.
I sighed deeply and clenched my fist.
“Is there not a single servant who listens to orders?”
“I apologize.”
“Such behavior is also quite uncomfortable. Please stop rising, High Priest.”
“Please lower your words.”
“Alright then, rise, Arkanso.”
He responded with a sigh.
Arkanso, with a bright smile, tinted both his cheeks with a rosy hue.
He had a cold and composed demeanor, filled with ascetic yet mysterious beauty.
‘Just by smiling, he exudes holiness. There must be plenty of goddesses seeking to see Arkanso, right?’
“I will accept the name, Saint!”
“Do you like being called by your name like that?”
“Being called by your name and being able to serve you like this is truly the greatest honor in my life.”
“So, now let’s meet the substitute temple.”
Arkanso guided me to the location where the sixteenth substitute temple was sealed.
Walking along the corridor lined with arched windows, I asked Arkanso.
“A Saint who appeared after 200 years. Isn’t it too confident to be sure if it’s real or not when it hasn’t been proven?”
“Are you worried about that? I’m glad, Saint.”
“It’s a perfect opponent for a fraud.”
“If you wish, Saint, you can deceive as much as you want. I will gratefully accept it with a thankful heart.”
“What did you say?”
“Oh. If you need an accomplice, please let me know. I will follow you sincerely.”
With an expression that contained not a hint of falsehood, Arkanso bowed his waist.
I grabbed his wrist.
“Cut it out.”
“In fact, in the church, the recognition of the Saint’s reincarnation is extremely rare. There are often fake Saints.”
“What happens to someone pretending to be a Saint?”
“According to church law, they are sentenced to burning at the stake.”
“…Like a witch?”
“Indeed, you are a Saint. You know it well.”
Arkanso lifted me up.
It seemed he hadn’t noticed that my heart froze in an instant.
‘What if I end up being accused as a witch while trying to use the Moracian church? Am I digging my own grave?’
There could be people wrongly accused of being witches.
I am the possessor of abilities that wouldn’t be strange even if I were called a witch!
“Why do you believe that I am a Saint?”
“It wasn’t a decision I made alone. It’s the judgment of the church, including the Archbishop. I came here under orders.”
“Because of the Divine Trust?”
“The first is the Divine Trust. The second is the appearance of a divine sign.”
I recalled the contents of the Divine Trust that Arkanso had explained to me underground.
“When two heavens collide, a woman shall return. The red wolf shall bite the black wolf, overcoming the reverse horse. Three divine signs will illuminate the path of the righteous dead. My disciple, seek the sky with the Saint.”
It sounded like nonsense, just catching at straws.
To the priests, it seemed like the words of God that they had to accept at the risk of their lives.
“The heavenly woman, red wolf, righteous dead, and the Saint mentioned in the Divine Trust might not be the same person, right?”
I raised an objection.
Arkanso responded with a firm voice.
“I believe that the Saint in front of me is the real Saint without a doubt.”
“Do you have another reason?”
“Throughout my life devoted to God, I have never seen anyone with a soul as pure and radiant as the Saint’s….”
Arkanso confessed.
“You can see souls?”
“Thanks to obtaining sacred eyes instead of normal sight, I can perform some tricks.”
“How do you see them?”
“May I have your permission for a moment?”
Arkanso asked politely.
As I nodded, he gently swept his fingertips across my forehead.
It wasn’t a casual touch but a careful one.
A tingling sensation spread from my forehead to my toes.
“What are you doing?”
I was startled and shrugged my shoulders.
Trying to reassure me, Arkanso quickly withdrew his hand.
“Forgive me for the intrusion, Saint. Souls are very clear when viewed like this.”
“I asked how you see them, not to see my soul.”
“Your soul has always shone like the sun, but this made it even more certain.”
In an instant, a complex yet clear expression passed over Arkanso’s face.
“Like how you defeated the evil soul of the villain and purified the body, you will illuminate the future of the empire.”
Lord Pipe was half-lounging in a giant armchair made of sheepskin.
His flushed face and the scattered bottles of alcohol next to him.
The late-arriving Blackfold Viscount, slightly intoxicated, licked his lips.
“Pull yourself together, Lord Pipe. We should plan for the future, shouldn’t we?”
The slightly awake Lord Pipe frowned.
“What plan? Brennand will confess. We’re all dead men already.”
“Brennand has no evidence.”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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