The Maid's Contract Marriage (1 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 224

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Agnes could never forget the first confession she heard from another priest after becoming a priest herself.

It had happened shortly after Agnes had earned her priestly credentials.

When a middle-aged priest, twenty years her senior, approached the inexperienced Agnes—who had never formally heard a confession before—and said he wished to confess, Agnes was flustered, wondering if the priest was joking.

Even as she entered the confessional chamber and sat down, willing to listen, Agnes wondered if this was some kind of test.

Bewildered, she faced the priest in the confessional. After a moment, the priest, his expression slightly stiff, smiled faintly and asked,

“…Will God hear me?”

Since those were the very words the confessor should have spoken first, Agnes hurriedly replied,

“Yes. God is invisibly present here. In confession, you speak not to me but to God. Do not fear—confess your sins openly and fully, so that God may grant you forgiveness. God will give you the chance to set everything right, and I, bound by the principles of confession, will keep silent and guard in strict secrecy everything I hear in this place.”

The priest’s confession began.

It was about the turmoil in his heart whenever he looked upon a certain new priest.

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After the priest’s confession ended.

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