The Price is Everything of Yours (76 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 181

After dinner, Neris asked Priest Adams about Len’s whereabouts.

Priest Adams, as if informing her of something novel, told Neris that Len personally tidied the chapel every evening. She was impressed by his thoroughness upon learning that he even cared about his image among the devout believers who offered evening prayers.

‘Well, perhaps it’s precisely because he’s so meticulous that he’s reached his current position at such a young age.’

According to Cledwin’s explanation, Len did have a patron backing him—but that person had retired long ago. Thus, climbing so high with only that modest foothold was undoubtedly due to Len’s own ability.

‘Certainly, he appears angelic at first glance.’

To Neris, who still remembered him as a mischievous student in their youth, this description felt almost comical—a devout and humble Priest Len.

Of course, if she was going to forge an alliance anyway, it was better to do so with someone this thorough.

Neris now walked through the first floor, quietened by the curfew that had just begun outside. When she reached the firmly closed chapel doors, she heard a strange sound from within.

It resembled the wind, yet also the sound of flowing water—low, intermittent, yet unceasing…

Crying.

For a moment, Neris’s mind grew tangled. After some hesitation, she gently, ever so gently, pushed the chapel door open just a crack.

Indeed, what came from inside was the sound of weeping.

The sacred painting, distorted grotesquely by the night’s shifting shadows. Against that backdrop stood the gilded pulpit from which priests delivered sermons. Upon it flickered a short candle, blazing so intensely it seemed ready to extinguish itself at any moment.

The chapel was nearly empty. The only person left was one lone figure.

Len, kneeling face-down in the middle of the pews arranged for worshippers.

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