episode_0064

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The warm atmosphere I had felt just moments ago, and the reputation of the Saintess Convent that I had heard from various priests, etc.

It felt like many of the illusions I had in my head shattered in an instant.

I was so shocked that I couldn’t even speak properly.

“What is… what are you thinking? Elena, put that dress back on right now.”

“You don’t have to refuse so strongly.”

Elena said with a smile.

“I’m ready to accept any side of Priest-nim.”

“That’s nonsense.”

“Come on, you don’t need to take so long to open your heart. Isn’t that annoying and cumbersome?”

Elena muttered quietly.

“You’re going to pin me down anyway,”

Elena walked lightly and approached my bed.

Then, she slowly raised one leg.

Her legs, with not a single thread on them, spread open, revealing the flower of a woman in between.

I desperately turned my head away.

Soon, I felt a heavy weight on my pelvis.

She had sat on my pelvis.

“Hmm, you’re not ready yet. Does it hurt a lot? Poor you.”

“Elena, I’m warning you… get off now, or else…”

“Or else what?”

“…What?”

“What are you going to do? Are you going to say that you seduced me first and then go wild on me? Or are you going to unleash all your hidden desires on my body?”

Elena said with a seductive smile.

“It’s okay. I can accept everything.”

“…Is it the Devil’s influence?”

“Pardon?”

“…I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a Devil nearby. There’s a chance you’ve been influenced without realizing it. Elena, you might think what you’re thinking now is your own will, but…”

“Pfft,”

Elena burst out laughing at my words.

“Hahaha, enough with the innocent act. Seriously.”

“What are you talking about.”

“Come on, are you really going to keep pretending you don’t know? Why are you doing this? It’s embarrassing.”

“I really don’t know what you’re talking about. Get off now.”

Elena chuckled softly and said,

“In this world where everything has been destroyed, why is a Priest who lives with three pretty women still pretending to be innocent? You already know everything.”

“Do you think I would do something like that to those girls?”

“Isn’t that right? Surely you’re not going to claim you’re still a virgin now, are you?”

“I’m a Cleric. Of course.”

Elena looked down at me with a dumbfounded expression.

“Even before the destruction, it was rare for a Cleric not to play around at night.”

“Ha, I guess the reputation of the Saintess Convent is different from what I heard?”

“It’s not just the stories of my sisters. You know it, don’t you? How many Priests and Clerics abuse their positions to greedily devour the skin of young girls. How many Nuns look for a stick to smear with the honey flowing between their legs.”

I replied firmly.

“I don’t know.”

“Hmph, really?”

Elena seemed unable to believe it.

What had she gone through to consider Clerics as pathetic beings unable to resist their lustful desires?

Well, I can roughly guess.

It’s a common story.

But, no matter how common the story may be, it was unrelated to me.

“I’ve been too busy fighting Devils to worry about that kind of thing. And don’t think that what you’ve seen is everything. There are far more wonderful Clerics in the world.”

“Hmm… Isn’t that something a Priest who keeps young Nuns around shouldn’t be saying?”

“You keep saying disgusting things.”

Elena tilted her head at my harsh reaction.

“I could tell from the expressions of the Nuns who were taking the Priest who fainted that day. That bitch’s expression… she already looked like a lover.”

“Well, it seems like you only see what you want to see. You’re completely mistaken. I haven’t touched a single hair on their heads. Ah, I have stroked their heads because they were commendable.”

“Really? That’s hard to believe.”

“Of course…”

Ah, I touched Lucia’s chest once.

I also kissed Anna…

Come to think of it, a Succubus tried oral sex on me once.

Oh, am I already a dirty Priest?

“…”

“Hmph…”

Elena looked at me with an intriguing expression as I closed my mouth.

I felt like I was going to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, so I quickly replied.

“CPR… or accidents… something like that… that kind of thing happens. I’m old enough that all sorts of things happen in life.”

“An accident…”

“But, I’ve never slept with a woman once. I swear to Goddess.”

“Is that true?”

“Yes.”

Elena slowly lowered her waist and brought her face close to mine.

The sweet scent of her skin that rushed up my nose, and the sensation of her voluptuous breasts softly rubbing against my chest, made me feel faint.

Elena asked me in a whispering voice.

“Then, why did you save me?”

I avoided her face and replied.

“Why does a Cleric need a reason to save someone? Saving people and saving others is our job.”

“Heh, it’s been a long time since I’ve heard that.”

“If you understand, then get off. I didn’t save you and that man because I wanted this.”

“…”

Elena slowly raised her waist.

At the same time, she took the blanket covering my body with her.

Still straddling my pelvis, she wrapped her body in the blanket and said,

“…Really, isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

“Even if you regret it later, you won’t get another chance, you know?”

“Get off me quickly before I regret saving you.”

“…”

I sighed and continued.

“That’s a lie. I can’t regret saving someone.”

“…That’s a little surprising.”

“…”

“I still find it hard to believe, and honestly, I still think Priest-nim is holding back because you’re putting on an act, I think.”

“I’m really about to swear.”

“Oh, is that your preference?”

I frowned and said,

“You said you know me.”

“Father Theodore. You were famous. Almost everyone in the Order knows you. There’s even a fairy tale book about Priest-nim.”

“There’s a fairy tale like that?”

“You also did reading service at the Order’s orphanage.”

“…Yeah, wasn’t it written in that fairy tale?”

“What are you talking about?”

I suddenly raised my upper body and grabbed the side of her head.

Elena was startled and let out a short scream.

I said in a low voice.

“That I have a bad temper.”

“…”

“I warned you.”

*

Of course, I wasn’t thinking of beating her up.

She’s human, and even a member of the Order, so I can’t treat her like Kunat.

I grabbed her chin and flicked her forehead.

The sound was a bit loud though.

“I thought my skull was going to break.”

Elena, who got off me and sat on the chair wearing clothes, rubbed her forehead and complained.

I glared at her and said.

“Consider it a fair price since the image of the Saintess Convent in my mind has already been completely shattered.”

“…Hmph, it still hurts.”

She whined with a tearful face.

I sighed, then rubbed her forehead with my fingertip with my hand covered in holy power.

Of course, holy power isn’t a panacea that heals wounds, but it had some pain-relieving and recovery-promoting effects.

“Ah…holy power.”

“Is it your first time seeing it?”

“Because I didn’t become a Saintess.”

Among the many candidates gathered at the Saintess Convent, the conditions for selecting a Saintess are countless.

Not only dignity and learning, but also history and society must be mastered, and of course, one must be awakened to holy power.

However, holy power is the power directly given by Goddess.

Very few humans catch Goddess’s eye.

Elena also didn’t seem to have awakened to holy power.

In fact, I had only met five users of holy power besides myself in my entire life.

Ah, for reference, I was noticed by that person because I fought with Devils so noisily.

“Thank you, Father.”

“Don’t try to seduce me this time.”

“Yes, I won’t. I knew that Priest-nim is different from other people.”

Elena smiled and looked at me.

The way she smiled gently was as if her previous appearance was a lie, and she had returned to a gentle atmosphere.

A woman who exudes a strong aura that can overwhelm the other person in an instant, whether it’s a lewd appearance or a gentle one.

Elena had the power to overwhelm the other person with her atmosphere.

That’s probably because her presence was so strong.

Unlike my murky blonde hair, she had bright blonde hair that seemed to shine, and gentle eyes that reassured the viewer.

She had a perfect nose and big, shapely lips.

She had the typical beauty image, and her body was very voluptuous.

Even though she was wearing Anna’s clothes, which aren’t lacking in voluptuousness, the buttons on her chest were barely hanging on.

Of course, if such a beautiful woman smiled, the whole room would become cheerful, and if she got angry, the whole place might turn cold.

Everyone would be watching her.

However, for me, who had been suppressing my desires and living to fight Devils, she was just a strange woman who suddenly pounced on me, nothing more, nothing less.

“So, let’s hear it.”

“What are you talking about?”

“What happened to you that made you try to do such a shameless thing to me?”

“…I must have been treated shamelessly. Do you really want to hear it?”

“Yes.”

I exhaled a sigh into my breath.

“I can roughly guess what happened to you, and I can also guess how you’ve lived until now that the world has been destroyed.”

‘You’re going to pin me down anyway.’

She definitely said that.

How many people had forced their lust on her, disguised as kindness?

Also, knowing all those intentions, how many men had she embraced to survive in a world that had already gone mad?

She must have acted coyly.

A Nun with no abilities is nothing more than baggage.

She had to prove her usefulness.

Until she became accustomed to being embraced by men, to the point where she would willingly offer her body to the Priest who had just saved her.

“Just tell me how you survived until now.”

“…It’s shameful.”

“Heh, do you know what you were trying to do to me?”

“That’s why it’s even more shameful. I met Priest Theodore, whom I admired so much, and received help… and I arbitrarily judged that he was the same as other people…”

“…”

“That I showed such an ugly sight…”

Elena put both hands between her legs and lowered her head.

Her ears, which were visible through her golden hair, were dyed bright red.

It really seemed shameful.

I said in the softest voice possible.

“I’m not telling you to describe what nights you’ve spent.”

“I know.”

“I’m giving you a chance to confess now.”

“…Confession.”

Elena muttered quietly.

It was a tone that contained an inexplicable longing.

“It seems like it’s been a long time since I’ve done that. Even half a year ago, it was a daily routine… I was really sick of it then. I was in the convent all day, so what sins would I have committed? But I couldn’t not do it… so I would forcibly squeeze it out and make a confession.”

“You don’t have to force it out now.”

“Priest-nim is relentless.”

“If you knew how I treat Devils, you’d feel like I’m very gentlemanly right now.”

“Hahaha,”

Elena smiled and raised her head.

Her face was still flushed red.

“And, I’d also like to hear a little about how the world has changed. I and the Nuns lived in a monastery on a remote island and have just come up to the mainland.”

“Ah, I see.”

“Yeah, so I don’t know exactly when the world became like this. I need information.”

“If that’s the case… I understand.”

Elena nodded.

Slowly raising her head, she looked up at the ceiling.

It was as if she was trying to draw out old memories that were deep in her mind.

“…If I can be of help to Priest-nim, I’d be really proud of myself. My sisters would be envious.”

Elena slowly lowered her head and looked at me.

Her face was no longer red.

“It was autumn then. A year ago… no, it hasn’t been quite a year yet. It’s been more than ten months…”

She slowly opened her mouth.

“A week after rumors of monsters appeared, the capital was already no different from hell.”

“…”

“Many people died. To gruesome monsters, to rampaging rioters, to knights who had turned into robbers…”

I hadn’t seen it, but the image was easily drawn in my mind.

These monsters were definitely more deadly in cities than in rural areas with few people.

Just as a fire needs firewood. Chaos needs humans.

“At that time, a Cardinal came to the Saintess Convent. He was a high-ranking official who managed all the monasteries and convents.”

I knew him too.

He was a very high-ranking official, so I had never had a conversation with him, but I remember him as a skinny old man with bushy white hair.

His signature was also on the order I received when I was assigned.

“Fortunately, the Order didn’t become paralyzed even in that chaos.”

“Ha…”

“…?”

“I was raped by the Cardinal that day.”

“…”

I unconsciously swallowed my breath.

Just by looking at his appearance, he didn’t seem like someone who would do such a thing.

On the other hand, Elena continued to speak with a nonchalant expression.

What flowed out of her beautiful lips was a dirty story that could only be found in cheap pulp novels.