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Episode 110 Summary and Handling (1)

It didn’t take long to find the stolen items. They were being managed at a nearby storage facility as evidence, so I went straight there and retrieved them. Once my innocence was proven, the staff quickly handed them over.

Fortunately, all the items were intact without anything missing. I also got my school uniform back and changed out of the temporary one.

After leaving the courthouse, everyone glanced at me. It seemed the rumors had already spread.

“Is that the Saint?”

“Yeah, that’s right. Oh, right. He’s still a candidate.”

“But who’s that kid next to him? The Princess is with him too….”

Not to mention the constant talk about the Saint.

‘Damn it….’

How burdensome and annoying that is. I want to go back to before the trial right away. At least back then, it wasn’t this much attention.

I turned my eyes to the source of this situation.

“So, why are you following me?”

“Huh? Why else? I came because Tianis is here, to look around. Ah! Will you guide me? I don’t recognize anything since the appearance has changed.”

“…Just get lost if you’re done with your business.”

“Aha! Just like Green told me, you have a lot of picky sides.”

“…….”

Yellow laughed happily even at my reaction. He doesn’t care what I say.

That’s mostly how gods are. They are very, very self-centered and selfish beings, and most of them are lenient if you please them.

Thanks to that, I have a headache and my head is about to explode. I’m already annoyed because of the divine power being emitted, but having him stick next to me and act up is nerve-wracking.

So, I wish he would just get lost. But he’s not thinking of leaving.

“…Hey, let me ask you something.”

“What is it, what is it? Ah, if you answer, you’ll guide me?”

“Don’t talk nonsense and just answer.”

Anyway, separately from that, there was something I wanted to ask Yellow. He’s busy every day because his epithet is the God of Contracts and Order. If it’s not a time like this, there’s no time.

“You know Lana Heytalde, right?”

“Huh? Ah! That child Green likes? Of course, I know her. I think none of us don’t know her? Because she was a Saintess candidate before Estella.”

It’s a known fact. Lana’s blessing isn’t there for no reason.

“But why that child?”

Yellow’s question. I answered immediately.

“Then have you ever met Lana? Specifically, at the amusement park held for the Founding Festival.”

“Hmm~ I wonder?”

My face contorted at Yellow’s mischievous smile that aroused curiosity.

“Don’t joke around and answer. If you don’t want to be guided.”

“Haha! You promised?”

Only then, with a satisfied expression, did Yellow answer my question.

“First of all, I don’t know why our prospective Saint is curious about that. If it’s the amusement park, I visited it. As soon as it opened.”

“Then Lana?”

Yellow shook his head.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t meet her. I’m also very interested in that child, but the amusement park was muuuch more important!”

Damn it, then who was the god that Lana and Lia met at that time?

No matter how much I think about it, there is no god whose characteristics match except for Yellow.

I asked again, just in case.

“Are you sure?”

“Of course! I swear on my name, I’ve never met that child!”

A situation where he even bet his divinity. Then it’s certain that he didn’t meet Lana.

‘I don’t like these kinds of mysteries.’

I sigh inwardly. I asked, but it only made me more curious.

I don’t want to care about gods if I can help it, but they force me to be interested. Ugh, that’s why gods are….

“Haa….”

“Why are you so serious? Do you have something that’s not working out? Can I help?”

“No….”

“Ah! I got a call!”

At that moment, Yellow interrupted me.

“Yeah, yeah, why did you call? Estella is looking for me? Again this time? Okay, I’ll go right away~!”

Yellow, who was chattering while looking at the air, looked at me and said.

“Our Saintess is looking for me! I’ll go. Guide me later. Then goodbye~ Our prospective Saint, Kyle!”

Yellow spewed out what he had to say like a machine gun and then disappeared. As if he’s not a child, you can’t grasp him.

“He’s, he’s an interesting person… Yellow-nim is.”

“There’s no need to use honorifics for that kind of guy.”

What honorifics for that kind of bastard. I’d rather use them when looking at a dog on the street.

Then the Princess asked carefully.

“But… are you really going to be a Saint?”

At Princess Ariel’s question, I frowned.

“I don’t know why even the Princess is like this. I clearly said no.”

“But from what I heard….”

“That’s just them saying whatever they want, ignoring my opinion. You have no idea how troubled I am right now because of that damn guy….”

Ah, I’m going crazy. It’s this kind of reaction from the beginning, I can’t even imagine how much worse it will get later.

Then the Princess suddenly chuckled.

“…Why are you laughing?”

“I’m just amazed. Although the Imperial Family and Arden aren’t on good terms with the gods, they don’t hate them this much. Above all, there aren’t many people who are so sensitive to the word Saint. Did something happen with the gods?”

“…No, it didn’t.”

I said seriously. And even if I told her, it would be difficult for her to understand.

Even so, the Princess smiled kindly.

“Okay. Kyle, you must have your own troubles. Still….”

The Princess paused for a moment and then continued.

“Next time, I hope you’ll tell me in advance. Do you know how hard I worked to clear you of the charge of being a black wizard? At least if you had given me a hint, things would have ended more easily.”

A slightly complaining tone. But the emotion felt was not like that. It was a slightly playful tone.

For some reason, I smiled inwardly at that sight.

‘Yeah, that’s Ariel Tianis.’

A scene where she talks and jokes in a friendly way as if there is no difference in status. It’s her appearance that I had forgotten.

It was often expressed in the novel, but I couldn’t see it due to the ill-fated relationship.

So, it’s a pity if it’s a pity. Because I liked that side of her quite a bit.

“Well, I’ll think about it. If something like this happens again.”

“Well. Looking at the surrounding situation, it doesn’t seem like there will be anyone who will mess with the prospective Saint.”

“…Stop teasing me. I’m not a kid.”

“I’m just telling the truth. Ah, Lana is coming over there.”

At the Princess’s words, I turned around.

“Kyle~!”

“Hyung-nim! We’re here!”

Lana was running from far away, and Evan was running behind her with Veil.

Chloe was also there, and she slowly walked over and waved her hand in my direction.

“The interferers should disappear now. Go.”

Ariel gently pushed my back. And the moment she turned around, saying she was going too. She said to me in a small, mumbling voice.

“By the way, please be good to Lana. The trial would have been difficult without her.”

“I understand.”

“And… be a man and step up. Stop being ambiguous instead of teasing people.”

“…You’re not a professor, why are you so interested in other people’s love affairs.”

“It’s frustrating. Haa, why Lana is with a man like this….”

“Stop talking nonsense and go.”

The Princess nodded and slowly took a step. I said to Ariel, who was leaving.

“Anyway… thank you for helping me.”

“No. I just did what was natural as a member of the Imperial Family. And I didn’t do it all alone either.”

She said that and moved her steps. I turned my head slightly and looked at the Princess, and Lana, who had approached, was right in front of me.

“Kyle, are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere? Did you eat….”

“I’m okay. Here, put it down first.”

Lana, whose face was somewhat gaunt, checked me out as soon as she saw me. I wish she would take care of herself more than my face. Sometimes she doesn’t take care of herself too much.

“Oh, prospective Saint-nim! Long time no see… Ack!”

I smacked the head of Evan, who was spouting nonsense. The guy I saw after a few days was still the same with his inability to grasp the atmosphere.

“Hyung-nim. Are you okay?”

“Yeah. And I heard from the Princess. You guys said you would help. Thanks to that, it was helpful.”

“No. There was no one other than the Princess to ask for help….”

Veil blushed as if embarrassed by my compliment.

“Sunbae~ What about me?”

“…You didn’t do anything.”

“Hey~ I cheered hard too?”

“That’s like doing nothing.”

“Ah! That’s too much!”

A scene that I somehow missed unfolds before my eyes. I felt that the short and long trial was finally over.

So, once again.

‘It’s back to everyday life.’

It was time to return to the original academy life.

***

Ariel stopped walking at some point and stood there. And she slowly turned her head and looked in a certain direction.

That direction was none other than the place where Kyle Arden and his party would be.

She had walked quite a distance, so she could barely see his figure in her vision, but her ability [Transcendence of Senses] conveyed the situation there without much difficulty.

She doesn’t do things like eavesdropping. She just quietly and blankly watches his appearance from afar.

What is she thinking?

Unfortunately, there was no way to know unless she expressed her thoughts out loud.

“…….”

Ariel stood blankly for a long time and looked at Kyle in the distance. And when he moved to move his place with his party.

She also moved her steps towards the dormitory.

“Haa….”

While letting out a sigh that was hard to know what she was thinking.

***

The next morning came.

“Keueuk…!”

I stretched as soon as I woke up in a sluggish body. It was the first time in a long time that I slept in a dormitory bed, so my condition was not very good.

Of course, the bed was better than in the detention center, but after experiencing the luxury bed in a free city hotel, the difference was clear.

It seemed that I had to replace the bed with a better one.

I checked the time and it was 6 o’clock.

I was about to finish my morning training and go to the student cafeteria to solve my breakfast.

“Huh?”

A postman was seen heading this way from the direction of the academy’s center. I don’t know him well, but I’ve seen him a few times.

Since I was the only one living in the lowest-class dormitory, he came straight to me.

“Hello. It’s been a while.”

“Ah, that… Saint-nim?”

Damn it, how far has the word spread in just one day?

“…Just treat me like normal.”

“Then, student Kyle. You have a letter.”

A letter? I haven’t received one recently, so it’s been quite a while.

‘Could it be again….’

Someone who heard my news may have thought it was a good time to send a letter.

That’s not my thing. It would be really annoying if another letter rush started.

‘To do that again. I’d rather burn this….’

But I couldn’t throw it away without checking, so I decided to take a look first.

I sent the postman away and lay on a nearby bench to look at the letter. And when I saw the seal stamped on the letter, I stared at it silently.

“Hmm… It’s from the family.”

This letter was sent from the family. Even by my father, Dekal Arden himself.

I don’t know what’s going on, but I broke the seal. And the letter said this.

[Explain.]

It was really father-like content.