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The receptionist’s duties continue even after the guild’s operating hours are over.

After processing the mountain of paperwork, they have to sort it out and store it.

Before they know it, it’s time to sleep, and when they open their eyes, it’s time to go to the guild again.

Tina, a former saint, drags her tired body back to the apartment she rented near the guild after work.

As soon as she enters the room and lies down on the bed, she stares blankly at the ceiling.

“Sigh….”

She forces herself to get up and stands in front of the mirror.

She unbuttons the receptionist uniform and takes off each piece of clothing.

The clothes worn by the guild receptionists are generally neat and pretty, but they are also uncomfortable in many ways.

In fact, Tina had a recent concern.

It was related to the time when she was a saint and didn’t wear underwear as a workaround to avoid the goddess’s prophecy.

After a long time of not wearing underwear, her body had started to reject it.

When Tina takes off the receptionist uniform, she becomes completely naked.

There was no reason for her not to wear underwear after giving up being a saint.

So, she tried to wear underwear several times, but strangely, her body felt itchy and uncomfortable, and she couldn’t adapt to it.

“Why….”

Tina sighed as she looked at the drawer where she neatly folded her underwear.

Even when sleeping at home, she wore loose and comfortable one-piece clothes instead of underwear.

She knew this was not a normal thing.

If someone found out about this fact one day…

No, she couldn’t go on living without wearing underwear forever.

Tina made up her mind again.

A woman who secretly doesn’t wear underwear, even thinking about it herself, doesn’t it seem childish?

Although she had refused it herself, it was still the body of a saint.

Even if she had to endure discomfort, she would try to wear underwear again.

To go back to the days when she could wear clothes normally.

Tina took out the underwear she hadn’t worn for a long time from the drawer.

She firmly resolved to wear underwear when she went to the guild tomorrow.

* * *

Morning arrived.

Tina finally wore underwear under her receptionist uniform and went to work.

“Oh! Meruru came out earlier today! Meruru won!”

As soon as she entered the guild, Meruru, the mixed-race specialist, shouted excitedly.

Usually, Tina was the first to arrive at the guild, but today she was a little late because she was wearing underwear.

Meruru, who often competed with Tina over who would arrive first at the guild, seemed happy to have won after a long time.

“Ahaha… Meruru, good morning.”

“Huh? Something’s different today.”

“What?! Nothing has changed. Meruru, have you finished your work?”

“Whoa! I haven’t done anything at all!”

Meruru hurriedly returned to her seat.

Tina wiped her chest and went to the counter with a somewhat uncomfortable expression to process the morning documents.

The underwear she wore after a long time was indeed uncomfortable.

Every movement made her feel something prickly and itchy under her armpits and back, and even near her thighs.

But Tina had made a firm decision to come to work today.

Today was the day to go back to the time when she could wear underwear again.

The days of feeling anxious and embarrassed for not wearing underwear were over today.

Since the discomfort was caused by not wearing it in the first place, she believed she would eventually adapt to wearing it again.

With that determination, she started her work.

“Ugh….”

But it wasn’t an easy task.

The uncomfortable sensation of prickling and itching all over her body continued, making it difficult for her to focus on the paperwork.

It was already time to finish and prepare for adventurer support tasks, but she couldn’t make progress.

Prick. Prick. Prick.

Itchy. Itchy. Itchy.

Tina, with one hand holding the documents she needed to process, had to scratch her itchy body with the other hand.

Despite scratching over her receptionist uniform, the unbearable itchiness was something she desperately endured.

“Oh goddess, are you punishing me for not accepting your will? It’s too agonizing…”

Tina thought to herself.

But the guild’s work had only just begun.

With a foreboding feeling that it would be a truly challenging day, a sigh escaped her involuntarily.

* * *

“Here, I’m counting on you again today.”

Once again, Yunoa stopped by the guild and handed Tina a few silver-grade requests.

Tina thought Yunoa, who diligently carried out requests at the guild every day without fail, was a sincere person.

When they first met, she never thought he would become such a reliable adventurer.

Back when she was the saint Sistina, she had reached out to him only to maintain the saint’s image, but their connection had lasted until now, which was surprising.

Especially the impressive display Yunoa showed during the recent Bellafok Manor request left an impression on Tina.

Tina even had a vague thought that Yunoa might become an even more remarkable person than she had imagined.

“Um… Tina? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?”

Lost in her thoughts while processing the requests Yunoa handed her, Tina was suddenly startled by his question.

Tina’s face suddenly lit up.

“What?! No?! Uncomfortable? Not at all! Why would you think that?”

Tina, visibly flustered by Yunoa’s sudden question, replied with a strange intonation.

Startled to the point where her hair stood on end, Tina rolled her eyes stiffly and glanced at Yunoa.

The reason she was so shocked was that Yunoa was the only person who knew about her underwear situation in the past.

Although he had known through precognition that Tina didn’t wear underwear, and now that she had left the church, such a thing no longer occurred, she couldn’t help but feel anxious.

‘Could it be… he knows?’

Tina was extremely nervous about Yunoa’s gaze on her.

Could it be that this man is still having precognitive dreams?

Does he know that I don’t wear underwear?

And did he happen to notice that I wore underwear today after a long time?

So, is that why he asked?

If so, she wanted to hide in a mouse hole out of embarrassment.

“Um… it’s a bit strange after all. Are you feeling unwell somewhere?”

Seeing Tina’s exaggerated reaction, Yunoa spoke with a worried look.

Of course, Yunoa was genuinely concerned about Tina, who he saw every day at the reception desk, tired with dark circles under her eyes.

But as Yunoa continued to ask questions, Tina became even more flustered.

“What?! Unwell?! The requests! I’m done with them!”

Tina couldn’t calm down even to herself.

Being flustered made her itchy body even itchier because of her underwear.

She felt dizzy.

Yunoa, silently watching Tina like that, finally spoke up.

“It’s not good for your body if you push yourself too hard.”

“What?! What do you mean?!”

What is he talking about?

Is he saying it’s not good for the body to wear underwear if you push yourself too hard?

This man definitely knows something.

“Don’t receptionists get to leave early? Your face is red, and you’re speaking strangely… it looks a bit dangerous.”

What on earth is he saying?

Is he telling me to leave early, take off my underwear, and come back quickly?

This man definitely knows something!

“Um! It’s… it’s fine! I’m… fine!”

As Tina stumbled over her words, unsure of what to do, the other adventurers in the guild turned their gaze towards her.

“Huh? The receptionist seems a bit off.”

“What’s wrong? Her ears and face are all red. Did she catch a fever?”

“Hey, Miss Receptionist over there! Are you okay?”

The adventurers each voiced their concerns.

Yunoa looked at Tina with a puzzled expression, unable to understand.

‘I’d rather… become dust… I want to become dust and fly in the wind…’

In the end, Tina covered her face with both hands and hesitantly sat down.

* * *

The guild tasks filled with embarrassment and hardship were finally over.

On the way back home.

Tina walked through the bustling night streets of Kubeul with a face much more tired than usual.

Even now, the area where her underwear touched was itchy and uncomfortable.

She couldn’t focus properly on her work at the guild because of her underwear.

The paperwork that was pushed back today would be entirely handled by tomorrow’s Tina.

Why did she have to suffer so much just because of underwear?

Tina sighed with frustration.

She just wanted to hurry home and take off this suffocating underwear.

As soon as she entered her house, Tina took off her clothes first.

She stripped off the receptionist uniform, threw away all her underwear, and felt an unbelievable sense of liberation.

The heavy burden that had been weighing on her body for so long seemed to disappear in an instant.

It felt like breaking free from the chains that had bound her for years, becoming a truly liberated being.

“Ha… I was… wrong…”

Tina sat down in her room, bowing her head deeply.

Reluctantly, her body was honest.

She had come to prefer not wearing underwear.

She had to admit it now.

“Oh goddess… I’ve become a libertine…”

Tina lay on her back, murmuring as she looked up at the ceiling.

Tomorrow, she would gather all her remaining underwear and throw them away.

She would embrace a life without wearing underwear.

And so, Tina never wore underwear again.