Everything is going wrong and it’s getting worse and worse.
My own workplace is not the temple but the castle, but since I am dealing with the temple, it made me want to hold my head in my hands.
There are so many problems that I don’t know what started it all.
But anyway, it feels like various things weren’t meshing, creating discord, and this has developed into a big problem.
The first big problem is the escape of Lady Alice Scarlet, also known as the “Saint of the Dawn”. No, since her family is a marquis, perhaps it would be more accurate to say she ran away.
Anyway, one day, Alice, the daughter of a marquis, suddenly ran away from the temple.
Saints are often adopted by nobles and become the daughters of certain families, but Lady Alice is a genuine daughter of a marquis. When the marquis’s family first discovered that Lady Alice was where she was, they were extremely angry.
Of course. Up until now, the temple had restricted Alice’s meetings with the Marquis family, on the pretext of considering the safety of the saint. Even so, it was only natural that they would be angry if she ran away. Even if Alice had not yet reached adulthood, as long as she was over the age of 16, the age at which children usually start working, the temple could have said that it was her own fault.
However, Lady Alice is only 12 years old. The temple was outwitted by a 12-year-old girl. How dare they say they are so protective that they limit visits to her?
Of course, we know from the note that this departure is Lady Alice’s will. However, the only attendant she has is a female priest of Viscount status. No matter how you look at it, this is bound to be a no-no.
I lived in anxiety every day, worrying that I might get involved in a crime.
Then, five days later, the alchemist informed them of Lady Alice’s location. They were relieved and overjoyed that both the temple and the royal palace were fine. However, the moment they found out that she was in the company of Clark, the royal palace magician, they all held their heads in dismay.
No. In a way, he is reliable. Clark is a former royal magician, but no one calls him that, because he is still a highly skilled magician who is relied upon. However, Clark is a man who picked a fight with the Saint and the temple, handed in his resignation, and returned to the countryside.
It’s no wonder everyone was pale and wondered why she had gone to such a place.
Royal Court Magician Clark had communicated through the alchemist that he would take care of her while ensuring her safety, and that they should come and collect her quickly, so there was some arguing over who would go to pick her up. In the end, it was decided that someone would be sent from the Temple, the Marquis’s family, and the royal palace. The Temple did not want the Marquis to interfere, but the Marquis rebuffed him, saying that he could not trust the Temple, which had put his own daughter in danger after all that had happened with Royal Court Magician Clark, and since if only the Temple came forward, who knew what would happen next, people from the royal palace were also going to intervene, making for a truly lavish welcome.
I was feeling sick, but just when I thought I could finally relax, something terrible happened. Maga started occurring all over the place. One of them was a town that they had to pas through to get to the village where Clark, the Royal Magician, lives.
As soon as they realized they couldn’t enter the town, they used magic tools to contact the temple and the royal palace. Since the maga was occurring simultaneously in various places, it would be difficult to purify it immediately, so they decided to have Clark, the royal palace magician, continue to look after her, which was the worst case scenario.
With Royal Magician Clark there, I understand that Lady Alice will be safe. But the problem is that Lady Alice is not only the daughter of a marquis, but also a saint. Although she is inferior to Luna, who came from another world, and Iris, who was adopted by a duke because of her strength, she is still powerful enough. Moreover, saints are very rare. With someone like that gone, maga is occurring all over the place. How can this have happened?! I want to complain to God.
The second problem is regarding Luna-sama, who came from another world and currently wields the powers of the most powerful saint in the world.
Lady Luna had left on a purification journey with Lady Iris a while ago and returned to the temple, but since then she has been withdrawn into her room.
There are many possible reasons why she has become a recluse, but the biggest one is probably the purification journey. Luna-sama was accompanied by some of the best guards in the country on her purification journey, but because Luna-sama’s guards were on an extended vacation, someone else was assigned for this journey. She would like to fire the guards who are not there at such a crucial time, but it is a tricky situation because the reason those guards took an extended vacation was because of Luna-sama.
The guard assigned to Lady Luna this time was someone who was still inexperienced. Lady Iris’ guard was also a new recruit and did not have the skills to support others, so he died in the line of duty while trying to protect Lady Luna from a monster that suddenly appeared. The guards’ job is to protect the Saint without even a single scratch, so it is not uncommon for them to get injured.
However, seeing the guard die instantly in front of her very eyes, even though she had completed the purification, Luna-sama was exhausted. Apparently, she originally came from a very safe world and had little experience of seeing people die in front of her. Even so, it must have been a big shock for her to have blood poured over her head.
The saint must be protected at all costs.
Therefore, they receive education from a young age to prepare them for this mindset. Even so, many Saints are shocked when their guards die in front of their eyes. Even so, the Saints talk to each other and look forward.
This is something that only friends who have studied together as saints since childhood and have shared similar experiences can do.
But Lady Luna doesn’t have any friends like that.
She was suddenly summoned from another world a year ago, and is surrounded by priests who are ignorant of common sense. On top of that, she was engaged to the crown prince and given a position, but her position is so high that others take her a step back. Due to her age and differences in common sense, she does not get along well with the saints, and recently she tried to make beauty products out of honey in an attempt to become friends with the other saints, but this caused Alice, the Saint of the Dawn, to become enraged, and perhaps because of that incident, the beauty products do not seem to be well-received among the saints.
I can understand why she would want to stay at home.
The Crown Prince would not understand the Saint’s troubles. In the first place, no one could empathize with her feelings, having been born into a different world.
The priests who attend Luna-sama report that she has nightmares every night. She has also been eating less and is close to her mental limit. However, although she does not come out of her room, she has been seen trying to pull herself together by making beauty products and studying the characters so that she can read the books as a saint, so it is not as if her heart is completely broken.
However, now that maga has suddenly occurred all over the place, we can no longer give her free time and allow her to continue to stay cooped up.
Even if she didn’t want to come to this world, if she doesn’t purify it, this country will be consumed by monsters and will be finished.
Surely, we should have started having Lady Luna purify the maga much sooner, helped her get used to it, and provided her with mental support. Looking at this disaster, I think this year was meant to be for that. The temple and the royal family wasted time sparring over who Lady Luna belonged to. By prioritizing Lady Luna’s safety and surrounding her, the disaster came with very little experience.
Fortunately, the guardian knights who had been on long rest have returned, so Lady Luna can be fully protected.
“I’m sorry… Please, help us.”
Only a saint can purify maga. And only Lady Luna can purify maga of this magnitude.
We are powerless and can only hope.
I confessed in front of the closed room.
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