Chapter 82

Excessive Priest? Ah, so this man was the Excessive Priest.

I seemed up and down at him dazedly, unable to understand the scenario but.

“It’s been some time since I final noticed you.”

“…I’m certain at the moment….”

“Leona. He’s Caleb Benedict Samuel, the Excessive Priest.”

Luca launched him together with his ordinary pleasant tone. I used to be nonetheless surprised, however regardless of how I checked out him, I used to be certain that he was the particular person I met final time.

The person who stole my cash. I believed he was both homeless or a scammer.

Is he actually the Excessive Priest?

In the meantime, the person who was taking a look at Luca laughed.

“Hoo. Most individuals don’t find out about me, however it appears loads.”

“My title is Luca. I’m the knight of Duke Ian Petri.”

“However how will you know me? Duke Ian Petri solely came over me a very long time in the past…I don’t assume you have been there at the moment.”

Luca solely responded to his phrases with a silent smile. There was an ungainly silence within the air for a short second.

“I believe we’ve seen one another someplace.”

“Actually? I see.”

I may briefly really feel a wierd environment between the 2. It felt like I’d be certain to make a mistake if I opened my mouth right here.

“In addition to, what brings you right here Mrs. Leona?”

“Do you keep in mind me…?”

“After all. I’ll always remember those that I’ve seen as soon as. Though I’m an outdated man, God gave me a superb reminiscence, you see.”

“Is that so…?”

“I couldn’t say hey correctly again then. I’m Caleb Benedict Samuel, somebody who holds a minor place on this temple.”

Gosh, what do you imply a minor place? Aren’t you the Excessive Priest? I actually hate individuals who boast whereas pretending to be humble like him.

Furthermore, didn’t you keep in mind how I seemed final time? I wore an outfit that was very completely different from that point, although.

“I’m…Leona Petri.”

“Oho. I used to be questioning why the Duke’s carriage got here in earlier, seems it was the Duchess herself.”

“Aren’t you shocked? The final time you noticed me…”

“Effectively, it’s not like we will predict when, the place and what’s going to occur, proper?”

He checked out me with a heat smile and continued.

“And after I first met Mrs. Leona, you appeared like a noble particular person. As anticipated, my eyes weren’t fallacious.”

“Noble…?”

“And what the temple referred to by a noble particular person has nothing to do with one’s standing. It’s about somebody’s character.”

“….However for many individuals right here, the phrase ‘noble’ appears to be completely different out of your interpretation.”

Cash, popularity, status. All of you appeared actually into these sorts of issues.

As anticipated, the Excessive Priest additionally smiled vainly as if he was pondering the identical factor.

“As a result of you may’t anticipate everybody to be the identical. By the best way, what brings you right here?”

“Oh! I got here to fulfill the Excessive Priest.”

“Are you speaking about me?”

“Sure. There are paperwork that may solely be considered with the permission of the Excessive Priest.”

“Hmm…”

“I heard there are affected person data within the temple. Is that proper? Solely a small variety of folks among the many officers can see them.”

He caressed his chin as he listened to me attentively.

“There’s one thing like that. However could I do know your function….?”

“As you may see, I’m a Duchess who doesn’t know for certain after I’ll be kicked out.”

“Huh? Come once more?”

“Pardon?”

The Excessive Priest and Luca voiced their shock one after one other.

“Haha. Why is everybody so shocked? Judging by what occurred final time, I’ll by no means know after I’ll be a fugitive once more. That’s why I’m attempting to embezzle cash little by little.”

“Embe- what?”

“Uh.. Umm. I imply I need to avoid wasting cash for myself.”

After being overly vulgar with my phrases, I rapidly rephrased it. As a result of I all the time made certain to place some fact in each lie I spouted. That means, I may say it with a lot confidence and hopefully persuade folks with my phrases.

Particularly on this challenge. There was nothing good in revealing Rere’s illness to the entire world.

“A-Ah…I see…”

“However I found one essential truth.”

“W-What do you imply by essential?”

“Sure. So, really, I don’t have a lot time left to reside….not too way back, my household advised me about that. So I seemed into it, however nobody had the identical illness as me. I actually need to reside lengthy, so the truth that I’m about to die was fairly a blow to me. And I don’t even know what’s going to occur if I’m now not underneath the Duchy safety as a Duchess ….”

I sighed deeply, forcing tears to effectively up with out dropping. At this second, I felt a bit of grateful to my household for doing ineffective issues and giving Leona a tough time. Due to them, I used to be in a position to lie simply like this.

“A-Are you sick?!”

Luca and the Excessive Priest couldn’t disguise their shock. So I deliberately raised my voice as if one thing massive had occurred to me.

“Sure, effectively…however it’s not recognized what sort of illness it’s. It’s a bit uncommon. So I need to know if there are individuals who have related ailments to mine. Even the physician didn’t find out about this illness.”

After all, it was a lie. The Duke had not but discovered the physician who handled Leona the day I possessed her physique. Due to that, I had no thought what sort of illness I’ve in my physique nor what sort of analysis was made at the moment.

However I made a tragic face as if I had been affected by it.

“I actually don’t know whether or not I’m going to die quickly.”

“Please don’t say that. That’s not going to occur!”

“Each residing factor will ultimately die…however I don’t need to die so early. That’s why I actually need the file of this temple’s sufferers.”

“Alright. Then I’ll do what I can for you….however it could be a bit of exhausting for now…”

My face, which briefly bought brighter, darkened once more as if it was sprinkled with ash.

“Why?”

Possibly he wasn’t actually the Excessive Priest, in any case.

“…I ran away as a result of I didn’t need to work.”

“Pardon?”

At the moment, it was noisy outdoors as if somebody had been listening to our dialog.

“Oops. I believe somebody is coming. I ought to get going now.”

“W-What? The place are you going now?”

“I need to keep away from troublesome work.”

He was so decided to go away.

“However…we haven’t completed speaking….”

“I’ll discover you. I’d love to fulfill somebody as valuable as you once more. Let’s speak about it then.”

After ending his phrases, the Excessive Priest rushed to the terrace that he had simply left. It have to be very pressing contemplating a person in his 70s rushed out like that.

‘He’s very vigorous.’

And by the point he disappeared fully, the door burst open.

“You’ve been ready for a very long time. I had a tough time discovering the Excessive Priest, you see.”

“Ah.”

It was Raphael who had left earlier. After getting into the door together with his chest out, he checked out me for some time earlier than stepping again.

“The Excessive Priest is right here.”

And there was one other man subsequent to him.

“I heard somebody got here to see me. I’m the Excessive Priest.”

“However you don’t resemble the Excessive Priest Caleb that I do know.”

That man entered the room. He seemed about the identical age as Excessive Priest Caleb with a barely thinner physique and sharper options. The person shook his fingers in bewilderment due to my phrases.

“T-That’s….What are you speaking about? Haha. I’m actually the Excessive Priest.”

“Are there quite a lot of excessive clergymen right here?”

Raphael got here nearer to us, shaking his head in a rush.

“No, there’s just one particular person. And the one you’re searching for is true right here.”

“…However you’re not the Excessive Priest. You’re a special particular person. Why are you mendacity to me?”

“Why would I mislead you? I’m telling the reality.”

“I assume that is how the temple has been fooling us. Does a senior priest imply a senior liar?”

Raphael hurriedly bowed his head at my phrases.

“I-I apologize. Since I couldn’t discover the Excessive Priest…umm I used to be in a rush….so I lied as a result of I didn’t assume the Duchess acknowledged the Excessive Priest. I apologize as soon as once more.”

“…I’m actually upset. I ought to get going now.”

Raphael approached me in a rush.

“That’s…I sincerely apologize for that. So please forgive me….”

Wanting into his eyes, I may inform directly what Raphael feared.

“However I perceive how exhausting you tried to search out the Excessive Priest. So I’ll ignore this matter, since I used to be the one who visited with out prior discover.”

His face turned brilliant.

“Ah. I’m very touched by your generosity, Duchess Petri.”

“And in regards to the donation…at first, I wished to take it again, however because you’ve labored exhausting even when you tried to idiot me, I’m going to go away it to you. I’ll think about donating to God as an alternative of praying.”

“Ah…! How beneficiant of you! I may really feel how devoted you’re with this act of kindness!”

That was the least factor I wished to listen to from him.

Anyway, I’ve to return right here usually to analysis Rere’s sickness.

Nonetheless, if it was recognized that I got here right here usually to search for the paperwork with none motive, there could be rumors going round about Duchess Petri very quickly.

In the event that they knew that I had been searching for the temple sufferers’ data, there could be rumors that somebody inside our family was sick.

Proper now, the rumor about Rere’s illness was nothing however an unfounded hypothesis, however it was apparent what would occur when the phrase ‘sick’ got here out within the open.

Due to this fact, it could be extra useful to unfold the rumor that the Duchess is a believer of God who usually visited the temple to wish.

“As a result of our God is beneficiant.”

“That’s proper. So please…I hope you may neglect about this matter as effectively…”

“I’ll. I’m not somebody who goes again on my phrase. Then I’ll return once more. At the moment, I hope to see the Excessive Priest as an alternative.”

“I-I’ll be certain to try this! I can even see you out…”

Would you belief your self when you have been me?

However I laughed extra merrily than ever.

“It’s alright. You don’t have to try this.”

As a result of there was one thing I needed to ask Luca, who was smiling unusually subsequent to me.

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