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Chapter 90: Interlude - Seti And The Saintess
* * *Seti thought about the Saintess as she chased after her.She did not possess the dignity one would expect from someone in her position. She would laugh foolishly at the term ‘friend’ and even wore a blindfold that didn’t suit her… Yet, she was a girl who received the love of the gods all to herself.Seti found it difficult to like her.It wasn’t a complex emotion like anger or hatred. All of Seti’s hatred was solely directed at the Korean government.Then, was it perhaps jealousy? No, she was far from such an emotion as well.If she truly envied the Saintess, she would have taken advantage of the favor the Saintess showed her without hesitation.It was just that… she couldn’t bring herself to like her. Yes, that was the most accurate explanation she could come up with.If the Saintess, who had infinite favor towards her, learned of this, she would be shocked, but what could she do?That was just how human emotions worked.She ran about recklessly, without a single care, setting innocent hearts ablaze.…Pathetic.As she made her way across the academy, following in the footsteps of the girl wearing the Invisibility Cloak, Seti tried to rationalize her feelings in that manner.After all, Seti knew herself better than anyone else.Ultimately, her feelings towards the Saintess were nothing more than a form of childish sulking.Seti’s misfortune was not the Saintess’ fault.Although the Saintess might have been the trigger, she merely accelerated something that was bound to happen eventually.The Saintess had fought fair and square to prove her friendship. She was strong, and Seti lost. That was all.There was neither malice nor hostility involved.It was just that Seti’s situation was not normal.The Korean government then forced Seti and her sisters to commit ‘certain acts’ after they failed to meet their expectations in the Superhuman Olympia.Unable to tolerate her tainted origins, the gods withdrew all their blessings from her.None of it was the Saintess’ fault.She knew that. Only in her head, though.…As Seti was sorting out her thoughts, the footsteps she had been following came to a stop.Unable to find the Saintess hidden under the Invisibility Cloak, Seti also stopped right next to where the footsteps had ceased.The back door of the first-year girls’ dormitory.“…Classes have not ended for the day.”Seti crossed her arms, staring at the firmly locked dormitory door.If it were anywhere else, she might have simply assumed that the girl had concealed her footsteps and slipped away unnoticed, but… it was unlikely that the Saintess would do that after coming this far.“Hey.”There was no answer, but Seti was sure the Saintess was watching her from somewhere close and continued speaking.“…I’m heading to my room. If you have something to say… you can follow me.”With those words, Seti entered the dormitory.Although classes were still ongoing, there were quite a few people in the dormitory due to the free attendance for the temporary classes.Seti passed through the first-floor lobby where students were chatting quietly and headed straight to her room.Unlike in the boy’s dormitory, there was no barbaric tradition of room disputes in the girls’ dormitory, so Seti’s room was nothing special.Her room was located on the fifth floor, neither high nor low, on the right at the very end of the hallway.Creak.After she entered her room, Seti left the door open and waited for a while.Once the same amount of time it would have taken to drink a cup of tea had passed, she finally shut the door and reached out into the empty air.Her fingertips grasped on a thin piece of fabric. With a soft rustle, the Invisibility Cloak slipped off, revealing the girl who had been hiding beneath it.Her disheveled white hair, the slightly damp blindfold, and her hands clasped together tightly as if in prayer.Seti quietly observed the girl for a moment before speaking to her softly.“Are you okay?”…I am not okay.“Why did you do this?”You did this. The both of you.“…You deceived me.”“Huh?”“I-I trusted you. I thought of you both as friends…”“What are you even talking about…?”“I saw everything! That day on the rooftop! The two of you were together!”Rooftop? Seti flinched when she realized what the Saintess was talking about.“Y-you two looked so close, you know? And you want me to believe that you only met at the academy?”“…”“Why… why didn’t you tell me? Were you afraid that I’d come between the two of you? Is that why you pretended not to know each other? To deceive me?”As the Saintess’ pitch grew higher, Seti’s heart grew colder.How much did she hear? Did she hear them talking about revenge? No, they hadn’t spoken openly about important things…Just as Seti’s mind was getting muddled, the Saintess blurted out something outside Seti’s expectations.“How long have you and Yeomyeong been dating… no, how far have the two of you gone?”“What?”“N-no way… Have the two of you gone all the way?”All the way? Does that mean what I think it does?No, there was no way that the Saintess would say something like that…As Seti stared in shock, the Saintess turned bright red, and blurted out,“Has Yeomyeong… left his footprints on Seti’s pristine white snowfield?”Ah, so she was referring to that. Seti was left speechless and shut her mouth.Interpreting Seti’s silence as a tacit confirmation, the Saintess could no longer contain her emotions and began to cry.Her hands trembled, her blindfold grew damp, her cheeks became as red as an apple, and snot dripped from her once-pretty lips.It didn’t take long for her hiccuping sobs to turn into wails.“Waaaaah…! Seti…!”Seti didn’t push the Saintess away but embraced her instead. And without saying a word, she patted the Saintess’ back.It was a habit that had naturally developed from dealing with tearful sisters.Yet her mind still found it difficult to keep up with the reality of the situation.…What’s wrong with her?As Seti desperately tried to figure out the reason she was behaving like this, the Saintess continued sobbing in her chest, snot dripping from her nose.Only after the Saintess managed to stop crying did she cautiously raise her head and ask Seti.“Seti… sniffle, did you forget our promise?”…Promise? What promise?“Didn’t you promise that… sniffle, after you officially become a priestess, we would live together in the Holy Nation?”Only then did Seti finally remember the promise they made during their time at the middle school division of the Superhuman Olympia.- When I officially become a priestess, let’s live together in the Holy Nation.It was a reckless promise made by a young girl who still dreamed of endless possibilities, wanting to escape the hellish reality of Korea.The very person who made the promise had completely forgotten about it, but the Saintess held it dear.Was that the reason she cried so sorrowfully because she could no longer become a priestess if she lost her virginity?Seti found the misunderstanding was… somewhat pitiable, and she smiled faintly without realizing it.She gently stroked the Saintess’ back and said.“…I’m sorry. I can’t become a priestess anymore.”A truth mixed with lies. She really couldn’t become a priestess anymore, though the reason wasn’t because she’d lost her virginity.“S-Seti…”“But it’s not like I broke our promise. We can still live in the Holy Nation… even if I’m not a priestess.”“…”As soon as Seti finished speaking, the Saintess lowered her head once more. It seemed she might start crying again.…You can’t enter the Five Great Temples if you’re not a priestess.She swallowed the words that almost escaped her throat.Should I be the only one trapped in there, waiting for you to come visit me? Not once a week, but perhaps once a month?This wasn’t the future the Saintess had dreamed of.What she longed for was every day with Seti.One where they could talk together, pray together, and even share the same bed at times… a life like that.She didn’t want to spend her life waiting for a friend who would visit her occasionally, like the previous Saintess, while guarding the temple alone.…As the Saintess was lost in her thoughts, the face of a man popped into her mind.Yeomyeong.Her second friend and the intruder who left his footprints on Seti’s snowfield (?).For some reasons she couldn’t explain, just the thought of him somehow sparked a small flame deep in her chest.This unfamiliar feeling that no one had ever told her about.The more she thought about Yeomyeong, the stronger this feeling grew, refusing to be extinguished.From their terrible first meeting, to fighting dragons together to save Manchuria, arriving at the academy together, him slapping her in the shelter, and…Even the memory of him and Seti spending the morning together, just the two of them.And when her thoughts reached that point, the emotions in her heart grew too overwhelming for her to handle.Was this the anger she had only heard about? Or jealousy? Or something else…“…Seti, what should I do?”Eventually, unable to control her emotions any longer, the Saintess spoke up.“Hmm? Why? If it’s because of the promise…”“No, it’s not that, um… it’s… I-I… towards Yeomyeong…”“…Towards Yeomyeong?”“I-It seems like I think of him… in a special way.”Upon hearing her abrupt confession, Seti’s face became stiff, it was an expression the Saintess had never seen before—cold and unyielding.Only after seeing her expression did the Saintess realize what she had just said.“Um… Seti? Th-that thing I just said…”Before the Saintess could further elaborate, Seti pushed her away.“…Saintess, do you know?”Seti’s voice was cold and devoid of inflection, causing the Saintess’s face to crumple with tears.“S-Seti, why are you speaking so formally to me all of a sudden? Don’t…”“Actually, I have no relationship with Yeomyeong.”“…What?”“Not yet.”The Saintess’s mouth hung open in shock.“H-Huh…? Wait a minute! T-then, what about the snowfield?”“…I’m not sure what to say about that. Feel free to think what you want, Saintess.”The Saintess tried to ask more, but Seti simply picked her up.“W-wait! Seti!”As the Saintess, thrown out of the room, yelled, Seti had already flung the Invisibility Cloak out the door as well.Bang!Staring blankly at the closed door, the Saintess finally understood what she had just done.“…W-what did I just do?”Behind the Saintess, who had lowered her head with a face as red as a tomato, the elven girl standing in the hallway, waiting for the door to open, retreated cautiously.
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