Chapter 58 – 13. Priest, I Need Your Holy Water. (5)
Monster? Wasn’t it all over? I’m sure Isabelle said she had taken care of the remaining ones… It felt like some ominous energy was creeping up.
Breaking out in a cold sweat, I move my eyes slightly and look at Isabelle again.
Her complexion had suddenly darkened. At one point, she bit her lip and was openly frowning.
“Ha… I guess I should go out and see. Priest, priest, don’t go anywhere, just stay here. “It’s dangerous, so I’ll clean it up and come back right away.”
“Ah yes… Be careful.”
Isabel let out the sighs that had built up deep in her lungs and stood up holding her knees. She trudged to the door and stood in front of a woman who was a wolf beast.
“Are you hurt?”
“Gwae, it’s okay. “I can still fight.”
A female prisoner clutching her side and breathing irregularly. That’s what she said, but wherever she looked, she was in no condition to fight.
Since blood was constantly flowing out of her abdomen, it seemed like she desperately needed treatment right away.
Isabel let out a long snort and shook her head, probably thinking the same thing as me. She forced the prisoner woman, who was trying to get out, into her.
“It’s okay. You go in and rest. The priest will treat you.”
“B-but…”
“Stay inside because you might be disturbed. Where are they?”
“That… There is one if you go to the back of town… “
“Don’t come out. I know that I will kill you the moment I hear that you went out in vain. Got it?”
“… “
Isabel keeps her nails hammered, so she can’t go out. Soon, her eyes turned to me, who was looking blankly behind her.
“Priest, I need to take care of this friend. If I go somewhere, please stop me from going.”
“Oh, yeah… “I understand.”
After hearing my answer, Isabel takes one last look at the prisoner woman, then turns her back and walks out the door. With that, she took out her machete from her waist and ran straight to the back of the village.
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“Are you okay now?”
“Okay, thank you. Priest…”
Some time has passed since Isabelle left. I treated the beast woman as she asked, and thanks to her, I drained her holy water to its limit and became skinny.
Ah… I think I’m going to be anemic…
This holy water is basically taking away moisture from the body, so my eyes are already spinning.
No, there must be quite a lot of people… I pushed myself to my limit to save at least one more person, but I didn’t even have the strength to stand.
“Ha…”
“Priest Isaiah, please drink some water.”
“Ah, thank you. Rachel Deacon.”
Deacon Rachel brings water to me, who is drooping from exhaustion. Fortunately, since we were the same priest, he seemed to have noticed that I was having a hard time and came running for a month.
But it would have been better if Deacon Rachel could only extract holy water here…
In fact, she knows she can’t expect too much from a new priest. Bishop Lisa must have sent it along with me because he knew this, and his intention was clear to hand over the work that needed to be done in due course.
However… Even if you know that… When people are having a hard time, they don’t even think about it. All I could think about more desperately was that I could have extracted at least some holy water.
“Sorry. “I don’t think I can help you.”
Deacon Rachel wiped away the sweat with a gloomy face, as if she could see through my heart. I smiled and said it was okay.
“We are still in the learning stage. There’s no need to be too hasty. I’ll teach you slowly later. “You don’t have to worry too much.”
“Yes…”
Deacon Rachel answered in a dejected, crawling voice, probably because she thought it was pathetic that she couldn’t do anything even though she told her not to worry. I felt like if I said more here, she would be discouraged, so I gently stroked her head without saying a word.
But… It was too early…
Deacon Rachel is still at an age where she needs to learn more from the monastery. He came in hastily without an investiture ceremony due to the denomination’s unreasonable increase in numbers, so it was natural that he couldn’t do it.
“Ugh… Sorry for the conversation, but that priest… “Can this get better soon?”
As she was taking a moment to catch her breath and chat with Deacon Rachel, a female wolf beast came up to me, making a groaning noise. I took a quick look at her condition and lifted her body up from her chair.
“I can’t go anywhere now with that wound. “Don’t think about anything for a while and get some rest.”
“Ugh…”
When she tries to get up again, I force her to lie down again. Her colleagues keep telling her they are in danger, and she has to go fight. But honestly, with her body now, it was difficult to even walk properly.
As Isabel said, this prisoner woman was nothing but a burden.
It’s a bit much, but I think being here will be helpful to Isabel and the rest of her colleagues.
And what… Honestly, if Isabelle goes, won’t everything be resolved on its own?
No matter how many monsters attacked again, I never thought I would lose, even though I am a warrior in name and character.
In fact, I had already confirmed her skills with my own eyes. I felt the most dangerous now without Isabelle in my heart.
“… “
By the way…
Hmm… He’s a wolf beast…
I narrow my eyes at her and quietly look her up and down slowly. At first, I thought she was a strange person, but when I looked closer, I saw her face as if I had seen it many times before.
This beast woman is the Sylvia I know, right?
Sylvia was in charge of scouting for the hero party in the ‘Sata’ world. It’s not clear, but when you say she’s a wolf beast, she’s the only one who comes to mind.
Normally, you would recognize it as soon as you see it…
I look closely again to see if she is Sylvia.
How should I explain this… If you look at her features, she is actually Sylvia, but her appearance is completely different.
Silvia is definitely a tsundere character whose only charm is her stocky height and clinking. However, the girl next to me right now doesn’t fit the bill in any way, except for her appearance.
Her appearance also became more adult… Aren’t you too tall?
Maybe it’s because I’m small, but even taking that into account, I’ve grown too big. Her height was well over 180 and her appearance had changed to such an old-fashioned way that, unless you looked closely, you could not help but wonder if it was really Sylvia.
The features that I remembered, such as her golden hair, wolf tail, and ears, were all intertwined, so if it had been a fleeting relationship, I would never have noticed.
Tsk… Still, I’m glad. She can become the woman of her dreams, even if only in a parallel world…
In the game, she kept saying that she wished she were taller. In a way, it seems like she achieved that dream in another world… She was a little different from what she wanted, but somehow she achieved what she set out to do.
“Priest? “Do you have anything to say?”
Oops… I stared at it for a while without even realizing it.
A wolf beast asks as if he has something to say… No, Sylvia. I forced a smile and quickly shook my head and made an excuse.
“Yes? Oh, no. It was hard, so I lost my mind for a moment.”
“Ah… Is that so. Ugh… Just because of me… Sorry. “I will force you to take out holy water and I will definitely repay you for this favor later.”
“Aha… There’s no need to do that…”
Sylvia lowered her head as if she thought it was because of her that I was having a hard time. I told her to raise her head and not feel sorry because I did what was natural as a priest.
What? But is he really the delinquent kid I knew? No, in the first place, Sylvia… Right?
The way he speaks is the same, and it feels like he has become much nicer than I remembered.
This made me doubt once more whether it was her, and made me look at her more carefully than I did just now.
Hmm… What? Has his personality changed like Bishop Lisa?
I can’t adapt to the feeling of separation. Normally, if I had taken the characters from the game as is, I would have come up with a certain estimate, but since each character I saw had a completely different personality, I couldn’t even tell if this was correct.
Still, since the voices are the same, it seems clear that it’s true…
Miss, I don’t know. In the first place, there was only one wolf beast in this city. She made no sense other than who she was. One way or another, she was certain that she was Sylvia.
“Anyway, take a nap. Because Sylvia fought hard enough. When I wake up, it will all be over.”
“Ha… Yes, I understand. Huh? But priest… What is my name…”
Huh? Name? Ah…
Damn… I made a mistake. When I thought about it, she didn’t even share her full name, but I already knew her name and naturally said it. My body stopped and stiffened for a while, and my brain moved quickly, and my eyes turned to the mercenary badge hanging around her neck as if we had made a promise.
“Ah… That… Yo, a mercenary group. It was written there. “You must be Sylvia.”
“Ah… Yes… “You saw this.”
“I saw it when I was applying holy water.”
“Hmm…”
Sylvia touches a mercenary badge that looks like a dog tag. I smiled awkwardly again and barely got over the crisis.
