Chapter 299 – 299. Wraith Return (1)
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The 3rd priest of the Liberia elves,
Ilayna Tres Liberia’s time was famous for passing much faster than others.
“Where did I stop writing….”
After tidying up the mountain of tasks, she devotes the time she can find to her writing activities.
I can’t show it to anyone….
She had a secret hobby that she hadn’t even revealed to the ladies-in-waiting who had assisted her for a long time.
Before she was appointed new director, when she thought that Ileina, who was a young girl at the time, had a dream of becoming a novelist, she couldn’t help but feel very sorry for her. It is because she was forced to give up her dream, which she had cherished since she was suddenly appointed as the new director.
“It ended with the part where the main character, Galahad, whispers love to Eren Savanne, the daughter of the count’s family, in the backyard.”
“Oops!”
At the voice of a woman next to me,
Her silver-haired elf girl raised her arms high as she let out a shriek, startled.
It was the maid of honor Coppola.
How long has she been hiding?
No… Since when did she become one with the wall and water while wearing protective colors?
It originally existed there, and stood there as if it had always existed.
“There was… ? No. Previously… !! How could Coppola know!!”
“Didn’t you drop it on the floor every time? So she just cleaned it up every time she messed up.”
“Kiyik!!”
The more the head maid’s meticulous answers continued, the more the 3rd priest’s head turned red like a boiled octopus.
As if it would explode with just a quick hit,
The young priest whose secret hobbies were discovered showed uncharacteristically flustered appearance that she had always been relaxed.
So while Coppola was always a bad boy enough to rot her insides, she smiled happily inwardly at the sight of Ileina, who was as cute as her daughter on the other hand.
“I didn’t dare to open the contents, but… , Is it a science fiction novel?”
“It is pure literature! It’s not something like that!!”
What I write is order,
All other genres are mere speculation!
At Reina’s insistence, Coppola let out a deep sigh and shook her head.
If this young priest,
If all power was usurped from the Yetzirah Council and enjoyed absolute power, it was clear that the Liberia Elf country would have become a dictatorship that could not see any genre of novels except Sunmoon.
“Literature is for teaching and instruction! Literature for the purpose of fun or amusement is Sado!”
Perhaps proud of her own writing efforts, Ileina proudly presented her position to Coppola.
More than caught up,
From now on, it seemed that he was determined to show his dignity.
“Such as riding a pure love story and suddenly breaking the NTR drift at some point! A lover who gradually develops affectionate love is sold to another character! It’s not once or twice that I’ve been thinking about joining the Knights whenever those so-called writers did something like that!!”
The head of the priest, who began to speak passionately,
She looked like a great revolutionary when she was speaking passionately with her fists clenched.
Seeing the elf girl set up a guillotine in Revolution Square and acted like a people’s trial, Coppola sighed again, saying that she had inadvertently touched the passion switch.
“I understand what you mean, so please stop focusing on your duties, priest.”
“Ugh!”
Coppola said, looking at his pocket watch to confirm that the 10-minute break was over.
At the stern direction of her maid of honor, Ileina vented her displeasure to her teacher, pursed her lips like a scolded child. Although she, of course, did not lead to rebellion.
“Coppola.”
“Yes, please.”
The silver-haired elf girl who picked up her pen opened her mouth and called out to the maid.
To that, the lady-in-waiting, armed with her exactingness and strictness, answered by raising her monocle.
“Coppola was the job she wanted to be as a child, or did she have a dream?”
“… There is not.”
Knowing why Ilaina asked that,
Coppola’s eyes flinched, but she tried not to show it.
“Since I was born, I have been selected as a talent to assist high-ranking officials. Through her rigorous education, she became a maid, and after a long career, she was honored to assist the first priest in her aide.”
After the first priest,
She replied that she was very satisfied with her life now that she had the honor of serving both the 2nd and 3rd generation directors.
“Is that why you are living as an old maid?”
Ilayna asked.
It was an innocent question with no malicious intent.
Upon hearing that question, Coppola raised her papers stored on the desk next to her with both hands and slammed them onto Il Reina’s work table! She put it down with a groan.
“Seeing as you have time to chat, you seem to be very satisfied with your current workload. I am sorry for daring to underestimate the priest’s ability.”
“Sorry! It’s my fault!”
“…….”
Ileina belatedly realized her own fault and begged her forgiveness, but she did not reach her ear of her coppola, who was an old virgin enough to match her with the 4th warrior chief, Ardena Valencia.
After Ardena became friends with the Demon King Slayer,
For Coppola, who was slowly feeling a sense of crisis in her subconscious, her Ileina’s words were no different from touching her rebellion.
“Would you like me to recognize the true groom? How about it, so just look at it this once!”
“I increased the workload because I believed in the priest’s ability, not because of my personal feelings.”
Despite the young priest’s cute charms, the cold heart of her lady-in-waiting, frozen like ice caps, was still the same.
It was a natural result.
Until now, this arrogant priestess had left so many scars on her old maids by pretending to be innocent.
* * *
In the evening, the darkness began to slowly descend.
The lights that illuminated the world are gradually disappearing,
Announcing the end of the day, the curtain of darkness began to warmly cover the world.
‘Dream…. It’s a dream….’
Coppola, walking through the corridors of Maherit’s palace with graceful steps like a pureblood cat of superior pedigree, recalled a conversation he had had with her young magistrate.
He let out a bitter laugh mixed with self-deprecation.
Haven’t you been too strict?
She wondered if she was treating the young Director Shin too coldly….
Walking down her aisle, Coppola gave her a moment to reflect on her own behavior.
‘My dream was to become an academy teacher. I wanted to become a mentor for students with love and kindness, different from the private tutors who devoted themselves exclusively to the purpose of nurturing excellent talent.’
I couldn’t convey it to Ilaina,
Coppola recalled her vaguely cherished dreams in her family’s rigorous teachings.
She never said that she wanted to become a teacher at a prestigious academy like Bria Academy.
It’s good that it’s a small educational institution on the outskirts… She had fondly cherished her dream of being happy to the fullest in a place where she could teach the little ones.
‘The priest said he lived in an unknown mountain village located on the northern edge.’
The second priest was also elected by the priests for the vague reason that she was the reincarnation of the first priest, and Ilayna was elected by the priests for the reason that she was the reincarnation of the second priest who died early.
A little girl who wanted to be a writer,
The reincarnation of the priest… The fate was changed by the priests who came up with a rather implausible reason.
‘Reincarnation of the priest? That sounds funny. It’s just a delusion invented by the old priests. It’s nothing more than a sham story created by priests desperate to hold on to power somehow.’
Coppola had a very negative view of what the old priests called “The reincarnation of the priest.”
The first priest and the second priest,
Because she was the chief maid who served both of them, she knew instinctively.
That the priests who have served so far are not related to each other, but are each born with their own lives and directions.
“Whoa.”
Before she knew it, she reached the front of the priest’s office.
Is it because the delusion has been quite long?
It felt like I had reached a long distance that seemed rather long in an instant.
‘I put off until tomorrow what I couldn’t do today…. I should let you off work a little early.’
It was a consideration for her hysteria.
Although, of course, her resentment at Ilaina’s teasing of her old maid was still on her mind.
Smart.
She knocked with sincerity.
I heard Ilaina’s voice through the door. Coppola then entered her office, opening the doorknob with her graceful hand.
“Chief priest.”
“I just finished my work.”
“Already… Are you saying you’re done?”
“Sure!”
Having completed a mountain of work in one fell swoop,
Hearing Ileina’s bold reply, Coppola put on an expression that seemed to have forgotten her words for a moment.
Elaina Tres Liberia. She already knew that she boasted the most extraordinary job skills among all the new directors of her past, but she couldn’t believe it was this much.
She could tell without looking at the papers.
This smart and wise priest must have handled the tasks with near-perfect ability.
“Priestess, thank you for your hard work today.”
“Coppola too!”
Reina responded with a lively voice to the maid of honor’s respectful greeting, and jumped up from her seat.
She ran to the bedroom and
It was for her own secret (although she got caught) to do her writing activities.
As soon as she finished her class, Coppola couldn’t hold on to her stiff expression and burst into laughter as Ileina acted like a child rushing back to her house.
“Chief!”
But within
Her warm smile had faded, but her face was contorted with confusion and fear.
A window that connects the office and the outside. I witnessed something black appearing through the window.
Ileina, with her back to her window, did not catch the appearance of her assailant, but Coppola, who was talking with her, could see the assailant through her window. So she stretched out her hand to rescue Ilayna.
“This way!!”
Coppola hugged Ilana roughly as he reached out for her.
It was because of the risk that came from instinct.
That was because instinct had clamored that he had infiltrated Maherit’s palace for a disturbing reason.
Aaaaang!!! With a roar as if the compressed air had exploded all at once, the windows shattered into tiny fragments and fell on Ilayna and Coppola. In response, Coppola held her Ileyna tightly, and she blocked the sharp shrapnel with her own body.
“Heuk!”
Flesh being torn to shreds by sharp fragments.
As if cutting with scissors, the elf’s pure white skin was torn into several pieces.
Soon, blood poured out.
A large amount of blood flowed out, forming a puddle of blood, as if a paint canister had been tipped on the floor.
“That loyalty remains.”
Is it some kind of magic tool?
The assailant who smashed the window and broke into the priest’s office was dressed in jet black, as if it were made of black shadows.
No… ,
It is not even clear whether the clothes fit,
It was a bizarre figure in which black jet black was just rampaging without forming a certain shape.
“Coppola.”
As if to protect her baby bird at the cost of her life, the stranger held Ilayna tightly and looked down at the elven woman who was struggling with her pain, then opened her mouth.
I called the maid’s name.
As if I’ve known you for a long time.
But the lady-in-waiting couldn’t hear that. It was because he was in hemorrhagic shock due to excessive blood loss, with sharp fragments stuck all over his body.
“You, what are you… ! How is it… This office is a place that can never be entered unless the priest and the priest give permission to enter….”
Ileina, who was holding her fallen handmaid in her arms, muttered as she glared at her assailant.
The fear of death approaching her chin,
The silver-haired little priest shivered all over his body.
The assailant who had been looking down at him took a step closer. And at the same time, the sharp tip of the knife aimed at the assailant’s back.
“If you move one more step, I will slit your throat right away. Back off, right now!!”
A blonde high elf warrior with a noble appearance.
The assailant, who had been keeping an eye on the young director, turned his head slightly and glanced at the high elf woman aiming a knife at his neck.
“… Is it Arden or Valencia?”
After Coppola, Ardena,
As if she had known them for a long time, Ileina, whose body was drenched in the blood of the head maid, was convinced that the stranger was not an ‘outsider’.
