Chapter 34 – 8. The Lord Is Watching Everything. (One)
“Ugh…”
‘This place…’
The pure white ceiling of lattice tiles catches your eye. After looking up for a long time with blind eyes, I groaned from the headache that was coming.
‘I’m sure…’
I was caught by the green tea head. Then I remember Bishop Lisa saving me by shooting a holy arrow… What happened next was blurry, as if someone had put fog in my head.
Did he get nervous and faint in the middle?
The questions kept coming, and I was just about to wake up to find an appropriate answer.
“Ugh… !”
A slight pain that instantly spreads throughout your body. The muscle pain from the day before was pressing hard on me and pulling me inward again.
“Priest Isaiah… “Don’t get up.”
I couldn’t finish it just once, so when I tried to get up again, a familiar voice gently tapped my ear as if it had been waiting. I turned my head slightly to see if it could be true, and as I expected, Bishop Lisa was tilting her head and giving me a worried look.
“Lord, Bishop…”
The moment she saw her, her voice crawled out of her reflex. Of course, she didn’t say anything to me or do anything, but it was as if the fear engraved on her body had reawakened… It was an action that came from instinct.
“You were overdoing it. “Don’t think about what to do today, just lie still.”
“Oh, yeah…”
She forced me to lie down by pressing my chest and straightened up the disheveled blanket. As I shifted my gaze to her dumbfounded face and widened my narrow field of vision, I realized that this was none other than Bishop Lisa’s personal sleeping room.
“I finished all the treatment. It will be difficult to move until tomorrow. If there is anything uncomfortable, call the believers. Do you understand?”
“Yes… Bishop…”
What? She felt a sense of disconnect from the bishop’s unusually kind appearance and got goosebumps all over her body.
Normally, a bishop would have scolded me for not doing one of these things correctly and used that as an excuse to bully me. However, instead of being angry, he was genuinely worried about me with an expression I had never seen in my life, so I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.
‘I guess it’s because of that, right?’
Well, I sent him to run some errands, but he came home completely exhausted. Since I witnessed with my own eyes that she was covered in scars from head to toe and was being held captive by a monster, it was natural for any normal person to be worried, no matter how much I hated her.
“That bishop…”
“Yes?”
“It’s because I don’t remember what happened yesterday…”
“You fainted.”
“Ah…”
“He collapsed as soon as he saw me. “It looks like you were very tired.”
She gives her answer before she can even finish her sentence. It seemed like he was already looking closely at what I was thinking.
Seueuuk-
“Hmm…”
There was silence for a moment, and Bishop Lisa let out an exclamation toward the floor and gently cupped both of my hands, which were on top of the blanket. He lowered his head and continued speaking in a sinister voice.
“I’m sorry.”
“Yes… Yes?!”
Am I not hearing right now? For a moment, a big question mark appeared above my head, and I couldn’t help but believe my ears. After all, Bishop Lisa was apologizing to me, something that couldn’t have happened without me eating something wrong.
“If I had known it would end up like this, I wouldn’t have sent it alone.”
“…”
“I was sending at least one believer… “I was foolish.”
She bows her head repeatedly and asks for my forgiveness.
Actually, I didn’t do anything wrong, but I felt like I was feeling guilty about spending the day alone as a man.
To be honest, it would have been ridiculous for her to even think about it. Since they were not kidnapped in the middle of the night, but were attacked in broad daylight, they must have thought this was some kind of lightning strike.
“Gwae, it’s okay. Rather, did you wait for me all night?”
“Yes? Ah… Actually, it was so late that I went to the market. But no matter where I looked, it wasn’t there… On the way back, just in time… Like that…”
“Well, you said that…”
I wondered how it had suddenly appeared there, but since I didn’t come back until the sun set, I guess I got worried and went out to look for it myself. However, since I was captured at the time, I couldn’t have known where I was, and it seemed like I happened to witness the scene on my way back.
‘And… Then you were really lucky to survive…’
In fact, I was being dragged around without making a move, but the only explanation for this was that it was heavenly luck that helped me.
“You were very scared, weren’t you?”
“Yes… Little…”
He looks at me pitifully, then puts his hand up and gently strokes my head. Is it because of my mood that kindness feels heavy? When her skin touched her hair, she flinched reflexively.
“Bishop… Rather, those people… What happened?”
“Those people… Ah… Those bastards.”
She had no idea what happened because she fainted halfway through. The fact that I was alive like this meant that I was either captured or killed, so I wanted to stay alive and receive the proper punishment if possible.
“Bishop?”
She slowly turns her gaze and hesitates to speak. Letting out a sigh as if it had been pulled from her lungs, she slowly opened her mouth.
“I sent you to Amanes.”
“Ah…”
He may have said that he would talk about something else, but he couldn’t have said anything more directly than this. Given Bishop Lisa’s personality, he couldn’t have saved such things.
Honestly, those cubs were no different from the cubs of walking animals. It was obvious that he would have done something like eating when he was hungry, so keeping him alive was no different from a social evil.
“So you don’t have to worry too much. I will never get involved with such disgusting bastards again…”
“… “
She said as if she was different from those people, but when I saw her, the bitch who kidnapped and raped her and the bitch who drugged her and raped her both seemed the same. However, I didn’t want to get into trouble for saying useless things, so I just agreed to Bishop Lisa’s words as she silently listened to my help.
“And I heard that Isabel or something went to talk to the guild leader… Don’t think about anything and just focus on your recovery for now. Did you know?”
Bishop Lisa with a bright smile on her face.
Come to think of it, out of sheer panic, she had forgotten Isabelle’s existence. She is a benefactor who risked her life to save me, a person I barely knew… It must be difficult right now, and I thought I should at least visit her and say hello once her body recovers.
Anyway, that’s it…
“Then the story is…” . “I guess you heard everything.”
She shook her head in response to my question. She seemed to know roughly what was going on. However, this was probably said from Isabelle’s point of view, so I decided to add a little more because I didn’t want to cause any misunderstanding.
“Bishop… I’m telling you this in case you misunderstand, but I didn’t do anything. Those guys suddenly attacked me…”
I decided to explain it step by step, starting with the circumstances of the accident. Bishop Lisa could have misunderstood that this was because I was messing around again, so I had to give a proper explanation.
It’s not like I was caught acting like a prostitute, I was really kidnapped.
How long have the rumors been going on like that? Bishop Lisa, who had been listening quietly, suddenly covered my mouth.
“I know. Know… I know you’re not the type of person to do that, so stop talking and take a break. Yes?”
She forces her half-raised body to lie down.
Ugh… I wonder how bad my behavior has been, so I have to give an explanation like this.
Even though it was something the status window told me to do, even when I thought about it, I looked so ugly right now.
Knock-
While various words were being exchanged, a loud knocking sound was heard on the door. Bishop Lisa and I’s gaze naturally turned towards the door, and after a brief pause, we heard a woman’s calm voice.
[Bishop, it is said that His Majesty the Cardinal will arrive soon. I think you should just come out now.]
Eminence the Cardinal? For a moment, a forgotten memory passes through my mind.
‘Right. You said you would come today…’
So many things happened simultaneously that I completely forgot about it. Normally, I should have gone out and helped with the work, but it was difficult to even get up in this state, so I felt like I would have to stay here quietly.
“Yes, I understand. “I’ll be out soon.”
She spoke towards her door and got up from her seat. She glanced at me and scratched her head with a troubled expression, as if she was worried.
“Priest Isaiah, I am going to leave now. “I’m telling you once again that if anything happens, you must call the believers.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Bishop Lisa smiled and told me not to worry, but he still couldn’t take his eyes off me. Until the last moment of his departure, he once again emphasized that he should call if anything happened, and then he left the visit with difficulty.
Bang-
