Chapter 708 – 708. Temple Restoration (1)
Early morning when the sun starts to rise.
Eunhyun looked at the two wives who were sleeping soundly on the bed.
It was very bewitching to see them sleeping soundly, holding each other’s bodies in a state of nakedness, not even wearing pajamas, even underwear.
It was very familiar and affectionate, as if she were being fooled by her sister’s older sister in her arms.
He smiled a little bitterly at the sight and cautiously reached out his hand.
Erin, who had been sleeping with her face buried in Eleanor’s chest, tossed and turned little by little as he quietly arranged Erin’s tousled bangs so that her wives wouldn’t wake up.
“Yes… Hi-Hi.”
Maybe she felt Eunhyun’s touch even while sleeping, Erin let out a wide smile.
She did not know what she was dreaming of, but it was not difficult to imagine that it was a happy dream.
Eun-hyun left the room, leaving her wives sleeping soundly on the bed.
A chilly wind blew from the windows inside the temple main school, where sunlight had not yet entered.
The main school building, guarded by minimal security forces, was very quiet and cool.
“Alvin.”
Eun-hyeon, who was walking through the empty corridors of the building and confirmed that no one was around, quietly called her spirit.
The shadow that formed behind Eunhyeon started to sway little by little, then came up on top of it and began to take on a human form.
He was a shadow spirit artificially created by Eunhyeon and Illyana, and Erwin’s older brother, Erwin.
“Did you call?”
“Uh. Did you recognize it?”
“Four confirmed cases. There are 5 people who have suspicions and circumstances but lack evidence. If we have more time, we can gather other evidence.”
What Eunhyeon ordered Erwin to do separately was the existence of an outsider involved in corruption in the Holy Kingdom of Erenia or the Temple of Vesta.
He succeeded in weeding out and cutting out those who were rotting and decaying within the temple.
However, Eun-hyeon did not think so optimistically that this alone would solve the problem.
Just as we must see the end once we have started, we must root out all those involved in this incident by punishing them.
“… Keep struggling and… Please escort Eleanor.”
Eleanor, who was given the new authority and miracle of ‘divine recovery’ by the goddess Vesta, was on her way to becoming the highest priest representing the temple as the next saint, but in a sense, she was also regarded as the natural enemy of other priests and paladins.
Eleanor, who has the ability to take away her divine power if she does something wrong, is a symbol of fear and fear for those who use the miraculous power of her divine power.
A person who has committed corruption, but whose crime has not yet been revealed.
A man full of ambition who fears that Eleanor may get in her own way in her future career path.
He’s just afraid of Eleanor.
Just because she is in the same temple and is carrying out the duties of a priest and a paladin, it does not mean that they all carry out their duties with a good heart like Agnes or Eleanor.
This place is also a group created by humans, and some act as members of this temple with desire and others with ambition.
In order to completely contain them and completely eradicate her danger, Eleanor’s safety had to be guaranteed.
The means Eunhyeon chose for that was Alvin.
“Of course.”
The magic that Elvin uses to control the shadows has powerful defense enough to block even the sword using mana, and in addition to that, she has a convenient means of moving wherever there is a shadow.
If someone showed her malice targeting Eleanor and harmed her, Elvin would eliminate the source of the threat without hesitation and protect Eleanor.
Since it was an order from his benefactor and owner, Eun-hyeon, Alvin, the spirit who contracted with him, did not question the order.
“Did you ask Erin?”
After the necromancer’s raid on Erenium had calmed down and the atmosphere in the temple had calmed down, Eunhyeon and Eleanor, who had subtly grasped Errin’s feelings, ordered Erwin to hint at Errin’s feelings.
Since she was Erin, who was usually very bright and full of action, even if she tried hard to hide it, she was easily seen by Eunhyeon and Eleanor, who had been together for a long time.
Actually, Erin probably didn’t even realize that she had seen through it.
“Hmm…”
Erwin knew why Erin’s mood was subtly depressed, but she hesitated without telling Eunhyun right away.
It was because of Erin’s request that she never tell Eunhyun.
Alvin, the spirit, swore absolute obedience and loyalty to Eunhyeon, the target of the contract, but Eunhyeon never gave Ervin an order close to coercion.
Between the boundary between her spirit and her brother, Erwin was agonizing.
Eunhyeon, who noticed that, also slightly hardened his face and asked.
“Are you serious?”
“Serious… I wonder if Erin sees it that way.”
Alvin said deliberately in a roundabout way.
He also couldn’t stand to see her younger sister, Erin, being entangled in a strange psycho and going through her troubles, but she did as she pleased, and if she spoke to Eun-hyeon first, it was obvious that she would get angry like a fire.
“… Tell me right away.”
Fortunately, as expected by Erwin, Eunhyeon told the situation with an order that was rarely forced.
If she had opened her mouth to Eun-hyeon not voluntarily but by force, Erin wouldn’t be too angry.
She always said that she was ugly, and she was her brother who scolded her for how she got married with that face, but in the end, Elvin had no choice but to be a soft-spoken brother to her younger sister.
“It seems that the necromancer is very obsessed with Erin.”
“… What?”
It took a while for Eunhyeon to put on a bewildered expression at Alvin’s unexpected answer.
Eunhyun’s expression hardened as she listened to the details of the incident between the necromancer and Erin.
“…”
“Don’t get too upset. That guy, in his own way, didn’t want to worry you or Eleanor-sama, so he was thinking about it.”
Eunhyun smiled bitterly at the words of Erwin defending her sister.
“I have no intention of saying anything out loud. Only… She thinks it would have been better if she had told me. Because we are family.”
If you have a difficult problem or concern, you must have shared the same heart as Eunhyun or Erin.
Eleanor would probably feel sorry for not telling her.
She later made up her mind that if she had the chance, she would have to punish Erin with a slap.
“Then what are you going to do?”
“For now… Stay still.”
“Are you thinking of not going out?”
“I intend to help. But there are too many urgent matters right now for me to get rid of the necromancer first. And… It seems like Erin wants to try it alone.”
Not confiding in Eunhyeon or Eleanor about her troubles and not asking for help meant that she didn’t want to worry her, but at least it meant that Erin wanted to handle this problem by herself.
The only thing Eunhyeon can do is help her Erin grow.
“You may be busy with my orders, but… If Erin asks for help, listen. I will take care of her lack of labor.”
“… Thank you for your concern.”
“Thank you, my wife, of course.”
Returning to the story, while slowly receiving a report of the information collected so far and conceiving a detailed plan for the future, Eun-hyeon noticed a figure visible in the central garden beyond the window in the hallway.
“… Anies?”
Agnes was sitting on a bench in the central garden, looking up at the sky.
“… Please.”
“I will.”
Elvin immediately retreated, hiding her body in the shadows, and Eun-hyeon, now alone, immediately moved her steps towards Agnes.
She was drinking, staring up at the sky just beginning to dawn.
“Big…”
The image of a girl not even 15 years old, not drinking from a glass, but drinking her strong drink from the bottle and blowing her nose.
So heterogeneous
“Are you blowing a jar here alone?”
“Ok?”
Anyes turned her head towards where her voice came from and as soon as she noticed her silver, she put on a sullen expression.
“Joy. Director Nam. What have you been up to this morning?”
“I just can’t sleep.”
Eunhyeon laughed and took out two wine glasses and a bottle from her inventory.
“Do you want a drink?”
When offered a glass of her drink, Agies did not refuse her glass even though he had a sullen expression on his face.
It was because she had run out of the drink she was drinking at the time, and she still wanted to drink more.
After accepting the glass that Eunhyeon gave her without saying anything, Eunhyeon poured a drink into hers.
The clear sound of the lid being opened and the wine being poured into the glass filled the silence between the two.
As soon as she drank from her full glass, the clean yet sweet taste spread in her mouth, giving her a surprised expression.
“… Did you soak this yourself?”
“That’s right.”
“Hmm, fine. Give me a few more bottles if you have them.”
“It is not difficult to give.”
She had already given it as a gift to Rio de, and especially in the case of the nine-tailed fox living in the shrine inside the dungeon, she really liked the liquor that Eun-hyeon brewed herself.
Eun-hyeon, who still had plenty of time to spare, accepted Agnes’ request.
She then spoke to her again.
“So? Why was she blowing on the jar by herself at this hour?”
“You can’t drink while working. Besides, you don’t know how much Alvern nags me even in the afternoon after work. I was told to cut down on drinking.”
Agies continued to grumble, perhaps because he had a lot of dissatisfaction.
Originally, 20 years ago, when she traveled all over the continent while working as a team, she often drank alcohol, so life in her temple must have made her feel quite cramped.
“I don’t have time to eat comfortably outside of this time.”
Early in the morning, before many priests wake up and start their daily routine, it was a time of liberation for Agies to enjoy drinking freely without being disturbed by anyone.
“Are you okay with your work after eating like that?”
“Hmph, if you pray with holy power, you can recover right away from drunkenness.”
If someone heard the blasphemy of using divine power in a very private way, would they react by saying it was absurd, or would they be furious with their sermons?
With her title of Archbishop, the highest priest in the main school of this temple, the number of people who can give her sermons can be counted on her five fingers, so responses are probably closer to the former.
“Hey.”
“Why.”
“The temple… Can it really change?”
“It’s up to you in the future.”
Eunhyeon didn’t promise that it could change.
He only made the situation and the path to the end, but he does not leak to other places, and it is the problem of those who walk properly whether or not to properly walk the path he has laid.
Of course, the system and rules were enforced so that they would not leak easily, and the hands were written so that the force could be exerted by showing Eleanor’s ‘Sacred Retrieval’, which was a symbol of absolute judgment to the people of the temple.
All that remains is to manage them properly.
“… What have I been doing all this time?”
Agnes looked up with a blank expression.
I can’t help but feel joy and relief at the fact that the corruption in the temple that hadn’t been cleaned up so far was quickly cleaned up as soon as Eun-hyeon intervened.
To that extent, he also disproved that among the people in the temple, including himself, there were only incompetent and pathetic writers.
“I really hated politics.”
By his own choice, someone can enjoy a peaceful life, but if he makes the wrong choice, someone can die very easily.
The simple logic and responsibility were burdensome, and I hated having to spend my emotions slandering and fighting with people in the same group for the sake of power and interests.
Just in front, as a symbol of the priests, handing over the mission of eradicating the corrupt internal forces to others, putting herself first as a saint and focusing only on raising the prestige of the temple, I could only sigh when I thought that this was the result.
“Do you still hate it?”
“Huh. Seriously, I hate it the most in the world.”
Agnes smiled at Eunhyun’s question and answered without hesitation.
“Still… From now on, I have to keep my head straight.”
The current pope, Arban, is not long to live.
Albern, the grandson of Arban, who was recommended as the successor, is too young to inherit the position.
And he had no intention of giving the ruined temple to Arban’s hands.
“And you can’t be a senior who takes care of work for my successor.”
As a senior, it is disrespectful to put a lot of burden only on Eleanor, who is currently standing in front of herself and is the main axis in bringing about changes in the temple.
“Thank you so much. Thank you for giving me a chance to fix it right away, even if it’s late.”
“It was nothing. It’s not like you today.”
Perhaps it was not because of alcohol that Agies, who was always confident and rough-spoken, spoke in a particularly emotional way.
It may be because, with the help of Eunhyeon and Eleanor, she felt relieved as she was able to put down some of the burden she had been carrying so far.
Agies, however, did not readily admit it.
“It’s because of the alcohol. Hey. For alcohol.”
