The Healer Of Light And The Prince Of Darkness

65. The Kind And Sweet Brother

Sooner or later the rumors reached the king's ears. And to say he was intrigued would be the greatest understatement. When he had already survived the shock of not having chosen the proper successor and finally putting his hands on the right Priestess, it seemed that he had been tricked yet again.

The goddess really enjoyed making a fool of him, it appeared.

But then the most disturbing news on the agenda were...

"YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!"

Rinea threw away the report she was holding onto the desk angrily. Brat number one and two were rapidly blinking and enthusiastically averting their eyes in order not to meet her furious eyes.

'Tch, what cowards...!'

To drop such a bomb and not take responsibility to at least explain...!

"It's true, my lady."

Rinea turned angrily towards brat number three – Gale's friend, was it? – and narrowed her eyes in suspicion.

'Your lady not even in your next life, you brat!'

Regardless of whether he had perceived her feelings towards him or not, he continued to explain, "The servants from the Golden and Silver Palace were talking about it when we visited during one of our breaks."

"You have so much time that you even allow yourself to wander around the palaces of the Queen and the future Sun of Hares?!"

"We were gathering some important information for your sake, my lady..."

"Cut it off! I haven't given you permission! What do you think people will say if they see one of the royal knights wandering around such places? You really want to see the whole squadron being dragged into the mess of the conflict between the soldiers and knights, don't you?"

Rinea sighed, bending her head down in attempt to calm herself down. She was supposed to pour a mind into these fools' head, wasn't it?

She had to be calm and patient.

"...Come on. Explain yourself, knight of the royal army."

Rinea glared at him maliciously and added lowly, "...and mind your language."

If it was in some other situation, she knew that no one would just stay and do nothing when a fourteen year old girl is yelling at them, but she was their captain – even though just temporary.

Actually, come to think of it...

'I wonder if I'm the worse or Leo still surpasses me in this category...'

"We did that with the only thought of helping you, our captain."

"..."

The others bowed their heads the moment they saw brat number three do so.

"Well then, I guess nothing can be done when it has already happened. Tell me what you have found."

"Yes. The servants had heard it from those that serve in the Main Palace. It seems that the king is about to summon the Circle not later than this afternoon to discuss the problem with the Temple murderer."

"The new rising star on the stage..."

"Right. Some people even call her the new Saintess, who was brave and strong enough to fight off the corruption deep into the Temple that even the king couldn't exterminate."

"So...they admire her?"

"Yes. Some even want to go to the Temple and pray as they did before the closing. There should be a ceremony as well for welcoming the new chosen one as per tradition, but the lack of any news regarding this confuses people and they wonder what's happening..."