“What, you don’t like me being mushy?”
“No, never mind. This is better.”
He doesn’t like it at first, then backtracks again. I played with the straw in front of me, then I asked lightly.
“What is?”
“Because I’m scared of you when you’re mad.”
I got angry only once. I guess it stuck to his mind.
I won’t get angry anyway unless Lisandro does something wrong. Other than that, nothing else would set me off.
Even so, I didn’t deny his words and gave my last warning before I left for the temple.
“Then continue being scared. Don’t make me angry, okay?”
My lovely baby brother will probably remember this and keep his word until the end.
Lisandro was that kind of younger brother.
* * *
“...So what Your Grace is saying is that you will make it so that Lady Yurenia will remain as a symbol.”
“Yes, that’s the plan.”
Hailey Rogelio nodded slowly without denying anything.
Billium groaned inwardly.
He was someone who devoted himself and his talents to the people, so he couldn’t say something against another, even if it was something he didn’t agree with.
Even though his influence gradually weakened, he followed the doctrine of God and led the believers without letting go of his hope.
And as he had been a Pope for quite some time, he was already old and exhausted.
He was only a simple old man whose power was already weakening, but his glimmering blue eyes showed wisdom unlike any young man’s.
“Hmm...”
Instead of sitting quietly round the table, the high priests all groaned quietly.
Only the high priests and the Pope knew that the saint had appeared.
The oracle had come to them, and it was a cause for joy, but then the lord of the Rogelio family immediately asked for a meeting with them.
They accepted her with no intention of refusing.
She was from a noble household who gave the greatest support to the temple, but even more so because Hailey’s daughter was the first saint to appear in seventy years.
Yet despite the oracle, they couldn’t rejoice because Hailey wanted her daughter to remain only as a ‘symbol’.
To be honest with them, the proposal she presented to the presbyteral council wasn’t bad.
‘Everything’s for the benefit of the temple. The problem of devotion that Her Grace has pointed out is also... This is a good way to make up for it. There’s nothing better than this to resolve the situation when the saint has appeared late.’
Stroking his long beard, Billium was visibly troubled. The plan that the Duchess proposed was really quite good.
It was a systematic plan to take care of more people at a higher level of service that the temple has been doing thus far.
It was right to accept it right away, but there was only one reason why he couldn’t.
Hailey was saying that her daughter will remain as a symbol, but what she’s implying is that the saint would be set up as a scarecrow.
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