Saintess - Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Translator: Yonnee

After confirming the saintesss face, Raon had fulfilled his purpose of coming to this place.

So, he began to walk away. However, a weak voice from behind him reached his ears.

Your name Can you tell me your name, too?

How dare you! Who are you to ask His Lordships name so thoughtlessly!

The watchguard shouted right away, but Raon raised one hand to dissuade him.

Turning around to face Agnes again, Raon slowly opened his lips to speak.

Raon.

Raon.

She uttered Raons name helplessly.

Listening to that weak voice made his entire body go stiff.

Goosebumps rose all across his skin, and there was this strange sensation wrapping around his whole body. However, he brushed this off as an insignificant thing.

May the grace of God be with you.

Gravely replying with only this, Raon soon walked away.

Not long after, the iron bars clanged shut.

As she was now left alone, Agnes curled into herself and buried her head between her knees.

When the only person who was kind to her disappeared, her heart pounded again with such arresting unease.

The grace of God, the grace of God

She muttered the same words over and over with a blank face.

She heard that the one and only God of this empire loved everyone.

But she was not the saintess.

Of course, she had never betrayed God because she was not the saintess.

God must know this to be fact.

However, for some reason, she could not disregard her fears.

Agnes hoped that tomorrow would not come.

* * *

At the confession room of a chapel, where its stained glass windows glittered beautifully

There was a woman who sobbed in a low voice, and at the other side of the solid wall, Saintess Veronica caressed her rosary, listening carefully to the womans confession.

The middle-aged woman admitted that she and her wife had been fighting for a very long time now.

She said that she had devoted her whole life for the sake of her husbands recovery, but there were no signs at all of him getting better. And this morning, she hated his sleeping husband so much that this thought crossed her mindthat she wanted to kill him.

However, it was only a moment.

Horrified by her wicked heart, the woman immediately rushed to a confession room.

To wash away her heart, which was full of sin.

Saintess Veronica recited a prayer in a perceptive voice.

She forgave all the sins of the devotee who confessed her wrongdoings in front of the one and only God.

Only then did the woman leave the confession room with a light expression, as if she had rid herself of a very heavy burden.

The woman whose sins were washed away would now return to her daily life, and she would continue faithfully taking care of her sick husband.

Veronica also had a satisfied smile upon her lips as the woman left.

However, without a trace, this smile died down a long time after the woman disappeared from her sight.

Then, hearing from a priest that Pope Andreas had visited the chapel, she hurriedly walked towards where he was.

Your Holiness the Pope.

Saintess Veronica.

The pope made a sign of the cross and greeted her with courtesy.

For a moment, Veronicas eyes gravitated towards the papal crown, glistening atop the popes head.

With an emerald base to symbolize the one and only God, numerous gems such as sapphires, rubies and pearls were used to adorn the papal crown.

In particular, the cross at the top of the papal crown was studded with a total of 300 carats of diamonds.

A huge budget was used to make that very crown sitting atop the popes head, perhaps enough to feed all the people of the Devere Empire for years to come.

As such, it was obvious to see that the religious institution of the empireor maybe the pope himselfhad such great power and wealth.

Im sure youve heard.

Hearing Pope Andreass solemn tone, Veronica nodded slowly.

She could guess what was to come out of his lips.

The news had already spread that the saintess of the prophecy had been captured alive.

A ceremony will be held tomorrow at dawn to confirm her sainthood. All the people of the Devere Empire shall watch with bated breath.

Veronica herself had also undergone the same ceremony before.

It was the ceremony of identifying a saintess, and it was not all too different from the ritual of identifying a witch.

Take blood from the left ring finger and drop it into holy water.

If it was a witch, black smoke would rise. If it was a saintess, white smoke would rise.

Veronica could still vividly remember the moment when white smoke, which seemed like a cloud, had risen from the silver bowl.

She felt an onlooker much like the people around her, and their erupting cheers had been deafening. They were all happy about the birth of a new saintess.

The presence of a saintess who would pray for the peace and the well-being of the empire was quite a major one.

Once selected as a saintess through the ceremony, she would be given the duty of a saintess. For a majority of them, this meant that they would provide understanding for the people, to console and help them through their pain and suffering.

If theres anyone whose faith in God were to be shaken, the saintesses would conciliate and lead them back on the right path.

It had already been years since Veronica had been selected as a saintess.

The birth of a new saintess would not be long from now, but this time, its undoubtedly going to be different.

She would be recognized as a saintess, yet at the same time, stoned at the stake for the same reason.

As if that wasnt enough, she would have to be saddled with an unwanted pregnancy as well.

It was no different from treating her as an animal to be bred.

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