The Half-Puny Priest Hopes To Retire - The Half-Puny Priest Hopes To Retire chapter 226

226 – Life Is a Flower. Love Is the Nectar of the Flower (13)

”Thank you very much! Downa!”

Thanks to that lively voice, her eyes that had been closed suddenly opened wide.

”Huh?”

The breath that leaked out all at once.

From that dull melody, unrefined emotions were pouring out.

”Ro, Lowville…?”

As people who wake up from a light sleep usually do, Dauna blinked for a while and then unconsciously moved her lips.

It was because I could not understand the situation unfolding before my eyes.

If their memories are accurate, they would have been wandering around the central hallway of the academy just a little while ago.

When I suddenly came to my senses, the place had changed to my private room, and the bright sun had already set.

It was a truly mysterious situation.

So, for example, should I say that it felt like I had inadvertently turned dozens of pages of a book I was reading sequentially?

This hazy feeling, as if my consciousness was falling behind the rapid flow of time and space, was beyond strange and even felt a faint sense of fear.

”Downa. Are you okay?”

At that moment, Lajis spoke carefully to Dauna.

Words and actions that clearly show concern.

The serenity created by that familiar scenery lifted Dawna’s thoughts, which had been thrown out of the swamp of confusion, into bright sunshine.

”Gwae, it’s okay. It’s nothing. Lowville…”

Dauna stroked the area between her eyebrows and tried to calm down her thoughts for a moment.

How long has it been since then?

Yes, he is now petitioning the Vatican to determine whether Reisis is qualified to be a priest.

I had just finished writing that letter.

If she had time to do such annoying and meaningless work, she would have been focusing on researching new magic.

The atrocity of Raiges, who remitted most of his salary as a donation to the Vatican.

In addition to this, Raiges’ earnest wish to have the Vatican determine his qualifications as a priest somehow led Downa to take up her pen.

Why had I forgotten this obvious fact until this very moment?

It was a car that was about to raise such reasonable doubts in Dawna’s mind.

”Is this really okay? Down?”

Flinch!

Dowona, who was already in a state of shock, became even more dizzy at the sudden action of Lazys putting her face to the right in front of her.

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”Go, don’t come close!”

”Hi!”

Boom!

A cane that Dauna nervously swung.

Reijis, who narrowly escaped the violent movement, let out a cry of fear.

”You dare approach a lady without hesitation! There are degrees of sensitivity! Anyway, she’s so slutty!

”Yes…!?”

Lazys looks shocked at his sharp behavior

In fact, Dowena herself had a vague guess as to why he was showing such a bewildered reaction.

In the beginning, he was viewed as a strictly contractual relationship that was only tied up with money.

I thought of him as nothing more than a practice partner for an ally with whom I would become close friends in the future.

In recent years, I have come to view Downa from a slightly different perspective, and such emotional fluctuations have sometimes been revealed in my attitude

Even Dauna herself did not know exactly when and what prompted the change.

It could have been from the time when he started serving homemade sandwiches to himself, who was always addicted to experiments and would often skip meals.

Perhaps, the day I first suffered from magical exhaustion.

It may have been from the moment he stayed up all night and carefully nursed her.

In fact, trying to define such a process carelessly was a futile act.

The first connection I made with others after leaving my family.

In a way, it was only natural that Dauna, who was secretly having a hard time living in an unfamiliar foreign country, would become attached to and cling to such cozy warmth.

So, in fact, it was something Downa was reluctant to do to write him such a letter of recommendation.

No matter how slim the possibility, it is that Lazys will be chosen as an official priest by the Vatican.

Because it also meant that the possibility of him leaving his side

”I’ll tell you in advance, even if you write a letter, the probability of your holy power being revealed is infinitely close to zero. So don’t have vain expectations…”

”No problem!”

No matter how many times he gave me advice, his answer was always clear.

It was inevitable.

Although I came from the very bottom of being born in Cheonah Goa, I stubbornly climbed up to this position.

For Reijis at the time, who had not excelled in martial arts, magic, or any other discipline, the manifestation of his holy power was the last hope. Because it was like the only rope left.

If I hadn’t been lucky enough to even enter the academy, I would have given up on achieving anything long ago.

It was a disaster for him to taste the view from the summit without any hesitation, and at that time, he became hungry for fame.

It was a perverse expression of such a spirit of improvement that he continued to donate a portion of his living expenses, which were not enough even if he saved for the future, to siblings at an unknown orphanage.

”Ha, there you are. In addition to my autograph, I also enclosed the stigma of the Magic Tower. You could at least get your talent diagnosed tomorrow.”

”Thank you! Downa!”

Come on!

”Hiyak! Ha, don’t hug me carelessly! Didn’t my sister tell me that! Anyway, you are a b*stard!”

‘ Haha!”

”Ugh!”

No matter how harsh the words and violence Dauna threw at her when she unexpectedly embraced him, Reisis seemed to have nothing in the world to envy, as she accepted it all with her bright smile.

”I will never forget this grace for the rest of my life! Thank you very much! Downa!”

”Oh, I see! Because I understand! Stop sticking around!”

It was also because I thought he was a bit creepy for doing something he didn’t normally do.

The main reason was that I did not want him to hear my heartbeat, which was crying like a drum announcing war, due to this unexpected physical contact.

”If I become a high priest in the future, I will definitely repay this debt!”

”I understand! Because I understand! Put it down first and then tell me! Because I feel dizzy and dying!”

Is this really going to happen?

It was because I was caught up in such a distracted mind.

The reason Downa at the time didn’t pay much attention to Raige’s shouting.

However, that carelessness turned into a feeling of great astonishment after hearing the news that Raiges had manifested holy power at the level of a high-ranking priest.

”Then I’ll go to the apprentice priest training! Downa! You can’t cry without me during that time!”

”Who, who is crying! You don’t have to worry every night without me!”

There was not a single lie in what Dawna said.

I had tears in my eyes about once every two days, and I cried out loud once a week, but I didn’t cry every day.

Downa at the time tried to reassure herself that she would just have to hold on for a moment.

It was clear that if he successfully completed his training as an apprentice priest for about half a year, he would be returned to his side her.

I was worried that his life might be in danger, so I gave him various magic tools and even gave him a considerable amount of money and valuables, so it was clear that time would take care of the rest.

However, Dawna’s earnest wish she went awry in the worst way she could have imagined.

One day, approximately a few months after the day the Reijis left Downa.

Downa received a letter from Raiges.

Because it was Downa who soothed her loneliness without Lazys through irregular greeting letters.

Of course, when she opened the letter, she had a bright smile full of joy on her face.

However, that smile soon became unsightly and distorted due to the quivering movements of the tips of the lips of hers.

The contents of the letter were truly shocking.

Just the fact that he announced that he would drop out of the academy he entered with all his life savings was enough to make my eyes widen.

It was hard to believe that he, who must have been invited to the Vatican as a candidate for high priesthood, had begun a new life as an adventurer, a lowly profession.

However, what confused Downa more than anything else was that all of the letters were written by someone else than Lajis himself.

– Rageis said. They say they cannot receive any more financial help from Dowona, and they have no intention of communicating with her in the future. I’m sorry, but I don’t even know the reason. No matter how many times I ask him, he keeps repeating that he no longer has the right to do that.

After that pathetic farewell written by someone else’s hand, there were no more letters from Lajis to Dauna.

Not once.

Yes, not once.