Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 728
dag dag dag dag-
The sound of wagon wheels rolling through the pouring rain resounds.
Simon and Lethe were riding together in the coachman’s seat outside. Simon looked to the side with a somewhat bewildered face still in disbelief.
A straw hat with the straw sticking out like it was bought at the market and leather clothes that smelled strangely of shoe polish. It was a typical coachman’s outfit but the person in question was a beautiful girl with flowing white hair.
She even drove a wagon pretty well. She was doing well and effortlessly avoiding erratic trees and muddy water.
“Ah- that was fun.”
I heard her voice.
When Simon looked to the side Lethe who had spread a soundproofing magic circle so that he could not be heard inside the carriage was smiling mischievously.
“Before meeting me the way he did everything while arranging his hair to look good.”
Simon’s face reddened with embarrassment and she giggled.
Simon cleared his throat and changed the topic.
“What’s that outfit? What’s with all this wagon? What about the old people in the back?”
“Ah what about them?”
Lette explained while twisting her pure white hair with the other hand.
Crossing the border riding the teleport magic circle one after another arrived at Leshil’s neighboring territory ‘Hov’.
Now I had to catch a wagon from Hob and enter Les Hill a mountain valley.
-I can’t go to Leshill right now because of the water crisis.
Traffic was blocked. No matter how much Lethe paid the drivers shook their heads. In the first place it was said that it was impossible to cross the mountains with a wagon in this weather.
By the way there were other people besides Lethe who wanted to go to Leshil and it was an elderly couple riding in the back right now.
Living in Leshill they came down to the hob to buy daily necessities but Leshill was flooded and they were trapped in the city.
Since I hadn’t brought much money with me I couldn’t stay longer at the inn. It was a situation where I had to stay homeless from tomorrow night but the night wind was cold and it rained.
Lethe heard their circumstances.
“I just bought a wagon.”
Simon’s eyes widened.
“You bought a wagon? Whole?”
“Looking at it like this the profession of a saint makes a lot of money. I’m worried about Miss Anna and the situation of the elderly over there is pitiful so I decided to drive there.”
She turned around clutching at the brim of her straw hat.
“I bought some clothes to cheer you up. Isn’t it okay?”
The leather clothes for coachmen were designed to fit snugly to the body. Simon rolled his eyes and nodded.
“Ah no. Can I come to the Dark Union instead? I hear the saints are very busy even during vacation.”
“Hehe.”
Lethe’s eyes widened into half moons.
“I ran away. Put me to bed Simon.”
“???”
* * *
same time.
Holy Commonwealth.
“The saintess has disappeared!”
“Find every place to hide!”
The Paladins of the Holy Federation spread all over the area and were scouring the surroundings.
“Have you ever seen a girl with white hair and golden eyes? She must have been wearing a robe.”
“Oh no.”
“I’ll have to search the house.”
In case the saintess might have requested to hide herself the paladins were looking at the dwelling as far as they could.
‘Did the person caught in the heresy question even run away?’
‘I don’t know.’
Residents responded to the investigation with frozen faces. And there was a woman watching this investigation from a little distance.
“Please do a moderate search and withdraw.”
A sea-blue haired woman with her eyes gently closed.
It was Israfil the saintess of the New Year.
The paladin knelt with a restrained motion.
“Ha ha if we can’t find Saint Lethe at this rate…”
“I have some idea where it is.”
Israfil replied with a gentle smile. Paladin suddenly raised his head.
“Tell me! We are…!”
“Now rather than pushing it like that I think it’d be better to give that child a little more time. She hasn’t been a saint for less than a year isn’t she?”
She quietly looked up at the sky.
“Please come back safely Lethe.”
* * *
rainy afternoon.
Simon was sitting next to him listening to Lethe’s story.
“A saintess can meet many people and experience all kinds of human groups.”
Lethe waved her reins and said in a slightly pissed voice.
“Only the people and the grassroots respect the name saintess properly. But what I deal with is mainly the high-ranking priests rather than the common people.”
Her face contorted with anger.
“The attitudes of those humans toward the saint can be divided into two types. A pretty doll that is precious and listens well or an outlet for low-level desires.”
“Low… what?”
“Fuck feet. There are all kinds of crazy bastards. Aww it still gives me goosebumps. What do you do when you kneel in front of me? The eyes looking at me are those of crazy perverted men!”
There was a moment when Lethe put the rag in her mouth.
‘…It will be difficult.’
There was even a man who exploded his divine power saying that hugging the saintess the ‘closest daughter’ was like hugging the goddess Deva and that was my belief.
How the ‘faith’ the source of divine power manifests is different for each human being so it happened. It was hidden in the Holy Federation but it was also the cause of quite a big social trouble.
“They’re bastard dogs really!”
She kicked the wagon with a bang. Simon said with a bitter smile.
“But even if you are a federal bishop your status is different. Is it okay to treat me like that in front of a demigod saint?”
“That’s the most contemptible thing about those pigs.”
she furrowed her brow.
“Saints who have accumulated careers or have great careers especially cowards who can’t even make eye contact in front of Israfil-sama say that only in front of me! You can replace it right? It’s even more so because you know I can’t do it!”
Lethe couldn’t contain her anger and shook her legs all over the place. Suddenly the curtains of the carriage were lifted and the old man peeked out his head.
“My lady what’s wrong?”
Voices are blocked but the sound of foot stomping seems to be heard inside.
Startled Lethe quickly stopped moving and shyly lowered her head.
“Sorry for the noise. The road is rough.”
Then he put on an innocent expression as if nothing had happened.
The old man entered and Lethe sighed and turned on the soundproof magic circle again. Simon laughed and said
“I think she’ll do well as a saint but it’s surprising.”
“You’re behind.”
Her brow narrowed and growled. Simon shut her mouth quickly.
“Anyway it’s not like it happened once or twice. It’s not like those grandpas could touch my body even though they looked at me like they were perverts. Although the stress was accumulating I decided to move on.”
“huh.”
“however.”
her voice cracked.
“There was a situation where the accumulated stress exploded at once.”
It was a time when he was greeting the bishops during his regular visit to the local Daesinjeon.
Lethe who was so exhausted only wanted to finish quickly. She held out the back of her hand and the old bishop knelt at her feet and kissed her on the back of her hand.
however.
“tongue.”
Simon felt goosebumps at that one word.
“The back of my hand is damp black. I look down for something and I see that crazy old bastard grinning sullenly with his dirty tongue sticking out.”
Lethe passed the reins over to Simon and jumped up. Simon startled grabbed the reins and drove the carriage.
“Fuck really at that moment everything piled up exploded. I just elbowed that bastard’s philtrum.”
Reproduced the way she strikes with her elbow with direct motion.
“Like this. Step on the back of your hand with the heel of your shoe kick it hard enough to crush your face and then grab the baby’s chin and stand it up.”
She swiped and drew her index finger from top to bottom.
“I pulled out my tongue and cut it off.”
“…ah.”
It was a situation worth knowing.
“How funny it was to see him cast divine magic on himself to save himself. He stepped on his tongue that had been cut off so it couldn’t even regenerate chopped it up and then escaped from the temple. He ran diligently to cross the border despite the paladins and guards chasing him.”
Lethe shrugged and sat back down.
“This is how we came to Leshill across the border.”
“…So many things happened.”
She sat down again and snatched Simon’s reins.
“That’s why I became a runaway girl like this. I became a body that is not welcomed by the Holy Federation or the Dark Union.”
“Are you thinking of going back after vacation?”
Lethe rubbed her chin.
“I don’t know either.”
“I hurt the bishop but it’s true that he did something wrong with blasphemy first. I don’t think he’ll be punished because he’s a saint.”
“I will be punished. Since I am a saint the Pope will directly punish me. What is certain is that it is not a matter that can be forgiven by reciting a thousand prayers like when I was a student.”
She tilted her head.
“Honestly I’m exhausted. Like Miss Anna I want to give up everything including being a saint and ah I hate just thinking about it.”
Lethe didn’t mean too much to become a saint.
Half of the continent almost all girls born in the Holy Commonwealth dreamed of being saints and Lethe was just one of them.
She even had a talent for white magic and was confident in her beliefs. As she became the chief of Ephnell she put more effort into her goal of becoming an ideal saint and that is how she really became a saint.
However even Lette did not know that the status of a saint would be so difficult and painful. She only said that she was a noble and great being but she never said that anyone would be sexually harassed by her bishops.
“Let’s go home and get some rest.”
Simon decided to hold back.
“I think it would be better to take a break at Les Hill during the vacation and think carefully about what to do.”
“yes.”
Lethe closed her eyes.
“Aside from anything else I miss Miss Anna so much.”
While talking like that we arrived at our destination before we knew it.
Shelter in the northern mountains.
Simon and Lethe got out of the wagon and dropped off the old people.
“Father Mother!”
“grandma!”
People from the shelter ran out. While Simone was proudly watching the family reunion Lethe stepped forward and slammed the carriage’s luggage compartment.
“Because of the heavy rain I thought I might not have enough food so I brought some. I hope it helps.”
“Oh I’m so grateful!”
“More thanks to you I lived!”
People went and unloaded provisions from the luggage compartment. Simon opened his eyes wide in surprise and Lethe winked.
“Do you have sense?”
“…Ah yes. Thank you.”
Lethe was looking around with her hands behind her back when the children came running.
“Sister! Thanks for bringing Grandma!”
“thank you!”
“Hello~”
Lethe smiled kindly and squatted down to stroke the children’s heads.
However since the ground was so messed up that it was impossible to go by wagon from here we decided to leave the wagon to the locals for a while and go down.
“Let’s go up for a while before we see Miss Anna.”
“Where?”
“The highest point in Les Hill.”
Lethe’s fingertips pointed upward.
“I’ll make it stop raining.”
NECROMANCER ACADEMY’S GENIUS SUMMONER CHAPTER 729
