Saintess - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Translator: Yonnee

After managing to overcome the nightmarish tragedy that had befallen him, Raon soon decided to become a priest. He was now learning theology and was carrying out the regular prayersall for the sake of committing to serve the one and only God.

It had been three years since he started, and his seminary practice was soon to be completed.

Standing in front of Him on this day, Raon was ready to vow that he would live only to serve the noblest and highest existence. In the face of religion, he was prepared to give up his peerage as a count and give up all his property and possessions.

And then.

The prophecy was brought upon Raon.

The abominable prophecy that he must conceive a child with the saintess.

No matter how much its said that it was Gods sacred order, fundamentally, it was impossible for a man who had such relations with the saintess to become a priest.

The moment Gods will was brought down upon him, Raons dreamof becoming a priest and completely being enfolded in Gods embrace for the rest of his lifevanished into thin air.

Count Raon Toulouse. You must accept the command of our noblest God.

The solemn pope walked forward and stopped in front of Raon.

Then, once again, he conveyed the word of God in front of Raon Toulouse.

As if it were Raons fate, the pope slowly made a sign of the cross, praying for Gods grace.

The popes solemn appearance made everyone in the grand cathedral hold their breaths.

This, too, is the will of the almighty and omnipotent God.

And when the popes final word fell, Raon closed his eyes.

His long eyelashes, which spread like a fan, trembled like a butterflys wings.

* * *

Half a year had already passed ever since the prophecy for the saintess to conceive had been brought down.

After the vigorous purge of witches, what followed was a widespread pursuit to hunt down the saintess.

It spanned all across the Devere Empire. If there was any woman whos suspected to possibly be the saintess, she would be kidnappedthrough any means possibleand shed be dragged back to the Holy See.

Besides the women in the capital, there were a number of suspected saintesses in the far-off borderlands of the empire.

However, compared to the number of women being taken to the Holy See every single day, the saintess had yet to be found.

Unlike how it was in the past, when witch hunts were still prevalent, the women would no longer be burned at the stake. The reason behind this was simple.

Because the prophecy had pointed out one specific characteristic of the obscene saintess.

You heard that Saintess has leprosy? What kind of Saintess has such an infectious disease?!

Haa. Its not thatshe takes care of a leper and lives with him. That leper is the Saintess spouse who she committed adultery with! When he was still a bachelor, he was still fine, but he got infected with the disease after falling in love with the Saintess.

Good gracious. How terribly vile. A woman who already has a husband must serve God for the rest of her life? Absurd!

Thats not all, you know! The Saintess lives with a blind old woman, and that old woman is her mother-in-law.

But the Saintess has brilliant silver hair, just like the almighty God, Dernaus. Isnt that proof enough that God loved her so dearly? Its only natural that Gods wrath is so great.

A woman who dared to commit adultery by way of taking a husbandeven when shes supposed to be the saintess.

A woman who dared to escape Gods embrace and hide from His eyes by living in seclusion with her husbanda leperand a blind old woman.

A woman, so beautiful and with brilliant silver hair, who was once loved by the God, Dernaus.

Keeping in mind all the characteristics of the saintess, people were getting impatient just to find this woman.

However, for some reason, the woman who matched the characteristics that the prophecy had pointed out could not be found.

They found a woman who was living with a leper, but there was no old blind woman there. Then, they found a woman who was living with a blind old woman, but she did not have beautiful silver hair.

During the search for the saintess that had spanned for six months, the drought became even more severe. In the meantime, the countrys population dropped by a quarter, and the empires power gradually dwindled.

Nevertheless, the power of the Holy See and the devout pope who served God was still strong.

People were hungry, people were suffering from the drought, and people were dying from the epidemic, however

They all believed that this awful, gruesome reality would all end through the power of religion, and religion alone.

* * *

Far from the capital, there was one particular rural province in which rumors typically moved at a snails pace.

However, the negative perception of the saintess was still the same here.

Agnes Larche.

A beautiful woman with brilliant silver hair.

Fluttering every time the wind blew, her hair was exquisite enough to elicit the urge to reach out to touch it, to sweep it aside and expose her long, thin neck, which resembled a deers neck in its vulnerability.

At the same time, the word bewitching perfectly matched her gray eyes that looked rather mysterious.

However, for more than half a year, she had not been able to show her hair at all.

Exactly since the day that the prophecy to find the saintess had been passed down.

Whenever she had no choice but to go out for food, she tied her hair tightly and pulled down the hood of her cloak deeply.

Still, this wasnt enough, so she went around town as if she was a sinner, always keeping her head down.

In her grave task to constantly hide her natural hair color, there was a time that she tried to hide it by covering it in mud, but it proved futile.

Now that the widespread hunt for the saintess had begun, Agnes was struck with great anxiety.

She was an ordinary woman who had never wielded divine power in all her life. But unfortunately, some of the characteristics of the saintess in the prophecy matched Agnes circumstances.

An ordinary man for a husband, and a blind woman for a mother-in-law.

They were the family she loved more than anyone else in the world.

Yet, the harbinger of tragedy soon appeared in the form of red, mottled spots on her husbands body.

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