“Exile! Tattoos! Life imprisonment! Excommunication!”
Tia frantically signaled Truth with her eyes.
This was the crime of blaspheming a Saintess, and the Goddess of Life herself had decreed the guilt.
Annabelle was definitely in for it now!
Annabelle also felt as if the sky were falling.
Her legs gave way, and she knelt on the ground, her face pale as she forced a bitter smile.
“Haha… I didn’t expect you to be such a stickler for the rules, Tia.”
“Go to hell, you lolicon!” Tia showed no mercy.
Neither did Truth. At that moment, she was considering what kind of sentence would be appropriate for Annabelle.
‘Hmm… let’s make it a bit strict. If I don’t handle this seriously now, more people will definitely try to trick me in the future. Let me think…’
Looking at Truth, who was deep in thought, Annabelle’s heart raced to its limit.
‘Please no, just give me five years of imprisonment or five years of exile as a gesture. Although I did try to lure the Saintess, I didn’t succeed, right? It shouldn’t be this severe, right?!’
For the next few breaths, no one else present—aside from the Goddess of Life—dared to even breathe.
They all waited to see what Annabelle’s fate would be. Finally, Truth spoke.
“How about seven days of imprisonment?”
“What?!” Everyone was shocked. Seven years of imprisonment!
The number “seven” was truly cunning! It wasn’t too low, but it wasn’t too high either.
It left Annabelle with neither the relief of a light sentence nor the despair of a heavy one.
It could only be described as very uncomfortable.
However, seven years wasn’t too bad. When she got out, she would only be thirty years old, and her charm would still be intact!
Thus, Annabelle slowly bowed her head to accept the judgment. But just as she was about to speak, she suddenly realized something.
“The Saintess is wise. I have no complaints about your judg— wait, seven days?!”
“Yes, seven days of imprisonment. Why? Is it too heavy?” Truth asked in return.
The crowd was shocked once again. None of them had realized that Truth had said seven days of imprisonment, not seven years!
Tia also asked with a look of disbelief, “Why only seven days?!”
Then it hit her—how could she have forgotten something so important?
Truth had absolutely no concept of the severity of punishments.
Add to that her boundless kindness, which had allowed her to be chosen as a Saintess by the Goddess of Life…
“What’s wrong with seven days? Is it too much or too little?” Truth asked with an innocent face, while inwardly sneering.
‘Tsk tsk, if the punishment is too heavy, what if no one comes to bother me anymore?’
Truth had already decided. In the future, she would make good use of her appearance to bait potential lolicons. Otherwise, it would be a waste.
From the moment Tia started cursing Annabelle, Truth had figured it out.
Since she was always going to attract people like Eve, Omili, and Annabelle, rather than letting them take advantage of her, it was better to lure them to the side of “the Hidden One” and then—
So now, she had to send a message to everyone: the cost of laying a hand on the Ninth Saintess was very low!
‘All you perverts are welcome to interact with me. If it’s a man, I’ll castrate him; if it’s a woman, I’ll see about breaking her in.’
“Thank… thank you for your great mercy, Holy Maiden! Your benevolence is known from the Wangdu to Wangsheng City! Your kind act today will be sung by our Lily Priest Order for 1,000 years!”
Annabelle immediately started flattering her between gasps, terrified that Truth might change her mind.
Tia deeply regretted letting Truth punish Annabelle.
She turned to the projection of the Goddess of Life and said, “Goddess, Truth is inexperienced and lacks understanding. She isn’t yet fit to…”
“Kavier, next time handle these trivial matters yourselves. Don’t disturb me. Everything is for the Saintess to decide. As for whether the Saintess’s understanding is sufficient, that is your problem.”
With that, the Goddess of Life disappeared.
‘Honestly, lower beings are so much trouble! If it weren’t for matters concerning the Saintess, I wouldn’t have bothered to show up. It’s so beneath me!’
“It’s okay, Tia.” Truth gently tugged at Tia’s sleeve and whispered, “Since you hate it, I promise I won’t let anyone take advantage of me again. I’ll listen to you.”
“Eh? You… will really listen to me?” Tia was stunned again. Was Truth really this easy to talk to today?
Using the punishment of a lolicon like Annabelle as a price to exchange for an obedient Truth… Tia thought about it.
No matter how she looked at it, it was a great deal!
In the end, Annabelle planned to return to the Military Camp for her seven days of imprisonment after the battle was over.
Kavier was finally able to take Truth to the real battlefield to see it for herself, while Tia continued to nag incessantly by Truth’s side…
In the center of the Rift Valley, as the stench of rot filled everyone’s nostrils, the tragic battlefield was revealed.
Although Tia and Truth, as Priests, had seen many horrific injuries, their brows still furrowed at the sight of the piles of corpses.
“I feel a bit dizzy…” Tia covered her mouth and turned away, stopping her anti-pervert lecture.
Everyone except Kavier showed some degree of discomfort.
‘Heh, I remember when Rachel first stepped onto the battlefield, she vomited for three days and three nights. Afterward, she couldn’t even hold her sword steady. It took a long time before she was willing to continue training. I wonder how this Ninth Saintess, raised in a greenhouse, will perform…’
Kavier looked at Truth’s profile with great anticipation.
However, Truth merely looked out over the entire battlefield with complete calm.
“Wow, noobs pecking at each other…”
‘Honestly, this kind of basin terrain is perfect for an ambush. As the saying goes, having the high ground against the low ground is a complete beatdown. Yet these Demon Hunters didn’t surround the Demons from the edge of the rift or use long-range strikes. Instead, they launched a “Banzai” charge to fight the Demon’s main force directly.’
Truth felt their tactics were very similar to her own when she played games—just F1+F3 Tactics.
‘And these Demons are stupid too. Most Demons, by their very nature, aren’t suited for group fights. There are basically no synergistic Skills among their kind. To put it simply, they’re a pile of crap when gathered, but like stars scattered across the sky when apart.’
Considering their opponents were Demon Hunters who specifically countered them, the Demons’ best option was to run.
They should have saved as many as they could instead of trying to fight it out directly.
“Um… Holy Maiden, is this your first time on a battlefield?” Kavier couldn’t help but ask.
Why was the Ninth Saintess so calm?
Was she already scared witless, or was her capacity for acceptance beyond that of a normal person?
“Yes, it is.”
Truth nodded. In the past, she usually hung around the Arena. Every time the corpses on the ground started to pile up, they would be refreshed. This was the first time she had seen a real battlefield covered in bodies.
“Don’t you feel… afraid? Of these corpses of your own kind?”
“A little, but when I think about how they died fighting for the safety of the common people, I feel immense respect. They lived to protect us, so why should we be afraid of them after they die?”
‘Protect the common people…’ Kavier was stunned. He hadn’t expected the Demon Hunters to appear so noble in the Ninth Saintess’s eyes.
It seemed he should refrain from mentioning that “if there were no Demons, the ones bullying the common people the most would be the Demon Hunters” for now.
Kavier continued to ask:
“What if there is a Corpse Transformation during the Blood Moon?”
“Then burn them as soon as possible,” Truth said without hesitation.
This almost left Kavier speechless. Where did that “immense respect” go just now? He had no choice but to change the subject.
“Alright. Well, are you afraid of Demons? Not the rotting Demon corpses on the ground, but living, breathing, real Demons.”
“I don’t think I’m very afraid.”
“Really?” Kavier suddenly snapped his fingers, summoning a Demon Hunter Squad that was escorting Demon captives nearby.
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