Splash——!
Inside the mist-filled bathroom, a tall girl was gazing at her proud figure through the mirror………………
Hot water streamed down from the showerhead, washing over the girl’s fair body.
Her jade-like hands gently caressed her long, wavy purple hair as she closed her eyes, savoring this rare moment of relaxation and tranquility.
However, after a short while, her heart was still awakened by a surge of excitement and thrill, to the point where………………her whole body started feeling a bit hot.
Staring at herself in the mirror, her face gradually flushed, Layla couldn’t help but let a playful smile curl at the corners of her lips.
Hoo
What a bad woman I am~
As a member of the Hero Party, the reliable Priest of the team, Layla had always played the role of the gentle big sister.
She seemed gentle to everyone, always so caring and thoughtful, just like her Priest profession—a motherly healer~!
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Only Layla herself knew that beneath all that gentleness, she was actually………………someone who longed to be loved……
As the neglected youngest daughter of a noble family, Layla was sent to the Convent at the age of ten to become a Nun.
They called it “studying Priest magic”………………
But that was just a lie.
In reality, this was a common thing.
Daughters of fallen noble families, or those who weren’t favored, would often be sent to the Convent.
Coming here was essentially cutting all ties with her family, and she had never gone home since.
She could only spend her days in the Convent as a Nun, living like this for more than ten years.
What kind of life was that?
Even now, whenever Layla looked back, she would feel an intense sense of suffocation, as if an invisible net was tightly wrapped around her.
Every day in the Convent had a strict schedule: morning prayers, hymns at noon, evening prayers at night—day after day, year after year, endlessly repeating these routines, until eventually, she became numb.
It was such a solemn, mechanical, and stifling environment.
Even as the “bride” of the gods, Nuns who had sworn to dedicate everything to the unseen and untouchable deity were forbidden from any impure acts.
In her most youthful years, Layla, who was developing well, still had to wear the loose Nun’s robes every day, muddling through life, gradually losing sight of any direction in the numbness.
And then, that silver-haired boy and golden-haired girl appeared!
What a coincidence—it just so happened that those two little ones, who had just left the Magic Academy, accepted a commission from their Convent, and she, as the representative, joined them on the mission.
That was an experience Layla had never imagined.
Along the way, they laughed, bickered, and joked around, and at first, she always kept a straight face.
But gradually, she was drawn in by Keti, that gentle little one, and slowly started joining their conversations………………
From shy and uneasy at first, to eventually fitting in perfectly, Layla never imagined that there was such an easy and joyful way to live in this world………………
Traveling amidst laughter, meeting so many people, so many stories……………
That was the life of an adventurer!
Soon, the commission ended, but……
Layla’s heart could no longer be confined.
She didn’t know where to go—should she throw everything away and really become an adventurer?
Or should she return to the Convent where she had spent over a decade, back to the life she was already used to………………
Just as the purple-haired, jellyfish-headed big sister was hesitating, Keti found her, face flushed red. In the end, Keti bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle and called out loudly: “Miss Layla, I know it’s a bit presumptuous to ask, but I still hope you can join our team! We really need a Priest, and……………after spending time together, Alice and I both think Miss Layla is the best candidate!”
The best……candidate?!
Keti, he, Keti, he………………
Ahehehehehehe~!
Keti-kun said I’m the best choice~!
What is this if not a proposal?!
This is basically a proposal!
…….No, no, this won’t do, I’m a pure Nun, that kind of thing, that kind of thing……………
Aaaaah!
Whatever!
In that moment, the young girl whose heart was fluttering in spring finally understood that she had completely fallen for this companion on her adventure.
She liked Keti so much that she didn’t want to care about anything else anymore!
Convent, Nun, rules and commandments—
Layla threw all her packed luggage away right then and there!
Why shouldn’t she be allowed to like a boy?
If she couldn’t like Keti-kun, then what the heck was the point of being a Nun?
She’d quit!
She was going to marry Keti in the future~!
This was the whole story of how the Nun joined the Hero Party………………
After two years of adventuring, Layla actually felt very happy.
After all, she could be with Keti every day, and she also gained two companions and friends, Alice and Sylvia.
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But there was one thing that had always troubled Layla……
That was, she never managed to confess her feelings to Keti!
Not to mention, Keti, that little guy, was as dense as a log—he never understood any of her hints.
And as they spent so much time together, Layla gradually noticed that Alice and Sylvia seemed to have the same feelings for Keti as she did.
Strange.
This……was a real mess!
There were only four people in the team, and three girls all liked the only male member!
An invisible pressure instantly hovered over everyone’s heads.
On the surface, the team was still as lively as ever…….
But, the three girls’ little schemes had long since become active, and more and more people started trying to make a move in secret.
The atmosphere in the team only got more and more—
Until one day—
Alice suddenly made that suggestion: Keti, leave the team!
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As a fellow woman, Layla could see through Alice, that blonde little brat’s intentions, at a glance.
It looked like she was worried about Keti getting hurt and wanted him to leave, but if you think about it, their team was basically held together by Keti.
If he left, the Hero Party would fall apart sooner or later.
So, what Alice really wanted was to disband the team……she just wanted to do it in a way that saved face.
And after Keti left, he’d probably be so hurt that he’d go back to his hometown village.
The key was………………damn it, Alice was also from that village!
Hoo……
When the time came, Alice would just disband the team, run back to the village, and marry Keti to live a sweet life.
Wouldn’t that be easy as pie?
By then, Layla might not even get to drink the wedding wine!
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