The priest who had brought the food in time for dinner entered the prison.

“Wait!”

I reached over the bars and grabbed the arm of the man in the pure white priestly robes.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

The man flinched and tried to pull away from me as if something unclean had touched him.

I seized the moment and tightened my grip on his arm.

Instead, I decided to take a risk and use my abilities in combat.

If I die this way or that way, it’s all the same.

So I should try anything before I die.

As I focused my power, I could feel my eyes glow with energy.

‘Use the Cursed Child.’

Cursed child?

It was the label Flotty had carried from the moment she was born.

‘If the people move, even if the Grand Duke flies or crawls, he will be helpless.’

I can’t see the man’s face as he speaks, shrouded in a hazy fog.

I can only assume it’s this priest listening.

“Let go of me!”

The priest once again tries to wrestle my hand away.

I barely manage to grab his sleeve.

‘I’ll have it ready for the day of prayer.’

‘When the Grand Duchess drops her blood.’

‘She’s the Princess of Bevenia, famous for being the cursed child, so public opinion will be easily swayed.’

Ha.

As expected.

It was all made up.

So who was it that gave this priest such instructions now?

I focused on the man’s face a little longer.

My heart was beating faster and faster. The more I used my power, the faster it increased.

The fog that shrouded the man gradually lifted.

‘Just a little more…….’

The man gives instructions to the priest.

He was the High Priest, who had a kind smile on his face the entire time.

‘They’re all in the hands of the same person, isn’t it?’

Having gotten all the information I could let go of the priest.

“I told you to let go!”

This time I let go of his arm as he shook it off.

“According to the oracle, you are the one who will destroy the Empire. Don’t you realize that you are here as a sinner!”

The man shouted, his face flushed with anger.

“To hell with the oracle. Even though it’s fake.”

“W, what……. How dare you insult the god Solar?”

“The god you believe in. Does the god Solar even exist?”

I taunted the priest with a nonchalant face.

It’s funny how a man who doesn’t even believe in a god can rise to the challenge.

“You will pay for your blasphemous words.”

The man brushed off my grip on his cuff with his hand.

The man turned to leave, a look of displeasure on his face.

I realized that if I didn’t do it now, there would be no chance for me to get out if this priest was sent away.

I pulled out the bell from my hiding place.

“You will pay for this, not me.”

Old lady, help me with something.

You know, the kind you see in movies and novels, possession, manipulation.

You know, stuff like that.

I wished desperately, hoping that the old lady, who wasn’t even next to me, would hear my voice.

‘Please, please. Old lady, help me just once. I don’t want to die!’

At that moment, the bell begins to shake violently.

As if I were shaking it with force.

‘Old lady…….’

“Ah, why are you calling me, you!”

“……Eh?”

“Oh my, where am I again?”

This scoundrel is causing trouble all day long.

What a situation.

Stunned, I stiffened, and my eyes widened.

The old lady was back.

Also…….

“What the hell did you call me here for?”

She’s in the body of the priest.

The priest, who just a few moments ago was trying to get the hell out of here, approached me, speaking in the old lady’s tone.

“Are you… are you the old lady?”

“Well, what is it? What is it!”

“G, get rid of that face, it’s gross!”

I closed my eyes and covered them with my hands.

No, it was nice of her to show up, but why in that body?

“Look at you, you little shit. That’s the least you can do for me!”

I’m not even allowed to yell at her…….

Her voice is still that of a priest so it gives me goosebumps on my arms.

Plus, his expression is totally weird.

I slide away from the grate and squirm backward.

“T, that’s gross. Old lady, stop talking.”

“Oh my……. Who the hell is talking right now? I don’t know who you are, with your hair in a bunch and looking like you haven’t been fed.”

“Why did you enter his body when you could have appeared as a spirit as usual?”

Of all things, it’s even the person who was hostile to me.

The corners of my mouth turned downward in disgust.

The priest, or rather, the old lady, had a look of exasperation on her face.

“Why the hell are you giving me a hard time when you’re the one who messed up and needed my help? There’s no other human in here.”

“…… That’s so gross.”

“Why did you call me? I’m busy.”

“Why would you be busy? You said you were going to get your strength back. Did you go somewhere with good air and water to recuperate?”

The old lady’s eyes widened as if to ask how I knew that.

Ugh, I can’t stand her with that look on her face.

“Forget it, we’re running out of time, just get me out of here.”

“Huh? Are you trapped?”

“Can’t you tell? Don’t you see this grate? Search his body.”

That, that stubborn girl.

The old woman clicked her tongue.

Then she began to grope the priest’s body with her hands.

“Search him well. There must be something.”

“Ugh, I can smell that snake in here, too.”

Hurry up and find the keys.

The old woman searched and searched, but nothing came up from the priest.

‘Ha, thorough bastards.’

He didn’t even bring the keys with him, just in case I did something to him.

“I need to get out of here…….”

The old lady is here, but she doesn’t have a key.

As I stared at the big lock with a serious face, she snorted.

“What? Are you asking me to find a key?”

“Of course not. You have to pick the lock with something……”

Bam!

The old lady effortlessly picked the lock as if it were no big deal.

“……What is it? How did you do that?”

“Oh my. Do you still see me as a fool?”

“Huh…….”

I was dumbfounded by the ease with which the lock was removed as if it had never been locked in the first place.

The old lady wiggled her eyebrows once, then burst out laughing.

“Oh my, we’re running out of time!”

***

“From now on, act like a priest, and don’t give me weird looks. Do you understand?”

“You’re making me do whatever the hell you want…….”

I walked out of the prison with the old lady.

The fact that she was dressed as a priest made things easier.

Every time a passing priest approached her with a questioning look, she would respond as I had instructed.

“It’s the High Priest’s order.”

Her speech was a little bit awkward, but the priests dismissed their doubts.

“Old lady, you speak quite well, don’t you?”

“Never mind, just tell me where you’re going.”

“Of course…….”

To the man who did this to me.

“Old lady, I’m going to see the biggest bastard in the temple right now. Is that okay?”

“The hell with the temple. I told you. This thing ain’t god.”

“So, you sure you are not going to be beaten?”

I whispered quietly so the passing priests wouldn’t hear.

“Are you really saying that now?”

The old woman replied confidently.

She even took the time to return the greeting of a passing priest.

“Very well, then, let’s go to the High Priest.”

Leaving the temple won’t solve anything.

Public opinion is already against me, and going straight to the Grand Duke would put me in danger.

“We need to prove that the High Priest is a traitor who doesn’t believe in Solar.

Even if I escape now with the old lady’s help, I’ll only be the protagonist of the oracle who escaped from prison.

Grandma shook her head and clicked her tongue as if she had read my mind.

“You’re inviting trouble upon yourself, keep doing it.”

“You do realize who caused all of this, right?”

“Ah, where the hell is the way…….”

The old lady quickly turned a blind eye to my unfavorable comment.

‘It’s funny, really.’

She said it was dangerous to go back to the real world.

She said a bunch of unintelligible things and left.

I’ll have to ask her again when I get out of this battlefield.

I wonder how long I walked with her.

I don’t know how long I followed her, but she stopped at a point far above where I was trapped underground.

“This is it. I can smell a very foul odor in here.”

“But old lady, why can’t I feel it?”

“Because you are pressing very hard.”

The old lady said so, subtly boasting about herself.

“You are still a long way off. You will receive the full force of my power, perhaps here……”

“Old lady.”

“Hey, did you cut me off?”

The old woman clicked her tongue again and muttered something about being “spoiled”.

I’m not in the mood to listen to her right now.

Omen has turned my insides upside down.

The high priest and the priests who took orders from him and did this shit.

“I’m so upset.” (Flotty)

“There are many types of nonsense.” (Flotty)

It is said that humans lust more for what they don’t have.

Omen is the kind of son of a bitch who’s like that.

There are two things Omen can gain out of this.

He can get rid of me, the eyesore.

And even the Grand Duke that interferes with him……..

“The more I think about it, the more pissed off I get.”

I don’t know why.

He wanted to get rid of not only me but also the Grand Duke.

The more I think about it, the angrier I get.

I’m just pissed.

“Old lady, open the door. It’s time for a fight.”

The door to the High Priest’s chambers swung open.

[T/N: Flotty protecting her man ?]