“Yes.”
“What does that mean……!”
“The disposition regarding Celine Haster, right? You’ll accept the isolation, but you want to save your childhood friend somehow… That’s what you want to say, isn’t it?”
It was a story that poured out without even a moment to breathe.
The Saintess saw right through my inner thoughts as if it were obvious. For me, it was an even more frustrating situation.
In other words, it meant she did that while knowing my feelings well.
In other words, it also meant that pouring out my emotions wouldn’t persuade the Saintess.
But I had no other options. In the end, I chose the path of appealing to the Saintess.
“You know too, that Celine is just a victim… Abandoned by the Empire, and that’s why she fell for the devil’s temptation. If she returns to her right mind, there’s still room for forgiveness!”
“How would she return to her right mind?”
Before I knew it, the Saintess’s gaze was back on the documents she was organizing. At that curt, even brusque counterquestion, I spat out another fervent…