The Path of Ascension to the Priest

Even though the country is about to be destroyed, it does not affect the joy of the royal family and nobles. The main city of the Principality of Shas was rebuilt in just three weeks, and the ruins became exquisite The manor, if you go out of the city to take a look, it seems that there has never been a war here.

Although the nobles were obsequious to the Holy See, they did a good job on the surface. After the Holy See team arrived in the Principality of Shas, they vacated the two largest manors in the main city for the Holy See to live in.

Monica usually doesn't like too many people around her, and she still maintains this habit after she became the archbishop in red. After late at night, she even sent away the priests.

The darkness affected her vision somewhat, but it didn't prevent her from grinding the ointment. The night wind outside beat against the window, and the noisy sound covered the subtle sound of stones grinding fruit and the crisp footsteps from the corridor outside the door. Voice.

The closed door was opened silently, and a tall and slender figure appeared at the door. She didn't seem to have thought that there was no light in the room, and all she could see was darkness. Paused in mid-air.

Hearing the sound, Monica raised her head displeased, but was startled when she saw the person coming. She subconsciously put her hands under the table and asked in surprise, "... When did you come?"

"Just arrived." Reese walked towards Monica after she got used to the darkness. She walked to the table and raised her hand to touch the candle lamp. A white flame lit the candle wick, and the orange light The darkness around them dissipated.

She leaned casually against the table with her arms folded, her long blond hair hanging down on the table. Reese glanced down at the glass bowl in front of Monica, and asked with a frown, "Why don't you light the lamp?"

She remembered that Monica didn't like being alone in a dark environment.

And... Reese reached out and tapped the glass bowl twice, the crisp sound inexplicably made the atmosphere a little tense, "Why are you grinding this thing again?"

She sighed slightly, "It's not like I just told the people below to do it."

At first, Reese thought that this ointment was easy to grind, but after trying it once, she found that it was easy to hurt her fingers. Even though the scratched wound could be healed with the healing technique, new wounds appeared soon. And the pain is not so easy to eliminate.

After Reese discovered this, she had already banned Monica from doing this kind of thing.

"...I don't have anything to do, so I want to grind more." Monica put her hands on the table without any trace, the white gauze wrapped around her fingers was just taken off by her, and the small wounds on them were also healed Healed, her eyes wandered, and she was about to change the topic to divert Ruisi's attention from this, but before she could speak, her wrist was suddenly grabbed.

Reese pulled Monica's hand over and half held it in her hand, checked her fingers one by one, frowned and said: "The ointment is enough, don't grind it anymore."

Monica looked at Reese's serious examination expression, turned her eyes away, and after a while, said in a low voice: "It's not enough."

"Huh?" Reese grabbed Monica's hand and touched her face, and said with a smile, "Isn't it already healed?"

Reese just came in from the outside, and the temperature on her face was a little cold. Seeing that she was wearing thin clothes, Monica withdrew her hand and picked up the staff next to her, chanted a spell in a low voice, and a faint white light appeared in every corner of the room. In the corner, the temperature in the room is slowly rising.

"You still have a lot of scars on your body." Monica leaned on the chair and stared at Reese for a while, then suddenly asked, "Have you applied medicine these days?"

Reese nodded without changing her expression, "It's wiped off."

Monica looked at her for a while, lowered her eyes, "Liar."

The lie was exposed, but Ruisi was not guilty at all. She raised her hand and brushed the blond hair on the side of her face behind her ears. The warmth in the room made her even speak lazily, "You are not here, I can't find you." Somebody wipe it off for me."

She wasn't lying either. For a relatively private matter like applying medicine, she didn't have anyone she could trust except Monica.

It's just that it sounded like an excuse made at random. Reese glanced at Monica, who was protesting silently with her head down, and shook her head helplessly. Her eyes turned around the room, and then she straightened up. Go to the inner bedroom.

Monica raised her head suspiciously when she heard the footsteps. Reese stood at the door of the bedroom, raised her chin to Monica, and said with a smile, "Aren't you going to apply the medicine for me? Come here."

Monica and her stared at each other for a while, the corners of her mouth slightly raised a small arc, but quickly restrained, she took the glass bowl on the table and followed Reese into the bedroom.

The space in the room is not big, it can only be regarded as a lounge. Nobles love to have fun, even if it is a lounge, there is a large bed for three or four people to lie flat on. two-thirds of the room.

Reese took off her robe and hung it on the shelf. She grabbed a fluffy pillow and lay down on the bed. Her half-naked back was looming under the cover of her blond hair.

Her skin is fair, and the scars on it are even more ferocious and terrifying. Every time Monica sees these scars, her heart tightens. She takes a deep breath, puts the glass bowl aside, and scrapes it with her fingers. Some ointment was dabbed on those scars.

Her strength was very light, as if she was dealing with something fragile. Reese propped her chin on the back of her hand and tilted her head slightly. Her emerald green eyes seemed to be filled with warm tenderness. She smiled lightly and said, "You haven't said why you didn't light the lamp just now."

"It was on, but it was blown out by the wind." Monica brushed up Reese's hair and put it aside, and replied while carefully applying the medicine.

"Why don't you click on it anymore?" Reese followed Monica's eyes and asked casually, "I remember when you were a child, you didn't dare to stay alone in the dark."

Monica paused, then shook her head slightly, and said softly, "I'm not afraid now."

After she separated from Reese, she was no longer afraid of these things, because at that time no one would come to protect her when she was afraid.

The smile on the corner of Reese's mouth subsided a little. She propped her chin up and looked at Monica's direction in a daze. After a while, she lowered her eyes slightly and said in a low voice, "Really, I don't even know."

"It's nothing important." Monica signaled Reese to sit up, then knelt on the bed with one knee, and carefully applied the ointment on her shoulders and collarbone with her fingers. Because of her posture, she lowered her eyes slightly Can see Reese's face, so it's easy to spot the tiredness that Reese carefully hides.

She set off this time nearly ten days earlier than Reese, but not long after she arrived in the Principality of Shas, Reese arrived. She probably didn't have much rest on the way. Reese explained her insistence on coming to support the Principality of Shas well, pursed her lips, and said in a low voice, "Before in the Central Holy See, I chose to support Vogt not against you."

"It's not that I want to carve up any rights from you."

"I just think civilians are so innocent."

After the last meeting, she heard some rumors about her wanting to fight for power with Reese. Of course, Monica dismissed these rumors, but she was worried that Reese would misunderstand.

Monica has always wanted to find Reese to explain, but she didn't find a suitable opportunity before departure.

When she suddenly mentioned this, Ruisi was a little confused. Turning her head and looking at her expression, she probably guessed what she was thinking. Ruisi shook her head a little funny, "What are you worried about?"

"Just do whatever you want." Rui said indifferently: "I have everything."

After so many years in the Central Holy See, Reese's heart has long been as cold as a stone, but she doesn't mind protecting the softness in Monica's heart.

Monica could often hear this sentence from Reese's mouth when she was a child. She was silent for a while, put the glass bowl in her hand aside, and tried to rest her forehead on Reese's shoulder as she always did when she was young. superior.

Feeling the heavy weight on her shoulders, Reese turned her head in doubt, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

"...When will I be able to protect you?" Monica closed her eyes, but her tone was a bit dazed. She always caused Reese to get hurt, and made Reese bother her, obviously she also wanted to protect this person. .

Monica's bewildered and helpless voice made Reese's heart soften, her red lips raised involuntarily, she reached out to touch Monica's hair, lowered her eyes for a while, and suddenly said with a smile: " You can protect me now."

Monica looked up, looking at her questioningly.

Reese raised her eyes and glanced at the candle lamp by the bed, raised her finger slightly, a white light flashed and extinguished the candle, and the room instantly became pitch black. Throwing it away together, and then pulled Monica to lie down, pillowed her arm comfortably, and said lazily: "You have to protect me now, I don't even have a staff."

"Some blood race came in and injured me. This is a great loss to the Holy See."

Reese closed her eyes and jokingly said, "Archbishop Monica asks you to be more vigilant."

Monica stared blankly at Reese, who was lying beside her as if she was going to sleep like this. Although she knew that Reese's actions were purely teasing her, she nodded very seriously, and said in a deep voice, "Okay, I will Protect yours."

She promised with all seriousness.

Reese buried her head on Monica's shoulder and smiled softly, she has not felt so relaxed for a long time, "You are still as cute as when you were a child."

Monica was like this when she was a child. No matter what she said, no matter whether it was true or not, she would always respond to her so seriously, believing her words deeply.

Monica always said that she was protecting her, but what she didn't know was how much strength she gave her with trusting and dependent eyes when she looked at Reiss, so that she could go through those darkness and not be trapped by others. Swallowed by the mud.

"Monica."

"Ah."

"Monica."

Monica looked down at Reese, and asked inquiringly, "What's wrong?"

"You're so kind." Reese turned around and hugged Monica's waist, smiling and whispering, "You're as beautiful as an elf."

"Elves?"

Hearing the question in Monica's tone, Reese smiled, but did not intend to explain.

In her heart, Monica will always be the most beautiful existence.

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