“Why········ Why don’t you show your presence?”
“Am I not the one who should be asking that now?”
Then Hannah remembered where she was.
The men’s bath.
“··············”
“What are you doing here?”
I was speechless.
A woman snooping in a man’s bath with a shovel late at dawn.
“·····That·······.”
Hannah’s golden eyes were rolling.
And then, the water in the bath rippled.
“Woah! Don’t get up now! Argh!”
As soon as Cesar’s upper body was revealed, Hannah covered her eyes with her hands.
Cesar’s face, looking at Hannah like that, was still expressionless.
As the sound of wet feet neared, I felt dangerous.
Don’t tell me, you punk? You’re gonna do something stupid?
Hannah forgot that she was the criminal who sneaked in and grabbed the shovel tightly.
“Lower your hands. At least I’m wearing it.”
As Cesar said ridiculously, Hannah slowly lowered her hand from her face.
Fortunately, Cesar was wearing shorts.
“Phew.”
“Why is there a sigh of relief?”
“I was nervous because I thought I would see it.”
“Hey, it’s not that bad.”
“That’s not important right now.”
Cesar got angry as if his pride had been scratched, and Hannah shook her head to not think about it.
Only then could Hannah, who had managed to pull herself together, take a closer look at Cesar.
He was wearing pretty thin clothes.
If only it was brighter ·······.
Hannah instinctively narrowed her eyes and enabled the fabric to be transparent.
Then she shifted her gaze to his upper body, where the water was dripping.
The body, wet and smooth, was solid at first glance and smooth in curves.
Why would a priest need to be so fit?
On the surface, he looked like a weakling to be involved in corruption, which was surprising.
At Hannah’s persistent gaze as she watched his body with great confidence, Cesar burst into laughter.
“So what are you looking for?”
Cesar picked up a towel and wrapped it around his shoulders.
Thanks to you, I’m more comfortable with my eyes.
“Oh yes, yes?”
Hannah responded a beat later. The time has come. All I have to do is be interrogated.
“No, well… I was wondering if there was anything good to take because of the bad economy these days.”
“What were you trying to steal from the temple?”
“I just said it wrong.”
He looks like he’s going to wear a handcuff before a substitute.
“No, that’s not it ······.”
No matter how hard I tried, there could be no reason why I broke into the men’s bath with a shovel.
“Phew,”
Hannah let out a short sigh after a moment’s agony. It’s all over the place anyway.
Let’s just say it cool.
“I’m looking for something.”
“What is it?”
“Before we get to the point!”
Hannah cleared her throat.
“I have one piece of information. If this information helps you do what you do, please do me a favor.”
“Let’s make a deal?”
The corners of Cesar’s mouth, which had been a sour look so far, rose faintly.
“Let’s hear it for now.”
Cesar seemed to be the type who would not be caught up in an incident because everything was annoying, but surprisingly, he moved on easily.
“This temple is rotten.”
“Oh.”
From the beginning, Cesar’s interest evolved to the next level.
“The building is busy with budget and subsidies, and the subordinates are thinking of selling the children from the nursery.”
“Go ahead.”
Cesar waited for Hannah with his arms crossed.
“I definitely thought there was a ledger somewhere in the temple, and I’ve searched here and there until now,” he motioned with his chin as if telling Hannah to continue.
“But no matter how gently I searched every night, I couldn’t find it. By the way! Yesterday! I saw Chayson sneaking into the bath. There’s something in his hand, and that’s exactly what I’m looking for. I can feel it.”
“Hmmm, ······”
Cesar loosened his arms and swept his chin.
“But why are you looking for it?”
“Because if we stay like this, our cute children will be sold. I thought that if I find the ledger and use it to threaten the Head Priest, or to use it some other way.”
“Can’t you just report it to the temple?”
“I didn’t have physical evidence, so I wanted to believe it, and I wasn’t sure if the central temple was in one group, and above all,” Hannah’s voice decreased.
“If the temple goes wrong, all the children will be scattered.”
Hannah’s face became sullen.
“Hmm.”
Cesar has ears like an animal.
He felt a strange feeling when he saw Hannah, who was exhausted as if she was folded face to face.
“For now,” said Cesar, pointing under the cherry tree.
Hanna ran under the cherry tree.
“But why did you think it was this tree?”
“It’s unnatural that the soil is different, there are no weeds, and there are no common fallen petals.”
Looking around at his words, there were a lot of petals falling from trees on the ground next to him, but only this place was clean.
Hannah was amazed.
That’s a good observation.
“I just took it with a hunch. Anyway, we agree.”
Cesar’s eyebrows wriggled at her words, but as long as I didn’t have time to care about his face, I would dig hard.
Puck, puck.
Look.
“Uh, ·····.”
Something hit the tip of the shovel.
It was a hard box.
“If things go well like this, I will feel uncomfortable again.”
I think someone said that if things go too well, we should suspect them.
“Take it out.”
“Oh, yes.”
Hannah took out the box from the shovel by hand.
The box was tightly closed.
It was completely covered without any holes.
In front of it was something like a flat red stone.
“Do you know how to open this?”
“It’s a magic lock.”
“Wow.”
I wondered how expensive a magi safe would be.
If you use such an expensive thing to hide a single ledger, you won’t have enough money even if you’re embezzling money!
Hannah handed the box out to Cesar.
But Cesar did not accept it and looked down at the box.
“You don’t get it?”
“You know what this is.”
‘No way, do I have to open it, too?'”
“There, if you draw a secret pattern on the stone, it will open.”
“Oh, I see!”
Hannah smiled wildly when she found out the use of the stone embedded in it.
“What?”
When asked what the secret pattern was, Cesar wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at Hannah.
“…you don’t know.”
I don’t know either.
Hannah said in a crawling voice.
“Do you know anything? Like the Head Priest’s birthday or something he uses often.”
“How do I know that?”
I don’t even know this body’s birthday.
“Ah!”
Then something crossed Hannah’s mind.
“No way ·········.”
Then, I remembered the figures I found behind the frame.
“Do you remember anything?”
“Zero·······.”
Hannah tried to recall the numbers she saw that day. Why is it that only a few numbers didn’t come to mind all of a sudden?
“2 is certain, was it 5 or 6? The last one was 8.”
“528.”
“Hmm? How do you know?”
“The anniversary of the grace of the goddess Jesmo,”
Hannah frowned at Cesar’s explanation.
“What a date to use to embezzling subject. It’s a total blasphemy,”
Cesar nodded sympathetically.
“How was the number drawn?”
“In a round circle, it was overlapped.”
“Draw it as it is.”
Cesar beckoned her to the safe, asking her to open it quickly.
“Well, my hands are dirty.”
Hannah was a little scared by the magic item she had never used before.
But Cesar laughed at her with his mouth stretched widely.
I mean, don’t play tricks on me. Hannah also recognized his intentions at once.
‘But it doesn’t matter,’ eventually, Hannah put her finger on the red stone.
Light fluttered inside the stone when her hand touched it.
“Mom!”
Surprised Hannah dropped the box, and Cesar quickly stepped aside when he saw the box falling on his foot.
“…you’re sharper than you look.”
Cesar pointed at the box without a word again, and Hannah squatted and put her finger back on the stone.
“5·······. 2.··········8.”
After all that, Hannah drew the numbers exactly as she how saw the pattern.
Then light came out of the red stone.
The box split in half with a rattle and a sound as I frowned.
“I’ll open it.”
I should’ve opened it myself.
I could’ve done at least one gold.
There was a sigh of regret.
“Why don’t you get one?”
Cesar said as if he had read Hannah’s mind.
“That······.”
Shall I?
I tried to say thank you, but I desperately endured it.
That’s a test for yourself!
“You can’t do that. It’s all temple money.”
“Yeah?”
Cesar bent over, shrugging his shoulders half-heartedly.
And picked up a gold bar.
“What are you doing?”
And Hannah grabbed his hand.
“What are you doing?”
“No! Are you taking out the gold bars?!”
“········”
In her jersey, Cesar moved the gold bar to the side and picked up the books under the gold bar.
“Hmm-hmm.” Hannah awkwardly let go of his wrist. I’m sure he was trying to get a gold bar.
“I’m afraid there’s a dangerous spell on it. Hmm.”
“Thank you.”
“The ledger is correct”
Cesar’s eyes quickly scanned the book.
“What do you think? Did you see a lot?”
Meanwhile, Hannah was curious about it.
How much did he make?
Did he steal a lot?
What punishment would that level of embezzlement be?
My body was shaking with curiosity.
“Why do you ask?”
The eyes of Cesar, who had been playing the books, passed on to Hannah.
Cesar remembered the terms of the deal Hannah was talking about.
“Oh.”
I forgot for a moment and was glad that I found the account.
“Please try to save our nursery school.”
“To do that, the temple should not disappear.”
“Can’t you change the priest to a proper person instead?”
Then at least the nursery school doesn’t have to disappear.
“Is it because of your job?”
“What?”
“If you get mixed up in this, you may have to quit.”
“Ah..”
“However,······.”
What if Hannah, who was the owner of this body, did something bad in accordance with the will of the head priest?
No, it couldn’t have been.
There was no indisputable memory anywhere in my memory.
“I can’t help it. But I hope the nursery school will remain. As long as you find a good teacher and let the children grow up well ·······. I think it’ll be okay.”
I felt a little sad when I imagined getting fired and seeing the children happily staying with other teachers.
However, in a way, there was a sense that it might be better for professional people to come to this world than to be ignorant of children’s education.
Hannah broke the silence of the moment and spoke with determined eyes.
“It’s okay.”
It should be okay.
For the future of the children.
Hannah stayed in Cesar’s clear blue eyes for quite a long time.
“I see.”
The very late reply was still dull.
“Why········ Why don’t you show your presence?”
“Am I not the one who should be asking that now?”
Then Hannah remembered where she was.
The men’s bath.
“··············”
“What are you doing here?”
I was speechless.
A woman snooping in a man’s bath with a shovel late at dawn.
“·····That·······.”
Hannah’s golden eyes were rolling.
And then, the water in the bath rippled.
“Woah! Don’t get up now! Argh!”
As soon as Cesar’s upper body was revealed, Hannah covered her eyes with her hands.
Cesar’s face, looking at Hannah like that, was still expressionless.
As the sound of wet feet neared, I felt dangerous.
Don’t tell me, you punk? You’re gonna do something stupid?
Hannah forgot that she was the criminal who sneaked in and grabbed the shovel tightly.
“Lower your hands. At least I’m wearing it.”
As Cesar said ridiculously, Hannah slowly lowered her hand from her face.
Fortunately, Cesar was wearing shorts.
“Phew.”
“Why is there a sigh of relief?”
“I was nervous because I thought I would see it.”
“Hey, it’s not that bad.”
“That’s not important right now.”
Cesar got angry as if his pride had been scratched, and Hannah shook her head to not think about it.
Only then could Hannah, who had managed to pull herself together, take a closer look at Cesar.
He was wearing pretty thin clothes.
If only it was brighter ·······.
Hannah instinctively narrowed her eyes and enabled the fabric to be transparent.
Then she shifted her gaze to his upper body, where the water was dripping.
The body, wet and smooth, was solid at first glance and smooth in curves.
Why would a priest need to be so fit?
On the surface, he looked like a weakling to be involved in corruption, which was surprising.
At Hannah’s persistent gaze as she watched his body with great confidence, Cesar burst into laughter.
“So what are you looking for?”
Cesar picked up a towel and wrapped it around his shoulders.
Thanks to you, I’m more comfortable with my eyes.
“Oh yes, yes?”
Hannah responded a beat later. The time has come. All I have to do is be interrogated.
“No, well… I was wondering if there was anything good to take because of the bad economy these days.”
“What were you trying to steal from the temple?”
“I just said it wrong.”
He looks like he’s going to wear a handcuff before a substitute.
“No, that’s not it ······.”
No matter how hard I tried, there could be no reason why I broke into the men’s bath with a shovel.
“Phew,”
Hannah let out a short sigh after a moment’s agony. It’s all over the place anyway.
Let’s just say it cool.
“I’m looking for something.”
“What is it?”
“Before we get to the point!”
Hannah cleared her throat.
“I have one piece of information. If this information helps you do what you do, please do me a favor.”
“Let’s make a deal?”
The corners of Cesar’s mouth, which had been a sour look so far, rose faintly.
“Let’s hear it for now.”
Cesar seemed to be the type who would not be caught up in an incident because everything was annoying, but surprisingly, he moved on easily.
“This temple is rotten.”
“Oh.”
From the beginning, Cesar’s interest evolved to the next level.
“The building is busy with budget and subsidies, and the subordinates are thinking of selling the children from the nursery.”
“Go ahead.”
Cesar waited for Hannah with his arms crossed.
“I definitely thought there was a ledger somewhere in the temple, and I’ve searched here and there until now,” he motioned with his chin as if telling Hannah to continue.
“But no matter how gently I searched every night, I couldn’t find it. By the way! Yesterday! I saw Chayson sneaking into the bath. There’s something in his hand, and that’s exactly what I’m looking for. I can feel it.”
“Hmmm, ······”
Cesar loosened his arms and swept his chin.
“But why are you looking for it?”
“Because if we stay like this, our cute children will be sold. I thought that if I find the ledger and use it to threaten the Head Priest, or to use it some other way.”
“Can’t you just report it to the temple?”
“I didn’t have physical evidence, so I wanted to believe it, and I wasn’t sure if the central temple was in one group, and above all,” Hannah’s voice decreased.
“If the temple goes wrong, all the children will be scattered.”
Hannah’s face became sullen.
“Hmm.”
Cesar has ears like an animal.
He felt a strange feeling when he saw Hannah, who was exhausted as if she was folded face to face.
“For now,” said Cesar, pointing under the cherry tree.
Hanna ran under the cherry tree.
“But why did you think it was this tree?”
“It’s unnatural that the soil is different, there are no weeds, and there are no common fallen petals.”
Looking around at his words, there were a lot of petals falling from trees on the ground next to him, but only this place was clean.
Hannah was amazed.
That’s a good observation.
“I just took it with a hunch. Anyway, we agree.”
Cesar’s eyebrows wriggled at her words, but as long as I didn’t have time to care about his face, I would dig hard.
Puck, puck.
Look.
“Uh, ·····.”
Something hit the tip of the shovel.
It was a hard box.
“If things go well like this, I will feel uncomfortable again.”
I think someone said that if things go too well, we should suspect them.
“Take it out.”
“Oh, yes.”
Hannah took out the box from the shovel by hand.
The box was tightly closed.
It was completely covered without any holes.
In front of it was something like a flat red stone.
“Do you know how to open this?”
“It’s a magic lock.”
“Wow.”
I wondered how expensive a magi safe would be.
If you use such an expensive thing to hide a single ledger, you won’t have enough money even if you’re embezzling money!
Hannah handed the box out to Cesar.
But Cesar did not accept it and looked down at the box.
“You don’t get it?”
“You know what this is.”
‘No way, do I have to open it, too?'”
“There, if you draw a secret pattern on the stone, it will open.”
“Oh, I see!”
Hannah smiled wildly when she found out the use of the stone embedded in it.
“What?”
When asked what the secret pattern was, Cesar wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at Hannah.
“…you don’t know.”
I don’t know either.
Hannah said in a crawling voice.
“Do you know anything? Like the Head Priest’s birthday or something he uses often.”
“How do I know that?”
I don’t even know this body’s birthday.
“Ah!”
Then something crossed Hannah’s mind.
“No way ·········.”
Then, I remembered the figures I found behind the frame.
“Do you remember anything?”
“Zero·······.”
Hannah tried to recall the numbers she saw that day. Why is it that only a few numbers didn’t come to mind all of a sudden?
“2 is certain, was it 5 or 6? The last one was 8.”
“528.”
“Hmm? How do you know?”
“The anniversary of the grace of the goddess Jesmo,”
Hannah frowned at Cesar’s explanation.
“What a date to use to embezzling subject. It’s a total blasphemy,”
Cesar nodded sympathetically.
“How was the number drawn?”
“In a round circle, it was overlapped.”
“Draw it as it is.”
Cesar beckoned her to the safe, asking her to open it quickly.
“Well, my hands are dirty.”
Hannah was a little scared by the magic item she had never used before.
But Cesar laughed at her with his mouth stretched widely.
I mean, don’t play tricks on me. Hannah also recognized his intentions at once.
‘But it doesn’t matter,’ eventually, Hannah put her finger on the red stone.
Light fluttered inside the stone when her hand touched it.
“Mom!”
Surprised Hannah dropped the box, and Cesar quickly stepped aside when he saw the box falling on his foot.
“…you’re sharper than you look.”
Cesar pointed at the box without a word again, and Hannah squatted and put her finger back on the stone.
“5·······. 2.··········8.”
After all that, Hannah drew the numbers exactly as she how saw the pattern.
Then light came out of the red stone.
The box split in half with a rattle and a sound as I frowned.
“I’ll open it.”
I should’ve opened it myself.
I could’ve done at least one gold.
There was a sigh of regret.
“Why don’t you get one?”
Cesar said as if he had read Hannah’s mind.
“That······.”
Shall I?
I tried to say thank you, but I desperately endured it.
That’s a test for yourself!
“You can’t do that. It’s all temple money.”
“Yeah?”
Cesar bent over, shrugging his shoulders half-heartedly.
And picked up a gold bar.
“What are you doing?”
And Hannah grabbed his hand.
“What are you doing?”
“No! Are you taking out the gold bars?!”
“········”
In her jersey, Cesar moved the gold bar to the side and picked up the books under the gold bar.
“Hmm-hmm.” Hannah awkwardly let go of his wrist. I’m sure he was trying to get a gold bar.
“I’m afraid there’s a dangerous spell on it. Hmm.”
“Thank you.”
“The ledger is correct”
Cesar’s eyes quickly scanned the book.
“What do you think? Did you see a lot?”
Meanwhile, Hannah was curious about it.
How much did he make?
Did he steal a lot?
What punishment would that level of embezzlement be?
My body was shaking with curiosity.
“Why do you ask?”
The eyes of Cesar, who had been playing the books, passed on to Hannah.
Cesar remembered the terms of the deal Hannah was talking about.
“Oh.”
I forgot for a moment and was glad that I found the account.
“Please try to save our nursery school.”
“To do that, the temple should not disappear.”
“Can’t you change the priest to a proper person instead?”
Then at least the nursery school doesn’t have to disappear.
“Is it because of your job?”
“What?”
“If you get mixed up in this, you may have to quit.”
“Ah..”
“However,······.”
What if Hannah, who was the owner of this body, did something bad in accordance with the will of the head priest?
No, it couldn’t have been.
There was no indisputable memory anywhere in my memory.
“I can’t help it. But I hope the nursery school will remain. As long as you find a good teacher and let the children grow up well ·······. I think it’ll be okay.”
I felt a little sad when I imagined getting fired and seeing the children happily staying with other teachers.
However, in a way, there was a sense that it might be better for professional people to come to this world than to be ignorant of children’s education.
Hannah broke the silence of the moment and spoke with determined eyes.
“It’s okay.”
It should be okay.
For the future of the children.
Hannah stayed in Cesar’s clear blue eyes for quite a long time.
“I see.”
The very late reply was still dull.
