Incompatible Interspecies Wives

5 – Childhood (5)

After some time passed, I was alone in front of the orphanage in Shien.

There were no crowds, no apostles of Hea, the god of chastity, and no Shien.

I could still see her as she was being led away as she was revered as a saint.

I tried swinging my fists to stop them, but what came back was a baptism of fists from several paladins.

Seeing how fiercely I fought, Shien decided to follow them first.

Shien stopped me, saying that even if I defeated all the knights in front of me, they would continue to flock to me.

As a result, I arrive at the present time.

“….”

I spat out the blood left in my cracked mouth.

The wounds all over my body were sore and throbbing.

But nothing compared to the pain in my heart worrying about Shien’s disappearance.

As if a hole had been pierced in my chest, a heavy, empty pressure tormented me over and over again.

What is going on?

Were the heroes chosen for yesterday’s pillar of light?

Can Shien come back to me?

Since no one said anything, only my anxious imagination increased in size.

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It wasn’t until that afternoon that Shien was able to return to her orphanage.

“… When…..N?”

However, her clothes were very different.

Classy clothes. The pattern of ‘Hea’, the god of chastity, is embedded in a large golden color on the clothes.

Anyone could see that the word saint would come out of nowhere.

And around her, several knights were escorting her.

I always give compliments when I wear new clothes, but this time I didn’t get compliments even with empty words.

I wanted to see him in rags rather than those fancy clothes.

Shien walks away with an expression about to cry.

“…”

“…”

I got up naturally and tried to hold her hand.

-Tak!

And at that moment, the paladin next to me cut my hand roughly and stopped me.

“The Saint-“

– Puck!

The heat rose instantly, and I swung my fist at the paladin.

The fight begins.

The paladin, who had been hit once, tried to draw a sword from his waist.

“Stop…Do it…!”

At that moment, Shien stopped the paladin from pulling out his sword with an urgent voice.

The paladin obediently followed Shien’s words to the point of being dumbfounded.

“…I understand.”

The paladin inserting the sword warns.

“From now on, please do not place your hands on the holy woman’s jade body.”

“What are you, Mara? Shien is-“

“Don’t call me by name. The saintess is not the person you knew yesterday. He is the hero chosen by Hea, the god of innocence. And the saintess needs to keep her body pure, even for the sake of all the races in the world.”

I didn’t really like the paladin who said this and that about Shien.

I know Shien best. Just as I belong to Sheen, Sheen belongs to me.

There was no room for others to intervene.

My friends Max and Flint couldn’t intervene either.

It was said that he knew how to wield a knife and was not in a relationship where he would be threatened.

I approached the paladin again, feeling the fiercest rage of my life.

“…Bell…!”

But if you stop me like this again.

My attention is drawn to her.

And let her see her, all her anger washes away.

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This ridiculous situation just started to make me feel unfair.

“Shien… What is this…”

“It’s a saintess.”

A paladin intervenes again.

Shien also raised her voice as she couldn’t even get angry.

“It’s okay if Bebel sings…! Say no more…”

“…”

Soon we made eye contact again and talked.

“Shien…What happened…? What did you go and talk about…?”

“…”

For some reason, Shien was silent.

There are so many things I want to say, but I just kept my mouth shut as if I couldn’t say it yet.

I was so frustrated with her.

I want to trust her, but I hate the fact that there are things she hides from me.

Shien closed her eyes, then she looked at me with a troubled smile.

“…Doesn’t it hurt?”

She looks at my wounds and says.

I answered after pondering for a long time.

“…It hurts.”

Shien held back her tears and reached for my wound.

She doesn’t touch, she puts her hand in front of her wound.

Soon her hands started to glow brightly, and my wounds began to heal rapidly.

“…”

“…”

For some reason, that miracle gave me despair.

“…That makes no sense, Shien.”

“…”

“…How is this now?”

“…”

“Why…Why are these changes happening to us…”

I tried to hold her hand as she stopped in front of my face.

But Shien hurriedly lowered her head and hid her hand.

My hand cut through the air.

She said.

“…I don’t think I will ever live in an orphanage. I’ve decided to go to the big church up there… Please visit me there from now on.”

“Sian-“

“-I’ll fix it, Bell.”

She said with determination.

Her shoulders were shaking, but she said as if she wanted it more than anyone else.

“There must have been a misunderstanding. So… I’ll fix everything and return to you.”

The paladins rolled her eyes and looked at Shien.

Shien said, not paying attention to him.

“So… Can you safely wait for me until then…?”

There was only one answer I could give her.

I quietly nodded her head and let her go.

We, who will become a couple in the future, had to trust each other.

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I always waited for Sien outside the church.

Shien always came out to see me like that.

She was uncomfortable with her various paladins and priests following her, but she was far better than not being able to see Shien.

At first, I was satisfied with just touching her face, but I felt more and more thirsty.

She hasn’t held her hand in a long time.

She hasn’t been hugged in a long time.

She had never felt lonely before, and for the first time she felt lonely.

A change has come to us.

It was a big enough change that we noticed each other.

Sien’s face grew darker and darker, and I grew thinner and thinner.

We didn’t talk about this, but we felt each other’s pain very vividly.

Every time I did that, I remembered what Shien said to her.

I’ll come back after solving it, so she told me to wait.

It was clear that they were fighting fiercely inside Shiendo. She is gentle and timid, but she has an unbreakable uprightness.

But the more Shien went, the less often she came to see me.

She came out several times a day and she came out, 4 times a day.

#2.

#1.

It gradually decreased… There were days when I didn’t come out to see you.

Then I had no choice but to wait outside her all night without commitment.

Although I was hanging out outside the church like this, the rumors that were floating in the world reached my ears one by one.

The voices of people coming in and out of the church to offer prayers echoed.

The fact that the demon king was born was true, and many heroes were born.

The pillar of light is said to have been the revelation.

The saying that heroes will keep the world safe.

The words that a saint was born in our city.

I was forced to reject those rumors.

She didn’t want to believe that Shien was a hero who had to fight the demon king.

In the first place, she decided to come back to me.

I was eagerly clinging to Shien’s promise.

It was obvious that my friends in the slums would laugh at me like this.

But I had no choice. I couldn’t imagine a life apart from Shien anymore.

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It’s been three days since I waited without meeting Xian.

The door of the church finally opens, realizing that the time to face Xien has come again.

“…”

But a small change has occurred.

Previously, if Shien had run out of her church in the lead, now the knights escorting her were walking out first.

Shien didn’t run faster or look at me anymore.

With careful steps, he puts on an escort and walks out slowly.

That trivial action made me uneasy.

Soon she stops in front of me.

“…Shen.”

“…”

I called her name, but she didn’t answer.

I looked at her pretty face and asked.

“…Were you crying?”

Shien shook her shoulders at those words.

Even if you try to hide it from me, there are things that cannot be hidden.

At my question, Shien’s tightly pursed lips began to tremble.

Shien, who had been doing this for a while, spoke to me with eyes that looked like she would burst into tears.

“I wasn’t crying.”

“…”

You can tell at a glance that this is a lie.

I felt as if I had decided to lie from the moment I left that church.

I was just confused by all of this.

As if stabbing my heart, an unpleasant goo was dragging me down.

I carefully grabbed Shien’s shoulders.

The paladins around me tried to cling to me, but this time the bishop stopped them.

“This is the last time, so watch it. That much…It’ll be fine.”

“…Last?”

I repeated the bishop’s words.

My heart was pounding as if it would explode.

I looked down at Shien.

As if Shien was about to give me an answer, she took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

“…Bell. I am a saint.”

“…”

“I tried to deny it too, but now I admit it. The marks on the back of the hand cannot be erased, and if you stretch out your hand, you can heal people’s wounds…Recently, Hea-nim appears in my dreams.”

“I don’t care about that. Let’s go back, Xian.”

Shien shook her head.

“…That’s not it, Bell. I… I guess I’m destined to protect people. From demons and demons.”

“What bullsh*t are you talking about…! As much as a monster…!”

Unbeknownst to me, harsh words come out.

At that, Shien shrank her body. At that little gesture, I regretted my words, but I couldn’t take back what I had already said.

I took a deep breath instead and said.

“…There’s nothing you hate more than monsters…! He told me not to do mercenary work…!”

Shien took several deep breaths, then took a deep breath.

She looked straight at me with moistened eyes and said.

“I am leaving for the capital tomorrow.”

“…”

Chen ignores all my words and only talks about me.

She was definitely passing me some kind of message.

I gritted my teeth and ignored the message.

“…I’ll follow you, then.”

“…No. Don’t follow me.”

I couldn’t believe that such cruel words were coming out of Shien’s mouth.

“If I’m with you… the power I received from Hea will continue to weaken.”

“Be weak…!”

“…No.”

“…”

I looked at Shien like that and turned the arrow.

I shouted while looking at the bishop and knights behind me.

“What did you guys do to Xian-“

“-I didn’t do anything, Bell.”

“…”

“…It’s just a choice I made.”

How can I believe this?

You can tell a lie like this.

You can tell just by putting your fingers together and giving them strength.

That was her habit when she lied.

I pulled her shoulders in her cien and put her forehead against her.

It was close to others, but familiar to us.

I whispered so that only she could hear.

“…Shien…Why are you doing this… You told me you would come back to me just a few days ago…”

“…Bell…Hundreds…Tens of millions of lives are in my hands.”

“…”

“That’s…Too many numbers for me to ignore. Even thinking of my parents who were doctors…I…”

I know she has this kind of personality.

Originally, he had a good personality.

But I was selfishly hoping she would choose me.

I wanted you to prioritize me over millions of people.

Because it would be me.

“If it were you, would you have acted differently from me…?”

As if reading my mind at that moment, Xian asked.

“Of course not. I am-“

“Even if I was among those tens of thousands?”

“…”

I was momentarily speechless at Shien’s point.

I opened my mouth, but no answer came out.

I imagine myself falling into her situation again.

If I had a revelation. If she knew that if they were together, Shien might die.

Did I ignore that small possibility?

“…Then…Then…Then I’ll wait for you to come back…”

“I’m not coming back.”

“…What?”

Chien wipes his eyes gently.

“When the job is done, I will be a hero. What is the reason to come back to your side again?”

“…”

“I will wear clean clothes and eat delicious food. There is no reason to go back to your side.”

She was the one who said she would not care even if she was poor.

She was the one who said that all she needed was me.

So this statement must be false, so why don’t I keep being sure?

I know it’s not, but her words are deeply embedded in my heart.

Maybe it’s because I’m not proud of myself as a poor person, so I can’t refute more.

She may have been on her mind for forcing her to give up her parents’ estate.

Shien shook my hand off my shoulder.

From that moment on, she became cold as if she had hardened her heart.

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“… Her best friend ends here.”

“…”

Since when did she prepare for the breakup?

How long has she been preparing, how long has she been able to say such cruel things?

How hard does she speak these words?

I tried to understand her heart.

“I will live as a saint from now on. I can’t even get married anymore.”

But every time Shien manages to break our plans.

“I don’t have any more plans to travel the world. Let go of that dream.”

The dirty personalities I learned in the slums were wriggling.

“…Shen.”

“You can hate me. It’s okay to resent You don’t have to keep your promise to me. You too…live happily ever after.”

“…Will you abandon me?”

I know that my words only made her breakup more difficult.

“Is this… The end?”

“…”

“You won’t let me follow you, and you won’t come back…?”

But even like this, I wanted to hold her.

The pain I gave you was painful, and I wanted it to come back to me.

“Don’t do this, Shien.”

“…… Let’s leave the memories we’ve accumulated so far as memories.”

“…If you leave…You will resent me.”

This is the first time she has spoken harsh words towards her.

At those words, the delicate Shien covered her ears with both of her hands.

“With time, I’ll be able to dismiss it as a stupid memory.”

Closing her eyes, covering her ears, and spitting out the words she had memorized, she spoke for herself.

“How can that become a stupid memory!!”

I raised her voice the more she did. So that my voice can pass through that small hand.

“Is it okay if I forget you? Is it okay for me to fall in love with someone else!”

“…………..”

“Answer me, Xian…!”

“Hello…Thank you for the time being.”

She then opens her eyes again and takes a long look at me.

It’s as if I’m engraved in my memory.

Then, she turned around.

I wasn’t prepared in the slightest, but she left me.

Sien is getting farther away.

I finally spat out the cruelest words.

“…Don’t go.”

“…”

“…Please.”

The voice came out trembling. Begged her for the first time.

“Please…Please please. I don’t want it to end like this.”

I threw away all my pride. That’s how much I needed her.

Shin said that he couldn’t leave at all.

And at those words, Shien stood tall.

And my last words to her seemed to shake her.

Her slender shoulders began to tremble.

I couldn’t tell what kind of expression he would have because he didn’t show me his face.

She stood like that for a long time.

And this time, with her back turned, she spoke cruelly to me.

“…Even though we won’t see each other again…”

“…”

“…And my words like this…Will be a selfish curse, but…Heh…I have to say it.”

“…”

“Don’t forget me, Bell.”

Shin left me like that.