26 – Saint Elaine (4)

“Oops!”

“Are you really not hurt? I think I was held on pretty hard.”

“Gwa, it’s okay! Because it’s okay… .”

Elaine was surprised with her white hair dancing.

As expected, her wrists were blue and bruised.

“I have a bruise.”

There are blue spots on the thin wrists.

At my words, Elaine hurriedly withdrew her hand and hid it behind her back.

I’m ashamed to look away.

“There is no need to hide it.”

“Isn’t that ugly? like this… .”

“Is that so?”

“Baek, the Count doesn’t look like anything.”

“Because it doesn’t matter.”

He shrugged his shoulders at Elaine, who had an uneasy look, and answered.

There were no scars, no scars left.

The 17-year-old girl in front of me seemed more concerned about the bruises on her wrists than about being maligned.

He’s got a really good mindset.

“It’s just a bruise, so it will go away in a few days. Why don’t you try using healing magic?”

“Magic… ”

At my words, Elaine’s expression darkened at once.

“Are there any problems?”

“Oh, no. It’s not like that… .”

“Anyone can use simple healing magic, right?”

Except for the cursed family of Altane, most people have enough mana in their bodies.

The setting of this world is that no matter how talented or stupid a person is, simple basic magic can be fully manifested by self-study.

It was for this reason that he was able to use heal from level 1.

Even though she hasn’t become a saint yet, if Elaine has the qualities of a saint, she could easily use a heel, so why hesitate?

I slowly looked at Elaine and waited for her mouth to open.

Elaine opened her mouth for a while, looked into my eyes, then looked elsewhere.

Then he finally opened his mouth.

“I, from now on, please keep it a secret. I’m only telling the count… .”

“If it’s a sensitive issue, it doesn’t matter if I don’t tell you?”

“That is not true. It’s just different from others… It would be quicker to show you this in person… ?”

Elaine held out her palm to me, who was next to me.

While staring at the small palm of my hand, a cool breeze began to blow around me.

The wind slowly moved around Elaine and me, then towards her palm.

then I could see

A golden orb shining brilliantly on Elaine’s white palm.

‘ah.’

Now it seemed to me that she knew why she was reluctant to use magic.

“If you want to use mana someday… Eh, something like this comes out.”

“… .”

By default, mana is blue.

It’s like national rules that are known all over the world. So was this game.

The mana color of all characters was overall blue.

Most of them were like that, except for those who had mastered magic, such as saints and horsemen.

If you see a mana color different from yours, some people will be surprised, and others will see it as strange.

Moreover, the last appearance of a saintess is also a long time ago in terms of the world view. Only a few people knew about golden mana.

Even if she knew about divine power, which is the same as the identity of a saint, it would be about the church.

True to her name, Elaine’s mana was flowing with divine power, so the color of her mana naturally changed.

I supported Elaine’s palm, which was emitting a sparkling golden aura.

Momentarily, her hand trembled.

“Hick!”

“Is it because you have different mana than others?”

“Yes, yes… .”

Elaine’s eyes trembled as she slowly nodded and replied.

Not being able to make eye contact for a long time, and it seemed like he had suffered a lot with this golden mana.

‘Well, it’s because I don’t even know about the saintess.’

Since mana, which contains abundant divine power, is a pure quality by itself, it changes to normal mana when mixed with other mana even a little.

There is also an episode in which the saintess’ identity is hidden using this special property.

If someone didn’t continue to inject mana into the holy woman, her true identity would soon be revealed.

I started pouring my mana into her through Elaine’s hand, which I was holding just like in the game.

Elaine’s body trembled from time to time, as if she had noticed my mana starting to flow in.

I lightly tightened the hand holding her so that she wouldn’t escape.

“Huh?! uh, what… !”

“If you do this, it won’t matter.”

After a while, the floating golden orb slowly began to lose its luster and soon turned blue.

Elaine asked in a trembling voice in surprise.

“Uh, how… .”

“I just blew a little bit of the mana I had. If you do it this way, you won’t have to worry about others finding out.”

I had stained her holy power with my mana the size of a rat.

It was a dull blue color because it was Mana from the Altane family, who had no talent for magic, but Elaine’s eyes looking at it were as bright as if looking at a noble jewel.

“Don’t absorb it, try using magic as it is. It will be less efficient, but basic healing magic won’t matter.”

At my words, she wrapped blue mana around her wrist and cast a healing spell.

Small magic circles wrapped around my wrists and began to emit light.

The ultramarine mana wrapped around Elaine’s wrist and then released it repeatedly.

And as if it was promised, when the magic circle disappeared, the blue bruises also disappeared.

Seeing this, Elaine muttered in disbelief.

“Sah, it’s gone… .”

“It’s gone.”

Elaine’s mouth twitched as she looked at me with bewildered eyes.

For her, the blue bruise must have been a trigger that reminded her of that day. Even so, she must have been unable to use magic easily because of her constitution.

It was obvious what kind of treatment he would be treated if he showed a slightly different mana. There will be people who see it as strange, and there will be people who do not like it because it is different from others.

In Elaine’s case, it seems to have been the latter.

Seeing that refreshing smile makes me smile even when I see it.

“I don’t know how to thank you for only receiving help like this… .”

“I didn’t ask for anything in particular. Just letting you know that there is such a way. And this is something you cannot do alone. Be mindful of that.”

It’s not trash to the extent that you want something from a kid who just became a high school student.

Of course, if it was a guy like Hans or Jed, he would have ripped off something.

Elaine said she couldn’t do that and pulled out an object from her chest.

“Well, then please accept this… !”

What Elaine held out was a shabby pouch.

When I opened it, there were several silver coins inside.

I looked at her with a puzzled expression.

Elaine hesitated.

“Every time I had extra pocket money, I saved it little by little. Please accept this… .”

‘Would you like to accept it?’

Who the hell will take the dust-like pocket money collected by a 17-year-old who is neither another guy nor an adult?

It’s not that I don’t have money, and I don’t have any reason to get it.

“Not required.”

“Wow!”

I threw the pouch into Elaine’s bosom.

As she crouched down to collect her teeth, she was as cute as looking at an animal.

To the point where Risha, who is one year younger, looks more mature.

Elaine said in bewilderment.

“Well, then what should I do… .”

“Didn’t I tell you that you don’t need it? Abandon the desire to give anything away.”

“But… .”

“If you’re speechless one more time, let’s go back like this.”

“Ouch… .”

As I pretended to get up, Elaine hurriedly covered her mouth with both hands.

Her haste was such that her cheeks puffed up.

I am grateful for Elaine’s kind heart to give back what she has received, but I had no intention of receiving anything from her.

If I take the price now, our slightly tilted relationship will return to level again.

Rather, putting the debt on her mind like this will later become the fertilizer to make her completely on my side.

I said in passing to Elaine, who was restless.

“Well, maybe not now, but later, something you want might happen.”

“uh… Yes?”

“Go back. Friends came to meet me.”

I stood up from my seat, ignoring Elaine who looked at me with a stupid face.

It was because a group of female students were approaching from afar.

‘grey… Is it Class F?’

Unlike the golden lion pattern on my chest, the dark gray lion pattern meant that it was an F class.

Among the successful applicants, this is a place where students with the lowest entrance grades and among them the lowest talent expectations are gathered.

Class F, which is ridiculed as an inferior class and a gathering of prospective failing students, was a class that had its own system to expel the student if he could not go to another class after two semesters.

The reason for the grace period of two semesters was that there might be talents that the academy couldn’t find.

Of course, the odds are slim, but there is someone next to me who has pierced the ridiculous odds.

Elaine muttered softly as she looked at the students.

“Patricia, Hira… Until Rachel?”

The time when the saintess Elaine appears in the game in earnest is towards the end of the first semester.

As an F-Class, she grows up by storm as she becomes a saint.

I don’t know what kind of ceremony she went through in the church and how she became a saint.

The time when the saintess before Elaine was active was quite old. The only way to find it is to look in the relevant literature.

Shouldn’t you have asked the three guys you knocked down before?

They must have been officials sent by the church.

His behavior seemed worse than that of thieves, so he must have been a kind of errand boy who kidnapped.

The only problem is that while I stopped it, the connection with the church disappeared… .

wait for a sec.

Then how does Elaine become a saint?