Chapter 2: The Mad Saint

Blood-covered nun’s habit, pale complexion, eyes that shed bloody tears without focus, dry skin, and an eerie atmosphere.

In short, the ghostly woman appeared without any particular signs.

She simply fell powerlessly from the city of the elven tribe that had settled in the northern border region.

Silently and futilely, without making a single sound or scattering a single particle of dust.

The place where she landed was not damaged, and the woman who fell was not injured.

It was as if a ghost had appeared.

The only difference was that the woman was not a ghost but a living person.

“Huh? What is this?”

“A human? Hmm, since she appeared out of nowhere, she must have come through a dimensional rift.”

The elves who were living ordinary lives in the city were interested in the sudden appearance of the human.

It was not a very good interest for the human.

The elves of this land were all obsessed with elven supremacy and regarded humans like livestock.

“Are you lucky? I’ll get a s*ave for free.”

It was a strange fall, but an elf approached the woman who had not moved at all since then, just breathing.

He was the first elf to discover her.

That was why the other elves clicked their tongues, saying that they had missed a good opportunity, but did not come forward.

Among the rules of this elf tribe, there was a rule that the ownership of an inferior race that came through a dimensional rift would go to the first person to discover that inferior race.

There was no problem even if there was a very strong individual.

They were strong.

If they rebelled, they would be rendered useless, and if that didn’t work, they would just kill them.

This was their home base, and the territory of the elves.

As long as there were no monsters outside the standard size located in the center of this reconstruction zone, it didn’t matter.

That’s why the elf who discovered her first could be considered lucky.

Not because he got a s*ave.

Because he would die a painless death.

“Huh?”

The moment he was about to touch her, he felt a strange sensation, and the words ‘Huh?’ became the elf’s last words.

The elf’s body suddenly turned to dust and entered eternal sleep…!

“What?!”

“What…!?”

All the elves were bewildered by this shocking incident that had no warning.

Although the elves had faced many strong opponents in the past, this was their first time experiencing something like this.

“To put your dirty hands on my dirty body… No… I can’t…”

The woman muttered as if she was being pulled up by a thread, pulling herself up strangely.

“I can’t get any dirtier… I can’t… If I want to be forgiven by you…”

She muttered something incomprehensible.

Finally, her head rose, and her eyes, like those of a corpse that had been dead for several days, rolled around, looking around.

“My sins are overflowing… Aah…”

The elves were unable to act properly at the appearance of the bizarre human.

They were overwhelmed by the incomprehensible pressure of the bizarre human!

And the price for this was terrifying.

“I will repent.”

Crunch! Crunch!!

“I will wash away your deep sins with a painful death.”

In an instant, a black skewer rose from the ground, pierced a nearby elf, and hung in the air.

“?!”

“Wh, what…!!”

“How dare this inferior species…!!!”

The elves’ reactions were divided.

Some were scared, some tried to run away, and some attacked in return…

However, the result was the same.

Without even knowing how, they were simply impaled on skewers rising from the ground and stuffed in the shape of a cross to die.

The eyes of the woman in the nun’s habit, who gave equal death to all elves, were filled with a dark and infinite heat.

Perhaps trying to show nun-like charity, she looked pious and merciful as she gazed at the blue sky with her hands clasped together.

However, pitifully for the elves, there was nothing like that in her actions.

“By willingly washing away your sins, I will repent and wash away my deep, deep sins…!!”

The dry but powerful voice came in a terrible form.

Crack! Crack!!!

In an instant, hundreds and thousands of elves met their deaths.

“Repent! I will repent!! Aaaah… Aaaah…

“… Uh, how much do I have to wash before I can approach you…how much…”

“Monster, monster…!!”

“Whew?! G-give the guards…”

At the word “guards,” the mad nun stretched out her hand.

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!!

At that, the soldiers guarding the outskirts of the city and those on patrol were instantly pierced by skewers and shot up.

And the elf who was watching this scene and trembling in despair and crying also soon ended up in the same situation.

“Repent, you must…, I am in so much pain…?”

If there were differences between her and ghosts, there were also similarities.

The one thing ghosts and she had in common was that they were both monsters that brought fear.

“This monster-!!!”

At that moment, an elf with great strength fell towards her.

“Why are you doing such cruel things!! What did we do to you!!!”

The elf was shedding tears.

He was the leader of these elves.

Now, she was also the master of a city that had all died.

“T-Thou, who tormented, a person like that… is that something you should say…?”

However, the powerful attack was blocked by the intangible energy and did not reach her.

“What crime is it to play with livestock a little bit-!!!”

“In that case, you should understand that you are being, suffered…”

Even though she was worse than an insect.

In that moment, the elf’s body fell to her knees.

A change occurred in the nun standing in front of the elf.

A black halo that scattered ominous light appeared above her head, and a pair of pure white sacred wings that did not match this horrific sight spread out.

“Ah, ah…”

As if worshipping a god, all the joints in the elf’s body began to twist grotesquely.

“I repent! I repent!! I repent!!!”

And then, the last elf who proved her faith by pulling out her own neck with her own hands fell down in vain.

With a face that seemed ecstatic about worshipping the one who had killed her family, lover, children, relatives, and even friends…

What would the dead elf have thought?

Was she unlucky?

Was her will not pretty?

At least, it would be fortunate that no one cared that her will was not pretty.

Because all the elves in this city had now met their deaths.

This was the karma and means of atonement that the goddess she once served gave her directly.

To judge others and wash away their sins through death.

Why was she ‘serving’ and not ‘serving’?

It was simple.

She was a genius with a monstrous genius beyond the goddess’s imagination, and it was more painful than she thought.

The goddess she once served had already ‘repented’ by her a long time ago.

Now, the god she serves and the only faith she has is only one.

The one and only friend she loved, whom she killed with her own hands.

“…How many times must I wash before I can reach you…”

She, who had already repented all the intelligent beings of the six stars, including the one she lived on, reached the seventh star.

Her name was Elasia Celestia.

She was called the ‘Repentant Saint’.

A terrifying being.

Such a monster, just moving aimlessly southward.

***

“Ugh, who’s talking about me… why are my ears tickling?”

I sat down comfortably, my ears tickling.

What I was sitting on right now was none other than… a top-of-the-line massage chair!

It was an incredible thing that moved according to the user, and beyond a simple massage, it could also treat injuries, recover, and restore fatigue and balance the body.

It was also used for medical purposes, so I paid a lot for it, and today was the first time I was going to test it out!

Woohoowoohoohoohoo!!!

The massage chair, which worked with a small noise from the vibrations, had an effect that lived up to its reputation.

“Ugh… woohoo… oh my! Oh my! Oh my… oh my…!”

Ugh, it really felt like my body was melting…!!

My body naturally lost strength and my muscles relaxed, so I felt sleepy and stuff.

Ugh, this really worked well?

After using it for a whole hour, I lay down on the sofa with a completely relaxed body.

“Oh, that’s killing me…”

They say that you buy a massage chair and don’t use it much, but this one seemed like it would last a long time.

It was expensive, right?

Anyway, my body felt refreshed after a long time, so a strange thought occurred to me.

“Hmm…”

I’m thinking about the nightmares I’ve been having lately.

Maybe it’s because I woke up from sleep?

What I’m thinking about now is the first nightmare I had.

What was it… Oh, right.

In that nightmare, I was an orphan, but I had some talent and became a priest.

But I was killed by a childhood friend who had the same talent and entered the church with me at the same orphanage.

He even told me that he liked me and killed me…

Hmm, he must have been a really cruel guy.

The guy who killed me.

Well, it was just a dream.

“Oh, I don’t even want to eat… I’ll just sleep today.”

Treating the dream as a dream, I just laid down on the sofa and fell asleep.

Without even imagining what was coming…!!