Chapter 58

༺ The First Letter (58) ༻

A silence settled in the treatment room. The Saintess was still looking at me with a smile on her face as I just stood there with my lips trembling, unable to say anything.

I couldn’t understand the situation at hand. The atmosphere became more frigid, and even though the Saintess’s smile was warm like usual, beads of sweat dropped down my back.

My mouth couldn’t bring out a proper answer as I stuttered.

It was because I couldn’t grasp the purpose of her question. Why was she asking if I enjoyed that Celine and Seria were fighting over me?

Of course I didn’t enjoy it. I didn’t get why she would even ask that in the first place.

Even so, there was a certain sense of a crisis that pressured me to come up with a good answer, so I continued to hesitate.

From the mouth of the Saintess, who looked at me without saying a single word, a soft giggle seeped out.

“Pfff…. Ahahaha!”

After the start of her giggle, the Saintess began to laugh as if she couldn’t hold it in any longer. It was as if a dam had cracked and all the water behind it flooded out at once. She laughed so joyfully that tears started forming in her eyes.

The Saintess, who laughed for some time while banging her hands on the desk, directed the reverberation of her laughter towards me, who stared at her with bewildered eyes.

After the Saintess stopped laughing, she spoke to me with a smile in her eyes. It was enchanting.

“Jo, Joke… Hahaha, it was a joke, Brother Ian. You seemed overly confused.”

“O, Oh was it?”

I wasn’t sure what kind of joke it was, but I was just glad to know that it was indeed a joke. I internally calmed my pounding heart.

The Saintess saw my discomfort and began laughing again, but after a while she looked at me with warm eyes.

“Sister Seria was very worried about you. She said that you looked very unhappy.”