The Marquis was angry, as if he did not believe the words of the Paladin.

“Hey, mirror. Give me the mirror!”

There were no mirrors in the prayer room. Instead, there was a basin of clean water for washing hands.

He checked himself by shining his face into the basin.

"this…… What happened? It must have been swollen!”

Anyway, it was restored using divine power.

To reveal that I used Holy Power, a high priest with the same attribute must come.

‘There is no priest in the Holy Land with the power of healing except me!’

Therefore, it is difficult to ascertain whether the divine power was used here right now.

The expression of the paladins became cold. Everyone looked at Marquis Sepentus strangely.

The young Marquis seemed to be greatly perplexed.

If he goes back to the Empire like this, he will not only be resented by his lovely sister, but will also be defeated by the naughty girl who beat him up.

He opened his mouth.

"that…… that is. Ah, that priest was trying to attack me. I felt threatened, so I called the Paladin.”

The Marquis Marquis was the one who had come up with a plan to put me in danger in the first place.

He seemed to have just rolled his head and came up with another excuse.

I gently raised one hand in a respectful position.

“May I talk to you……?”

I said to the paladin.

“Priest Sonia, please tell me.”

"Yes. I was just supporting the drunken Marquis to seat him.”

I pointed my finger at the bottle of wine he drank. The gaze of the paladins also turned to the empty wine bottle.

“Sung Jeong-seok came out of Marquis’s pocket, which was staggering, and fell to the floor and was broken. I don't think he's doing that because he was caught drunk...….”

“Did you support me? Do not lie!"

The Marquis who was slapped in the cheek is fine.

On the other hand, as an apprentice priest, I sit helplessly on the floor, and empty wine bottles are lying around in the corner of the prayer room.

Which statement will sound credible?

But everything was verified first.

“Marquis Sepentus, let’s check it out.”

There was nothing to check for a long time. The smell of alcohol must have lingered around the Marquis Marquis.

“You are really drunk. Drinking in the temple is difficult. Please come back.”

“Why did you put your drink there? Isn't that a drink?"

The paladin's eyes grew cold. The bewildered marquis shouted.

“My honor has been tarnished, are you saying that I should go back to this way?”

The paladin took a deep breath and said.

“Someone bring water mixed with holy water. I'll have to break his drink first."

"You…… Don't treat me like a drunkard. I just drank a little, so there's no problem with conversation."

He even confessed that he now drank with his mouth.

“Hey, bring it quickly.”

"All right!"

While the paladin was about to go out, the door to the prayer room opened with an ominous sound.

At the same time, a gloomy energy spread through the prayer room.

It was Schwartz.

Everyone who saw Schwarz visiting the prayer room froze.

Schwarz, with his long hair hanging down and wearing a black suit, felt particularly foreign in the white holy country.

The Paladins, who had been summoned to stop Schwarz in the past, murmured quietly whether they recognized his face.

“Grand Duke Lündmeer…… .”

Schwarz entered the prayer room slowly with heavy footsteps.

The marquise's eyes widened at the sight of the archduke exuding an overwhelming presence.

He was a man exuding a dangerous atmosphere somewhere, as if he had symbolized death.

“What are you?”

“I, I am the eldest son of Marquis Sepentus. Lu...… How did Grand Duke Lundmeer get here?”

Schwarz's bitter eyes turned downward.

The tall man glanced down and muttered in a cool voice.

“Because someone stole the priest I reserved. I'm here to find out who the hell it is."

"I…… Did your Majesty the Grand Duke also find that priest? that…… If that's the case, I'll concede first...”

“Who told you to open your mouth?”

With a voice that was cold enough to freeze the air, Sepentus bit his mouth tightly.

Even the Paladins held their breath as if not to provoke Schwarz and kept silent.

'Looks at me...…!’

The cool thing on my back seemed to be Schwarz glaring at me.

Sweat dripped out.

I could feel the powerful pheromone energy. It was a strong emotion, so I immediately recognized it. There was clear anger and murderous intent.

‘Did you come in angry at the thought that I rejected you?’

I was too scared to turn my head to look at him.

“Sonia.”

Heik, chi, chi, chi, chi, calm down.

My heart was pounding and I almost unconsciously expelled pheromone violently.

I breathed in and out, concentrating on the pheromone capture I had learned.

“Yes, Grand Duke.”

“Tell me once. Why are you dealing with that guy and not me?”

Of course, I chose the Marquis because I was scared of you!

This is what I really wanted to say, but honestly, there was nothing I would like to say.

Oh, I have a good excuse.

“I selected in the order in which reservations came in first.”

Actually, the letter from the Marquis Sepentus arrived earlier than Schwartz.

It was perfect.

“Is it just that they were chosen in order of arrival?”

"yes. No other self-esteem was involved.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

His voice softened a little.

Schwarz seemed to be feeling better. He didn't seem to give a bad answer.

“Get up.”

By the way, I was still sitting on the floor.

I groaned and got up from my seat.

Schwarz looked me up and down.

In particular, his gaze was fixed on my knees and skirts, which were messed up by the black dust on the floor.

The priest's uniform was white, so even a little bit of dust would make it visible.

“Why were you sitting on the floor?”

It was also difficult to tell the truth.

Before Schwarz came, I explained to the Paladins why I fell.

I had no choice but to repeat what I had just said.

I has no intention of covering up the molester.

"I, supporting the drunken Marquis…….”

"lie! You've been sitting down on your own!"

Since this was only a lie, the Marquis intervened, wondering if he could not be obediently listening.

“Little Marquis.”

“Yes, yes, Grand Duke!”

“If you open your mouth one more time, you will die.”

A gloomy voice echoed through the prayer room.

"I…… sorry."

Little frightened Sohu quickly admitted his mistake and became quiet.

Schwarz pulled a paper bag out of his arms and tapped me on the shoulder.

“That was enough. I know what's going on. I will take care of the rest.”

I took the paper bag he gave me.

'What is this?'

A fragrant smell vibrated with a rustling sound.

When I opened the envelope slightly, there were a lot of cookies inside.

Schwarz snorted as if tossing it.

“Don’t get hurt.”

I wasn't hurt, I just wiped the dust off the floor of the prayer room with her priest's uniform.

“……yes."

It's not to the point of worrying, but I answered quietly out of a sense of shame.

“You don’t even have the strength to answer.”

It's not that, but I put all my heart into blocking pheromones.

Schwarz said to the Paladins.

"You guys take Sonia and see if she's hurt. And the Marquis, talk to me.”

The Marquis hiccuped with the expression of a frog standing in front of a snake.

***

Schwarz prefers to torture his opponent to vomit the truth.

As a torture engineer, he knows very well where and how to stab his opponent in pain.

He was confident enough to quickly find the truth button of Marquis So and get his confession.

But this is a holy country, isn't it?

It was an inappropriate place to torture people. He didn't know that he might be banned here if he did that.

'I don't like that.'

Originally, I would do whatever I want without thinking back and forth, but for some reason I didn't want to.

Schwarz had the black ghost disguised as an assistant with him bring the confession.

There are only a few alchemists who can make confessions. So the price is outrageously expensive.

After drinking the confession, the Marquis confessed everything one after another.

“I came here to scare Priest Sonia at the request of my sister. I was going to write a bad review and submit it in the evaluation form.”

Even the information the Marquis gave out made Schwarz unhappy.

Little Sohu, drunk on Baekje, blew the truth, not knowing who he was in front of.

“By the way, I said she was more like the priest and I liked her body, so I wanted to make her my girl…… She's frankly, when I becomes a marquise, she will much better off that way...….”

“……”

“It would be an honor for that woman, so I put my hand on her shoulder……”

Schwarz clenched his fists, fearing that his patience would run out.

‘Should I kill him right now?’

If Marquis Soh said that he took his own life, and he sincerely thought about whether to get rid of him.

"By the way…… She slapped me on the cheek.”

“That’s a good thing.”

That wasn't the end.

He even confessed that he would forgive Sonia if she took off her clothes.

It was the power of confession.

Schwarz felt as if the Marquis had messed with something precious to him.

He was very displeased.

Alpha's energy slowly spread out from the uncontrollable anger.

A black energy enveloped his body.

"main……Lord.”

The black ghost next to him was ill.

It was a pheromone so intense that even Betaine could feel it.

“Summon the black ghosts.”

At Schwarz's command, the black ghosts gathered quickly.

The black ghost, who prostrated in an orderly manner, was nervous about the bad feeling.

Their owner, Schwarz, even brought out the dark powers to see if something unpleasant had happened.

It seemed that Alpha's energy, which could not be calmed down, ran wildly.

“Did you call? Lord.”

Schwarz ordered in a gloomy voice.

“Investigate every single Marquis of Sepentus.”

Working in the dark, they were good at collecting information as well as killing people.

They quickly investigated the Marquis and Leia, as well as all the work of the Marquis.

He also found out that Marquis Sepentus had paid a bribe to produce a high priest.

Schwartz sent all the information, including the bribe Robert, as well as Leia's infidelity, to Seongguk.

Finally, on his way back to the Marquis house, little Marquis's hand was amputated in a carriage accident.

It was the same hand that was stroking Sonia's shoulder.

***

wisteria: Btw, who's the male lead? Cassius or Schwartz? hmm...I think it's Cassius...?