I Became a Fake Priest the Saintess Is Obsessed With

51 – Blue roses among daffodils (5)

Lesia is staring at Ivan, who is lying in the bedroom.

He is moaning and writhing in pain under the blanket.

Lesia, who had heard that Ivan would feel pain and lose consciousness when he used his abilities, was waiting for him to wake up.

And just then Ivan opened his eyes.

“Ha… I’m surprised. You didn’t go, kid.”

As soon as Ivan opened his eyes, he was startled by a girl looking at him.

And I sighed as I looked at the girl who remained silent even when I spoke to her.

“Am I deaf… Or aphasia?”

“……”

“If it’s one of the two, I won’t be able to talk…”

Ivan left the silent Lesia and stretched out to his heart’s content.

“Whew… It hurts as expected. Treating ten people at once is so bad…”

He stabbed his side and screamed.

“Ugh… It hurts…! Was this the area where the poison arrow hit…! What kind of poison did they put on it that makes it hurt like that?”

He was pointing here and there on his body and lowered his head as if giving up.

“Ugh… I’m sick so I can’t make the medicine I wanted to make…”

Lesia did not understand.

Why did I use my abilities when I suffered so much when I used them?

All of Ivan’s actions are incomprehensible to Lesia, who has abandoned her emotions and started thinking extremely rationally.

“… Why are you using your abilities when you’re sick?”

Lesia cautiously opened her mouth.

“What? Did you know what to say?

“……”

Ivan laughed as he looked at Lesia who was silent.

“Where are you from? What’s your name? And more than that, how did you end up here?”

Resia closed her mouth in response to the barrage of questions.

“Hmm… It feels like I’m talking to Mokseok. Anyway, all I need to know is how to communicate. Just follow me.”

He got up from the bed and motioned for Lesia to follow him.

“What…”

“I’ll take you for a walk to recover and take you on a tour of the city. Now, follow me quickly.”

Lesia hesitated.

I was suspicious of the boy who was so new that I couldn’t easily follow him.

But I haven’t heard the boy’s intentions yet.

After thinking for a while, she eventually decided to follow Ivan.

***

“Welcome! To the frontline city of Gray Town!”

The city center that spread out after leaving the church was surprisingly vast.

However, the buildings are a very gloomy gray color, and the streets are also full of gray dust.

More than anything else, the expressions on the faces of people walking around the city are ashen.

Whether they are young or old, their faces have a painful expression of life.

Thanks to this, the city loses its vitality and its unique gray atmosphere is further emphasized.

It is not at all awkward to call it a gray town or a gray city.

Ivan smiled sheepishly as he looked at Lesia’s frozen face.

“Ahahahaha… You look like you look ugly… It’s okay! Surprisingly, there’s everything there, so let’s go to the market!”

The market popped up not long after.

The market street also lost its vitality and was almost gray, but as Ivan said, there was something to see to some extent.

“Maybe because it’s the city closest to the front lines, Gray Town’s market mainly deals with military supplies.”

In all workshops, war items such as gloves, leather armor, and scabbards are made.

In the blacksmith shop, cold gray blades poured out one after another as hot flames flew.

In the alchemy workshop, craftsmen are busy creating medicines and poisons.

From Resea’s perspective, Gray Town’s market was interesting in its own way.

The question of how the empire’s production facilities, which prevented the attacks of demons with overwhelming quantities, was carried out was resolved.

“Well… It looks like there’s nothing to see even if we go. Should we go to a nearby bakery?”

However, Ivan thought that a child of Lesia’s age would not be interested in military supplies, so she stopped by a bakery that might be of interest to a child.

“Excuse me!”

Ivan opened the door and entered the bakery.

“Oh my! Ivan is here!”

An older-looking woman there smiled and welcomed him.

“How are you doing these days? You didn’t fall and get hurt like last time, right?”

“It was an accident. What should I do if I fell while avoiding a brick suddenly falling from the sky…”

The two seemed to get along very well.

From a distance, they look like family as they laugh while talking.

“Anyway, I came today to feed my new friend some bread.”

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“Are you talking about that kid? Well, since you’re Ivan’s friend, you don’t have to pay for the bread.”

The middle-aged woman placed bread in Lesia’s hand.

The temperature of the bread she feels in her hands is very warm.

It was so extreme that it could not be compared to any temperature I had ever felt in my life.

It is very warm.

Lesia just stared at the bread and did not take any action.

“Go ahead and try it. It’s probably okay since it was just baked.”

Lesia, who hesitated at the woman’s urging, eventually took a bite of her bread.

The texture of the bread in your mouth is unique.

It doesn’t chew well and takes away moisture from your mouth, making it feel like you’re chewing leather.

The taste of bread is also very unique.

The flour on the outside tastes slightly burnt, and the sediment inside tastes sour, perhaps because it has gone bad.

To put it bluntly, it is extremely tasteless.

“……It’s not tasty.”

She was so bad that even Lesia, who had kept her mouth shut until now, could not stand it and she ended up saying a word.

Her aunt laughed as Lesia seriously considered spitting out the bread she was chewing.

“It’s not delicious after all, right? Even though I followed the recipe, the bread doesn’t sell because it looks like that.”

“Don’t be too pessimistic. What I baked today may not have been particularly tasty. Anyway, I’ll come again. Stay healthy.”

“Come on. Next time, I’ll bake some delicious bread and feed it to her friend!”

Ivan came out to her shop, bowing appropriately.

“Why does that person run a bakery?”

Lesia asked Ivan all the time.

A shabby store that looks like it might collapse at any moment.

Unsold bread piled up on the shelves.

Disgusting taste of bread.

She is not in a position to run a bakery.

“Huh? Why are you curious about that?”

“……”

Obviously, if she continued like this, the store would have collapsed, but for some reason she was so stubborn that she smiled and baked bread.

Lesia did not understand that.

“Well… I don’t think you’ll go anywhere and spread rumors, so I’ll tell you.”

Ivan walks slowly and begins to talk.

“The lady originally had a son the size of me. However, he was killed by her demons during the evacuation.”

That was a story I heard at a bakery I happened to visit on the first day of my reincarnation.

“The lady’s son always sang that he wanted to be a baker. The lady said that her son would make his dream come true, so she raised the money she didn’t have and opened a bakery.”

I remember the look on the face of the woman who was talking to the child she had never seen before.

“But as you know, he was such an idiot that no one, let alone a fly, came to the store.”

He was almost completely dead, and the sound of his breathing being uttered by Ivan on the counter was so faint.

“… Then why are you okay now?”

“It’s all thanks to me.”

“How…?”

Although he felt sympathy for her, there was nothing he could do for her.

Neither her financial support nor technical training would be able to reach her right away.

So Ivan took a different approach.

“I told you to think positive. If you smile and be positive, the world will take your side.”

Lesia stopped after hearing Ivan’s words.

Those were the words that resentful Riley lived by.

She told me to always smile.

Her fingertips are shaking.

Lesia’s emotions exploded at that moment.

I’m sure my emotions went away after I entered this village.

But the feelings she had abandoned came back and tried to torment her heart.

“What’s wrong with you all of a sudden?

Ivan stopped and asked, worried about Lesia, who was shaking.

Lesia couldn’t stop her emotions from pouring out.

For a moment, Ivan and Riley appeared in her eyes.

She remembered those disgusting red eyes and red hair, and she couldn’t bear it.

“I thought you were a good person…”

“Huh?”

“You always looked so beautiful, smiling and giving someone a smile…”

Lesia was clearly talking to Ivan.

But now, what is shining between Lesia’s eyes is something red.

“Laughing… That’s such a foolish thing to say. How can I laugh? When I think of your betrayal, I’m so angry that my body trembles…”

The smile that floated above the mangled corpses of my comrades and demons comes to mind.

Her own incompetence and the betrayal of her trusted friend send chills down her spine.

“Smile.” The sound of those three words amplifies the emotional turmoil.

“Hey, why don’t you calm down first? I don’t know why you’re doing this, but I need to catch my breath…”

Ivan suddenly tried to calm down the girl who was making strange remarks.

“No… I will never follow your words…”

Lesia took a step back to avoid Ivan.

At that time, a large crowd of people gathered and passed between the two.

Lesia mixed in with many people.

When people disappeared, Lesia also disappeared from their spot.

But Ivan did not lose sight of Lesia in his eyes.

She was being dragged away by suspicious people who covered their entire bodies with robes.

Ivan ran after them.