I Became a Fake Priest the Saintess Is Obsessed With

56 – Classic and great gambling

A very dark alley.

The black dragon opened its eyes.

The place where the dragon opened his eyes was a narrow alley in a fallen county.

The dragon’s caretaker forgot the dragon and did not take it with him.

My relationship with him is very long.

He is the dragon’s benefactor and her only family.

The dragon really hates the human race, but he becomes attached to humans when he is with them.

That’s why it’s lonely, but the dragon made time to be alone.

A dragon must always be lonely, and he must be a sad being.

Still, I have to return to his side.

If the dragon is not around for a long time, he looks at the sky with a sad expression.

The dragon had already become a girl.

The girl looked at the sun and moon coexisting in the sky.

And then, he grabbed the black star above his head with both hands.

“Ah.”

Not long after, the starlight she had grabbed scattered from the girl’s hands.

The starlight disappeared and what she could see was a huge mountain.

A huge volcano bubbling with flames that burn everything, ruled by the Red King.

That is her hometown.

The girl looked at the red peak and walked towards it.

Come to think of it, she still had work to do before she met him.

Things she left behind when she left her hometown, or things she abandoned.

The girl had to take care of them.

***

It’s difficult.

I feel like I’m going to die from exhaustion.

I’ve been working like hell the last few days.

It hasn’t been long since we resolved the matter of Count Akied, so does it make sense to go to subdue the clown?

Rolling because of the Count, rolling because of the clowns…

Thanks to you, I’m rolling around in bed because I can’t even lift a finger on this golden holiday.

“Oh, you want to kill the priest~ You want to kill me in your second life~”

She spoke her trivial wish to the ceiling so that the goddess could hear.

But our petite goddess seemed to not like my attitude and had a person of interest come to my room.

“Hey, Ivan! The weather is nice today, so let’s drink!”

Tina kicked down the door and came in.

It has only been a few days since he finished subduing the clown, and he is holding a bottle of alcohol in one hand and offering him a drink.

“It’s a hassle on holidays, so please go out…”

“The doorbell is too harsh~ Don’t be like that, you successfully defeated the clowns. Have a drink, have a drink!”

Tina filled a mug-sized glass with alcohol and held it out.

Is this fairy trying to kill people in the morning…? ?

“I don’t like it! That’s the white liquor I gave you last time! If you drink it in the morning, you’ll be drunk until dusk!”

“Yes~ As soon as you finish~ Your memory is really good~?”

“I have a really good memory, but it seems like the more I drink with you, the worse my memory declines. So, please leave.”

Tina’s lips pout as she hits her iron wall.

“It’s so expensive! It’s that difficult to get a drink?!”

“What’s that line… It’s quite uncomfortable to say something like that, so please don’t say it.”

“Alpha?! Come here! I’ll feed you myself!”

Tina, furious that he had refused her drink, put down her glass and took out her bottle.

“Refusal to drink is a betrayal of trust with the dwarves! Ivan, drink now!”

I knew that person was crazy, but was he that crazy?

Until the religious meeting, if I refused, he would have been a little displeased but would have backed down, but now he is trying to force me to drink alcohol.

Come to think of it, Tina was drinking with dwarves throughout her religious conference.

What on earth did you learn from the dwarves, this woman…? !

“Oh, don’t come. You’ll get to Sister Selena! No, what does this have to do with you and the dwarves in the first place!”

I resisted as much as I could, but my poor, weak body could not reject Tina’s hand.

Tina forced her mouth open and inserted a bottle of alcohol into her mouth.

I lost consciousness when the bitter, burning alcohol went down my throat and I heard my liver screaming for me to die.

***

“Heehee… Today was fun… Right, Ivan~?”

Tina asks me, leaning her shoulder against me.

What… So it happened.

Because of her Tina, I forced her to drink and wandered around the capital with her again.

I went to bars, wandered around the market streets, and just wandered around.

Because of the white liquor, I came to my senses around the time the sun set, and Tina, who drank a lot of alcohol other than the white liquor, is still in a confused state.

‘Ugh, I guess I should throw it into the cathedral or something… ‘

I thought about throwing it into the fountain to sober up.

Still, I thought it was too much for the person, so I decided to leave it in the cathedral for Sister Selena to see later.

“Huh? Ivan… This isn’t my house…?”

“Yes, it is not Sister Tina’s house, but the home of all that was established when her mother first came.”

“I see…! Then it’s our house!”

“Well… Something like that.”

The moment I was about to walk with Tina to the cathedral, I heard the sound of shaking bells in the distance.

The sound bothered me, so I listened and heard the merchant’s voice.

“We’re having an event! If you buy fruit, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a trip to a volcanic hot spring!”

After hearing that it was a lottery and a travel ticket, Tina and I made eye contact.

“Ivan, that sounds really interesting.”

“That’s right. It’s a lottery…”

Raffle is a word that has a very good resonance.

The act of randomly selecting one item from among many.

However, there is a very low probability of getting what you want…

That act is a method of deciding something based on luck that has coexisted with mankind for a very long time.

In other words, it is the best orthodox gamble ever invented by mankind… !

“Hot springs…! The smell of blood from last time still hasn’t gone away, but if I go to the hot springs, I’ll be able to get rid of it! Ivan! Let’s go take that out!”

“Okay! A lottery sounds like a lot of fun!”

Without mutual agreement, we decided to stop by a fruit shop for a while.

The fruit store was nearby, so we arrived at the store quickly.

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Of course, since it is a fruit store, various seasonal fruits are on display.

“Welcome, priests! Are you here to buy fruit?”

“Yes, I heard that if you buy fruit, you can win a lottery, is that correct?”

“That’s right. The first prize is a trip to a volcanic hot spring!”

The owner of the store said that and shook the small box in front of him.

“There are marbles of various colors in this box. You just have to pick one marble from here.”

“So which color is best?”

“First place is a gold bead, second place is a green bead, third place is a blue bead, and last place is a white bead.”

“Hmm, I see. Okay, if you buy fruit, you can draw it, right? Ivan, in return for playing with you today, I’ll pay for the fruit, so you can draw it too.”

“Wow, thank you.”

For reference, Tina has big hands.

They say it’s because I have a lot of money saved up over a long period of time.

Maybe because I’ve lived for a long time, I basically use informal language with people.

She sometimes gets in trouble for speaking informally to the elderly, but the good people of my country understand that Tina is an unusual woman.

I put some ripe fruits in a basket and handed them to the boss.

He paid Tina for her fruit and pointed to her box.

“Now, let’s try it. For your information, if you draw a loser, you will get one more fruit.

Is this a game that relies on just how much probability?

Her heart is fluttering and pounding.

After… Let’s calm down.

Take a bite of fruit and calm down.

I calmed my heartbeat and put my hand into the box.

The beads that touch your hand are very smooth and cold.

I picked out the one with the best feel among the beads.

That color.

It is white.

“Ivan~ Looks like you’re unlucky~ I’m going to miss out~”

Huh, indeed.

“That’s because things like this are easy to manipulate. By all appearances, there are no gold beads in this box, only white beads, right? Ha, I was fooled by a commercial trick. But the fruit is delicious, so I’ll forgive you.”

“Hey… Ivan? The boss is in front of you. What are you talking about?”

Even when I think about it, I made ugly excuses.

I received some fruit from the boss and took a bite of what I had been missing.

The juice that seeps out is sweet and delicious.

“hehehe… I’m sure there is a gold bead. I swear with my whole life as a fruit merchant!”

“Right? Hmmm… Then I’ll pick it now!”

After me, Tina put her hand into a small box.

She dug through her box and pulled out her marbles, shouting, “This is it!”

The color of the beads is gold.

The first prize was the best prize that could be drawn in the lottery.

“It’s up!!! It’s up!!! Ivan! Look at this! It’s a golden orb!”

Tina, unable to control her excitement, pushes her beads into my face.

I felt the cold touch of the marble touching my cheek, and I looked up at the sky blankly.

Ah… The world is really unfair.

Through drawing lots, I felt a sense of inferiority that I had never felt before.

“Congratulations! You’ve won first place! Here’s a trip to Volcano Hot Springs!”

“Wow~! Thank you! I’ll use my annual leave and go on a trip later!”

“Male priests, don’t be discouraged. Travel tickets allow you to accompany any number of people.”

“There’s no need for that… I just wanted to pull out the golden orb…”

“Ah… Is that so?”

As I was feeling discouraged, Tina patted me on the back.

“Ivan! You said you were tired recently, right? That’s great! Let’s go on a trip with the kids from the cathedral!”

Still, I feel relieved after receiving comfort.

I nodded at Tina’s words.