She’s The Older Sister Of The Yandere Male Lead In A BL Novel - Chapter 33 – Part 2

Chapter 33 – Part 2

I naturally grabbed Blay. As soon as I was about to grab the arrow, Tino stopped me.

[ Wait. ]

“Huh?”

[ Try materializing an arrow using your holy power. ]

“…I am not capable of doing that.”

It was difficult materializing something by using the holy powers.

I am capable of infusing the arrow with it, but I couldn’t materialize something of it yet.

Even back then.

“Do I have to do it even if I can’t? The arrows overflow with holy power and the bow amplifies the power, so I don’t feel the need to do it. If I gain my memories later on, wouldn’t I naturally do it on my own?”

[When do you think your memories will return? How many years should we wait for it to come? Do you want the rumors to end as rumors? Something worse than evil spirits may soon appear and become dangerous. Those who try to undermine or take you down are slowly revealing their tails.]

There was no fault in Tino’s point.

For Tino, the rumor seemed to be a very ominous sign, that she was possessed by an evil spirit.

He gave a warning, something that was unlike him.

[Manifest a power that can protect you.]

There were limitations to using arrows.

Tino asked me if I would carry all of it, saying that we needed a lot of arrows when we dealt with enemies later.

[However, if you materialize it yourself, then it would be a different story. An arrow you control yourself can be a single piece or as many as that can fill the sky. Those that can, also move freely to your will.]

He said that a lot of saints possessed sufficient holy powers to do so.

The first saint was said to be capable of making enough arrows that hundreds of lives could be taken with only pulling the bowstring once, and that he could make a powerful arrow that was capable of defeating a powerful beast.

[If Blay’s power were to be added to the arrow infused with the holy power, the impact would be tremendous. It’s only afterwards that the bow materializes.]

After the lengthy explanation, Tino took a deep breath and looked straight at me.

Tino’s golden eyes gleamed golden and shone more dazzlingly beyond measure, unfathomable.

[You will be able to protect everything you wish to protect. It was also the same for Martina.]

Nothing to do that day, I had suggested that we go to the archery field, and I had come to taste hell instead.

Tino was scary. He was a strict instructor…

After that day, whenever I had extra time, I would go to the archery field to practice, over and over.

* * * 

“…….”

I looked around anxiously.

“What’s the matter?”

Verdo, who arrived the day after I sent my reply, asked me carefully as I was looking around strangely.

“Uh, nothing.”

I smiled awkwardly as I took a sip of my tea.

There was only one reason why I was feeling anxious. It was because of my brother Lisandro.

As soon as Verdo arrived, there had been no news of him, even though normally he would rush to me and argue, communicating through the signals of our eyes’ expressions.

I tried but failed to wash away my worries.

It was comfortable because there was no one who would interrupt us while we were talking, yet at the same time, it was strange that there was no one who would.

Was it because of the rumors?

If it were, he would have told me.

I started to get more nervous as time passed. When he didn’t show up, my mind was filled with fears that maybe he had an accident.

I unconsciously began to chew my nails.

“That’s unexpected.”

“…Yes?”

Pulled from my thoughts for a moment, Verdo’s gentle voice brought me back to my senses, and I was left staring blankly at him.

“If you weren’t a Saint, I think you would have found this rumor to be interesting, but I guess I must have been mistaken, seeing you so anxious.”

“Oh…”

Not really. How well was he able to interpret me that way?

“You’re the only one I have to protect even if you leave the temple, so…”

Verdo gently grabbed my hand, put it down and rubbed my chewed nails.

“You have nothing to be anxious about.”

“Mm…”

It seemed that there had been a serious misunderstanding. Verdo’s first guess was incorrect.

What’s worrying me was not the rumors, but the thought that Lisandro would cause trouble.

My thoughts of Lisandro eventually calmed down as I looked at Verdo.

As he had initially guessed, the rumors didn’t bother me.

However, I was the beloved Saint. I gave him my business smile.

“I told you, you don’t have to smile like that in front of me.”

“Ah, right. It has already become a habit.” As I smiled at him, he slightly narrowed his brows again.

Verdo didn’t particularly like my business-like smile when I was with him.

I didn’t know the reason why, but I thought that he was considerate because I didn’t have to act hard in front of him.

“Strangely, no one bothered us today.”

“Is that so? Does it make you nervous?”

“I’m alright.”

“Well, if Sir Verdo is comfortable.”

As I pretended to be calm, I picked up a cooled fruit and put it in my mouth. It was a sunny day, and unlike outside, it was cooler inside.

While I stayed in the room with Verdo, the atmosphere was not awkward, despite there being no conversation between us.

I tried to converse with Verdo at the beginning because it was awkward. Soon after noticing that he didn’t talk much, I stopped desperately talking to him, too.

Eventually, it had come naturally, and it would not be strange if we both were silent.

As it turned out, Verdo was rather a playful person.

“Do you like peaches?” He asked.

As I considered it, I didn’t eat fruit well during my stay in the temple.

Eating expensive fruits made me uncomfortable.

“I like the majority of fruits. How about Sir Verdo?”

“I will from now on.”

“There are times that I would find it hard to comprehend Sir Verdo’s meaning.”

He gave me a playful shrug. After that, we mostly talked about small things.

Verdo said he would escort me until the rumors had calmed down.

Perhaps it was because it had been a long time since we had met last, our conversation continued for a long time.

“I think it’s calming down by now.”

“Hmm. I guess.”

“Am I mistaken that the princess is sad about it?”

Uta widened her eyes and looked at me. I shrugged my shoulders exaggeratedly, pretending ignorance, and tilted my head.

“What do you mean? It would’ve been a relief if the rumors were to calm down.”

“That’s right. You did a good job holding on.”

He seemed delighted that the rumors were slowly dying down, and Uta had a smile on her face.

Mother expressed her intention that she would find the truth and make the person who spread the rumors pay.

As she was trying to find the source of the rumors, she grabbed various people and caught the first people who had spread it.

However, all those people had said the same,

‘I do not know the face.’, ‘I cannot remember well because it’s blurry.’

Truth be told, does it make sense? They said that they could not remember, not only the hair color, but also the eye color as well its gender, as if it was a blank canvas in their mind.

They dared to make up a lie that the Saint was possessed by an evil spirit, yet they seemed unaware of the seriousness of the situation.

To be honest, I don’t know what would happen if they were to believe that I was indeed possessed by an evil spirit and stood up and protested against me with torches.

I let them off the hook too easily, but if it were a saint other than me, it would have been quite a threat.

However, I was confident that they wouldn’t do that, and if they did, there was a way to bring down jerks who dared to touch me and make them taste their own medicine.

But I had no reason to use that method.

“Did you press the hood deep?”

“Yes. As the saying goes… They say that one only remembers the shadows cast on him because of the sunlight on his back.”

A shadow.

Despite wanting to borrow the contents of the novel where the future was written, it was useless for someone like me who had no information.

And the memories were sparse.

It was as useless as the captured people that did not know anything, even put under torture.

They weren’t lying, so it was clear that they had done something.

I didn’t know who they were, but instead of trying to convince me, they attempted to undermine my reputation through false rumors.

It was more cumbersome than I thought.

“Are they testing me? How I’ll react.”

On the contrary, if they had tried to help me by appearing in front of me and spreading the rumor, but no one appeared to be particularly suspicious.

If they were really testing me, it might have been better if I remained under the shadows.

If they wanted a smart and wise saint, all they wanted was to see me figure out the truth of the rumor and calm the people.

However, it was my parents, Lisandro, Frey, and the temple who went out to suppress them.

Lisandro, Frey, and Mother found the people who were spreading the rumors and brought them in, and Father took a strong stance against the rumors and comforted the people by telling them to trust the temple and not doubt them.

“Any other information? What does your mother say?”

“The Duchess said she was going to dig and investigate further. She told me not to care about a thing and do as I please.”

As expected. They had been very busy.

Normally Mother and Lisandro would come personally and inform me in person, but it seemed that they were too occupied to do so.

Even if it were just a simple rumor, there seemed to be a lot of work to deal with it.

Moreover, the answers of the captured were suspicious.

It was very suspicious that they couldn’t remember any features, much less the color of the clothes.

Mother was probably trying to discern who was behind it.

If it were something related to magic, Father would probably be able to figure something out.

“Then the rumors are settling down for the time being…”

Why haven’t I seen Frey lately?

As if he had read the depth of my heart, a friendly voice was heard outside the room.

“Noona. Are you free? I want to continue the conversion we weren’t able to finish.”

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