Opening the door, she let Rosa, who was waiting outside, come in.
As soon as Rosa entered, she anxiously pressed Mowan’s shoulders and asked.
“How was it? The Saintess… she didn’t do anything to you after that, did she?”
Mowan was stunned, wondering how Rosa could know what the Saintess had done with her.
But upon second thought, Rosa had been right beside her when the oath was being read; she knew Mowan hadn’t spoken a word.
“No, but… the Saintess revoked my title as an Honorary Knight.”
“Sigh…” Rosa frowned, then gave a soft sigh.
“It couldn’t be helped. Fortunately, the one presiding over the ceremony today was the Saintess. If the Pope had discovered you abandoned your faith in the Chief God on such a sacred occasion, you might… not have made it out of the Church.”
“Yeah…”
Mowan nodded.
In fact, the actual situation was not much different from not making it out of the Church.
The ring the Saintess gave her couldn’t be taken off.
Setting aside whether the ring had a monitoring function, with the Saintess’s abilities, she would definitely be able to find her at any time through the ring.
“So what do you plan to do next? You’ve lost your honor as a Knight. From now on, we might not walk the same path anymore.”
Mowan fell silent.
Before going to the Church, she hadn’t imagined this possibility.
After becoming formal Honorary Knights, Rosa and the others were now state employees, and their salaries were issued by the Kingdom Knights.
Of course, Rosa and the others could still earn extra money by taking on local commissions.
“However, I have an idea. If we receive a combat mission from the Church, we can ask you to be an outside consultant. We can pay you a commission then.”
“Is that okay?”
Mowan looked at Rosa with her large black eyes.
“Of course. We’ve fought side by side for so many years. In countless moments of crisis, we relied on your Healing Magic to get through. Now that you’ve run into trouble, we have no reason to leave you behind.”
But that was just Rosa’s personal opinion.
What did the other teammates think?
Originally, her status as a priest in the Azure Crystal Party was insignificant.
If she also lost her qualification as an Honorary Knight, how could they be willing to take out a portion of their state salary to pay her as a commission?
“It’s alright, Rosa. You don’t have to worry too much about me. Although I lost my qualification as an Honorary Knight, I… met the Princess. I think I won’t have to worry about work in the future.”
Mowan raised her hand and showed the ring on her finger to Rosa.
“What is this?”
“This is… a gift the Princess gave me after I helped heal her injuries. She said that with this, I could enter the Royal Palace to see her.”
Mowan lied.
But she truly didn’t want Rosa to worry too much about her.
She knew Rosa was a good person who saw her as a close friend.
Rosa took great care of her on a daily basis, using her own salary to treat her to meals or giving her clothes.
As expected.
When Rosa heard that she had found another opportunity, a heartfelt smile finally bloomed on Rosa’s face.
“That’s great.”
Her mood relaxing, Rosa sat on Mowan’s bed.
She propped her hands on the mattress and tilted her head back to look at Mowan.
“Maybe this is better for you. I’ve always felt that you are very talented, Mowan, it’s just that you lack experience in dealing with others, which makes it easy for everyone to overlook your efforts and difficult for them to discover your brilliance.”
“Before you came back, I was thinking. Even if the Saintess let you go, it’s impossible for you to be a Knight anymore. What would you do in the future? If you joined another team and had to deal with strange faces, would you be mistreated? I don’t think you’d have conflicts with others, but I feel you would compromise yourself for the sake of others. Just like in the Azure Crystal Party, where you deserved a higher commission, but you yielded time and again, keeping your own status very low. If… if you met bad people after this, what would happen? Would they exploit you even more without any boundaries? I was really worried sick.”
“Luckily, fate closed a window but opened another door for you.”
As she finished speaking, Rosa let out a long sigh of relief.
Mowan was secretly moved by Rosa’s sincerity.
In fact, the reason she acted that way was mostly because she didn’t want to attract too much attention.
She was afraid that if she showed her true strength, others would notice that the magic she used was Demon Magic.
Most magic is common between the Human Race and the Demon Race; only some high-level magic shows obvious differences.
“Thank you, Rosa.”
Rosa lingered in Mowan’s room, pestering Mowan to talk about many past events.
Because Mowan had not received her Knight certification, she and Rosa would go their separate ways from now on.
They were no longer people on the same path.
Seeing the sky grow dark.
Rosa also prepared to leave Mowan’s room.
She walked to the door, then turned back to look at Mowan.
She opened her mouth, but still couldn’t help asking the doubt in her heart.
“Mowan, what exactly is your faith? If you don’t fight for Visa, who are you fighting for?”
“I…”
Mowan hadn’t expected Rosa to ask her this right before leaving.
She clutched her chest, her eyes full of conflict.
Who was she really fighting for?
The Demon Race?
But the Demon Race had already abandoned her.
She was even personally ordered by her father to be expelled from the country.
Rosa watched Mowan.
She was very curious and felt she had to wait for Mowan’s answer.
“I don’t know… I’m also very lost. I don’t know what I’m doing it for. Before going to the Church, I thought I would be able to read the oath of allegiance to Visa, but I couldn’t do it.”
“I see. It’s okay. I believe you. Even if you don’t believe in Visa, you are definitely an upright and kind person.”
Feeling that Mowan’s answer did not intend to reveal the truth, Rosa didn’t plan to continue questioning her.
She said her goodbyes to Mowan and left the room.
As the door closed with a click, Mowan’s body fell back onto the bed.
Sometimes Mowan thought that since she was human in her previous life, she should also stand on the side of the Human Race.
But in reality, when Mowan looked back at her life after arriving in this other world.
The customs and people of Visa were completely different from those of Earth, her hometown in her previous life.
To her, Visa was like a foreign country she visited for tourism in her previous life.
Although everyone was human, she wouldn’t feel a sense of belonging in a foreign country.
The Demon Race was the cradle where she had taken root and grown in this world.
To her, the Demon Race was her home in the new world.
Even though that home had kicked her out, and she had once thought she would never go back.
But whenever the night was deep and silent, Mowan would still mourn the beautiful past and miss that land that gave birth to her and raised her.
“Sigh…”
For now, she should first consider how to survive.
If she didn’t even have food to eat, there was no point in talking about homesickness.
Saintess Iserin had ended the conversation so hurriedly, saying that she should help take care of the Princess in the future.
When?
Would she come looking for her?
Or should she go to the Church tomorrow?
Mowan stroked the ring.
Injecting magic into the ring, gold light flowed out, converging in Mowan’s palm.
A small cloth money bag gradually materialized.
Mowan sat up and opened the money bag, intending to count the gold coins inside.
However, there wasn’t a single cent in the money bag!
There was only a folded piece of stationery.
The dignified Saintess actually… actually deceived me!
Mowan felt angry and amused at the same time.
She thought that since the Saintess had even given her a Spatial Ring, a precious item worth far more than ten gold coins, there was no way she would care about ten gold coins anymore.
As it turned out, the wallet was empty.
Unfolding the stationery, Mowan wanted to see exactly how the Saintess planned to toy with her.