The Half-Puny Priest Hopes To Retire - Chapter 257



257 – Epilogue. The Saint Smiles Wordlessly. (3)

Noon the next day. My heart was agitated like never before.

I had just drank water a little while ago, but my mouth was dry, and my legs were bouncing up and down and hitting the floor, making an unpleasant noise.

Finally, I started to feel nauseous to the core.

Even when I first encountered a dragon. I don’t think I was this nervous even when I went to subdue the Demon King with the fate of the world on my back.

Perhaps these uncomfortable feelings of mine will show on the outside. That was just worrying.

“Congratulations. You are 5 weeks pregnant.”

As the doctor quietly made the diagnosis, something heavy that had been hanging on the edge of my solar plexus suddenly disappeared.

Instead, a fierce emotion that could not be described in words began to surge like a geyser.

“Well, is that really true!”

Without realizing it, I jumped up from my seat and raised my voice.

Because of the situation, I tried to remain as calm as possible.

I couldn’t control the boiling heat.

“Then it is true. I have 30 years of experience as a member of the National Assembly, so I can guarantee you.”

Perhaps thanks to the elderly female congresswoman’s calm tone, the excitement subsided somewhat.

But it was only to some extent.

There was no change in the fact that my mind was now in a state of extreme excitement.

“I… I am the father…”

I mumbled words like a deflated balloon and slowly pondered the joy that was surging.

I thought I would feel a little more dazed or bewildered.

When the time came, the overwhelming emotion that had taken root deep in my consciousness threatened to paralyze my entire body’s optic nerves.

“D-Did you hear? Hero! Me! Ah, no! We are becoming parents! Parents! Ah…”

I was swept away by the joy I couldn’t digest yet and ended up calling the warrior without thinking.

Oh no. It was only a little while ago that I was told to refrain from making loud noises as much as possible.

It was nothing but disrespectful to the doctor who gave me attention, and even more so to the warrior.

“uuu… Father… The voice rings in my head…”

“I’m sorry, hero. I stopped without even realizing it…”

The warrior, who was lying on the bed, mournfully rang his neck as if he was pleading.

He is making a groaning sound and is frowning in pain.

The contrast in her eyes was even more painful because it was something we couldn’t even imagine considering how lively she was at all times.

It was the first time in my life that I had seen a warrior weakened to this degree.

I can still clearly see her running towards me, her broken limbs flying like a muffler.

Yes, the warrior was also an ordinary human with red blood.

This seemingly obvious fact once again felt surprising.

“Vice Pope. As I said just a little while ago, the warrior needs absolute stability right now, so please be careful with your actions…”

“I’m sorry…”

In the end, when I got older, I got scolded by my elder.

It is often said that a place makes a person.

Seeing that he looked like this even when he was promoted to the position of vicar of the Pope, unfortunately, it seemed like it didn’t apply to me.

“Hero. How is your condition?”

“uuu… My nose is all mixed up… My head is spinning… My stomach is rumbling…”

The warrior grunted in response to my cautious question.

Although my vocabulary was down to that of a three-year-old, it was a lot better than yesterday when I couldn’t even say a single word.

“Father…Please pat my head…”

“Yes. Here…”

“Please touch my stomach too…”

“Yes. I understand… “

“Please pat me on the back too…”

“I’m sorry. I only have two hands…”

“Huuu… “

Like a child catching a cold for the first time in his life, I sincerely consoled and comforted the constantly whining warrior.

According to the doctor’s diagnosis, what is currently bothering the warrior is the mild morning sickness experienced during early pregnancy.

Loss of appetite, sometimes nausea, and some people find certain smells very disgusting.

Originally, it seemed like the symptoms were mild enough to heal naturally without a separate prescription.

However, for a warrior who had all five senses abnormally developed compared to an ordinary person, the fear of morning sickness that tormented his senses was by no means something to be taken lightly.

According to the person himself, the sound of cockroaches crawling echoes like thunder in his mind, and his perspective is so messed up that he can’t even walk.

It’s so scary that even the smell of curry in a private house dozens of kilometers away from the castle makes you clutch your nose in pain.

Thanks to the hero’s strange symptoms, it was fortunate that the night affair with the nun was discovered, but the brief moment of relief was soon swept away by the guilt and anxiety that came.

“Please rest for the time being. Excessive exercise is of course prohibited. Moreover, since the warrior is immune to poison, he has a constitution that does not respond well to medicine. The Pope’s representative, as the outsider, please keep an eye on him. Do you understand?”＜ Br＞

“Yes…”

I have been strangling my breathing to become the soft and gentle tone of the congressman.

When her wife is having such a hard time, what is her husband doing without coming to his senses?

A cold sweat naturally broke out at the words and actions that seemed like a reprimand.

Is this how it feels to have a mother-in-law?

Such thoughts crossed my mind for a moment.

“Wow… I never dreamed that having children would be this hard work… At first, I wanted about 100 people, but now that I think about it again, I think 10 would be enough…”

“Hero. 10 people are enough.”

Even after the congressman left his seat, the warrior’s pampering continued for a while.

“Father… I think it will feel a little better if you give me a kiss…”

“Again? “I did it for you a little while ago.”

“Isn’t that the forehead thing you did earlier? You haven’t done it on your cheeks yet! If you did it on your forehead, you have to do it on your cheeks right away! Don’t you know such an obvious thing, priest?”

“Uh…”

Seeing that he was acting unreasonably and irritably in a way that he had never done before, he seemed to be in quite a bit of physical and mental distress.

I’ve often seen him do this to his younger brother, Big Tim, but to me, the hero who cried out loud was refreshing in many ways.

I felt like I had somehow benefited.

If it weren’t for times like this, I wouldn’t be able to see the warrior get angry at me even once in my life.

“Umm…”

After soothing and soothing for a while, the warrior was able to fall asleep.

Why? I’ve only just heard the news about my pregnancy, but I feel like I already have a baby.

I thought I could find the answer if I thought about it carefully, but I decided not to go through that trouble.

“Ummmm…”

“····.”

I stroked the head of the sleeping warrior a couple of times and was lost in thought for a while.

She is, of course, a wonderful and beautiful woman who is too much for me no matter how I look at her.

From the time I was born until now, I have lived without anything to show off to others.

This is how she met the hero, got married, and had a child.

She said she had a good life. I have lived a proud life.

I was able to speak openly to myself and to everyone in the world.

But it wasn’t just the warrior who helped me develop this belief.

Along with the warrior, he was the one who needed me more than anyone else in the world, and the benefactor who lent me the strength and courage to protect what was precious in my hands when I couldn’t hold anything.

Saint.

If it weren’t for her gratitude, I would never have enjoyed this undeserved happiness.

The fact that I was able to save the hero who was stranded in the dungeon and the fact that I was able to subdue the demon king without a single casualty were all possible thanks to the miracle given to me by the saint.

Therefore, I had an obligation to repay the kindness that the saint had bestowed upon me.

Yes, even if it means betraying the companion you promised your whole life to.

Squeak.

“Priest Lages. I’m ready…”

“Yes. I’ll be there soon, Sister.”

The nun spoke to me through the slightly open door, and then she slowly withdrew her hand from caring my wife’s hair.

The sleeping with a nun incident that happened two days ago.

At first, we assumed that the accident was caused by the sleeping saint accidentally infusing the nun with her holy powers, but after some deliberation, we came to a certain hypothesis.

Perhaps the saint’s actions were not a mistake but intentional. I think it might be some kind of message that she sent to us without realizing it.

The nun, who possessed an enormous amount of holy power in her body, had lost her reason and was obsessed with having s*x with me.

And after she became involved with me, her spirit returned to its original state.

What if this is what her saint she wanted to convey to us?

What if the saint’s senseless actions of hers, which she had thought were just immature complaints, actually had a good reason?

What if she had a means to neutralize the holy power in her body much more effectively than before?

It’s a ridiculous hypothesis that only makes you laugh, but it was well worth testing.

“I’m sorry. Hero…”

Reciting her guilt-filled apology, she made another firm promise in her heart.

Tonight. I hug the saint.

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“I can’t do it…”

The nun’s eyes suddenly turned cold when she heard a weak sound that came out only about ten minutes after she made up her mind.

“Now what do you mean by that?”

The tone of voice she was polite, but the breath behind the words was so harsh that it wouldn’t be strange to swear right now.

Well, I completely understood that feeling.

I, too, was on the verge of becoming disillusioned with my weak will.

“I’m already married, and I already have a child. Even though I’m already an adult, touching the body of an unconscious woman without asking for permission is still a bit…”

“Whoa…”

After sweating profusely and making excuses for a while, the nun, sighing in exasperation, came striding towards me.

“If you give permission, I will do it for you. So, the priest can just quietly embrace the saint. Do you understand?”

“Yes, four…”

If you refuse, I won’t leave you alone.

In the end, she had no choice but to nod her head at the harsh reprimand that seemed like a threat.

“And if you’re worried about the doctor, saintess, then don’t worry about it. I’m sure it’s what the saintess wanted.”

“That’s true, but the public’s gaze… Ethical issues… That’s it…”

“Do you really think that these things are more important than opening her eyes? To Priest Raiges?”

“No way.”

The will to obey reflexively jumped out at the eyes overflowing with blue murderous intent.

Just a few days ago, a man who couldn’t even make eye contact because of the shame of spending the night with me has changed so suddenly.

If you look at the initiation alone, it was a pretty high-level monster.

“Please keep in mind. What you do from now on is life-saving work to save lives. It is by no means a vulgar act. It is no different from slightly touching your lips when performing artificial respiration.”

“····.”

····Is that so?

It sounds absurd at first glance, but when I thought about it, I was speechless at the logic that sounded plausible.

There were no significant loopholes in the logic.

However, the uneasy feeling that I couldn’t describe in words was still holding me back and not letting go.

Maybe it was because conversations with the nun were always like this.

No matter how conscious she was, she would suddenly realize that she was moving as she intended..

He was a difficult opponent with a completely different direction from the warrior.

“No way, s*xual excitement was the key, not the area or time of contact with the priest! Yes! If that’s the case! That fully explains why Welna was so strangely obsessed with skinship with the priest! Ah, if you think about it a little, you can understand it. It must be true! Why now?”

I followed the nun who was talking to herself non-stop in a very excited tone.

Even if the saint opens her eyes through this, what will she do next?

It was useless, but I decided to just close my eyes because of the worries that I couldn’t easily shake off.