A Gift for the Great Saint (2)

"C-Chief, I can't accept such an incredible stone!"

I looked at Chief Radek and hurriedly raised my voice.

...I'm glad they explained it to me.

I never would have realized on my own that the value of a 'Holy Stone' was different in this life, now that Saints had grown weaker.

As I thought that, I hurriedly refused, but the chief, just as flustered as I was, began speaking.

"W-what? Please don't refuse! We don't normally put our lives on the line in battle, so we don't need these stones. I'm sure there was a reason the Great Saint-sama was a knight. Please, accept them!"

"No, no, I can't accept something so valuable. Um, how about I buy them at a fair price?"

Even as I said that, I wondered if these stones might be incredibly valuable, and tried to steer things toward the Knights buying them instead of me personally.

"Y-yes, I mean, how about the Knights buy them? They're precious stones, so it would be better for a proper organization like the Knights to own them than for me to have them personally. The Commander-in-Chief and the Knight Commander both said they'd be useful in battle, so I think the Knights would buy them at a fair price. Probably. Surely, at least a little."

But as soon as I said that, I worried that I was deciding things all on my own. Nervously, I turned to Commander Cyril and asked him...