Put It to the Test (4)

Aria was shaken, so much so that she didn’t even notice the horrified looks people around her were giving her and Adrian.

“….”

-Have you forgotten the Saintess’s true duty?

The Prayer Priest Adrian’s sharp words hurt as if they had pierced her very heart. He was cruelly thrusting a truth she herself had been pretending not to know right before her eyes.

‘What is a saintess’s true duty?’

The duties a saintess must fulfill.

To carry on the Sun God’s sacred will.

A ‘Saintess’ was a divine representative.

That was why countless believers in the Theocracy bowed their heads to a little girl abandoned in the countryside. It was a tribute to the girls who bore the traditions and duties passed down through generations.

It was not respect given to a lowly girl...