The Villain’S Daughter-In-Law Is Inherently Powerful [EN]: Chapter 155

The Saintess of the Celestial God is currently on her way to the capital of the Magic Empire.

The *Book* couldn’t possibly be wrong, so all that was left was to meet her later.

The Shark’s affection is directed towards the soul.

If he wanted to kneel down and act cute right away, or act disgustingly to get even a little more attention…

That was the real deal.

I didn’t know how Raheen ended up at the Driblyane mansion and Florin ended up in the Holy Empire, but it didn’t matter.

Even if Florin no longer had the name Florin, even if he died and was reborn seven times, and even if, in the end, the Florin he knew completely disappeared and he was born as a man, it didn’t matter.

Loving the soul was like that.

‘Rather, this is an opportunity. It’s time to recover the lost points this time.’

Yuri’s elegant fingers tapped on the table.

Dante Driblyane, that muscle-brained idiot, was wagging his tail diligently near the Saintess of the Evil God.

While he was acting like a dog next to Raheen, Yuri would dress up as prettily as possible and go out to meet Florin.

Isn’t it natural for the Crown Prince to greet the Saintess coming from the Holy Empire?

‘I won’t miss you, Sister.’

Yuri closed the book and smiled brightly.

These days, he was feeling better than ever.

* * *

“Thank you. Thank you. Really… *sniff*. Th, thank you, Saintess.”

“It’s nothing. Get up; you’ll hurt your knees.”

The journey to the Magic Empire was getting more and more painful.

If the weather was good, it would have been better, but the drizzling rain made the ground uneven, making the carriage shake even more.

It was so hard that I eventually gave up everything and wanted to transform into an animal inside the carriage.

But… I was no longer a white ferret.

So, of course, I couldn’t transform into an animal.

‘I thought I wasn’t the type to hold grudges.’

No. It’s just that there hadn’t been anyone I was angry enough to just kill until now.

I forced the corners of my mouth up as I looked at the endless line of patients.

The only good thing about this situation was that Raheen was trash beyond words.

Even though I was acting sensitive because I couldn’t sleep properly and was tired, everyone surprisingly praised me.

“Florin is holding up so well… Nothing has been broken…”

“No one has had their hair pulled yet. Isn’t this a miracle? God must be watching over us!”

“It’s very difficult to reflect on your past self and repent, but you’ve done it. Amazing. Please continue to do so.”

The priests, who had become a little closer to me, surrounded me and applauded, saying well done, well done.

It seemed like it had been three days since I started acting prickly because I couldn’t stand it anymore.

‘I can’t believe I’m being praised for not breaking things and not pulling other people’s hair.’

It was absurd, but anyway, the priests were being friendly to me, so I was holding on somehow.

Of course, there were still people who looked at me with very disgusted eyes, but that also gradually subsided as the duration of this trip increased.

It must be because they saw with their own eyes that I was doing well for the people.

“The next village is the last one, so cheer up a little more! Our Saintess, fighting!” Sandy shouted as she brought me dinner.

Two steamed potatoes and a barley bread. A meal consisting of only salty pickled vegetables, but I accepted it without any complaints.

This was the food that the residents had given us in the villages we had passed through.

Unlike the Magic Empire, the Holy Empire had not properly solved the famine. The people probably didn’t have enough to put in their own mouths, but they gave us food, saying thank you.

Considering the meaning, I couldn’t complain.

‘The Pope eats the same thing too.’

I chewed a steamed potato for a long time and reached for my water bag.

But it was empty because I had drunk it all on the way because I was so thirsty.

‘Ah, I need to go get water.’

Sandy does this and that for me, but she’s not a maid.

Besides, priests basically had to do everything themselves, so Sandy was very busy.

She’s setting up the camp right now.

If it were Raheen, she wouldn’t care and would tell the already busy kid to fetch some water while she was doing the dishes, but I couldn’t bring myself to do that.

‘I think there was a well over there…’

We usually stayed in the village, but not today.

Since the schedule was already quite delayed, we decided to camp a little away from the village in order to move a little faster tomorrow.

Still, there was a well for travelers that the village had made, and it was a shady grassy area, so camping wasn’t bad.

But when I arrived at the well, there was already someone there.

It was a very cute and tiny squirrel beastkin [a human with animal features].

It was a young child who hadn’t completely hidden its ears and tail yet, and it was dressed in shabby clothes that made it easy to understand the situation at a glance.

‘Clothes like a sack with a stretched-out neck, no shoes, and hair that hasn’t been washed in a long time.’

The child was frightened as soon as he saw me and took a step back. Then he stumbled and fell with a thud, but he couldn’t get up again.

“Oh dear, are you okay?”

He couldn’t move because he had no strength.

It must have been more than a day or two since he had filled his empty stomach with water.

I approached the child, squatted down, and made eye contact.

“Hello. My name is Florin.”

“…Ah, ah. Ah.”

“I’m going to touch you for a moment. I’m not going to hit you or scold you, so please bear with me. I want to heal your injuries.”

The child had many scratches on his body.

I noticed his neck with scabs from scratching because it was itchy, and his ankle that was slightly twisted.

“Agh. Ah.”

Was it a girl or a boy?

I couldn’t tell because his unkempt hair, stiff like a broom, covered his entire face.

I couldn’t even ask because he couldn’t even speak properly due to aphasia [inability to understand or express speech].

“Okay, all done.”

But even if I could heal the wounds of the flesh, I couldn’t heal the wounds of the heart.

His aphasia wouldn’t get better just because I treated him a little better.

“You’re not in pain anymore, are you?”

The child looked down at his ankle with a bewildered expression. Then he touched his body, and it seemed like there was a lot of pain in unseen places.

“Woo, ah!”

“Are you happy?”

“Woo, woo.”

When I looked closely, his reddish-brown eyes were as cute as acorns.

I first drew water from the well and filled my water bag. Even while I was doing that, the squirrel child did not leave my side.

‘Hmm. Can I afford to take care of someone else right now…’

After thinking for a moment, I scooped up another gourd of water.

Then I soaked the cuffs of my sleeves in the water and carefully wiped the child’s face.

‘I was already dying because the long sleeves were so uncomfortable, but this is good.’

To think I could use it for this purpose, the sleeves did their job.

“Buh, woobeubeub!”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. You have to wipe your nose.”

The child’s face was really a mess.

Not to mention the chapped areas here and there, but also the festering eyes and the marks where the snot had dried.

No matter how much I wiped, it didn’t end, so I ended up using both sleeves.

“Okay. It’s clean enough now.”

“Woo……”

“Does it feel strange? Is it refreshing? That’s what you call washing.”

“Woo……?”

“Let’s go together. There must be a place to sleep for one more person.”

I hadn’t been able to eat all the food I had been allotted these days.

Anyway, I would throw it all up because of the motion sickness, so it was better to keep my stomach empty.

‘If I say I’ll share my food and let him sleep with me in my carriage, no one will say anything.’

I only need to take him to the capital of the Magic Empire. Then I can leave him in a place run by Dante.

If he can’t adapt there, I can send him to Ian’s village.

“Huh? Saintess, who is that child?”

“It’s a squirrel beastkin. Is he an orphan?”

“Where did you pick him up?”

As I returned to the campsite, the priests who had finished setting up the camp gathered around me.

The child, startled by the sudden appearance of tall adults, hiccuped and clung to my leg.

“Oh my, you. You can’t do that to the Saintess.”

One of the priests tried to pull the child away, but the more he did, the stronger the clinging force became.

I looked at the child struggling and shaking his head and shook my head.

“Just leave him alone. I’ll take him with me. Don’t worry about it.”

“Yes? But Saintess, we’re going to the Magic Empire, so this kind of child…”

“Is there an orphanage near here?”

“We, we’re in the border area, so there probably isn’t one.”

“Then should I just abandon him here?”

When I raised my eyebrows sharply, the priests looked at each other and closed their mouths.

They acknowledged that there was no other way but to take him and bring him back.

“Do you have a name?”

When I asked that, the child blinked innocently.

He didn’t seem to understand.

“Then I’ll have to give you one.”