The Grand Duchess Is Defeated Again Today

The princess doesn’t know yet.

Count Xernias, who has always been peaceful.

It was a characteristic of the Count Xernias family, which had no special features, that it was always peaceful and nothing special.

“Emma! Here’s a towel!”

“I’ll get it right away!”

At least it wasn’t as peaceful as today.

“Collock!”

The reason was that I, the only child of Count Xernias, was ill with a bad cold.

“······Are you okay?”

As soon as the coughing sound came out of my mouth, I heard my mother’s worried voice like an automatic reflex.

If it was me before I got sick, I would have said it was okay, as if it was nothing, asking what kind of cold you were so surprised by.

“······Collock.”

It was hard to say that I was okay with empty words because I really caught a cold.

Because the boiling heat that could have been overcome with a light laugh at 39 degrees and a strong cough that came out of nowhere were tormenting me.

“······Fine… It is.”

“····.”

No matter how hard I spoke to reassure my mother, the already cracked voice did not give any reassurance, but only multiplied her worries.

“Didn’t I tell you to practice swordsmanship in moderation?”

“····.”

Like my mother’s complaints blaming me. The main reason I got a cold was because of my overnight practice.

After the last hunting contest.

The thought I heard the most was, ‘I’m still lacking.’ it was

The outcome of the hunting contest was not properly overshadowed by a group of mysterious assassins who attacked the Crown Prince.

Even if the raid did not exist, the probability that I would have won first place in the hunting contest was close to 0%.

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Just by looking at the skills of Mikhail, who followed me around during the hunting contest, I could tell that he would have won first place if he had sincerely participated in the contest.

If Rebecca, who had lost my archery bet to me, had participated in the hunting contest instead of me, it was a natural fact that she would have won first place with excellent results.

They say I won the bet, but in reality, the bet was as good as Rebecca compelled me to do my fiancée.

If Rebecca didn’t do my favor and proceeded with the bet, it was clear that she would have won the bet with a total of 30 points.

And, it was for this reason that I suddenly decided to practice all night long.

Because I felt so insignificant compared to Mikhail, the protagonist of the original novel, and Rebecca, my fiancée.

I feel like I’m not really that big of a deal.

So, I wanted to raise my swordsmanship skills even through overnight training.

“Collock!”

······ Of course, as you can see, the results are not very good.

It wasn’t that he didn’t do anything useless for no reason.

“When you said you were learning swordsmanship, you should have stopped.”

“····.”

My mother, who had left me alone for a while, was immersed in her own worries.

“Anyway, the priest from the church has decided to come here, so for the time being, please don’t even bring out the ‘su’ characters of training.”

“······Yes.”

With those words, he finally left my room.

“······priest?”

Rather than feeling terrified by my mother who mumbled that I should have stopped her when I said I was learning swordsmanship, I was curious about the sentences her mother left behind.

It wasn’t that a sick person showed his face to a priest who had divine powers.

Rather, it was quite normal.

It was common sense to go to the church and seek the help of a priest if commoners, not nobles, had wounds or diseases that could not be cured by simple healing.

The part where I threw a question mark was that the priest was coming this way.

Because it was never easy for a priest to come directly from the denomination, an existence that even the imperial family could not touch.

Unless it was a life-threatening incurable disease or a person who had been in a relationship with the denomination for a long time, it was impossible.

I have never felt that there is an incurable disease in this body or that my life is in danger in my life until now, so the visit of a priest from the church means that ‘Alber Xernias’ has been in a relationship with the church for a long time.

The Xernias family is not closely related to the sect. Even after washing my eyes, I couldn’t find anything that could have a connection with the denomination.

The only thing I can guess is that ‘Alber Xernias’ had been receiving divine power treatment for a long time before I possessed it.

If he had been receiving divine power treatment because he was not in good physical condition, it was possible to explain the priest’s visit to Zernias’ mansion and the state of his body suffering from a severe cold because he had only stayed up all night for a week.

“Why didn’t I feel anything when I took possession of it?”

However, except for this time in my life, I have never felt that my body is sickly, which negates that assumption.

If you have been receiving divine power treatment regularly and for quite some time, it would have been normal if you weren’t in good shape at the time you possessed it…

Instead of lying in bed because I was sick, I even had an argument with my first fiancee.

At that time, I was in a normal physical condition.

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“Master, a guest has arrived from the church.”

As I was swept away by the never-ending waves of trouble, I heard a knock on the door and the voice of Emma, a maid of the Xernias family.

By the meaning of Emma’s words to me.

It seemed that a priest from the church I had heard of earlier had come to visit me.

Even if I haven’t been able to unravel the connection between the Church and this body yet, there’s no reason to humiliate the priest who came to heal me at the front door.

“Please… tell me to come in…”

He allowed the door to open without hesitation, regardless of the continuous cracking of the voice.

And within three seconds, I regretted it.

“It’s been a while.”

Because the priest of the church who came in with a bit of shyness was a person I knew well.

“·······Saint?”

“Nice to meet you, Albert.”

Estelle, the most powerful saint in the Empire and Mikhail’s first heroine, came to heal me.

***

I saw the saint walking into my room with dignified steps.

“·············································································································································································· Why is the saint here? ”

The first emotion I felt was embarrassment.

If what I know is correct, it was clear that the position of a saint of the denomination would not be such a leisurely position.

But for what reason is such a saint visiting the Count’s residence to treat the children of the count’s family?

My head is in a complicated state because I think that this body may have been receiving divine power treatment for a long time.

Estelle’s unexpected visit changed her mind to more complicated ones.

“It is the duty of a saint to heal the sick.”

“····.”

Besides, Estelle, who must have known the reason for my embarrassment, was smirking.

Intuitively, perhaps the most disgusting appearance in the world.

‘·······How lucky are you?’

I thanked my fiancée for not knowing that I am currently ill.

At the last imperial banquet, it was Rebecca who misunderstood when Estelle and I were alone in the garden.

In order to clear up the misunderstanding Rebecca was having at that time, I managed to persuade her even by throwing away the respectful words she had never thrown away, that is, the expression of respect.

What if Rebecca finds out that another woman, a saint, knows about her fiancée’s cold, which she didn’t know about.

‘···’

I really didn’t want to even imagine what would happen after that.

I didn’t mean to hide the fact that I had a cold from Rebecca from the beginning.

Even when I sent a letter to the Duchess of Valencia saying that I couldn’t find it for a while, the reason for not being able to find it was very detailed in the contents of the letter.

However, just before delivering the letter to the butler of the Xernias family in order to send it.

I suddenly remembered Rebecca, who had run away with magic to the point of exhausting her magic when she heard the news that I had disappeared during a hunting contest.

After a moment’s contemplation, I changed the contents of the letter that I had a bad cold to personal circumstances.

There was no particular reason.

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Just in case Rebecca comes to this place like the last time to hear that I am ill.

I came here for nothing, so I was afraid that I might catch a cold and get even worse.

To be honest, Rebecca, who is healthier than me, was hardly likely to get a cold as bad as I did.

It was the fiancée’s mindset that was right to hope that her fiancée didn’t get sick at all.

Anyway, for this reason, I did not write in the letter that I was ill for a while.

“································Collock, saint.”

“yes? Did you call?”

“Why the hell did the saint come here?”

What I had to do now was to solve Mikhail’s Heroine No. 1 in front of me.

A saint who dared to come directly to an issue that would be resolved even if a priest of a common denomination came.

“·······Well. Confucius, why do you think I came here?”

“····.”

Estelle, who shows a much more uncertain attitude than the last time I saw what had happened.