I Am a Pure Saintess, Don't Tarnish My Innocence Out of Nowhere! - Chapter 19

Chapter 19: How Could I Remain Depressed and Stay Beneath Others for Long?!

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The living room fell silent for a short while, as everyone turned their attention back to the patient lying on the sofa.

The One-Eyed Wolf couldn’t help but pat Barna’s chest again, praising him: “So that’s how it is. Brother Barna, I didn’t expect you to be such a cautious person!”

“…Uh, yeah, yeah. You know, in this line of work as an adventurer, how can you not be cautious? Haha.”

Putting the dagger back on his person, Barna finally let out a heavy sigh, knowing he had managed to slip by unnoticed.

Come to think of it, as an adventurer, it wasn’t strange to carry some blades. It was just that he was overly sensitive and guilty, worried that he might accidentally expose the plan to assassinate Verose at any moment.

Especially when being embraced by the One-Eyed Wolf, he was terrified that if the plan was exposed, this guy would snap his neck the next second.

Sitting on the sofa, the deeper Susie’s examination went, the more her brows furrowed. The onlookers thought the young man was already beyond hope, impossible to cure.

But only Susie knew that her frown was because of the cause of the young man’s illness.

The illness worsened due to a mistaken healing spell?

But no matter how she looked at it, this guy was simply poisoned! And it was a very common case of food poisoning!

This was completely different from what she had imagined earlier!

Didn’t Verose say it was a problem with her healing spell? At that time, she didn’t even doubt it, too busy fantasizing about scenes of Verose’s reputation being ruined…

Now it seemed, could this be a trap?!

Was that bitch Verose trying to harm her?!

She secretly glanced to the side, only to see Verose looking at the young man with a worried face, her hands tightly gripping the hem of her nun’s robe, presenting a pitiful appearance.

A bitch is a bitch, putting on such an act, even making her feel a bit of sympathy.

But looking at her like this, it seemed she didn’t know what illness the young man had either. Besides, if Verose really wanted to use this incident to frame her, what could she do anyway?

Perhaps she was overthinking it.

Just then, Verose gently bit her lip and asked, “How is he?”

“He…”

Tell the truth or lie?

This question flashed through Susie’s mind, and she hesitated.

If she lied, telling everyone that this young man ended up like this because of Verose’s healing spell, they would all fear for their lives, and Verose’s reputation would be tarnished.

She might even hide in the church from then on, no longer going out to spread the faith.

The cost would be that if discovered, she, Susie, would become a true sinner, a traitor to the church, someone who slandered her companion. No place would accept her.

If she told the truth, none of that would happen. Verose would still be that nun loved by countless people, and she, Susie, would still have to submit to her tyranny.

No! She, Susie, was born between heaven and earth. How could she remain depressed and stay beneath others for long?!

“He…”

Just as she was about to take the risk and give it a shot, she suddenly felt a cold gaze from beside her. She turned her head and saw a pair of light blue eyes that seemed to come from the far north.

Terrifying! Extremely terrifying!

Just one glance of eye contact, and she felt as if she had been seen through completely, with no place to hide the secrets in her heart!

She had almost forgotten! Among the people present, there were two big shots from the church!

With their abilities, they would definitely be able to discover that the young man in front of them was merely suffering from food poisoning, not any other reason.

So this is where you were waiting, Verose.

First saying it was a problem with her healing spell to numb her nerves, causing her to call so many people to watch.

Then waiting for her to have evil intentions and waver, acting pitiful again to numb her nerves, making her careless and willing to take risks for the sake of reputation.

It’s truly a chain of schemes, Verose.

Hmph, if it weren’t for her, Susie, quick wit, remembering these two big shots from the church, she would have fallen for Verose’s devious plan!

By then, the one whose reputation would be ruined would be her, Susie!

Her hand holding the gauze tightened slightly. Susie knew that although she had seen through Verose’s scheme, a chill had still been born in her heart.

She felt that the reason Verose could surpass her, Susie, in reputation in just a few short days was probably because her level of scheming also far exceeded hers.

If she were to fight against her, she would most likely not have a good ending.

Taking a deep breath, waiting for her nervous heart to slowly calm down, Susie then spoke: “He… he actually just has food poisoning.”

Losing this time doesn’t mean she’ll lose in the future. Although that little bitch Verose is very scary, there will come a day when she, Susie, will reclaim her position and become the most popular nun in the small town of Avik!

As soon as her diagnosis came out, the onlookers were all shocked.

“What?!”

“Wasn’t it said to be a problem with the healing spell?”

“Food poisoning? Sister Verose didn’t misdiagnose?”

Actually, like Susie, most of them had never considered whether the young man’s illness was really due to the healing spell or not. After all, even Verose had said so in front of them, how could it be false?

But reality turned out to be even more absurd than they had imagined.

“No, it’s just food poisoning. Give him some medicine, and he’ll be fine in a couple of days.”

Susie said this, but her expression was somewhat listless.

There was no help for it. Thinking she had Verose pinned down, only to find out in the end that she was the one being played, this kind of extreme reversal didn’t feel good at all.

“That’s great, I knew Sister Verose wouldn’t misdiagnose!”

“So this means it was all a misunderstanding! Sister Verose didn’t need to worry so much about this guy after all.”

“It’s all because of Barna, who can’t even tell if his own brother has food poisoning or not. And he calls himself an adventurer!”

“So after all this fuss, it was all caused by you, kid?” The One-Eyed Wolf’s arm tightened, his embrace around Barna’s neck almost becoming a chokehold.

Being forcibly held, Barna, due to his guilty conscience, lost all color in his face and nearly couldn’t stand steady.

“This, this really isn’t my fault. I, I also thought my brother was having an attack again…”

Having received confirmation once more, the onlookers cheered. Verose, sitting among them, first froze for a moment, then blushed, seemingly embarrassed by their praise.

However, only Verose herself knew that her magic power level had almost risen from the early stage of Tier 5 to the middle stage of Tier 5 amidst these praises.

Moreover, before this, she hadn’t even thought that the illness of Barna’s brother would turn out to be just food poisoning, completely unrelated to her healing spell.

Doesn’t this also mean that she hadn’t misdiagnosed at all, the church wouldn’t punish her, and her Saintess evaluation would still maintain a perfect score?

Tsk tsk.

Sometimes, happiness is like a trap from the sky. Not only does it fall on its own, but it also comes one after another.

And she, she doesn’t need to do anything, just quietly wait for this happiness to arrive.