Seijo ni Narunode Nidoume no Jinsei wa Katte ni Sasetemoraimasu ~Outaihi wa, Zensei de Watashi wo Futta Koibito Deshita~

First Temple, the reception room of the present Virgin in the east section.

Fire firewood is making patchy noises in an installed stone fireplace.

"Excuse me," said the clergyman, stepping in, the current Virgin - Sasha - was sitting on a couch with brass ornaments and drinking tea alone. Look at the chief cleric and smile.

When I was recommended and sat across the street, Olivia, a samurai, put it on a silver basin and brought me some tea. Place a cup with hot air and a small pot with sugar on the table.

It was the Holy Beast Penguin that followed me from behind. I'm sure his name is...

"It's Thundergriffon."

Sasha said you knew what you wanted to hear.

That's right, thunder griffon. Although it is still only a mystery to the Chief Cleric as to why he made it this name.

On the head of Yota Yota and the walking Thundergriffon was a small basket knitted with a knitted plant. There are various forms of baked confectionery packed inside.

I guess I'm helping Olivia. But it's slow to walk, so I'm right there, but I can't get close enough. Besides balancing them with both wings, swinging their bodies left and right and walking, so each time the baked sweets inside come off lightly.

The chief cleric was harassed, but both Sasha and Olivia are even watching normally.

Finally the penguin came to the table.

"Thanks"

When Sasha took the basket, the penguin gladly buttered his wings with a proud face that he had done it.

Olivia and Penguin leave in a gracious manner.

Slowly rinsing the tea with a slight hint of mint,

"How about the 'new' Virgin?

And they asked me about Liz.

"You'll do your best. I hope Master Liz doesn't move. I fail, but I forget, but I make a grand mistake, so I don't notice anything wrong around me."

"... is that a good thing?

Sasha looked complicated, then laughed and continued.

"Chief Cleric, I'm no longer the 'present Virgin'. Finished her role, now she's the former Virgin."

"You did. I'm going to be a former chief cleric soon."

The alternation ceremony with Lloyd, which was decided for the next clergyman, is now imminent.

Sasha smiled.

"When you were quick to replace it, didn't Lloyd blur?

"We're still bumping into each other when it's too early. The clergymen are also blue when more work is coming up."

"I guess so."

The light of a warm day slipping through the window shines long and thin on the laid carpet.

It's a good life. I thought sincerely.

I've been on Sasha's side for a long time, and this is how we can still have tea together.

I have a good successor named Liz and Lloyd, and I have fine clerics.

"What's wrong?

Sasha looked up.

"No, I thought you were happy."

"Oh, that's a coincidence. That's what I thought."

Laughs as full.

(Nice smile)

Fifty years serving as chief clergyman. Such a smile must be a reward for all the hard work you've done.

(When I first met you, I didn't think it was time for this guy to look like this)

Previous Virgin Selection made approximately sixty years ago from now. Two remained until the final selection: Sasha and the fake Virgin, who pretended to be Sasha and was deranged by Liz and Keefa at the Royal Palace.

Sasha was only eight at the time, and the fake Virgin was nine. The fact that two children under the age of ten remained was a major shock to both the temple and the royal palace.

At that time, the chief cleric was also only a seven-year-old apprentice cleric, so it was not possible to see first-hand the selection. I just heard it from people.

But it was a shock that a girl as old as the apprentice himself was chosen as the Virgin.

But after assuming the position of Virgin, Sasha cried often.

The Virgin before Sasha used to have many children, and the way she taught Sasha was very gentle, but not the job description and amount she could do to an eight-year-old. They seem to have anticipated the divine power and qualities, but they are still an assortment I want to play with.

And even though Sasha, a middle-class nobleman's maid, was persuaded by her parents, it would have been hard to live alone in the temple.

Speaking of clergy chiefs back then, I just did chores as an apprentice. He flashed the hem of a velvety blue cleric's robe and was running around the temple delivering documents and asking for a legend.

In that case,

(Hmm?)

If you were running down the aisle, the grass in the courtyard accidentally swayed. Tanuki or Itachi? No, there would be no such thing in the temple courtyard.

As I approached, I saw a tiny back trembling by the grass. And the white clothes I was wearing, I immediately realized it was the Virgin's robe.

(Virgin!?

Stops by surprise. You felt signs. Sasha looked back.

The tearful crying face belonged to the normal girl there.

"Um, does it hurt your head, too?

I was too surprised to talk about weird things.

"... it doesn't hurt"

"So your teeth hurt?

"No."

"Then my ear or my nose..."

"Why is it all around your face?

Asked suspiciously.

I thought later that you were right, but at that time I was so surprised that I didn't even know what I was running.

Then I saw Sasha a little bit. Walking with your priests or preparing for prayer in the diocese. The Chief Cleric often found Sasha's appearance with wonder.

"I see you a lot."

Sasha seems to have been the same. At first he looked strange every time he met him, but he grew accustomed to laughing and waving when he found the chief cleric.

One of these days I started talking intimately, and Sasha snuck a treat served at tea time into a piece of paper, so that she could be the chief cleric.

The taste of cookies and water candy that we both ate while hiding in the shadow of the grass is still unforgettable.

The cookies were almost cracked, the baked sweets were snagged, and even the water candy sticks to the inside of the kettle I put in, which I couldn't quite take, but I don't think there's anything better than the sweets I ate in line at that time.

It was then ten years later that the clergyman, who was an apprentice, decided to serve Sasha as the "next clergyman". It was when I was seventeen.

The father of the chief cleric is one of the senior clerics. As a result, I grew up being kept in the temple at an early age.

However, he has never been given special treatment, and the chief clergyman himself, without being proud of his identity, has gradually taken the path of a clergyman as an apprentice and an orthodox cleric. To such a hard-working clergyman, his eyes were gentle around him.

Well, there seemed to be some opposite voices from some when I was too young, but Sasha and I used to spend a lot of time together, and most importantly, the clerics probably watched Sasha seem to enjoy it.

"Dear Sasha the Virgin, this is the next Cleric Chief."

Sasha seemed to have no idea who would be the next cleric chief. So my body and face were stiff like I was nervous. That's what

"... is that you"

As soon as I saw the Chief Cleric, I lost my strength as I was relieved. And I laughed niggly.

"It's me."

The chief cleric also grinned back at the nigger.

That was enough.

Then we worked hard together. Sasha is also more than ten years faster in office, even though the chief cleric would have to support the Virgin.

I always kept relying on Sasha, and it was just one of those things that I wanted to catch up with.

In the meantime, Sasha only leaked once.

"I want to stop being a Virgin."

The chief clergyman was unable to reply at all.

"It's a joke," she laughed hastily, as Sasha hacked, but found it painfully painful not to be a joke.

"Well, let's not. I'm just starting to hate the Chief Cleric because I have too much work to do, too. Let's stop together."

When I noticed, my mouth was open at will.

Sasha shrugged her face and told her to throw up.

"Please stop joking. There's no way I can stop."

"We're going to do the selection of the next Virgin and the selection of the next Cleric Chief right now. Round up the clerics in the executive - no, we'll hang up. Or you can blow up the temple. When Master Sasha and I are together, even in the diocese, with Dokan. That way you'll think you're dead and give up and find the next Virgins. Which would you prefer?

"... that's easy to say"

"It's hard to get lost in everything until you decide to do it. If you're ready to do it, it's going to be surprisingly easy. And the bombing is an unfortunate accident. I have no choice."

It's true without exaggeration.

Sasha's black eyes shook quietly. I swayed and swayed as I stared at the Chief Cleric, and eventually slowly lowered my eyes.

The next smile that came up in my face was filled with colors I had never seen before.

- Now I know. That was a sense of companionship without a stake, and the highest level of trust.

"Nice. Next time I say I want to stop, I'd love to."

At that time, I didn't know if what I was asked to do was hang with the executive clerics, or if it was a bombing, but Sasha's "next" hasn't come since.

- "It's been fifty years since you spent time with the Chief Cleric."

He returned to me with a gentle voice from Sasha. Yes, this is Sasha's reception room.

"We're getting old together. My hair, too. It was black and fuzzy."

"Right."

I was a little shocked to be seen with poor eyes.

Sasha laughs.

"You don't have to be so depressed. Isn't that nice? I like that head of the clergyman so much."

"It's a pleasure."

"Would you like to come back for tea tomorrow? Thunder Griffon will be with you again."

"I can't tell Olivia, but what a novel name. Speaking of which, you haven't been given the name of the Holy Beast Black Leopard. What do you mean?

"... it's a secret"

I laughed unexpectedly at Sasha, who rarely seemed to distract me from saying it.

"What are you laughing at"

"No. You don't have to ask. I have a good idea what the black leopard's name is."

"No way."

'Cause I've always been closest.'

"... what do you think it is?

"I'll tell you tomorrow at tea time"

……

Sasha, who said it was a brilliant "clo" and looked away, smiled happily, "... because we've been together forever" is the story the following afternoon -.