My Friend’s Harem Is Obsessed With Me – Chapter 116

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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In an underground room without even ventilation.

The smell of Sister Lucia’s sweat and dust was lingering like a fog, but the scent of the deodorizer May brought chased it away.

In that place, three people were crouching and playing card games.

May, Lucia, and me.

“This is cheating! Isn’t it? Right? You think I look like a pushover, don’t you?”

She threw down her card hand and shouted in frustration, but May grinned like a cat and wiggled her finger.

“Come here, come here. Dab.”

“I swear to Helios, I’ve never seen Daniel as a pushover.”

“Sigh.”

As I lowered my head, grumbling, May’s flicked my forehead.

She should hit more gently, but it seemed she had some pent-up frustration as she hit with full force.

I turned my face and got hit by Lucia too.

She looked gentle, but her hand was surprisingly sharp, so I was startled.

“Haa, stop it. It’s annoying.”

“Ah, it was fun.”

May smiled with satisfaction and organized the cards she had brought.

Lucia also said it was fun and leaned her back against a box behind her, but she cried out as if an electric shock had passed through her.

“Oh, but is it okay for us to be doing this? You said you’d protect me.”

The reason the three of us were here was simple.

We couldn’t take Lucia out of here.

The Chokugen Faction was watching and surveilling the place as if surrounding the entire cathedral.

Even though we half-crippled them, the guys who popped out from somewhere again were thoroughly monitoring the area in case anyone took a single step out of the cathedral.

So it was easy for me and May to sneak in, but it was difficult to escape with Lucia, who was at the level of an ordinary person.

Rather than carelessly moving and giving Mikaela and the Chokugen Faction an opening or letting them know we had an ulterior motive, it was wiser to just stay in the basement for one more day, so we were here.

“How did we end up doing something like a school trip in a place like this? Want some candy?”

“School trip…”

Lucia naturally accepted the candy May handed her and savored the words.

For her, a trip meant only missionary trips, which were the entirety of her life, but missionary trips were just a pilgrimage in reality rather than a trip.

She seemed to have a heavy heart, unconsciously thinking she had enjoyed it like ordinary students.

“Now, get ready to sleep soon. You’ll be very busy tomorrow.”

As I spoke while sitting on a folding chair I took from the warehouse and unfolding it in front of the door, May made a puzzled expression.

“Aren’t you going to sleep, Daniel? If you’re keeping watch, should I take turns with you in the middle?”

“It’s fine, just go to sleep. I’m confident in my ability to stay up all night again.”

“You’ll be bored, right? Then should I stay by your side and talk with you?”

May approached me like a cat, sliding on the floor with a shawl draped over her shoulders.

This girl always tries to eat me as soon as I let my guard down a little.

“Go to sleep.”

As I crossed my legs to naturally defend against May’s approach, she clicked her tongue and turned back.

“Heheh.”

Lucia smiled while watching us.

“It’s nice to see that you two get along so well.”

“Right? We suit each other well, don’t we?”

“What do you mean we suit each other? Do you know what she tried to do to me at first? When the spring flowers were slowly budding and having their first fresh encounter with the world…”

“Hey! Hey!”

I started a long-winded speech, thinking that May didn’t seem sleepy anyway, so I should tell Lucia an old story, but May immediately rushed at me.

“Why are you bringing up old stories!”

“You feel guilty about it, don’t you? May has really become a decent person.”

“Huh? You want to kiss? Right? You’re not closing your mouth now, so you want to kiss, right?”

“Hey!”

I reached out my hand to push May away as she tried to bring her face close to me, but she opened her small mouth and bit my index and middle fingers like eating candy.

“Schtop it!”

“I got it, so let go first. You’re not an animal!”

I grumbled, feeling strangely bothered, but our May was annoyingly quick-witted in this aspect.

“…… Embarrassed?”

“Ah, shit! Your tongue is touching me every time you speak!”

Annoyed, I grabbed her chin with my other hand and put strength into it to rescue my fingers.

I kept my wet fingers as far away from my body as possible and took out a handkerchief with my other hand.

“Your candy-sucking skills are killer, right?”

“Where did you learn to say such things as a student!”

I shouted unwittingly, but May snatched the handkerchief and directly wiped my fingers herself.

“You always act like an adult, but you get embarrassed when it comes to this, don’t you?”

This is a bit humiliating, isn’t it?

It feels like I’m being played by an 18-year-old even though I’m 28 and have never dated until now.

But it seemed like it didn’t appear that way to Lucia, who was watching us from behind.

“Wow! Wow! Wooow!”

Lucia, who had regressed to being a child, hugged the shawl tightly with a flushed face.

May, who had taken advantage of the atmosphere, also seemed embarrassed and returned the handkerchief to me before going back to her spot.

“Phew.”

Anyway, May, who had started gaining momentum since the last festival, was hard to stop.

It was difficult with the others too, but May required extra caution.

For example, in Eve’s case, she would act normally and then casually throw something at me.

Nonchalantly, as if it was no big deal.

It felt like accidentally saying something only we knew in front of people even though we were a secret couple.

Rin seemed to have reached a kind of enlightenment recently.

When other kids clung to me, she would smile and endure it on the spot, but her smile was a bit scary.

Later, she would sneakily come and ask, “Did you enjoy it?” But I had never answered that I enjoyed it so far.

I didn’t know what would happen if I did, but I never wanted to find out in my life.

The witch Adriana was not at school right now, so she was passed.

There wasn’t much to say about the elf Eris except that we had shared our feelings.

Elise?

She was a crazy pervert.

In my opinion, the reason God let her be born as a princess was probably because there was no answer other than her being pretty when He made her, so He at least made her a king’s daughter.

May was quick-witted and knew how to ride the flow.

She knew I would feel burdened if she was as blatant as Elise or Rin.

But she also knew that if she threw it gently like Eve, it would be hard to survive in this meaningless competition(?).

Usually, she would act like a really close friend, but when she thought there was an opportunity, she would rush in like a cat suddenly turning into a tiger.

The really difficult thing was that with kids like Elise, I would meet them in a state of tension from the beginning, but May would naturally bypass my defense mechanism by treating me normally and then bare her fangs once inside.

‘No wonder she’s a delinquent.’

Her actions were very delinquent-like.

In addition, they were mischievous and playful.

May and Lucia began talking about various things even after lying down to sleep.

Mainly, Lucia persistently asked about my relationship, and May blushed slightly but glanced at me while lying down.

They were really like female students chatting on a school trip.

After talking for a long time, there was a brief silence.

I thought they were going to sleep now, but Lucia opened her mouth again.

“I’m actually scared.”

I also glanced at Lucia while crossing my arms, and May also turned her body to look at her, sensing something unusual.

“Can I become a saint? No, even if I do, am I really a person suited to be a saint?”

“……”

Both May and I listened to her words in silence.

“Actually, before coming to Batian, I imagined what I would do if I became a saint and was excited about it. I was so thrilled that I trembled. Looking back now, I think I was quite arrogant and foolish.”

Right now, Lucia was not a nun, but a girl.

And this was a secret confession taking place late at night in a basement where God’s grace neither rose nor shone.

“When I actually came here and stood amidst the power struggle stained with envy and jealousy over the position of a saint, I was so scared and thought I was really foolish.”

“……”

“Of course, I’m against the nun of Aphrodite becoming the saint, but whether I’m qualified to sit in that position is a separate issue.”

May slowly turned her gaze to me.

To prevent a monster who controlled people using the power of Aphrodite from wearing the most sacred veil of a saint, Lucia was needed.

Originally, I would have had to carefully choose my words while agonizing over persuasion, but…

I had no intention of being coercive to her, so I spoke honestly.

“Yeah, you’re nothing special. Honestly, you’re incompetent.”

“……!”

“D-Daniel?”

Lucia and May raised their upper bodies and looked at me.

“You couldn’t even notice the betrayal of the priest who came with you, and you were kidnapped without any power and spent several days here calling out God’s name in vain.”

“……”

“The reason you’re becoming a saint now is actually because you’re a suspect in a murder case. Mikaela didn’t feel any need to keep you in check, so she neglected you.”

In a word, she wasn’t leading anything in the current situation.

Moreover, Lucia was drooping.

“Besides, you seem to have a misconception about the position of a ‘saint.'”

“…… Pardon?”

What is a saint?

Some praise her as the most merciful and compassionate woman in the kingdom, always chosen by God as a holy woman.

Others spit that she is simply a scarecrow and a puppet created by the cathedral to pressure the royal family even a little by inciting the citizens.

Although opinions were divided to the extremes like this, if there was one thing that both sides agree on…

It was none other than that a saint is ‘the one who prays to God more than anyone else.’

“You have no power, you can’t handle mana, you have no tact, you can’t read people, you’re even foolish and blindly believe in people.”

I told her to bring it on, but unlike earlier when she had her head down, she was now blankly staring at me, so I naturally made eye contact with her.

“Sister Lucia, what do you have?”

“Ah……”

“Tell me, I want to hear it from your mouth.”

Lucia, who swallowed her saliva, very carefully presented the answer.

“Faith… towards God.”

“In times of crisis, a saint shouldn’t rely on a sword, she shouldn’t resolve the situation by handling mana, and she shouldn’t solve incidents with superior intelligence compared to others.”

And of course…

“She also shouldn’t brainwash and control people through a mark.”

“……”

“A position where one must solely pray to God in any situation.”

I finished speaking with a deep breath.

“That is the role of the existence called a ‘saint.'”

In a way, she was a being standing on the completely opposite side of Prince Oliver.

Connections, materials, wealth, knowledge, power.

She wasn’t outstanding in any of those aspects.

She was more miserable and incompetent than anyone else, so she couldn’t raise her head amidst humiliation.

That’s why she solely relied on God.

Paradoxically, that was precisely the reason she could sit in the highest position revered by everyone as a ‘saint.’

Well, this was just from my perspective, and honestly, I had a very pessimistic view of God, so I didn’t regard the position of a saint very favorably.

“…… Thank you.”

Lucia wiped her tears with her hand.

May, who had been looking at me and Lucia alternately, slowly got up and approached me.

I didn’t know why, but she caught me off guard and grabbed my side.

She slowly came close to my ear and whispered.

“If this goes on any longer, I’ll really become a thug.”

May pinched my side with all her might.

For a moment, I felt a creepiness almost similar to Rin’s, so I couldn’t give any answer.

May returned to her spot, hugged Lucia, and went back to bed.

To Lucia, who had a relieved expression, May slowly closed her eyes and said,

“He’s my boyfriend.”

Startled, Lucia’s shoulders trembled.

I tried to say I’m not her boyfriend, but before the words left my mouth, May continued.

“We had a good time, didn’t we? Let’s hold the line.”

I thought it was an unnecessary worry, but Lucia answered in a slightly mischievous voice.

“There are records that the god Helios had numerous wives.”

“Hey.”

“No, I’m just saying.”

“……”

May, who felt uncomfortable and tried to fall asleep again, but here Lucia added one more thing.

“You know what? The gods like the number ‘3.’”

“I guess I’ll have to eliminate the root? Daniel, I’ll become the saint tomorrow.”

She’s talking nonsense, really.

As May immediately rushed at Lucia, she cried out with a relieved laugh, “Just kidding! It’s a joke!”

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