Chapter 06
“Huh? Why is the window open… Oh my! Husband!”
Clang!
Madam Scrooge’s scream piercing the night sky. The sound of the glass cup she was holding dropping and shattering.
Simultaneously, oil lamps turned on here and there on Demarchi Street.
“Number 36! The light purple dress shop building, 5th floor!”
“Here it is!”
It didn’t take even 10 minutes for the Capital Guards, who received the report, to rush into the dress shop.
“We received a report that a gunshot was heard!”
They are numerous for showing up late after everything is over.
Good.
“There are traces of a bullet here!”
“A real gun?! Then is it a robbery?!”
“It seems the gentleman who collapsed here fired it?”
“…Huh?”
“What, he wasn’t the victim?”
Soon, the windows of the neighboring buildings opened one by one.
People wearing sleeping caps peered across at Scrooge Dress Shop, wondering what was happening. More curious people came out, wearing coats over their pajamas, and poked their heads around.
“What, then…”
“It wasn’t a bandit or a thief?”
“But since someone knocked the gentleman out, wouldn’t it still be a robbery?”
“But there are no injuries.”
Having confirmed that nothing was missing and that the victim had not suffered any significant injury, the guards soon turned their attention elsewhere.
“Madam Scrooge, could you explain why you were alone with a gentleman who is not your husband at the dress shop at this hour?”
“Th-that is.”
“…Surely, it’s not what I’m thinking, is it?”
“It’s not!”
Madam Scrooge, who had followed the unfaithful man carried out on a stretcher and was fidgeting, hurriedly denied it.
“Th-this person is our regular customer! We only met because there was an urgent need to take measurements!”
“…At 2 AM?”
“Oh, oh, the clothing was very urgent!”
Whisper, whisper.
“What did she say?”
“She said they met to take measurements.”
“Now?”
“She said the clothing was very urgent.”
The surrounding citizens looked at Madam Scrooge and the unconscious unfaithful man and whispered amongst themselves.
“No matter how urgent the clothing is, 2 AM?”
“I know.”
It’s very suspicious, but since she’s denying it so firmly, they can’t object.
Just as the suspicion was growing.
“Oh?”
Letters fluttered and fell from the sky.
One curious citizen quickly snatched a letter. He craned his neck and read the writing on the envelope out loud for everyone around to hear.
“From: Abby Scrooge of the DeMarci Dress Shop. To: Stephen Oblonsky!
The content is… Oh, what is this!”
“Why!”
“What is it!”
“In the letter written by Madam Scrooge to Mr. Oblonsky… she calls him ‘Baby’?!”
“There’s also a letter written by a woman other than the madam! There’s a lipstick mark on the outer surface! The content is, where… What! Pregnancy!”
“Heavens!”
“Wait, if it’s Oblonsky… of the Oberon Merchant Group?”
“That’s right, didn’t the head of the merchant group take in a son-in-law? They only have one daughter…”
“Then?”
“A married man…!”
Whisper, whisper. Whisper, whisper.
The people’s murmuring grew uncontrollably.
People who had been watching the situation from inside their houses couldn’t resist their curiosity and came out into the street, grabbing their neighbors and asking, “What’s going on?”
“It’s an affair!”
“With two people, too!”
“One of them is pregnant!”
“Wow!”
The people of Demarchi Street are not getting any sleep tonight.
In the midst of the chaos, the unfaithful man, who finally came to his senses, mumbled blankly.
“Uh? Why am I here… What happened?”
‘What happened? You got ruined, that’s what happened.’
No one thought to look up at the roof of the dress shop.
I, sitting with my two legs stretched out, answered the unfaithful man’s question internally.
As you may have noticed, the culprit of the letters that fell from the sky is me.
The person who reported it to the patrolling guards was, of course, also me.
‘Since this year, the Capital Guards have started patrolling even at dawn.’
I heard it was a policy promoted by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, whose face I don’t even know. It must be a policy considerate of citizens like me who go home late after work.
‘I’ve never seen his face, but he’s a very good person.’
Anyway.
“With this, that unfaithful man will be divorced without a single penny…”
I shook the unfaithful man’s letters that I had separately taken a few copies of, just in case.
It seems he always carried them with him in case his wife found out. They came right out when I searched his pocket.
“If the wife sues the mistresses for compensation, the mistresses and Madam Scrooge will also be in trouble.”
The unfaithful man, divorced and penniless, and the two mistresses.
The three of them can live happily together raising the mistress’s child.
“What is this, <Men of the Center>?”
It seems he’s a member of a social club, the nerve of him.
I tossed the social club badge that came out with the letters onto the street with a flick.
While I was doing this, the Maltese was holding the last remaining star candy tightly with both hands and crunching on it.
He said, while fiddling with the brooch that had returned to its original state.
“Doggie.”
“I’m a divine beast, bow-wow.”
“You said the job of the Magic Saintess is to show justice to people who cleverly escape the law, and people who committed wrongs but are difficult to punish by law.”
He only said that much, but the Maltese’s eyes grew wide.
The Maltese jumped up and hugged my leg.
“The Magic Saintess cannot be refunded!”
“Eh?”
“You’ve worn the outfit! And transformed! Surely you’re not going to say you won’t do it now!”
“…”
“Seraphina, have you heard of ‘dine and dash,’?!”
“I didn’t say I wouldn’t do it.”
“Really?!”
“Yes. I will.”
But I have a condition.
“First, let’s get out of here.”
I picked up the Maltese, whose mouth was rainbow-colored from eating too much star candy, and kicked off the roof.
Behind me, as I jumped across the roofs with the dog in my arms, I could hear the citizens who still hadn’t dispersed shouting.
“Wait a minute, what’s written on the back of the letter here?!”
“Read it to us!”
“I can’t see!”
“Ah, don’t push!”
“Read it out loud!”
「Why are there so many bad guys in the world, and what on earth is the sky doing? Not taking that guy away.
So, I came to catch him myself.
I accuse him of the crime of stealing the job of an innocent entry-level worker!
Have a righteous day today!
–Magic Saintess Sena💫-」
“But who is Sena, Seraphina’s name is Seraphina!”
“Why would I advertise to be caught? By using my name as it is.”
Also, earlier, man. Why did you call my name so openly in front of the unfaithful man?
It’s a good thing the unfaithful man lost his memory.
“People can recognize you just by calling your name! Is Seraphina’s name that unique?”
“Honestly. Doggie, what’s your name?”
“This body!”
The dog stuck out its belly and shouted.
“The proud bloodline of the Divine Beast, Johann Mendelssohn Handel Beethoven Bach Schubert Mozart Debussy Park Yeon Strauss the Third!”
“…”
I’ll just call you Johann Mendelssohn Handel Beethoven Bach Schubert Mozart Debussy Park Yeon Strauss the Third.
“But Tofu, how do I take this outfit off?”
Shouldn’t the outfit return to normal after the Magic Saintess activity is over?
“If I exert force, it feels like it might tear, but it won’t come off.”
“Oh-oh! You mustn’t tear it”
If the outfit tears, the facial blindness magic will also be broken! Tofu, who was rummaging through a drawer to offer me a snack, flapped excitedly.
“You just need to take off the necklace, bow-wow!”
“Ah, that’s all?”
I took off the necklace, half-believing and half-doubting.
“It’s true.”
Moreover, this time it immediately returned without spinning around, scattering petals, or shooting rainbow light.
Is it spectacular when transforming, but who cares about returning?
“Of course. It’s important to gain the upper hand when transforming.”
“You’ll get shot while trying to gain the upper hand…”
“Keep the necklace on all the time. The size of the hand mirror reduces when you wear it around your neck, bow-wow.”
“Okay.”
I replied while looking around the mysterious-looking space decorated entirely in white and blue.
We are now in Tofu’s room in the Grand Temple.
For reference, it was very spacious.
A desk the size of my bed, a separate tea table. A fireplace that looks like you could roast a wild boar in, and a holy painting taking up an entire wall…
A dog’s room is bigger than mine.
“No matter how I think about it, the combat uniform is too uncomfortable and gaudy.”
“Bear with it, bow-wow. Everyone wore clothes like that 950 years ago.”
I’m glad I wasn’t born 950 years ago.
“Can’t you make a new one?”
“There are no mages in the modern age, so we can’t cast the facial blindness magic on the combat uniform, bow-wow.”
“Ah.”
Right, let’s give up.
Anyway, no one will know it’s me running around in that outfit, right?
Let’s thoroughly hide my identity.
For the sake of my social standing.
Now, shall we talk about the important matter?
“Tofu.”
I said to Tofu, who was handing me dried pollack to eat.
“How much is the pay I receive for Magic Saintess activities?”
“What?”
“Surely you weren’t planning to work me without pay?”
How dare you.
I am not a magical girl. I am a magical adult woman who has experienced all sorts of hardships.
Please give me fair compensation for my labor.
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