Chapter 01
I am a thief.
But I am also a saintess.
Does that even make sense?
“Cute and sexy guy” also doesn’t make sense, yet they still exist, right?
I’m that kind of thing.
“Stop right there!”
There he comes. The cute and sexy guy.
“I said stop, magical saintess!”
“Sigh.”
I don’t even have time to complain for a second.
I threw the wanted poster I was holding and kicked off the roof.
“Can’t you hear me?!”
That guy who’s chasing me right now, gritting his teeth, has quite a temper…
If I get caught, I’m dead.
“There she is!”
“Don’t let her escape!”
To make matters worse, the capital guards showed up from the alley behind.
Forty men swarming just to catch little old me.
“Commander! What are you doing! Shoot!”
“But Captain, this is a long-barreled rifle for wild beasts!”
“Just shoot!”
Click!
“Crazy bastard!”
I will definitely claim danger pay from the temple once this is over!
Cursing inwardly, I hopped across the tightly packed building roofs in order.
Click— BANG!
“Fire!”
“Uwaaah!”
I swung the bunny hammer on my back and deflected the bullet.
The bullet that hit the bunny hammer turned into star candy.
Swishhh!
“Argh!”
The guard captain who got hit in the head by the pouring star candy from the night sky fumed.
“Again! Fire!”
BANG!
“We hit her!”
No you didn’t!
“Huh?! She got shot but she’s still running!”
I said you didn’t hit me!
“Fire continuously!”
“Up ahead!”
“It’s a dead end!”
“Turn back!”
“She’s pulling away!”
I kept running. Until the guards chasing me in a huge crowd started dropping one by one.
“Huff, huff….”
Is this far enough? I looked back and—
Whoosh—
“Argh!”
Whoosh— swish—
“Argh! Kyaa!”
I frantically jumped forward to avoid the flying pointed rubber.
When I came to my senses, I was on top of the clock tower in the square. The one whose hour hand I broke the other day by hanging from it.
“…….”
Dead end.
The only person who managed to catch up to me here, the cute and sexy guy, lowered the slingshot he was holding.
It’s a much more humane weapon than the guards who shoot beast-hunting rifles at people, so I’m grateful for that at least.
“That’s far enough, magical saintess.”
Since I’m already grateful, couldn’t you just stop chasing me and give up around here……?
“It would be wise to surrender quietly. Then I’ll take it into consideration and reduce your sentence.”
“…By how much?”
“One second.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“Do I look like the type to joke? Unlike the pervert who wears a trashy skirt and jumps across rooftops.”
His contemptuous gaze turned to the skirt I was wearing.
Just then, a gust of wind made the pleated skirt that barely reached mid-thigh flutter. The man silently grimaced at the sight.
“Haa.”
“…….”
I’m sorry…….
“Your behavior of flying around in the sky wearing that kind of outfit is a bad influence on growing children. I’m arresting you for public indecency.”
“No…!”
I didn’t want to wear it either!
What am I supposed to do when the magical saintess combat uniform I inherited is like this! If you’re going to complain, complain to the senior magical saintess from 950 years ago!
“In prison, you can wear long pants and reflect.”
The man who had lowered his slingshot leaped forward. In just a few steps, he climbed up to the clock tower where I was standing.
“Magical saintess Sena, you are under arrest for public indecency, destruction of public property, theft, assault, and various other charges…….”
“Ugh….”
I stepped back little by little and—
Rip.
“!”
“!”
The skirt that had been fluttering mercilessly in the high-altitude wind got caught on the clock tower’s pointed decoration.
“No….”
No, if it tears!
This outfit has facial recognition interference magic on it……!
I was too flustered to say anything!
Actually, that cute and sexy guy and I know each other?!
If the magic is released!
‘He’ll recognize me!’
But it was already too late.
“Got her…!”
“We got her!”
“Sir Arden caught the magical saintess!”
“Huh? Wait, right now….”
“Wasn’t the magical saintess’s hair color originally……?”
The guards who had arrived below the clock tower started whispering.
It’s coming back.
My hair color.
The eyes of the man staring at me right in front of my face grew wide.
“You….”
I’m going insane.
Dear God!
Am I really going to prison like this!
–Magical Saintess Seraphina–
1. By day an ordinary costume shop employee, by night a magical saintess!🐶
Three months ago. Imperial capital Loire. 36 Demarcy Street.
“Excuse me! When exactly will my hat be repaired?”
“…Are you talking about the hat you dropped off 10 minutes ago?”
“I bought flower decorations to attach to a dress, and they told me to pick them up here.”
“Yes, please show me the receipt.”
“They didn’t give me a receipt? I didn’t get one.”
“……Customer, the thing you’re holding right now is our costume shop receipt.”
Scrooge Costume Shop, which also serves as a shoe repair, hat shop, and tea house.
A five-story lavender-colored building packed with people from 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Women preparing new dresses ahead of weddings, low-ranking nobles waiting for carriages while having a cup of tea, merchants from the east, academy students, foreigners…….
All these various customers have one thing in common.
They seem completely unaware that the employee right in front of them is also a human being just like them.
“I have to catch the carriage to the train station in three minutes, so why am I buying clothes now! And then they get mad saying they’ll miss the carriage because of me and tell me to hurry up and wrap it while being all irritated…….”
“Did you see that couple earlier? They went into the fitting room together to change and wouldn’t come out for so long that we opened the door, and inside they were…….”
“What? Kissing?!”
“What? Rolling around?!”
“Crazy!”
People who seem oblivious to the fact that the costume shop employee who helps them put on shoes and zips them up also has eyes, ears, and a mouth that can speak.
But sometimes this inanimate-object treatment from customers is actually helpful.
“When exactly are you getting divorced!”
Right at moments like this.
On the third-floor tea house where customers who bought clothes on the first floor rest while waiting for alterations.
Among the seated customers, the word “divorce” that came from the obvious lovers I had caught naked and smooching in the fitting room earlier made the surroundings go silent.
I exchanged glances with my coworker who was wiping a teapot.
‘Adultery, huh.’
‘Looks like divorce.’
“Baby, I already explained everything last time. If I divorce now, my trading company and all my assets go to my wife, and I become a beggar. Do you want your oppa to become a beggar?”
“Hic. No, but…”
“Just quietly do your prenatal education and wait, and oppa will take care of everything. Would oppa ever lie to you and our love’s little fruit?”
‘Preeeeegnant?!’
They even have a baby?!
I was so shocked I almost dropped the plate I was holding.
Thanks to my good motor skills, I caught it.
But the newest employee next to me, Ellie, couldn’t.
Crash!
“Ah! I’m so sorry……!”
“…….”
Instead of the woman who just stared blankly at Ellie’s face without replying, the man put on a kind-looking smile.
“It’s okay, miss.”
“Thank you…….”
“I haven’t seen you before; you must be new here?”
“Ahaha… yes…”
“One week? Two weeks?”
“Uh…”
“Come on, how long has it been? Just whisper it to me. Three days? Four days? How old are you?”
Is this guy insane?
He’s hitting on an employee right next to his mistress.
Look at that. The woman’s expression is turning ugly.
Before the cheating woman could start tormenting innocent Ellie, I quickly cut in.
“Customers, I believe the alterations on the clothes you left are probably finished by now, shall we go downstairs? I’ll help you with the final touches.”
The woman who was about to snap at Ellie turned her gaze to me.
I smiled as harmlessly as possible.
“Or would you like some more tea?”
“Can’t you see the cup is full?”
“Ah, then.”
“Never mind, just clean this up.”
Tik. The woman threw the napkin she was holding at me.
I kept smiling.
‘Hahaha. I can’t quit, so hahaha.’
Even while the woman came down to the first floor and tried on the finished dress, she kept grumbling, clearly in a bad mood.
“Shall I help you change….”
“I don’t need it, okay?”
The woman who had snatched the dress started forcing it on from the feet right in the middle of the busy costume shop.
“Uh, putting it on from the legs like that is danger—”
“Kyaaak!”
See, I told you it’s dangerous.
I quickly grabbed the woman who was about to fall backward with both hands. I lifted her body up and pulled her out of the dress.
The woman whose feet were now dangling in the air screamed even louder than before.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
“…Ah.”
Oops.
My mistake.
I should have pretended I couldn’t lift anything over 30 kilograms.
I hurriedly put the woman down.
“You’re incredibly light, miss! Like a feather!”
I threw out a compliment I thought cheating women might like and tried to escape, but.
“Y-you just now…….”
It didn’t work at all.
‘What do I do.’
As I was rolling my eyes,
a low voice cut in.
“Why are you trying on a dress here? You’re kicking up dust.”
A low but crisp voice that sounded like it belonged to a handsome man.
And a man with a face that didn’t betray that voice appeared from behind.
“Do you own this costume shop by yourself?”
While throwing a temper tantrum.
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