I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 406

Chapter 200 Blood Rose Flower Before the Feast (Part 1)
“Farewell?”
Iggy was startled and quickly looked up at the girl in front of him. The blonde nun’s face still had a gentle smile, as if she was not surprised by the young man’s reaction.
Chrisis’s sapphire eyes, beneath her long eyelashes, gazed at Iggy’s cheeks, and she chuckled, “This isn’t what you, young master, would have written… it’s just a normal farewell. After all, by Miss Verafia’s side, you, young master, won’t be staying in Lorincle for long.”
Iggy’s palm nervously brushed his hair.
At first, Iggy’s reaction was indeed like in many bard’s stories, where a sister who grew up with the protagonist suddenly tells him at dusk that she’s getting married… However, upon further thought, if that were truly the case, he should be happy for Chrisis.
“But, why is Sister Chrisis suddenly saying this? Veer doesn’t mind playing in Lorincle for a while longer, and even if I have to leave, I should be the one to say goodbye to Sister Chrisis. And why did Sister Chrisis suddenly come to find me…?”
As his thoughts flashed through his mind, a vague sense of unease resurfaced. No matter how he looked at it, Chrisis gave Iggy an unusually strange feeling.
The white-robed nun looked at him quietly. The twilight of dusk, passing through the gaps of her long eyelashes, touched her pure white cheeks. Chrisis gently shook her head:
“After all, you, young master, will be the Marquis’s heir… It won’t be easy to see you again. I heard that the banquet the Marquis is preparing for you today is so exclusive that even some nobles with status cannot approach. I think it’s better to say goodbye to you now, while it’s still early.”
“Sister Chrisis, what are you saying? Do you really see me as that kind of person in your eyes?”
Iggy was a little annoyed, but as he looked up, he saw the nun’s still smiling, yet dim, sapphire eyes… Iggy suddenly felt that beneath Chrisis’s forced smile, her heart was somewhat disturbed, and even the reasons she gave seemed logically contradictory.
After much thought, Iggy still felt that Chrisis was sad because of Verafia but was trying hard not to show it… Thinking of this, he felt a little more uncertain.
“No matter what, I’ve always considered you a sister, and that won’t change at all.”
Iggy said seriously, looking at the nun, “As for the so-called banquet tonight, it’s not really that important… By the way, why don’t you come with me, Sister Chrisis? I’m sure Father would also like to see you.”
“Sister… I truly hope you can always think of me this way.”
Chrisis murmured something unclear.
The young girl suddenly smiled again and shook her head gently, “No, tonight, I still have many prayer services to perform. Young Master Iggy, please convey my regards to Lord Marquis for me.”
“This…”
Iggy hesitated slightly, then nodded.
In fact, although Marquis Mays hadn’t explicitly stated it, Iggy could vaguely sense that something big might happen tonight, and it would be better for Chrisis not to be involved.
The white-robed nun smiled slightly, said nothing more, and gently waved goodbye to him.
Iggy stood in place, his gaze following Chrisis as she gradually moved away. The evening dusk was stirred by the sound of the wind, as if overlapping with the nun’s retreating figure.
“Iggy! What are you thinking about!”
A melodious girlish voice, like a musical instrument, jolted Iggy from his thoughts. The young man turned his head, and Verafia had already approached his side, her small hand linked with his arm. She raised her snow-white jade face and asked with a little curiosity.
“Ah, nothing, just some things about Sister Chrisis…”
“Chrisis? What did she just say to you… Pfft, what made you so confused?”
Looking at the girl’s slightly blinking beautiful eyes, Iggy held her soft and smooth, slender, tender hand: “I don’t know… But, Sister Chrisis was saying goodbye to me.”
“Goodbye?”
Verafia slightly raised her head. At this moment, the nun was almost invisible, and the dim residual rays of the setting sun seemed to have merged with the white nun’s habit.
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The entire street of Lorincle was reflected in the dusk of the setting sun. Even as night approached, there were still merchants and residents having dinner on the street… and quite a lot of poor workers, as usual, receiving bread and holy communion at the church’s relief station.
The white-robed nun’s face was adorned with a smile, and she nodded in response to the believers who greeted her.
Although not a native of Lorincle… this city was the place Chrisis was most familiar with. Whether it was in the past when she was a maid by Iggy’s side, or now as a nun in the church, Chrisis’s footsteps had covered every corner of this city.
She suddenly let out a self-deprecating laugh.
Chrisis slightly quickened her pace beneath her nun’s habit, quickly reaching the church district. After nodding slightly to the on-duty temple guards and fellow clergy, she then went to her own residence.
—It was just a wooden house, but the view was wide enough, as if she could overlook more than half of the city.
The white-robed nun’s footsteps paused slightly.
In front of her house, stood a young girl with light purple long hair dressed in a maid’s uniform.
The maid girl seemed to be stomping her feet a little restlessly, and appeared to have been waiting for a long time… Beside the maid, a youth with long red hair, whose noble young master appearance could be imagined just from his back, had a gentle and serene demeanor.
As if sensing her gaze, the youth, whose robe was decorated with gorgeous fiery red fabric, turned around. His silky hair was slightly blown by the wind, revealing a handsome face like a jade crown, with a pair of fiery gem-like golden-red pupils shining brightly.
“Miss Chrisis, it’s been a long time.”
The red-haired youth’s magnetic voice contained a hint of a smile, as if greeting an old friend whom he hadn’t seen in a long time.
Unlike Douglas’s usual smile, Chrisis’s expression immediately turned cold, and her voice seemed as if frozen by ten thousand years of ice: “Douglas, what are you doing here?”
“Hey, you ungrateful woman!”
The purple-haired maid beside the youth, seeing that Chrisis was not giving her master a pleasant look, became indignantly furious and immediately yelled:
“It is an honor of many lifetimes that Lord Douglas has come to see a little nun like you. But instead of being grateful and making Master wait so long, you dare to put on such an expression…”
Chrisis merely glanced at her.
The cold, indifferent gaze made the light purple-haired maid’s voice stop short in fear.
However, after a slight pause, she felt it was a blow to her pride to be intimidated by a nun, so she pouted her cheeks, wanting to get angry.
The red-haired youth’s arm blocked her. Douglas smiled gently, “This is precisely because we have something to ask of Miss Chrisis. Dale, don’t be rude here.”
“Douglas, I’ll ask you one more time: what are you doing here?”
The red-haired youth was unfazed by Chrisis’s icy, pressing tone. His handsome, jade-like face showed a dashing and romantic air: “Naturally, I came for you.”