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Chapter 17 - Chapter 16: Hidden

"You knew I was a saint." How did this guy know I was the saint? As if he could read my mind, he said, "It's your holy powers." He pushed his finger against my forehead. I tried to evade them because they're annoying. He continued, "The saint can gather the people that have talents in holy power without them noticing or even having a clue, but some heroes can detect people with holy powers that are powerful enough; yours is barely detectable, but once they fluctuate, it's extremely hard not to be noticed." I looked at him and said, "Why am I a saint if my holy—wait?"

I suddenly thought of something. The church has rare information about the previous saints; the majority of them were lost in the demonic war, but I once encountered at the royal library a children's book that told of a poor woman who was weak and sick because of her pure soul. A guardian visited her and blessed her, but this made it more problematic. People around the kingdom came flooding to her house and asked for a miracle, but The woman wanted a simple life. The guardian agreed, and then they made her blessing undetectable. But mysterious black smoke broke the balance of the soul, making the woman forget she had met a guardian. The guardian was sad at first, but soon accepted it. She then proceeded to live the life she wanted.

"The fairytale" i spoke the room is dark i can hear him breathing evenly slowly i look at him i saw him asleep, I'm doomed how am I going to get to sleep without knowing the ending of the story he just started to tell, then i look at him again he looks so calm right now looking at him he just looks like a normal man if he is asleep but soon that he wakes up it feels like the winter had come i stared at him in annoyance but i don't have the heart to wake him up so i just reached for the blanket above us, seeing it fallen from his shoulder, i positioned it properly, hug him properly, and said "good night" as i close my eyes.

I woke up, and he was not sleeping next to me anymore. I tried to feel the bed, but I forgot that I couldn't feel the temperature. When has he left? I stared at one spot near the side of the door, and Rhea appeared instantly. "Good morning, my lady," she said, then smiled. When I returned from the kidnapping, he cried, hugged me tightly, and said I should not do it again. She panicked when she found out I was gone. I promised her that I wouldn't do it again. We hugged together, and the next day I saw her with puffy red eyes. I laughed at her. We grew closer together, and occasionally during my time being grounded Noelle visited me, bringing me some cards, and I wanted to ask her about them in the 3rd and 4th messages, but I felt like I was troubling her too much. I told her not to bother because she is extremely busy being a knight commander. I don't know why she keeps visiting me; she could just send them to me using the magic mail box. I sighed I remembered before that happened that she was part of the ducal family, which is why we spend a lot of time together.

She said it wasn't a bother, but whenever she visited, I continued to tell her to just send it to me instead. She knows my hobbies and entertainment, and when I spend time alone, she gives me gifts that can help with them. I love how they already made a Rubik's cube here, though it's called a puzzle cube instead. There's a prize when someone solves it, and since I'm bored, I kept solving them. I rearranged them and soon found some sequences, so I made a notebook about how to solve a puzzle cube. just a simple past time.

I'm so bored. I wanted to go out, so I told Rhea to prepare me some snacks and wait for me outside the library. We parted ways, and then I walked down the hallway and went back to the library. I haven't navigated this manor before, and I want to know more about the place. The maids just entered here 50 years ago, so there is not much information about the manor itself; they just knew that it was built way before 200 years ago. 'My curiosity is giving me wild imaginations.' This kind of mansion can belong to a powerful family, but why haven't I heard of them before? I thought the best place to hide secrets would be the library.

I entered the library; it's always going to be glorious. I walked by the tables and looked at the sides; there's one wall that is not even. I touched the bookshelves on the wall, gliding my hands on the shelves. It really feels different if you can't feel any temperature. The shelves are facing a window; behind them is a wall. Kneel down and knock on the floor corner, and if you can hear one side being hollow, I smiled and said, 'Bingo'. I leaned on that side of the wall. I could feel some air pressure. It was mild, but there the window is close, so you would mistake it for coming from there. There are five layers. I removed the books on the third level because that is the closest level accessible by human height. I knocked on the wall from left to right and found it in the middle, near the hollow corner. I looked and saw there was a hole at the very top that was hard to find. I looked around for anything tiny that could fit in the hole. I remembered my earrings. I took them off and looked at them.

Christian always wears earrings. In all 21 lives that I experienced, he wore a black earring, but I never questioned them. When I placed the end backing of the earring inside the hole, it slid in, part of the wood and just pulled out. I saw a cylindrical dial—my kind of toy. I played with it, hearing it click one by one, and solved it. It took me 30 minutes, and I remembered about the tea I asked to be prepared. I took the wood and placed it back on, but I didn't lock the hidden door. I placed the thinnest book under the hidden door so it would not open, then placed all the books back where they belonged, then left. ' I will come back tomorrow.