Her white hair had been smeared black with mud.
Her clothes were tattered as well, as if someone had ripped them apart.
At that moment, the outsider was tied up, with her mouth gagged and unable to speak.
"Mmmpf! Mmmpf!"
The outsider became extremely agitated when she saw her.
"..."
The shrine maiden looked at her.
"Theresa?"
Then the tiny child beside her spoke up.
Zerg looked at the captured little nun.
Why was Theresa here too?
She was not a fabricated false life, but Theresa herself.
"You know her, Zerg?"
the shrine maiden asked softly.
The tiny child nodded.
"Take her to my shrine."
The shrine maiden reacted quickly.
"Understood, Lady Shrine Maiden."
The villagers guarding the outsider exchanged glances.
"Mmmpf! Mmmpf!"
Theresa was highly agitated.
After disguising herself as a beggar, she had failed to trigger the villagers' hospitable instincts, yet she had still been captured.
Then—
She was directly escorted before Yae Sakura.
It could only be called an unexpected delight.
Next, all she needed to do was deliver Kallen Kaslana's cross!
"Hah..."
The rag stuffed in her mouth was removed, and Theresa rubbed her sore cheeks.
At that moment, only she, Yae Sakura, and Zerg remained in the room.
"Yae Sakura, this is what Kallen Kaslana entrusted me to give you!"
The little nun eagerly pulled out her cross necklace.
However—
What she saw was the shrine maiden's puzzled expression.
"Theresa, what are you talking about?"
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Theresa eagerly showed Yae Sakura the cross necklace that Schicksal's Saint had entrusted to her, only to meet the shrine maiden's bewildered gaze—
"Theresa, what are you talking about?"
Yae Sakura looked at the empty palm. Theresa seemed to have said something just now.
She simply had not heard it clearly.
"Huh?"