SWNOVELXO chapter 242
Chapter 242. Silver Fiends Attack
Clotilde was in a flat-out panic.
More panicked than she’d ever been before.
She never thought she’d hear about her betrayal of the Church from the mouth of someone so unexpected.
But thankfully, she’d caught a loophole in Hilda’s words, and immediately explained:
“Wait a minute, what are you talking about, Sister Hilda? I didn’t come here to be a wh*re! How could I possibly do something that would bring shame to the Church!”
Clotilde wasn’t lying; she hadn’t used her body for money, nor was she hiding here enjoying herself.
She had simply been caught on a bad side by the hateful priest, and was forced to cooperate with him.
“Really? Sister Clotilde, can you swear to the great goddess that you are still pure?”
If anyone else had heard Clotilde’s explanation, they would have believed her; after all, Clotilde had a good reputation.
However, Hilda showed no sign of relenting in her accusatory attitude, even narrowing her eyes, fixing an even more stern gaze on Clotilde’s eyes.
“Ugh…”
Already feeling guilty, Clotilde immediately lost her momentum, instinctively placing her clenched fist on her chest, her expression awkward.
“You can’t swear to the goddess? Then come with me. I will personally check if your chastity is still intact!”
Hilda quickly approached the guilt-ridden Clotilde, overwhelming Clotilde’s reason with her forceful attitude, making the confused and guilty Clotilde nod her head without even thinking about it.
“Good! Then let’s not waste any time, let’s just borrow a room!”
Hilda’s voice was filled with an uncompromising authority, causing Clotilde to be stunned for a moment before she reacted.
Wait a minute, aren’t all the places nearby brothels?
D-does Sister Hilda intend to borrow a brothel room to examine her?
N-no, wait, forget the place for now, if she’s checked, she’ll never pass!
Her virginity was lost to Mr. Noah when her first l*st mark activated!
“Sister Hilda, th-that, actually, it’s fine, I accidentally lost to a l*st d*emon, and got cursed with a l*st mark, and that’s why I committed this mistake.”
Feeling like she couldn’t hide anymore, Clotilde simply bowed her head in shame, confessing the truth to Hilda.
Ah… it’s over. Now Sister Hilda is definitely going to scold her, and then take her back to face judgement.
She wondered if she could at least request to destroy that l*st d*emon before the trial…
Having accepted the reality of her exposure, Clotilde decided to just face it.
However, what happened next made Clotilde sense something was amiss.
“What? So that means, Sister Clotilde, you have a l*st mark on your abdomen, right! How unclean! Come with me right now, I need to find an empty room to perform a purification ritual on you!”
Hilda, who was standing not far in front of her, did not sigh or make a prayerful gesture of repentance to the goddess. Instead, she demanded, with an even more forceful attitude, that she go into a brothel room to perform an uncursing ritual.
Something’s off. This is very wrong.
The l*st/Mark Curse is a curse that was discovered a long time ago, and Hilda, as a senior sister, wouldn’t not know about it.
“Why are you standing there frozen? Sister Clothilde, I came all the way from the Holy Capital for your sake!”
But Hilda looked very anxious, her brows tightly furrowed, as if she absolutely had to perform purification magic on Clothilde right now.
If it were the old her, she’d probably just think she was being paranoid. How could Hilda possibly harm her?
But she’d already been burned once and mocked mercilessly by Noah.
“…Forgive me, Sister Hilda, but I must be rude!”
So Clothilde immediately summoned her holy lance and fired a probing shot at Hilda at extremely close range.
Holy light-attribute bullets have no negative effects on clergy, and may even restore health depending on their level of faith.
“Eee-yah❤!”
But Hilda, hit in the abdomen, let out a very seductive moan.
And as she clutched her stomach and bent over, a few drops of liquid, probably sweat, dripped from under her nun’s dress.
But it didn’t stop there. At the same time as Hilda let out a moan like a cat in heat, a pair of black wings with holes and a heart-shaped tail suddenly sprouted from her back, and horns that no human should have grew on her head.
“…So, it really was a succubus in disguise.”
Her appearance needed no further proof. There was no doubt, it was a succubus.
So Clothilde’s expression quickly became serious and she tightened her grip on her holy lance, once again aiming it at the succubus with the face of someone she knew.
“Heh, hehe❤, that’s not it~ Clothilde, I may be a succubus, but I really am Sister Hilda, too, you know?”
Perhaps her scheme had been exposed. The succubus in a nun’s clothing didn’t bother to keep up the pretense. Instead, she let out a seductive laugh as she straightened up and looked at Clothilde again.
But this time, her eyes held no harshness, only a mocking look as if she were looking at someone pitiful and foolish.
Most importantly, on the more conservative nun’s habit at Hilda’s abdomen, a l*st/Mark similar to Clothilde’s but slightly simpler was appearing.
“How can it be! H-how can it be Sister Hilda, have you also been afflicted by a Succubus Curse and have already fallen?!”
Although she couldn’t believe it, she had to. Clothilde looked at the familiar yet foreign l*st/Mark and her face instantly paled.
She couldn’t believe that even her respected Sister Hilda had fallen before her!
“Huhu~ what do you mean fallen? I’ve simply understood the meaning of true pleasure. Rather than pledging loyalty to that false god, I’d rather give everything to that Lord~”
Completely changed in expression and demeanor from before, Hilda stretched out both her hands towards Clothilde with a seductive smile, as if embracing her in her arms.
“Come on, Clothilde! Come to me! I know you’ve always been lonely, right! But it’s okay, because I’m here with you! Let us enjoy pleasure together~”
“?!”
The words were extremely tempting.
Clothilde had always feared falling into a succubus’s clutches, but if she had a companion, especially a familiar one,
Perhaps falling together like this wouldn’t be so bad?
It was impossible to say she hadn’t wavered, the young nun did indeed hesitate for a moment.
But it was just a moment, she quickly regained her composed expression, the holy lance she’d almost lowered was once again aimed at her former benefactor.
“I refuse! At the end of the day, I don’t even know who this ‘Lord’ you speak of is! How can I agree to that without knowing who they are!”
The young nun, with a solemn expression, raised an unexpectedly ordinary question.
This made Hilda freeze for a second.
Although she wanted to call Clotilde ungrateful.
On closer thought, what Clotilde said was quite right.
It was indeed impossible to pledge allegiance to someone without even knowing their name.
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PS. Third update today, more to come tomorrow.