“P-Prince Harold! Please, could you retrieve the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ for my family… for me!”
Iris jumped from her seat and performed a flawless dogeza.
Having seen that posture countless times since regaining my memories, I now felt it had become an art form.
“Please, stop that. More importantly… what do you mean by ‘retrieve’?”
“W-Well… I’ll tell you everything without holding back.”
Iris, looking resigned, began to speak haltingly.
She explained that she had been bedridden since childhood due to her congenital frailty, and had always longed for a healthy body.
Earl Harding, her father, had taken pity on her and suddenly brought home the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ one day.
Thanks to it, although she couldn’t run around, she had recovered to a level where she could live a normal life.
“…Without that ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius,’ my body wouldn’t last three days. I would have to return to that bedridden life.”
Iris’s eyes filled with tears as she clenched her fists tightly.
Yeah, I figured… her own life was on the line, and I could understand her reluctance to give up the health she had finally obtained.
In fact, in ‘Save the Slums!’ the protagonist defeats Archbishop Sancroft, the event boss, and retrieves the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ from the Baltian Church to give to Iris.
However, this is on the condition that she regularly provides treatment to the children in the slums.
“Please, I beg you! Please retrieve the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’! And please, return it to me! I’ll do anything I can… anything…”
Tears streamed down her face as Iris pleaded with a sorrowful expression.
I placed my hand on her trembling shoulder.
“I understand. However, that’s only if you properly accept my condition.”
As I said that, I raised the corner of my mouth in a grin, like a stepping stone in ‘EnHaza.’
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“So, what do you intend to do, Lord Hal?”
On the way back from the Harding estate, Sandra peered into my face and asked.
“Of course, I’ll get that ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ from Baron Orlando and return it to her. On the premise that she keeps my condition, of course.”
“…And what is that condition?”
Sandra’s Sapphire Eyes turned a bloodstained red.
If I answered wrong, I felt like Iris and I would be in serious trouble at that moment.
Though that would never happen.
“Of course, she’ll use the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ to provide regular treatment in the slums. However, as a Priest of the Baltian Church.”
That’s right… what I came up with was a way to slightly revise the ‘Save the Slums!’ Scenario so that no one would lose out.
Originally, the Baltian Church stole the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ in the game to protect the church’s prestige.
So, if Iris became a Priest of the church, all of her treatments would be attributed to the Baltian Church.
Regular treatment in the slums would also help raise the church’s reputation.
Well, Archbishop Sancroft didn’t seem too happy about the church not being able to obtain it, but he eventually relented, so he probably won’t become an event boss like in ‘EnHaza.’
Owen seems to think that just getting the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ and giving it to the slum residents will solve everything, but if he does that, it will be taken by the church, and in the end, no one will be saved.
…No, in the first place, the slum residents might easily betray him and sell the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ to some unknown person.
“So, after I get the ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’ from Baron Orlando, this whole matter will be resolved.”
“As expected of Lord Hal! You truly have remarkable insight!”
Sandra gripped my hand and praised me wholeheartedly, looking delighted. How cute.
However, her eyes are still red, and it’s not just my imagination that she seems somewhat excited, right? It feels like she might attack me at any moment.
“But Prince Harold, how will you get that ‘Sacred Water Jar Aquarius’? I doubt Baron Orlando will give it up so easily…”
“Of course, I understand that. That’s why I’ll get it through legitimate means.”
“Legitimate means?”
“That’s right. Since it’s a Casino, I’ll earn enough to exchange it for the prize.”
I gave them both a meaningful smile.
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