Chapter 1: Prologue

　She was a girl who gave off a weird feeling.



　Whether you beat her, kicked her, or hurt her.

　For some strange reason, the girl always smiled.

　Holding her cheek, which should have been sore from the beating, she kept looking at you and smiling the whole time.



　Her smile reminded Tencia Dortona of her sister, who had been continuously given preferential treatment, and made her even angrier.



　When her sister and her sister's husband died, instead of simply watching over her niece, Tencia completely overtook the merchant shop.

　Since Tencia had a grudge against her older sister for being treated favorably, she in turn hated her sister's child, Sonia.

　She trapped her niece in a dimly lit basement, and every time she saw her, she got frustrated and resorted to using violence against that child.



　Tencia's husband Henkell would tell her to stop.

　However, since he had an affair before, those words fell on deaf ears.



　The elder sister's child really gave off a weird feeling.

　No matter whether you hit her, abused her, threw water on her, or even if you placed a hot iron on her skin, all she did was smile.

　Since it was unpleasant to receive such violence with only a laughing face, that violence escalated.



　She was not fed, she was not allowed to sleep, and of course, she was not allowed to go outside so she was not allowed to receive an education.

　As such events continued,  an official notice from the palace was received.

　A saint has appeared in our territory.



　And priests will come in search of the saint, it stated.



　Tencia and both her husband and daughter Sharla panicked.

　It said the priests would appraise girls in search of the saint, regardless of their position as slaves or free people.

　If they were to see his sister's abused daughter, whom she was supposed to protect in the first place, all their property as merchants might get confiscated.



　But, above all, those living in the Holy City of Kardiana must participate in the 『Ceremony of Adulthood』 at the age of seven years old.

　If they are not allowed to participate in it, there will be serious penalties.



　Even if you tried to cover it up, the girl was 15 years old.

　But because she wasn’t properly fed, no matter how one looked at her, the girl looked to be no more than 10 years old.

　If they were to find something suspicious and look into the past, Tencia and her family would have no future.



"What are we going to do!?! If a priest gets to know this, we won’t get away with a simple 'sorry'!!

　That's why I told you to stop it so many times!!! "



　At this point, Henkell blamed Tencia, but there was nothing they could do about it in the present.

　It was impossible to turn that girl who was nothing but skin and bones into a plump girl in just ten days.



　Ever since she was a child, she'd been locked down and abused, so she couldn’t even speak a word.



　And thus. The conclusion the couple came to was―― To throw the girl, Sonia, away into the forest where monsters roamed.



　And like this, the story began to move.





　That is.

　The abused girl became a saint――Unaware of her own overabundant misery.

　And although the abusing side was mistaken for the saint, she was not and continued to dig her own grave until she self-destructed.

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