I Level Up With In-app Purchases

I Level Up With In-app Purchases – 79

EP.79 An Escape of Love(?) with the Duke’s Daughter (6)

Fran puffed out her cheeks, seemingly dissatisfied with my words telling her to never say such things again.

“You said you’d make me your wife. I heard that kind of thing is very important to men.”

“…Why are you trying to resolve that? Wasn’t our relationship supposed to be put off for 10 years?”

If someone were to overhear our relationship, they’d curse me out.

I had received permission (?) to meet and date as many women as I wanted, even make a wife, while she slogged away in the military for 10 years.

And if Fran safely completed her 10 years of military service and returned, I would take her as a second wife.

‘If she dies during military service? Then the marriage promise becomes null and void.’

In short, I would receive the reward without any risk, while Fran had to spend her youth looking only at me throughout her military life.

Even I thought this contract was at a level that would make even the worst scum shake their heads.

But the one disgusted by this contract was me, and the one pushing for it was Fran, who would be the victim.

“There’s no problem with doing now what we were going to do 10 years later, right?”

There are many problems.

So many that I don’t know where to start pointing them out.

“Stop talking nonsense and focus on your remaining semester. And tell me how your practical experience went.”

I don’t understand why she’s unnecessarily concerned about my lower body.

There are so many more important things than that!

“Then do I have to remain a virgin for 10 years?”

Cough!

If it weren’t for me, you’d have been a virgin for life!

What could I possibly say when she suddenly asks me if I’m going to make her live as a virgin for 10 years?

“…Come back when you’re an adult. I won’t listen to anything you say right now.”

As you know, she’s incredibly stubborn.

It seems she’s fixated on my lower body situation because of that woman who looked like a courtesan, but getting involved at times like this would only be a loss for me.

“And because you were called away so suddenly, I didn’t even get to ask properly what happened with your church’s leader.”

There’s so much I need to talk about with her!

I didn’t want to waste time on such useless things.

“If you’re going to keep fixating on something I don’t even want to talk about, then go home. I don’t want to discuss that with you.”

“Ah, I won’t. I barely managed to make time to see you… I can’t go back like this. I have a lot I want to tell you too.”

I’m not a saint.

If I keep listening to Fran’s whining, my reason might snap.

‘Such a woman suddenly visiting… how annoying.’

Was her situation so desperate that she had to come to a shop like this to do business?

With that face, I thought any nobleman would go crazy for her.

Or maybe my shop just happened to catch her eye by bad luck.

I couldn’t know the full circumstances, but having seen how much Fran disliked that woman, I had no intention of seeing her again.

Fran is a member of the main party.

‘It would be a big loss to upset someone who can give me resurrection stones over a woman.’

I don’t get many customers in my general store, but a merchant is still a merchant.

As a merchant, shouldn’t one avoid taking losses?

“And I’m telling you this so you don’t misunderstand, but that woman came here for business. She came a few minutes before you, and I just told her to drop by the store.”

“!!!”

Fran asked, startled by my words.

“So you just met her for the first time?”

“Yes.”

“I thought you two were close because she called you ‘oppa’.”

“It’s natural for women like that to act friendly with men.”

That woman called me ‘oppa’ as soon as she entered the store.

My excuse seemed to work better than expected, as Fran finally came up to the second floor obediently.

Once she put food in her mouth, it seemed her thoughts finally drifted away from ‘that topic’ she had been excessively fixated on.

Fran tells me in detail about what happened on the battlefield.

The experiences she had over what could be considered a short or long time were more than expected.

“The sacred item you gave me was really helpful. Without it, I can’t imagine how many people would have died.”

“From what I can see, I bet the military made you quite a few offers, didn’t they?”

“You know exactly! That’s right!”

“The fact that you came here means you rejected those offers.”

Well done.

After all, Fran was like an awl in a pocket.

If she were to work in the military, they would have to provide all sorts of conveniences for her.

That’s ultimately what those bastards were trying to do.

“They’re trying to take you when you’re at your cheapest while pretending to pay a high price.”

“Uh… I didn’t reject it with that in mind.”

Unlike when she had turned to the dark side, the current Fran who hadn’t yet turned could be naively taken advantage of without even realizing it, even if someone were to exploit her thoroughly.

Of course, even when she had turned to the dark side, there were times when she was used by the military, so she probably couldn’t let her guard down.

‘I guess I’ll have to take extra care of her now. She still has a lot of sucker tendencies left.’

I have to take responsibility since I’ve heavily modified the scenario to prevent her from turning to the dark side.

“What happened with the church leader? Your church has been quiet lately.”

“Since I had to leave urgently, I’m getting help from others.”

“There are people helping you?”

“Of course! They’re people you know too. You told me about them, remember? That there are many good people in the church.”

“You’re still using those people?”

What Fran needed to stand up against the church leader was someone who would support her cause.

That’s why I gave her advice.

I told her there would be people in the church who desperately wanted her healing abilities.

I advised her to heal those people and get help from them, and Fran used that to successfully overturn the church.

“Yes. They’re providing a lot of help to keep the church running properly.”

She made it so the church sisters no longer had to engage in unwanted prostitution for evangelism, and she released the assets the church leader had embezzled for the benefit of the church members.

Apparently, just by returning the embezzled assets to the church, Fran’s church was able to live much more comfortably than before.

“So what happened to the church leader?”

The remaining question is what Fran did with the church leader.

The church leader’s situation would differ depending on how much Fran had turned to the dark side, but since the current Fran had hardly turned at all, there was a high chance the leader was still alive.

“The church leader is… undergoing reformation. I should have been conducting the reformation myself, but unfortunately, I had to leave, so someone else is taking on that difficult task.”

“Hmm…”

Of course, the church leader isn’t the type of person who can be reformed just by saying so.

The one fortunate thing about this game with many depressing scenarios is that there’s no story where a punished church leader comes back to life and causes trouble again.

From now on, the church leader will suffer under the name of ‘reformation’ until their last breath.

‘And that’s not even the end of it. It gets even more terrible after they attempt suicide.’

In the church, suicide is considered an act of betraying God.

It was a rule created to prevent church members from committing suicide, but the leader probably never imagined it would come back to haunt them.

Clinging to life like a cockroach under Fran’s influence, enduring all sorts of ‘reformation methods’ until finally losing their mind.

That will be the rest of the church leader’s life.

“Is the reformation working at all?”

“Sadly, there’s not much progress, they say. Once, they pretended to be reformed, so we let our guard down a bit, but then they tried to escape.”

“So you’ve been in constant contact with the church?”

“Hehe, surprisingly, many soldiers showed interest in our church. Thanks to that, we’ve gained a lot of new members.”

As expected, it’s going according to the scenario.

For Fran to properly evangelize, the frontlines where she can fully showcase her abilities is indeed the right place.

“To evangelize more people and spread awareness about the church in the future, it would be good for you to be active on the frontlines.”

Fran’s eyes sparkled at my words.

“I was thinking the same thing! As expected, you think so too, mister!”

“But you’ll have to take on that much risk as well.”

“I can do anything. Even without actively evangelizing, I think it’s more than worthwhile just to use my abilities to help soldiers recover safely.”

It seemed that Fran was planning to go to the most intense frontlines if she enlisted.

As expected of a saint, her way of thinking is uniquely naive.

In fact, Fran acting like this naive person was beneficial to me.

Since Fran was an indispensable healer for the main party, this cooperative attitude reassured me.

‘If the other party members cooperate as actively as Fran, I might be able to create the perfect SSR party as I planned.’

There’s a lot these people need to do in the future.

How many trials will there be until they save humanity?

I won’t stop supporting them in every way possible.

‘Because that’s the only way I can survive.’

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‘Why isn’t he coming?’

The woman renowned as a high-class courtesan recalled the owner of the old general store she had visited today.

‘He seemed quite interested at the time.’

If some woman hadn’t suddenly come in and interfered, that man would have come to her that night.

‘But he reacted so indifferently when he saw me.’

She had deliberately provoked them to see what kind of relationship they had.

But surprisingly, that woman didn’t get angry at all at her provocation.

She even seemed ready to leave, asking if she was interrupting.

‘It felt like she genuinely didn’t care at all. Strange, did I misjudge the situation?’

Thinking this woman was not an issue, she had left without causing any trouble, without any lingering attachment.

After all, she was sure the man who had been aroused by her body would surely come to the store.

But that expectation had been completely twisted.

No matter how long she waited, there was no news from the man.

Even when she asked if anyone had brought her business card while she was away, she only got negative answers.

‘The commission fee is quite large, so I must succeed…’

For her, who had been commissioned by someone to seduce the general store owner, the current situation was nothing short of an emergency.

It’s a blow to her pride, but she might have to visit the general store again.

She could barely contain her anger at the fact that she had to make two attempts to seduce a mere old general store owner.

She couldn’t understand what was lacking that had prevented her from seducing him.