LIGHTNOVELWORLD 001 - The Saintess is Banished
It has been three years since I, Mika Nagano, was summoned as the “Saintess” to this country, the **Vale Kingdom**.
“Imposter Saintess Mika Nagano! I hereby banish you from this country! Leave at once!”
The location was within **Regal Castle**, the royal capital of the **Vale Kingdom**.
The prince of this country, **Orokani von Geita Nigalia**, had just declared my banishment.
“You’re banishing me…? What do you mean, Prince Orokani? I would like to know the reason.”
“It’s simple, Mika Nagano. You’ve been bullying my fiancée, the true Saintess, Saintess Kogomi, haven’t you?”
Next to Orokani stood a young woman in her twenties with short, fluffy hair. Her chest was absurdly large, and her face… well, it was somewhat decent.
She was Kogomi Kisogawa.
She was the woman summoned along with me during the Saintess Summoning Ritual three years ago.
“I’ve never bullied Kogomi at all…”
I mean, since the summoning, I hardly had any interaction with her.
“Mika’s lying! She’s jealous because I’m young, beautiful, and overflowing with the talents of a Saintess! That’s why she bullies me every day!”
Sure, I was 29 (26 at the time of summoning), and Kogomi was 20. But I never felt envious of her youth or talent.
“Mika Nagano, the fake Saintess. Is it not true that you have been bullying Kogomi?”
“No, it’s not true… Kogomi is just saying that…”
“Hmph! Don’t lie. You’re clearly jealous of Kogomi, aren’t you? After all, she possesses the ‘Saintess’ skill. And what about you? What skill do you have? Ah yes, what was it…?”
“The ‘Internet’ skill?”
“Yes, that! You possess some useless skill called ‘Internet!'”
The Saintess Summoning Ritual is a literal ceremony to summon Saintesses from another world.
At the time of the summoning, each Saintess is given a unique skill. These are the kinds of special abilities you often see in web novels.
Right after being summoned, we were both assessed using magical tools that can identify skills. Kogomi had the ‘Saintess’ skill.
As for me, I was found to possess a skill called ‘Internet.’
Due to Kogomi’s possession of the Saintess skill, her youth, and beauty, this country—more precisely, the crown prince Orokani—recognized Kogomi as the true Saintess.
On the other hand, without a Saintess skill, I was labeled as the ‘Imposter Saintess’ by the people of this country, and they saw me as nothing more than Kogomi’s sidekick.
… But still.
“If I may speak, Prince Orokani, banishing me would cause quite a bit of trouble.”
“Trouble?”
“Yes. You see, it was I who maintained the barriers that protect the towns and villages of this country.”
Since her summoning, Kogomi had never once fulfilled her duties as a Saintess. She’d thrown all those responsibilities onto me, calling me an annoying old woman.
“Hmph! Don’t lie. How could you, without the Saintess skill, have set up those barriers?”
Without the Saintess skill (which grants the power to heal and set barriers), it was true that I couldn’t normally create barriers.
“Indeed, my ‘Internet’ skill does not have the power to create barriers.”
“See? I told you!”
“However, it is a fact that I’ve been the one maintaining those barriers.”
With the Saintess skill, you can effortlessly set up barriers with just a thought. I did not possess that power.
But I found another way to construct the barriers…
“Who would believe such nonsense?”
“Right? Oh, dear old lady, are you saying you researched how to set barriers using the ‘Internet’? Hahaha!”
Kogomi’s true nature was starting to show…
“Yes, that’s exactly what I did.”
“Ha! That’s ridiculous! Just because the Internet contains a lot of information doesn’t mean it has instructions on setting up barriers!”
Well, it actually does.
“Anyway! It’s a fact that for the last three years since Kogomi was summoned, I’ve been handling all the Saintess’ duties, and you’re accusing me of lying about that!”
No, it’s not a lie. I’ve been doing all the work here, while Kogomi did nothing since she arrived.
And now you’re labeling that as bullying?
You call doing all the work and taking credit for it bullying?
But it’s always been my job from the start…
“By the order of **Orokani von Geita Nigalia**! For the crime of bullying the true Saintess Kogomi, the imposter Saintess Mika Nagano shall be banished from this country!”