Chapter 425 - 418. The Future Saintess
"Oh, I know that! I watched that once in a movie when I was still in the orphanage," Elena clapped her hands. "I’ve never seen one directly, though."
Zein chuckled and raised his upper body too, careful to cradle the sleeping white rabbit in his arm first. "Wouldn’t it be bad if you saw one directly?"
"Oh, you’re right!"
Elena laughed and took Cloudy from Zein’s arm, cradling the white rabbit gently and rocking it like a baby. Zein took a candy from his pocket, and suddenly remembered the little girl he saw on the bus the first time he visited Althrea. That was his first time seeing a child laughing that cheerfully, and looking at Elena now, he was filled with hope that the orphanage that he built would help those children laugh like this too.
"Elena..."
"Mm?"
"Are you going to be the Saintess?"
Elena tilted her head in confusion at first, because...of course she would? But then she recalled Zein’s conversation with the Saintess, that she could refuse to be one if she didn’t want to, just like Zein. Just like Zein’s ancestor.
"Hmm...yes, I don’t see why not," she replied after mulling about it for a while. Her tone was light, but Zein could see it wasn’t an answer that came without any thought behind it. "You see...I’ve been watching Grandma work all this time. Do you know she checks on orphanage reports regularly?"
"Is that so?"
"Mm!" Elena nodded and continued with solemn excitement. "You see, if I become the Saintess, I’ll have the authority to watch over the orphanage too! I can easily trace where the kids who used to be with me back then go. I will be able to see where the younger kids go too--and, and...if they awakened, I can bring them under my wings!"