57 Chapter 57 - Letting It Slip (2/2)
Estella kept her voice down.”It's about Gren.””Gren?Is he alright?””Yes.Please wait for me to finish before asking me any other questions.Gren seems to have a dead body in his room and he's very defensive about it.He says that it's his mother and that she's alive but I couldn't see her breathing.”
Jessica nodded, seemingly relieved by Estella's words.”You had me worried for a moment.If it's really his mother then she can't be dead.Since you're his wife I think you have a right to know.Come here, I have a painting of his mother.”
Estella was confused so she listened to Jessica and walked over to her desk.Jessica pulled out a framed painting from one of the drawers and handed it to Estella.”This painting belonged to my grandma.It was her most prized possession so be careful with it.”Estella looked at the painting and could see a heavily pregnant woman wearing a priestess's outfit.”Recognize those eyes?They look just like Gren's eyes, don't they?”
Estella looked closer at the painting and could see the familiar beautiful green irises.”Why would your grandma have a painting of Gren's mother?Was she a famous priestess or something?”Estella came from a place without the Church or any major religious faction.Her people instead worshipped the mythical high goblin; an evolved hobgoblin with red skin that was said to have the strength to rule over all of the goblin tribes.
Jessica realized that Estella couldn't figure out the significance of the painting so she decided to give Estella one more hint.”Look at the date written at the corner of the painting.”
Estella had to double-check the date to make sure she read it correctly.”But that's more than seventy years ago.This can't be a picture of his mother.The woman I saw in there looks too young.”
Estella couldn't figure it out with her current knowledge so Jessica decided to just tell her what she knew.”That picture that you're holding is a painting of the goddess worshipped by the Church of Healing Light: Gren's mother.I saw a painting of her without the veil and she greatly resembles Gren.Surely you've seen him do unexplainable things when you were with him.Everything weird that he does makes sense when you realize that he's at the very least a demigod.”
The information was a bit too extreme for Estella to believe.She would still need to investigate but this time her target would be the crates he brought back from the Church.The crates were left in the storage room at the back of the second floor hallway so it would be easy to sneak in.She would just need to wait for people to fall asleep.
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The incident with Estella made Gren realize that his mother wasn't safe just sitting there on his bed.His bed was made from mostly solid wood so he decided to build a new frame for it using the Advanced Arsenal.The new frame left enough room for his mother's body and was openable from the side so he could heal her and shift her body every day.
Before placing her in the hiding place he used his healing magic on her body, hoping that it would at least help her get better.”Mom, they're telling me all of these stories about you but I don't know what to believe.Are you really a goddess?If you are a goddess then what does that make me?”His mother couldn't answer his questions.