Chapter 287 – AMAZING WOMEN ( SIDE CAROLINE ) (2/2)

The water made her feel refreshed. It should’ve been ordinary water, but it was strangely refreshing.

「Ufufu, you face says that you find it strange. I added a bit of a secret flavor. Though you won’t understand even if I explain, so I won’t say it」

The young nun showed a mischievous smile, then returned to the other young nuns to hand over water.

Caroline continued to stare at them.

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A slight change occurred in Caroline’s lifestyle.

Her days of waking up in the church and praying have not changed.

She is just doing one additional thing other than that.

Her eyes would follow the young nuns.

She was not looking at someone particularly.

She just started to watch the young nuns within the church.

Even right now, she is looking at a nun who is writing a letter for a believer who visited the church.

These past few days, she finds herself attracted or interested by the young nuns.

They felt different from other people, but it was difficult for Caroline who doesn’t know a lot of words to describe it clearly. The only thing she knows is that they are clearly different from other people.

The young nuns were thoughtful, their movements were skilled, and one would somewhat feel elegance from their bearing.

When she noticed it, Caroline’s eyes were chasing after the young nuns’ appearances.

There is another reason for her to do that.

There would always be one of the young nuns that interested Caroline within her view.

Even when she is keeping herself inside her room, there would always be one of them when she looks out her window.

They weren’t looking at Caroline, just simply spending their own lives.

Nonetheless, they would absolutely be there.

That’s why Caroline looked at them. She watched them, with her eyes chasing after them.

「They are so……」

Caroline did her best to describe those women.

「So beautiful, and amazing……they are women, so amazing」

She squeezed that out from her untrained vocabulary, that was caused by not interacting with others.

As she continued to follow them with her eyes, Caroline became interested in them.

At the same time, she wondered if “everyone” was the same.

She looked at the other believers.

However, there were only some that made Caroline feel they’re “amazing”. Only about twenty of them.

Gradually, she remembered their faces.

She remembered their faces despite of not knowing their names.

After remembering their faces, she started to become even more attracted to see their behavior.

Those twenty young nuns were similar, but slightly different from each other.

They are just amazing in their own ways.

「I wonder why……ah!」

Caroline was unable to find out why even after thinking about it herself, but she suddenly realized something.

She realized that she should just ask them to know why.

「Although it would make me unable to hear God’s voice……it can’t be helped」

She used the “Backward Compatibility”, enabling her to hear ordinary people’s voices and left her room to search for the “amazing” women.

Ordinary people would not do that at this hour.

After all, it was in the middle of the night when she realized that.

Common sense would make ordinary people wait for the next day, but having almost no interactions with other people, Caroline did not have that thought.

That’s why she saw something unexpected.

Caroline left her room to search for the “amazing” women, but she witnessed something outside of the church.

She saw one woman talking to Kakeru while they faced each other.

【God……?]

Caroline was surprised.

However, her surprise was unexpectedly small.

If it were a few days ago, just when she was returned to the church, she would’ve rushed towards Kakeru without thinking of anything else. But it did not go that way.

Her dependency towards Kakeru slightly faded and the existence of the “amazing” woman was big enough to weigh her balancing scale of judgment.

Instead of rushing out, she was curious, she was very, very curious.

The conversation between Kakeru and the “amazing” woman interested her so much.

When she tries to hear Kakeru’s voice, she won’t be able to hear the woman’s voice.

When she tries to hear the woman’s voice, this time, she won’t be able to hear Kakeru’s voice.

She can only hear one of them, making her unable to understand their conversation.

But it made her curious, what they were talking about made her very curious.

Caroline, for the first time in her life, did her best.

She was fueled by her curiosity, making her do her utmost to be able to hear both of them at the same time.

As a result.

「Ha! Nikki Cephalis and the first platoon shall continue guarding the Child of God!」

「I’ll be counting on you. When everything’s over, I’ll definitely make it up to you girls」

「Ha!ーーno, Yes!」

For hearing that, Caroline became even more confused.

Within a split of a second, Nikki showed two different faces.

She has remembered her face. But she did not know that face of hers.

It was the coolest and most beautiful face she had seen up until now.

But Nikki reverted that face within a blink of an eye. It made Caroline more and more confused, making her more and more curious.

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About 90% of the movement of Caroline’s heart was as Kakeru had expected.