MSS 01

Chapter : 1 — I Am a Thief.

The Magical Saint Seraphina

But I’m also a saint.

Does that even make sense?

Well, “a cute and sexy man” doesn’t make sense either, but they exist anyway.

I’m the same kind of thing.

“Stop right there!”

Speak of the devil. Here comes one now. A cute and sexy man.

“I said stop, Magical Saint!”

“Ugh.”

I don’t even have time to complain for a moment.

I kicked off the roof, throwing away the wanted poster of me that I had been holding in my hand.

“Can’t you hear me?!”

The man chasing me from behind with his teeth clenched had one hell of a temper…….

If he caught me, I was dead.

“There she is!”

“Don’t let her get away!”

To make matters worse, the Capital Guard appeared from the alley behind us.

While forty men were swarming after me alone—

“Gunner! What are you doing?! Shoot!”

“But, Captain, this is a long rifle for hunting beasts!”

“Just shoot!”

Click!

“Are you insane?!”

After this was over, I was definitely going to demand hazard pay from the temple. No matter what!

Cursing inwardly, I jumped from one rooftop to another across the closely packed buildings.

Click— Bang!

“Fire!”

“Eek!”

I swung the toy hammer strapped to my back and knocked the bullet away.

The bullet that hit the toy hammer turned into a star candy.

Rattle!

“Grrr!”

The captain of the guards gritted his teeth as the shower of star candies rained down from the night sky, hitting him on the head.

“Again! Fire!”

Bang!

“We hit her!”

No, you didn’t!

“Uh-oh! She’s running away even though she was shot!”

I wasn’t shot!

“Fire continuously!”

“Ahead!”

“It’s a dead end!”

“Turn around!”

“The distance is widening!”

I kept running.

I continued until the guards who had been chasing me in a huge group began dropping one by one.

“Huff, huff….”

Is this far enough?

I turned around—

Whoosh—

“Aah!”

Whoosh— Whoosh—

“Aah! Eek!”

Sharp rubber pellets came flying at me, so I hurriedly ran forward.

When I finally came to my senses, I was standing on top of the clock tower in the square.

The same clock tower whose hour hand I had broken not long ago when I had hung from it.

“…….”

It was a dead end.

The only person who had managed to catch up with me this far—the cute and sexy man—lowered the slingshot in his hand.

I was grateful that he was using a much more humane weapon than the guards who had been firing long rifles meant for beasts at a person.

But still—

“It ends here, Magical Saint.”

Since I was already grateful, couldn’t he just stop chasing me and give up here……?

“It would be best if you surrendered peacefully. Then I’ll take your circumstances into consideration and reduce your sentence.”

“……How much will you reduce it?”

“One second.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“Would I joke around with a pervert who wears such a trashy skirt and jumps across rooftops?”

His eyes, filled with contempt, turned toward the skirt I was wearing.

Just then, the wind blew, causing the pleated skirt that reached halfway down my thighs to flutter.

The man looked at me like that and silently frowned.

“Haa.”

“…….”

I’m sorry……

“Your behavior of flying through the air while wearing such clothes has a bad influence on growing children. I’m arresting you for indecent exposure in a public place.”

“No…!”

I didn’t want to wear it either!

What was I supposed to do when the Magical Saint battle uniform I inherited looked like this?!

If you want to complain, complain to the previous Magical Saint from 950 years ago!

“I hope you wear long pants in prison and reflect on your actions.”

The man lowered the slingshot he had been holding and made a light leap.

With only a few steps, he climbed up to the clock tower where I was standing.

“Magical Saint Sena, you are under arrest for indecent exposure in a public place, destruction of public property, theft, assault, and several other offenses……”

“Agh….”

I cautiously stepped backward.

Rip.

“!”

The skirt that had been mercilessly fluttering in the strong wind from up high got caught on one of the clock tower’s sharp decorations.

“No….”

No, please, don’t tear!

This outfit has a magic spell on it that causes face-recognition impairment……!

I was in such a hurry that I couldn’t explain it earlier!

The truth was, that cute and sexy man and I actually knew each other?!

If the magic disappeared—

He’ll recognize me!

But it was already too late.

“I caught—!”

“He caught her!”

“Sir Arden caught the Magical Saint!”

“Huh? But right now….”

The guards who had arrived beneath the clock tower began whispering among themselves.

It’s coming back.

My hair color.

The eyes of the man looking at me from right in front of him widened.

“You….”

This is insane.

God, please!

Am I really going to prison like this?!

–The Magical Saint Seraphina–
Chapter 1. An Ordinary Dress Shop Employee by Day, a Magical Saint by Night! 🐶

3 months ago.

Imperial Capital, Loire. 36 Demarcy Street.

“Excuse me! When on earth will my hat be repaired?”

“…Do you mean the hat you left with us ten minutes ago?”

“I bought the flower decoration for my dress, and they told me to pick it up here.”

“Yes, please show me your receipt.”

“They didn’t give me a receipt. I didn’t get one.”

“……”

“Ma’am, what you’re holding in your hand right now is our dress shop’s receipt.”

The Scrooge Dress Shop, which also operated as a shoe store, hat shop, and tea house.

A five-story, pale-purple building that was crowded with people from 7 a.m. until 11:30 p.m.

Women looking to buy new dresses before their weddings, lower-ranking nobles wanting a cup of black tea while waiting for their carriages, merchants who had come up from the East, academy students, foreigners……

The diverse customers all had one thing in common.

That was—

They seemed to have no idea that the employee standing in front of them was also a person just like them.

“No, I have to catch a carriage to the train station in three minutes, so why are you buying clothes now?! And then you get angry and tell me to hurry up and pack them because you’re afraid you’ll miss your carriage because of me……”

“Did you see that couple earlier? They went into the changing room together and didn’t come out for so long, so I opened the door and they were……”

“What? Kissing?!”

“What? Rolling around on the floor?!”

“Crazy!”

It seemed they didn’t realize that the dress shop employees who helped them put on shoes and pulled up their zippers also had eyes and ears, mouths that could speak, and ears to hear with.

But there were times when being treated like an inanimate object by the customers was actually something to be thankful for.

“So when exactly are you getting divorced?!”

This was one of those times.

The tea house on the third floor was where customers who had purchased clothes on the first floor often rested while waiting for their alterations.

At the word divorce, which came from the man and woman sitting among the customers—the same couple I had caught kissing while completely naked in the changing room earlier—the surroundings suddenly fell silent.

I exchanged glances with my fellow employee, who was wiping a teapot.

‘Looks like an affair.’

‘Looks like they’re getting divorced.’

“Baby, I explained everything to you last time. If I get divorced now, my merchant guild, my property, everything will go to my wife, and I’ll be left completely penniless. Do you want me to become a beggar?”

“Eeeh. No, but…”

“Just stay quiet and wait while taking care of our baby. I’ll take care of everything. Would I really lie to you and the fruit of our love?”

‘Baaaabyyy talk?!’

They even had a baby?!

I was so shocked that I almost dropped the plate I was holding.

Fortunately, I had good reflexes and caught it.

But Ellie, the youngest employee standing beside me, wasn’t so lucky.

Crash!

“Gasp! I’m so sorry……!”

“……”

Instead of answering Ellie, the woman simply stared at her face.

The man, however, put on a friendly smile.

“It’s all right, young lady.”

“Thank you……”

“This is the first time I’ve seen you. I guess you haven’t been working here very long?”

“Ahaha… Yes…”

“A week? Two weeks?”

“Uh…”

“Oh, how long has it been? Just tell me quietly. Three days? Four days? And how old are you?”

Is this guy crazy?

He was hitting on an employee right in front of his mistress.

Look at that. The woman’s expression was getting worse.

Before the cheating woman could start taking her anger out on innocent Ellie, I quickly stepped in.

“Customers, I think the alterations on the clothes you left with us should be finished by now. Would you like to go downstairs and check? I’ll help you finish up.”

The woman’s gaze, which had just been about to snap at Ellie, turned toward me.

I smiled as harmlessly as I could.

“Or would you like some more tea?”

“Can’t you see that my cup is already full?”

“Oh, then……”

“Never mind. Just clear this away.”

Flick.

The woman threw the napkin she was holding at me.

I kept smiling.

‘Hahaha. It’s not like I can quit. Hahaha.’

Even while she came down to the first floor and tried on the dress after it had been altered, the woman continued to show her displeasure and grumble.

“I’ll help you change……”

“I don’t need it, okay?”

The woman grabbed the dress and recklessly tried to put her legs into it right in the middle of the busy dress shop.

“Uh, it’s dangerous if you put your legs in first like that……”

“Eek!”

See? I told you it was dangerous.

I quickly grabbed the woman with both hands as she began to fall backward. I lifted her body straight up and pulled her out of the dress.

The woman’s two feet dangled in the air, and she screamed even louder than before.

“Eeeek!”

“…Ah.”

Oops.

I had made a mistake.