In front of Curtis, steam was rising from a pretty teacup.
Curtis handed over the paper and raised the glasses.
I didn’t do anything wrong, but I was nervous because of the gloomy atmosphere.
“The temple receives additional support from various facilities.”
“Yes, there is a nursery school and a senior citizen facility.”
“I understand that the elderly who come here come to do volunteer work. They come and do some temple chores.”
“Well, no way.”
He was right.
Far from caring, I used to call in people to do chores in the temple.
“There were six children listed in the nursery school, where did the other three go?”
“It seems that the children who left because they were old have not been sorted out yet. Haha.”
But the numbers didn’t add up.
Two children were discharged at the age of fifteen, including Hannah.
“I received 500 gold for the renovation of the temple, but the facilities are still old.”
“The construction has not begun yet.”
“We’ve made a request.”
The 500gold coincidentally overlapped with the amount they were trying to get from their children.
Is this a coincidence?
“Insufficient management of facilities, poor financial management, and documents do not fit ········.”
“If it is reported to the central temple, it would be obvious what will happen next.”
By his words, Bihirud Daishinwan’s face turned to mud.
Curtis slowly stole more papers.
Then his eyebrows got a little distorted and the corners of his mouth went up.
“Maybe it won’t end up with a budget cut.”
What is it!
What is it about?
Does that mean you’re going to take off your coat of arms if it doesn’t end that much?
In the highly curious document, I held my neck out and peeped with superhuman force.
“I’ll give you three days. I’ll reconsider the treatment if what’s written here is corrected in three days.”
Tuck.
A bunch of papers in his hand fell onto the table.
His surprised expression was very worth seeing from Hannah’s point of view, as the act of barely falling paper seemed to be a huge shock to Bihirud, the official as if the sky was collapsing.
“I hope a three-day grace will help.”
It was a hope adviser who did not go along with a generous smile. How can you fix the temple in three days?
“Sure.”
He seemed to see wings from the back of his light-hearted departure.
Oh, the devil’s wings, of course.
“··············.”
The long sigh of Bihirud, the official of Daishin, filled the office.
***
The temple of crisis.
And humming.
It was an unbecoming combination.
However, Hannah’s steps were too light when she saw Daishinwan’s crying face.
“I’m going to sue you to death.”
I was suddenly worried as I approached the nursery school amid a good feeling. If the budget is cut, the evil Daishin Pavilion will sell the children to fill the money, and if they are excessively blamed and the entire temple disappears, the children should be scattered.
What can I do to kick out the head priest instead?
‘That’s the only thing that matters.’ Hannah thought there was only one key to this whole situation.
We have to make a deal with the central temple side.
That night, the temple is quiet.
That’s why Hannah, wearing a cloth, took advantage of the darkness and headed for Geumnyeo’s area.
*****
“No one’s here, right?”
Hannah looked around as hard as Chason did.
‘Yes, I’ll be taking it off at this dawn.’
Then I carefully entered the men’s bath.
“Hiding it in a place like this, I couldn’t find it even if I searched through the temple!”
I’ve been trying so hard to find a secret account, but I never imagined he’d have hidden it in Geumnyeo’s area.
“This is a sacred place to keep your body clean! Don’t hide books here!”
The inside was not much different from the women’s bath.
The view was dark due to the fog, but there was no difficulty in moving.
The sound of hot spring water flowing through the silence.
Hannah began to rummage through the grass near the bath, wrapping her well-covered face with a cloth.
I thought that if there was a place that could be hidden in this place connected to the outdoors, it would be a place full of bushes.
Especially somewhere in the rubble.
Wiggle, wiggle.
I searched for a long time in doubt.
Did you dig up the ground and bury it?
No matter how many times I searched, I couldn’t see anything like a safe, so I wondered if I should take out the shovel I brought in my pocket.
“Good. Paja.”
If you have a knife, you should cut radish.
No, if you’re holding a shovel, you should at least dig!
Eventually, she took out a shovel.
“Where do we start?”
We can’t sell all the grasses out, but it’s a bit suspicious ········.
“There, under the cherry tree.”
“Yes. Just for this cherry tree to hide something ·······. No, but who just said that?”
Cold sweat dripped down my spine.
Hanna slowly turned her stiff, squeaky body and looked back.
“Argh!”
There was a man in the bath.
When I came in, I didn’t know because of the steam rising from the hot spring, but there was a person in the calm hot spring water.
“What, what are you doing!”
“What do you think you’re going to do here?”
“Oh, since when have you been here?!”
“Long before you came in?”
It was none other than Cesar.
It’s been a while since I came in, but why haven’t you said anything while looking through the bath?