So why did Wilfred dye his hair?
seems like that ass prince only like her for her looks then
who ends up becoming king
I kinda skimmed through the raws since a lot of it was slow-life stuff, but yeah. I think
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her mental state was literally that of a child since she spent years being controlled by the fairy. MC was told by the Fairy King about the evilness of the exiled fairy & the purification process ended with the Fairy King killing the fairy since it didn't repent & just committed even more crimes.
Her appearance complex was a seriously big issue for her even after she stole her mother's looks. There's this one scene where she's confronted by a high priestess who doesn't believe that she's the Saintess (since Sandra's a bitch) & Sandra becomes so envious of her that she ends up draining her to death AND stealing her blonde hair & blue eyes since the priestess was adored by the people. This happens in front of a whole bunch of guards & everyone's kinda shocked by this. Sandra is in denial of her killing the priestess, but then she completely freaks out when she realizes her hair is blonde, immediately changing it back.
Her eyes are still blue though & she doesn't notice until she gets back to her room & looks into her mirror.
I really felt bad for her when reading the scene where she ran into the family of the soldier she healed (Wilfred tried to test her Saintness by having her cure a soldier's blindness. Corrupted!Sandra was like "ew gross, i don't wanna touch him" & Frederick was also being a tool about the whole thing, but she cured the blindness when Wilfred pressured her. Wilfred was shocked that she was able to do it even though she was such a BITCH & then he got inflicted with the mummification life drain until he was able to drag himself to MC's place to get healed.)
The soldier's kid was all like "Saintess, you cured my dad, thank you so much :D" & Sandra just kinda went into a BSOD shock state & started crying & very nearly killed herself with a pair of scissors out of sheer horror over all the stuff she did. (Luckily, the church guards caught up with her & stopped her.)
this.. sounds so compicated and.. weird?
I read the original webnovel & I could have sworn that (INCOMING SPOILERS ABOUT THE SAINTESS)
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The whole reason why she burned her family to death was because she was being parasitized by an evil fairy. The webnovel raws said that yes, she IS the Saintess, but as a little girl, she rescued a dying fairy she found in the woods, but it turned out to be an exiled criminal of the fairy world that fed on & fueled negative emotions.
Apparently this was supposed to be some sort of trial by God, but even the narrative points out how unfair this was to a child (seriously, DON'T rescue the pitiful injured mascot you find in the woods? really??). Sandra had some sort of complex about her appearance (it didn't resemble her beautiful mother) & as a result of the fairy's power, every time she felt envious of someone, she'd drain their attribute (& life force) from them, which is how she got her face & long black hair.
She wouldn't remember doing any of this because of the fairy & the whole mummification/stealing thing ended up as the whole "if you make the Saintess mad, God will curse you" rumors. Her saint powers got severely nerfed because of the fairy's possession, but she can still do saint stuff like healing people. It's repeatedly mentioned that there's a dark aura around her & it infests the places where she "cursed".
In fact, when Wilfred tries to disprove that she's the Saintess, he gets "cursed" as a result (since she IS the Saintess, just corrupted). BTW - the reason why Shin's brother looks like a corpse is because he also got drained - Sandra saw them & was envious of their happy family life since her family was gone now.
The key to healing the victims (slowly) is MC's spirit power infused-onigiri, but yeah MC CAN fully restore them with her spirit power or whatever. The big climax of the webnovel is purifying Sandra of the fairy, but this damages Sandra's mind severely & she suffers massive PTSD & suicidal tendencies after coming to her senses.
Frederick refuses to believe that Sandra really looks like that (she's not ugly, just kinda plain-looking) & Sandra doesn't want anything to do with him. Eventually, Sandra starts to recover from everything (after a chat with the MC & the few people that Sandra actually helped even in her corrupted state) & becomes a priestess to atone for her sins. She still has her holy powers but they're no longer on the same level as that of a Saintess.