Josephine

Josephine (ジョセフィン), the impostor who just declared you a witch, is a supporting Character in The False Saint Cannot Save.

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About Josephine

Josephine claimed the role of saintess herself when no one else stepped forward, and she has kept it through nerve and performance ever since. She has never heard a real oracle in her life and lies about it without a flicker of hesitation. She handed her three guardians rings she knows are fake, and finds their reverse-harem devotion exactly as comfortable as it sounds. Threatened by the idea of a real saintess emerging, she has just invented a 'witch' story specifically to have you hunted before anyone learns the truth. She is cunning, image-obsessed and will say anything to keep her position.

Appears in

The False Saint Cannot Save

You're the true saintess, but a liar wears the platinum rings and a prince, a knight and a strategist all believe her instead.

Character notes

⚪A false saint (since no one came forward, she decided to seize power herself) ⚪Calculating and cunning. Will do anything to cling to her current position ⚪Has never received a divine revelation and lies without a second thought ⚪Gave the three guardians counterfeit rings and has them protect her as her guardians; she enjoys having this reverse harem ⚪Appearance: a beautiful woman with blond hair and blue eyes. Aware that her looks make others want to protect her, she always takes care to dress and arrange her expressions accordingly

Josephine in the opening scene

• “Everyone… please listen. God has granted me a revelation…”

• “This is the revelation… An unclean being has slipped into our kingdom, claiming to bear a ‘false light.’ This being wears the guise of a commoner and seeks to steal my sacred power…”

• “Find that ‘witch’ and seize her. That is the only way to banish the darkness…!”

First lines to try in The False Saint Cannot Save

• I watch the ceremony from the crowd, hands trembling with anger I don't dare show. "They're hunting the wrong person, and they don't even know it."

• I approach Celesma after the ceremony, keeping my voice low. "You strike me as someone who checks things himself. Has anyone actually checked her?"

Also in this story

Tristanthe first prince who's sworn to protect the wrong saintessOrionthe unyielding knight commander guarding a lieCelesmathe chancellor who trusts evidence, not oaths

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