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She then recalls her past: the orphanage, the discovery that she is a purifier, and being adopted by Count Rodiam.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Shocked to find a half-naked Michael in his messy room, Irenne is asked by Michael to purify his dungeon wounds and the demonic energy within him. This closeness feels strange to her, because in her previous life the paladin would not touch her. She then recalls her past: the orphanage, the discovery that she is a purifier, and being adopted by Count Rodiam.","key_events":["Irenne makes 100,000 gold debt deal and seeks a knight partner at Night of Contracts","Irenne is measured as lowest-level purifier and threatened with marriage by the Count","Irenne is discovered as a purifier while helping temple priests and adopted by Count Rodiam","Irenne is rejected and harassed by knights, then begs Paladin Michael who accepts her contract","Irenne recalls her previous life where Michael refused to even touch her","Irenne is shocked when Michael appears half-naked after bathing and asks for purification","Irenne loses parents to demonic energy and grows up hungry in an orphanage"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"SOMETHING IS STRANGE...\nTHE SOUND OF WATER BEYOND THE BATHROOM DOOR,\nCLOTHES SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.\n\nTHE MESSY ROOM,\nTHE SWORD OF THE TEMPLE KNIGHTS LYING CARELESSLY ON THE FLOOR.\nAND...\n\nIRENNE.\n\nS-SIR MICHAEL...!\nYOUR CLOTHES...!\n...IRENNE.\n\nDID WE NOT AGREE THAT YOU WOULD STOP ADDING \"SIR\" TO MY NAME?\nW-WE DID, BUT...!\nHERE,\nTHESE ARE THE WOUNDS I RECEIVED IN TODAY'S DUNGEON, ALONG WITH THE DEMONIC ENERGY THAT HAS BUILT UP INSIDE ME.\n\nIF YOU DO NOT PURIFY THEM, THEY WILL EAT AWAY AT MY LIFE.\nSO, IRENNE.\n\nMY PARTNER,\nMY WIFE.\nPLEASE ALLOW ME TO RECEIVE YOUR PURIFICATION...\n\n...AGAIN TONIGHT.\nWAIT, SIR MICHAEL, NO, MICHAEL...!\n\nAH, MICHAEL, PLEASE...\n...THIS REALLY IS STRANGE.\nMICHAEL AND I WERE NEVER IN THIS KIND OF RELATIONSHIP...\nMICHAEL, HE WAS DEFINITELY...\n\nIN MY PREVIOUS LIFE, HE DID NOT WANT SO MUCH AS ONE FINGER OF MINE TOUCHING HIM—\nHE WAS A PALADIN, WAS HE NOT?!\n\nDUNGEONS HAD APPEARED ALL OVER THE WORLD.\nBECAUSE OF THE DEMONIC ENERGY POURING FROM THEM, MY PARENTS DIED EARLY,\n\nAND I WAS SENT TO AN ORPHANAGE AT A YOUNG AGE.\nIN A PLACE WHERE EVEN ONE LOAF OF BREAD A DAY WAS A LUXURY,\nI LEARNED LONELINESS AND HELPLESSNESS BEFORE DREAMS OR HOPE.\nIRENNE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE!\nHURRY OVER HERE AND HELP THE TEMPLE PRIESTS!!!\n\nY-YES! I AM COMING!\nTHESE ARE CLOTHES AND FOOD SENT BY THE TEMPLE.\nPLEASE MOVE THEM TO THE STORAGE ROOM.\nYES!\n\nTHESE ARE MUCH HEAVIER THAN THE USUAL SUPPLIES.\nI HAVE TO GET THEM TO THE STORAGE ROOM SAFELY.\nBUT I HAVE NOT EATEN PROPERLY SINCE YESTERDAY, SO MY BODY FEELS...\n\nSISTER, ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?!\nS-SORRY! I WILL MOVE THEM RIGHT AWAY...!\nNO, YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME GETTING UP...\n\nSISTER, YOU ARE A PURIFIER!!\nA PURIFIER...?\n\nYES. YOU KNOW ABOUT THE DUNGEONS AND MONSTERS THAT TAINT THIS WORLD, DON'T YOU?\nKNIGHTS WHO SUBJUGATE DUNGEONS\nNEED A PARTNER WHO CAN PURIFY THE DEMONIC ENERGY CLINGING TO THEIR BODIES,\n\nMEANING A PURIFIER WITH THE POWER OF PURIFICATION.\nTHIS IS DONE THROUGH SKIN-TO-SKIN CONTACT.\nI CANNOT MEASURE THE EXACT STRENGTH OF YOUR POWER YET,\nBUT YOU WERE CLEARLY BORN WITH THE POWER OF PURIFICATION.\n\nIS THAT REALLY TRUE, PRIEST?\nCOUNT RODIAM.\nYES. IT WAS FAINT, BUT I FELT THE LIGHT OF PURIFICATION FROM THIS CHILD.\n\nYOU WERE BORN WITH A FINE GIFT.\nLITTLE ONE.\n\nHOW OLD ARE YOU?\nBECAUSE OF THAT, I BECAME THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF COUNT RODIAM, THE ORPHANAGE'S GREATEST PATRON.\n\nIT FEELS LIKE A DREAM...\nI CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE A FAMILY.\nI CAN'T BELIEVE COUNT RODIAM, THE ORPHANAGE'S PATRON, IS BECOMING MY FATHER.\nHOW SHOULD I THANK THE COUNT...?\n\nU-UM...\nYOU ARE PRETTY ENOUGH, AND FOR A COMMONER ORPHAN, YOU DON'T LOOK TOO LOWBORN.\nYOU ARE EIGHT NOW, SO YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR COMING OF AGE CEREMONY IN ABOUT TEN YEARS.\n\nTHE TIME I NEED TO INVEST IS RATHER LONG,\nBUT IN THE END, KEEPING A PURIFIER ALWAYS PAYS OFF.\nONCE YOU ARRIVE AT THE COUNT'S MANOR, DO NOT THINK YOU CAN JUST EAT MY FOOD LIKE A PARASITE.\n\nGROW UP QUICKLY AND MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL.\n\n...YES, MY LORD.\nLATER, I LEARNED\nTHAT ADOPTING A PURIFIER CHILD WITH NO FAMILY AND SENDING HER INTO DUNGEONS\nWAS AN INVESTMENT QUIETLY POPULAR AMONG NOBLES.\n\n\"A COUNT'S DAUGHTER IN NAME ONLY...\"\nIN PLACES WHERE OTHERS COULD SEE ME, I SMILED BRIGHTLY AND UPHELD THE COUNT'S DIGNITY,\n\nAND ELSEWHERE, I WORKED LIKE A MAID AS LONG AS IT LEFT NO MARKS ON MY BODY.\n\"DO NOT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING.\"\nYOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THE COUNT'S POSSESSION.\n\nOBJECTS DO NOT THINK OR FEEL ANYTHING.\nSO THERE IS NOTHING TO SUFFER OVER.\nLIKE ONE OF HIS PRIZED PORCELAIN BOWLS\nOR A HOLLOW PORCELAIN DOLL...\nLOWEST GRADE?\n\nNO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU TEST HER, THE RESULT IS THE SAME.\nLADY RODIAM'S PURIFYING POWER IS LOWEST GRADE.\n\nYOU USELESS THING!!!!\n\nI FED YOU, HOUSED YOU, AND CLOTHED YOU LIKE MY OWN DAUGHTER FOR TEN YEARS,\nAND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY MY GRACE!!!!\nAT LEAST YOU HAVE THAT FACE AND BODY GOING FOR YOU!\n\nTHANKS TO THEM, THERE IS STILL AN OLD MAN WILLING TO PAY TO TAKE YOU AS HIS WIFE!\n\"DO NOT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING.\"\n\"DO NOT FEEL ANYTHING.\"\nNO\n\nTHING...\nI HATE THIS.\nI WANT TO LIVE.\n\nI WANT TO LIVE AS A PERSON, BY MY OWN WILL!\nP-PLEASE GIVE ME ONE YEAR!\nI WILL FIND A PARTNER TO ENTER DUNGEONS WITH ME AND REPAY THE PRICE YOU PAID FOR ME!\n\nWHO WOULD EVER BECOME PARTNERS WITH A LOWEST GRADE WRETCH LIKE YOU!!!\nEVEN IF SOME FOOL AGREED TO PARTNER WITH YOU, DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU COULD EARN BACK EVERYTHING I INVESTED IN YOU?!!\nWE WILL NEVER KNOW UNLESS I TRY! PLEASE, JUST GIVE ME ONE CHANCE!!\n\nONE YEAR, NO, EVEN SIX MONTHS!!\n100,000 GOLD.\n\nTHAT ENORMOUS SUM WAS JUST BARELY ENOUGH TO CONVINCE THE COUNT.\nOTHER THAN RECEIVING A SHARE OF DUNGEON REWARDS THROUGH A PARTNER CONTRACT,\n\nTHERE IS NO WAY I CAN PAY BACK THAT MUCH MONEY.\nTHE NIGHT OF CONTRACTS, HELD ONCE A YEAR.\n\nI HAVE TO FIND A KNIGHT HERE WHO WILL BECOME MY PARTNER!\nYOU ARE LOWEST GRADE?\nI AM SORRY, BUT YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR SOMEONE ELSE.\nA LOWEST GRADE PURIFIER WHO WANTS A SHARE OF THE REWARDS IS JUST DEADWEIGHT...\n\nI WOULD RATHER CLEAR A DUNGEON WITHOUT A PURIFIER.\nAH, I ALREADY FOUND A PARTNER, SO...\n\nI EXPECTED THIS, BUT...\nI DID NOT THINK FINDING A PARTNER WOULD BE THIS HARD... WHAT SHOULD I DO?\nHEY, LOWEST GRADE LADY! LOOKING FOR A PARTNER~?\nY-YES! I AM LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WILLING TO BE MY PARTNER...\n\nHEEH~ IS THAT RIGHT?\nTHESE PEOPLE LOOK DANGEROUS!\n\nWHY ARE YOU WRAPPED UP SO TIGHTLY INDOORS~?\nLET ME SEE YOUR FACE.\nW-WAIT...!\n\nWHOA~\nYOUR ABILITY IS LOWEST GRADE, BUT YOUR FACE AND BODY ARE TOP GRADE~?\nSO YOU WERE ALL COVERED UP BECAUSE YOU WERE AFRAID SOME CREEPS WOULD HIT ON YOU!\n\nWELL, IF WE ONLY CLEAR LOW GRADE DUNGEONS AND SPLIT THE REWARDS 99 TO 1, I MIGHT SIGN WITH YOU.\nOH, AND ON THE CONDITION THAT YOU SLEEP WITH ME AS MUCH AS I WANT EVERY SINGLE DAY.\nMAYBE THEN YOUR PURIFICATION WILL BE WORTH EVEN A FINGERNAIL'S WORTH~?\n\n...DISGUSTING!\nI CANNOT BELIEVE SCOUNDRELS LIKE THIS ARE ALLOWED TO ACT UNDER THE NAME OF KNIGHTS!\nIT IS BECAUSE OF MEN LIKE THIS THAT DECENT KNIGHTS GET SLANDERED AS GOLD HUNTERS TOO!\nBUT IF I CANNOT FIND A PARTNER LIKE THIS...\n\nI WILL NEVER EVEN SET FOOT IN A DUNGEON. I WILL BE SOLD OFF EXACTLY AS I PROMISED THE COUNT.\nWHAT DO I DO? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO...?\nIT IS SIR MICHAEL!\nIS THAT REALLY SIR MICHAEL?\nWHY IS SIR MICHAEL AT THE NIGHT OF CONTRACTS...?\n\nPALADIN MICHAEL!\nA HOLY MAN WHO SUBJUGATES MONSTERS SOLELY\n\nFOR THE SALVATION OF THOSE IN NEED AND FOR JUSTICE...\nI HEARD HE NEVER TAKES A PARTNER, SO WHY IS HE ATTENDING THE NIGHT OF CONTRACTS?\nHE IS WALKING RIGHT TOWARD ME...!\n\nMAYBE, JUST MAYBE...\n.HE WOULD AGREE TO MY REQUEST!\nEVEN IF IT IS COWARDLY, RELYING ON HIS GOODNESS\n\nIS THE ONLY CHOICE I HAVE!\nS-SIR MICHAEL!\nPLEASE FORM A PARTNER CONTRACT WITH ME!\n\nPLEASE... I AM BEGGING YOU!\nI HAVE TO ENTER A DUNGEON!\nI KNOW I AM BEING TERRIBLY RUDE RIGHT NOW, BUT...!\nBUT... YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE I CAN ASK. PLEASE...!\n\nIRENNE RODIAM, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?\nPALADINS ARE BEINGS WHO SWEAR ETERNAL CHASTITY, SO THERE IS NO WAY HE WILL ACCEPT SUCH AN UNREASONABLE REQUEST...\nUNDERSTOOD.\n\nPARDON?\n\nLADY.\nMAY I ASK YOUR NAME?","bubble_count":161,"pages_count":56,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Shocked to find a half-naked Michael in his messy room, Irenne is asked by Michael to purify his dungeon wounds and the demonic energy within him.","spoiler_summary":"Shocked to find a half-naked Michael in his messy room, Irenne is asked by Michael to purify his dungeon wounds and the demonic energy within him. This closeness feels strange to her, because in her previous life the paladin would not touch her. She then recalls her past: the orphanage, the discovery that she is a purifier, and being adopted by Count Rodiam."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/my-husband-is-definitely-a-paladin-54041nrv/chapter-1-i2ra7f","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — My Husband Is Definitely a Paladin #1","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-29T01:16:28.811Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/my-husband-is-definitely-a-paladin-54041nrv"}}