242 – Revelation
It has been a week since Ian disappeared.
The Holy See of Constantine was busy welcoming a new saint.
Aria Lumines.
The appearance of the newly crowned saint was somewhat strange.
“… hahahahaha.”
Seeing Arya lying face down on the floor in her saintly robes, Inquisitor Osgar let out a laugh that might have been her sigh.
Dave, the escort knight who assisted Aria when she was a candidate for sainthood, is currently on trial. He has committed many crimes, so execution is certain.
“But I don’t know why I have to be an escort. There’s a lot of work to do, hahahaha.”
Osgar smiled and squatted down.
She falls to the floor and meets Aria’s tearful eyes.
“Saint.”
Aria had no reaction.
Let alone turning her head, I almost looked at her eyes, but even her pupils didn’t move.
“Hmm. It would be better if you look at me a little.”
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Osgar, who had been fiddling with the portable torture device for a moment, shook his head.
No matter what, she is a saint.
“hahahaha…”
In any case, all we have to do today is take her saint to the ‘revelation’ ceremony.
It was impossible to torture her to move her body a little.
“Well, I guess torture doesn’t mean much.”
She is Arya, who has already hit rock bottom as a human being.
In Osgar’s opinion, she was already undergoing mental torture.
“… Ian.”
A saintess who keeps muttering those words.
Obviously, torture doesn’t mean much.
Osgar smiled and scratched his head.
He did not know how to persuade others other than through torture.
After thinking for a moment, he opened his mouth.
“I am also cooperating with Ian.”
“… Huh?”
A saintess looking up at herself blankly.
Her face was covered with tears.
How did such a woman become a saint?
Osgar, recalling the retrial of the saint, just laughed.
Aria was clearly a saint at that moment, as she went through all her trials, saying she had to find her Ian.
After that, the Vatican withdrew its hands from her search for Ian and it collapsed.
She said, ‘Now that she has become a saint, she can form a force on her own.’
Osgar shrugged his shoulders.
That is up to Aria to take care of.
Once the schedule until today is completed, Aria will be able to officially begin her activities as a saint.
Osgar then planned to go out on her own to find her son.
He grabbed Arya’s chin.
Then he made eye contact with her and opened her mouth.
“If it’s for you, Ian, let’s go get a revelation.”
“Revelation?”
“This is the final process of enthronement as a saint.”
“I don’t like poetry… Ian…”
“The fate of Ian may come as a revelation.”
Aria’s eyes lit up.
Only then did Osgar realize how to handle her saint.
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Aria took her steps.
Her steps were unsteady.
It was due to her exhaustion and mental breakdown after her ordeal as a saint.
However, she is going to receive a ‘revelation’, the final step to be recognized as an official saint.
‘Ian…!’
Aria’s mind was clear, as if her mental breakdown just before had been different.
At least Aria felt that way.
‘You can get a clue through revelation…!’
The reason Aria attempted and passed her sainthood trial once again was solely so that she could meet her Ian.
But she found out after becoming a saint.
The news was that Ian had already left the Vatican and she was missing.
It was painful.
Tears just flowed down.
After wandering around the area of her disappearance, she was semi-forcibly dragged by her knights back to the Vatican.
It was unfair.
She said that once she becomes a saint, she can do whatever she wants.
Aria broke down as always.
At times like that, my vision becomes dark.
She becomes trapped in an endless cave.
It is a hallucination created by her broken heart.
“… I don’t like it.”
Everything was pitch black.
My voice rings and my throat keeps getting clogged.
My legs flail as if I was walking through water, and my breathing becomes shallow.
And I see light in the distance.
“… Ian.”
This is Ian.
Whenever I break down psychologically like this, I always see Ian in the distance.
Walk after him.
If you walk like that.
— Saint…!
“Huh!”
This is how my eyes are opened.
Pure white light fills my eyes.
Aria quietly blinked her eyes.
Pure white eyes lie before my eyes.
“……”
It is a statue made of marble in the image of a god.
Aria blinked a few more times.
… Where am I?
She seemed to have gone into unconsciousness again.
“Have you received revelation?”
A voice coming from next to me.
A girl dressed in beautiful, flowing clothes was looking up at Aria.
Revelation.
Revelation.
“Ah.”
Only then did Aria remember that she was in the process of [Revelation], The final stage of the sainthood succession ceremony.
‘… I was told to stare at the statue of God.’
She said that if she does not receive revelation from God, she will not be recognized as a saint.
It didn’t matter anyway.
She had a story she wanted to hear more than that. She needed to hear about Ian.
How to find him. And how to get it.
So, how we can meet again.
Things like that.
Aria looked at the mouth of her statue.
She stared.
At some point.
Suddenly, her statue’s mouth watered.
Aria’s eyes widened.
— You
Her mouth opened with a new image, as if it was supposed to.
“You”
— It turns really far. I’m chasing after the one who abandoned me
“Well… It’s spinning far away. I’m chasing after the one who abandoned me.”
Even though she didn’t want to speak, her mouth moved as it wanted.
Aria stuttered.
The pure white pupils of the statue stared at Aria.
She seemed to be glaring as if she was blaming herself.
I was afraid.
She seemed to see through the sin she had committed.
Aria’s lips trembled.
— Save.
“Gu, save!”
At one point, Aria was shouting as if pouring out her personal words.
— Otherwise, someone outside the world will destroy the world.
“Otherwise, someone outside the world will destroy the world!”
Saint Aria Lumines.
It was the revelation she received and her mission.
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Sylvia’s office.
“Duke Blitter contacted me personally?”
Liaison from the Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Sylvia brightened her eyes.
What she wanted now was clear.
Moving the empire to find out Ian’s location.
In Sylvia’s opinion, it was clear that the person who kidnapped her Ian was a high-ranking person among the Shale Church.
‘The kidnapping was carried out without a trace.’
Ian disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Since there is no way he could have walked out on his own, it means that he was definitely caught by a considerable expert.
In fact, it was still difficult for Sylvia to understand the situation.
How much speed would a master have to be able to snatch a person without even realizing it in a situation where everyone is present?
Or he could have been a person with abilities in the space or time series.
Whatever it was, it was said that an enormous figure equivalent to a country’s great wizard had moved.
‘We can never solve it alone.’
A person of that level in the Shaleam Church would be the leader or his direct subordinate. This means that the leadership is intertwined.
Therefore, a national subjugation level force must be formed.
It was said that the Empire, Holy Constantine, and other groups should all be brought together.
The scale seems absurd at first glance to save just one cadet.
‘But what makes that possible is politics.’
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire.
That’s why Duke Blitter’s contact had great significance.
‘The fact that they contacted me first is important in itself.’
Of course, it would be difficult to get help right now.
However, through persuasion, cooperation on some issues may be achieved.
That alone is enough.
‘It would be reassuring if you stood behind the ship as much as possible.’
…. There is no way it is possible.
The opponent is the Empire’s Operation Committee.
To move them to the lobby, it starts with at least a few billion kroner.
That was the cost of getting involved in just one case.
People lined up to even have the opportunity to receive that kind of money.
That opportunity has been given.
“We can raise lobbying capital somehow. We can move about three to four issues at will.”
He nodded to the secretary who brought the duke’s letter and continued speaking.
“What did Lord Blitter send? Is there room for us to reply?”
The secretary nodded and read the letter.
“Dear Lady Sylvia. I owe that boy my life. Please let me know if I can be of any help. I will do my best. That’s it.”
“… Huh? What?”
Silvia’s eyes widened.
Someone told you to let me know if you need help?
Duke of the Empire?
Did I hear this correctly?
Sylvia tilted her head, wondering if she had heard wrong.
“You said to let me know if you need help with anything.”
The secretary also muttered blankly as if he couldn’t believe it.
She deserved it.
It is absolutely not common for someone of the duke’s level to be the first to offer a helping hand.
Sylvia received her letter and read it again.
It was definitely written in elegant handwriting.
The ink wasn’t even dry yet.
As she read it again, a reason caught her eye.
“… It is said that the duke owes his life to Mr. Ian.”
“…Yes.”
The secretary’s embarrassed voice.
Sylvia looked at her letter blankly.
How and why did she save one of the most powerful men in the empire?
What has Ian been doing?
Replacement.
“… Why is it so great?”
Silvia, who had mumbled worship without realizing it, quickly shook her head.
It was not the time for her to feel this way.
She immediately put on her coat.
“I’m going to the capital.”
Head to the capital of the empire.
All the pieces that will move the empire have been completed.