“Dinner.”
It was Elika.
With the bread in her mouth, she murmured, came to the desk and put down the meal she was holding in her hand.
I quickly put the paper away because the soup broth almost splashed on it by putting it down without hesitation. And asked with a frown.
“Why you?”
Originally, there was one nun who brought meals every time, and I suddenly wondered why this guy had come.
Elica swallowed the bread she was chewing and shrugged her shoulders.
“I just got caught on the way to pick it up instead. It’s annoying me too. Anyway, enjoy it.”
“········Yes, thank you.”
“But what do you do with a pile of sutras?”
Her gaze turned to the scriptures and the paper on which I was writing.
“Ah, is that it? Sorting out the sutras to be copied. Some priests have been working hard for a while now.”
“okay.”
“Why are you doing this?”
“I’m in debt, so I’m just helping.”
She tilted her head.
“But can you read adult words?”
“okay.”
“How? You were also a priest?”
“not.”
“Then how do you read it?”
“··································I have studied separately because I am interested in languages.
Don’t be a bother and get out.
But she didn’t go out and looked around, not knowing where else was the useless interest.
“But, uncle.”
“···········?”
“Are you really going to hide it until the end? Why did you fall down in the woods?”
At that, I frowned.
Every time he met me, he still persistently asked me about it.
“I should have said I don’t remember, but I don’t know how many times I have to say it.”
“So that’s a lie.”
“It’s true. How long are you going to hold on to and hang on?”
she folded her arms
“I can’t stand my questions. You look suspicious no matter how you look at it. He shed so much blood, there were no wounds on his body, and he was naked with no clothes on.”
There was a lot of blood, but the fact that there were no wounds was because of super regeneration.
I was particularly drawn to that part, thinking that I was still hiding something.
‘Of course, it is true that he is hiding.’
Of course, I didn’t mean to say anything, so I just ignored it.
No matter what I say, I won’t listen.
At my reaction, Elika clicked her tongue and turned her gaze back to the paper she was writing on.
After a moment of silence, she spoke again.
“By the way, I don’t know why they use these characters separately, leaving the continent’s official language aside. It’s unnecessarily complicated, it takes a long time to learn, and it’s not practical at all.”
I looked at her with slightly puzzled eyes.
“Can a priest say such a thing?”
“I haven’t been baptized yet, so I’m not officially a member of the church.”
“Anyway, it’s not going to happen in the future. Don’t you want to become a paladin?”
“·······What? Who is it?”
“Sometimes I think it’s like listening to the conversations you had with your friends.”
She frowned and strongly denied it.
“It’s not. Tom, why do you believe in what your son is saying?”
“I didn’t believe it, I asked.”
“No. Well… Even if it’s not a paladin, it’s probably going to be a member of the church. There’s no place to go away from the monastery.”
So it was saying that I would become a church member just to make a living.
I want to know what kind of person there is in a word that can’t be found as religious, but I added the following words.
“And in the first place, I don’t believe in God.”
“············”.
What else is this?
Slowly, I was curious, so I asked.
“Do you mean that you don’t believe in God… do you mean that you don’t believe in the existence of God?”
Elika shook her head.
“It’s not like that. It’s true that the hero received the holy sword from the god of light.”
“right.”
“I just don’t understand. God saved mankind, but so many people died in war. Why did God only give help after so many lives have been sacrificed?”
······Well, I don’t know either.
It’s because the story of the game never revealed the reason in detail.
“If God really has all-powerful power and can save mankind without any sacrifice, then what should I feel the sublime and awe of such a being? Do I just have to thank you?”
She clouded the tail of her horse with her sunken eyes.
“When I say this, the priests and the nuns always say the same thing. God is just giving us trials and testing us.”
“············”.
“But what the hell is that a test for? Does it even bring the dead back to life when they overcome the ordeal? What’s the use of all that to those who have already lost the most precious thing in life?”
His voice was tiring, but now he could feel a bit of anger.
I stared at her.
After receiving my attention, she pursed her lips and changed the topic as if in a rude way.
“·······It is just that. So what do you think about God?”
“I don’t really think about it.”
The only god in the Rasa worldview, the transcendent who bestowed the holy sword on the warrior.
And the key that might give me an answer to this world and the situation I am in.
My awareness of the light god Rael was only that much.
“What is it? I said my sincerity, but the answer is not sincere.”
Elica pursed her lips.
I asked her.
“By the way, is it okay to talk like that to an outsider like me?”
“What is it. You don’t believe in God?”
“okay.”
“I’m doing this because I’m a foreigner. So, should I talk like this in front of the priests?”
That’s it again.
“Or, where are you going to go and talk about it?”
“No way.”
“And well, it doesn’t matter whether you say it or not. Even if I’ve never said this out loud, most people in the monastery know that I have a twisted personality.”
As if all she had to say was over, she lifted her back, leaning against the edge of the desk.
“Anyway, enjoy your meal. I’ve been telling you stories that are useless.”
“Ah, I see…”
I remembered something I had forgotten and asked her.
“The last time you said that you shouldn’t go deep into the forest behind the monastery. What’s the reason?”
“Ah… that’s it?”
She scratched the nape of her neck and answered.
“Actually, I don’t know either. They say monsters live deep in the forest.”
“······monster?”
“In the past, priests and paladins have disappeared without a trace in the forest several times before. So no one goes into the depths of the forest.”
Encounter (6)
The forest behind the monastery was located in a different direction from where I fell.
From the outside, it looked like an ordinary forest, but suddenly it was a monster.
“What… do you mean that ferocious monsters live?”
“I don’t know, because no one has actually seen it.”
“Then why do you say monsters exist?”
“I just told you. There have been several times when the people of the monastery have gone missing. So everyone says it’s the work of an unidentified monster.”
Is it just a rumor?
Haha, if several people were missing, it would have been considered that way.
“So they said that they did an extensive search once, but in the end they couldn’t find a single trace.”
“Is everyone who entered the forest missing?”
“No, only a few people. Before that, they said they had passed without any problems. After a few incidents, they hardly ever went in.”
Elika shrugged.
“Well, it happened before I even joined the monastery, so I don’t know the details. To be honest, I don’t believe in monsters either.”
“Still, seeing that happened, it must be something in the forest.”
“Maybe. There’s nothing good about going in anyway, so I told you not to go there when we left later.”
she turned around
“Then I’ll go out. Good job.”
I went out and looked at the closed door, then turned to the meal on the desk.
To start eating, I pushed the papers and books to one side and picked up a spoon.
‘by the way······.’
Considering what Elika had just said, it seemed that she had something to do with it.
Most of the children of this monastery had nowhere to go, so it was only natural that they were staying here.
‘Did you even lose your family to the demons?’
Even after the war ended, the demons did not run wildly, but they were doing harm all over the continent without knowing it.
He directly slaughtered, corrupted many people with his contract, and, most importantly,…
‘The seed of the devil.’
The demons dream of the resurrection of the demon king.
They want to resurrect the monster again, dry all the seeds of life on the continent, and create their own world.
That’s what they’re doing secretly right now.
That was to find those who had the ‘seed of demons’.
In the final battle with the hero, the demon king, who was in danger of being completely annihilated by the holy sword, used his power to shred his soul and spread it across the continent.
Those who had the soul fragment, the demon seed, were the key and sacrifice that could accelerate the resurrection of the demon king.
Currently, demons have crossed their territory and secretly wandered all over the continent, looking for those who harbored such seeds.
Therefore, finding a successor is the first priority, but after that, I was thinking of finding and securing them somehow.
After thinking about it, I ate the soup.
I don’t know who’s cooking, but the food was always delicious.
***
It was a bright day, and Elika and Heren went out to the yard and found Tom out early in the morning.
“Are you here?”
Tom stopped the wooden sword he was wielding and greeted the two of them.
Maybe he got up early in the morning to train, and his body was already full of sweat and heat.
“I feel good in the morning. When did you wake up?”
“About two hours ago? Ugh, I need to take a break now.”
Tom threw down his wooden sword and sank to the floor.
They both knew why he was so passionate.
Heron said sternly.
“It’s not good to just practice blindly. You don’t have much left now, but you have to manage your condition.”
Lobelgio Abbey was one of the largest monasteries in the southeastern frontier of St.
In the first place, unless it was a monastery of any size, there was no such thing as a permanent residence of the level of a paladin.
Therefore, as there are many children under their care, they selected talented people from among them and nurtured them properly, but the screening test was less than a week away.
And Tom was planning to take this screening test to become an apprentice paladin.
“Hey, what a big deal, how about managing your condition?”
Elica, who had her arms crossed, snorted.
It must have felt bad, but Tom knew that he wasn’t really laughing at him, he was just making fun of him, so he laughed.
“Do you want to do a dalian?”
“Okay. But now that the time is almost up, let’s worship and eat in the morning.”
As it was a space for the clergy, the worship service that was held every morning was the most basic rule of life.
Elica made an annoyed expression once, then picked up the wooden sword that Tom had thrown at him.
Watching her swing her sword in the air, Tom asked.
“But you really won’t?”
“What?”
“Whatever, the paladin. I think you can definitely pass it with your skills.”
At that, Elica frowned.
“Oh, really. I don’t.”
“No… I really don’t understand why are you practicing swordsmanship? Hey, Heron. Do you understand him? Huh?”
Heron just shrugged.
It’s an obvious pattern to get kicked out like this again, and it’s because he didn’t want to get involved in it.
As expected, it was Tom who ended up getting hit in the back with the side of the wooden sword.
“Oh, it hurts!”
“Do something. It’s a sword, I’m just swinging it because I’m bored. How many times do I have to say that I’m just going to be a priest?”