105 – Mayor’s Office (3)
“Squadron commander, did I hear something wrong?”
“No, Mrs. Ma, I think you heard it right.”
“Haa… This is really bothering me.”
I don’t know much about blasphemy.
However, I do know that this world revolves around the Hellenes Church.
It’s not because I’m simply a priest and the husband of a saint.
Because goddesses exist in this real world, and people can live because of the goddesses.
So people worship the goddess with a very grateful heart.
The worship gradually evolves into rest and turns blindly.
The people I’ve seen so far are strange, but
No one was blaspheming.
The rumor that he was taken to the church headquarters for blasphemy and tortured is accepted as truth.
On the outside, they all seemed to believe in and praise the goddess.
But this person is not.
It seems that he really thinks of priests that way and doesn’t believe in goddesses.
Because I was an outsider in the first place, I didn’t have blind faith, but I wasn’t like the priests and knights around me.
Because these people have blindly worshiped the goddess since they were children.
“Haa…….”
“My father’s mother. I can’t overlook what he said right away.”
“Me too.”
“That’s right… First of all, it’s right to call Stella, right?”
“Yes, and I will select a few knights and send them to the Order.”
“Then Ashut-hyung should know about this too.”
Ashut is at the National Alliance Headquarters.
The knights can be led by company commanders for training, and Ashut-hyung has other things to do.
“Then who would like to visit?”
“I’ll keep my seat here.”
“Hmm… If the company commander is here…”
“I’m coming!”
A soldier who wants to go on his own in an immobile position.
I nodded moderately.
***
Even after the soldier was away, the work progressed gradually.
Anyway, this bastard might be taken to the religious authorities and executed.
Because I can’t scratch my personality little by little, and I’ve heard strange things about Stella.
So, I drew the knife of the company commander who was standing next to me and tried to strike him in the neck, but I was stopped.
“Father Mama!”
There were three people calling me and running.
Ashut older brother and the high priest’s older sister, Stella.
Hey, the High Priestess sister and Stella were breathing heavily, as if they had jumped up, but Ashut, who is an athletic freak, didn’t seem to be tired at all.
Something feels strange.
“Seobang-nim! You haven’t been hurt anywhere?!”
“Yes? Why am I hurt?”
“Kyung!”
Yongyong, who was floating next to him, sat on Stella’s shoulder.
Maybe it means don’t worry.
Then he started rubbing his head against Stella’s cheek.
Even at this timing, Yongyong is acting childishly… Maybe he’s more ignorant than I thought.
“I heard there was a fight…”
“There was a fight, but it wasn’t a fistfight fight.”
“Whew… That’s good.”
Stella let out a sigh of relief, saying it was really fortunate.
By the way, a fight would be about a fistfight, so why are you so worried?
“In the Neutral Zone, most fights are fought with fists and ended with guns.”
“Ah…”
If that’s the case, I can understand why you’re worried.
Even when I hurriedly asked the soldier, Stella didn’t get the answer she wanted, so she seemed to think she was changing her words.
“So… More than I heard, what’s going on with Humhak?”
“There is a person called the company commander of the guard…”
“Anyone?”
Brother Ashut urged the company commander on the side of our knights to answer quickly, but he didn’t answer in the end as if he didn’t even want to say it himself.
I guess I have to say something.
“That person said nonsense about the goddess Hellenes and the saints.”
“What level is that?”
“More than blasphemy.”
Sacrilege as defined by the Church Bureau
Destroying the symbol of deliberately damaging the Cross of the Goddess.
There are two things that destroy the dignity of the goddess with words that should not be put in her mouth.
And he even insulted the saintess, the representative of the goddess…
It’s like getting two tickets issued at the same time.
“Okay. I don’t really want to hear what you said.”
Stella nodded beside me and came into my arms.
He hugged me and slowly led me to the back.
“Why is that?”
“Because in the eyes of the West, something bad will happen.”
“Not a good thing? Arresting me…”
I’d rather see that madman get arrested…
The company commander of the guard, Dave, Eri, and I slowly headed back with Stella.
He started to run wild as if he didn’t care.
“Hey, mister.”
Of course, brother Ashut blocked the runaway guard company commander.
There’s no way they’ll just send it to us.
The company commander of the runaway guards drew a knife from his waist, as if his eyes had turned to him.
It looked very sharp, and it looked like it would die of shock at the slightest touch.
“You can’t look at the West.”
“Hmm…”
Stella softly covered my eyes with her soft hands.
I quietly grabbed Stella’s other hand and got out.
And that moment of escape.
Suddenly, along with a ding, the sound of something heavy falling to the wooden floor was heard.
It looks like the company commander of the guards dropped something while installing it.
“Who should pay for that?”
“The blasphemer will take care of it. We are going back to the Confederation of Nations headquarters.”
Stella opened my eyes after being far away from the animal supply store.
I caught up with my hand, and it felt a little strange that I was trying to walk consciously.
“By the way, what happens if the blasphemer is sent to the Church Bureau?”
“Yes? Forced?”
“Yes, aren’t we going to send him back?”
“…Ah~ pressured~”
Stella touched his hand, saying that she remembered it only then.
Then he said, ‘You still remember what you heard during priestly training. It’s a problem.’ And stroked my head.
***
“Eri, are you okay?”
“Yes, the saintess, thank you for caring about me.”
“Dave isn’t hurt, is he?”
“Yes…Thank you.”
Stella rides the two people together in the carriage that came to pick them up to calm them down.
The two of them tried to decline, but were defeated by Stella’s stubbornness.
Stella’s stubbornness is stronger than I thought.
It’s important not to think about running away while holding on to that thing.
Dave and Eri must be shaking so much that they forgot whether they were holding a cup in their hands.
Even I would tremble in fear if I was suddenly surrounded by fully armed guards.
“The two of you are off tomorrow.”
“No… No, Mrs. Ma.”
“This is the owner’s order, so listen. I’m going to rest in my room tomorrow too.”
I saw all the places I wanted to see today.
From tomorrow on, I’ll be in my room or take a look inside the National Alliance Headquarters.
Today, I realized that foreign countries are scary places.
Maybe next time I won’t be able to go abroad.
“Nuna, we won’t be going abroad after today, right?”
“hehehe, are you afraid of the West?”
“Yes, I’m scared.”
There is no country as comfortable and safe as the Church of God.
Because the neutral zone is really neutral, it’s so scary to carry a sword, a knife, and a dog or a cow.
No matter how much you say it’s a means to protect yourself, if that means causes fear to others
Is that fair?
When one person carries a gun, other people become anxious and buy a gun.
Wouldn’t a near-infinite phenomenon happen?
No, it may already be happening.
“Even in the Church of God, people above intermediate priests carry firearms…”
“It’s okay. There’s never been a gun accident in our church.”
“Not even once?”
I wonder if that is possible.
A gun could explode due to an accidental incident, or someone might have stolen it and used it.
“The guns that the priests wear are controlled by magic. So, unless they can be used, they’re just scrap metal.”
“It’s a setting I’ve seen a lot…”
That means that firearms can only be used in wartime or when something similar has occurred.
Other than that, let alone the trigger, the bolt won’t even retract.
“The crime coefficient…”
“Yes? What did you just say?”
“No. I just thought I’d seen it somewhere.”
Still, if it’s similar to the system you’ve seen a lot, you can rest assured.
At least there won’t be any abuse or accidents.
“Seobang-nim seems to have a lot on his mind.”
“So you don’t like it?”
“No, no matter what you think, it’s so lovely that it has everything to do with me.”
“Kuhmm… There are two people in front.”
“How is it? You two are our family too.”
That’s right.
As long as they became my guardian priests, they are the people I will stick with for the rest of my life.
There is no need to be ashamed.