Academy (1)
In the opinion of the church, the proposal of the imperial family was unconventional.
Why don’t apprentice cadets come to the academy to be educated?
It wasn’t hard to figure out the meaning behind it.
So pass the saint.
“It seems the imperial family has risen to feverishly.”
“You must be anxious. You mean the saint who reappeared after a while?”
“I guess the meaning of imperfection means that you are not faithful to the church.
“The princess seems to want to somehow cover up her mistake of not being able to convince the saint.”
All the high-ranking priests were excited.
In their view, this was a unilaterally advantageous offer for them.
The imperial family seems to want to grab at least a straw, but the saint has already proven himself to the point of believing that he will not be passed over by any offer.
Even if the apprentices who followed betrayed their faith in the Order, their loss would be only one generation of apprentices.
However, at the cost of this, the holy empire collapsed and it was an opportunity to embrace the children of those in power who had never been open to it.
An opportunity that has never been available since the establishment of the Holy City.
They did not have the opportunity, but they had the belief that they would be able to influence the church if they were given the opportunity.
If they succeed here, their names will remain as saints who opened the second heyday of the Orion Church.
“But can the saint already have contact with the wicked outside?”
“You shouldn’t take the stakes lightly. How do you know what they’re going to do?”
Occasionally prudence came in, but that was it.
“What’s the matter? What could be better than a saint who proved his faith without sufficient education.”
“Above all, don’t saints have the ‘talisman’ of the church? God will take care of them if they try to take them by force.”
A priest then pretended to touch the necklace.
It meant that in case the saint was kidnapped or changed his mind, he could be found, and in case of emergency, he would suffer from madness.
It would be difficult to use a saint suffering from madness, and the church would be able to legally punish the opponent who kidnapped the saint and tortured him so severely that he suffered from madness.
The clergy laughed at the imperial family’s handshake due to their impatience and readily accepted the imperial family’s offer, imagining their own beautiful future.
* * *
Have you ever thought about the irony of a corrupt denomination in a world where God exists?
If so, at one time or another, he would have had the same question about the academy that existed in the caste society.
Please don’t misunderstand me. I really like academy water.
But apart from that, if you question the academy’s existence in the academy water, there is no limit.
In the beginning, in the caste system society, status was talent, another word for quality. Isn’t there a saying that nobles have blue blood?
There was also an atmosphere in which those in power were wary of commoners getting an education and taking an interest in society.
It was a natural result of human desire.
In such an era, how can there be such a thing as a merit-based educational institution regardless of the social class gap?
It wouldn’t be impossible if you insisted on setting it up, but who the hell cares about details like that these days?
Most of them were stories that were passed off as fiction.
So at first I was confused by what I was told.
“You want to go to the academy?”
What is it, is this a real novel? How on earth does such an educational institution exist?
Surprisingly, there was an academy in the Empire that was thought to be possible only with the permission of a novel.
Several of them throughout the empire.
I thought it was Kking, but suddenly it’s an academy.
Now I don’t even know what the genre of this ruin is.
To sum up what the church had to say to me, it was this.
When the saint said that he was still lacking in learning, he suggested that he would become a greater saint if he learned from the academy the empire boasts, and the church decided to let go of the saint for a while, holding back tears for the saint’s growth.
It’s amazing that in such a long sentence, the only truth is ‘suggested by the Empire’.
I don’t know the details, but it seemed clear that the princess had a hand.
To be honest, it was a performance far beyond my expectations.
All I wanted was, at best, to visit regularly and put the brakes on so that I wouldn’t do anything stupid.
I heard that all the apprentices, including me, and many of the high-ranking clergy will go to the academy together.
Thanks to that, the academy is building a new church to stay in.
Wow, could it be that you even remembered that I mentioned the children and brought them with you? Isn’t the princess too sweet?
If I knew in advance that I would care this much, I would have told you in detail.
I’m in a good mood right now, so I can go over that tidying up in a good mood.
Contrary to my desire to hum, high-ranking clergymen came to me every day and asked if they were very anxious about the fact that I was in contact with outside personnel.
“Saint Ronan, the outside is not as safe as the inside of the main office. There are piles of reckless people who do not follow Orion’s teachings. Be careful, be careful again.”
“You will face many temptations of corruption. Our priests will help you with both physical and mental abilities, but you must be firm in your heart.”
If anyone hears it, they will know where they are going on an expedition to the devil’s den.
There is no place in the world that is more dangerous to me than here, right?
I’m so worried, but I don’t know what method the imperial family used to get me out of the academy.
Even thinking about it again, long live the imperial family.
“If it’s that dangerous, I’ll just have to let go of the saint…”
It was to the extent that Celia, who was worse off, muttered that.
Uh-huh, don’t be negative, Celia. Then what if I change my mind and really don’t let you go? Not everyone has agreed to send me to the academy yet.
However, it wasn’t that she didn’t know what Celia’s intentions were. She was just genuinely worried about me.
Even if it was the church’s headquarters where a mad fanatic was trying to kill me, from Celia’s point of view, the outside was more dangerous than the church’s headquarters.
In fact, most of the followers who left for the academy with me were confused by this sudden decision.
Beyond the fear of the unknown of encountering a strange world for the first time, there were not a few children who really thought they were falling into some kind of devil’s cave.
He had been instilling hostile thoughts against the imperial family for several years, but being called to the academy established by the imperial family was a natural result.
Even the three of them were scared inside, so I said everything.
“Liss-sama, take heart. Just remember that Orion-sama is by your side when you’re afraid.”
“Lord Belton, calm your hostility. There are no demons or monsters there. There are only children of people like you who haven’t learned yet.”
“You are not alone in a lonely and unfamiliar place. If you feel tired, turn your head and look to the side. There are people who will be with you by your side.”
If I had known it would be like this, I would have gone to church. Then I could have said something more plausible.
Thanks, I’ve been busy too.
Frightened children were soothed, and sedatives were administered to children who were likely to shout desperately. This is what it feels like to be an animal keeper.
In such a chaotic atmosphere, the apprentice cadets should at least smoke something like that, saying, “I can’t go.”
What if the church used that as an excuse to block the academy?
I never had the heart to miss this golden opportunity.
Fortunately, even half of it was worth the name of a saint, so everyone obeyed my words, so I was a little anxious, but there was no big commotion.
As I spent each day that felt like an eternity, it was the day before I left the church.
Today, too, the cardinals who came to visit me started nagging me to never forget the teachings of the church and enlighten the people.
‘You don’t believe in Orion, do you?’ ‘I do.’ ‘Yes, let’s work hard.’
After the same fruitless conversation, I was finally alone.
“Aren’t you afraid of Saint Ronan?”
Correction. Celia, who decided to continue to be my attendant at my request, was still with me.
After meeting alone with the princess, my trustworthiness must have risen considerably, so she lightly accepted this request.
“what?”
Celia, who usually complained softly when the cardinals left, seemed to be afraid when she was about to leave tomorrow.
“It hasn’t been long since the Holy Son suffered calamity. He also suffered calamity from the clergy. Aren’t you afraid of those who don’t follow Orion’s teachings?”
Celia, you’re thinking about something very wrong. It’s not even the priest who gets angry, it’s because he’s a priest, so he’s angry with me.
“All humans make mistakes. If you lose faith in humans because of that one mistake, how exhausting the rest of your life will be.”
Now, it has reached a stage where sounds that are not in the mind come out naturally without going through intra-brain filtering.
I already had no trust in this world to lose. Ah, I do believe in humans. I had faith that humans would become ‘human’.
“…I can’t do that. I guess I don’t have the right to trust Orion-sama.”
For some reason, Celia’s normally calm emotions fluctuated violently.
Come to think of it, since he also has the background of being an aristocrat, his life must not have been smooth.
Today’s pseudo-psychological counseling center has already closed. Still, for the sake of my exclusive attendant, let’s do a little overtime at night.
“Celia. There is no qualification in the world to trust Orion-sama.”
“But in the church…”
“You can forget about the church’s words about the importance of doctrine and the degree of divine power.”
I held Celia’s trembling hand.
“Celia. Do you trust me?”
Celia nodded vigorously.
“Are you afraid of the outside world even though I’m going with you?”
This time, he shook his head vigorously.
“That’s it. If you still have the will to believe in someone and move forward, Orion-sama will take good care of you.”
“But Saint Ronan is a Saint…”
“A saintly title means nothing. Don’t you remember? I was just an apprentice like you not too long ago.”
It was an unacceptable logic even for me, who said that exaggeration is meaningless because he was a substitute not too long ago, but consolation is not something that is done rationally.
If you just empathize with them emotionally and take care of the painful part, that’s the law of consolation.
Celia, whose tremors had subsided, was staring at me.
“Shall we sleep now?”
I thought it was okay, so when I said that, Celia, who was staring blankly at me, spat out a word.
“Then Saint Ronan, who does he believe in when he walks?”
I’m a cold city guy who trusts no one but myself, Celia. With a bomb necklace hanging around my neck, I can’t have any faith in humans.
“Well… Orion-sama?”
To be honest, I’m at the lower limit of my faith in the god who reincarnated in a place like this these days… but it’s true that he gave me strength.
If it wasn’t for that power, it would have had a bad ending.
We turned off the lights, glossing over our last words with laughter, and quietly greeted our last night at the main office.
f*cking dogs. Finally I escape! It was a short moment, but it was dirty together and let’s not see each other again!
At least in my heart, I felt excited that I had already freed myself from the restraints of the church.
……
“But Orion-sama isn’t the one who walks beside Ronan-nim…”
Celia muttered something she couldn’t bear to say to Ronan, and fell into thought while watching Ronan fall asleep as if he were dead.
Sometimes Ronan acts like he has no lingering attachments in this world.
The feeling that one day it will disappear without warning.
In the end, Celia knew that Ronan did not affirm until the end that he believed in humans, even though he said that life without faith in humans was exhausting.
He also vaguely felt that Ronan was not living by faith in God and the church as much as he had thought.
However, rather than disappointed or puzzled by Ronan’s appearance, Celia only felt sad.
