revelation (4)
Fasting. In terms of simply not eating or drinking, the act itself is actually not that unfamiliar in this world.
It is a world where there are overflowing poor people dying of starvation because they cannot find food even in a corner of a bustling city.
However, it is not that you ‘can’t’ eat food voluntarily due to the circumstances around you.
And for those who could eat in abundance, eating their own food meant more than simply filling their stomachs.
Just as the act of being extravagant for nobles in the Middle Ages was a kind of duty to maintain their authority and dignity, a similar perception was established here.
And food was one of those sophisticated luxuries that only those educated enough to notice, demonstrating their authority indirectly through rare spices, ingredients, and exotic recipes, though not in the most intuitive way.
In addition to the food culture as a luxurious means and the fact that it is an essential act for living beings to live, eating a meal was a fairly essential act in this world, and it was customary and natural to have a meal every time to the extent that it was a little excessive.
The four legs were long, but the words he wanted to say were simple.
In other words, for a person with a social reputation like me to protest through fasting… it was a very unfamiliar and unconventional act!
In this world, fasting for religious reasons is virtually non-existent, and rather, the concept of fasting itself was not widely known to people, except for knights or knights who sometimes put themselves in extreme situations during training.
Usually, an unfamiliar and unconventional act is easy to attract aggro, but it may cause a sense of alienation, which may have the opposite effect of rejecting the first person accepting it, but this was unlikely.
The act of condemning others while fasting was unfamiliar, but the hunger and pain felt by not eating was rather a story that most people could relate to.
I was sure that if I lay down to fast while condemning what the Orion Church had done, the Orion Church would not be able to pass the time with nonsense, such as that there was no evidence or that the imperial family threatened a saint.
What would I do if I actually starved to death after wasting so much time?
Of course, if I did this in modern times, it wouldn’t have meant much because even a three-year-old child living in Dume Mountain would have noticed that what I was doing was just a show and that I would pick up something if I was hungry. If you’re hungry later, you’ll have to eat one.
However, since the word hunger strike itself doesn’t even exist here, what I’m doing is an unfamiliar concept, so it’s going to be difficult to judge whether I’m really going to starve to death.
If anything, it would be hard for them to come to their senses because they would end up with the stigma of starving the saint. Just when they thought they had an absolute advantage, their superiority was overturned in this way and they became imminent, so even if you don’t know that there will be noise here and there. all.
To be honest, it’s rather over-medicated, to the point where I wonder if that’s a downside.
“If Ronan-nim starves, I’ll starve too! If Ronan-nim dies, I’ll die too!”
The hitbox is too wide, so I think it’s allying.
Since it hadn’t been lunchtime and dinner time yet, I hadn’t even started fasting like a fast, but just because I said I’d do it, Celia was smoking next to me, saying that she would starve to death with me.
“You don’t have to go this far. It’s not Ronan-sama’s fault!”
I was about to tell Celia, who protested while crying, that we were going to have a simple dinner for a while, but I changed my mind when I saw the imperial knights, who were trying hard to pretend not to, but who were keenly aware of their direction.
Well done. I felt it was the right time to begin the second task I had envisioned to put pressure on the Order.
I don’t know if I didn’t start in the first place.
“Celia.”
“Why are you like that, cool.
Because it’s not lunchtime yet.
If I don’t ask for food right now, I’m on the verge of crying.
“I’m not saying I’m starving to death.”
Why would I choose to die of starvation? It takes so long and is painful to die. I have no intention of committing suicide, but even if I did, I would never choose to die of starvation.
“But… you mean that if the church doesn’t admit their fault, they’ll continue to starve.”
In the first place, this kind of competition was created to prevent the church from holding out like that, but if you tell the truth like that, there is no point in making this competition.
I pretended to keep my voice low, as if I were telling a secret story, but started speaking loud enough for everyone to hear.
“In fact, it’s not a very important story to me unless the church acknowledges it.”
Of course, what the church acknowledges is the most important thing, but in the first place, I’m saying this in the hope that all of this will flow to and fro by those who are pricking their ears up there.
I need to set up a smokescreen to keep my intentions from revealing, while putting more pressure on the Church.
“Yes? Why? Isn’t Ronan-sama taking the place of those people’s sins?”
“If they don’t sincerely repent of their sins, what’s the point of me just bearing them for a while?”
“Then why do you pray without eating?”
“Actually, I didn’t tell Azalea-sama all the contents of the revelation.”
“yes?!”
Celia was also startled by the keyword revelation, and the knights who were guarding their seats could not maintain their correct posture, and the rustling noise of their armor was heard.
The reason why the whole empire is in full swing right now is because of the word revelation that came out of my mouth, but the fact that there is a hidden content of the revelation that the princess was not informed of was a topic that could not help but be exciting no matter who heard it.
“Is there a hidden revelation? Why the hell did you do that?”
“You don’t have to worry so much. It’s not that important. It just said that if I told the truth this time, I might be in trouble.”
The characteristic of all stories that decorate the beginning that it is not very important content. It is very important content.
How can the content that there is a threat to my personal life not be important? I didn’t mean it either.
“Well, how is that not important…?”
Celia dropped her words as if she was dumbfounded and barely retorted.
The response is so substantial that it tastes like making up a story. I feel like I’m immersed in it too.
“It’s only natural that I could be in danger the moment I decided to uncover the people controlling the Church anyway. I didn’t open my mouth so carelessly.”
“But…but…”
Celia repeated opening and closing her mouth as if she didn’t know what to say even though she wanted to say something, and after a while, as if she had come to her senses, she asked the question again.
“What does that have to do with fasting? In times like this, you should eat more!”
“that…”
I hesitated for a moment whether I could sincerely say this, but then I made up my mind.
I never thought I would be able to catch them without getting my hands dirty at all. I can’t help it even if an innocent victim comes out. At least I have everything I can do.
“Perhaps…they might be trying to poison me.”
Wow Jangchang!
Right after my words came out, a noise that was not small came from the side where the knights were.
When I turned my head to check, broken furniture was strewn about like decorations around the fallen knight.
Gee, my story was so shocking.
Celia didn’t react to the loud noise, just staring at me, not moving.
“That…what the hell is that about?!”
A beat later, Celia’s screaming voice rang in my ears.
“Literally. One of the many troubles I may have.”
“You’re being poisoned?!”
Celia continued talking in an ambiguous voice, whether she was angry or asking questions, as if she couldn’t understand it.
“How could you hide something like that?! If that happens, of course we have to hunt down all the people involved and catch them…!”
I calmed the excited Celia with a gesture and began to speak calmly.
“That’s why I didn’t tell you. If they tried to poison me, how many innocent people would be involved in the process? The person who delivered the food unknowingly, the person who cooked the food with poisoned food without even knowing it, maybe instead of me, the food was delivered first. Those who have tasted it… what will become of them?”
What’s going to happen? The poisoned nobleman dies as it is, and the rest are all blamed for guilt-by-association.
This is also the reason why it is difficult for me to fabricate that the church is plotting evil against me.
I don’t know if the church can really make up such evil deeds and catch the tail, but there are only innocent victims and there is too little to gain to use them for agitation, saying that they did it with something they didn’t do.
Of course, this time too, since the church would not have attempted to poison the saint unless they were really crazy people, there would be nothing to be gained, but isn’t that why I worked hard to set the stage?
At the point where I said I would fast, I was already going to insist on this poisoning theory.
If you think about it normally, I don’t see anything to be gained by claiming that the Church is trying to poison me in the current situation. If you have already claimed to eat it, would the church plan to poison you for being crazy?
But what if all of this means that the church knows that the poisoning plan is going to happen in the first place, and refuses to eat at all to prevent it?
A normal person would say that if they knew that in advance, like Celia just did, they’d rather set a trap and catch the culprit without saying anything. That’s a common way of thinking.
However, this is only instigation and the real culprit does not exist, so there is no way that there will be a culprit who didn’t exist just by setting a trap like that. You can’t catch the culprit anyway.
It’s strange to say that there’s no real culprit in the first place, so it’s a lie.
But what if I claim here that I deliberately let go of one perpetrator to avoid making innocent victims?
By adding the reason why I had no choice but to ‘miss’ the culprit, a situation is created in which the other party has to explain the culprit who doesn’t exist.
The only way out of this situation is to prove that my words were lies in the first place, but how the hell are you going to prove that?
My argument now that I have turned off the revelation aggro is just like a cheat key to dismiss it as a claim without evidence and move on.
From the standpoint of the church, it is a matter of going crazy and running wild.
Officially, there are impure elements in the church, and it’s already troublesome enough to pray and fast because of them.
The former can make excuses, but the latter simply has no answer. However, the latter is so blatant that if it had been claimed from the beginning, the church could have rejected it as a political slander.
However, at first, as a member of the church, he showed an attitude of fasting in the process of taking moral responsibility, making it difficult for the church to deal with it, and then leaking the fact that he was fasting because of this off-the-record?
This is not even my official claim. It is just a story that there is no evidence and it is impossible to prove that I blocked it in advance because I thought this would happen in the future.
Of course, I have no intention of pushing this as an official claim. I only said it to Celia in an informal setting because I wanted to appeal to it.
but…
I looked at the stiff knights.
How could those who had the duty to protect and take responsibility for my personal safety not tell the princess or others what they heard from me?
The saint had threatened to poison himself with his mouth?
If a problem arises, he will never do that unless he intends to take over everything himself.
One way or another, it will quickly spread around.
“So…you mean you let go of the culprit threatening Ronan-sama in order not to make innocent victims?”
One line summary Thank you so much.
In fact, to pressure the church, innocent victims may have been created, but they created a criminal who did not exist.
“It can’t be helped.”
“Ronan-sama is an idiot.”
I’ve been rolling my head so hard, but I’m a bit of an idiot…
“Anyway, once the church I mentioned catches the people who orchestrated this incident, the threat to me will naturally disappear. So there is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices.”
“In the meantime, you have to be under constant threat.”
Speaking of threats, there’s not much the Church can do in this situation? If they really decide to poison me now, it won’t be easy, because what I just said has heightened their vigilance.
“If I can reduce the sacrifice by accepting the inconvenience, wouldn’t it be a surplus business?”
Celia sighed and shook her head.
“So, can you keep the story a secret? There’s no reason to talk about it.”
I said that to Celia and looked at the knights as well.
You know that I’m not saying don’t really say this, I’m asking you to spread it as much as you notice, right?
The knights awkwardly turned their heads and seemed to say they hadn’t heard anything.
So, you didn’t hear what I asked you to keep secret right now? That’s why we promised to report it to the princess for my safety, right?
As Celia and I made a promise to each other, I began to wonder if the Church would be able to get out of this nonsense.
Since I created a criminal without me, the best I can do is create a criminal without a church and cut off his tail… That’s a good opportunity for me to defend the unfairly cut off tail and create a further mess.
Hmm… This mud fight is nostalgic as if you are back in your hometown.
If things went on like this, it was expected that the shadows would either unite and make a last-ditch effort or hide somewhere like cockroaches.
Then, even if it’s a bit tasteless from digging out the affected part, I’ll have to pick up the remaining church and swallow it well.
In this situation, I have to make a last resort, and it will be okay as long as another non-standard being like a dragon does not pop out again, and if they escape, I and the imperial family, who have swallowed the church, will work together to deal with them one by one.
Is it finally liberation from the most disgusting b*tch of the church!
Dreaming of a happy future for the first time in a long time, I began to pray as a habit.
Orion…no, any god, please, let me have a barrel of honey this time.
