probation (5)
I wanted to explain to the young lady that she already had divine powers on her own, even if it meant staying up all night until everyone could understand on the spot, but unfortunately, she was rejected by the world again.
“Here you are, my saint. The meeting is about to begin soon. Please go.”
Because one of the priests who came to announce the end of my free time entered the building and said so.
“We took too much of the saint’s time.”
“Once a specific issue is decided, the academy will deliver it.”
The aristocratic brother and sister said that and walked away from me with a very relieved face.
In the end, the misunderstanding was not resolved…
“Let’s go back too.”
“You have to tell everyone about this!”
The children also made ominous noises and prepared to go back.
What, what the hell are you talking about?
“Me, saint.”
Meanwhile, a little friend came up to me and talked to me.
Why is that? I smiled and looked at it with meaning.
“I’m sorry for saying such a nonsensical thing earlier that you were shy. I think I thought of you as an ordinary human being.”
I can hear the person who looked after me without prejudice disappearing. The path of the ideal saint cosplay was the path of a lonely Sura with no one to understand…
What do you mean by thinking of me as a normal human being?
I felt strange because it felt like they were treating me like an outsider.
I’m just an ordinary human except for the fact that I have a lot of divine power.
“I’m just an ordinary human like Ray-sama.”
“I knew you would say that. But I really wanted to say it. The person who saved me is a person like the Holy Son, so I am truly honored.”
Is it a hobby for everyone these days to predict my lines?
As usual, he smiled when he had nothing to say, and the friend bowed his head once again to express his gratitude and walked away with the kid.
It was a fight that left only chaos and scars… I still don’t know what I was fighting.
After sending everyone away and being guided by the priest, I entered a building greeted by an increasing number of priests.
“You’re welcome, Saint Ronan.”
“Meet the saint.”
There was something like a big round table in the middle, and the clergy around the round table greeted me.
If there are so many priests, it seems like they must all be corrupt and conspiring, but most of them only have feelings of awe and goodwill toward me, to the point of being a little embarrassed.
At least, some of the clergy seemed to be feeling burdened while greeting me on the outside, but even that was a feeling close to fear and fear.
Isn’t this what the denomination has become right for?
“I am Ronan, who is being called an undeserved title.”
When I said that and lowered my head, everyone bowed their heads.
After greeting each other like that, when the silence fell, a priest began to bring up the main topic.
“The Headquarters feel strongly responsible for the presumptuous behavior of former Archbishop Barmel, who was the general manager of the Central Church here, and pledged to find out the disquieting movement through its own investigation and prevent a recurrence.”
I’ve collected only the words that politicians who have been corrupted.
“Therefore, the operation of the Central Church here will take some time until the official dispatch of a follow-up manager from the main office, and accordingly, we have informed that the operation for the time being will be left to the clergy’s own judgment. This is the current meeting. Are you aware of it?”
After hearing that, the clergy all nodded their heads without much agitation. It was a summary to remind everyone of the story they already knew.
I thought about this once last time, but it must have been an inevitable decision on the part of the church.
The picture got very strange when it was revealed that the archbishop was indeed in collusion with devil worshipers.
Although the ranks of the Order are nominally hereditary, the high ranks of the Church, which have been passed down from generation to generation and have produced children with strong divine power, have naturally repeated hereditary succession, and the Archbishop, who was blown off his head this time, was also a person with factions and influences intertwined within the Church. .
Of course, if you make up your mind and start to weave, the limit disappears.
Even the church, which had been doing their best in vain, must have judged that this was dangerous, so they left the ball they were preparing for and stood up in an instant and took a step back.
Still, it seems that a minimum of rationality remained.
Perhaps for the time being, I will focus on internal control and organization. When that is over, I will send a successor.
My basic goal was to take advantage of the hiatus and secure my base of support in this city so that even if a successor came later, I could not shake it.
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Looking at the priests in front of me, I wonder if the church has already achieved that goal.
After the meeting started, the clergy who had noticed each other started to look at me secretly.
I couldn’t help but be embarrassed at the bottom of my heart, as the purpose was to just properly stamp my face and see what decisions the clergy were making.
It was as if he wanted me to make a decision on this matter.
No matter how much you decide to have faith in me, you are a person who does not reside in the church or even formally belong to this church. If I give you an order, will you obey it?
I knew that the church was teaching obedience to superiors as a virtue, but when I experienced it, I could only sigh.
Is there any significant difference between this and being subjected to brainwashing? Autonomy has been castrated to this extent, so I am just waiting for someone to give me an order.
It’s not a bad thing from my point of view, but I couldn’t erase the uncomfortable feeling.
do i really decide?
“It would be nice if the church would be open to everyone in the future.”
The priests nodded vigorously as if they were waiting for me to open my mouth.
“I will.”
I tried to stop talking for a while just in case, but a constructive discussion site where each person started to express their opinions starting with my words was not created.
“I wish we could do more events to distribute food to the common people whenever we can afford it.”
Will you accept this too?
“I will.”
This time, the clergy who accept without words.
Shouldn’t you at least say that you’ll consider it after checking the church’s financial situation or something like that?
“Then, wouldn’t the church on Delm Street be unnecessary?
Then this too? From my point of view, there is no priest more trustworthy than Priest Reese, so it’s a perfect personnel management of personal connections that I propose?
“If it’s Priest Rhys… isn’t he once famous for his faithfulness?”
“Here, Archbishop Barmel…Kuhm, isn’t it because he was passively opposed to the former Archbishop’s operation and then set an example? I thought he lost his faith…”
“I heard that you helped solve this situation as well.”
“You were seeing what we couldn’t see. Our eyes were knotted.”
…the story behind that?
Priest Rhys’ reputation was higher than expected.
“I will.”
In the end, the priests who talked about Priest Reese for a while expressed their affirmation this time as well.
At this point, I decided to test my limits.
“It would be nice if you could support treatment using divine power. There are definitely people who are in an emergency even though they don’t have enough money.”
“I will.”
There was no hesitation in the answer of the clergy, even though they were asked to perform treatment using divine power, one of the greatest significance of the church, free of charge.
I thought it was quite strong.
“Even in an environment where Mr. Reese is not, he runs his own orphanage, but there is no such thing here.”
“I’m sorry! I’ll create a new one immediately.”
If it was just that level, I wouldn’t even bother mentioning it.
“I’m trying to create an organization that can help the poor with the help of the Duke of Thorpe this time. I think it would be of great help if the priests help with that.”
For the first time, hesitation spread among the clergy.
Still, do you think the lowly people are a bit different?
“I will.”
It was my mistake.
The priests obviously hesitated for a moment, but that was all.
Again, the answer was positive.
Where am I meeting in a dictatorship? Is everyone just raising their arms?
I’ve come up with the futile intention of making these clerics furious at my words.
“And…that’s what I said at the memorial service today. Orion-nim knows everything even if he doesn’t say it.”
I saw a few people starting to get particularly nervous at my words.
“If you haven’t crossed the irreversible line like Barmel-sama, it’s not too late. I hope you can live a life that you can be proud of Orion from now on.”
A warning to stop right now if you have done something that you think would be repulsive.
It was like implying that there were some among you who did things unbecoming priests.
Of course, seeing as there are people who are nervous, I just guessed that the rest of the people, except for the Archbishop, would not be perfectly clean, but I don’t know who did what.
Even so, if you tell a kid much younger than you to live uprightly while mentioning the god you believe in, you might feel repulsive…
“I will.”
The voices coming from the priests this time were definitely quieter than before, but there was no dissatisfaction with me or anything like that.
Most of them looked around at the priests around them, wondering who the hell had done such a thing, and only a few felt a mixed feeling of shame, fear, and relief.
In the meantime, there was no hostility towards me.
I lost. No matter what you say, I don’t think I’ll ever say no.
Those who deserve to attend this meeting in their own way are the senior clergy, at least in this church, but few are corrupt, and if they do, they are ashamed and penitent to the extent I have alluded to.
There are only people like this, how could the church be able to screen people and lock the door on its own?
Was the real Archbishop decided by a single doctor?
I felt like I had tasted a piece of how the church was going.
Under the premise that the person who makes the decision is a superman, the superman’s dictatorship and the subordinate who obeys the superior’s orders without questioning the ideal structure is correct… but in reality, it is natural that the superior is a superman.
The real Orion’s sin is deep…
This was the limit I could think of, so I decided to stop testing the priests.
As long as they obey me even if they provoke their shame, the support of the clergy seems unlikely to change unless I make a huge fuss like the church recently did.
I should be able to do this.
ah.
As I was about to wrap up the meeting, I thought of something, so I asked for one last thing.
“And it feels like there’s been a lot of exaggerated stories about children of miracles and designation of sanctuaries. Of course, Robin-sama and Ray-sama are precious people, but I feel burdened because my activities are so exaggerated. It’s better to restrain yourself…”
This time, the refusal was an unexpectedly light request. Compared to the previous requests, it was so light that it was like a feather.
“Please reconsider!”
And for the first time at the conference I was able to get through the clergy who disagreed with me.
“yes?”
“Didn’t the Holy Son directly tell Orion to live a life without shame?”
“Not preaching the right faith is a great sin in itself!”
“Please reconsider!”
Were you the kind of people who could express your opinions so passionately?
Feeling a sense of betrayal, I barely opened my mouth.
“Everything is a natural process that occurred in the process of setting God’s will right, so there is no need to enumerate the process other than paying praise to God.”
“That process is also part of the shining achievement.”
“Please reconsider!”
In a different sense, it felt like talking to a wall.
No matter what I said, the priests never backed down.
Eventually I gave up on fulfilling my last request.
Yeah well… I’ve listened to all the hard things, but if you’re that desperate, do as you please.
And even though most of my requests were met, that didn’t stop the embarrassing hype from continuing.
I really feel like my head is going crazy after talking to these religious people.
As I left the meeting hall in a tired mood, the princess who was waiting outside approached me.
“Did you finish the meeting safely? I wanted to accompany you, but I couldn’t help it because there was a lot of room for problems with me attending the church meeting as a member of the imperial family.”
“It’s okay. They’re all good people, so there wasn’t anything particularly difficult about it.”
In fact, until the last agenda, all of the people who were yes-men were gathered, so there was no way there was a problem. The last one was only a problem.
“Is it okay if I ask about the conversation you had internally?
The princess looked at me for a moment and then cautiously asked.
I was saying that, but the direction given by the church couldn’t have been a pure curiosity.
Why would you be so formal with something like that?
Since the princess is helping me every time, this level is not even included in the celebration of gratitude.
And besides, we didn’t really have a conversation that we couldn’t talk about.
“We decided to open the church to everyone.”
“It’s a Ronan saintly story. That’s a good thing.”
The princess’ expression softened slightly and she smiled at me. How come you seem to be proud of me?
“Whenever I can afford it, I ask people to provide material support or divine power support.”
“…good…isn’t it?”
The princess’ expression became subtle.
“Is that possible? Were there any objections?”
“Fortunately, everyone readily agreed.”
The princess still couldn’t believe it, but she had an expression as if she couldn’t believe it because I had no reason to lie about something like this.
It wasn’t that the princess’ feelings were incomprehensible.
But there are only people who are surprisingly easy.
I was about to tell the next story, but I came to the conclusion that I had to tell another story first in order to bring it up.
“Come to think of it, I forgot to tell you. I met Helena-sama and Haren-sama when I went out to look around the church for a while. I got confirmation from the two that I would establish an organization to help the poor in this city.”
“Good thing… wait, what did you say?”
“And I ended the story by giving full support to the establishment of the institution to the clergy.”
“yes…?”
“That’s all.”
“…yes?”
I was laughing at the princess’s bewildered expression, which is not common, but the princess came to her senses and questioned me.
“Saint Ronan. What the hell have you been doing in such a short period of time?”
Actually, I wasn’t really doing anything. The aristocratic brothers and sisters and priests were in such a state that they seemed to be draining everything out of their liver and gallbladder, so when I took it out and tried it, it snapped.
I didn’t really do anything this time.
If you take your eyes off it even for a moment, it’s difficult to look at it with an expression as if you’re watching an accidental mess.
“Has there ever been a problem?”
Need a seat on the Poor Relief Policy?
If the princess wants to put a spoon on it, it’s welcome.
The princess answered without saying a word by bringing her hand to her eyes and sweeping it once.
“There is no problem… there is a problem.”
It was a tone that was full of emotion that was somewhat close to lamentation.
“I think I had a pretty riotous life when I was in the academy, but Saint Ronan doesn’t even compare.”
It’s been a bit turbulent lately.
But it’s definitely not a fuss I intentionally caused. I’m swept up in it all.
Still, it will be quiet for a while now. The situation is all over and the church’s influence has been dispersed, so there is no need to worry right now because it will be obvious if you try to cheat.
I have set the direction for everything I want, so I just have to look around with my hands behind my back.
There was still a long way to go, but it felt like we had crossed a mountain peak.
Now, I knew instinctively that it was time to walk the ridge moderately and make maintenance to go over the next peak.
It wasn’t that I didn’t have anxiety, but it’s not like I can solve it by thinking about it right now.
It would be nice if you could give me another suitable excuse to cut out only the high-ranking members of the church in the middle.
I nodded my head in satisfaction and thought about it.
Now that you feel better, shall we go back to class?
If this happens, I will not be able to complete the course due to the lack of attendance days.
You don’t know when you’ll be skipping class again, but even when you’re able to listen, you’ve got to keep going.
“Now I’ll just listen to the class calmly.”
“Actually, it was my role to make sure the saint could do that…”
In fact, the princess blocked the access of most nobles or solved all the minor problems.
It’s so unpredictable that devil worshipers are roaming around where I am and I’m discovering the clues, so it’s unreasonable to blame the princess. Sometimes, I wonder if the princess has too much responsibility.
“Don’t beat yourself up too much. It was inevitable.”
You can solve it again as usual.
There’s no way that special situations where I have to jump on my feet will happen so often.
…what? is this a flag?
Ay, I can’t believe that something like a novel cliché actually happened just because I thought about it once.
“Shall we go back?”
I said that with a smile, burying a thought that could be cheated on in my heart.
