Plague (1)
Through the symbolic event of the memorial service, the devil worshiper incident was concluded and time passed as it was.
Embarrassing rumors still circulated about me, but they gradually began to subside.
The little guy was still putting on hype that bordered on fraud about me, but he didn’t want to.
At that time, there were rumors about the young lady showing off her divine power, but the rumors didn’t spread.
I don’t know if Young-ae rolls up her sleeves herself, and an institution related to the poor materializes.
So unlike the flags and all the negative thoughts I had at that time, nothing out of the ordinary happened.
I went into a cooking class and subtly asked if there was a biscuit snack with marshmallows coated in chocolate on the outside, and for some reason, recently, the cooking class members are obsessed with reproducing the snack I said.
When I went to farming class, pests and diseases around the apple tree greenhouse disappeared and all the trees around a specific apple tree were overgrowth.
In the flower class, the princess kept using holy magic tricks to show off horrendous flower arrangements, so at some point I became competitive and tried to do the same, but the professor asked me to refrain from doing the same because I could create a work that seemed physically impossible and reduce the morale of other students. or receive a request.
In the horseback riding class, Belarus, which was given as a penalty for rookie jockey Ronan, is so strong that other horses are not opponents at all.
There were many incidents in class that could be called skits, but they were enough to be laughed off.
Other special points are that despite the existence of the princess’s shield, more people sneakily approach me and try to cut my face, and that I am officially allowed to go out every weekend, so I stop by the church to do medical volunteer work, and the last There was news of the disappearance of the cardinal attached to the imperial family.
After the meeting, the church did everything I asked without a moment’s delay, and all the orphans cared for by Priest and Sister Reese were moved to the church and opened to the common people.
There was not a single thing left in common except that medical service for the common people and the poor in an old church, and medical service with Wah, while hiding the identity that was intended to be done in the first place, but isn’t good good?
The church is flooded with patients because the aristocrats are trying to use it as an excuse to meet with me with petty illnesses bordering on malingering, but I pretend not to know because I am a contract worker who only works for one day anyway.
And the Cardinals…which was pretty shocking.
After the memorial service, I slowly tried to ask the Archbishop about things I hadn’t been able to ask, but I missed it so futilely.
I wondered if that would make sense, but it seemed unbelievable that such a failure could happen even in the process of transferring the princess from the academy to the capital.
It was not kidnapped or killed to shut the cardinal’s mouth, but there was a force trying to save the cardinal, so I wondered if the cardinal cooperated with that force.
If not, is it possible to disappear without a trace like that?
Other than that, there was really no problem.
In fact, I wondered if the fact that nothing had happened recently was a bit of a problem.
That’s because nothing happened, and the theology of the different races, which the different races were finally prepared for, was finally established.
However, the theology class of the Orion Church was temporarily postponed indefinitely. How could it be possible to go back properly since the nobleman who was called the leader suddenly abandoned all of them and disappeared, leaving a void.
And, completely forgetting, I was supposed to participate in all the theological subjects without a choice…
This is clear abuse. It’s a brutal act that doesn’t respect the individual rights of students.
At first, I liked it because I thought I would finally get a clue to understand the mindset of these fanatics, but the content of the class is theology after all.
Apart from interest, isn’t it a topic that makes you breathless just by listening to it?
If I hadn’t been interested, I would have given up right away.
“Ugh…why are they all the same God, yet so subtly different? It’s too difficult.”
Celia, who was listening to theology next to her, was suffering.
I fully agreed with that statement.
It was natural, given that the god is divided into 4 people, and it is a kind of personal god, but while sharing a large religious worldview, the details were slightly different.
For example, why pain and agony exist in the world we are studying now.
Isn’t it a really curious keyword?
God exists in the world, so why is this land not a paradise?
The biggest reason was, of course, devil worship.
They are the most easygoing punching bag guys. First of all, if you think there is something wrong in this world, most of them are the correct answer.
It is said that this happens because the corrupt people of each race are ordered by demons who are at odds with God and endlessly torment the world.
The next reason was different for each tribal deity.
Orion found the cause of suffering and problems in the individual suffering from them. It was said that this happened because you did something wrong.
Calliul, the dwarven deity, expressed all the suffering as ‘refinement’. It was part of the process of refining herself on this earth in order to become a worthy being next to Calliul’s brazier after death.
Ariel, the elven god, considered the pain to be a natural part of the world. That is to say, it was natural for the world to have such pain, excluding the artificial pain created by demon worshipers.
Herna, the god of the beast tribe, chose the cause of the pain as a subject to ‘search for’. The pain must have a cause, so it was the clergy’s job to try to find out.
It was the most incomprehensible claim, but unlike the savage appearance that the agent sometimes showed, surprisingly, the main teachings of the beast tribe were reason and wisdom, and it was said that it was a denomination that always questioned the seemingly natural things and tried to understand the reason.
As such, although the doctrines advocated by each denomination were all different, fundamentally, there was no part in which their respective claims were completely opposed to each other, so the doctrines of each denomination were recognized independently.
In fact, I thought only the names and symbols of the gods and the main teachings they pursued were different, and the rough content would be the same, but most of them were subtly different in this way, so it was really a stage where I had to learn all four types of theology.
Can’t we unify the doctrine by making an agreement among the giant gods?
Since I am aiming for the title of an ideal saint, I am working hard to show that I am well-versed in theology, but I do not know how long this will be possible.
I wonder if there will be an incident where I have no choice but to miss class due to unavoidable circumstances.
Coincidentally, at the timing I was thinking about that, Celia, who had been struggling until just now, started talking to me.
“Come to think of it, Ronan-nim, have you heard?”
…Huh? Didn’t I really mean to have one?
“What do you mean?”
“It seems that a contagious disease has recently been spreading in the border area between the Elven Kingdom and the Empire.”
Um…wasn’t it a big deal?
I internally let out a sigh of relief.
“If rumors like that spread, I’m sure you’ll leave the church sooner or later.”
“Yes! Sooner or later, the church said that priests will be dispatched.”
Since this world is in the fashion middle ages and there are things like divin law and magic, infectious diseases were not as big a problem as I thought.
It’s enough to just block the surroundings, treat contagious patients, and disinfect the surroundings.
Besides, if it was also around the elven kingdom, there was a possibility that the elves would come out, but if so, the job would be easier.
It was a fact that I learned recently, but the holy magic was different for each race.
In general, elves excelled in areas related to the growth of life, a part of which was healing, than other races.
The contagious disease spreading in the border area with a small population would be easily suppressed.
“By the way, where did you hear that news?”
“I heard it from a friend in class.”
You are enjoying a desirable youth school life.
Celia’s innocent words almost brought me to tears.
Strangely, every time I take a class these days, I feel like I’m getting more and more distant from the students in the same class.
The commoners who share my petit bourgeois sentiments are increasingly full of people who treat me scornfully and approach me for the snobbish purpose of making friends somehow.
Where the hell is my commoner-friendly move?
Even recently, when I openly practiced medicine, I am receiving strange hostility from professors and students in the medical-related field.
Of course, they also have their own thoughts, so they don’t reveal them, but I can’t help but care because I can see them all.
From their point of view, it’s a rice bowl problem, so it’s ambiguous to say anything.
I pretended to be okay and smiled at Celia.
“If you’re a friend who can hear such stories, there’s nothing wrong with maintaining a close relationship. Keep a good relationship.”
But don’t leave me behind. It seems like I still only have you and the princess as friends.
At those words, Celia was looking at me with a strange expression.
“why?”
“I think Ronan-nim sometimes tells very realistic stories.”
Come to think of it, it is.
Talking about dating because it might be helpful, at least, wasn’t something a saint would spit out.
Have you tried to study for a long time, has your brain gone?
“But since Ronan-sama is talking about it, it seems natural!”
Fortunately, Celia let it go without thinking, and we decided to focus on theology again.
It was just a casual conversation, so the story didn’t even stay in my head right after.
However, when I heard from the princess a few days later that an expeditionary force, including priests, had been formed to prevent contagious diseases, I vaguely thought that such a thing had happened.
Then I forgot again.
Because it had nothing to do with me anyway.
After a while, when I heard that the 2nd expedition was organized, I thought that the contagious disease must have spread more widely than I thought or that it must be highly contagious.
Yes, there is no way that the expeditionary force, including the clergy, will fail in quarantine, so the area that spreads is wider than the area where the quarantine is completed, so more people will be needed.
When I heard that the 3rd Expedition was organized, I tilted my head slightly.
If the people in the 1st Expedition delivered the required size, the 2nd Expedition would have matched it and sent it, but they packed up people and sent it?
Send some generously.
Or are you rushing to send follow-up people because you accidentally sent fewer people to send?
All I could think was that the church was doing nonsense in a useless place again.
And by the time I heard that the 4th Expedition had been organized, the academy as well as people in the know were whispering about the epidemic in the border area.
4th Expedition? That’s all good.
But now, where and what are the previous expeditions doing? Why do expeditions keep forming?
The church kept quiet, but gradually the story began to spread.
It was a vicious rumor that they had failed to prevent the spread of the plague and that not a single member of the expedition had returned.
The rumors were so absurd that few people believed them. Even I did.
Unless everyone has a folding screen and the epidemic isn’t something like a super zombie virus, how the hell is that possible?
The princess came to me while the 4th expedition was being organized.
“Saint Ronan…please help us.”
At that moment, an instinctive intuition that surpassed all logic whispered a story into my brain.
I had a strong premonition that the princess’s visit to me must have been related to the epidemic, and that I would have no choice but to go to the scene.
“I know that such a request is really ridiculous. But the plague that is currently spreading between the Elven Kingdom and the Human Empire is not a common epidemic.”
Why are sad premonitions never wrong?
What the hell are the Orion priests doing?
Suddenly, a theological theory about why people I studied suffers came to mind.
I couldn’t figure out why I believed in such a religion.
