Chapter 225 – Chapter 225 ― Reaching Out to the Hungry (1)
Episode 225 ― Unleash Your Beast on the Hungry (1)
“A friend who will help me deal with Merde.”
“Hello everyone.”
Grünent and Aina looked dumbfounded. Only Helen had a hard-to-recognize expressionless face. Of course, Roan quickly recognized that it was Helen’s face to hide her confusion.
“My name is Fiora. Nice to meet you all.”
Fiora smiled her eyes.
However, the only one who smiled at her face was Grünent, who was also skilled in manners.
Aina openly sent her wary glances, and as soon as Helen heard Fiora’s name and her voice, she involuntarily opened her mouth and put her hands in her mouth.
The moment she confirmed that she was free.
The moment I knew that her knife could stab me.
As she wept, Fiora said that she would do her favor, and as soon as she managed to get her words out, she gave up and cried.
She had asked the Forest Fairy’s Duke about Fiora being bound to her sword. She’s already been chained for thousands of years, and with her goddess-sama’s powers, she has her soul contained in her sword, so it would be difficult for her to live without the sword, but Fiora can manifest instead.
When Fiora asked how it would be like to walk around with her sword in her incarnated body, Duke Amilie looked at her in surprise, looked up her old documents, and later sent back a reply through the magic orb.
— A magic sword equipped with an ego cannot injure or discard its owner. However, the most important thing in ancient magic is the master’s will.
Since you are the current owner, it might be possible if you express your freedom. Ancient magic values expression. In fact, if it weren’t for that, there would be no way for us to solve the thousands of years of ancient magic.
If Fiora couldn’t free her body, she was thinking of consulting Fiora and entrusting her sword to her hero.
Although I hadn’t met her much, I thought that the hero was a trustworthy guy.
Fortunately, however, it was not necessary.
Perhaps Roan’s hopes were desperate.
“That black… ?”
Grünent pointed to the sword Fiora was carrying at her side. The sword that Fiora kept her soul for a long time. Both Aina and Helen recognized the sword.
Emperor’s sword.
The mysterious beauty with the sword was silent and smiling.
“It was originally hers. She will use it again for a while.”
And Roan added.
“And he’s going to do my job for me at Merde.”
Grünent smiled as if he understood, and Aina’s eyes narrowed.
“That’s why you came here.”
“I thought it would be nice to have more information about the human kingdom.”
With that said, Fiora unsheathed her sword and placed it beside her, then buried her body deep in her couch.
Knowing that Roan was ready to listen, Grunent started talking.
“Bishop… No, I got a call from Sermo. Humans are arriving in the capital. He said he would like to ask for the first move soon.”
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“Bishop. What are you doing all of a sudden?”
“Heh heh, the news about you is late.”
Sermo received his guest while tending the garden. A small orphanage on the outskirts of Sprouse. It was a place sponsored by the count’s family, not by the church.
“By the way, I don’t have anything to call a bishop anymore.”
“Bishop!”
“Shut up a little. If you don’t kill your personality, you won’t be able to live with His Holiness.”
The priest who was pointed out by Sermo shut up. Laughing, another priest slapped him on the shoulder, but the smile on his face wasn’t complete either.
Shaking off her weeding hands, Sermo stood up on his knees with a groan and pointed at the building.
“Let’s go in.”
It is said to be an orphanage building, but since it has just started its business, there are many weak and broken places here and there.
Sermo and his priests exchanged greetings several times as they made their way to the director’s office, past the people busy repairing the walls and roofs and cleaning the building.
As soon as Sermo sat down, one of the priests asked a question.
It was a sharp-eyed priest who raised his voice a little in the garden.
“Is it an orphanage? Here.”
“Hmm?”
“Why are there more adults than children?”
“Hmm.”
At his words, the virtuous priest who came with him was startled.
It was.
There were a few mixed children, but there were far more adults in work clothes.
Even if it’s a newly opened orphanage that needs a lot of people to work. It doesn’t take 10 adults to repair a dilapidated building. If the pay was urgent, I should have picked up the children a little later.
“As expected, your attention is valuable. If you keep your seat well, it will be difficult for His Holiness to treat you carelessly, Ain.”
“Bishop!”
“I want you to stop screaming.”
A priest named Ain, sitting in a chair across from the bishop without permission, asked a question with a stern look.
“If you wanted a job in the capital or a small parish, His Holiness would have already jumped up and down with joy. That’s enough, why would you leave the church? Everyone is confused.”
As Sermo remained silent, the virtuous priest, who carefully sat down, also opened his mouth.
“Ain is right, Bishop. Even if it wasn’t so, Helen disappeared, and soon there was such an uproar in the middle of the temple. Not only young deacons, but also priests and some bishops are at a loss. Everyone expected the bishop to hold the center at a time like this.”
“Did you come to tell me that you got angry because I didn’t do as you please? Tsk tsk.”
“Bishop, that’s not it…”
“You spoke well. Why are you wandering around? The priest’s duty is not politics. He respects and takes care of all life according to the word of the Goddess. That is the priest’s job.”
The two priests were silent.
The words, ‘Didn’t you come here because there is no way to do that?’ Came out of my throat and then I managed to get in.
As if he understood his words, Sermo shook his head.
“Okay. The question you raised is the reason I acted. Would that be the answer?”
Ain’s eyes narrowed, and the eyes of the virtuous priest sitting next to him widened. Sermo looked out the window.
“I went out during prayer this spring, so you all know. Everyone’s lives are already messed up. There are no people to sow seeds and harvest even if we hold a prayer ceremony. Even if people are starving, the superiors of this country are already not interested in the voice of the goddess.”
“… Bishop. What if innocent people are thrown away just because they don’t want to get entangled in politics?”
Sermo sighed.
“If you are tied up there, then, did the answer come out? Sufferers are everywhere. And recently I had an interesting experience.”
“What is.”
When the virtuous priest asked, Sermo hesitated for a moment before answering.
“Did you know that humans were captured in the country of demons?”
Then, the faces of the two priests darkened at once. Helen, and Princess Grunent, who supported them. All of them got caught up in the war with the country of demons and disappeared.
“Yes. I know.”
“The people here are their families.”
“Ah.”
Ain opened her mouth blankly and looked out at the people outside the window, while Bai opened her eyes wide.
After a moment of silence, he came to a startling conclusion.
“Have you met Mr. Grünent or Mr. Helen?”
“Bai, what are you saying…”
“Leave it. As expected, it’s a pity that you guys are also in the church. How could the path to advancement be blocked because both of them followed me?”
Sermo smiled and continued.
“Why did you think so?”
“Isn’t the bishop just someone who would accept the support of a noble family? Few people know what happened to those who were taken to Evirzio. There is no way that noble families would have accepted the story of gathering and taking care of their families. That is unless there is Mr. Grünent or Mr. Helen who will mediate in the middle.”
Sermo smiled lightly.
If it hadn’t been for the jewel that Grünent handed over, it would have been as Bai said. Grünent, whom he met in Evirgio, said that Count Hilfe only believed in things, and handed him a ring with the royal family’s pattern engraved on it.
On the one hand, I was proud of the disciple who had guessed this far only with this situation.
“Okay. Both of them are alive and well.”
“That… !”
“Then, is it really Helen who showed up in the capital before?”
The faces of the two priests brightened this time.
Because they are from orphans, they do not have help from songbun, and they do not know how to line up because they do not have a will in politics.
It was Saint Helen and her outside patron, Princess Grunent, who saved them.
Princess Grünent walked a tightrope between the pope and the royal family, using the church’s power as her backbone. Thanks to that, the royal family did not touch the church and the princess, and the church treated only her princess and Helen, who was connected to her, with care.
That balance collapsed when the princess was sent as a sacrifice to the country of demons. However, such a princess and the saintess who was sent to her limb to save the princess are alive.
“In the country of demons, there are still people who have been taken prisoner.”
“Yes?”
“And the king and princess of the demons wanted to settle them in their own country.”
The two priests couldn’t understand what Sermo was saying. I heard that demons eat humans. Are there prisoners left? Are you settled?
“Why… , Why settle humans? Don’t they eat people?”
When Bai asked, forgetting the rudeness, Sermo shrugged his shoulders.
“The demons do not have enough numbers to farm, and the land is desolate. They recently discovered a way to improve their intellect, but there is a shortage of hands, so they say that if you clear the land, that much land will be distributed to humans.”
“But the war…”
“Did you not hear? The war stopped at the request of the king of the demons.”
The two priests were silent again.
The priest of the capital is a high-ranking person. He looks after the nobles and takes care of the temple.
All sorts of rumors gathered at the Temple of Life through those who came and went to help with the worship in the royal family, and those who met and talked with nobles.
The rumors he heard were confusing.
The one who said the king of the demons started a war and the one who tried to stop the war.
Some say that the king of the demons killed the princess and the saint, some say he captured them, some say he keeps them alive, and so on.
A situation where you can’t trust any of them.
In the meantime, what their teacher says is the truth. At the startling truth, the priests stared blankly at the teacher with sparkling eyes behind the glasses. And that surprise turned to astonishment.
“So I’m going to take care of them and go to the country of demons at the right time.”
“Yes?!”
“Bishop!”
Bai opened her mouth, and Ain jumped up and screamed. Sermo, however, answered seriously.
“Ain.”
The pupils of the priests shook wildly.
“Children. I am no longer a member of the Order. My decision is personal Sermo’s.”
Sermo laughed softly.
“But it doesn’t mean that the goddess isn’t by my side.”
“That… Say…”
“Even an individual like me can follow and keep the word of the Goddess. Caring for the suffering lives and being close to them. Goddess’ teachings are clear. However, the current church has become too bloated to fully carry out the words of the Goddess.”
And Sermo was silent.
You don’t have to say more to appease them.
They are smart enough,
They are already disadvantaged in various ways in the church.
Even though he was smart and had enough qualifications as a priest, just because his background and attitude weren’t helpful to the church.
“I think being a bishop or a priest is, in the end, just the standard of a denomination established by humans. So you don’t have to call me bishop anymore, and you don’t have to worry.”
About half of the subtitles are from orphans.
Children who have no place to lean on start studying to become priests, but the priests’ house is where children who do not receive the share of the eldest son in aristocratic families somehow come in to maintain power.
Even if they somehow become priests, they cannot be compared to other priests who come from aristocrats or have excellent tightrope walking skills.
The dissatisfaction of such deacons and priests reached its peak.
New lands are not just opportunities for politicians, merchants, and mercenaries.
Even for those who believe in religion, it is an amazing opportunity for a start.
And these children who come to me have the eyes to see the opportunity, the drive, and the desire to follow the word of the Goddess.
Otherwise, no one would deliberately visit a former bishop who seemed to have been expelled from the church after failing to walk the tightrope.
“Okay. Now that you’ve come to visit us, I have to ask you a favor. If you see any guys who seem to be suffering in the church, bring them. I will need children to help me with my work.”
An interesting light shone in the eyes of the two priests who heard Sermo’s words.
