Chapter 6 – The Hero Proved
“… It’s crazy? What are you going to do if you even listen?”
At my words of her, Lina hushed her voice and whispered in my ear.
“I was just telling the truth.”
“Please, be quiet. If you do wrong, you will be arrested for blasphemy.”
At my words, Lina whispered as she covered my mouth.
Lina looked at Genoa nervously, but in the first place, she didn’t care how the commoners saw her.
Well, to give an easy example, she wanted it to be similar to how no one cares what the grass bugs on the side of the road think of her.
“What is blasphemy.”
I laughed at Lina’s words and muttered that.
It was Genoa that I said smelled like garbage, not the Guyana goddess.
No, to be honest, I was confident that even if I put the goddess in front of her, I would swear at her.
‘Balanced Beast Year!’
Contrary to what people think, goddesses don’t particularly care about humans.
To her, the roadside grass bugs, nameless weeds, and humans are just living things.
The only thing she discriminated against was the demon lord and his followers.
According to the goddess, the demon king was a disease that disrupted the balance of the world, and I was just a special medicine to eradicate the disease.
“Anyway, it doesn’t matter. I will not be punished for blasphemy.”
I said that to Lina, who took my hand with an uneasy expression.
The hero chosen by the goddess is blasphemy.
Even if I openly cursed the goddess, the Guyanese Church had to somehow hide it, it couldn’t be revealed.
“He is coming.”
I said that to Lina, who was looking at me with a shocked expression, and looked at the entrance of her village to her.
It was because I could see a splendid white carriage adorned with gold slowly pulling into the village.
A carriage with the seal of a saint.
The people of the small town couldn’t recognize the seal, but they knelt down and started praying to the wagon.
It was only the Holy Knights and me who stood still and watched it.
It was only after I stood still that I could see Genoa showing interest in me.
I could also see several knights of the Holy Knights glaring at me with disgruntled expressions, but I calmly waited for the saintess to get off her carriage.
Soon, one of the knights opened the door of the stopped carriage, and Saint Marianne appeared.
Sky-blue hair and fair skin, symbolizing her goddess her.
And she could see her characteristic auburn eyes her scanning her surroundings her.
And just like Genoa, Saint Marian was also looking at me standing still with a curious expression.
**
‘Your sacrifice is certainly worthy of respect. But don’t expect to ask me for anything.’
A few years after defeating the Demon King.
I had to hear that from Marian when I visited the temple to get that common potion.
She honestly did n’t think she would say that to me because she missed her potion of her.
Even if she gave out a few hundred bottles of that potion in her position of her, it would n’t hurt anything.
Still, it must have been out of vengeance that she said that to me.
Because, after defeating the demon king, I opposed Marianne’s rise to the Pope of the Guyanese Church.
No, in fact, it didn’t matter to me whether she became Pope or not, and she had no particular objections.
She had simply refused her Marian’s request her to stand by her side of her.
‘It’s only a few bottles of potion, right?’
‘Only is relative. No matter how much I like you, I cannot use the Church’s property at will.’
Marianne had said to me as if she were a just pope.
Of course, she is not wrong.
Just because she was in the position of pope, it didn’t mean that she was free to use things belonging to the Order.
Perhaps, in a normal situation, I would have felt sorry for her words, but I would not have been able to convince her.
That is, if I did n’t know that she wastes a few bottles of potion to give me, she takes a bath with a high-quality potion to maintain her youth of hers, and spends all kinds of extravagant money with donations from saints.
‘Is it because of work at that time?’
‘What are you talking about?’
‘I’m asking if you’re doing this because I didn’t take your side when you pushed out the ex-pope.’
‘Under? You are saying things that can be misunderstood by anyone. The former pope resigned because he felt inadequate, not because of someone else’s will.’
I laughed out loud at Marian’s shameless words of her.
It was something she herself asked me to do, and most of the world knew that she pushed her pope out of her.
Only Marian alone would not admit it.
Well, compared to the mysteriously dead emperor, the pope spared his life, so Marianne might have been more confident.
‘I’m sorry, but you take care of your business. You’re not a child, are you?’
Those were the last words Saint Marian spoke to me.
And I was kicked out of the Guyana Church by men who claimed to be her attendants.
At that time, I didn’t have the strength as a hero, and I wasn’t in a normal state because of the demonic energy that had engulfed my whole body.
‘Indeed, even if I had the right to demand something from the goddess, would you be able to come out like this?’
Being kicked out by Marian, I thought that.
Promising that one day I will pay you back properly.
**
‘Marianne Dellarosi. It’s been a while, this garbage bitch.’
As I looked at Marian, I felt her anger her boil.
But it’s too early to vent that anger.
I bared my teeth white and only let her smile go at her Marian her.
“Everyone, wake up. I am not one to be greeted with such exaggerated greetings.”
Marianne, who was still looking at me, was shouting that to the people who knelt down and offered her prayers.
Saint, Marian Dell’Arossi.
She was certainly the complete opposite of Genoa’s personality to her.
Her essence was more greedy and insidious than anyone else, but on the outside, she perfectly portrayed her saintly figure of her.
Even I, who had never been away from her for a moment, did n’t know her true face her until she defeated her demon lord and revealed her true color her.
‘Well, that’s probably because I was an irreplaceable idiot.’
I looked at Marian with a self-deprecating smile.
A soft smile on your lips.
A warm gaze toward people.
Even to a stranger, she radiated benevolence and a sacred atmosphere to the point that one would wonder if this was a saint.
When I slightly turned her head to check her Genoa her, I saw that she was wrinkling her face as she looked at her saintly figure her.
The reason why Genoa hated her saint was simple.
It was because the origin of her saintess was disgustingly low for her to even imagine.
The dirtiest alley in the imperial capital.
It was because the brothel was the place where her saintess was born.
Of course, the saintess who had a considerable complex about that fact also hated Genoa.
“… Is it you?”
While I glanced back at Genoa, a saintess was walking in front of me.
The saintess stared at my face as she asked, and I slowly nodded to her question.
“Muh, what!”
“No, the oracle was real?!”
When I affirmed the saintess’ question, I could see that the Holy Knights and Genoa were surprised.
It was n’t true until later, but most people in the Gaias Church did n’t believe that the saintess had received her oracle from her.
So, they were so surprised that I affirmed her saintly question her.
“… Do you know what I asked?”
“You know very well. You are not the only one communicating with the goddess.”
I answered that to her saintess.
And at my arrogant answer, the saintess caught her eyes, and Genoa and all the knights of the Holy Order began to radiate fighting spirit as if they would attack me at any moment.
And it wasn’t just the saintess who was surprised by my words.
Lina, who was kneeling right next to me, looked at me without even closing her mouth, and even the villagers who had been ignoring me during that time were just blinking their eyes at the strangely flowing conversation.
“Yes, you bastard. Do you know what a great sin you said!”
Eventually, one of the knights of the Order of the Holy Order drew a sword and pointed it at my neck, shouting like that.
Even though the cold blade was aimed at her neck, I looked at the saintess with a calm expression.
It was because she knew that she was the only one who could solve this situation.
“… What is this?”
The saintess asked him in a cold voice at the sudden action of her knight.
In any case, the person in charge of leading this party was a saint.
However, even though she was just answering the saintess’ question, one paladin acted on her own.
Of course, the paladin wouldn’t have done that arbitrary act alone.
Right now, the paladin’s eyes aimed at my neck were towards Genoa.
“Lady. No matter how much the oracle was given, it is not easy to trust this man’s words.”
“… So you’re trying to check it now, aren’t you? If this person is really the chosen one, what kind of disrespect is this?”
“Isn’t that the oracle that only the saintess heard in the first place? So, leave this to us.”
As I listened to the conversation between the saintess and Genoa, I curled up the corner of her mouth.
It was because even though they were using a polite tone to each other, it felt like sparks were flying between the two looking at each other.
“Haa, I am the one responsible for this matter.”
“… To protect the saintess who has no powers for me, it is just a procedure that must be confirmed.”
I slowly reached out my hand as I watched the two fight for supremacy with a person standing in front of them.
The place my hand was headed was none other than the sword that was pointed at my neck her.
As I gripped the blade with my bare hands, I saw the knight aiming his sword at my throat, flustered.
“Then, can I prove it?”
“… Yes?”
“I will prove that the person you are looking for is me.”
I said that and cut my throat with the tip of the sword the paladin was aiming at.
He could see red blood gushing from his neck along with excruciating pain.
“Kyaaak!”
Immediately, Lina screamed, and the villagers could not hide their embarrassment at the situation.
The paladin, who was aiming a sword at my throat, hurriedly drew her sword and stepped back from her, while the saintess and Genoa just looked at me with dumb expressions at my sudden action.
‘One expression, it’s amazing.’
Seeing the bewildered faces of the two, I let out a smirk.
This was enough to put the two of them under pressure.
I smiled slightly, and the wound on my neck from the sword began to heal quickly.
Grace bestowed by the Goddess of Guyana.
It was because of the immortal body.
“What do you think? Is this enough to prove it?”
I asked the saintess and Genoa, but they couldn’t answer my question.
And that moment.
“Wow, that’s a miracle. A miracle of the Goddess has happened!”
At the village chief’s words, I could see all the villagers kneeling down and praying towards me.
It started to show me the behavior that only a saintess would show.
Carson, who tried to kick me out the day I first entered the town, and Aunt Emily, who gathered all the girls in the neighborhood and spread all sorts of bad rumors about me, were all doing the same thing.
Only Lina looked at me with a surprised expression on her face.
I looked around at the villagers and asked the saintess again.
“Why? Still lacking proof?”
“… No. You are the one chosen by the goddess.”
With those words, the saintess knelt in front of me and bowed, and the other paladins also began to kneel before her with expressions full of awe.
Only Genoa was looking at me with the expression that things had gone wrong.
‘It’s not bad.’
I was thrilled to see the spectacle of the villagers, the saintess, and all the Holy Knights kneeling in front of me and praying.
