Living as an Unemployed in Another World

118 – 4. Silence in the Helm (34)

34.

30 Minutes ago. After the Heretic Inquisitor used a miracle to hear what was happening inside the cathedral, everyone including me headed straight to the guild.

Princess Elena sat down with Gerald’s party and eagerly ate the banquet provided by the guild, as if she was starving after giving a speech. When she saw me returning with Mira and the other priests, she hurriedly reduced her puffy cheeks.

“Cheek Gong Gongja!?”

I have no idea what you’re talking about. After staring at the sight of her rushing to soothe her stomach with cold water, I hurriedly explained the situation to the table where they were sitting.

As expected, she was smart, and when she saw me accompanied by the priests, she opened her mouth without questioning anything else.

“How did that happen…… If everything is true, the church’s position will be greatly shaken. The daughter of the captive former Auxiliary Bishop is a cathedral knight, so the ink won’t dry for at least a few days.”

“Princess.”

“I know. You mean she’s on her rampage now to save her father? But the only thing I can reach is the family and the guild. As long as the opponent is Cardinal Baolof, there is no reason to rush in. He said he wanted to uncover the church’s corruption, but it could lead to a dispute between the guild and our family.”

“Princess Elena.”

The Heretic Inquisitor took over my words.

“If you help us by showing your face in this matter, we will make you an offer you cannot refuse. Isn’t the full support of the church that goes beyond catching weaknesses, your family, no, what you need more than anything? If we can bring down Cardinal Baolof, we can.”

“Heretic Inquisitor, you too…… Aren’t you a human from the cathedral?”

Hearing Princess Elena’s question, he smiled.

“I only serve God. It’s not a dog looking after old people.”

“…… I was looking at the wrong person.”

She, too, smiled beyond her reckoning. And she looked at me again.

“So, what exactly can I do? If the cathedral knight is fighting, it would be difficult to show his face on the scene. Are you adventurers?”

“As a believer, you only have to take the position of witnessing the evil deeds of the cardinal after ‘accidentally’ visiting the cathedral. And… ….”

I got away from her face and looked around. Alphonse and Mira, Gerald, Hilda, Janice and Sukhbat. No, dwarves and high elves, dragon heads and countless other adventurers.

“Skilled adventurers might have ‘accidentally’ followed them in order to make friends with the priests. Only those who can keep me safe in the chaos.”

“Are you asking me to become a cause for adventurers?”

I nodded. Ambition burns like a flame in her eyes. Ambition to reform the family by inheriting the duchy in the future. She was only in the position of the third daughter, and she was ready to fly high like a hawk.

“Please make a decision, Elena…… No, Princess Wiesenstein.”

※

As we stormed the advance party, additional people walked into the messy chapel. The Heretic Inquisitor, no, the group of Auxiliary Bishop Carl Faust, who leads the 1st district of the Special District for Heretic Inquisition. Carl frowned, pushing up his glasses.

“What a mess. Isn’t that right, Your Excellency Cardinal?”

“——Faust! Impolite!”

“Don’t call me by my first name. I don’t like it that much How dare you take advantage of the opportunity when the Pope is not around and make our bastards look like that? From now on, I will judge who the heretic is.”

“You dare…… !”

The cardinal is furious, but his voice does not reach Carl. No matter how high the hierarchy is, the heresy interrogation is a place where they exercise independent investigative rights outside of that hierarchy, and even the pope cannot interfere with them. Normally, I would not have dared to confront them out of respect for them and my political stance, but the situation is different now.

“The followers of El-Ra! Priests! Knights! All of you guys!”

Unlike when there was only a one-sided difference in justification, the atmosphere changes with their appearance. Countless crowds gathered in the chapel are agitated.

“A cardinal who drives innocent people into heresy out of personal desire, blocks knights who want to do what’s right, and sees his comrades try to kill each other!”

“… ….”

“Why didn’t anyone try to step up until it got to this point!? Why didn’t you open your mouth when you knew it was wrong! See if you have eyes!! Who is the wicked one!”

The helmets are shaking. The knights who stood in line to protect the priests could not hide their emotional agitation.

“The rank and file system, the high-ranking priests, and you knights! If you swear to God, are you doing your duty with it!? Do you think you can say that you have become a clergyman by locking yourself in your room and memorizing Bible verse by phrase!? Tell me! In the name of the Goddess of Order and Justice! Say the phrase you memorized thousands of times!”

“…… Chaos before my eyes.”

“You swore not to leave chaos and evil alone! Cardinals, Popes, in the end, all those who serve Him! No one’s orders can stand above the teachings of God!”

Karl finished his speech. He patted his dry neck, slowly coming out of the gap between the two knights, passing Grace and facing the cardinal.

“I will start the interrogation from now on.”

“You dare…… !”

The crowd slowly split. However, the direction was inconsistent. There were those who stopped the cathedral knights, and there were those who surrounded the cardinal and the inquisitor. In any case, it was clear that everyone was turning their backs on us. Among them, several men in expensive-looking robes approached and knelt down on each other.

“Gyeol, Gyung! Sir Grace, embarrassingly, may I share a miracle!? Too, too late…… !”

“If you come for treatment, do it quickly. Talk a lot.”

“Yeah, old!”

A couple of priests clung to her and neutralized the arrows stuck in her back, while examining her tattered body with both hands and performing her miracle. Seeing her blood stop and her blistered skin go down was nothing short of a miracle. Is this the advanced healing that priests are proud of? Certainly, it can’t even be compared to a potion.

I sat down beside her and held her hand while she recovered. She, no, Grace opened her eyes wide and looked at me like she was dreaming. You still haven’t come to your senses. I said with a smile.

“It’s not a dream.”

“Jin…… How are you?”

“Somehow, it happened that way.”

Really. Somehow I came all the way here.

I happened to come to the capital.

I happened to end up in a monastery.

Somehow, I ended up here.

It’s not that I didn’t have my will in that series of processes. All of this was too subtle for a coincidence. If there’s such a thing as fate, it’s truly miraculous.

When she recovered enough to raise her body on her own, Grace held me tightly with her one arm. Even in this state, her backbone is about to crumble. I patted him on the back and removed her helmet, which she had broken in two in the moment of her carelessness. Half of her face was revealed, full of her burns.

“Oh, this.”

“It’s okay. There is nothing to despise or despise no one. Isn’t it?”

“Yeah, old!”

The priests answered nervously. Even seeing her bare face, there was no one who was smirking. Rather, it seems that she was quite shocked that her face, excluding the scars, was so beautiful. It’s only natural that the s*x wasn’t even known in the first place. I said, stroking her face with the palm of my hand.

“You are still beautiful enough.”

“…… !”

As I said that, the other side of her face flushed the same color as the burnt side. Blood gushed out from the barely healed wound. This isn’t it.

Then the pink-haired woman flew up three meters through the air and landed behind her. She took a deep breath and made eye contact with me.

“Mummy.”

“… ….”

She also doesn’t know Grace’s gender until now. Seeing her flushed face in my arms, she pursed her lips, then opened her mouth as if she had a lot to say but would do it later.

“…… Those guys are both monsters. I can’t take it down right now.”

“Is it worth trying? How about Alphonse? It doesn’t look good from this side.”

“It’s the same over there.”

As soon as she said that, Alphonse’s huge body was pushed all the way back, scratching the floor. The knights in the front row were beaten and scratched on the floor by the huge body. Are all the cathedral knights monsters to push that gigantic body with force?

But the good thing is that the clergy who filled the chapel no longer stood by them. I don’t know why they are devoted to the human cardinal, but they don’t cut through walls made of people at random, as if they still have a bit of self. Thanks to you, I can pass the time.

At that time, there was movement from the side of Cardinal Baolov, who had confronted Faust. Perhaps realizing that if he continued on like this, everyone would eventually turn their backs on him, he knelt down and stretched his hands toward the ceiling.

“Goddess!!”

“What are we going to do? Now he came…….”

“Please, as always, lend the power of dreams to this lowly servant!”

That moment. The atmosphere in the chapel changed.

Baolof’s appearance also changed.

I shuddered on my own. It was like that time, that day, when I encountered something that wasn’t Illisia. However, the difference is that, unlike Zulkar, where only the soul resided, Baolof’s body was transformed by hand.

Soon, a demon was born there.

Someone said. Leave his return.

The devil of dreams, Visiones.