Surviving as a Saint in Another World

Plague (2)

“Calm down and speak slowly.”

After calming her down, I asked her to tell me slowly what she meant.

“Are you aware of the epidemic currently raging on the border between our kingdom and the human empire?”

“Yes, I’ve heard that people have been sent out several times for that lately.”

“All have failed.”

“It all failed…”

I noticed the subtle nuance of the princess’s words.

It was not just a failure to prevent the spread of an infectious disease or a failure to treat it, but it seemed to imply a failure beyond that.

“Probably all the personnel sent to the area from the Empire were…dead by now.”

I was taken aback by the princess’s sudden words.

Ever since the princess made an urgent request to me, I was certain that the current epidemic situation was not normal, and of course, I was preparing my mind, anticipating that a grand welcome party beyond what I thought would happen.

However, even with such mental preparation, it was difficult to understand the princess’s words.

Did all the dispatched personnel die?

At first, that part seems to make no sense, but let’s trust the princess’s words and move on.

If, as the princess said, all the people dispatched to the epidemic died, on what basis would the princess say such a thing?

“Iris-sama. I don’t quite understand. Have you heard anything from the Elven Kingdom?”

Did the elves dispatched from the elven kingdom find out something?

“In our kingdom, we were aware of the plague faster than humans.”

Uh…that’s not a good sign at all.

All the different races I encountered here were fanatics with a screw missing somewhere, but at least they were loyal to their duty.

It was a problem because that duty was a little different from the duties of a superior that one would normally think of, but he had no hesitation in thinking that it was his duty anyway.

And the handling of contagious diseases was a universal duty of the clergy, even in the church, recognizing it as their role and sending dispatches.

Of course, it seems that the upper echelons of the church would have acted inertia without much thought, saying that they would have to do such chores for the lower ones.

Anyway, in this situation, if the elves knew about the plague earlier than the empire, there was no way they wouldn’t dispatch a priest.

However, the situation did not improve…

“There seems to be a problem with the dispatched elves as well.”

The princess, who had a gloomy expression for a moment, soon gathered her mind and said,

“At least all the elves dispatched are dead.”

This time, the tone was certain beyond presumption.

It’s been a while since I’ve had a little headache.

In a word, not only humans but also elves dispatched high-quality personnel such as priests, doctors, and wizards to that plague zone, but they all died instead of easily dealing with the plague?

“How did you find out if all the elves that were dispatched died?”

Are there people or relics that can use holy magic like clairvoyance?

“The revelation came down while we were organizing another expedition to figure out the situation.”

Ah. Now that I see it, there exists a living artificial satellite-like being that is far more powerful than the holy magic that can only see a thousand miles away.

“You are there.”

“Have you ever experienced a revelation from Saint Ronan?”

I shook my head. In the first place, I don’t know exactly who the artificial satellite will shoot me.

“It’s just a story I’ve heard from the queen and my holy son, but they say that if you receive a revelation, you’ll reach a space other than this world.”

It was a very interesting story. It’s a different space. Is it the space where the god I experienced when I was reincarnated was?

“And there you meet our new god, Ariel, and when he starts talking, that’s a revelation.”

You didn’t suddenly hear a voice in your head as if you were receiving telepathy. It was good information.

“However, the world where the gods live is a difficult place for creatures like us to handle, so it is common to hear only the bare minimum.”

The ability that looked like an all-around cheat had such a downside. Well, if there wasn’t even such a penalty, God would have made a perfect proxy management by giving revelations from time to time.

“And the revelation this time…”

Having said that, the princess paused for a moment and cleared her throat while looking at me.

“A tree of contempt has grown in this land. My pity no longer reaches it, so many fruits will fall to the ground. You will have to sacrifice either the roots or most of the leaves. If you want hope, help your first fruit. Ask for it. Ask for an emergency.”

…

uh.

I waited for a while, wondering if I should say anything more, but the princess stopped talking as if it was the last time.

I was a bit embarrassed.

Anything like this…?

Even if you hear the sound of a dog eating grass, I think there’s a lot more to understand than this.

At least, if it tastes good, it will bark happily and if it doesn’t taste good, it will bark ferociously.

But what the hell was this all about? I was sure I understood everything, but I couldn’t understand a single part from the beginning to the end.

Do the elven gods really have little heart to help their people?

If you say something like that, what do you need to understand and how to act?

“I… I can’t understand because I lack learning.”

In the end, I confessed my shortcomings. Even if I heard incomprehensible or bizarre nonsense, I acted appropriately by inferring from the context, but this clearly exceeded my limits.

“It’s not Saint Ronan’s problem. All revelations are like this. That’s why there is a separate group of priests specializing in interpreting revelations.”

Is it even a time-honored tradition to give revelations like that?

Isn’t there something wrong with the mind of the gods? If you’ve been suffering from secondary illness for thousands of years, that’s a real mental illness.

“Fortunately, through the experience accumulated in the priesthood, the method of interpreting the meaning of Ariel-sama’s revelations has developed day by day.”

“So you mean you know what that means?”

“Except for the parts where interpretations diverged, I understood most of them.”

He’s very competent. Isn’t this the standard of being able to understand even if you talk like sh*t?

While I was raising my evaluation of the elves in my heart, the princess started talking about the explanation of the revelation.

“Contempt is a virtue emphasized by demons revered by elven demon worshipers. When you hear that a tree of contempt has grown, it means that elven demon worshipers are active there. This plague must be their work.”

And from the first sentence, my thoughts stopped for a moment at the unexpected words of the princess.

Devil worshipers? Again? Plus, elves this time?

They were people who were useless in real life. I briefly overlooked the fact that the first one was devil worshipers when I was citing the reasons why this world is not perfect.

Maybe he was subconsciously thinking that since he had dealt with it once a while ago, he would not be able to meet her for the time being.

From now on, all the pain and anguish in my life will be blamed on the devil worshipers.

“Compassion is a virtue Ariel-sama emphasizes. The majority of people say that compassion is out of reach means that even the clergy representing Ariel-sama are not able to handle the evil worshipers who have settled down in the place where the plague spread. .The content is so hopeless that everyone is desperately trying to find another interpretation.”

Most of the time, the first absurd imagination that you don’t want to think is true is the truth.

Assuming the interpretation was correct, it meant that the opponent’s ability was strong enough that God himself had to warn him.

“Roots and leaves…usually used by Ariel-sama when referring to us elves. Roots refer to our saints, and leaves refer to our elven clerics. To say that one of them must be sacrificed… “

To catch that demon worshiper, you have to replace most of the elven realm priests or elven saints?

Even if you are like me, you will want to find another interpretation.

It was such a hopeless story.

“Thanks to that, we’re having a major setback in organizing our kingdom’s second expedition. It’s a situation where our queen is barely stopping us from participating in the expedition.”

I had never seen the Elf Queen in person, but I could easily imagine the sight for some reason.

“And the next verse…”

Having said that, the princess paused for a moment and looked at her.

In the princess’s heart, all sorts of emotions were swirling, such as guilt, earnestness, regret, and hope.

“The queen’s first fault is me with a high probability. Asking for help from me if you want hope means that the future of us elves may change depending on my actions. There’s no chance that dramatic change will happen if you participate in , so the meaning is clear: Ronan the Saint.”

Even with all those emotions in her heart, the princess’s appearance was still unwavering.

The princess bowed her head to me.

“I know how selfish and selfish it is to ask you this while stopping our queen from going out. But please, please help us.”

Instead of answering the princess’ request right away, I shook my head for a moment.

As the princess said, it wasn’t because the queen didn’t want to ask me for a favor, or something like that.

If that’s the logic in the first place, shouldn’t I be cursing the emperor and the cardinals for not stepping out first?

I didn’t even have to think about how great the value of being a queen and a saint was in the elven kingdom, which is a society of class system, and especially a society of perfect theocracy. I will lose

But apart from those things, the fact that the princess was mentioned meant that she was a princess, or that there were things only a princess could do.

The queen can do most of the things that she can do because she is a princess, so let’s move on.

Then, what only the princess can do now. Considering the peculiarity of the current princess being dispatched to the human empire, the only thing she can do is to ask for help from people inside the academy.

I don’t want to be self-confident here, but there was a high possibility that the person inside the academy would be me.

But isn’t that something the Elf Queen can officially request through the Empire?

Even the empire is not a bystander but a party to the situation.

The plague broke out in the border area between the two countries, and if left unattended, it would eventually deal a fatal blow to the empire.

What if the Elf Queen’s request is still not accepted?

What the hell could that be?

“Did you tell the empire the story you told me?”

“Probably by now. It took us a while to interpret the revelation.”

It was delivered now. Of course, I thought it had already been delivered.

Then, can’t we go through a meeting in the imperial family, notify the church, or talk to me directly?

I still don’t know why their lives depend on the actions of the princess.

In times like these, let’s think in reverse. What would have happened if the princess didn’t exist?

Perhaps I was unaware of this specific situation regarding the epidemic.

Then I wouldn’t have acted aggressively even though I was curious about what nonsense the church was doing.

I wouldn’t have thought it was something I had to do even if I had to give up one hundred steps and get into trouble because of the epidemic.

If the denomination bows down first and comes in to help prevent the epidemic, they will think about it at that time, but they know that it will never happen, so they may have turned off their nerves and told them to do it on their own.

In the meantime, what about the imperial family?

I thought of the common people who were too calm even though the story of the plague had been spreading among the academy people for several days.

Usually it’s the opposite. Even if the contagious disease spreads this far, people with money can be treated with holy magic, but commoners are likely to die.

But even though there are signs that things are going wrong, to the point where the high-ranking people are increasingly uneasy, the rumors strangely do not reach the common people?

The situation was being controlled by someone so that such disturbing rumors would not spread among the commoners.

And the first place that came to mind was, of course, the imperial family.

I didn’t even want to think about the reason. For unknown political engineering reasons, if the epidemic could not be prevented, the imperial power could have been weakened, or it could have gone beyond simple natural disasters and not disclosed in order to control rare disasters as much as possible. It’s okay if you put it on.

In any case, the imperial family, which is helping to cover up the situation, will immediately release all embargoes and ask for my help, just because the kingdom requested cooperation?

Wouldn’t they at least have time to find out if the Queen’s words were clear and if there was a way to solve them?

I didn’t know exactly. Of course, depending on how much you trust the Queen’s revelation, you may or may not do it.

Because I was trying to fit the situation around the revelation that the Elf Queen had received as much as possible.

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Let’s assume you’re wasting your time.

If that’s the case, what if the contagious disease spreads rapidly while the imperial family takes some time off?

What if the power of the demon worshipers increased with the amount of plague spread?

At that time, as the god of the elves said, a total crisis will unfold.

However, even with these assumptions, there were fundamentally unresolved questions.

No matter how artificially created an epidemic can be, it can spread so exponentially while grasping the situation?

Isn’t the fatality rate and contagiousness of these diseases usually inversely proportional?

In addition, unless the empire has an empty head, of course they will try to prevent the spread of contagious diseases while trying to find out the situation among themselves, so natural spread will be even more difficult.

Are the devil worshipers moving and spreading the disease themselves?

If the disease could be controlled like that, if it was just sprayed in the middle of the capital, wouldn’t the game be over?

Something in my head felt like one of the last puzzle pieces was not fitting.

Naturally, my answer was delayed, and the princess asked again with an earnest voice, as if she had taken such a negative attitude towards me.

“Please, please. Please give rest to all those who cannot die even after they die.”

…what?

“Iris-sama. What do you mean you can’t die even if you die?”

“There is a record of a contagious disease that the elf priests who were dispatched managed to manage to send. This contagious disease created by devil worshipers infects and kills people and then rises again using the corpse as a host. And it starts looking for people who are not infected. It’s hard to even feel the true black magic from a corpse moving like that. We wouldn’t have thought this was the work of a demon worshiper if it weren’t for the revelation. It’s really scary black magic.”

Can a dead person infect the living with a dead body?

So… devil worshipers have created a real zombie virus black magic?

You should have said that right away!

It felt like the last pieces had finally come together.

Ah, in the case of a zombie apocalypse, it is acceptable that the fatality rate and contagiousness are directly proportional.

Of course, as time goes by, the epidemic will spread exponentially and become difficult to deal with.

How are you going to deal with a demon worshiper attacking with a million zombies?

Tips for dealing with the zombie apocalypse.

Break all the zombie pots before the zombie apocalypse takes place in earnest.

I immediately grabbed the princess’s hand and hurried on my way.

“Iris-sama. Let’s go.”

“Yes? Suddenly, where…”

“To Agelia-sama.”

There was no time for this.