Surviving as a Saint in Another World

Emperor (4)

Stories about gods that were so unbelievable that no one knew about them flowed through the lips of the saint.

The contents were far beyond the emperor’s imagination.

It was widely known by the clergy that the devil and his worshipers wanted to destroy the world, but there was never a clear explanation of the motive or the relationship between the gods and demons.

For the most part, it was just that devils are born like that was the most common word to describe devils.

It was the first time I had heard that a god had met something similar to death for humans, and that humans had been temporarily removed from Orion’s care as a result.

However, there was no doubt about the authenticity of the saint’s words. In the first place, the emperor was ready to trust the saint’s words at the point when the saint came to this studio before him.

Even if the saint said that God and the devil are in fact the same existence as two sides of a coin, the truth that the saint told the emperor, who was ready to seriously consider whether it was real, was shocking.

Just as the light indicating the direction to the exit was shining down on the foggy labyrinth, I felt somewhat relieved that the questions that many emperors had so far had been resolved.

But at the same time, the emperor’s alert mind closely observed the saint who spoke the truth.

It was not that he had any doubts about what the saint said, and many of the questions had been resolved, but rather there were quite a few questions that arose from the words of the saint.

Representatively, it was the question of how the saint knew all these facts.

So far, why have so many other clerics not told this story? The saint himself says that God and the devil cannot be judged by human wisdom, but does he know about God in such detail?

And above all…

‘Because he… loved humans. Because I believed it.’

The moment the emperor uttered those words, he saw the saint’s figure clearly.

The two bloodshot eyes, as if they were about to shed tears at any moment, wandered in the air as if they were lost, and the voice that had been talking calmly until now cracked as if in despair in the face of the cruel reality.

The deep, negative emotions I felt at that moment.

It must have been the last of his pride that he managed to hold back the tears that were about to flow from his eyes.

According to the saint’s words, the moment he shows weakness, all those who depend on him will be shaken.

Who in the world can empathize so deeply with the feelings of others?

Of course, since he is a saint who worships God, the possibility that God caused the saint to feel the emotions he must have felt through his mysterious grace could not be completely ruled out.

However, the emperor thought of another possibility.

Minor contradictions and clues remained in the saint’s words.

Wouldn’t it be strange if Orion went through a hiatus and hasn’t regained full power yet?

Why is Ronan, who has received the imperfect power of the newly born Orion, displaying superior abilities that are on a different level from previous saints?

If you think about common sense, wouldn’t it be normal if Ronan’s own ability fell further.

Unless there is something different from the saints he has not told Ronan about.

Besides, didn’t Ronan himself say that Orion was reborn with a new look?

Of course, the emperor didn’t know much about the new Orion, but the words didn’t sound completely unfamiliar.

Ronan’s statement to the cardinals, the picture of the imperfect god Ronan described in order to label Ronan an apprentice in the church.

At that time, the figure Ronan described was not a figure that embodied a specific person like the widely known figure of Orion.

Did you say that it is a human shape that is hard to explain clearly and can be felt as a man, woman, child, or old man? .

The emperor slowly scanned the figure of the saint in front of his eyes.

The character Ronan itself is clearly male.

In the first place, there is no doubt about this because the activities before becoming a saint are so clear.

But Ronan certainly has an off-white color that can be called beauty.

It’s a bit different from the feeling of masculine beauty that stood out in the existing Orion, and it’s correct to describe it as off-white.

It’s clear that he’s a man, and he looks like a man if you look at him normally, but because of his pale skin, if someone introduces you as a woman, he’ll likely nod without question.

Also, sometimes I feel like a child in a saint. It’s a little different from the word young.

He loves humans and is eager to help them. Even if those humans check him and oppose him.

Even if the other person doesn’t see me well right now, do you think that if I sincerely care for the other person, the other person will understand that meaning someday?

The innocence that can only be possessed by a child who has not been stained by the world’s stains, and which even feels immature, is a foreign figure for someone who has already experienced enough of the world.

That must be the kind of saint Azalea wants to protect.

But at the same time, there are not a few times when I feel like an old man who has mastered the logic of everything in the world. At least, the emperor has already felt that aspect of Ronan several times only after entering the imperial palace.

Is there any other person in the world who fits the contradictory statement that he can be felt as a man, woman, child, or old man?

It felt significant that Ronan was driven to the brink of death and then revived as a saint.

Suddenly, the words that Ronan said that he can read other people’s emotions came to me anew. Yes, no matter how great the holy magic is, there is no way that it is possible to read other people’s emotions if you become a saint.

The more I looked back, the more hints lay all over the place.

Maybe Ronan was constantly giving signals to the priests. To make an excuse to forgive them.

It occurred to me that not punishing the erring clergy all at once could be because they had just been resurrected and lacked strength, but maybe it was to make them repent.

Truly foolish gods and foolish priests.

Although the feelings contained in the word ‘foolish’ in front of each of them are different.

After thinking that far, the emperor was lost in thought for a while.

Judging from the circumstances so far, it seemed very clear that the saint in front of me was not just a saint.

However, the fact that the saint did not bother to mention it could have been that his transcendent intuition judged that it was better not to reveal it, or the real Ronan himself could have been unaware of this.

Either way, it didn’t seem necessary to mention what he had noticed or change his attitude to confuse the situation.

The emperor drew conclusions and finally opened his mouth while meeting Ronan’s eyes.

“What do you plan to do next, saint?”

* * *

Yes! I did it! From now on call me Peter aka the fisherman of men!

The moment the emperor asked me for my opinion, I felt intuition that my whole body of lies had worked.

I’m so afraid of my own talent. Of course, most of them are very advantageous when they do cheaters thanks to their cheat eyes, and it’s possible because they have cheat skills and stigmata to set the mood, but it’s okay to congratulate yourself if you can fool the emperor.

I really did succeed in convincing the Emperor somehow.

In addition, the emperor’s attitude towards me strangely became softer, perhaps because I had gotten the emperor’s approval as much as the degree of difficulty had been measured.

But if you tell me to do this again, I don’t want to do it again, but right now, the results aren’t bad, so let’s think positively.

Accepting all my arguments and asking for my opinion is the same as asking how to deal with this situation five minutes before the start of the game.

I’d like to ask the emperor to select only the guys I don’t like and ask him to slit their throats, but that would be impossible.

Even if the imperial authority was strong, if the members of the religious order could be chosen at will and beheaded, the imperial family would have pushed away the thorny religious order in no time.

Even if I were on the emperor’s side, he would cut my throat, but the cardinal line would say do whatever you want, and there’s no way I’d readily accept it, and I’d provoke the church and people to go crazy, so it’s hard to deal with it neatly.

Then, if the imperial family attacks the church indiscriminately, at the end, the church that I will obtain will be ruined. You can’t come up with the right means, so you shouldn’t create such a situation.

Of course, I don’t get the impression that the emperor in front of me will be like that, but I don’t intend to gamble my life by relying on such an uncertain feeling.

I think about it every time, but it is very difficult to cut out only the part I want from a certain group, and from a group with power, and get the rest.

In this situation, I felt again that most of them were not destroyed and then rebuilt from scratch.

Selling drugs to the emperor was a huge success, and the rewards obtained from the process itself were pretty good, but it’s kind of disappointing to end it like this…

Thinking about it for a while, I remembered that there is a free punching bag comparable to devil worshipers.

Come to think of it, there was a part of the church where you could easily defeat it!

“Do you know anything about a group called ‘Shadow of Orion’?”

“shadow…?”

The emperor tilted his head as if he had never heard of it.

Even the Emperor, who knows that Orion doesn’t care for humans, doesn’t know about them.

It smells bad. It smells very bad.

It was not simply a group like the Heretic Inquisition, which handled matters that were difficult to officially admit in the church, but rather gave off a feeling close to the dark side of the group that was secretly moving forward with the group called the church.

I recognized it from the moment I thought I was awake because my name was a shadow, and my job title was a finger. These guys.

“I presume they are the reason why the clergy quickly went astray. The name is Orion’s shadow, but in fact, it can be seen that it is more like a force taking advantage of Orion-sama’s absence to devour the church.”

In fact, looking at the leader who belonged to the shadows at the time, he seemed to have stronger faith in Orion than the cardinals and archbishops, but what do you know?

There’s no way those guys who avert their gaze and plot something in the dark have proud ideals anyway.

It’s not like that, at least if I had faith in that Orion and took a stance of being on my side.

If you have a complaint, make a formal protest. No other means will be accepted.

what? It’s impossible because it’s not an officially approved group?

“Hmm… I can’t help but guess. Is that a group called the shadows?”

The emperor nodded his head as if he did not know the exact names and realities of those who clung to the Order, but he did not know them completely.

“Yes. Cardinals and archbishops are the ones who are wielding the church with the leadership of the church in their hands.”

This is also an area of speculation, but if you have the power to disguise your identity as an archbishop, even the cardinals are on the palm of their hands or there are cardinals who belong to the shadows, so it wouldn’t be completely wrong.

no no

I’m going to put them on the same level as devil worshipers anyway, so it’s okay to use all sorts of sophistry.

Because no one accepts that a devil worshiper claims my words are lies.

“I thought it would be close to a group run privately by the cardinals, but rather, it’s a group that even the cardinals manipulate at will. The outline is being drawn.”

really…?

I just said that there is such an unidentified group in the church, so please keep them in check, but the emperor seemed to be certain of something.

What the hell did you come up with? You know so much that you can easily come up with something that fits my words. Is this a curse of wisdom or something?

“The saint said he didn’t know exactly what happened during Orion’s hiatus.”

I nodded my head nervously for a while.

“Will you listen to my story this time? It’s not a grandiose story like the saint told me. It’s about the things the people who destroyed the Holy Empire found out within the Imperial Palace of the Holy Empire at the time.”

It’s not a big story, is it?

It seems like only a few people in the world, including the Emperor, know about it.

There was no reason for me to decline.

Such high-level information would be useful later in some way.

“At that time, the writings found in the remarks inside the imperial palace were shocking. It had been a long time since Orion’s words had not come down through the saint from a certain moment, but at that time, they gradually noticed that Orion was no longer taking care of them. yes.”

Yes, even among the current emperor and clergy, there are people who know that Orion doesn’t exist, so they must have noticed about him at some point in the past.

Even if that wasn’t the case, wouldn’t the priests who survived the moment the Holy Empire collapsed clearly realize that fact?

“By the time the rebellion broke out and the holy empire was destroyed, the whole land was stained with madness by the clergy who had already realized the seriousness of the situation. I started looking for it.”

That method probably wasn’t the right way.

“I won’t bother to mention all the evil that the clergy did at that time. It won’t sound good in many ways.”

It is a world where human life is not considered so precious even now, but at that time, it would be shocking.

“The problem is that at that time, the rebels drove out the priests and failed to completely root them out. There were still devout priests who had not been stained with madness in the world, and the rebellion succeeded and people’s piety unintentionally regained its place. It’s because of it. It was impossible to find and deal with all the priests who caused the trouble, unless they hid themselves among ordinary priests and killed all the priests in this land.”

Now I get a sense of it. Those who survived then are now active under the name of shadows.

Those who were in the imperial palace during the Holy Empire would of course have been in the highest rank among the clergy, and although the church was on the verge of collapse, it wouldn’t have been difficult for the church to quietly blend into the roots of the church while reestablishing itself.

“Is that thing from hundreds of years ago coming back like this…”

The emperor murmured and looked around.

I didn’t know because I was pouring my heart into nonsense, but the meeting that started at midnight was already welcoming the dusky dawn.

“I can see why the saint is talking to me like this and spreading the facts like that.”

…why is that? I’m not sure.

Wasn’t I just doing a nonsense parade and diligently saying this and that?

Was there a hidden intention that I don’t even know about?

Is this something like finding out the speaker’s intention in a Korean text that even the speaker doesn’t know?

You must know Ronan better than I do.

“You don’t have to worry, I’ll pay for the karma for the things I couldn’t solve then.”

For now, it seems to be a story that I will check the dark forces of the church at my will… but there is a degree of consolation over the phone. do.

No, you said you were helping me, but let’s not twist it.

In fact, the Emperor is a very kind person, and when he sees someone like me, he is a normal person who naturally wants to help.

I felt very sorry for being gossiped about as being senile. Well, he’s not someone else, but the princess’s father, what a kind and exemplary person he must be!

I reflect on whether I was too prejudiced because of the image of a common emperor in fantasy novels.

“thank you, and I’m sorry.”

I handed over my apology with gratitude for the emperor’s help, and at the same time with the meaning of apology for secretly mocking him.

Of course, the emperor wouldn’t understand, but it was a matter of my self-satisfaction.

“Saint, you don’t need to apologize to humans. If humans should apologize to you, I don’t know. But even if I say this, the saint won’t think so. So I’ll gladly accept that apology.”

The emperor accepted my apology again, saying something incomprehensible.

…No matter how I look at it, I think that senility is not my prejudice. Do you want me to shoot you with divine power later?

“I am also grateful for the saint’s devotion.”

The emperor said so and rose from his seat.

It seemed that the meeting was about to end.

Well, now is the time when the castle’s servants might start their activities, so it’s hard to spend any more time.

I naturally got up and came out of the studio with the emperor.

“It was a really useful time. What the saint asked me to do will surely come true.”

Saying so, the emperor walked away towards the place where he was staying.

It was a simple farewell, just like the ceremony.

I looked at the emperor who was moving away, and suddenly I looked at the path I had walked.

It was not a sentimental time to reminisce about all the things we had been through.

Right now, there is only one thought in my head.

The emperor, again, abandons me and goes back alone.

I came on my own when I came, so I go on my own when I go, is this?

Didn’t we get closer while sharing emotional exchanges through our own stories?

I sighed and decided to become a righteous thief again. At the time of dawn.

is this really right