Surviving as a Saint in Another World

Banquet (5)

I wondered if I would clap for the rest of my life like this…

As I cooled the heat in my hands, which seemed to be slightly swollen for some reason, I remembered the terrible incident that had just happened.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been reincarnated and felt so strongly that I was ruined.

If I have to recall, right after my previous life, when I met the stupid cardinal who tried to kill me, when I met the princess for the first time, when the cardinal’s grandson went crazy with a bomb necklace and went crazy, when I found out that there really was a devil worshiper around the academy, when that devil worshiper went to church With the priest… What? Come to think of it, there are so many.

Still, those things have been successfully sealed up until now, so as a result, I came to have the impression of “Long live,” but this time I felt strongly that I had committed it.

It was especially serious right after he said something that caught the cloud in the hope of giving the emperor an appropriate word.

What the hell is everyone talking about him? If you’re feeling dumbfounded, you’d think I’d guessed it wrong, but the emperor is full of various vague sentiments as if he were thinking over my words, and the people around him were astonished, doubtful, or sorry…

Different people have so many different emotions, so I couldn’t figure out if I did a good job or not.

Then, as the next best thing, I had no choice but to grasp the situation by the atmosphere, but as soon as I finished my words, what followed was a time of suffocating silence.

I don’t even want to think about it again. It’s not a normal situation for anyone to see.

Normally, shouldn’t the emperor, who naturally took over my words, give a full-fledged toast, and the banquet should continue with people responding?

As I tried to figure out what was wrong, I finally realized that my words might sound like arguing with the emperor.

What was a guy like me thinking when he said something that could be interpreted as telling me to be better at controlling the house? The point is that I quoted quotes in moderation until I said it clearly and thought I was doing a little better. This is why people try to force themselves to do something else when they are tired. don’t do it and go to sleep

Waking up, in order to get out of this situation, I quickly handed the emperor an apology and hurriedly left the seat.

It was an accidental accident. It was never meant to be.

There are too many people, so I can’t say it directly, but I apologize for my troll behavior, my apology for my unintentional aggression, and my apology for running away to ask you to clean up… It was a greeting with several intentions.

Seeing me like that, the emperor began to look at me running away and at the drink I handed him.

I gave him a chance to deal with it, but it wasn’t enough to make things bigger, so I would be dumbfounded if he suddenly threw his fist and ran away, but can you help me just this once?

If I look closely at my sins…sins…sins, in fact, isn’t the emperor also guilty? Even if he didn’t drag me into doing useless things in the first place, he wouldn’t have come this far!

Fortunately, in the midst of such self-division, the emperor began to drink without saying anything.

…Th-I’m really grateful that drinking without bothering to say anything seems to mean accepting my apology, but is it okay to drink without saying anything like that?

What is it, I’ll forgive rudeness and ignorance, but I won’t take care of it until after, so take care of it yourself.

Of course, since the emperor was drinking without saying anything, there was no way the people around him could find the timing to respond, and the chilly silence in the banquet hall showed no signs of disappearing.

The atmosphere was ruined, but the banquet looks great, you guys!

Of course, if you count the share of the reason why the atmosphere was smashed, you might argue that a lot of it is my fault, but I’m a mature person who doesn’t react to such baseless slander.

In the end, I decided to take up my arms and step out to defuse the situation.

Even if it’s baseless slander, if someone says this is my responsibility, I’ll take it.

Isn’t this the spirit of a saint who will make Orion cry?

I started clapping as I watched the Emperor take a drink.

It was very burdensome to applaud in a silent scene where it would sound loud even if the needle fell after running away from the emperor in an effort to escape from others, but I managed to do it somehow.

Fortunately, my desperate efforts seemed to have worked, and the people around me began to clap one by one, and the banquet gradually began to regain its original vigor.

Even though I sacrificed both of my hands, this is enough to say that I saved this banquet. Shouldn’t I give you another medal?

Just as I was reviving my self-esteem, escaping from the theory of the saint, the ignoramus that would spread across the continent by tomorrow morning, the emperor was approaching me again.

Aww, please don’t come here! In this situation, if you even notice me, I think my little mental strength will be shattered!

From now on, I will never set foot in the imperial palace again until I have mastered the imperial court etiquette perfectly. Of course, since I have no intention of learning the complicated and inefficient-looking imperial court etiquette, it means that I will never set foot in the imperial palace again.

“How do you feel? It couldn’t have been easy to make that decision.”

It’s really not easy to step out of that awful space of silence.

If you know, they’ll even take care of the post-processing for you. You just have to give a splendid toast so that the mistakes I’ve committed aren’t memorable. It’s even better if it contains unconventional content.

…What can I do?

It’s a painful mistake, but being caught up in it wasn’t the type I prefer. From tomorrow, I’ll just have a ignorant theory and appeal more to the common people that I’m a commoner.

“I know that it’s natural to get paid if you make a mistake. I don’t like it though.”

When I replied and smiled wryly, the emperor did not hide his regretful feelings towards me and expressed them.

…What is it?

There was a real senility, but after drinking the divine power, he got better and became better.

“If you make a mistake, it’s natural to pay for it…I see.

…isn’t it? This emperor has ups and downs in really strange places, but he usually manages it so well that he really confuses people.

I don’t know if this is just sarcastic, or it’s a nobleman at the top of a real class society, so he thinks it’s unexpected because of his sense of choice.

“Yes. Because of my title as a saint, the laws of nature do not escape me.”

In the end, I had no choice but to say the obvious, as I always do. It wasn’t even my intention.

If the belly of God is fine, wouldn’t it be normal for a saint to have to circumvent the laws of nature?

As I was thinking about that, the emperor, who nodded in the same way, spoke to me again.

“I will definitely keep in mind the words you told me and try to make the world peaceful.

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Look at this. Look at how he is joking around and saying it sarcasticly. I think I know where the 3rd prince’s tendencies came from… Huh? Are you serious?

I thought the emperor would chuckle at the mention of my grandiose self-destruct show, but the emperor was talking to me with a very serious expression.

What is it really? Did a person like an emperor realize something big in that story about catching floating clouds?

In fact, the phrase in the university was created to enlighten the emperors of the past, and only at the level of emperors can you recognize the subtlety of the content, or something like that.

It was an area that I couldn’t quite understand that I could gain a great realization from the words to manage the house well and take good care of myself. Is this the difference between dishes…

I know that I am fooling others by armed with all sorts of cheat specifications, and I know that the person in front of me is a really outstanding person, but while still feeling a strange sense of defeat, the emperor looked somewhere and asked me.

“By the way… I know these questions can be cruel, but I want to do my job well. Do you have anything you can say to me?”

What kind of nonsense is this again?

I barely resisted grabbing my head at the Emperor’s pointless nonsense.

This isn’t senility, it’s just that the second grade in middle school didn’t go away. It’s personality. It’s personality.

Is it really okay to have someone like this behind me?

With that feeling, I turned my gaze to the same direction as the emperor’s gaze to find out why the emperor was saying such a thing.

And at the end of the emperor’s gaze, a group of priests who clung to me earlier were gathered.

…Uh…Did I ask if you had anything to say to me about the Church? To defeat me instead?

The emperor’s job is to defeat the cult? You want to do well?

Why is that a cruel question? It’s a mutually happy question. Oh, is it because I can look like I’m betraying the Order?

Don’t worry, I don’t feel guilty at all!

No matter how much the emperor would raise the sword instead, I didn’t know of any excuse to get rid of them. However, I hadn’t confirmed earlier that there were demon worshipers whose existence itself was an excuse even if there was no clear evidence.

“…Second from the far right, Archbishop Nevan…”

Having said that, I quietly shifted my gaze to my shadow cast over the banquet hall lights and took a couple of snaps with my feet.

It was a very crowded space, so even if we were far apart, I thought that there might be people listening to us by chance, so I acted like that instead of adding an afterword.

I wondered what if the emperor couldn’t understand, but the emperor’s eyes drew an arc as if that was enough.

Obviously, his expression became milder, but it was a little scary to see that the emotions he harbored exploded into hostility in an instant.

I remember the time when the princess decided to kill me with an expressionless expression.

There’s no need to worry about the 1st and 3rd princes’ parents.

It’s fortunate that this is an ally, if it were my enemy… uh.

“In a way, this is my first mission. It must have been difficult to answer, but thank you for answering.”

It wasn’t a difficult question to answer at all, but I’d be happy if the emperor thought so.

I silently nodded my head to hold back the leaking smile.

Then, please take good care of the church in the future!

* * *

Somewhere where no light came in. Even though there was no light coming in from the outside, the inside was quite bright.

The reason was that a soft light flowed from a huge spring located in the center of the space, illuminating the surroundings.

In the center of the spring, which looks unusual even at a glance, a figure whose lower body was completely submerged in the spring spoke in a low voice to the person kneeling outside the fountain.

“So the lion hunting and the taming of the cubs all failed?”

“Yes. I’m really sorry.”

The voice coming from inside the fountain was very peaceful, but on the other hand, the person who knelt down replied as if he had committed a great sin.

It was a scene where the relationship between the two was clearly revealed.

“I didn’t say this specifically to reprimand you. If I really meant to reprimand you, you wouldn’t be talking to me here looking like that, would you?”

“…That’s right.”

“Yes, I’d like to hear the reason. I already knew that the chances of success in hunting lions were small. However, the lions of this generation were so violent that I just wanted to put a brake on them. But they didn’t even alert me?”

“The finger did its job properly. The synthetic material we created broke through all the existing toxic reaction systems and actually ended up in the lion’s drinking cup…”

“however?”

“As the apprentice Ronan saint purifies the glass and all of it, the contents of the glass are all…”

When the prostrate man carefully finished his words, there was no answer from the person in the well for a while.

“Ronan, Ronan. It’s a name you hear a lot these days, isn’t it?”

“Yes. Beyond the ignorant commoners, it seems that even the clergy of the Church who do not know the truth have fallen deeply into it.”

In the conversation between the two, I felt a subtle feeling towards Ronan. It was definitely not a feeling of worship or respect, which is a universal feeling for Ronan in the world, and at least it was not a feeling of hostility or suspicion.

“How are you?”

“How dare I have personal feelings?”

“No, no, that’s not an answer. I’ll ask again. What about you? Do you think that saint is the true successor to Orion’s will?”

“How could such a disrespectful thought! Absolutely not! Those who inherit Orion-sama’s will are the noble ones endowed with Orion-sama’s authority…!”

When Sam’s character asks a question, the opponent hurriedly denies him.

Sam’s persona calmed the opponent in a light tone.

“Stop. I didn’t doubt your faith, so you don’t have to be afraid. Yes, the lion hunt failed like that. But why did the taming fail? I thought it was going smoothly.”

“That’s…the lion cubs have recently started investigating the cult and are keeping their distance from the cult figures.”

“Hmm…Ahae, who is so interested in the next boss and accepts some of the church’s doctrines for him, suddenly distances himself like this? It sounds like I’ve already failed. Isn’t it?”

“It’s not a total failure yet! I’ll definitely put it on a leash!”

“That’s not the right answer to my question. We need to know why the lion cub wants to keep his distance from us, doesn’t it?”

“That is…”

After a moment of hesitation, the man trembled and answered.

“It seems that after meeting Ronan Apprentice Saint in the expedition, he began to have doubts about the Church.”

In response, Sam’s figure was silent again for a while.

But at some point, when he started to feel a subtle vibration from Sam, the person who posted the report trembled even more and bowed his head deeply.

“That’s a very strange thing. If you met the saint of the church, shouldn’t your suspicions about the church be reduced?”

“We’re still trying to figure out what kind of conversation the two had. Give us a little more time…”

“Sir. Come into the fountain. You won’t refuse, will you?”

“Give me a little more time, and I will definitely figure it out!”

“It’s not that I don’t trust you. Come into the spring and receive grace. Wouldn’t you need more divine power to solve the twisted things?”

As if the words spoken by Sam’s person were like a death sentence, the person who had a seizure and the person of Sam, who had calmed him down with a calm tone, stretched out his hand toward the person who had been lying face down.

“If you receive grace, wouldn’t it be possible for Orion to tell you the correct answer?”

“Oh, thank you.”

As if possessed by something, the prostrate man slowly entered the fountain and bowed his head again in front of the figure with his hand outstretched.

The person of Sam who patted his shoulder a couple of times as if encouraging him with a benevolent smile on his face.

And the next moment, the softly glowing fountain began to emit even more tremendous light.

“Ouch.”

The man with his head bowed gave out a thrashing cry and collapsed into the spring as if he had tripped.

…

And no matter how much time passed, the man who fell into the fountain never got up again.

The spring water, which had been radiant as if something was about to happen, calmed down as if everything had already ended and started emitting a soft light again.

“Since the divine power does not lie, you have definitely proven your faith.

While everything felt like an illusion, only the holy clothes the man was wearing floated above the water and seemed to be shouting that it was true that someone else was here just now.

“Ronan. Ronan. Your every move hinders us. So how can I truly consider you a saint of Orion?”

The figure of the spring, holding the holy clothes floating on the water, slowly began to come out of the water.

A soft light identical to the light flowing from the fountain began to flow from the back of the person leaving the fountain.

The light spread throughout the figure’s back, and soon began to shine on its own, forming a geometric pattern all over the back. Just like the stigma that appears on the back of a saint’s hand.

“Are you a tribute from Orion, or a milestone? Or…are you the greatest masterpiece the demons have ever created?”

Even after the person in the fountain disappeared with a monologue, the water in the fountain continued to shine and show off its presence.