Episode 169 Crime and Punishment (8)
Old Testament priests protest against Dolores.
“Saintess! Do you even know what you’re doing!?”
“The deceased Quilty was a devout believer in this church! How can you carelessly read the letter he left while he was alive!”
“Even a conversation with Cardinal Humbert! Confidential! Confidential!”
“If you reveal something like that to the public…!?”
They seemed to be afraid of losing the credit to the New Testament clergy.
Crisis is said to be an opportunity. In this situation, treating the sick and comforting the victims is the way to strengthen the image.
So, the Old Testament priests wanted to be put into the disaster recovery field as soon as possible.
It was for this reason that New Testament clergymen, including Dolores and Mosgus, complained that they were blocking it.
…… But their dissatisfaction was short-lived.
“quiet.”
Dolores’ cold gaze made them freeze in place.
It was the first time that she, who had a warm and benevolent personality, sent such a cold and sharp gaze.
Isn’t it more terrifying when someone who used to be gentle gets angry?
At one word drawn by Dolores, the Old Testament priests had to stop all at once in front of her.
And everyone’s complexion started to get tired of her recitation that followed.
“Baron Gorg! In the process of exercising the power of first night, the resisting groom was killed! The family of the bride who subsequently committed suicide was charged with a huge fine! As a result, the entire family was destroyed! Exemption by paying 1 billion gold as an offering. !”
“Viscountess of Mosque! Her sons joined the Imperial Central Bank at an improper request and made them go through the promotion process! Since her sons with underperformed grades joined the company, there are a lot of job seekers who failed even after receiving passing grades! !”
“President Geraso! Caused damages of about 20 billion gold to shareholders through embezzlement, breach of trust and stock price manipulation, and took unfair advantage! Exemption with 50 million gold offering!”
“Madame Pierre! Abducted and imprisoned underage boys who had no place to go, sexually exploited them, and forced them to work illegally! Exemption with 15 million gold offerings!”
“Pseudo cult leader Mani Mani! He intentionally spreads plague-stricken believers in all directions, making the people tremble in anxiety and paralyzing the local economy! Exemption with 100 million gold offerings!”
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It was all revealed how recklessly Quilty sold indulgences.
Serious sins that can never be forgiven are listed in random order.
And most of the amount paid for the crime was a cheap price that was disproportionately insufficient compared to the nature of the crime.
Face-to-face (人面獸心).
How could he be pardoned for doing something like this while wearing the clothes of a saint in a human mask!
Even the clergy of the Old Testament, who had been protesting, doubted their ears.
“You sold indulgences to those demons?”
“At that price? No way. It must have been missing four or five zeros at the end.”
“Especially the pseudo cult leader, Mani Mani, isn’t it enough to burn him at the stake?”
“I can’t believe it! How could Cardinal Humbert and the Quilty family do such an ugly thing! Even an indulgence has that much!”
“Ha, but the seal on that letter is definitely…”
The whispers were not only coming from the Old Testament clergy.
The agitation spread beyond the people of the Quo Vadis family to the general public.
“How did Quo Vadisga do this!”
“The corruption of religious chants!”
“Calm down! That’s an Old Testament problem! It has nothing to do with New Testament priests!”
“Don’t drive the priests of the Old Testament sect! That’s only a problem with a few tribes!”
The gossip intensifies.
The priests were now in the mood to fight among themselves.
In the midst of the chaos, Dolores finished reading the data the Night Hound had given her.
The materials include the ugly reality of the trade names of Quilty and Humbert as social leaders Traces of managing donations dedicated to God as investment funds Secretly leaked details for political funds or illegal lobbying Even collusion with pseudo-religions in each region The traces were written in detail.
In addition, there were traces of selling a pitchfork, a piece of wood, straw, and even a pig bone that could only be used in a farmhouse as sacred objects.
The propaganda and plan to exempt one year of purgatory for each relic was written, and the number of relics sold in this way had already exceeded 30,000.
The public who learned all these facts were shocked.
“…”
The boys and girls reporters at the academy also stop writing and put on blank faces.
Quo Vadis, a religious chant, was revealed by a young saint who belonged to Quo Vadis.
In response, Dolores shouted after the refutation that she had been thinking about all night.
“I, Dolores of the New Testament sect, refute the atrocities of the Old Testament sect as follows!”
Once again, the public’s pen stands upright.
The sound of rustling on the notepad resonates continuously.
The mana screen shots floating around were also bursting with flash.
Dolores began her speech in a resolute voice.
“First! When our Lord and Teacher, Rune, says ‘repent’, he means that the whole life of the believer is to be penitent! … Fifth! The pope has neither the strength nor the will to forgive any punishment other than that imposed by his own power or by the authority of canon law! Sixth! No one has the power to forgive any sins other than to declare or acknowledge that God has forgiven them…. Twenty-seventh! What is said is only human theory!…Forty-fifth! Those who see the poor and pass by and offer money for indulgences are not indulging the pope, but rather incurring the wrath of Lord Rune. Forty-sixth: Teach the perverts that those who do not have enough wealth are obliged to save what is necessary for their families, and should never be wasted on indulgences! . . . .Fifty-first! The Pope must teach the Runes that, for the many who have been robbed of money by some indulgences preachers, the pope must pay them back, if need be, by selling all the churches of the church!…Ninetieth! General To suppress the objections enumerated by men without valid reasons and to suppress them only with power is to make the pope a mockery and make the Loon followers unhappy!…Ninety-fifth! So that the Lun followers will have a deeper confidence in entering the kingdom of heaven through many hardships rather than by consolation!”
She read 95 refutations smoothly without stuttering.
His spirit was so great that even the Old Testament clergy, who were the opposite faction, were moved, and there was a moment of silence during the funeral.
At the same time, Dolores felt a tingle in her legs.
It was fortunate that the puffy white skirt unique to priestly uniforms covered the tremors.
Mozgus, who was beside her, supported the saintess.
“It was a wonderful refutation, saintess. Every word was correct! This Mozgus was deeply moved.”
“…… I’m out of my mind.”
Dolores remembered what had happened last night or this morning.
night hound. After he left, the energy that made my body hard and strong disappeared like a lie.
Just now, he said it courageously, recalling the overflowing energy of that time, but in fact, it was just a psychological factor, and the power itself had long since disappeared.
‘Once upon a time the Pope said. A saintess can awaken only when she meets her true soul mate.’
The assimilation of the soul’s resonance and emotion, resulting in an explosion of divine power.
In short, it means that you have the ability to multiply the power you have.
What should I do to make this ‘awakening’ ability continue, not just temporary?
The night hound is gone, and now there is no one to ask, no one to test.
‘The kinky classical saints often talked about awakening in the past. At that time, don’t think of it as an absurd nagging, but listen to it a little more.’
Dolores still hadn’t figured out why the night hound could be her partner, the ‘awakening condition’.
It is because there is no way she knows that this is because the only veteran veteran who came from the era of destruction and knows the real ‘destruction’ is Vikir.
……Well, anyway.
The man chosen by Rune.
At this point, only he is qualified to be the saintess’ ‘soul companion’.
Dolores raised her head again.
And he quietly opened his mouth.
“‘Night Hound’. I must see him again.”
right at that moment.
…pop! …pop! …pop!
The sound of mana screenshots exploding behind me is loud.
At the place where Dolores turned her head in surprise, there were many reporters who had come so close to the gap.
Reporters scrambled to speak in unison.
“The saintess has declared a ‘holy war’ against the hounds of the night!”
