Chapter 983 – #99. Three Thousand Concubines and Emperor Gaiden (41)
When I heard that the priests were doing strange tricks, I moved to meet them because I wanted it at this time.
I was going to touch it anyway, but I moved the bush first, so how good is it?
In addition, the process of confirming how faithful they are will be another interesting spectacle.
When they arrived at the place where the priests were confined.
A cool breeze greeted me with a disgusting smell.
‘I was told to treat them the same as normal prisoners.’
After living in a noble body, trying to live in a place like this, I couldn’t adapt and it seemed like I had a lot of trouble.
And sure enough, the priests were looking at me with a snarky expression somewhere.
‘Did you say that you wanted to be treated as a noble prisoner?’
It seems that the priests couldn’t stand the treatment of ordinary prisoners much more than I thought.
But I deliberately pretended not to know and scratched their pride.
‘Why would those humans do good things?’
In order not to obediently grant their wish, I deliberately brought up the story of the prayer room and twisted what they wanted.
‘Originally, once is difficult, two or three times is easier.’
You have to get what you want with difficulty to come to your senses.
In addition, making a prayer room meant a lot to me.
‘Because the devil’s contract is in conflict with the holy power, it could get hurt if exposed to the statue by mistake.’
In other words, when I asked if I could see the statue, no, the sarcasm meant that he believed me as the devil’s contractor.
I was provoking that I would gladly build a prayer room there.
However, the priests still didn’t believe me despite my confident attitude.
I wanted to coolly break the confidence of the priests that they knew they couldn’t do it anyway.
“Immediately bring the new statue and make a prayer room. Let the soldiers come in and out freely, and let the priests use it once a day for about an hour.”
“!!”
In fact, all I had to do was put a statue of the god in the makeshift tent, lay out a carpet, and claim it was a prayer room.
It was much less difficult than treating them as noble prisoners.
If I were a real demonic contractor, I’d rather have a place where priests can live comfortably than a prayer room.
‘It’s going to be pretty hard to find personal information, but it’s better than nothing. If there is an image, the soldiers will be healthy too.’
At my attitude, the pupils of the priests shook wildly.
Since the priests strongly believed that I was the one who made a pact with the devil, I was very shaken.
“Are you really going to build a prayer room? Unless you’re crazy…How could you do that…?!”
How embarrassing would you be to ask the emperor if he was crazy?
I laughed inwardly when I saw it.
“That’s crazy. Just because the temple gave Jim the absurd stigma of being a demon contractor doesn’t make Jim a real demon contractor.”
“Trying to bewitch people is a typical devil’s underling behavior.”
Did I try to bewitch you?
It was absurd.
“Is Jim trying to bewitch you?”
“I can provide any amount of proof that you are a demonic contractor. You have an unrealistically beautiful appearance to bewitch humans, and you have powerful powers that humans would not have been able to.”
I wonder if I should receive this as a compliment or a diss.
“The only thing that looks like is born handsome. And this power has nothing to do with demons.”
“If you’re not a demon contractor, how can you use such power! Explain how you got it!”
It wasn’t my strength in the first place, it was an item effect.
It wasn’t something that could be explained, so I said it to upset them.
“This power? Of course it’s the power given by the gods.”
“You’re talking bullshit because you have a hole in your mouth!!! Ino Ohm! Aren’t you afraid of the sky!”
The priest was so excited that her face turned red and she yelled out loud.
“To misunderstand the power bestowed by God as the power given by the devil. Really… I wonder what to do with this.”
“A misunderstanding? A misunderstanding? Tww! I won’t be fooled by your black target!”
Now I spit
It’s not me who eats and sleeps here, so you’re the one who has to clean it up yourself later.
“It’s you guys who refuse to admit to the end that you’re full of arrogance and egotism. Relationships that don’t benefit you are treated as demonic contractors, and you guys use God as an excuse to extort money from faithful believers! You guys are the ones. What makes you so proud? I wonder if you can hold your head up like this in front of God.”
Of course, there is no god in this world.
It’s been a long time since I left this place.
There’s no way they’ll develop affection when these guys are living riotously.
If I were a god that these guys worshiped, I would have lost more than a handful of money.
“Don’t talk sophistry! You’re the devil himself! What the hell are you going to do by bewitching people! Do you know that you don’t know that even starting a war is to give you an excuse to make money for the devil!”
I am making a reason according to the situation, so no matter how much I try to explain, it will be useless.
“You should know that the arrogance of the temple that does not acknowledge it until the end causes harm to the poor.”
If you are a priest, you should at least be ashamed.
Faithful soldiers who had believed in God since childhood had to pay attention to other soldiers just by praying.
Because the temple put a stigma on me.
‘It was the fault of ‘humans’ who worship God, and not ‘God’s fault’, but the hatred did not subside.’
After all, I was disappointed because I thought these guys were not worth fixing.
“Are you sure Jim is a demon contractor?”
Perhaps thinking that my question was a provocation, the priest couldn’t hide his anger and shouted again.
“You’d rather cover the sky with the palm of your hand!!! You dare insult the Lord!!”
The priest’s voice cracked as he shouted.
It seemed that his body was very tired from living on the cold, hard ground.
“A prayer room where a demon contractor is! There’s no greater insult than this! Do you think you can make fun of God and survive?”
“Then why don’t you check it yourself? I know that there is a way to distinguish the demon contractor. Well, they say that most of them use the formula to kill if they are suspected, like witch hunting, but they say there is no way at all?”
Again, I teased the priest to confirm that I was a real demon contractor.
There is a simple way to check, so why not do it?
Contrary to my thoughts, however, the priest closed his eyes.
“Don’t listen to the devil! Everyone close your eyes and ears! Don’t play with the tricks of interest!”
Do not listen to the whisperings of the devil.
It was a skill that a priest should have, and the priests joined in unison and closed their eyes and began to pray.
To be honest, they seemed a bit crazy.
“This is ridiculous. Why is everyone making a fuss saying that if I lay a mat, I won’t die even if I die?”
I think it will be less stuffy even if I talk to the wall about this.
It seems suspicious that a guy called the Devil Contractor is encouraging him to check if he is really the one who signed the contract with the Devil.
Maybe even if there was evidence that I wasn’t a demon contractor, they wouldn’t believe that I was cheating.
‘This is a complete bummer. Would it be right to wash and use these bastards?’
I’ve been feeling skeptical ever since.
For now, these are the only ones I can use, so I keep trying…
The weight was being weighed on the fact that it might be better to withdraw the plan.
‘It’s true revenge when these guys who are stubborn in their own way face a situation where their arrogance is directly denied. It’s a pity to give up like this.’
The best way to get revenge on the temple bastards was to cut them in half.
Attacking from the inside is much more lethal and effective than attacking from the outside.
That’s why I decided to persevere and be patient even if my stomach boils.
I had to convince them to be on my side so that I could create a platform to destroy the temple.
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“Since the construction is finished today, you will be able to go to the prayer room once a day from the next day. Even when you pray, they will always be watching you, so don’t think about running away.”
The soldier finally informed the priests that the prayer room had been completed.
It had been a full week since the day he had a face-to-face conversation with the emperor.
When the soldier finished talking and went back, the priests clung to the barbed wire, and neither you nor I spoke.
“The emperor has built a real prayer room. Now what?”
“At that time, I couldn’t have chosen the prayer room. You’re going to stay here until the end of the war, right?”
“Is our comfort important right now? It’s important that the Imperial Emperor really built a prayer room!”
“Let’s start by checking if we brought in the right personal image. It’s not good to move hastily unless we can confirm it with our own eyes.”
Priests felt more despair than joy when they heard that the prayer room was completed.
Now I’m going to stay in this damn prison until I’m free.
Of course, having a prayer room is not a bad thing.
However, it was more urgent to get a place to sleep comfortably than a prayer room.
“Why don’t you promise to accept the confession of the soldiers here and ask for a better environment? If there is a prayer room, wouldn’t it need a priest to manage it?”
“Will the emperor listen to that? Aren’t you suspicious and vigilant because you don’t know what we’re going to do?”
“We can’t just do nothing and continue to treat as the empire tells us to do! We should try something like this!”
“Do you hate bugs that much?”
“Yes!!
The priest sighed as he listened to the conversations of the other priests.
That’s not what’s important right now, but I thought everyone was taking care of their own comfort.
‘If the emperor really built a prayer room…The probability of not being a demon contractor increases.’
In the first place, it was natural for a demon contractor not to come near the prayer room.
However, the emperor broke such obvious common sense from the front.
What could this mean?
‘The emperor may not be a demon contractor.’
When I stood in front of them, the Emperor proudly asked me to check.
It could be that he was bluffing, but the emperor he saw at the time was a sincere attitude that he had nothing to hold back.
It’s normal to have a feeling.
Is this person lying or telling the truth?
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the characteristic feeling of lying in the emperor.
