Chapter 272 – 28. The Revival of the Aran Hedonism.
Aran’s refusal of the bishop’s request and not summoning the heretical group spread widely throughout the religious world.
Most of the time, he cursed Aran for not being religious, and in some cases, he pointed out Aran as a heretic and a cult after hearing the remarks made by the female Aran.
And all of those things were communicated to Saint Cecilia.
Bang!
The table, which was intact at the punch, collapsed with a crackling sound.
The one who expresses her anger while trembling is none other than Saint Cecilia.
She huffed and puffed for a while, then brushed her silvery, shiny hair back behind her to temper her rage.
“What should I do, saintess?”
“After… You’re too lazy to trust the background. From what I’ve heard, it’s clear that the king is also a heretic. But. I live such a promiscuous life, and no normal person would do that.”
“Rumor has it that a king named Aran can transform into a woman, and when he does, he calls himself a god.”
“Huh.”
Cecilia snorted at her.
God?
Claiming God in a human subject?
It is also a heresy that cannot be left unattended.
“I can never leave you alone.”
The saintess made up her mind, but the bishops hesitated.
“I… Saintess. Are you sure you want to touch the great king?”
“Of course. A group of heretics must dry their seeds in this world. Moreover, if you are a person who calls yourself a god, there is nothing more to say. This must be what Terra-sama also wants.”
The Bishop shook his head from side to side.
“Lady. The great king is too big. If you don’t care, you might end up going to war with the entire eastern continent, so you have to be careful.”
Aside from everything else, Aran is close to Seorae, the emperor of the Mei Empire.
She is also the woman who led the Mei Empire to an unprecedented heyday, but on the other hand, she was also a very self-righteous and cruel person.
In particular, her distrust her and suppression of nobles are at a serious level, and the number of nobles slaughtered from the first year of her accession her to the present reaches hundreds of thousands.
Not long ago, her notoriety her increased because she abandoned her son her, who was her husband her, and purged all nine families except for her princesses her.
There is no way that such a person would just watch Aran’s sacrifice for the sake of Terra.
The background was explained in detail, but the saintess was unyielding. She still insisted that Aran be punished.
“All people are equal before God. Social emotions inevitably allow the caste system, but originally humans are equal. Whether you are a noble or a king, if you have sinned before God, you should come out and be judged.”
“Of course it is, but….”
“When we neglect sin because we have power, our justice is subject to force. Also, since God is with you, what are you worried about?”
“That….”
Having silenced her bishop by spewing out theories that really left her speechless, the saintess soon took a scroll of her silk and began to write something.
“Wh, what… Are you writing?”
She has a premonition of something ominous about her.
It felt as if there were going to be things written on that scroll that shouldn’t have been.
The saintess opened her mouth.
“It’s not that I don’t quite understand what the bishop is saying.”
“Yes?”
“I am not stupid either. Heresy must be condemned, but… If more and more innocent victims are produced in the process of condemnation, that would not be justice either.”
“Ah….”
Fortunately, the saintess seems to be thinking deeply in her own way.
“I don’t want my beloved my people to see blood. The best thing to do is to work it out amicably, if you can. So….”
She unfolded her scroll and showed it.
“I am going to write him an indulgences.”
“Noodle…Are you guilty?”
“Of course there are conditions. The condition is that we hand over to our church the group of ‘Aran Pleasure Church’ who make and distribute heretical doctrines and make people sick. If you respond, I will make a request to the Lord God to forgive his sins.”
“That, that….”
“Originally, he too should be judged for heresy. Only then can our sins be forgiven and we can go to heaven in the afterlife. He is a whore Even though he has wives, he commits adultery with countless women and even rapes them. He is guilty of a felony too, but he will pardon this case only.”
The saintess smiled faintly as she spoke.
Wouldn’t it be possible to do something like this? ‘ She said with a condescending laugh.
“This is the mercy of the main god who does not want the sacrifice of many. It is to place a lesser evil in order to destroy a greater evil.”
Meaning looked good.
But I couldn’t help but agree.
“Holy Lady, that’s… It is no different from a declaration of war.”
“Why?”
“He said he would forgive sins… Doesn’t this mean that the saintess will be on top of the head of the great king? If a member of royalty, not even aristocrat, receives such a document, of course they will be outraged.”
“That’s true, but how else can I say it? It does not mean that I am high, it means that the one in me is high.”
“We know that, but they don’t know because they are ignorant.”
“Then you should let me know. That God is above all.”
As if she had already made up her mind, she rolled up her scroll and tied her string.
She didn’t seem to have any more room to stop.
“Successful in front of force is not worthy of justice. We are those who serve justice according to God’s will. Even if the minor evil can be tolerated in order to destroy the great evil, we cannot tolerate both.”
She handed her scroll to a nearby priest and immediately ordered it to be delivered to Aran of the Great Habsburg Kingdom.
It was quite far from the Kingdom of Terra located in the central continent and the great kingdom of the western continent, but the pabal could travel hundreds of li in a day, so it should arrive in two weeks.
The bishop raised a prayer in his anxious heart his.
‘Please… Please keep the worst out of the way…!’
* * *
“Majesty! Saint Cecilia sent an envoy from the Holy Land of Terra.”
Aran, who was having a meeting with the nobles in Uijeongjeon, suddenly felt a pain in his bones at the incoming report.
Not too long ago, even the bishop in charge of the Habsburgs was quite annoying, but now the saintess sent an envoy herself.
Aran let out a sigh and sent in the envoy.
She was dressed in pure white clothes unique to the Terran kingdom, and had a pretty smile on her face.
“I want to see the Great King.”
With a sonorous voice, she said goodbye to Aran and then delivered the scroll she had brought to the eunuch.
“It was written by the saintess herself. Read it and ask me to give you an answer.”
“Let’s see.”
Nobles murmured that the saintess wrote it herself.
This was because, no matter how important the case was, the saintess usually did not write her own handwriting her.
‘This… ?’
As Aran opened the scroll, his expression his frowned.
The nobles started whispering again with a very uncomfortable expression.
“What is it about….”
“Perhaps he accused Your Highness of being a heretic.”
“Oh no way… Even though he’s the king…”
“Isn’t this saint famous for being strong?”
The woman who came as an envoy looked around for such reactions and then opened her mouth.
“The saintess said she would write her indulgences of her to Her Highness of her.”
“Um….”
Her Aran Her raised her eyes slightly and glared at her.
“Your Highness is exonerated!”
“That means Your Highness is guilty!”
The already noisy power outage was filled with the sighs and anger of the nobles, completely turning into a riot like a country floor.
No matter how much Aran is from a commoner and a man, he lacks legitimacy, but he is still the king of a country. It would be quite impolite for him to write to the king, ‘You are guilty, but I will pardon you.’
This is ignoring the country itself, and further ignoring the nobility belonging to it.
If you expand the interpretation a little, you can say that ‘nobles who tolerate and serve the king’s sins are also sinners’, and this was enough to touch the nobles’ misery.
Aran was also stunned and laughed out loud.
“Absolution? Did I commit a sin so great that the saintess wrote it herself?”
The woman was bold.
“Your Highness is currently defending a group of heretics who cause great confusion to the people and plunge their souls into hell. Furthermore, he is called a god by them, and since Your Highness has also referred to himself as a god, it cannot be said that he is not a sinner. The original intention of the saintess is that Your Highness should also be judged for heresy.”
“Look at that crazy bitch!”
The nobles rose up.
There was a group of people who hated her Aran her, but all of her were of one mind and criticized her.
“No matter how much you serve God, you are a saint, but what kind of disrespect is this to Your Highness!”
“Apologize right now!”
Countless nobles pointed at her and criticized her, but she stood firm nonetheless.
“I am very sorry to say it in front of my face, but I said it directly because it was true.”
She continued, pointing her hand at the crowd of aristocrats who were accusing her of her.
“The saintess also expected a reaction like this. That is why He gave His Highness an indulgence. As long as you hand over the heretic group Karen and her followers her to this church, Your Highness will not be judged.”
