Chapter 69 – Heretic Saint, Forbidden Nun (2)
11. Heretic Saint, Forbidden Nun (2)
“This is nonsense… !”
Hard-!
Kaya and Shay were shocked to see the elite monster 〈 Dread Sister 〉. Of course, I’m not as much as they are, but I was quite surprised.
“Unbelievers… Among them, the energy of those who pursue illusions is strong.”
“Corruption…”
It was different from other monsters who had lost their taste because they worshiped fear. The system clearly defined the woman as a monster, but unlike the other monsters, it wasn’t a hideous appearance, nor was it an alien shape like black clay. Even conversation seemed possible.
“Please state your name and original affiliation! I will purify you and help you return to the arms of the goddess!”
“Hey, come now? It is futile.”
[Speed check]
Shay: 3
Kaya: 4
Eugene: 7
Dread Nun : 4
[Eugene’s turn comes first.]
However, the conversation was cut off too easily. In the first place, it was not a conversation, but only what to say to each other, but it might have been cleverly meshed.
[Nun of Horror]
Stamina 66/66
4 to 8 attack power
Defense 2
Speed 4
The physical didn’t matter. From the image, it looked like it would mainly use mentality attacks, but it looked like an opponent that could be easily defeated.
However, the problem was that appearance that could hardly be considered a monster. Just taking off that black robe right now, it wouldn’t be strange to hug Kaya or Shay while calling her sister… Until now, I had wielded the ax without hesitation, thinking that my opponent was not a human being, but a monster that resembled a human.
‘Isn’t it true that he became like that regardless of his will because he was subjected to brainwashing or encroachment?’
If I split my skull with an axe, wouldn’t I be able to do nothing about purification? Could it be that the owner of the necklace I saw at the Salem branch also changed that way?
No, do you have any certainty that the woman in front of you right now is not the owner of the necklace?
“Fuck…”
I thought it was easy just by looking at the specs, but it wasn’t until I picked up the ax that I realized that I was in real trouble.
As time passed and the magic torch swayed and her handle was sweaty, Kaya’s calm voice cut through.
“Leader.”
“Uh.”
“The captain, the captain’s duty. We will do our part.”
“… Okay.”
It didn’t say much, but her voice gave it a strange power.
Don’t mind us, do your thing.
Her words sounded like that to me, and thanks to the word ‘duty’, I was able to shake off my delusion.
‘Okay. My job right now hasn’t changed.’
Even if that woman was the owner of the necklace, she had no choice but to be hostile in her current state.
Tatatat-
[Crush the head]
[Eugene deals 17 damage to the Dread Sister.]
[Remaining HP 49/66]
“Quaaaaa
The skin cracked and blood spattered. The blood was clear, and the screams were clearer. I didn’t get any messages, but the screams seemed to scratch my mentality a bit.
“To wield uncivilized violence!”
[The speed of Kaya and the Dread Sister is the same.]
[Speed roll]
Kaya: 3
Dread Nun: 4
[The Dread Sister’s turn will precede Kaya’s turn.]
“I will make you pay for it!”
The dreadful nun let out her resentment as she grabbed her head, where her blood was dripping. It was a terrible and eerie voice that was hard to imagine coming from such a slender body.
[Gospel of Fear]
“On the day when the existing false beliefs are broken and the inner fear is acknowledged, a new destiny will be opened!”
“Keugh!”
[The Dread Nun did 0 damage to Shay.]
[The Dread Sister deals 0 damage to Kaya.]
[The Dread Nun did 0 damage to Eugene.]
I was hit with a wide area, but all of them were 0 damage. It was because of the dreadful nun’s low attack power and her overall increased defense power of the warriors.
[The whispers of fear gnaw at the spirits of the warriors.]
[Shay Mentality –11]
[Kaya mentality -8]
[Eugene mentality -10]
However, as expected, the fearful nun’s attack shook her mentality. You can say what a big deal it is to be cut off by only about 10, but…
“Calm down, come to your senses! Shake off your false beliefs! Please!”
“Stop it! Have you really betrayed your faith?”
“Terror cannot be stopped with a handful of light, so the unbelievers must stop futilely disturbing and fall!”
Just as I was hesitant to throw the ax because of her appearance, her colleagues were shocked by the dread nun’s act of aggression itself.
“Couldn’t it be that it wasn’t corrupted by force…? .”
In another world, in order to become a priest, nun, or crusader who walks the path of a god, it was common that several years of hard training and firm faith were prerequisites. A body and mind that can carry out God’s will in any situation. Both of them must be equipped to be recognized as a person who walks the ‘road’ with sincere faith.
However, the attack just now seemed to have shattered the expectation that the nun had been corrupted by ‘force’. Kaya’s hand on her mace was shaking.
“Kaya.”
“… Yes.”
“Maybe, maybe not one.”
Kaya gritted her teeth.
“Forgive her daughter for being foolish enough to do this, Lady La Ella.”
After reciting a short prayer to Lady Raella for a moment, she threw away all her hesitation and swung her mace with more ferocity than ever.
[Everything according to God’s will]
[Severe Blow!]
[Kaya deals 24 damage to the Dread Sister.]
[25/66 HP remaining]
[Hope rises in the hearts of the warriors at the blow that pierces fear.]
[Shay Mentality +3]
[Kaya mentality +3]
[Eugene mentality +3]
“Aaaaa!!!”
No.
No.
With the blow that savagely defeats ‘fear’, ‘hope’ rises in the hearts of the warriors?
This? Where are you looking?
If you look closely, it’s a picture of three criminals harassing an innocent person.
If that’s a real feared monster, why is it more painful for us to attack it? Uh?
Kayana, who landed the fatal blow, and I, who confirmed it, were not happy at all. Kaya was fixing her necklace with her stern expression.
Now it was Shay’s turn. She looked at Shay. She was staring coldly down at the terrified nun who was clutching her half-crushed face and screaming at her. She hadn’t been there until just a moment ago.
Heresy.
Clap-
Short murmur. And Shay, who was in her stance with her ferocious Claymore, turned her head back. Her eyes met mine, and she asked for ‘command’ in an awkwardly firm tone.
“Give me the order. Captain.”
It looks like it will shed tears any moment, it looks like it will spit out abusive words any moment, it seems that it will scream any moment… Having suppressed such complex emotions, she ordered as she wished.
“The ‘judgment’ of justice.”
“… Yes. Captain.”
Unlike Kaya, who stormed in furiously, Shay walked more calmly than ever. The thud of her boots seemed to be counting down.
He became a ‘heretic’ himself.
The countdown to the death that will come to the nun who committed the ‘forbidden’.
“Bug-like year. A year to be abandoned even by fear. A bitch with no qualifications to serve anyone.”
Squeak-
[Judgement of Justice]
**
No one was hurt. Shay’s Judgment of Justice stunned him and was able to deal with it in the next round. She wasn’t hit, but looking at the results, she was close to being hit, so even if she was happy with her growth, the timing wouldn’t be strange.
“…”
“…”
The atmosphere was shit. What if this was the operation of heretics? Dare to applaud.
‘There was a necklace that was deformed black.’
The ‘heretic’ nun who became a rag-mate was not the owner of her necklace. The moment she confirmed it on her corpse, she was afraid that the distorted faces of Kaya and Shay, who had been pretending to be calm, would appear in her dreams.
Anger at her having that necklace as she had been degenerated into a fear cult. And the necklace on her church was more severely deformed than the necklace on the corpse, and if so, the owner of the necklace was angered by the fact that it was obvious even without looking at the state.
The anger overlapped, but there was no way to relieve it right away, so the thick anger they couldn’t contain was spreading all over the place.
‘By the way, why is that necklace?’
I quietly followed him, thinking that a clumsy expression of affection or consolation would have the opposite effect. And I thought. Even the fallen nun who appeared as an elite monster was wearing a necklace, so why was that necklace in the church?
She’s already dead. Found it by accident?
Or not.
‘Did it spill on purpose?’
If the first assumption is correct, it cannot expand further and has no meaning, so I think the second assumption is correct and worry again.
Why? Why?
Why did the dreadworshipers spill her blackened necklace, the symbol of the Corrupted Nun, into the cult? In a yard full of guys who hid tightly and even hid in dungeons?
So what are the guys here doing other than the dungeon? What other important purpose is there?
What if the kidnapping of nuns, or nuns, was for that purpose?
Spilled spilled on purpose I spilled it on purpose despite the fact that it would be discovered by the church…
No way.
In order to kidnap ‘more’ nuns, did they spill it on purpose? Trying to lure?
It was pretty plausible, I think. But I didn’t blindly think it was right. So after a little more thought, I shared my imagination with my colleagues.
“So, does that mean the necklace was a decoy to corrupt even the Salem branch contingent?”
“If my imagination is correct.”
“Then the owner of the necklace is no longer important. It was more black, so if it was more than that year before, it would be more, but not less, so from now on, wouldn’t it be right to set the priority search target as a delegation?”
“That… Maybe it’s still too early to be sure. It is also possible that the owner of the necklace was really corrupted by force.”
“No. Ah. There is, of course, a possibility that it did. But.”
Shay laughed.
It was an eerie smile.
“I’m trying to think that it’s because her faith is only that much to the point of being corrupted.”
“Shay.”
“In the end, we succumbed and fell and became heretical, and we are not heretical. So it’s obvious, right? I don’t think there is any reason why we should suffer. No, I do not want. What did we do wrong? So I’d rather think that way.”
Kaya, who was trying to stop her, shut her mouth. It was the same for me too.
“And if the captain is right, you should think so even more. Whether they were corrupted voluntarily or unintentionally, it’s for heretics to use, isn’t it? Originally, it is correct to purify slowly, but if that is not possible… I think it’s right to get rid of the aftereffects in advance so that they don’t do anything. No?”
“…”
“Yes?”
Was it the picture Cestia wanted? That’s not it. However, Shay’s opinion could not be ignored. Although her opinion of cutting the corrupted nuns into heresy like a knife and exterminating them all sounded radical, it hit me hard that it wasn’t completely wrong.
It wasn’t just curiosity.
Big event.
And great rewards.
It tickled.
‘For now, let’s go further. If I feel like I can’t handle it, I’ll get some recognition just by jumping out and reporting what I’ve been through.’
“… Warm kindness and cold generosity.”
We retrieved only the necklace and went further inside. Only one phrase from Kaya’s prayer brushed past the remaining corpse.
