Chapter 27 – Between Heresy and Forbidden (8)
7. Between Heresy and Forbidden (8)
– I want you like that.
“Ha ha.”
– I want you like that.
“Really.”
– I want you like that.
“It’s thrilling.”
– I want you like that.
“If you say it so seriously and with all your heart.”
– I want you like that.
“Wouldn’t anyone get over it? Did Kaya unnie already go through that? I think I was totally hooked.”
– I want you like that.
“Ha ha.”
Shay, a holy crusader of the Church of Justitia, wore heavy armor with a pattern symbolizing the Church of Justitia more than 90 percent of the time, or sometimes wore a nun’s uniform. However, when she came out of an inn, she was wearing a dress, not heavy armor or a nun’s uniform.
The dress looked plain when viewed from a distance, but when viewed up close, it seemed to support the elegance and elegance of the wearer rather than plain. The feeling that clothes become shoes, not wings?
Everyone who passed by her, young or old, long or short, had her gaze fixed on her. But none of them approached it recklessly.
It was because she felt the foreignness of her high-ranking aristocrat.
“Heung heung~ Heung heung~ Heung heung heung~”
Whether people were looking at her or not, she hummed her tune and headed for a monastery.
The Salem branch of the Church of Justitia, with a statue of a goddess holding a torch in one hand and a scale in the other.
When the apprentice temple guards at the entrance saw Shay, she asked in amazement.
“Shay! What, what did he look like?”
“Ah, nothing to worry about. By the way, is the warrior commander inside?”
“I understand that the commander-in-chief is probably away!”
“Is it so? Thank you. Take care?”
“Yes! Shay-nim, please suffer too!”
Shay grinned, and her apprentice crusaders blushed in response.
To the male crusaders walking the path of justice in the Church of Justitia, Shay, who is beautiful, kind, sociable, and even competent, is like an idol.
Pretending she wasn’t, the smile vanished from her Shay’s face as the gazes of the two crusaders staring at her ardently disappeared.
‘There were no people who said they liked me to such an obvious degree that they would go to missions or dungeons twice in a row with me. He avoided me with an uneasy look, as if he was looking at a monster with only a pretty appearance.’
She moved her steps to the place where the warrior chief, the chief who leads the crusaders, is located.
‘But I don’t think the captain and my sister are.’
– I want you like that.
Until the moment she knocked on the door to her warlord’s office, Hendrick’s words kept repeating in Shay’s head.
Smart-
“Shay. I know you’re inside, so I’ll go in?”
Shay opened the door without hearing her answer and entered. Seeing her empty room, she looked around for a while, not at all embarrassed, then raised her head.
“Warrior commander. It’s disgusting.”
“What do you mean?”
“Can’t you at least practice wearing clothes?”
“I didn’t even answer, but wasn’t it you who came in on your own?”
A middle-aged man who was hanging like a spider from a fairly high ceiling landed lightly. He was wearing only his daughter’s underwear, and as he tried to sit across from Shay, he looked into her eyes and put on something like a loose robe.
“It’s even creepier…”
“When I tell you to wear it. Anyway, I’m here because I have something to say. It’s such an important thing that I want to say it directly to myself. Please speak quickly.”
Yes tell me what to do
Shay tried to hide her long hair from her sight, to the point of disgust.
“I’m thinking of joining the corps of warriors.”
“Also?”
“Yes.”
“There will be more poor souls.”
“You talk like I’m doing something wrong.”
“In a way, wouldn’t it? Well, Shay, I don’t even know how many times it’s been since you entered the corps of warriors and got destroyed. You didn’t have to interrupt my time to report it, did you?”
“It’s not like that, Commander.”
“If you have any reports about heresy, go and tell the nun. Because you decided to take care of this matter.”
“Not even that.”
Shay stood up and touched her desk.
“You said you were going to join the corps of warriors. I mean it.”
“… Seriously.”
The demeanor of the warrior commander, who had been responding half-heartedly with her arms folded, changed. He met the golden eyes that were looking at him.
The strongest judge of the Salem branch of the Church of Justiel, he doesn’t get along well with people, but he has a better eye for people than anyone else. To the extent that you can grasp a person’s sincerity or intention to some extent just by looking into their eyes properly like now.
And with those eyes, he saw in front of his eyes that the most gifted genius crusader of the Salem branch had really established his own path.
After seeing her sincerity, her many trainings, many practical exercises, many prayer and catechesis lessons, and many volunteers in and outside of her monastery quickly flashed by.
Genius that came out. At the same time, her own first disciple and disciple.
‘Dear Justitia.’
The commander of the warrior managed his feelings for his disciple.
“A report on this collaboration?”
“I will report to the nun as soon as I leave.”
“I see.”
“Yes.”
The commander-in-chief looked at Shay for a while, then threw an object at her that was stuck in her corner.
“Take it.”
“… Warrior commander.”
“I don’t use it anymore, and my student has sincerity for the first time in his life, but I can’t stand it if I can’t give him a souvenir. Whether you use it, give it to someone else, sell it or throw it away, you decide.”
“… Thank you. Master.”
“OK.”
The warrior commander closed his eyes.
“It doesn’t go far.”
“I’ll come back later?”
“Light and fair justice on all sides. Always be careful.”
“… Light and fair justice on all sides. Master too.”
**
“Ha, ha ha, haha.”
“Are you okay?”
“Are you not good?”
“… I like it too.”
I had a vague idea of Shay’s sudden action and the reason, but when I asked Kaya, who seemed to have figured it out, she was right with my expectations.
That Shay wants to join our corps of warriors.
Of course, if it was just that, Kaya wouldn’t have looked so stupid.
A necklace with the symbol of the religious order that Shay handed over to me to ‘leave it for a while’.
Whether they were nuns, crusaders, or priests, there was a common rule of wearing accessories that symbolized the church when they formally belonged to the church.
She will not be able to retrieve her necklace unless she returns, and Shay loses one of her means of proving her identity to the public. The results are not so fatal, but it was a tradition that has been passed down and maintained for over a thousand years. And as heavy as it was, few people handed her her own jewelry, much less saw it.
In short, Kaya was surprised by Shay’s extreme expression.
“Ah. So, was she really surprised when the owner of the request said, Kaya, that she would pawn your necklace?”
“… Didn’t you know?”
“I also thought Kaya’s sincerity worked.”
“It was also my sincerity.”
“Aha.”
She only promised that Kaya would be her collateral, but she didn’t leave it with the owner of the request, but Shay didn’t even leave it at all, so she left all her equipment.
Anyway, isn’t it a slope? She feels a little sorry for the man who asked for the sweets, but thinking about it, that man must have planned to use me to do something, so I wondered if she might have given a level 1 guy a reward like that.
I ate something to eat and got out well. The church will take care of the rest.
I decided to think so.
**
“Progress.”
“90%.”
“However.”
“Because the church is about to attack. Light and charity.”
“Why did you get caught?”
“I really want to ask. It seems the one you gave didn’t work. Otherwise, there’s no way it would leak out so quickly.”
“It is impossible. Didn’t I say that there were two level 1 warriors?”
“That’s why I want to argue! Filtering out the gossips and distracting them were all right, so why didn’t those pathetic bastards fall for the suggestion! I used all the medicine they gave me and the magic circle they installed!”
“Calm down.”
“If you hadn’t questioned him first, there wouldn’t have been any anger. You haven’t forgotten the contents of the contract, have you? Otherwise, you wouldn’t know that I’m in a very impatient and angry situation.”
“Can you forget the contract? I just wanted to know the cause. That way, whether you respond or evade, you will come up with a plan.”
A secret meeting was going on inside the house, which was narrow, dark, and eerie, and looked like an abandoned house.
“Since you have already turned your back on Salem, I suggest shaving that shaggy beard for a smooth disguise and escape.”
“Hey. Since when are we talking nonsense about caring about each other’s personal things? It would be better not to waste time with such trivial words. I mean, it’s a ‘contract’.”
“Of course. ——–You are always watching over me, so I have no intention of violating that.”
Across from the man with a full beard, a featureless black masked man snapped his fingers. Then, a handful of black smoke burned in the air between the two, and after a while, a bead emitting a light that was blacker than the smoke and even magical appeared.
The man who snapped his finger snapped it again, and the bead flew to the bearded man, whirled around for a moment, and then landed on his right hand.
“Big-!”
With his left hand, the bearded man grabbed his right wrist, which was enveloped in black smoke, and gnashed his teeth. He let out a strange moan mixed with pain and joy. If an ordinary man heard it, it would have been frightening and deafening, but at least in this abandoned house, no one made such a fuss.
After about 10 minutes passed and all the black smoke disappeared. The bearded man was breathing hard, sweat pouring from his whole body. The masked man spoke in a dry tone, as if he had no inspiration.
“The terms of the contract were kept. Strictly speaking, it was paid for. This was done specially because it was acknowledged that there was a reason for responsibility on this side, too, so sooner or later that side will have to pay a reasonable price for the contract.”
Haha! Of course! No wonder!”
“The next time we meet, I hope we meet in a more constructive way. We will tell you the next place and time from here later.”
The bearded man nodded roughly as if listening to the masked man, and left his abandoned house, looking only at his right hand.
Behind the mask of the masked man looking at the back of the bearded man, a twisted smile was forming.
