Chapter 982 – #99. Three Thousand Concubines and Emperor Gaiden (40)
“Ha…”
Sighs are heard everywhere.
“Oops… It’s the waist.”
The priest, who usually liked soft cotton blankets, patted his waist with his fist and made a sound of pain.
When did they ever sleep on a thin blanket on a cold floor?
It was the first time since I was chosen by God that I was treated with such cold food.
“How long do we have to stay like this?”
The place where they were confined was a prison.
The consideration for the priests of the temple was a cold treatment without even a glance.
Eating was poor, the floor was cold, and the prison with no light made the mind devastated.
The only time they could see the light was when they left prison for treatment.
“Well. It’s still at war, so it doesn’t seem like you’re thinking about bringing prisoners.”
“Then do we have to keep being locked up in this place until the war is over?”
“Maybe not?”
“Oh my god…That’s terrible. There are bugs here too!”
The well-bred priests could not stand the terrible prison environment.
“I’d rather get paid for treating this.”
“These are the ones who told me to treat them if they didn’t want to die.
“It’s not like I’m asking for a lot, it’s okay to just ask to be moved to a place where people can live instead of this damn prison!”
Seeing the bug, he screamed until he was about to pass out, and then the priest, who calmed down after the soldier killed the bug instead, spoke with tears in his eyes.
“…Surely that would be worth suggesting.”
“No matter how much it is, using the power given by the Lord on your own against the enemy…”
“Why do you say such obvious things when we are alone?”
“Uh-huh! Hmm-hmm. He probably doesn’t want to see us suffer either.”
“That’s right, right?”
Priests started thinking about getting out of prison and creating a normal living space.
I was forced to use my strength because I couldn’t overcome the threat, so I’d rather use it for my own benefit.
The priests who made a plan like that said when the soldiers tried to take them out the next day.
“Look!”
“?”
The soldier looked at the priest who had summoned him.
“I have something to talk to you about.”
“What.”
“I have nothing to say to you, so please bring your superior.”
“I’m going to say something. It’s not something my boss can call me just like that. If you tell me, I’ll deliver it to you.”
“I’m sure I didn’t tell you! I’m talking to my boss.”
“Then, when you come here someday, do it yourself. I have no intention of calling you.”
When the soldier came out crookedly, the priest burst into anger.
“This guy!!!”
“Ah, it’s noisy. Keep your dignity.”
“Me, me, me!!!”
The soldier ignored the priest’s shouts by poking his fingers into his ears and urged him to come quickly.
The place where the soldiers took him was always the place where the patient was.
However, the priests who had already spoken to each other refused the treatment.
“I can’t!!”
“What?”
Until now, he had been calm without saying anything, but suddenly he did this, and the soldiers were taken aback.
“I can’t because my back hurts!”
“Kuluk kuluk, did you catch a cold because you slept in a place that was too cold?
“Oh, it’s pear. I got a stomach ache because I ate such poor food.”
Each of the priests made excuses and started complaining that they were sick.
“What are you doing right now! Everyone wants to die?!”
“I don’t know! It’s the same whether you die this way or that way!”
“That’s right. My bones are cold these days. My bones!”
The soldiers seemed to think it was something unusual, so they exchanged a few words with their eyes and moved to call their superiors.
The priests also closed their eyes, realizing that the soldiers had finally gone to call their superiors.
“Fuck, why are you doing this? You’ve done well so far!”
“Isn’t it something I wish you would have listened to when I said it kindly?”
It is the soldier’s fault for not calling his superior when he asked for it.
I hope you laugh inwardly while watching the trembling soldiers for a while.
Hearing that the priests were doing strange things, the soldiers’ superiors appeared.
“What’s going on?”
“The priests say they won’t treat you. They say you’re sick.”
“I can’t get treatment because I’m sick? All of them? Are you sick of an infectious disease or something?”
“No! I’m healthy. I’m faking it.”
The soldier trembled and explained how he managed the priests to get sick.
The superior decided to believe the words of the soldiers and stood in front of the priests.
“They all said they couldn’t get treatment because they were sick.”
“That’s right. I can’t concentrate on the treatment because I’m sick. We’re all human, and living in a harsh environment doesn’t mean we have no choice but to get sick, right?”
“Do you think the sick body will be completely healed if the poor environment is corrected?”
“Hmm…Some people get stomach upset because they don’t eat very well.”
How are you?
“Can you improve your eating?”
“Since I couldn’t see the sunlight, I’m in a situation where I can’t pray well because my mind is exhausted and I’m dizzy.”
“Is there a break time so I can go see flowers sometimes?”
“Well… I wonder if that’s enough to help me recover a little bit from my aching body.”
The superior who heard the requirements of the priests in a cold voice burst out laughing because he was dumbfounded.
“What if you don’t want to do that?”
“I don’t know when I’ll feel better.”
“They say they have no intention of treating you until you change them.”
“We shouldn’t be planning a way to live either. We’re using our abilities because we’re being threatened anyway, so we’ll have to take care of things like this.”
Isn’t it a situation where you don’t know when the war will end?
I couldn’t live in this pain forever.
“Are you crazy because you want to die?”
“Death this way, die that way, but it’s the same!”
The priests showed a resolute attitude, as if they would not give up their stubbornness even if a knife came into their throat.
Thanks to this, the superiors did not impose sanctions on the priests on their own, and raised this agenda a little higher.
And it was a very good choice.
It was because the emperor, who had been informed of their situation, personally moved to the place where the priest was confined.
“Please, Your Majesty the Emperor!!!”
“”!!!!””
The priests jumped to their feet at the fact that the emperor had appeared in the prison.
After the strike was declared, I was spending time worrying and expecting whether they would listen to my demands.
However, a much greater person was caught than expected!
Gulp-
Since there was no one who did not know that the emperor had executed priests and killed them, some feared the notoriety.
However, the priest who acted as the representative recited a prayer inside and put effort into managing his expression.
It was because he knew very well that if he surrendered, the life of the remaining priests in captivity would be unimaginably hard.
“Are you their representative?”
“…I didn’t expect a noble person to come to such a shabby place in person.”
The priests went on strike for a better life, not to make a life-and-death decision with the emperor.
Because of this, the priest tried not to speak too sharply from the start.
Resentment is resentment, and it was important not to offend that emperor right now.
“I heard that he refused treatment again. Is it simply because the environment he lives in is uncomfortable?”
The emperor asked the priest with a suspicious look on his face.
It was a suspicion that the reason you guys were doing this was that there was another hidden ulterior motive.
Of course…
‘There can be no such thing.’
The priests simply did it because they didn’t want to live like this.
The temple had a lot of money.
As he started living as a priest, he thought of himself as a special being who had been chosen, so he felt the poor treatment of the empire all the more harshly.
So I can’t stand it, so I don’t know! And rebelled…
‘It seems that the emperor is misunderstanding…?’
‘We just need to eat well and sleep well.’
‘What? Does it have to have a different meaning?’
However, it seemed too unlikely to correct it as a misunderstanding.
Originally, the temple was a job that lived and died on visible images.
The priest, who taught acting since childhood and learned how to be kind to his followers and how to pretend to be invisible when there is nothing, instinctively moved his mouth.
“I have nothing to say to those who have broken our will to serve God through violence.”
“As expected, it seems that he had other intentions. What do you want? There’s no way he complained like a child wouldn’t do because living simply was uncomfortable… Or did he strike out on purpose to call me out?”
Is it something even a child wouldn’t do?
The priest, who was momentarily moved, glared at the emperor.
“What would have been good to see the face of the emperor wearing a devil? Please make a proper prayer room. I haven’t been able to pray properly for several days already.”
Prayer room?
Faithful priests certainly existed, so there were those who were offended by the priest’s request for a prayer room.
However, there were priests who did not want to live in such a harsh environment any longer, so the atmosphere became more and more harsh.
Honestly, given a choice between a comfortable bed and a prayer room, faithful priests might choose the latter, but they would choose the former.
“It’s a prayer room… Maybe it should have had a statue of God? Would that be enough?”
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
“There are many faithful believers among our soldiers, so making a prayer room is not special.”
“How can the soldiers who follow the devil’s contractor be sincere believers? Can you see the statue?”
A demon contractor dares to stand in front of a statue of a god?
What is a god?
It was to make a statue resembling a god by carving stones filled with divine power.
The stone itself filled with divine power was found very rarely, and it was not easy to find an artist who could carve it into pieces.
Such a painstakingly made statue had the effect of maintaining health even if it was only near it.