〈 Episode 272 〉 The Holy Knight does not believe in God (2)
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Cariot of blasphemy.
The first time Raniel heard that name was through none other than Sarah, a saint of the Delohim Church. Sarah would often talk about the church’s affairs in front of Raniel, and that was the first time Raniel heard the story about her cariot.
“The entire church is on alert because of one crazy paladin. “Are you really saying I’m going crazy?”
A crazy paladin.
“Doesn’t he completely ignore the orders of the church? He grabs the cardinal by the collar and throws him, and he even recently set fire to the church… Where on earth did such a crazy person come from?”
The crazy bitch says, crazy.
Raniel’s reaction at the time, as he saw Sarah muttering in a nervous voice, was, of course, not empathy. Rather, it was the opposite.
“You seem to be a person who lives a very healthy life.”
Raniel hated the Church of Delohim due to an incident when he was young, and lost all affection for the Church in just one month after meeting Sarah.
In Raniel’s opinion, the more he was criticized by the church or criticized by Sarah, the more likely he was to be a normal person. First of all, isn’t yourself a representative example?
So at that time, Raniel laughed and said.
“I’m being called crazy by a crazy girl who said she’s going to bury a village, but isn’t that normal?”
“Have you finished speaking now?”
“I don’t think it’s particularly wrong.”
Sarah, who was infuriated by Raniel’s ridicule, began to explain Cariot’s evil deeds one by one, but even after hearing the whole story, Raniel’s reaction did not change much.
“what.”
Rather, Raniel blurted out as if he was surprised that his prediction had actually come true.
“You’re really a normal person.”
Cariot of blasphemy.
A paladin who endured thirty years in the Demon World and returned alive after crossing numerous hells. The reason why he received the nickname Momok was as follows.
“That madman ate a magical beast! “I chewed and ate the demonic beast created by the apostate!”
An apostate’s magical beast created based on humans.
Since they ate it alive, they were the same as cannibals. The church judged it that way and gave Cariot the nickname of blasphemy.
In addition, there is even the derogatory term “apostate”.
Apostates who blaspheme Delohim and harbor wrong beliefs are naturally subject to purge. Although his treatment was excessive, the church was willing to brand him a heretic in order to get rid of Kariot, who had always been a thorn in their eyes.
Numerous heresy inquisitors were dispatched to purge. In order to kill Cariot, they willingly stepped into the demonic realm.
Many years have passed since then.
Cariot is still not dead.
Now the church no longer calls him derogatory terms such as blasphemy or an apostate.
Kariot of immortality.
Now Kariot began to be called that.
2.
Trial of the Holy Grail.
Three people began to gather one by one at Kateron Castle to undergo the ordeal. The first to gather was the one-eyed swordsman.
“Berten.”
One-eyed Bertin.
The man with the eyepatch tapped the hilt of the sword he wore at his waist. As is often the case with people who face a wall, he is also quite capable.
“It’s been about five years since I faced a wall. “I could feel the wall as I faced that terrible sword demon.”
Bertin took off his eyepatch and pointed to his now empty right eye. There was a deep stab wound there.
“It’s been five years since I lost my eye to that monster. Every night, I dream of a sword demon. “He believes that if he becomes a superman, he will be able to escape that nightmare.”
Rania van Trias.
Knight Commander, Heinkel.
The warrior, Galahal.
Saint Sarah.
As the four people watched, Bertin put back on the blindfold he had removed and pointed to the Holy Grail held by Rania.
“I heard that using the Holy Grail will allow you to cross this wall. Is that true?”
There was no need for long words.
Rania immediately held out the Holy Grail to Bertin, and the Holy Grail responded to Bertin.
“Good. “Come take on my challenge.”
It’s time to escape this nightmare…
Muttering that, Bertin jumped into the well of light created by the Holy Grail. Exactly thirty seconds later, Bertin was thrown out of the well.
“Whoa, whoa whoa!”
Bertin sat down on the floor, breathing heavily. He was sweating like it was raining, and his complexion had turned from pale to pale.
“Sword Demon, why does the Sword Demon come out of trials…!”
Judging from that reaction, what Berthaeng faced during the ordeal was probably a sword demon. Since I was touching the nape of my neck, I guess the cut was on my neck.
Rania glanced at that figure and opened her mouth.
“That’s because the wall you’re thinking of is a sword demon.”
Rania said calmly.
“What you are afraid of, what you want to overcome. That’s the wall. The Holy Grail materializes the wall in an easy-to-understand way. “Going beyond that is entirely up to you.”
With a tap, she tapped the chalice.
“Are you going to keep challenging? “I have about two chances left.”
“Are you crazy? “My body trembles just from facing that monster, and it decapitates me with a single knife…!”
Bertin continued to rub his neck as if the sensation was vivid.
“I really tasted death. Twice is a specification. “If I had known it would be this kind of trial, I wouldn’t have taken on the challenge from the beginning.”
“hey.”
Rania frowned.
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“Then will it be easy to climb over the wall?”
“···what?”
“Did you think it would be easy to climb over the wall without any consequences? “What on earth were you thinking?”
The position of a superhuman is for those who are born with talent to devote their entire lives to one path and then give up something and climb up.
“Did you come without any preparation?”
The Holy Grail only helps with that.
Of course, it is impossible for someone who is not prepared to face the wall built inside themselves to become a superhuman.
“······.”
Bertin was silent.
Rania thumped the chalice down on the table.
“If you want to do more, do it, otherwise get out. “Because I don’t want to waste time.”
Bertin left Kateron Castle without a word.
“This is the knight, Nadion.”
The second to arrive was the knight, Nadion.
An elderly man with white hair.
However, Rania also knew well the knight’s face, which did not have a curved back at all. Nadion, who stayed on the battlefield for a long time, was a person who was with the warriors of the generation before Rania.
“If you are Nadion… aren’t you a colleague of the Indomitable Warrior?”
Galahal also recognized the face and smiled.
For Galahal, who loved heroic stories, Nadion felt like a character straight out of a fairy tale.
“It’s an honor to meet you, Nadion!”
Galahal stood up and shook Nadion’s hand. I, Dion, nodded with a faint smile.
“I’m honored too. “I can’t believe that Galahar, who is said to be the most brave warrior, recognizes me…”
“Aren’t you the hero of the battle to annihilate the Kurakt Mountains? I grew up hearing stories about Nadion since I was young. Also known as the white tiger of the snowy mountain…”
“haha. It’s a shame. “It’s a nickname I got when I was young.”
Nadion let out a bitter laugh.
“It’s all an old story. Indomitable, unlike that friend, I missed the time of death.”
There was a time when they were called the white tigers of the snowy mountains, but that is all in the past. Nadion himself knew very well that the person he was now was just a ghost of the past who could not leave the battlefield.
“It would be a lie if I said I didn’t dream of a glorious past. I want to be a hero on the battlefield once again. In the eyes of young people, it may seem like the excessive greed of an old man…”
Nadion looked straight at Galahal.
“I also want to meet a violent death on the battlefield like my old friend. “Death as a hero.”
“indeed···.”
To Galahal, who nodded as if impressed, Nadion whispered with a mischievous smile.
“Actually, Indomitable, I made a bet with that friend. Who achieves greater achievements and dies a more wonderful death? But, he did so well.”
Nadion thumped his chest.
“Shouldn’t I go in style too?”
Although he is an old man with white hair, he looks like a boy when he laughs mischievously. Rania bowed her head in respect to the hero of the past.
Thirty years have passed since Nadion faced the wall, and the Holy Grail reacted strongly to Nadion.
“indeed.”
On the first challenge, Nadion lasted three minutes.
Nadion, who came out of the ordeal while sweating profusely, led the old man and tried again. So Nadion attempted a total of three times.
“Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….”
Hiding his trembling hands behind his back, the old man smiled bitterly.
“If I had been a little younger, I would have won, but this is a shame. “The passage of time is just slow.”
The soul can endure it, but the aging body cannot. Nadion eventually gave up on the third attempt.
“Still, there is progress. “I thought I had climbed halfway up the wall, but after experiencing the ordeal… I felt like I had already reached the edge of the wall.”
If I train myself a little more, I might be able to overcome it.
Nadion muttered that and looked at Galahal.
“And, Galahal, I have something to personally thank you for.”
“yes? what···.”
“My son. There was a time when he stood on the battlefield saying he wanted to be like me, even though I tried to stop him. And, I almost died in the first operation.”
Nadion laughed bitterly.
“It was a natural result for a kid who doesn’t know how to use a sword properly yet, but he just kept his momentum. “They said it was Galahal who saved my son at that time.”
Slowly, very slowly, Nadion lowered his head.
He bent his decrepit body towards Galahal.
“thank you. “For saving my poor son.”
“It’s me, Nadion!”
Even though Galahal was embarrassed by the sight and tried to stop Nadion, Nadion raised his head only after he had finished saying hello.
“I can’t tell you how grateful I am that someone like you has continued to follow my indomitable friend.”
Nadion left Kateron Castle with a gentle smile. Although he failed to pass his ordeal, Nadion’s steps were light, as if he was satisfied with his own performance.
“what. “You’re a saintly lady, right?”
The last to arrive was Kariot.
“Wow, it seems like it was just yesterday when I was this tall, but I’ve already grown this much? “Time goes so fast.”
Immortality, Kariot.
The so-called paladin waved his hand as if he was happy to see the saint. Sarah actually had an annoyed expression on her face, but her Kari clothes just let out an easy smile.
“It’s hard. Ah, Heinkel, it’s been a while since you too.”
“How are you? Kariot.”
“What’s the point of getting along well? Same as always. Ah, but these days, I feel comfortable because the young people chasing me are gone.”
He put down the coffin he was carrying on his back.
The ground shook with a thud.
“Did you say you were looking at an ordeal that would overcome a wall?”
Cariot opened the coffin.
The thick scent of blood suddenly filled the room.
“Let’s take a breather. “I also need to do some repairs to my weapons.”
Filled inside the coffin are all kinds of blades.
Although their forms vary, the blades have something in common in that they have consumed a lot of blood. Kariot smiled bitterly as he picked up one of them.
“As you can see, the blades are all dull. I need to change it once in a while. Since I’ve already come to Kateron Castle, I’d like to see the skills of the front-line blacksmiths… Is that okay?”
Rania nodded slowly.
3.
Sarah, a saint, is uncomfortable with the person called Cariot.
This is because not only is he a person not controlled by the church, but he was also once stigmatized as a heretic.
‘Even if the church hadn’t been shaken, they wouldn’t have brought forward such an undignified man.’
Sarah looked at the back of Kariot, who was walking ahead.
The cross-shaped coffin he carried was engraved with the symbol of the Delohim Church. Sarah glanced at it and clicked her tongue briefly.
In the original, there was no way that this man, who was branded a heretic, could have engraved the symbol of the Delohim Church. There was no way the church would label that man a heretic.
However, the current denomination is not like it used to be.
The prestige of the church is falling day by day due to the cardinal’s actions in the north. This is why the situation did not go away with just Erijl van Grace’s warning.
The master of the North is Erijl van Grace.
The nobles say that its true owner is Lady Palia, who assists Eryahl.
That snake-like woman is constantly biting at the Church of Delohim under the pretext of what the cardinal did in the north. Until a voice of doubt arises from the aristocratic society towards the Church of Delohim.
Questions about the denomination’s actions are growing.
The perspective towards religious denominations is also not the same as it used to be.
Meanwhile, the crimes committed by the church in the past began to be reexamined one by one, and the current Delohim church was shaken to its core.
‘The church no longer enjoys its former glory.’
In the end, it got to the point where it became difficult to allocate manpower to a man named Kariot. Meanwhile, Kariot was still making remarkable achievements on the battlefield.
In the current situation, there is no benefit for the church to gain by opposing Cariot.
‘There has been talk in the church about recognizing Chaira’s achievements and erasing the stigma, right?’
But Sarah wasn’t very happy about it.
In the end, he, who was like a symbol of the church, had to protect that undignified man.
“Anyway.”
Sarah fired at Cariot, who was heading towards the blacksmith shop.
“You, who were branded a heretic, came to represent the Church of Delohim in such a public event… you know that I had a big role to play, right?”
“Then, don’t forget. “I know very well that our young lady has suffered.”
“So, this means that you should show loyalty to the church from now on. “It means to follow God’s will carefully.”
God’s will.
Kariot flinched at that word and stopped walking.
“Hey, young lady.”
Kariot looked back.
The voice is cold, with all playfulness gone. Those eyes are also creepy and cold. Sara, who made eye contact with Kariot, swallowed her saliva without thinking.
“W-what is it?”
“Did you say it was God’s will?”
Sarah nodded.
Kariot laughed and asked Sarah a question.
“Where on earth is God’s will?”
Ten years in church.
A man who has lived in the devil’s land for thirty years asks.
“I became a convert to the Delohim Church when I was ten years old, and have been working as a member of the Church for nearly forty years. “I could not understand the meaning of the great Delohim.”
Bloodshot eyes turn to Sarah.
“Does the young lady know? “What is God’s will?”
These were not the eyes of someone who believed in God.
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