〈 Episode 273 〉 The Holy Knight does not believe in God (3)
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Immediately after Kariot headed to the blacksmith shop, Rania rested her chin and touched the chalice on the table. The previous two challengers did not become superhuman.
‘Honestly, I thought it would be possible, Nadion.’
Even though he was an old man with gray hair, Nadion always looked high. In Rania’s opinion, Nadion was a person fully qualified to become a superhuman.
I saw the wall. I painfully felt my weakness.
I bow my head in frustration, but I never give up. Raise your head once again and look up. I wish to reach what is unreachable.
That is the basis of superhumanity (??), and it was the mindset that Nadion had. Rania feels bitter that Nadion could not overcome the wall.
The reason Nadion couldn’t get over the wall was because it was so cruel.
“If I had been a little younger, I would have been able to overcome the wall, but this is a shame. “The passage of time is slow.”
senility(?).
Nadion’s soul wants to stay strong, but Nadion’s body can no longer match the strength of his soul. The body caught up in the flow of time has already been destroyed.
‘···Because too much time has passed.’
Even heroes in history age and become decrepit.
As long as you are born as a human, you cannot be free from the flow of time, and one day you will grow old and die. While pondering the providence of her world, Rania suddenly burst into laughter.
“Neither you nor I will ever die of old age.”
Is this the price of resorting to methods that deviate from providence?
Galahal laughed bitterly at Rania’s words.
“I guess so.”
The time given to the two is not very long.
These are two people who live a long distance from ordinary life. Naturally, there is no way the ordinary ending of old age and death is possible.
“By the way, Rania.”
Galahal changed the topic.
“What kind of person is Carioth?”
“huh?”
“You obviously said this person is immortal, right? I’ve never met him.”
“Hmm.”
Rania smoothed her chin.
What kind of person is Cariot? It was not an easy question to answer. Because he was a person who could not be summarized in one sentence.
“What kind of person is Uncle Cariot? “Honestly, it’s not an easy question.”
“Seeing as you call me ‘uncle,’ I guess you’re a person I like a lot?”
“huh? “Why is that?”
Galahal answered with his eyes wide open to Rania, who tilted her head.
“If you don’t like someone, don’t you start by swearing at them regardless of how much of an age difference there is?”
“You have to be like a human to be treated like a human.”
Rania brushed aside Galahal’s words and smoothed her chin.
Cariot of the Immortal, or Cariot of the Profane.
The first time I encountered him was when I received a telegram that the Delohim Church’s reinforcements would be delayed and headed to the church’s premises. At that time, I saw Rania there.
“Get out of the way, Kariot.”
“Even if I die, I can’t get out of the way. Cardinal Nari. “I can’t compromise on this.”
Cariot is single-handedly blocking the church’s forces.
The soldiers of the Delohim Church confronting Kariot.
“Rather than sending those bastards to the battlefield, I feel better about beating them all down here.”
···There are many orphans in the Delohim Church.
Orphans abandoned by their parents are taken in by the cult and raised as soldiers of the cult. The children confronting Kariot at that time were also those children.
However, even taking that into account, he is too young.
While Raniel, who had no idea that the support troops were organized in this way, frowned, Kariot stretched out his arms and screamed.
“I won’t kill you, but I will make you unable to walk for just a month. “This man is merciful.”
Afterwards, remembering Cariot’s words to the Cardinal, Rania answered Galahal’s question.
“…Someone who doesn’t believe in God?”
I am not confident in Rania’s answer.
Galahal blinked and asked back.
“You don’t believe in God?”
“uh.”
“Isn’t he a paladin?”
“yes.”
“But you don’t believe in God?”
“Uhm. “This is a bit complicated to put into words.”
Rania made a mysterious expression.
“I am a person who does not believe in God, but thinks that God exists. “People need an object of faith or something…”
“Those are difficult words.”
“Honestly, I didn’t really understand either. “I only understood it in nuance.”
Rania shrugged her shoulders.
“If you’re really curious, shall we go meet him?”
She pointed in the direction of the blacksmith shop.
“You’ll understand once you meet them. “Tell me what kind of person Uncle Kariot is.”
2.
What is God’s will?
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Also, what is its meaning?
Sarah blinked at that question. I didn’t blink because I was embarrassed. Sarah blinked, dumbfounded by the person in front of her who was asking questions about the obvious.
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
“It’s because I learned nothing. “Can’t the smart saintly lady tell this guy?”
Kariot laughed awkwardly.
Sarah opened her mouth with a shocked expression.
“Save people. Go where the light points. Salvation is the wish of Delohim. “It’s the most basic phrase.”
“Do you believe that God’s will was there?”
“Yes. What the perfect Delohim desires is the salvation of mankind… Isn’t salvation the ultimate goal we should pursue?”
Sarah has a lot of experience standing in front of crowds as the face of the church. Sarah’s specialty was explaining ambiguous concepts using plausible words.
“Human salvation. “That is God’s will.”
Sarah shrugged.
However, that is not the answer to Kariot.
“Thelohim desires salvation, la… Then, why doesn’t the omnipotent star save humans?”
Cariot is also a member of the cult.
Cariot, who has been in the church for much longer than Sarah, questions Sarah again.
“Even though the world is like this, salvation does not come. Delohim is silent. “They don’t even extend a hand to dying children.”
Kariot said expressionlessly.
“Because God cannot interfere in this world? Hundreds of years ago is a plausible answer. But not now. “A god-like being is already spreading poison in this world.”
Demon King (？王）.
“Even though such a being exists, God is still silent. I don’t know how long you will remain silent. “I don’t think you’ll open your mouth until this world comes to an end.”
“God sent warriors and saints…”
“It’s history repeating itself for hundreds of years. “It’s a very cruel thing to impose a fate on young children.”
It’s a very nasty hobby.
Kariot frowned while muttering that. Sarah narrowed her eyes at Kariot’s reaction.
“It’s the same argument as an atheist. Cariot, were you an atheist?”
“I’m not an atheist. No matter what anyone says, I am a paladin who borrows power from God. “I have no intention of denying the existence of God itself.”
“is it so?”
Sarah snapped in an irritated voice.
“Besides, are you saying things that doubt the existence of God?”
“I’m not doubting the existence of God.”
Kariot tapped my forehead.
“Doubting God’s perfection.”
“···What did you say?”
“It means that God is not a perfect being. Delohim is not a being that always knows the answer. “It’s not even a being that gives plausible intentions.”
He reached out the window.
The fingertips are pointing towards the sky. A brilliant star looking at this place from beyond the sky.
“God’s will is nowhere to be found, young lady.”
If it really is,
Kariot pointed to his head.
“It will be here.”
“···What do you mean?”
“If you believe in God and do what you think is right, then God’s will will dwell there.”
“It’s logic that heretics would like.”
“haha. “That’s also true.”
Kariot smiled bitterly and answered.
“But, didn’t you tell me, young lady?”
“What?”
“God’s will is not always right. Many people carry out God’s will in their own way. However, not all of them are right. “The heretics that the saintess talks about are those who say that even the wrong path is right.”
Some people walk the wrong path and say this is God’s will. Cariot saw those people. I even buried it with my own hands. There were a lot.
“There are more and more people who walk the wrong path and shout out God’s will. “The current denomination is exactly that.”
“…I think I understand why you were labeled an apostate. “This is nonsense that is hard to listen to.”
It’s getting annoying to deal with it.
Sarah ruffled her hair and glared at Kariot. Sarah looked at Cariot’s body with green eyes, and it looked well-trained. Additionally, divinity accompanies that body.
The divinity that dwells in believers who faint (？？).
An unidentified power that becomes bigger the more you believe in God.
The man’s divinity is greater than that of any paladin of the church. To the extent that it is comparable to that of the Pope. That fact made Sarah a little more annoyed.
“Then what exactly is the will of the God you believe in?”
Sarah asked a question in an irritated voice.
Kariot answered that question without any hesitation.
“A God who reaches out to children.”
A God who reaches out to children who shed tears, children who have lost their parents, and children who are broken.
“If there is God’s will for me to embrace, it must be that one.”
Kariot muttered and pointed at Sarah.
“In my opinion, the saintly lady is also young.”
“Do you know how old I am this year?”
“twenty?”
“I’m twenty-five.”
“Then you’re a kid.”
Kariot chuckled and started walking again while carrying the coffin.
“Everyone younger than me is a brat.”
3.
There is a blacksmith shop on the outskirts of Kateron Castle.
Although it is small in size, the smelting equipment equipped here is in no way inferior to that of the large workshops in most royal capitals.
“I think I heard that a man who was once called a master moved all his equipment.”
I have no need to stop by the blacksmith shop, and Kyle’s holy sword (?
“If you are the blacksmith of Kateron Castle, aren’t you Mr. Stoss? “I owe him a lot.”
I remember that Kalt used this blacksmith shop.
Did you say that the knife Kalt uses now was made by this blacksmith shop owner at the request of Uncle Kuntel?
“I think I’ve only heard about it through rumors and have never met it. Since the weapon doesn’t get damaged…”
“The heroes’ weapons are a bit ridiculous.”
From the corner of my eye, I looked at the holy spear that Galahar was carrying on his back. Even considering that it is a long spear, the pole is excessively long. If you made a regular spear like that… it was certain that it would break before you could swing it a few times.
“Does it make sense that that long spear won’t break?”
“haha. “It does bend.”
“That’s why it’s more annoying. “Don’t you jump up and do that when the spear recoils?”
“Yes. “A spear is a weapon that can do more things than you might think.”
As we chatted about trivial things, we arrived in front of the blacksmith shop. I frowned slightly at the heat I could already feel.
Kang, kaang!
The sound of metal being struck repeatedly rang out through the gap in the open door. Following the sound, we walked into the blacksmith shop.
Kang!
Beyond the scorching heat, someone shirtless was hitting a metal object. Is that person the Stoss blacksmith? I thought about that for a moment, but it seemed unlikely.
His back is full of all kinds of scars.
Bite wounds, sword marks that look like they were cut with a knife, and even burn marks that look like they were burned by fire.
The man with all sorts of scars on his back turned his head and looked this way.
“Oh, what?”
It was Kariot.
He put down the blade he was striking and waved his hand at us.
“It’s the girl I saw earlier. And, there is even a warrior with a holy spear. “What’s going on here?”
“I’ve heard a lot of rumors, but this is my first time meeting you like this, so I wanted to talk to you.”
Galahal smiled awkwardly and approached Kariot.
Kariot blinked, then burst into laughter.
“It’s an honor that the most heroic warrior is interested in me.”
He put down the blade and hammer he was holding and stood up. Then he extended his hand to Gala Hal, who was approaching him, and offered to shake her hand.
“It looks like you have a lot of things you want to ask me.”
“Yes, a little…”
“But it’s okay to say it out loud.”
Kariot pointed outside the blacksmith shop.
“How about a round?”
“yes?”
“I wanted to see the skills of the Holy Spear warrior. “I enjoy picking fights with young guys.”
Galahal was embarrassed and looked back at me.
I shrugged my shoulders and mouthed.
‘You get the idea, right?’
When he first met me and Kyle for the first time, Uncle Kariot reacted the same way as he does now.
‘No, I don’t know…’
I smiled at Galahal who said that with his mouth.
‘You’ll find out now.’
Immortal Kariot.
A holy knight who has lived in the Demon World for thirty years.
Once you stick with it, you’ll know even if you don’t like it.
What kind of person is this person and how does he live his life?
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fantasy,
