Return of the Iron-blood Sword Hound Chapter 169

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Episode 169: Crime and Punishment (8)

Old Testament priests protest against Dolores.

“Holy Lady! Do you even know what you are doing right now!?”

“The late Quilty was a devout member of this church! How can you carelessly read a letter he left in his lifetime!”

“Even a conversation with Cardinal Humbert! Confidential, confidential!”

“If you reveal something like that to the public… … !?”

They seemed to be afraid of losing the credit to the New Testament clergy.

Crisis is an opportunity. In this situation, treating the sick and comforting the victims is the way to strengthen the image.

So, the Old Testament clergy wanted to be put into the disaster recovery field as soon as possible.

It was for this reason that New Testament clergymen, including Dolores and Mosgus, complained that they were blocking it.

… … However, their dissatisfaction did not last long.

“quiet.”

Dolores’ cold gaze made them freeze in place.

It was the first time that she, who had a warm and benevolent personality, sent such a cold and sharp gaze.

Isn’t it more terrifying when someone who used to be gentle gets angry?

At one word drawn by Dolores, the Old Testament priests had to stop all at once in front of her.

And everyone’s complexion started to get tired of her recitation that followed.

“Baron Gorg! In the process of exercising the right of first night, the resisting groom was killed! Subsequently, the family of the priest who committed suicide was charged with a huge fine! As a result, the whole family collapsed! Exemption by paying 1 billion gold!”

“The Mosque Viscountess! His sons were hired by the Empire’s Central Bank for improper solicitation and they were promoted! Many of the students preparing for employment failed even after receiving a passing grade because their sons with underachieved grades joined the company in a rush! This is also exempted with 200 million gold donations for each son!”

“President Geraso! Damages of about 20 billion gold to shareholders through embezzlement, breach of trust, and stock price manipulation, and taking unfair profits! Exemption with a donation of 50 million gold!”

“Madame Pierre! Abducted and imprisoned underage boys who had no place to go, s*xually exploited them, and forced them to work illegally! Exemption with a donation of 15 million gold!”

“Pseudo cult leader, Manimani! They intentionally spread plague-stricken believers in all directions, making the people tremble with anxiety and paralyzing the local economy! Exemption with a donation of 100 million gold!”

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It was all revealed how recklessly Quilty sold indulgences.

Serious sins that can never be forgiven are listed in random order.

And most of the amount paid for the crime was a cheap price that was disproportionately insufficient compared to the nature of the crime.

Face-to-face (人面獸心).

How could you be pardoned for doing something like this with the clothes of a saint wearing a human mask!

Even the clergy of the Old Testament, who had been protesting, doubted their ears.

“I-I sold indulgences to demons like that?”

“At that price too? no way. It must have been missing four or five zeros at the end.”

“Especially the pseudo cult leader, Mani Mani, is that guy really not enough even if he is burned at the stake?”

“I can not believe it! How could Cardinal Humbert and Family Quilty do such an ugly thing! It is a law that even absolution has that much!”

“Ha, but the seal on that letter must be… … .”

The gossip did not come only from the Old Testament clergy.

The agitation spread beyond the people of the Quo Vadis family to the general public.

“How did Quo Vadisga do this!”

“The depravity of religious chants!”

“Calm down! That’s an Old Testament problem! It has nothing to do with the New Testament priests!”

“Don’t drive the Old Testament priests! That’s just a matter of a few tribes!”

The gossip intensifies.

The priests were now in the mood to fight among themselves.

In the midst of the chaos, Dolores finished reading the data the Night Hound had given her.

The materials include the transaction between Quilty and Humbert, the ugly reality of the social leaders in name, traces of using money dedicated to God as investment money, details leaked secretly for political funds or illegal lobbying, and even the pseudonyms of each region. Traces of collusion with religion were also written in detail.

In addition, there were traces of selling pitchforks, wood chips, straws, and even pig bones, which could only be used in farmhouses, as holy relics.

The propaganda and plan to exempt one year of purgatory for each relic was written, and the number of relics sold in this way had already exceeded 30,000.

The public who learned all these facts were shocked.

“… … .”

The boy and girl reporters at the academy also stop writing and look blank.

Quo Vadis, a religious chant, was revealed by a young saintess belonging to Quo Vadis.

In response, Dolores shouted after a rebuttal that she had been thinking about all night.

“I, Dolores of the New Testament sect, refute the atrocities of the Old Testament sect as follows!”

Again, the public’s pen stands upright.

The sound of rustling on the notepad resonates continuously.

The mana screen shots floating around were also bursting with flash.

Dolores began her speech in a resolute voice.

“first! When our Lord and Teacher, Rune, says ‘repent’, he means that the whole life of the believer is to be repented of! second! These words cannot be understood in terms of sacramental penitence to the Rune, that is, confession and atonement performed under the authority of a priest! … … Fifth! The pope has neither the power nor the will to condone any punishment other than that imposed by his own power or by the authority of canon law! sixth! The Pope has no power to forgive any sins other than to declare or acknowledge that Runim has forgiven them. … … twenty-seventh! It is only human doctrine to say that ‘as soon as money thrown into the treasury jingles, the soul emerges from purgatory’! … … forty-fifth! We must teach the Runes that those who see the poor and pass them by and offer money for indulgences are not indulging the pope, but instead incurring the wrath of Lord Rune! forty-sixth! Teach the perverts that anyone who does not have the means of ample means has a duty to save for his family, and never wastes it on indulgences! … … fifty-first! To the many who have been robbed of money by some indulgences preachers, the pope must teach the Runes that they must pay them back, even by selling all the churches of the church if need be! … … 90th! To oppress the objections listed by ordinary people only with power instead of citing legitimate reasons and resolving them is to make the pope a mockery and make the Loon followers unhappy! … … ninety-fifth! In this way, let the Lun followers have a deeper confidence in entering the kingdom of heaven through many sufferings rather than by consolation!”

She read 95 refutations smoothly without stuttering.

His courage was so great that even the Old Testament clergy, who were opposed to it, were moved, and there was a moment of silence during the funeral.

At the same time, Dolores felt a tingle in her legs.

It was fortunate that the puffy white skirt unique to priestly uniforms covered the tremors.

Mozgus, who was beside her, supported the saintess.

“It was a wonderful rebuttal, Holy Lady. Only phrases that are correct! This Mozgus was deeply moved.”

“… … I’m out of my mind.”

Dolores remembered what had happened last night, no, this morning.

night hound. After he left, the energy that made his body hard and strong disappeared like a lie.

Just now, he said it bravely, recalling the overflowing energy at that time, but in fact, it was only a psychological factor, and the power itself had long since disappeared.

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‘Once upon a time the Pope said. She says that she can awaken only when she meets her true soul mate.’

The resonance of the soul, the assimilation of emotions, and the resulting explosion of divine power.

In short, it means that you have the ability to multiply the power you have.

What should I do to make this ‘awakening’ ability continue, not just temporary?

The Hound of the Night is gone, and now there is no one to ask, no one to test.

‘The kinky classical saints often talked about awakening in the past. At that time, don’t think of it as an absurd nagging, but listen to it a little more.’

Dolores still hadn’t figured out why the night hound could be her partner, the ‘awakening condition’.

It is because there is no way she knows that this is because the only old man who came from the era of destruction and knows the real ‘destruction’ is Vikir.

… … well anyway

The man chosen by Rune.

At this point, only he is qualified to be the saintess’ ‘soul companion’.

Dolores raised her head again.

And he quietly opened his mouth.

“’Night Hound’. I must see him again.”

right at that moment.

… pop! … pop! … pop!

The sound of mana screenshots exploding behind me is loud.

At the place where Dolores turned her head in surprise, there were many reporters who had come so close to the gap.

Reporters scrambled and spoke in unison.

“The saintess has declared a ‘holy war’ against the hounds of the night!”

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