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Upside down bible
Swaaaahh …
‘They’re coming really fast.’
I couldn’t help but curse at the heavy rain that blocked my vision.
Raindrops made a small sound as they hit my shoulder blades.
The mud that had absorbed water pushed its presence inside my boots with every step, making me feel dirty.
‘This is why I hate rain.’
“Are you here, Captain?”
Berman, who looked like a rotten strawberry, waved his bangs back and greeted me. The raindrops flowing down the corners of Berman’s upturned lips caught my attention for a moment.
“What about the umbrella? It’s just getting hit.”
I lent my favorite rose umbrella to Berman, but he just stupidly left it there in the rain.
“Ah, that··· Ahem··· Ahem!”
Berman made an awkward expression. I clicked my tongue and pushed back the hair covering my forehead because I really hated the sight of him.
The rain was cold, as if winter was approaching.
‘It’s better to be cold than hot.’
In winter, the peculiar smell of the Middle Ages subsides a little.
Of course, the smell of livestock was transferred to humans by holding livestock as a boiler.
Berman kept coughing, causing raindrops to keep splashing into the air.
“How was it?”
“Ahem···. It’s all thanks to the leader.”
‘Is that possible?’
Maybe it was because of the rain, but Berman, who was usually ugly, looked even more bizarre and let out a sigh.
‘The fire wriggling bridge effect is more powerful than I thought.’
That sneaky Google could use Berman, but he seemed okay with it since he was laughing like that.
“Why are you getting drenched in the rain, Chief?”
Berman’s strangely excited voice could be heard through the sound of the rain.
I thought about the morning for a moment. I unconsciously gave away the umbrella I brought when I dropped Kanna off.
‘···He’s a wizard, he doesn’t need an umbrella.’
I realized it too late and tried to snatch it back, but I couldn’t hold on to him as he walked away from work, holding onto his umbrella tightly.
“It’s because of your kid.”
If you hadn’t given Berman an umbrella, even if you had given him one, there would have been one left.
In a fit of anger, I tapped Berman on the back of his head. Berman grinned as if he was glad of something.
“Let’s go. Let’s start from District 7.”
I clicked my tongue and gestured.
It was dark even though it was morning because there were so many dark clouds.
The buildings in Cassadic were all a dull shade of gray and brown, so dark that they looked like witches might jump out at any moment.
“Ahem… Captain, it seems like my fate has come.”
‘What the heck…’
The swear words were on the tip of my tongue, but I nodded my head because his expression was so serious.
If it were any other guy, I would have made fun of him, but it was Berman. This could have been his last chance.
Berman was a rather reserved man, but he was unusually talkative today. I gave him a vague answer and looked around.
“Oh, yeah. That sounds good.”
“Huh? Captain, I asked how many children you’re going to have···.”
Ignoring Berman’s useless chatter, I approached the man crouching on the street.
“Why do you always sit here when you come here?”
I woke up the guy who was setting the mood by hitting him on the back of the head with his hood pulled down low.
“Aaron? Yes?”
“Don’t shit on the street, kid.”
“No, I’m not a dog or anything···.”
“It’s raining, why are you sitting here? It’s surprising.”
“They say that if you get rained on, your hair will grow thicker…”
The guy suddenly lifted his hood and showed me his shiny hair.
I mourned for a moment, then, slap! I hit his forehead.
The squid was so wet that it made a sound like it was hitting the bottom.
“If you get rained on, your hair won’t grow thicker.”
“What does Aaron know…! You are the one who does not….”
He silenced the noisy guy by striking him again in the ambiguous spot between his forehead and crown.
‘You have good cooking skills.’
I knocked again with a small exclamation, and the bastard backed away in disgust.
I coughed and laughed at the huge, red handprint on the bastard’s forehead.
However, looking at the forehead that was shining even in the darkness, I suddenly became worried.
“No matter what you do, lost hair will never come back. Don’t follow someone who says they’ll make your hair grow back. They’re either heretics or fraudsters.”
“···yes?”
“If you receive a picture Bible, report it.”
“Hey, the Bible… I’m sick of just hearing about it.”
His reaction was different from what I expected.
The thirst for what one never had was inevitable.
Here, knowledge was an unquenchable thirst for the common people.
It was clear that the bastards had gone to such lengths to create a picture Bible, targeting the needs of the common people.
But this bald, tight-fisted Bible story rather made me sick.
“It’s really annoying… no, it’s a little hard. The work is already hard, and I can’t sleep because the abbot of Brighton preaches every day. What kind of abbot comes all the way to District 7? It’s not just me, everyone else is having a hard time, so how can I not do it?”
“How can’t that person do it?”
“···yes?”
Instead of answering, I hit him on the forehead again. The bastard made a look of resentment and muttered something as he disappeared into the rain.
Anyway, there were a lot of weird guys.
When I saw him, memories of the past naturally came to mind.
‘Come to think of it, I wonder what happened to that Hans.’
At that moment, this place was where Hans the panty thief had been sent, and just like that day, it was pouring rain.
Suddenly, a memory came to mind and I scratched my cheek for a moment.
‘Did I block the dog hole?’
···I think that’s what it was like.
I headed towards where the hole was. Berman followed me, muttering something behind me.
Finally, I arrived at the place where I had released the panty thief.
‘I clearly blocked it?’
At that time, there was clearly a hole that had been broken open.
‘If you look at the part where the soil is dug up, it was used until recently.’
I raised my head and looked around.
Since Kel had paid quite a high price for it, the location of the hole was in a place that was not noticeable to anyone.
‘If he’s going to use this hole…’
Cassadyck wasn’t a particularly strict place to check. Sure, there were Cassady greetings, but it was more relaxed than other castles.
The tradition between the guards and the carriage drivers was that the maximum amount of money was one silver coin, and even that would not be walked without a carriage.
The fact that they dug a hole while covering it with dirt meant that there was a good reason for doing so.
‘It smells fishy.’
My detective intuition once again picked up the sinister scent emanating from the breached hole.
I looked around the scene again, shaking my wet, sticky hair back.
“Captain, why are you looking at the hole like that?”
“I stopped this.”
“Wouldn’t someone else have broken through it?”
“He is the culprit.”
“···Yes? Oh, yes.”
Berman opened his eyes wide for a moment, then nodded while washing his face with rainwater.
‘Someone who knows where the hole is… No, it could be the work of someone who discovered it by chance. It’s a small castle, so it’s completely possible.’
When you can’t reason from the scene, you have to focus on the reason. Why did you have to use a loophole?
‘···A pagan? No, if an outsider comes in through the hole and stands out, it will only arouse more suspicion.’
Since even the lungs can’t tell the difference between them, there was no reason for them to come in through a hole and arouse suspicion.
There was no need to worry about it now, as preparations against the pagans had already been thoroughly made.
I shook my head slightly and continued my reasoning.
“If you’re concerned about the hole, why don’t you just block it?”
“Hey, come in.”
“Huh? No···, it’s just a dog hole···.”
“A simple oversight can create a security hole.”
“yes?”
“Come in.”
When I shook my fist, Berman finally managed to squeeze his body into the hole. However, the hole was too small and was blocked in the middle, so he couldn’t move.
Because Berman was not very large, the scope of the culprit was narrowed down.
Berman came out of the hole after struggling for a long time. Covered in dirt, he looked like a strawberry just dug out of the ground.
I looked closely at the marks Berman made as he came out of the hole. The scratch marks were exactly the same as before Berman went in.
The implications were clear.
Phew-.
I took a deep breath and turned around.
Cassidy’s appearance, with its deep, ominous darkness, looked as if the devil might burst out at any moment.
“The culprit is still inside Cassidy.”
I looked at him and declared solemnly.
“······The culprit? What kind of culprit is he?”
Berman, who was wiping the dirt off his face, asked with wide eyes.
“We need to figure that out now.”
It smelled really delicious.
There was a delicious smell in the air that made working hours a breeze.
‘······Now we’re starting without a culprit.’
Berman shook his head as he looked at Aaron, then quickly followed him.
***
‘Gulp.’
Tentang swallowed heavily as he watched.
Tentang was originally a moderately low-level thug in the castle of Byzant.
A moderately level thug who, if he meets ten people on the street, will bow to four of them and sneer at the other six.
The people of Byzant Castle were so docile that they would just swing their fists and make loud noises and they would pay tribute on their own.
Then, Tentang would give a certain amount of that money to the guards and fill their hungry stomachs with the remaining money, which could be called a brokerage.
Then, in the delicate atmosphere of the castle of Byzant, Tentang ran away with his wife. I heard that the very next day after Tentang left, entry and exit were completely blocked.
So the tent moved down. The atmosphere in the Bolt Saints was not good, so they came to Cassidy…
‘Why are there such scary looking guys···.’
The guy named Scar sat right across from Ten-tang. He was so big that he sat on two chairs pushed together.
The arm he had on the table was as thick as a person’s waist, and just looking at it was enough to break my will.
I heard it was called the Shadow of Cassidy, and as its nickname suggests, it had a fearsome appearance.
‘···This guy is a knife wielder.’
The guy sitting next to me was a slightly skinny guy named Jo Woo-ji.
The guy had long arms and fierce eyes. He kept twirling the dagger in his hand and sticking out his tongue, just like a snake.
I heard that he’s a tough guy who’s in charge of the most dangerous area above District 5.
When Tentang was at the Castle of Bijant, the guy you had to be most careful of was someone with that kind of atmosphere. The kind of guy who would stab you if you got in trouble.
‘This guy···.’
Tentang glanced sideways at the guy sitting on his left for the last time.
He introduced himself as Potbelly Cobbs. As he said, his belly was so swollen that it touched the table even though he was sitting on the chair.
The fact that his belly was so bulging was a great indication of how evil he was. There was no way a commoner could be that fat.
It was clear that the ship was made of other people’s blood, not bread.
Moreover, because the impression was warm and good, I was actually scared. Because I couldn’t know what was on his mind.
‘Why am I here···.’
Tentang sighed softly and looked back on the situation.
Tentang, who came to Cassidy, went out to do market research with the intention of continuing his brokerage business, and was immediately caught by that guy named Ska.
Tentang fell flat on his face at the sight of the obvious presence of Cassidy. As the saying goes, “the real knows the real,” Scar immediately accepted Tentang.
Then, when I answered positively to the question of whether I was married, I was dragged in.
‘No, this is an opportunity.’
Tentang straightened his back and released his hands so as not to be intimidated.
At that moment, the cup in Scar’s hand made a clattering sound and let out a small scream. It was an unbelievable strength.
“Hey, Scar. If you break the cup again, I’ll never play dice with you again.”
A man named Joji spoke in a murderous tone, slamming his dagger into the table.
‘···Gulp.’
Tentang was intimidated as he looked at the dagger deeply embedded in the table.
Scar slowly lifted the cup.
Scar’s dice were pointing to 1.
“Hahahaha! This guy really has no luck. How did it happen five times in a row?”
Jo Woo-ji, laughing with spittle flying from his mouth, picked up his cup. The dice inside it was pointing to 4.
The moment Jo Woo-ji, who smiled again, tried to sweep away the Cooper piled up on the table.
“for a moment.”
Potbelly Cobbs picked up my cup. The die inside the cup was pointing to ‘5’.
“Huh huh···.”
The moment the pot-bellied Cobbs, laughing with his belly rumbling, was about to take all the Coopers piled on the table, Scar stopped him.
Tentang gulped as he looked at Scar’s eyes focused on him.
“There’s still tentang left. Corpse.”
“I got 5, is there anything to see?”
“I have to see the dice game through to the end. Ten-tang.”
At that nod, Tentang grabbed the cup in front of him.
It would be nice to have a high number to raise Scar’s spirit, but I didn’t want to steal that unknown guy’s money.
“hurry.”
At the continued urging, Tentang grabbed the cup and lifted it slowly.
The number the dice points to is…
‘6?!’
“Hahaha! This is the friend I brought! I told you he’s talented! I heard it’s been five years since he got married.”
Scar smiled brightly, but-.
Suddenly.
Ahem.
The coughing and gnashing of teeth coming from both sides made a cold sweat run down Tentang’s back.
Then, the pressure disappeared as the man named Cobbs opened his mouth.
“But why do it at the Skane Woodworking Shop? If you do it at the Aaron Bar, you can drink and see things.”
Cobbs took Cooper out of the pocket on his protruding belly and asked with difficulty, his eyes pressed against his flesh.
“If you play during work hours and Aaron catches you, you’ll get hit again.”
“Ahem… I just feel attached to this place.”
‘···Aaron?’
Scar, who had been so confident until just a moment ago, was fiddling with his cup with an expression on his face as if he needed to pee, and the man named Jo Ji quickly took out the dagger he had stuck in the table and put it away.
These guys are so scared of this guy… I couldn’t even imagine who he was going to be.
“···Is this place safe?”
Jo Woo-ji asked nervously.
The moment Scar nodded.
bang.
The door opened roughly.
Swish.
A thick stream of rain poured in through the open door. Then, a huge bolt of lightning struck outside, brightening the surroundings for a moment.
Then a huge shadow appears.
Gulp.
The sound of someone swallowing spit mixed with the sound of rain.
“···These kids aren’t doing what they’re told, they’re just gathered here playing dice?”
A deep voice I’ve heard for the first time in my life.
Sweet sweet sweet.
The man sitting next to me, named Georgia, was shaking his legs violently.
“This is how I get fucked up.”
I thought it was a monster because of its size, but upon closer inspection, I saw that it was a person.
The man pushed his wet hair back, revealing a hideous scar. Perhaps one of his parents was a monster.
“Huh? It’s a game of dice. Sounds fun.”
A man with water dripping from his body like saliva from a beast’s snout laughed as he looked at the dice on the table.
‘···No, is that right to laugh?’
If a beast’s growling in front of its prey is considered laughter, then that could also be called laughter.
“Haha… I was just going to take a short break and then go back to work. Right?”
“Yeah… yeah. I was just trying to get out of the rain for a bit.”
Joji and Scar tried to get up from their seats, laughing awkwardly.
“Oh, sit down.”
The two sat down at the same time after the man’s short remark.
“You’re saying that you haven’t been doing your carpentry work properly lately, using the excuse of being old? The sewer construction is about to start. Can you keep up with it?”
Thump. The man lifted his cup and scanned the table. The dice around him disappeared into the man’s dice as if by magic.
“Of course I can! I’m the Carpenter of Cassadic!”
“Really? If it doesn’t fit, I’ll have no choice but to use the scanner as a beam.”
The man spoke lightly, but his voice was so thick that it was hard to tell whether he was joking or not.
However, seeing Scar nodding his head while frozen solid, it seemed like it wasn’t a joke.
“And Georgia, if you don’t make the delivery date, I’m going to use you as a sledgehammer. Right next to him.”
“···Yes? Oh, I understand.”
The man spun the cup. The sound of the dice rolling around in the cup and the sound of heavy rain filled the room.
Tak. As the man lifted the cup, he saw dice stacked up one by one. The way the numbers gradually increased from the bottom was a trick I had never seen before.
“What is this?”
Tentang’s back stood firm at the man’s gaze directed at him. Tentang instinctively knew that this was the moment that would determine his future life.
“Hello! I am Tentang, the new member of Cassadic! Please take care of me!”
“Tendon? That’s a strange name. What do you do?”
“Ah, I···.”
Tentang hurriedly came up with a suitable job after seeing Scar’s sidelong glance.
“I take care of cows! I’ve been with cows since I was little and…”
“What? Not only is it not enough to be a good speaker, but you’re even giving me cucumber soup···.”
Tentang’s heart sank at the sight of the man’s crumpled face. He hurriedly thought back on what he had done wrong, but there was nothing he could do about it.
However, the man quickly lost interest and looked away again.
The man who had collected all the cups on the table tapped them together and divided them up. The dice had already disappeared.
“Okay, let’s play a game.”
The man took one of the cups, took a silver coin out of his pocket, and placed it on the table.
‘What is this···.’
After seeing the man’s dice skills, no matter how stupid he was, I could tell that he was playing with his dice.
But still asking for money…
“I’ll do this!”
“I have this.”
“Ahem···.”
The others rushed to take out their Coopers and place them next to the cups in front of me. Tentang also hurriedly took out his Coopers and hung them up.
Soon all the cups were filled.
All the other dice showed 1, and the man’s dice showed 2.
“Ku …
“It was a close match. A great match! Phew!”
“As expected of Aaron!”
Only then was Tentang able to understand the situation.
Ten-tang also hurriedly expressed his regret with his whole body, and the man took all the Coopers on the table.
“Oh, does anyone know anything about dog holes?”
The man who got up from his seat asked as if he remembered something.
Unfortunately, that was a story that Tentang knew.
Tentang raised his hand and trembled under the man’s gaze as he spoke in detail about the hole he had used.
“Aha, I see. This is valuable information.”
The man who heard everything gave him a Cooper and left the room.
After the man disappeared, after quite some time had passed, Scar suddenly got up and checked outside. Then, with a relieved look on his face, Scar shrugged his shoulders.
“Now let’s do some work. Nothing builds muscle like woodworking.”
“I agree. People need to be diligent.”
“I guess I should go back to work too.”
The three of them, who had been giving off the vibe of a back alley gang just a moment ago, stood up from their seats with innocent smiles.
Looking at the man’s ugly face, they seemed more gentle than I thought. They even felt friendly.
“Who was that person earlier?”
Tentang asked, rubbing his nervous and numb hands.
He answered lightly, putting on his overalls.
“Huh? Chief of the external security team.”
“···yes?”
It was a simple answer, but Tentang couldn’t understand it.
“You should start working too. Working in a carpentry shop is physically hard, but it’s also mentally relaxing.”
Tentang woke up, startled by Scar’s touch.
“I am Shadow! Joji is Tooth! Corpse is Ship! Okay, let’s go.”
Scar stepped forward, speaking energetically, and the rest followed suit naturally.
Outside, heavy rain was still falling.
***
“Don’t show any sign of nervousness. I’ll never know.”
Sernin nodded at the voice he heard from beside him and relaxed.
Swaaaaaaahh …
‘It’s actually a good thing it rained so much.’
When the weather was bad, the guards did a sloppy check. No one felt responsible for the guard work that didn’t pay much.
‘···This is the gathering place.’
Sernin lifted his hood slightly and looked straight ahead.
There was a castle a little distance away, and it looked a little strange.
‘Why is only one side so big?’
Strangely, only one wall was particularly tall and thick. When viewed from the front, it looked like a castle built by a child, as it was out of balance.
However, perhaps because it was raining, the atmosphere was quite gloomy.
“···Did you hide the Bible well?”
At the question next to him, Sernin coughed for a moment and nodded.
“Just in case, everyone memorize the prayer.”
A small affirmative reply was heard from behind. It was quickly drowned out by the sound of rain.
As they approached the castle, Sernin’s eyes widened slightly. The appearance of the castle gate was truly bizarre.
The top of the gate was pointed like a bird’s beak. It was very ugly, but the roof-like structure was protecting the rain.
It wasn’t a very good sign for them.
Sernin bit his lip and glanced sideways. The leader’s expression was not good either.
As the leader muttered a prayer, Sernin quickly regained his composure.
Whatever he went through, whatever he did, it was all just a stepping stone for that day. In the end, if he gets up again, a world where everyone is happy will come.
As I was muttering, a sob came from next to me.
Sernin’s heart became anxious. It was no wonder, for the leader was not flustered even when his followers were burned at the stake by ignorant people.
‘······Inquisitor?!’
Sernin turned his head to follow the leader’s gaze and tried hard to suppress the scream that was about to burst out.
Two inquisitors stood beside the guards checking the gates.
‘Why are the inquisitors searching?’
Sernin’s head became complicated. Even if they had heard that they were coming to Cassidy, the Hammer of the Fools was not diligent enough to stand guard on a rainy day like this.
The moment I saw the heretic inquisitor, my hands broke out in a cold sweat and my body trembled. How many believers had died at the hands of those silver-armored men?
The uproar quickly spread. At this rate, I was walking towards the Inquisitor.
“Calm down. It’s more dangerous the more you do that. Just remember the instructions and you’ll be fine.”
The leader was right. If he ran away from here, he would only arouse suspicion.
‘Naturally… the waves go in and start from the very bottom.’
Sernin tried to relax his expression as he recalled the instructions.
I’ve encountered the Inquisitors many times so far, but I’ve never been caught.
Perhaps because it rained heavily, there were no visitors except this side.
Sernin lowered his gaze so as not to be caught nervous. Drop, drop. Drops of water fell from Sernin’s hood and soaked the ground.
Finally, we arrived at the castle gate.
A mean-looking man and a snake-like man approached. The leader smiled kindly and stepped forward.
“Did you get caught in this rain with your bare body?”
“Isn’t that strange, Brother Pool?”
At their first words, Sernin clasped his hand.
“As I was leaving the castle, it started to rain heavily and I was like, ‘Oh no!’ I wanted to go in and rest.”
The leader answered calmly and held out ten shining silver coins.
Sernin expected to pass safely. Even though there were two heretic inquisitors, they would probably give him lodging for ten silver coins.
Foolish people are truly fond of useless goods.
“Ohhh-! This is a noble!”
As Sernin had expected, the mean-looking man showed exaggerated courtesy. At that level, not only the lodging but also a fancy restaurant…
“There are too many.”
The snake-like man shook his head and held out the silver coin again.
“Huh? Wait, Brother Pool… They said they’ll give it to you first….”
“It’s too much. It’s over the line.”
“No, brother, are you crazy? Oh, let’s have a meeting among ourselves for a moment.”
A mean looking man dragged a snake looking man behind him.
They fought with raised voices and each hit the back of the head of the other.
As they fell, Sernin was left lying face down right in front of the Inquisitor.
“······Did the abbot say that if I help with the inspection, I can skip two services? Then, there’s only one left? Wow··· Congratulations.”
The two inquisitors were the same height, but the male inquisitor spoke unilaterally while the female simply nodded her head. It was such a subtle movement that you wouldn’t notice it unless you looked closely.
‘···pretty.’
Sernin met the eyes of the female heretic inquisitor and muttered softly before looking away in surprise.
Sigh···.
I raised my head at the sound of someone swallowing their breath, and the female heretic inquisitor was right in front of me.
The female inquisitor stared at Sernin with eyes as dark as the night sky.
Sernin’s mind suddenly became complicated. Did he notice? Then should he burst out the prayer and sacrifice himself now?
Even though I knew that day would come and understood that the sacrifice I was making now would be short-lived, it wasn’t easy to blow myself up.
At that moment, the female inquisitor moved her hand.
A cold sensation touched Sernin’s head-.
When that moment came, Sernin was unable to recite the prayer.
The female inquisitor grabbed Sernin’s head and gave him a brief blessing before stepping aside.
Hoo… Hoo… Sernin tried his best not to let out his gasp, and like a fool, he put his right hand to his forehead.
The female inquisitor simply stared at him without any expression on her face.
“Really! It’s you fucking bro! You fucking bro!”
I turned my head at the sound I heard next to me and saw a mean-looking man rolling around on the floor.
“You must have had a hard time coming this far. One silver sterling is enough for the toll.”
The man, who looked like a snake covered in dirt, held out the silver coin again.
“Hahaha… You are a conscientious person. We can only be grateful.”
The leader accepted the silver without any hesitation.
Then the snake-like man’s expression became subtle.
A man who looked like a snake looked around at them and asked with genuine curiosity.
“You guys came here on foot in the pouring rain without even a carriage, and you still don’t seem too happy about getting nine silver coins back? I don’t like people who don’t like silver coins.”
The eyes of the man who looked like a snake narrowed. They seemed to see right through you. At the same time, the conversation between the heretic inquisitors was cut off.
“Haha, I’m out of my mind because it’s been raining for so long. I really want to go in and rest···.”
“Really? That could be the case. Could you please follow the guide? These are special instructions from the Lord.”
The man who looked like a snake drew his sword. The scabbard was shabby, but the blade was sharp.
The atmosphere changed in an instant, and only the sound of heavy rain filled the surroundings.
“······Special instructions? Oh, of course I must follow them. I will follow them.”
The leader waved his hand as he answered. It was a signal. Those at the front were to recite the prayer first.
A signal to escape through him.
It was Sernin’s turn.
I met eyes with the female inquisitor again.
Sernin froze in those cold eyes.
“I will rise again!!”
Kwaaaaang!
The tooth burst right next to Sernin.
The impact sent Sernin flying sideways.
Sernin’s mind became confused as he felt the pain of his bones breaking as he splashed on the wet floor.
“Don’t be afraid! When that day comes, you will rise again! With those you dream of….”
Kwaaaaang-!!
Sernin’s mind drifted away after the female inquisitor leaped into the explosion and decapitated the leader.
***
‘No matter how dark it is…’
The Abbot of Brighton muttered a prayer and pushed open the rusty iron gate.
The door opened with a small creaking sound, showing how tight the joints were.
As he entered, Brighton’s brow furrowed at the strong smell of blood.
A woman was chained to a wall. Bible verses were burned all over her body, and her face was so swollen and bloody that it was hard to see.
‘The sun···.’
Brighton muttered a prayer to calm his dizzy mind.
“Ah …
The woman looked up at Brighton with one eye trembling, and the words coming out of her mouth sounded like a curse or a plea.
Brighton looked down at him for a moment, then knelt down in front of him and met his gaze.
“iced coffee···.”
A long stream of red tears flowed from the woman’s only eye. Her gaze seemed to ask, “What is my fault?”
In response to the guardsmen’s questioning, Inquisitor Joanna Heresy slashed the heretic’s head off, and an explosion occurred, starting with him.
The guards were badly injured, and Inquisitor Joanna Ethan was not immediately conscious.
I don’t know how this woman in the middle of it all survived.
Brighton, who had memorized the entire Bible, could not think of anything to say in response. He hesitated, wondering if this would help the woman, as he had tried to treat her out of habit.
I just placed my hand on the sacred spot and conveyed my body temperature.
“Ah …
At that moment, the woman let out a long cry, her throat shaking.
And then, a moment later, the woman’s mouth opened and a book fell out.
“iced coffee···.”
A Bible with an upside-down sun symbol. It was a pagan Bible.
“Ahhh······.”
Then the woman cried out again.
Looking into his dead eyes, I could tell what he was trying to say.
The woman begged to be killed.
The sect’s inquisitors were famous for being harsh.
When they caught a pagan, they somehow kept him alive until they pulled out his fingernails and toenails and flayed all his skin.
Brighton knew him better than anyone.
[······father.]
The face and the woman in my unforgettable memory overlapped.
Brighton reached out his hand in desperate search for God.
“No matter how dark it is-.”
A gurgling breath.
Brighton didn’t miss, even though his hands were shaking.
Because, as Aaron used to say, this would be best for her.
Brighton looked down at his hand for a long time in front of the woman who had stopped moving.
Then I came to my senses at the sound I heard from afar.
Brighton stood up, carrying the book he had fallen without even realizing it.
Squeak-.
“What are you doing here, Abbot of Brighton?”
Brighton shut his eyes tightly at the voice he heard from behind, then opened them with force.
“I came here because I heard there were pagans, but they had already left.”
Brighton answered in a tired voice, facing the Farhan Inquisitor.
Just like the day I killed my son.
He hid his trembling hands behind his back.
The Inquisitor Farhan wiggled his fingers as he looked at the Abbot of Brighton, who was acting subtly different than usual.
