Living as an Unemployed in Another World

25 – 2. The Path of the Dagger (6)

6.

The wagon moved smoothly. The man looked at the wide field of wheat visible through the cracks in the blackout. Compared to the royal road, I did not feel the slightest hesitation while walking on the road in the outskirts, which is difficult to see as well-maintained even with empty words. The share of this will be large.

Simple story. In accordance with the norm that the people of the church should always feel the grace of God up close, the wagons that carry the characters of the church are also given consecration [Blessings] To each and every minor part from the manufacturing process as a practice by low-ranking priests, and the horses that pull the wagons are also of high quality. It is not enough to buy good horses from the stable, but to the extent that they manage the ranch separately and tame the horses.

Order God never commanded the humans who followed her to discriminate and differentiate, but if we recall that faith is always looking up to something, the laity enjoy the position of heretic inquisitor, and he should be treated next to the bishop. It is not unreasonable to look up to him as a ‘deserving person’.

As a priest who follows the God of Order, an exemplary attitude is probably to feel the grace of the Church and the God of Order that they serve, who have made it possible to enjoy convenience in these trivial matters. However, the Heretic Questioner felt uncomfortable with all these minor conveniences.

Is it because he is simply an egalitarian who prefers equality? No. He believes that human beings, in any group, are naturally divided up and down. Then, after arming himself with modesty and humility, does he think of himself as unqualified? He is neither

‘I’m going to die of discomfort. Damn it.’

Originally, the position of Inquisitor of Heresy cannot go outside the main school, that is, the church in the royal capital, so it is inconvenient to travel long distances in a carriage, but the biggest reason is that the fellow rider in the carriage It was because it was an awkward relationship that I had never mixed with.

“… ….”

He had been glancing at the statue-like human sitting diagonally across from him for hours already. His height might be slightly taller than that of a man of average physique, but he is wearing full plate armor full of scars from head to toe, although he is well maintained. Thanks to that, I can’t see his physique, hair color, skin color, or face at all. Maybe even gender…….

‘No, that must be a man. It’s not like he’s bigger than me.’

The heretic inquisitor twitched the corners of his mouth and swallowed his muttering alone. He is, after all, a man whose appearance is completely unrecognizable thanks to him. From what I’ve heard, that eccentric obsession with full-body armament is famous even in the main school, and since he never showed his true face even when he occasionally wandered around the church, all sorts of speculations and rumors abounded about his true identity.

──The truth is that he always wears armor to regenerate the demon he possessed.

──That the inside of the armor is empty and only the soul dwells in the armor.

──If you take off your helmet, people who see your bare face will be cursed with a terrible curse.

As a knight who serves God, he is in a fairly high position, but in a sense, he is true. He is a great human being. No, is it really human? He was never quite sure.

Of course, if he feels uncomfortable with such rumors, he won’t have to take off his helmet, just open his mouth and explain. However, he was just as famous for refraining from his voice as for not removing his armor. To be honest, even among the knights of the cathedral, he must have had a dishonorable nickname such as ‘a plaster statue’. Still, I’ve heard the voice, so it wasn’t to the extent that it was hidden in a veil…….

Perhaps he noticed that the heretic inquisitor was glaring at him, he immediately felt the man’s gaze and turned his head to where he was looking…… That’s all, the helmet——no voice could be heard from the cracked mouth inside the helm.

“… ….”

If he was really polite, it would be polite to say something first considering the subtle differences between the heretic inquisitor and the cathedral knight, but he really just stared this way like a stone statue. Boy, isn’t that really a ghost? Of course, for the heretic inquisitor who can detect life reactions, it was just a useless delusion…… When the man sighs and looks out the window again, he too begins to stare at the plain front again.

‘At least one or two nuns will be attached to me. What is this? No, as long as the matter is the matter, did you say that it is difficult for kids who do not have time to join? I really…….’

The world is in chaos.

It is a reality where monsters other than humans appear every day. It is said that you cannot go against nature, but the sight of mortals born with the same life biting and tearing at each other is still reluctant even to those who serve the god of order. What about adventurers, aren’t they wielding that enormous power for themselves for tangible goods and fame that will disperse like mist? From the point of view of the clergy, everything was deplorable.

In the meantime, conspiracies related to evil spirits and evil spirits are lurking everywhere in the royal capital, so the current situation feels painful to him, who has been trying to lead the church to the right path all his life. Just as human beings are infinitely helpless in the face of disaster, the divinity of one’s own life is also felt as helpless in the face of a greater conspiracy.

In the midst of that, what can prove itself is power. Proof of that was the existence of the knight sitting in front of him.

There are many speculations about his bare face and where he came from, but at least he is a person who has been proudly established as a member of the 20 or so church knights in the main school. Unlike himself, the Heretic Inquisitor in charge of the ‘brain’, he was a person in charge of ‘force’ that was closer to the strict laws of the royal family.

Who did that? Justice without power is just words. The goddess of order and justice would never spare her divinity, even if she were the weak, but at least a human would look back on her life once in a while.

As the saying goes, the only thing that supports an idea is force. Stupidly, there was a time when it was said that religious forces should never be armed. It was the logic that when the world was less chaotic than now, when the foundations of the nation were being laid once again——the church, which should be more upright than anyone else and stand on the side of the weak, should not be swayed by political squabbles.

However, the Heretic Inquisitor, who has seen the growth of the church over the next 15 years since his days as a layman, now knows how irresponsible those words are. Could the church, based on divinity and not possessing a strong destructive power, be able to take a proud role in the power structure of the royal capital by increasing its number as it is now? He could be sure it never was.

‘If the famous Party cooperates, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to eradicate all kinds of heresy… ….’

He smiled to himself as he imagined it. It’s a laugh that comes from knowing that it will never happen. As mentioned earlier, the current royal capital is balanced by three power structures.

First of all, the royal family. They are the rightful rulers of this country. Rulers need power, and in addition to power, they have the Royal Knights, which are said to be the best force in the country as a single organization.

The court aristocrats also have talented vassals by their side, but they do not use much power in the royal capital when the king’s power is absolute. Then what about the second? They are adventurers There are probably few opportunities to unite them into one force, but at least in this country, the Party, which is a symbol of power, is openly residing in the capital, so the guild can always walk around their shoulders. There is.

And the other force is the church. As the only religion in this country whose rights are guaranteed by law, it is a doctrine that believes in the goddess of justice and order. Since the church basically has no justification for armed forces, it does not have a large-scale army trained and trained like the knights, but it is replaced by the existence of cathedral knights, each of whom boasts an armed force of a hundred with enormous divinity and consecrated weapons.

And now, the cathedral knight and the Heretic Inquisitor, who are in charge of dismissing that one faction, are riding alone in a carriage and heading to a remote area far from the royal capital. The reason was simple. Something happened that might have to ban ‘heresy’ outside the royal capital.

A thief who caused an uproar in the capital not too long ago started the incident. It was a case of stealing magic items from the houses of nobles and merchants residing in the capital and running away. In the midst of investigating the damage list, rather, clues about heresy were caught in the homes of the victims.

A thief who only steals treasure from the mansions of nobles and merchants who cooperate with the heresy. Is this really a coincidence? Perhaps the church judged that the thief held the clue to the heresy that permeated the royal capital, and in the direction that the thief had fled, they selected one talented person to represent them and sent them to the periphery…… That is justification.

‘I just picked and sent an old idiot who ate his salary, and a strong knight who couldn’t mumble, and sent them away.’

The Heretic Questioner smiled self-deprecatingly. If this matter was really that important, a special unit would have been formed to investigate, rather than just a small number of people. In any case, since I had no choice but to work diligently, since the cooperation of Count Louver, who controls this vast territory, was indispensable for the investigation, I was only heading to the mansion.

“… ….”

Because of his personality of saying everything he can’t say too much, he was pushed out of the church’s power structure, and he is a knight of God who is ostracized among his colleagues because he has been carrying all sorts of dubious rumors. Is this the kind of human life that is not welcomed by either side? For the first time, the Heretic Questioner thought that his situation was similar to that knight’s.

But even so…… He looked again at the knight sitting like a stone statue. The virtue of the cathedral knight’s armor is that it is white and has no flaws. He did not dare to imagine the feeling of always wearing such armor that smelled like iron just by getting close to it.

‘Ah, anyway, these days, do knights find cool in strange places? I really don’t understand.’