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Episode 96. Baby?

Demon.

The interpretation differs from faction to faction, but most were used in a negative sense.

“… I don’t know if demons really exist, but if they do, I feel sorry for that Aryan.”

Toward Joseph who mentioned its existence, Celia told her thoughts.

“If she is really possessed by a demon, she is, in fact, a collaborator in the yard where she is held hostage by the villain, and it is tantamount to eliminating it together.”

“It is not a punishment. If it is judged that there is no self-will, you should protect it until it is completely purified. It is clearly a response that belongs to humanitarian management.”

“It must be humane. Admitting that you are possessed by the devil is itself tantamount to a death sentence for religious people.”

A murmur followed by a hard voice.

Joseph stopped his steps at the voice and gradually began to look towards the sky.

A sky as gloomy as my eyes.

“…Seolhwa doesn’t seem to like our policy.”

“Personally, yes. I am a person who believes that there is nothing in the world that cannot exist.”

It wasn’t just because they were oppressed by the church.

Her husband was also a religious person, but more than that, he had a strong identity as a doctor.

“…That sounds obvious.”

“Yes, that makes perfect sense.”

If you can’t understand that it exists, it’s just because you don’t understand its principle.

As much as my husband’s theory is that everything in the world can be interpreted mathematically, he, who loves him, was also following that teaching.

“But don’t religious people usually try to deny that obvious thing? They affirm the nonsensical things in the myths, but they try to deny what happened right in front of them without considering the logic…”

“…….”

“…Seeing that he is silent, he must be aware.”

A remark that anyone would consider to be blasphemy should be cautious.

But she felt no hesitation in putting those words in her mouth.

Because I realized that congenital disorders, which were known as curses because they couldn’t be cured with divine power in the past, can be cured later through drugs or surgical procedures.

What happened just now may have been a kind of situation that can be explained logically, but to blindly assume that it was the work of the devil.

Isn’t it a very heinous thing from the point of view of the person who became the target of their oppression?

“… Mr. Seolhwa.”

Joseph, who had been silent as if he was thinking a lot about his opinion, quietly opened his mouth.

This happened after a lot of time had passed.

“Are you the kind of person who thinks that anything true should be revealed?”

“… What do you mean?”

“I asked if good faith denied the need for implied lies.”

A white lie.

It may be contradictory, but it was none other than the priest who spoke the words.

“… It will depend on whether that goodwill evokes sympathy from many people.”

“Yes, it is. And the society we live in can be said to be maintained with a mixture of truth and lies, weighing that.”

Sometimes the shocking truth can go beyond social chaos and even cause the collapse of the leadership.

So, even if a lie is told, if there is a ‘great cause’, an implicit rule is formed that can be forgiven from the public.

“Our Lagrid too……. It’s a state where they don’t mind covering up the truth or telling lies to keep order.”

Moreover, religion presupposes the worship of false images from its very foundation.

For those who have already achieved success by claiming lies as truth, telling them to stay away from lies itself would only be pretense.

Other members may not know it, but he, as the Inquisitor, had that kind of awareness.

“… You take on that role, right?”

“Yes, not all believers need to be prepared for that.”

Those who believe in God must believe that they are virtuous both to the public and to themselves.

Inquisitors were those who were prepared to walk the opposite path in order to protect the light of such people.

In order to punish injustice, he even acquires unclean knowledge.

In order to go further and set an example, an existence that does not hesitate to do anything dirty and cruel.

“…… Let me recite a record from the past for a moment.”

What will continue from now on.

It was a story about an incident that led a person who decided to become such a ‘necessary evil’ to worship lies.

***

“Ten years ago from now… …. At that time, as an attendant, I was helping the expedition corps pilgrimage to various parts of the empire.”

Even during a war, it is necessary to appease the disquieting public sentiment.

Especially, as Lagrid was designated as the state religion of the empire, its role could be said to be very important.

“Then, when I stopped by a village, I heard a strange news. The news was that none other than one of the village girls was pregnant.”

“… Is it the same as now?”

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“He wasn’t a priest at the time, but he said he had a bloated stomach even though he hadn’t had s*x with anyone.”

A moment when his words gradually weighed on him.

Joseph started to continue his reminiscence about him on a rainy street.

“Honestly, I didn’t believe it at first. Unlike her convent, where she was, it was not a closed place, and her meetings with men were free. Her desperation was not taken seriously by her cult members, as there was no circumstantial evidence to prove that she hadn’t had an affair.”

Having children is possible only when there is an affair between a man and a woman.

That was a fact proven by medical cases that started to come into the limelight during the war, and Joseph, who was free to acquire knowledge as an interrogator, was also confident that that was absolutely not wrong.

“Yes, the purification ceremony that took place at the time was a kind of rebuke to the woman who had committed adultery, and it was used as a cause for evangelism.”

It was nothing special because it was a ritual of purification.

Just gather the people there, surround the target person and inject divine power…….

To purify the person’s filth by being injected with divine power was what he wanted to show off to everyone there.

“… Even though you are a religious person, are you performing a show-off ceremony?”

“Even if I wanted to show it to you, I did it seriously. She earnestly wished that she would repent of her sins, that she would repent of her sins, and that her people who looked upon her would see the light we embraced in her and have her faith in her La Grid. I hoped.”

What if it’s only a facade?

Also, if you do it sincerely, it becomes faith, and you can obtain the miraculous power of curing all diseases by forming it.

“Yes. I sincerely… I hoped everything would work out with the consciousness of the time.”

It’s not a lie.

Even at this moment, everyone there, including myself, had no doubts that at that time, they prayed with an upright heart.

“Without knowing that what she said was true.”

Without knowing how such sincerity would be distorted.

“…Was it true?”

“Yes, looking back, there was no lie in what she said. I know this because she surveyed the village after her ritual was over… But there was hardly any sign of her maleness anywhere she might have gone.”

Since she is supporting her sick father, she has been living out of the house for quite some time, and the only person she meets is a mother who goes out to work.

Abi, whose lower body was already paralyzed, found it difficult to control her body.

Nevertheless, there was not even a trace of her hair or footprints in her home, including her family.

“She was a person she had never been with, in fact, but why did her stomach swell? And why did her stomach start to swell after accepting her divine power?”

“I thought it was swollen… ….”

“Yes, there was something in her belly that responded to her divine power.”

Yes, the woman at that time complained of her suffering from the moment she accepted her divine power.

Religious people who didn’t know the reason just injected holy power.

Her screams grew louder, and what was in the woman’s belly shook even more.

“And at the end of it, it was out of the world. She tore open the belly of the mother who conceived her…….”

Awkwardly. Celia’s body trembled.

“Do you rip your stomach? Baby with her own hands?”

“Baby?”

The pupils wide open.

The veins, which had even faded from her fatigue, were dyeing her eyes a pale color.

“No, that wasn’t a baby. No one present could consider it human.”

There’s no way a perfect creature created by God could look like that.

“There were bones protruding all over the bloodied body. Legs where the arms should be, and ears where the legs should be. Something like a heart pulsated in the groin, and the whole body was covered with hair. There were even black hairs sprouting where the skin was supposed to be.”

Josef remembered everything he had seen at that time.

The body covered in blood and black fur, revealing its presence in front of them…

A terrible abomination never seen before. Something ugly and dirty.

“But the most hideous thing was the sound that came from the opening of what was supposed to be the mouth. A scream like that of a goat…….”

“Such an ominous sound echoed through the frozen crowd.”

The rain is still pouring down hard.

At the same time, light flashed through the blowing wind, and his wet face began to be clearly reflected.

“Everyone watched the scene, speechless, as something squirmed on the mother’s belly. Seeing the sight for the first time in their lives, even the noblest priests were at a loss for words and were terrified.”

A haggard impression with disproportionately sunken cheeks, widened pupils. Breathing that feels rough despite trying to control it.

What all of that was made of was definitely an emotion called fear.

“Then someone called out.”

The moment when the retrospective accompanied by such emotions gradually came to an end.

“Each devil, the devil was a parasite on that woman’s body. He is the son of Heaven, and his followers, please purify that blasphemy.”

The thunderclap that followed made the entire city shake with a rumble.

Even so, there was not a single shiver in his body.

Even if lightning strikes his body, it will be the same. No amount of shock can compare to the moment you witnessed the devil ripping open its mother’s stomach.

“… Its existence.”

In the midst of still pouring rain.

The man who just remembered the time when he was helplessly in despair continued his words.

“Later on, for purification reasons, I was only exposed to light, causing convulsions as if in agony, until my body stopped moving.”

“That… ….”

“Yes, because it was illuminated with divine light. Everyone present at the time no doubt believed that it was purified. But I’m still thinking of you.”

Yes, that was also what I had in mind.

“Was it really the devil?”

It’s not actually demonic, it’s just…….

“Was it just an ‘existence that came into the world imperfect’?”

For some reason, she was merely a doomed being who was not recognized as a life.

At that time, the grotesque crying was…

Because I was born imperfect, it’s because of the pain that arose in the process of progressing to perfection.

“…Whatever it was, everyone at the time was confused.”

But the truth is not important.

No, rather, acknowledging the truth itself is no different from denying what you have believed.

“I wanted someone to clarify what kind of existence it was, and as soon as it was defined as a demon, everyone followed it unanimously. Serenity came just by denying its existence and deserving of its elimination.”

Just denying it creates confusion, and some people get angry.

Without even the time to find out about the new question, those who couldn’t understand each other came to the conclusion of a conflict…

What those who have given up on understanding the world in that way need a concise answer, not a process proven through countless words.

“…That’s why it can’t be helped. This.”

But it will get better someday.

Even the inquisitors who hated cults now have an open mind to outside cultures.

“Someday there will come a day when even that will be accepted…But that’s not right now. People of this era are not yet ready to bear what I saw.”

The only regret is that it won’t happen on his own.

– Iron f*ck.

Soon after the conversation was over, Joseph lowered his tired face and continued walking down the road he wanted to take.

Very shabby and pitiful… A lethargic figure that is hard to see as an interrogator who commits cruel punishment.

Celia, who had been staring at her silently, immediately followed her with her arms crossed.

‘Come to think of it, it was five years ago that the term heresy was excluded.’

At that time, there must have been those who said that it should be maintained, but it is obvious that many sacrifices must have been made to suppress the opposition.

It doesn’t show on the outside, but the inside of the church must be in a precarious state.

In such a yard, as in the past, a believer who conceived a demon in the body of a virgin appeared. Isn’t it strange that even the most virtuous believer may think he has lost his temper?

‘Is the church that oppressed us like that slowly collapsing?’

Isn’t that funny?

Even the church, which was no different from the family of the emperor who was a tyrant, could not stand the flow of time and was slowly collapsing.

Is it because he regards it as an ordeal, or is it just a lingering regret?

“Bishop Joseph.”

I knew at least one.

No matter what it is, at this moment, it’s not just one person walking down the road of ruin.

“As you said, the investigation into this area has been completed.”

“… Good work. Let’s leave immediately after exchanging information.”

With a short question and answer, we arrived at a plaza.

Amid the still heavy rain pouring down from the dark sky, close to 100 shadows settled there.

People all wearing a rosary with a stake on the cross.

“Followers of Lagrid. Don’t be afraid of sin.”

The leader of them quietly began to recite a prayer.

“Our master embraced all the original sins and ascended to heaven, so we who follow that path will also… Embrace the sins that someone else should have shouldered, and erode the chaos of this world.”

At dawn when everyone goes to sleep.

On a cold street where not a single light shines through, the light shining from their bodies begins to light up the plaza.

“Everything is done to pass on the name of the noble saint to future generations… We will be determined not to be saved.”

A shabby enough to be swallowed up by the lightning that fills the sky.

Nevertheless, the lights that can be called faith.