The Outer God Needs Warmth – Chapter 53

Hyunkeshuni listened to Tis’s story told by the outer god from afar.

The nonsense spoken by the outer god had no effect on Hyunkeshuni’s heart.

Of course, Hyunkeshuni also knew the outer god was telling the truth. But it sounded like the monster was flattering the people of the Kingdom of Anselus because it wanted to live.

So she didn’t react at all to the words about freedom of religion.

To begin with, Hyunkeshuni had been chased by various religious groups. In her life, gods were on the exact opposite side of her.

Therefore, even if it says people have the freedom to choose religion, she only wonders why it’s saying such an obvious thing.

To someone outside of god, words about the freedom to believe in god have no weight.

It’s not saying it will give blessings if you believe in it, and if there’s freedom to believe in god, those who believed in the Holy Spirit will continue to believe, so nothing changes.

Of course, listening to the story now, the Holy Spirit seems a bit cowardly, but would there be people who would give up their faith because of that? So she just thought it was nonsense trying to deceive people.

Hyunkeshuni thought like that while sitting on the terrace of a stranger’s house watching the execution platform.

However, it’s gradually becoming boring.

She felt good seeing the outer god’s face being hit or eagerly flattering, but she wants to see something more stimulating.

For example, the outer god on the execution platform crying and begging for its life.

While Hyunkeshuni was thinking like that and pondering whether to cast some curse or not.

The outer god on the execution platform continued to open its mouth.

“I kept giving blessings to Tis while he was alive, and when he died, the contract was finished. So I went to find him to get his last warmth as promised.”

It’s pure fact.

Hyunkeshuni, who knows that warmth is important to people and what happens to people who lose it, thought it was confessing its sins before dying.

People with knowledge easily forget how people without knowledge might think.

They think if they know something, everyone naturally knows it. Because it’s a mistake everyone makes, Hyunkeshuni made that mistake.

This is actually something you need to experience a lot.

Sharing your knowledge with someone who doesn’t know well, how people without knowledge think and how much effort it takes to teach them.

But Hyunkeshuni didn’t have such experience.

Teaching Yasle?

He was already an expert. If he just had a little knowledge that only Hyunkeshuni knew, he was a literate person with an excellent mind and already diverse knowledge to organize and use in his own way.

So she inadvertently misunderstood how people would receive the current story.

“But something interfered with that. It prevented me from keeping the last promise.”

There’s an expression of human warmth.

It’s a word that’s hard to use very negatively. And if you say warmth right before death, it sounds to people like coming to watch over the last journey.

And saying the Holy Spirit prevented that.

“So when I denounced it, they do this.”

You know what that something is without saying it.

It’s the Holy Spirit.

Originally, even if they heard such words, it was difficult for people of the Kingdom of Anselus to have bad thoughts about the Holy Spirit. Even if you hear bad things about a god that’s their mother religion and fills the whole society, they would just think that person is a heretic, and that’s it.

If you curse, they might come running with clubs.

In other words, the faith of the Kingdom of Anselus doesn’t shake just because the outer god said a word or two.

If they hadn’t insulted Tis right before. 

Human greed brought anger.

Just a very slight jealousy that someone blessed by the Holy Spirit was outside, not in the Holy Spirit Religion, rolls and rolls on.

Of course, the Holy Spirit Religion people had excuses too.

Because god spoke directly.

Directly saying to go and defeat the evil god.

It’s no different from receiving powerful authority to do anything in the Kingdom of Anselus. If it’s hard to understand, you can think of it as turning on a simulation game. When you turn that on, isn’t it typical for gamers to try killing people cruelly?

God’s words were a powerful justification to do whatever you want.

That melted people’s reason completely.

The Holy Spirit Religion people here now are all people who have thoroughly studied theology. Not just simple theology, but people with excellent political abilities too.

Because if they weren’t capable of that, they wouldn’t be here now.

But god’s call was intense enough to melt even such people’s reason.

The excitement that you can do anything blew away not only the rules humans should keep, but even the minimum caution.

It might be enough driving force to spread faith in persecuted areas, but it was too excessive authority to punish the weak while standing in a superior position like now.

Because of that power, the Holy Spirit Religion people crossed a line they shouldn’t have crossed.

It might have been understandable if it was someone long forgotten, but they ended up criticizing the father of the nation whose funeral was held just yesterday.

A gap formed between the Holy Spirit Religion and the people of the Kingdom of Anselus.

And the outer god’s words seep in through that gap.

“Do humans unilaterally break contracts without any compensation even if there’s someone who made a contract first? Or if it’s a god, can all contracts be ignored?”

The paladin reacted immediately to the outer god’s words.

“You evil god, how dare you wag your tongue so recklessly! The vicious act of trying to take back those our Lord has saved will never be accomplished! Even if a wicked demon deceives the poor with enticing words, as long as we have our Lord’s words, we will move forward on the right path!”

Full marks for the words of a god believer.

But there was the most fatal fact that shouldn’t be revealed.

“Then, the Holy Spirit interfered with the fulfillment of the contract. Does the Holy Spirit never abandon those who enter its embrace?”

The outer god speaks final confirming words.

The priest, feeling ominous about this, tried to cut off the words, but the paladin’s words were a little faster.

“That’s right! Our omnipotent Lord is a great being that the likes of you dare not approach! Now we will kill you and re-establish His greatness!”

The paladin felt the ominousness too. So he pulled out the sword stuck in the shoulder and raised it high over his head.

But he had already made a painful mistake. By answering, he handed over the right to stab to the outer god.

“But I got Tis back. There was interference, but it broke easily. So I thought maybe he was abandoned, but was that all you had?”

It looks like asking a question, but it’s a dead end.

Either lose omnipotence, or lose benevolence.

Slash.

Without saying anything more, the paladin struck the neck. It’s too late, but this should end it.

If this killed the outer god.

The neck was cut cleanly.

But no blood splashes.

Instead, spider web-like cracks appeared where the head was, like a bullet embedded in reinforced glass.

And one of those lines penetrated the head of the paladin who cut off the head.

“Uh, uh, uh?”

The outer god reached the paladin through that crack. And grasped a pure white light.

It was about to take the warmth right in front of it, but stopped with superhuman patience.

Instead, it licked the light.

As soon as it licked, it gained the paladin’s memories, and the light turned black with a purple sheen. And that change occurred in reality too.

In an instant, the paladin’s hair turned purple, and his healthily tanned brown skin turned snow-white.

Murmur murmur.

Surprised voices spread from all around, and other paladins nearby pointed swords at the paladin who cut the outer god’s neck.

Crackle.

A crushing sound comes from inside the crack.

More precisely, it was the sound of the area around the hole in the middle of the crack breaking little by little and the hole widening.

People who have heard the sound of glass or ice cracking due to heavy objects could roughly guess what that sound means.

Something very heavy is on top of the hole.

But that sound was very brief.

The cracks spread in all directions were sucked into the hole. And the inside and outside flipped, then disappeared as if there had never been a hole from the beginning.

And what’s in the place where that hole was, is a girl with long purple hair.

The evil god who had its head cut off just a moment ago, without a single wound.

“If you kill me, you get a blessing. Of course, I won’t force you to believe in me from now on. If you want to believe in the Holy Spirit, believe. Humans have freedom of religion.”

Having said that, the outer god paused briefly to organize its thoughts.

That bought time for the public to focus on its words, as the outer god desired. And though the outer god didn’t intend it, it ended up emphasizing the next sentence.

“You also have the freedom not to believe in gods. If you dislike both me and the Holy Spirit who will abandon you, it’s okay not to believe.”

The outer god smiled brightly.

These are the words the outer god uttered after immediately grasping the situation, thinking “Ah, I guess I’m going back below the surface” when its head was cut off.

It’s only excellent at improvisation.

It doesn’t forget to subtly poison its words.

It naturally explained that the Holy Spirit would abandon blessed people.

At the outer god’s words, the paladin, Martin, stepped back hesitantly. The heat from faith that filled his head disappeared, and in its place, the coldness of reality settled.

Looking around, he sees his fellow paladins pointing swords at him.

That wounded his heart.

After all the years he’s lived dedicating himself to the Holy Spirit Religion, to point swords like this?

“The Holy Spirit abandoned you, just like it did to Tis. Well then, let me make a proposal.”

Then the outer god proposed.

No matter how forcibly he received the blessing from the outer god, he won’t leave this outer god alone. Paladin Martin resolved like that.

But that proposal wasn’t directed at him.

The outer god stood up from the execution platform where it was bound and turned its body.

And bowed its head towards the Holy Spirit Religion people.

“I will die here, so please forgive the others. Like this person, I only gave blessings to humans. Because I also have the sin of giving the powerful force of explosion to those who fell into deep despair until now, I will disappear here.”

Still.

Still, no one knew what these words meant.

Hyunkeshuni knows the outer god is the phenomenon of losers suddenly exploding that became the motif of primitive religion. But she doesn’t know what the words mean because she didn’t pray to gods.

She doesn’t know the most fundamental reason why the Future Hope Church captured people’s hearts.

The god of the lowest.

Saying that’s itself, it forgave people and declared that people also have the freedom not to believe in gods.

The outer god smiled a truly happy smile.

“Because I’ve already accomplished everything.”

Now, the three people in the mansion on the outskirts of the capital have finished reading the book.