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    Hukkeshni heard the story of Tisha from a foreign news agency from afar.

    The nonsense that foreign media was saying had no effect on Hyukkeshni’s mind.

    Of course, even Hyukkeshni knows that the foreign news is telling the truth. However, it sounded like the monster was trying to live and was trying to please the people of the Ansellus Kingdom.

    So, I didn’t react at all to the talk about freedom of religion.

    To begin with, Hyukkeshni had a history of being hunted by various religious groups. In her life, God was on the opposite side of her.

    Therefore, even if we say that people have the freedom to choose their religion, we can only wonder why we are stating the obvious.

    To a person outside of God, the statement that he has the freedom to believe in God carries no weight.

    It’s not like I’m saying that if you believe in yourself, you’ll be blessed. If you have the freedom to believe in God, people who believe in the Holy Spirit will continue to believe, so nothing will change.

    Of course, if you listen to the story now, the Holy Spirit seems a bit cowardly, but who would give up their faith like that? So I guess he’s just trying to deceive people with nonsense.

    Thinking like that, Hyungkeshni sat on the terrace of a stranger’s house and looked at the executioner.

    However, it is gradually becoming less fun.

    It felt good to see foreign media hitting the face or seeing them flirting, but I want to see something a little more provocative.

    For example, the image of a foreign correspondent on the execution ground crying and begging for his life.

    While thinking like that, Hyungkeshuni was wondering if he could put a curse on her.

    The foreign correspondent on the scaffold continued to speak.

    “I have been blessing Tisha while she was alive, and the contract was finalized when she died. So, as promised, I went to see her to get her last warmth.”

    It’s pure fact.

    Knowing that warmth is an important thing for people and what happens to those who are deprived of it, Hyungkeshni wondered if he was confessing his sins before he died.

    People with knowledge often forget what people without knowledge think.

    If you know something, you assume everyone else knows it too. This is a mistake that everyone makes, and that’s what Hyuckesuni did.

    This is something that you actually have to experience a lot.

    When you share your knowledge with someone you don’t know, you have to think about how someone who doesn’t know the knowledge thinks and how much effort it takes to convey that knowledge.

    But Hyuckeshni had no such experience.

    What did you teach Yasle?

    He was already an expert. He was a brilliant and knowledgeable person who could organize and write in his own way even if he only knew a little bit of knowledge that only Hyukkeshni knew.

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

    “But something got in the way. It prevented me from keeping my last promise.”

    There is an expression called human warmth.

    It’s a word that’s hard to use in a very negative way. And when you say warmth just before death, it sounds like people are there to watch over you on your last journey.

    And the Holy Spirit stopped it.

    “So I condemned it and this is what they did.”

    I know what something is without you having to say it.

    It’s the Holy Spirit.

    Originally, even when hearing such things, it was difficult for the people of the Ansellus Kingdom to have bad thoughts about the Holy Spirit. Even if they heard bad things about the gods that were their mother’s faith and that were prevalent throughout society, they would think of them as pagans and that was the end of it.

    If you swear, he’ll come running at you with a club.

    In other words, the faith of the Ansellus Kingdom will not be shaken just because foreign media said a word or two.

    If you hadn’t insulted Tisha just before.

    Human greed brought about disaster.

    There was just a little bit of jealousy rolling around because they didn’t like the fact that the person who received the blessing of the Holy Spirit was not in the Church of the Holy Spirit but outside it.

    Of course, the Holy Spirit Church people also had their excuses.

    Because God himself spoke.

    Go and defeat the evil god yourself.

    It’s like a powerful authority has been given to you to go to the Kingdom of Anselus and do whatever you want. If you find it hard to understand, think of it as turning on a simulation game. When you turn it on, isn’t it normal for gamers to try to brutally kill people?

    The word of God was a powerful justification for doing whatever one wanted.

    That completely melted the human mind.

    All of the people of the Holy Spirit Church who are here now are people who have studied theology thoroughly. They are people who are not only good at theology but also have outstanding political ability.

    Because if I couldn’t do that, I wouldn’t be here now.

    But the call of God was so strong that it melted the reason of such a person.

    The enthusiasm to do anything has blown away even the minimum level of caution, let alone the rules that people should follow.

    It may have been enough of a driving force to spread the faith in persecuted areas, but it was too much authority to stand in the upper hand and punish the weak as it was now.

    Because of that power, the Holy Spirit people crossed a line that should not be crossed.

    I wouldn’t know if it was because he was someone who had been forgotten for so long, but he ended up criticizing the person whose funeral he held just yesterday.

    A rift developed between the Church of the Holy Spirit and the people of the Kingdom of Ansellus.

    And through that gap, foreign news seeps in.

    “Do humans unilaterally break contracts without any compensation, even if there is someone who made the contract first? Or, if it is God, can ignore all contracts?”

    The knight responded immediately to the foreign news.

    “You are wagging your tongue, calling us evil gods! The wicked acts of trying to take away the ones our Lord has saved will never happen! Even if the evil devil uses deceptive words to deceive the poor, we will go on the right path as long as we have the word of our Lord!”

    According to a believer in God, it is perfect.

    But there was a most fatal fact that should not have been revealed.

    “Then, the Holy Spirit blocked the fulfillment of the contract. Does the Holy Spirit never abandon those who enter his bosom?”

    Foreign news agency that makes the final confirmation statement.

    The priest, sensing ominousness, tried to cut him off, but the paladin spoke a little faster.

    “Yes! Our omnipotent Lord is so great that you cannot dare to approach him! Now I will kill you and re-establish his greatness!”

    The paladin felt the same ominous feeling, so he pulled out the sword from his shoulder and raised it high above his head.

    But he had already made a painful mistake. By answering, he ended up handing over the right to criticize to the foreign press.

    “But I got my Tish back. It was a little messed up, but it was just broken. So I thought maybe I threw it away, but was that the power?”

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

    Either lose omnipotence or lose mercy.

    Crunch.

    Without saying a word, the paladin cut off his neck. It was too late, but this was the end.

    If this is what killed the foreign press.

    The throat was cleanly cut.

    But no blood is spurted out.

    Instead, a spiderweb-like crack appeared where the head had been, as if a bullet had struck tempered glass.

    And one of those lines pierced the head of the knight who had his head cut off.

    “Uh, uh, uh?”

    The foreign news reached the paladin through the crack and he grabbed a pure white light.

    He tried to snatch the warmth right in front of him, but then stopped himself with superhuman patience.

    Instead, he licked the light.

    As soon as he licked it, he gained the memories of a paladin, and the light turned into a black with a purple sheen. And the change happened in reality too.

    In an instant, the paladin’s hair turned purple, and his healthy, tanned brown skin turned pure white.

    Groan, groan.

    Shouts of surprise were heard from all directions, and other nearby knights aimed their swords at the knight who had cut off the foreign god’s head.

    Crackle.

    There is a sound of something crashing inside the crack.

    To be exact, it was the sound of the hole in the middle of the crack gradually breaking apart and widening.

    Anyone who has ever heard the sound of glass or ice cracking under a heavy object can probably guess what it means.

    There is something very heavy over the hole.

    But that sound only lasted for a moment.

    The cracks that spread out in all directions were sucked into the hole. Then, the inside and outside were turned inside out, and the hole disappeared as if it had never existed in the first place.

    And where the hole was, there was a girl with long purple hair.

    An evil god whose head had just been cut off, but who is now unscathed.

    “If you kill me, you will receive a blessing. Of course, I will not force you to believe in me in the future. If you want to believe in the Holy Spirit, believe in it. Humanity has freedom of religion.”

    The foreign correspondent who said that paused for a moment to collect his thoughts.

    That gave the public time to focus on the speech, just as the foreign press had hoped. And, unexpectedly, it ended up emphasizing the next sentence.

    “You also have the freedom not to believe in God. If you don’t want me or the Holy Spirit to abandon you, then it’s okay not to believe in them.”

    The foreign press smiled broadly.

    This is what the foreign press said after immediately grasping the situation, thinking, “Oh, it’s going back under the water when the head is cut off.”

    He is very good at improvising.

    Don’t forget to sneak some poison into your words.

    It is explained that the Holy Spirit will naturally abandon the person who has been blessed.

    At the words of the foreign press, the knight. Martin hesitated and stepped back. The heat of faith that filled his head disappeared, and in its place was the coldness of reality.

    He looked around and saw his fellow paladin pointing his sword at him.

    That hurt his feelings.

    How could he have devoted so much to the Church of God in all the years he has lived, yet he be facing the sword like this?

    “The Holy Spirit has abandoned you, just like he did to Tisha. Well, then, let me make a suggestion.”

    At that time, foreign media suggested.

    Even if he had been forced to receive blessings from an outsider, he would not leave this outsider alone. That was what the Knight Martin had resolved to do.

    But the offer wasn’t directed at him.

    The foreign correspondent got up from the executioner’s rack where he was tied and turned around.

    And he bowed his head toward the people of the Holy Spirit Church.

    “I will die here, so forgive others. Like this person, I have only blessed humanity. I have also sinned by giving the powerful power of explosion to those who have fallen into deep despair, so I will disappear from here.”

    yet.

    Still, no one knew what this meant.

    Hyukkesuni knows that the foreign news is a sudden explosion of losers who have become the motif of primitive beliefs. However, since he has not prayed to God, he does not know what it means.

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

    God of the lowest of the low.

    He said that he forgave people and declared that people have the freedom not to believe in God.

    The foreign press smiled truly happily.

    “Because it’s all already been done.”

    Now, three people in a mansion outside the capital have finished reading the book.

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