episode_0216

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Why? Why aren’t there people coming to save me?

Had he already been discovered and ran away?

No, no. There was no sign of that.

Then it wasn’t there from the beginning… why… why?

Ah… I was foolish, saint.

You are forgetting the saint’s teachings again.

Please forgive me.

Saving you is the mission given to me.

Thank you for giving me that honor.

Well then, I will pray.

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Maria took off her robe.

A woman dressed as a nun hiding inside the robe was revealed.

A woman with a large wound on her right eye began to walk slowly.

The crowd, startled by the momentum, left their seats, and a path leading to the execution site appeared.

“He’s a fugitive!”

One paladin shouted.

“He is a criminal, execute him on the spot!”

The leader of the Holy Knights on the execution platform shouted.

Everyone rushed to Maria with their own weapons.

Maria slowly headed to the execution site.

Someone’s knife pierced her stomach. Blood welled up from her stomach.

Maria’s movements as she headed toward the execution site stopped for a moment.

But that was only for a moment.

After confirming that Maria had stabbed herself in the stomach, she grabbed the weapon and pulled it away.

The stab wound site was clean.

“Uh… huh?”

At that shocking sight, the paladin’s legs gave out and he fell to the floor.

Another paladin stabbed her in the back with a spear.

The tip of the long spear passed through her body and hit the floor, and blood boiled in Maria’s mouth.

But that was only for a moment.

Maria raised her arm and struck the spear post, causing it to break.

The spot where he was stabbed by the spear was clean.

“What is this!”

The paladin holding the broken spear muttered as if it were absurd.

Spears, swords and arrows fell upon her.

Even though she was being cut, stabbed, and stabbed, she did not stop heading to the execution site.

A terrible scene of blood and flesh splattered was created, but Maria’s body came back clean as if nothing had happened.

As she headed to the execution site, she continued to pray to someone.

One step, one step.

Mary went to the saint.

“What are they doing!!”

On the execution platform, the Holy Knights who had been moving away from Maria suddenly came to their senses as the leader of the Holy Knights shouted.

They grabbed their weapons again and tried to attack Maria.

With a thud, Maria, who was on her way to the execution site, stamped her foot as hard as she could.

The ground shook with a loud sound, and people standing in the square lost their balance and fell.

“Sa, Saniso…. The miracle of Saniso….”

It was a word that jumped out from the crowd.

The spread of words was faster than expected, and the whispering of the crowd who fell to the ground became louder and louder.

“Sani soda!! Saniso has appeared!!!”

Saniso, a saint who single-handedly cut off the heads of 300 people.

The square was in an uproar as it seemed like he was seeing his second coming.

“Look at that body. There isn’t a single wound! That’s Elnea’s miracle!!”

Elnoa, a saint who spent a week in a fire pit to prove her faith.

People who had seen with their own eyes the miracles mentioned in the Bible were whispering.

While people were reciting miracles from the Bible, Mary arrived at the execution platform.

“Yes, you!”

The leader of the Holy Knights ran towards Maria, who was looking up at her, and struck down her sword.

But his sword never touched Maria.

Maria’s palm grabbed his face and slammed him to the floor of the scaffold.

“Ugh!!”

The head of the Holy Knight fell to the wooden floor and screamed.

His vision was dark, for Maria’s hand was still on his face.

“Sinner, do you know your sins?”

The Holy Knight Commander shook his head at Maria’s question.

Like a bug pressed against a finger, even though I struggled with all my might, I couldn’t move even that little bit.

Maria’s grip tightened at that blasphemous movement.

“Kk… Ah… ah….”

The pressure on his face, the feeling of his bones twisting and breaking, made him forget his face and scream.

His screams didn’t last long.

– Pakak

With the sound of bones breaking apart, his face turned to mush.

Maria shook her hands and stood up.

Blood and secretions flew into the air.

At the terrible end of the Holy Knight leader, all the members of the church who remained on the execution platform ran away.

Maria didn’t bother to chase them. What the saint instructed her to do was something else.

She reached for the saint’s face on the floor.

Carefully and lovingly, I slowly lifted the face.

Maria smiled in relief as she embraced the peacefully closed-eyed face.

She turned to the square.

Members of the religious order who had not yet escaped and bystanders who had come to watch the execution were lying face down in the square.

“You blind people who cannot believe unless you see.”

Maria shouted as if scolding.

“Repent your sins.”

“Soon, when that day comes, I will come to judge you. So repent.”

After speaking, Maria slowly came down from the execution platform.

And then, as if nothing had happened, he slowly left the square.

There was no one who could catch her like that.