Somebody Stop the Pope – 143



Episode 143

5.

“Your Majesty. If there is danger raise your divine power immediately. I will come in with my weapon. Do you understand?”

“If I’m in danger what difference would it make if you came in?”

“That’s what you say. I’m not worried about your Majesty. I’m just worried that the temple will collapse.”

“…Okay then go out.”

“Please call me.”

Luna glared at the blonde girl sitting in front of me before leaving. She bowed to me and carefully walked out of the office.

The girl watched Luna leave with her red eyes shining. Then she turned her head again and said.

“I’m jealous because you seem to be on good terms with your subordinates.”

A thin yet beautiful voice.

Her voice was so soft that it was hard to guess her identity just by hearing it.

But I already know this girl’s identity.

Perhaps it might be a bit awkward to call her a girl.

I took a sip of the chrysanthemum tea placed in front of me then exhaled and asked.

“Jealousy and all. You didn’t come here to ask about that did you?”

“Have I come to a place I can’t go?”

“One thing is for sure this is not a place for you to have a cup of tea.”

“Even if we worship different gods wouldn’t it be good to at least exchange greetings?”

She smiled faintly and took a sip of tea after me.

“It smells good. I’ll drink it well.”

“Are you clueless or fearless? Which is it?”

The girl slowly shook her head at the question I asked. Then she answered with her red eyes shining.

“Neither. I just came because I was curious about you. Isn’t that the same for you?”

“I was curious.”

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I put the teacup down on the table with a clank.

“It’s a natural human desire to want to see someone’s face before destroying them.”

“Honesty is a virtue of a priest. In that sense the Pope of the Limen Order is a true priest.”

The girl smiled even more deeply at that question.

A smile as innocent as that of a child.

That’s why I felt even dirtier.

There was no need to explain the girl’s true identity. The immense divine power and ‘Gyeok’ that lived and breathed within her body.

It was a power that could only be explained by the ‘archbishop’ that one of the Baekmyeonggyo’s lackeys had previously mentioned.

“You probably didn’t come here to hear nice words so what on earth made you come here in person? Are you trying to start a war?”

“War? Who would do such a barbaric thing in the 21st century? I just came here out of curiosity. And if we really wanted war… would we have stayed quiet until now?”

From this woman’s perspective the temple she is in is the heart of the enemy.

If you just look at the actions I have shown to Baekmyeonggyo up to now you would have been able to tell that our sect is hostile to them.

Nevertheless this woman came to the temple openly.

And that too alone.

I continued speaking staring intently into the girl’s red eyes.

“Did you not come here thinking that I could snap your neck right here?”

“This is the holy ground of the Limen sect. I don’t think you’re so rude as to snap the neck of someone who doesn’t even think of resisting. You at least keep to the minimum standards.”

“I can adjust that minimum line as much as I want.”

“Even if you kill me nothing will change. I guarantee it.”

The girl continues to smile.

There was no fear of death on her face. It was due to her certainty that I would not kill myself.

“With those eyes of yours… can’t you see that I have done nothing wrong?”

My passive skill that determines the evildoers is the Will to Destroy Evil.

If the opponent was a terribly evil person it would have been activated but the will to destroy evil was not activated against this girl.

Do you have a rough idea of ​​my abilities?

She took another sip of tea.

“We have only provided shelter for those who have nothing to rely on. Those who follow the bright white light have no evil intentions. It would be wrong to compare us to those parasitic insects in China.”

“Even if you haven’t committed any evil deeds yet I can’t guarantee it. You just haven’t shown your claws.”

“You may think as you wish. That is also the Pope’s freedom. I am used to being hated.”

Baek Myeong-gyo has not shown any significant action since the collapse of the Jeon Gak-ryeon with which they had formed an alliance.

The final clash with them must be traced back to the dungeon where we first encountered the last tale.

They were on the government’s list of intensive care units but I was not told about them.

I thought for a moment about the story I had heard from Beth.

A god worshipped by Baekmyeonggyo.

According to Beth the distorted gods that existed in ancient times on Earth.

If we roughly gather that information Baekmyeonggyo’s most important goal was one.

“You want to bring your god back to Earth don’t you?”

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“I heard that you brought the spirits of Baekdu Mountain. I guess you heard the general story. That’s right. There’s no reason to hide it. We plan to bring them back to this world. They will establish a new order in this chaotic world.”

That wasn’t a bluff to gauge my intentions.

Rather it was no different from clearly stating to me the direction that Baekmyeonggyo religion had.

A goal that is fundamentally different from that of the Purifiers who don’t know where to turn.

Contrary to the fact that the leader of the Purifiers who was called anonymous had no idea what he wanted Baek Myeong-gyo was making their goals clear.

That’s why these guys were dangerous.

Maybe even more than those purifiers.

I frowned deeply.

“A new order created by great beings. In it there will be no pain or despair. It will be a new world where we respect each other and live together. Unlike the crude world created by humans who are no different from livestock the world they have created will be perfect.”

The girl was naturally spouting out words that a cult leader would utter. However there was no hint of her wanting to persuade me or join me in her words.

He just calmly told me his and Baekmyeonggyo’s goals.

However their goals were diametrically opposed to those pursued by the Limen sect.

I raised one corner of my mouth and looked straight into the girl’s eyes as I spoke.

“Why are you talking so grandly about selling the name of God and reigning over humans?”

“Isn’t this a story you can completely relate to?”

“What sympathy do you have for treating humans like pigs and dogs?”

The girl tilted her head slightly as if curious about my answer.

“Why?”

“The one I serve has no intention of ruling over humans. He is different from your greedy gods.”

I leaned back in my chair and spoke in a more sly voice than ever before.

“Let me ask you one thing.”

“As much as you want.”

“You said that humans are no different from livestock? So the gods you worship are gods of livestock?”

I thought I knew why they were driven out of Earth.

The girl who heard me just looked at me with a smile on her face and I laughed at her even more.

“I don’t mean to disparage livestock but Lord Limen isn’t so desperate as to seek the trust of livestock.”

Let’s see if we can still laugh at this.

I nodded with satisfaction.

6.

Inside the office where the Archbishop of Baekmyeonggyo left.

I still sat in my chair mulling over the last words he had said.

-They are beings that far surpass your imagination. I don’t know if a god from a small dimension could handle them.

It was as if he knew that I was having trouble getting in touch with Limen at the moment.

I couldn’t help but feel nervous.

Could what is happening in Eden have something to do with those distorted gods who were banished from Earth?

“A hundred people in the purifier.”

One is just a bunch of crazy wild guys.

One is the guys who want to create a crazy world.

One thing is clear: neither of them can coexist with our church.

It was surprising that the relationship between Jeonghwaja and Baekmyeonggyo was not good but it was understandable when you think about what the Archbishop of Baekmyeonggyo said.

In the world that Baekmyeonggyo pursues there will be no place for purifiers.

If you think about the Purifiers I was talking to back then they are the ones who seek chaos.

It was inevitable that they would be in conflict with Baekmyeonggyo which was pursuing a powerful and new order.

So that might be why that anonymous guy suggested that we go to Baekmyeonggyo together last time.

“It’s a three-way battle.”

Before leaving the Archbishop of Baekmyeong Church offered me a gift.

I sighed as I glanced over the map of the Lost Land she had handed me.

Unlike the map of Hamheung that was pulled out from the Dark Elf Elder the map that Baek Myeong-gyo gave had a survey of the entire Lost Lands.

It was written down in quite some detail including what kind of people lived in which area and how many there were.

A kind of tactical map.

It was information so valuable that I couldn’t even imagine its value.

-I don’t need it anymore so I’ll give it to you as a gift.

It’s a gift.

Are those guys really just handing me this information out as a favor?

While I was looking at the map and thinking about this and that Luna came into the office and spoke to me.

“I can at least give you some credit for your guts.”

“They must have realized that we couldn’t act carelessly in the Holy Land. And they must have been confident that we wouldn’t die easily.”

“What would have happened if Your Majesty had slept with that woman?”

“Of course I would have won.”

I might have won but it wouldn’t have been a win.

It was not an opponent that could be easily subdued. There would have been a clash and the Holy Land would have been reduced to rubble.

What if a conflict had occurred here in this already densely populated place?

Aside from the destruction of the temple it was clear that countless people who came to see the holy land would also die.

This is literally the worst outcome.

That may be why she was able to show off her courage so openly.

“They are bad guys.”

The archbishop acted at the risk of the lives of the people gathered here.

She seemed confident that I wouldn’t risk people’s lives.

“It seems like you’re not on good terms with those purifiers.”

“Could it be that they are deliberately creating a smoke screen?”

“That’s true.”

I tapped my finger on the map on the table.

“The information you provided was so detailed. It even detailed the Purifiers’ facilities in the Lost Lands.”

Starting with the <Fortress of the Dead> in Hamheung that the dark elves had seen everything that the Purifier had touched was contained within that map.

There is still no proof that the map is accurate.

Instead when compared to the map of the Hamheung region extracted from the Dark Elf Elder the entire Hamheung region matched exactly.

This means that the map has a certain degree of reliability.

“Is this it?”

Luna muttered as if talking to herself and I nodded slowly.

“For now. It seems like they don’t want to get blood on their hands.”

If we had just this map we could have greatly increased the success rate of our northern advance. If we had made a deal with the government this would have been a product that would have brought in huge profits but they gave it to us without any conditions.

Is this really a gift from those guys?

I can assure you that there was no chance of that happening.

“Would those who put people’s lives at stake ever be kind?”

If these guys really wanted to improve their relationship with our church they wouldn’t be saying things like “This is the world we want.”

The most realistic reason is that we want to exhaust our power while fighting the Purifiers or something like that….

It’s complicated.

I feel irritated when I try to think for the first time in a while.

At times like these we need to think simply.

In fact the method to solve the three-way battle is very simple.

“You can just throw them both away.”

To push forward with overwhelming force.

Strategy and everything else are meaningless in the face of power.

“Take care of the kids more. Be stricter with them so they don’t get beaten up anywhere.”

At times like these it was necessary to maximize the preemptive defense capabilities of the religious order.

At my words Luna nodded with a solemn expression.

“Just trust me Your Majesty. I’ll make you a bunch of crazy people.”

“It’s solid.”

“You’re an expert. You’re an expert.”

First of all strength.

Second is strength.

There is no deterrent as effective as force.

I nodded slowly as I listened to Luna’s boasts. It didn’t matter what they were up to.

We just have to go our own way.

Thus the first winter that the Limen Church had experienced on Earth passed.

And then the first spring came.

Our Pope please stop this