## Chapter 700 – Paladin Kim Kat

ㅡUgh!

The wooden round table shattered, and the people who had been engaging in an orgy on it were struck by the splinters, bleeding and sprawled out.

It’s not a serious injury, so let’s just move on.

“…!”

For now, the preacher seemed taken aback by the sudden situation, frozen and sprawled out.

“Kugh…! Who, who the hell are you!!”

A middle-aged man clutching his shoulder shouted at me, having fallen on his butt. Currently doing the M-split, he was a very ugly and pathetic man.

Only his mustache was well-groomed.

“Hey, Conehead. Close your legs?”
“I asked who you are!! You rude thing!! Cough…! More importantly, get a healer…!”

Seemingly embarrassed, he covered his cone and tried to get up, staggering.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

ㅡThwack!

“Kugh!”

I lightly kicked him in the chest, walking through them and saying,

“You heretical bastards. I am Kim Kat, the Paladin directly under the Saintess of the Brass Celestial Society. From now on, you will answer my questions truthfully. That’s the only way to guarantee your lives.”

Whatever else, these guys were involved in a crime.
They were brainwashing innocent women and raping them.

Doing this when they’re already suspected of heresy?

These fearless bastards!
This is an act of mocking not only me but also the Brass Celestial Society!

“Pa, Paladin?!”
“Gasp…!”
“Heresy? What’s that…!”

The men around me, hearing my words, started to panic greatly and look around. Even in a city like this, the authority of the church is immense.

The number of men participating in the orgy was exactly ten.
Are there any among these bastards who can stand up to the church?

Unlikely.

“Mo, more importantly! What about the guys outside!”

The mustached man, who had been lightly kicked in the chest by me, shouted.
Was he looking for the managers?

The managers were City Guards… so this bastard was one of them.

“I killed them all, City Guard sir.”
“…!”

I lied appropriately, and he widened his eyes and inhaled sharply.

“Heh heh, the managers were quite skilled. But not enough to stand up to a Paladin. Hey, you. You look like a City Guard executive, so you’ll have to cooperate with my investigation.”
“In, investigation? What nonsense!!”
“Nonsense?”

Is this crazy bastard serious?

“Ju, just because you’re a Paladin doesn’t mean you have the right to investigate me! This is a clear overreach of authority! Get out of here immediately!! If you want to investigate, follow the proper procedures!”
“Good heavens.”

Well, to be honest, I didn’t have the authority to conduct a coercive investigation on these kinds of guys. Religious power is immense, but this world runs on systems, and as a human society, authority, rights, and procedures are important.

A Paladin is not an all-powerful itinerant judge who can act beyond the law. If I act arbitrarily, the prestige of the church will be diminished.

But who is my backer?

Saintess Kadia.

Even if I make a mess, as long as there are results, violations of administrative procedures or illegalities don’t matter. I was a bit coercive and conducted an investigation outside my authority, but I caught heretics. Or I caught a criminal organization equivalent to that.

Then it’s over.
I’ll even be praised.

And these bastards had already committed a crime in front of my eyes.
ㅡWomen sprawled out, intoxicated by aphrodisiacs.

This is aggravated rape.

The Paladins of the Order do not condone heresy, let alone crime. And they will not forgive a religion that commits crimes.

“Put some clothes on first, you nudist bastard.”
“Don’t change the subject!”
“Heh heh, our heretical friend seems to have lost his mind.”
“I, I’m not a heretic…!”
“If you’re not a heretic, you should cooperate, right?”
“I said you don’t have the right to… Ack!”

ㅡGrip!

I immediately stabbed the sword into the floor, grabbed his head, used Iron Claw, and lifted him up.

“Investigation rights, overreach, whatever.”
“Ughhhhh!!”
“If you guys don’t cooperate with me here, you’re all dead.”

I then flicked his cone with a finger wearing a gauntlet.

“Celestial Demon Cock Flick.”

ㅡThwack!

“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!”

His cone suffered a penile fracture and drooped down.
So, you know, it’s troublesome to mess with someone holding a sword.

I had something to ask, so I didn’t shatter it completely.

ㅡThud!

“Ouch…!”

I threw away the man who had instantly become as docile as a maiden and looked around.

“Gasp!”
“Eek!”

The other men all covered their junk and trembled. There was only one entrance, so there was nowhere to escape. The door next to it was connected to a bathroom or bathhouse.

Anyway, with Saintess Kadia protecting me, there can be no one who can mess with me, who is achieving results.

Now that I’ve instilled fear, let’s start the investigation again.

I approached the man holding his junk.

“Hey, Heretical City Guard Captain. Next time, it won’t be your dick… it’ll be your balls. Then… your testicles will explode. Will blood come out of your dick hole? Or will white fluid come out? I’m kind of curious about that.”
“Ughhhhh…!”

He screamed and cried.

“Ju, just because you’re from the Brass Celestial Society doesn’t mean you can act like this!! This city is governed by Lord Silos, who received a royal decree, according to proper procedures! Even the church can’t investigate like this!!!!”
“It’s okay because you’re heretics.”
“We, we’re not heretics…!”

Heretics never know they’re heretics.

“If you’re not heretics, then what are you? A heretic with a broken dick?”
“Ju, just… an orgy gathering, an orgy gathering…! Ugh…!”
“An orgy gathering?”
“Yes. It, it might not look good… but it’s legal.”
“What about brainwashing and kidnapping women?”
“They did it voluntarily, voluntarily!!! I’m the City Guard Chief, would I do something like that!!! They’re all prostitutes!!”

This kind of guy is the chief?
This city is already screwed.

And voluntary, my ass. I heard everything with Hilde, and he’s telling obvious lies.

Ah.

Or maybe the preacher created this orgy hall, so he might think that way.

But that doesn’t matter.

“Heh heh, you talk a good game. Anyway, patient? It’s time for a ball flick now. Spread your legs. Since you guys were having an orgy, saying you’re going to a new world with the preacher, I need to give you a proper dose of common sense.”
“Uwaaaaaaack!!”

Just as I was kicking him like a soccer ball and trying to spread his legs by grabbing his ankle.

“Stop it. Paladin.”

The naked preacher, covered in semen, got up and called out to me.

“Oh, Preacher. You listened well. You said you’d forget the hard things and go to a new world, right? It seems like it’s time to go to that afterlife now, Heretical Preacher.”

I immediately approached her.
This woman is the main culprit behind this disaster.

Fusion Confucianism never forgives such criminals… aggravated rape using drugs? And on a scale of dozens of people? Even if the morality of this world is lower than that of modern Earth, this is not something that can be overlooked.

Especially if I’m a Paladin.

“Heresy…? I think there’s some misunderstanding.”

Having regained her senses, she played dumb.

“Calm down, Paladin. We are people who are legally training.”
“Of course it’s legal. Because you bribed these bastards.”
“It’s not bribery, it’s teaching, and there’s nothing illegal about it. As the… Chief said just now, this is simply an orgy gathering to liberate souls from stress. That is our faith.”

Seriously.

“That’s pretty heretical, isn’t it?”
“It’s different from general morality, so you can say that. But we haven’t harmed anyone. It’s just us, cultivating our minds and seeking the afterlife. This orgy is… that ritual.”
“Harm? What about the women sprawled out here? Weren’t they tricked and drugged to become prostitutes?”
“Prostitutes?”

The preacher asked, feigning ignorance.

“Is this bastard denying it? I’ve already secured witnesses and testimonies? I finished interrogating one woman. While you guys were obsessed with the orgy.”
“Surely you don’t believe her words? She’s drugged.”
“Heh heh, it’s not something the woman who drugged her should say.”

I immediately grabbed the preacher’s blonde hair.

“Ouch…! Wa, wait!”

If I were to tear it out like the paladins always do, it would probably tear out the scalp. If I control my strength, I could even pull out the head.

But not yet.

“You are suspected of heresy. And this Paladin happened to witness this. And I’ve secured reasonable testimony. Investigation rights? The Brass Celestial Society guarantees it.”
“Wa, wait…! It hurts, stop…! Stop the violence!! You’re doing the wrong thing with only circumstantial evidence!!”

That’s not circumstantial evidence, it’s material evidence… it’s troublesome because I can’t adopt the succubus’s hypnosis magic as evidence. That has to be kept strictly secret.

This is kind of like not being able to use illegally obtained information as evidence in a Korean court.

Only I can know the facts, and I have to find or hear other evidence directly.

Whatever the case, this bastard seems to think there’s no material evidence, but I already know everything.

This woman brainwashed and drugged women to build an orgy hall. Even if she’s not a heretic, if she created a rape club under the guise of a religion, it’s more than enough to declare her a `heretic`.

“I know the situation is suspicious!! But if we go through the proper procedures and determine right from wrong, I can prove that nothing is wrong!”

The preacher shouted, pretending not to know until the end.

There are plenty of reasons why this bastard is so confident.

They’re all drugged women anyway, and there’s no reason to use their words as evidence, and even the City Guards are being played by this woman’s lower half.

ㅡTherefore, their guilt cannot be proven in this city.

“Even if you’re a Paladin, you’ll be in big trouble if you do this!! Stop it!”

She shouted fiercely, wondering if she had a few more `things to rely on`.

“Heh heh, I am a Paladin of the Order. Whatever you believe in… whatever you have as a backer, it will not be stronger than my faith. Legal punishment is meaningless to me. The only thing that matters is my faith towards Verde.”

The paladins of the Order do not compromise, and heretics know this very well, so they hide. I pretended to do that appropriately and pulled her hair even harder.

“So those excuses won’t work. Cooperate with the investigation. I’ll make the judgment, not the city’s investigative authorities.”
“Eek…!”

The preacher distorted her face, and the naked men who had nowhere to go sighed.

“Th, that fanatic…!”
“Th, this is bad…”

Is the intimidation enough?
Then let’s get to the point.

“Bring the ledger recording the kickbacks, heretic. All the money you’ve extorted so far. And I’ll need the list of believers too.”
“Th, there’s no such thing…!”
“Really? Are you saying there’s no ledger, or no money?”
“Both…”

What a load of crap.

This thing has such strong backing that there’s nothing more I can say.

“Then I’ll have to unleash the beast within me.”
“Be, beast?”

Inhale.

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Scream.

“Bring it! Bring it, you drug-addicted rapist heretics!!!”
“Kya, kyaack?! Wh, whatㅡKyaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!”

I immediately screamed, grabbed the preacher’s ankle, and swung her around like I was playing with fire.

ㅡWhirr whirr whirr!!

“Hiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!”

She screamed, and the men panicked.

“Pr, Preacher!!”
“We have to do something!”
“Run away!!”

Did they think it was an opportunity? The men staggered towards the entrance. But even in this situation, the women are lying still. I need to find out about the effects of aphrodisiacs on humans.

Anyway!

“Where do you think you’re going!!!”

ㅡWhoosh!!

I threw the preacher I was swinging.

ㅡBang!

The preacher and the men collided and tumbled like bowling pins.

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaack!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaack!!”

Now there’s nothing to do but talk with fists!!!!

“An irresistible urgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!”

They’ll confess if I hit them!!!!