Chapter 349 – Interview With Sister Agnes

Chapter 349 Interview with Sister Agnes

“Ah, Kamyu-sama… !”

Marie immediately recognizes her and greets her warmly.

“The banquet was in full swing, but I couldn’t see you, so I came here because I was worried.”

Just like her daily life at the clinic, she is wearing a scarf and an apron.
She pulled down her scarf and showed a bashful smile.

“Thank you.
Do you have strength because you came?
Ehehe…”

“But what are you doing here?”

“Um… Would you like to come in with me?”

“Now?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm… Okay.”

I hope I don’t have to get my clothes dirty.

Tumble.
Bruises.

“Even though there is originally a dungeon in Ain Castle, it is the normal size used by the lord of the castle…
It’s not a place big enough to collect a large number of prisoners of war.
So, an improvised prison was created by digging a hole in the ground and covering it with a lid.”

“Hmm… Prisoners urinate everywhere in places like this, so sanitation is poor, and when rats are infested, it’s easy to get an infectious disease…
Oddly enough, it’s pretty neat here.
Could it be that you’re cleaning up that toilet over there and all that stuff?”

“To be exact, the priests and nuns of the cathedral are with me.
There are many prisoners here from the Templars and the Law Guards who served in the army of High Priest Philip.
The mercenaries and outcasts who simply participated in the crusade soon opened their hearts…
The Law Guards are still hostile.”

Marie, accustomed to taking out the chamber pot from inside the cage or inside the pit, emptied and cleaned it over and over again.
Occasionally, when a rat came out, I quickly caught it and put it in a sack.
A scene where priests and nuns who do such work diligently move.
The guards and the chiefs of the guards were demons, but they didn’t stop them even though they looked at them with displeasure.

“Give me I will take it.”

“No, Camus.
I am grateful that you came wearing a formal attire, but it is difficult to ask questions here.”

“No it’s okay.
Why don’t you change soon?”

“And this is my job… I’ll ask Kamyu-sama for something else.”

“Other things? What?”

“It’s about persuading prisoners when they meet them.”

Marie seems to have thought that with the death of High Priest Philip, she could convert the conservatives in the cathedral to the reformists.
In fact, in the end, many surrendered thanks to Philip feeding the seeds of the God of Destruction and driving the guards to dog death.
So Marianne was by her side as she walked around her cell, asking if there was anything uncomfortable about prisoners wearing knives or stockings.

“Did you drink water today?
Yes? One cup?
Hmm… I will talk to the warden here so he can pay you more.”

“Stop, saintess… Thank you… !
I, what the hell did I do… !
We volunteered because it was a holy fight, but High Priest Phillip made us his arrow fodder… !
I want to go home, go home… Hehe… !”

“Everything will be fine…
You have to stay healthy before you go home.
Do you have any parents?”

“My single mother is waiting at home… Sobbing.
Mom, I miss you, Holy Lady… !!”

“Poor you…
May the blessing of the white sun fill you like the warm sunlight.
Do not worry too much.
You will definitely be able to go home.”

Big!
I think this last sentence was aimed at me?!
Marie this guy…

Of course, not all prisoners were cooperative with Marie.
However, when I took out the iron mask from my chest and put it on, the prisoners recognized me as a high-ranking officer and became very cooperative.

“You bastard!
Hey! How long are you going to keep us locked up here and give us a piece of bread?!
This dog…”

“Are you cursing now?”

“Ah… No… Keugh.”

“I can’t stand the second one.”

Thanks to being known as an iron mask, it’s nice to be compliant with this.
Since he took the lead in luring the two dragons in battle, Phillip-kun is also recognizing him quite well.
Thanks to you, I can talk a little bit.
If you use your tongue recklessly, your neck will fall under my authority.

Tumble, Tumble.
Bruise, bruise.

The last place Marianne went to was the deepest part of the dungeon, a cell filled with magic nullification spells carved into the stone walls.
There sat a black-haired nun with her magic-blocking handcuffs, a large knife around her neck and stockings on her legs.

“Hello, Sister Agnes.
Can I help you with the use of the urinary bladder?”

“…”

Since her eyepatch had been taken away, Sister Agnes stared at me with her golden eyes.
I stood aside for a while.

After some time, I return to my seat, and the conversation is in full swing.

“To think that a ‘saint of the sun’ could not surrender to the enemy and lead the way.
Aren’t you ashamed?”

“I’ve said it many times, but it’s a misunderstanding.
I joined voluntarily.
To reform the cathedral.”

“Cathedral Reform together with pagans?
Sounds funny.”

“The Cathedral Terror is a self-made play by High Priest Philip, who invited General Calz of the Demon King’s Army and Michelle, the vice-captain of the Royal Guard.
You’re close to Philip, so you’re familiar with it, right?
Who is the enemy of the cathedral now?
Neighbors in neighboring countries with different faiths and territorial disputes?
Or the High Priests who staged a terrorist act in the cathedral, killing innocent people for political reasons?”

“It was inevitable for the cause.”

Hey, that sounds really lame.
Aren’t there a couple of weaknesses?
Can’t intervene

“Representation?
I’m curious.
What is the cause Philip spoke of?”

“You are… That warrior then.
What are you so afraid of wearing a mask?
Do you want to hide behind that thin piece of metal?”

“This?
Ah. If it gets in the way of an honest conversation, I’ll take it off.
Now, take off the mask, so tell me.”

“Joy. Whoa… The salvation of Middle-earth that the White Sun will bring back.
High Priest Philip showed me the way to salvation.”

“How?”

“How is what and how?
The path is already written in the scriptures, and it is possible to approach the sun god through prayer.
What I learned at the end was the second coming of the black sun.
He said that Angmar, the first demon who fought against Ahumaz, the lord of the sky, would float the black sun containing the essence of the demons in Middle-earth.”

Giggle

“That is so strange.
Aren’t you guys the ones who cultivated the ‘Seed of the God of Destruction’ with the cells of the first demon, Angmar?
Why do you bring upon yourself the things you fear?”

Sister Agnes gritted her teeth at my point.

“We just stole the enemy’s power to prevent the return of the Black Sun.
As written in the scriptures, one day the ‘last crusade’ will take place.
Our Law Guards are only preparing for that.
In the scriptures, it is said that ‘when the demon king with 13 wings appears, the white sun and the black sun merge again in the middle world’.
I was just trying to use the enemy’s power in preparation for that last crusade.”

“Ah, did you think of cell culture as if you were taking away some kind of weapon?”

“Okay.
Didn’t you demons also cultivate the cells and make special judges?
I was among your subordinates when I infiltrated the palace, so you must be familiar with it.”

When she first encountered Sister Agnes during the operation to rescue Anne, Ludwig was by her side.
The guy who skillfully handled all kinds of fire-type magic, starting with Phoenix Storm.

“We know that the success rate of body modification procedures by special judges is less than 35%.
Aren’t the demons aware of the danger and sacrificing the pure-blood demons?
And that’s mainly by using commoners and lowly people who are in financial difficulties!”

“Yeah, that’s right.
The special judge nominally accepts applications, and filters out those who can’t stand the procedure in advance, but…
I won’t make lame excuses.
Because the special law resources are mainly supported by the socially and economically underprivileged.
I accept that it is a ‘yoke’ wrapped in an ‘opportunity’.”

“Hu, you’re a rare demon tribe that can communicate with you.”

“Don’t make a sad face.
So I don’t understand any more.
Why are the four guys who know all about the structure doing worse than the demon king?
Aren’t they experimenting on humans with captives or kidnapped ones, tricking loyal subordinates into feeding them the seeds of the God of Destruction, and trying to use them as negotiation cards…”

Agnes closed her eyes and shut her mouth at my words.

“The person you were talking to, where did you go?
Aren’t you saying it’s disadvantageous?
You, among the members of the Law Guard, there are those who have the seeds of the God of Destruction… Did you know?”

“…”

“Those who escorted Reinald, the Knight Commander of the Knights Templar, during the operation to rescue Anne.
Two out of four members of the Law Guard had the seeds of the God of Destruction in their bodies.
According to you, aren’t the Law Guards people who have endured a very basic desire and turned it into power?
In the first place, the method of making the law guard is also like that, but even planted the seeds of the god of destruction in such people to cause body transformation and deprive them of their ego…
Is this the attitude of those who are preparing for the last holy fight against the demon king’s army?
Do not choose any means and methods for victory, is that your faith?”

“Someone… You have to be the bad guy
You have to cover the filth.
As the saying goes, necessary evil, we exist for necessity.
To keep the doctrine and the law, sometimes a strict whip is needed.
Our Law Guards are waiting as shadows.
Even if this body dies and passes through the abyss and is forever trapped in hell under the underworld, if only it can save many people… !
Then you can do anything!”

“But Philip said it at the last minute, right?
The reason why I made the seed of the God of Destruction and experimented with it was to ‘approach the realm of a god’.
Not to save many by the will of the white sun.”

“… Stop.”

“The reason why Mir’s cells were combined on that basis was ‘to secure the possibility of being reborn as a better being with willpower,’ he said.
If it’s to prepare for the war against the demon king’s army, it’s enough to make a special law firm using only the ‘first demon’ cells like we did, or something similar.”

“Stop… !
Stop!”

“Why did they bother to obtain Mir’s cells and conduct experiments?
As Philip said, this is to reach the realm of God…”

“Aaaaa!!!
Stop!!!
Stop it aaaaa!!!!”

Oh, these twins are real.
I’m going to lose my logic, so I’m screaming and fucking!
Sure just!
How many do you give me?
When a tendon grows on her forehead at the thought of that, Marie intervenes.

“Calm down, sister.”

“Hoo-wook, no…
High Priest Philip couldn’t do that…
This, this… Okay!
Instead of an excuse!
I don’t want to tell you the real plan to you demon lords!
You made up nonsense!”

“Telling outrageous lies is useless in front of me, a hypnotist.
Philip knew I was a hypnotist.”

“No…
Demon, shut up.
Don’t make fun of your serpentine tongue.
I’m not shaken.
Pretending to be righteous and generous, taking the bone meal of my comrades and using it to buy my favor!
It’s all to appease me!”

“No, it made me think of my comrades, so I sincerely…”

“Get away!
Kaak, twee! Wow!
You must have had some fun by flirting with women with that straight image?!
Trusting your face and showing off, it doesn’t work for me!”

Oh right.
Did I have the title of ‘absolutely demonic man’?
Is this the power of the system?
I heard that the favorability does not fall below 50%.
Can you seduce enemies now?
Is this a snowball… ?
The more you twist, the better you can twist… !
Mom, Dad, are you watching?
I heard that I look good now… Sobbing.
Anyway, that’s not the point!

“Sister, calm down.
If this person really tried to placate you, he’d be fine with torturing you and brainwashing you with hypnosis.
There is absolutely no need to come and talk to you like this.
All you have to do is massage your brain to extract and control your memories.
Why do you have to talk so hard?”

“It’s great… !”

Agnes bites her lower lip and glares at me fiercely.
In fact, he must have known that Mari’s words were completely correct.

“You, too, will know the true nature of Kamyu-nim someday.
OMG… Camus, what are you doing… !”

“Sheesh.”

“Oh! Camus!
Not that yellow handkerchief!”

“Huh? Why?
The handkerchief is meant to be used at times like this.”

“No, that… I-I also have embroidery that I engraved…
Wipe it with this!
Come on, like this… Like this…”

Marie wiped my face with her spare white cloth.

“Joy!
Sun maiden?
Moon knight?
Star princess?
All of them are possessed by that stupid horny bastard!
Wasn’t it that I couldn’t make sense and was deceived by the enemy!
Don’t be fooled by handsome men!
Or are you hypnotized again?!”

“No.
I checked it several times.
Thanks to High Priestess Philip, I was hypnotized and hated Kamyu-nim so much…
Being with Kamyu-nim right now is completely my decision.”

“Agnès, don’t change your mind.
Everything Philip said is true.
If it’s a lie, I can’t dare to say a purpose that I dare not imagine, but the probability fits perfectly.
In the end, like his last words, Philip lived for his desires and helped conduct human experiments for his benefit.
The pope, the woman, the power… For those things.”

“Huh… No… No no…”

Agnes just shed tears for a long time.

“…”

I don’t think it’s going to be hard to talk about it anymore, so I turn around and leave.
Agnes threw a question into the back of my head.

“Kamu… Did you say?”

Stop.

“Okay.”

Respond without looking back.
What the hell

“What are you fighting for?”

“Plural. And the end.”

“Closing?
End of what?”

The cry still lingers in her voice, but Agnes steadfastly asks.
I answered nonchalantly.

“The end of my military career.”

“What?”

“I was tired of eating jjambab for too long.
Now to finish it all
No wars, no religious conflicts, no territorial disputes.
All. Entire.”

“Under. What an absurd romantic.
Is it a flower garden in your head?”

“Since I live with flowers, I dream of a flower garden.”

“Do you think only one general could do something like that?”

“…”

My goal is not to become the deputy commander.
Above that.

“Ha, that’s right.
Was ambitious
Haha, in some ways you are similar to High Priest.”

“Don’t be creepy.”

“No… Just.
Yes.”

Sister Agnes’ eyes seemed to have changed a little.
The crying and anger from earlier had subsided, and she was staring at the wall with sunken eyes.

***

“Good work, Marie.”

“You’re welcome.
Ugh, Camus.
After you went to prison, it seems that the ceremonial clothes smelled.
It would be better to change and go.”

“Um, that should be it.
You? Aren’t you going?”

“Um… In fact, I was going to drink beer comfortably in the evening with my colleagues at the cathedral.”

“A beer party for priests? Is it real?!”

Hehe, in a place where there is a lot of lime water, drinking it like water is beer, right?
You can only drink as much as you won’t get drunk.”

“You are too dangerous to be drunk!!!
I’m worried!!!
You, when you first arrived at Light Blinger, were drunk at the reception!”

“That, that, at that time, I was just trying to persuade people, so I got one drink at a time, so it was like that!”

“I think we’ll get a drink here too?!”

“No!
Ugh~ What are you looking at me for?
Even after all this, she was a model nun who never got a penalty point!”

“No… I’m worried… I’m really worried…”

I hold Marie’s hand with both of her hands and shoot her moist eyes wildly.

“Well, then… Camus, would you like to go with me… ?”

Mari’s proprietary body twist.
It’s nice to see a slightly blushing face.
She also wore an apron, and her voluptuous body twisted to reveal her body line.

“Then! Don’t go!”

Yes, if you’re worried, you can go with me!