Chapter 144 – 144. Reason

“Brother?”
“…… Ah.”

When John, who had been quietly following him, stopped, the cardinal called and woke him up. Yohan, who came to his senses belatedly, looked at the cardinal and smiled.

“Okay, did I get in the way?”
“It’s okay. I was just lost in thought for a moment.”
“I will guide you to the prayer room. If it is there, there will be no interference from others.”

Saying so, the cardinal led John into the prayer room. Indeed, as the cardinal had said, the inside of the prayer room was very quiet.

I couldn’t hear anything, as if I had entered a silent room. The only thing in the prayer room is a cross and the minute sunlight pouring down from a very minute hole in the ceiling.

It was the perfect environment to indulge in the religious act of prayer.

“Then I will leave for a while.”
“Thank you for your consideration.”

The cardinal slipped outside, and John, who was left alone, was silently meditating and organizing his thoughts.

He was awakened from his meditation by the sound of a thunderclap so loud that it hurt his ears.

* * *

When John followed the Cardinal into the interior, Evangeline, on the rare occasion, did not follow John, but headed somewhere else.

I was as interested in wandering around this church as I was in the company of my beloved disciple.

“Hey, what is this place?”
“You can’t go in carelessly, that’s okay.”
“I’ll go in.”
“This damn witch… !”

Evangeline’s purpose in wandering through the church was that the cardinal who followed her would die of high blood pressure from stress.

The next thing was to look around the church’s cultural relics and find out if there was anything to break. As much as they ruined his daily life, he wanted to destroy what they valued too.

“Wow – how big is this statue?”

After finding something to break, Evangeline accidentally touched it as if it was a mistake. Her fists, mixed with magic, knocked down stone statues weighing dozens of tons very lightly.

The moment the balance collapsed and fell to one side, most of the statues could not overcome their own weight and were likely to break.

“Quaaaaagh-! What, what are you doing!?”
“Ah, I touched it with the hand of this delicate maiden, and it collapsed. Isn’t this a poor project?”
“Now what are you pushing and knocking over?”

Seeing all the ancient relics of the church’s history destroyed, the cardinal couldn’t stand it and began to curse at Evangeline.

“You mad witch! Fuck off! This is no place for you!”
“A crazy bitch, I’m a reaper. Don’t you know the dead?”
“It’s a reaper and it’s fucking! Get out of here!”

The cardinal screamed and tried to drive Evangeline away. However, Evangeline, like a witch, was not easily pushed, and began to wander around and smash the holy relics of the church.

It was natural, but the people in the church couldn’t be quiet to hear the commotion. The Holy Knights of the General Headquarters, who were taking a break after training, mobilized to greet the cardinal.

“Cardinal, what is this…….”
“Good luck! Get rid of this witch quickly!”
“Yes? What is a witch……”

The paladins, who looked disbelieving at the news that a witch had entered the headquarters of the Church of the Holy Kingdom, hardened their faces as they looked at Evangeline.

It was common sense that a witch was a beautiful woman, and so the paladins instinctively became wary when they saw a pretty face.

“All of them—! Prepare for a battle!”

When the paladin in the lead shouted that, the sound of footsteps that followed stopped for a moment, then went away.

Evangeline, who was wondering what she was doing, tilted her head and spit out an exclamation as she saw the paladins wearing armor in the blink of an eye.

“Hey, that’s fast. Were you wearing armor?”
“—Witch, have you lost your fear? I know where this is…….”
“Is it a church? I came to know.”
“You know? You’re not crazy.”
“So you – do you know who I am and why I am here?”

At Evangeline’s words, the paladin shook his head. I didn’t care about that at all. The important thing is that she is a witch, and that they are paladins who hunt witches.

This is imprinted with education close to brainwashing. The witch kills There is no mercy.

Seeing the paladins drawing their swords and approaching Evangeline, the cardinal was frightened.

“No, sleep- you guys. I told you to expel me, when to kill me…….”
“Get the Cardinal out.”
“Stop, stop! You can’t touch me! Don’t kill me!”
“Have you already suffered? Possibility of using mental magic. Everyone be careful.”

The paladins who kicked the screaming cardinal outside immediately spewed holy power and activated the holy relics in the church.

The entire church is filled with divine power. The power to reject magic and magic. No witches or monsters can use magic in this place.

Evangeline too——she let out a drool as she confirmed that the magic that protected her had disappeared.

“Hmm- this is dangerous.”

I can no longer use magic. There were dozens of paladins in front of me. If you have to strengthen your physical abilities with magic, you can’t deal with the paladins who undergo rigorous training every day.

It might be one or two people, but dozens of people fully armed. In general, it was an opponent that could not be overcome.

“Die, witch.”

The paladins are approaching. To demonic beings, they are death and death. Evangeline, who was about to die soon, began to laugh as if she had gone mad from fear.

Seeing that, the paladins approached without mercy. A distance that would barely reach if you wielded a sword. Evangeline drew a pistol from her bosom her.

Fuu-! Not a pistol, but with an explosion close to a cannon, the bodies of the Holy Knights rushed out.

“What-!? Magic must have been banned!”
“This isn’t magic. You did a good job taking care of it.”

It was a pistol made by Makina for witches. It is an object that only raises power ignorantly, and ordinary people will have their arms broken by the recoil.

As a witch, Evangeline was also something that could be used casually. At the sight of the gunfire and the power of the gun, the paladins rushed at them, and Evangeline fired a pistol.

Taaang-! Taaang-! Paaang! —Clap.

“Ah.”

The paladins, realizing that all the bullets had run out and that the unknown mechanism had become inoperative for some unknown reason, rushed fiercely as if this was their chance.

Watching the paladins rushing towards her, Evangeline put the empty pistol into her chest and took a new pistol from the other pocket.

An object that only changed its color, but had the same shape and power.

“Sorry- I have one more bag.”

Tadadadang!

Evangeline, who had wiped out the paladins using the automatic pistol’s continuous fire, casually changed the magazine of his pistol and put it back into his arms her.

When all of her work was over—John, who belatedly heard her gunshot her, ran to her and found her.

“Master! What is this…….”
“Ah, John.”

Evangeline wiped the blood off her skin with a nearby nun’s veil, and she smiled.

“Stop these guys because they attacked first.”
“…… The paladins attacked first?”
“Yes. I and the cardinal told me not to. I guess they’ve all lost their minds.”
“Then I can’t help it.”

Yohan sighed inwardly and left the scene with Evangeline. Even without looking, it was clear what had happened.

The paladins who hated her witches and were brainwashed to kill them must have attacked as if having a seizure the moment they saw their witch master.

In the process, the Master was only protecting himself. If they could catch the witch even if they sacrificed themselves, the paladins who were educated as martyrdom would have rushed at them regardless of whether or not their colleagues died.

She knew she would be here in the end. Didn’t she guess to some extent and bring her master her?

“——This, what the hell is this…… !”

The church officials who came to hear the sound belatedly saw the fallen paladins on the floor and made their flags. John looked at them fiercely and opened his mouth.

“They attacked us.”
“No matter what, such a disaster…… !”
“Disaster? You guys- do you know what you’ve done?”

Confused by the sight of the corpse- now was the right time to push them.

John immediately started wiping at people.

“An official from the church tried to use the paladin to kill the envoy of the empire. Disaster? Do you know what would have happened if what you were trying to do had succeeded, and how many people would have died because of it?”

“Uh, what is that…… We paladins can’t do that!”

“No. It could be. Do you know who is here?”

John pointed at Evangeline, and Evangeline began to stretch her breasts proudly.

“This is a witch. Star of the Empire, your enemy.”

When church officials heard that Evangeline was a witch, their expressions hardened. But that’s it.

I couldn’t express anything more than that to the two people who came as envoys of the empire.

“…… Yes, do you?”

I just—I just understood.
The reason her paladins would attack her.
And their helplessness.