Chapter 145 – 145. Enlightenment

After the incident in the church, John escaped from the church with Evangeline and headed for the royal castle.

The attendant waiting outside seemed curious about what had happened to the heavy drinking inside, but Yohan didn’t tell them directly.

After getting on the carriage, John immediately closed his eyes and began to organize the things he realized in the church while meditating.

‘It wasn’t very helpful.’

He thought that if he came to the sacred kingdom, a country of religion, his troubles would be resolved with the help of a person with excellent religious knowledge.

In reality it wasn’t. Cardinals and bishops were not lacking in insight, but they were people who had studied the scriptures.

Not people with a broad mind and excellent morals, but followers who thoroughly follow the precepts written in the scriptures.

The religious people John knew were people who followed morality, ethics, and justice rather than the temple.

“…… Sorry.”
“—Yes?”
“Because of me, John, you seem to be leaving without fulfilling the purpose of coming here…….”

Evangeline said that and bowed her head. Yohan burst out laughing as he looked at his teacher with his head bowed.

John carefully stretched out his hand and placed it on his master’s head, and began stroking and stroking his master’s head.

Evangeline raised her head and looked at John as if she had no idea why. I couldn’t understand why he was suddenly stroking my hair, but— well, it felt good, so that’s fine.

“Master.”
“Yes-.”
“I asked you to come here with me. Rather than being stressed out for nothing because of me—I hope Master enjoys something too.”
“Johan…….”

To be precise, he was closer to the one who followed John, who said he would come here. Even so, Yohan seemed to have no problem with that, and said rather nicely that he wanted him to enjoy it.

No matter how much she liked that tone, Evangeline, who had been sitting still, felt her womb vibrate.

The legs came together on their own, and the thighs rubbed between the crotches. Evangeline, feeling that her underwear was already damp, put John’s hand down as it was stroking her hair, made her touch her cheek, and started sucking his thumb.

“Jjook- I want to…….”
“…… Here?”
“Ugh, can’t we?”
“Of course not. There are also people…”
“Well, then- I’ll just wash it…….”

Evangeline, who was denied sex, began to cry with a face as if the sky had fallen. Yohan sighed heavily as he watched his teacher weep.

He was so weak that he was unlucky. Even if Master cries, he will have no choice but to grant all requests.

“Should I just wash?”
“Yes! Sure!”

John carefully took off his pants and exposed his cock. Evangeline, who had been sucking John’s finger, jumped on his cock as if he had been waiting for it and started sucking it.

The obscene sound of cock sucking echoed throughout the carriage. —Of course, it didn’t end with washing.

* * *

After entering the royal castle, John delivered the words requested by the emperor of the empire to the king.

The king’s expression, which concluded various treaties for the defeat after the preemptive strike, was not very good, but he seemed to think that it was fortunate that it ended this much.

After leaving the royal palace, John told the servants who followed him that there was no need to follow him any further.

“Ah, I’m going to tour from now on. We will go by ourselves.”
“Yes? What is that……”
“Don’t follow me.”

The vassal who waited on him was in awe, saying that he could never do that, but Yohan quickly disappeared with Evangeline.

Then, after hearing the crying and shouting of the waiters—— John and Evangeline, who landed in the back alleys of the city, put on their hoods and went on a tour of the city.

“—It’s been a while. Taking care of the city alone with John like this.”
“Is that so. I don’t think it’s been that long.”
“No, it’s been a while?”

After thinking about her words her for a while, Yohan realized that it had been a long time since he actually moved with her alone.

Because each time the number of witches increased, the period during which Evangeline could monopolize John only got shorter.

Yohan smiled and reached out his hand to Evangeline.

“Then, shall we enjoy a date after a long time today?”
“…… Yes!”

Evangeline, who smiled and grabbed Yohan’s hand, couldn’t even put her hands on her hands, so she folded her arms and clung to Yohan.

Taking Evangeline, who was clinging to her so much that it was difficult to walk – John strolled through the city.

Unlike an empire that was devastated and then rebuilt and the black light on people’s faces has not yet faded, the inhabitants of the kingdom that were not seriously damaged were not much different from before.

“Everybody is laughing here.”
“Is it?”

As expected- Evangeline, who had no interest in other people, tilted her head in disbelief and asked again.

John nodded and looked around. People who come to see the church headquarters, merchants who solicit tourists, and even pickpockets who steal tourists’ pockets.

The faces of many people were full of smiles.

‘A face with no worries… I envy you. Maybe it’s because there’s a church right in front of it.’

Maybe it’s because it’s a country with a religious center, but people didn’t seem to know that they were worried.

Hey, whenever you have a problem, if you can go to the head office right away, you won’t have to worry.

Thinking so, John could see a nun negotiating a price in the distance.

“Cut this down, please… !”
“Heh heh, Sister. Anyway, this is a bit…”
“Just a moment!”

The shop owner scratched his cheek as if he was in trouble, but he cut the price, saying he couldn’t help it, perhaps because he couldn’t have kicked out the nun in a religious country.

Seeing that, the nun was delighted beyond measure and smiled brightly.

‘Are you so happy with just that?’

For some reason, my eyes go John looked the nun up and down. I didn’t have a good body, and I didn’t have a pretty face.

The proof was that Evangeline, who was standing next to her, did not react even though Johan was staring at her nun. She thought there was no possibility that the nun would take John away from her.

“John? What is it? Does he know someone?”
“…… Master, can I come over for a while?”
“Yes. Okay. Okay.”

Hearing that she wanted to be alone, Evangeline wet her eyes as if she was very sorry, but she let go of John obediently. John freed from her hand and followed her nun.

The nun headed to a place commonly referred to as the ghetto. Yohan followed her, and the more he went inside, the more the eyes that rejected the outsider flew in and stuck.

Ignoring all those gazes and following them, she entered a church in a slum. She gazed intently at the church with the gaze of doubting that there was a church in a place like this.

It was a building that was all worn out and on the verge of collapsing, but even the people in the slums didn’t seem to touch the church. If they had targeted the church, they would have been robbed immediately without leaving a skeleton.

John cautiously entered the church. As he entered the entrance, he heard a loud noise through the slightly open door.

“Hey kids, let’s eat.”
“Yes!”

A nun who brings together seemingly orphaned children. She seemed to know why she had worked so hard to undercut her goods earlier.

As she watched the children taking food from her, her nun her smiled—and John felt a strange emotion welling up in her at the sight of that smile.

‘This…….’

Even in mud, lotuses bloom.
That of her would speak of her of her.

John cautiously approached the nun. The nun, who heard her stranger’s footsteps her, raised her head in a flash and looked at John.

It was a neat outfit that was hard to see in the slums, so he was suspicious of a gangster or raider and wasn’t wary of him.

“Sister.”
“Yes. Brother What are you doing?”
“I have a question.”
“Uh… Did you come to confess? There is no priest in our church….”
“I have a question for you, Sister.”

John looked back and forth between the nun staring blankly at him and the orphan looking interested in the distance.

He himself, in a way, could be said to be an orphan. They had no parents, but he had no world.

“I don’t know what it means to be born.”
“It means being born…….”

When the nun heard John’s question, she began to ponder her heart. After pondering for a moment, she answered with a soft smile like her mother’s mother, as if she had come up with a rough answer.

“I don’t think there is such a thing as the meaning of being born to a person.”
“It doesn’t make any sense?”
“The important thing is not why you were born, but how you live.”

At those words, John felt like a thunderbolt struck in his head. It doesn’t matter what the reason he fell into this world is.

What matters is how he lives in this world.
What kind of mindset did he live with?

“Is that what God said?”
“Yes? Ah… No. I’m sorry. God doesn’t say that….”
“Then?”
“This is what I was thinking… How long can you not rely on God?”

Hehe, looking at the nun smiling stupidly——John realized that she was a person worthy of her saintess.

A person who doesn’t care about temples or gods. Nevertheless, he is armed with a superior moral mind and religious enlightenment.

She needed people like her to step up to the place of a cardinal or bishop, not a corner-room religionist who peered into her sanctuary and turned away from reality.

In a way, it was inevitable that the church was rotating now that that was impossible.

“…… Thank you This is a donation.”
“Yes? Oh! Thank you!”

John paid the donation as it was and turned his back. The nun’s screams could be heard behind him as he checked the contents of his pockets of her—but he tried to ignore them.

Her words her had a lot of value.