Chapter 54 – 54. Chijeong

As the day dawned, I dressed roughly and headed for the city. After moving to the city through Margaret, I headed straight to the training ground in the church.

There was a reason why I said to my teacher that I was a fool, or that I was going to become a church instructor.

‘We need to change the system.’

Individuals are helpless and helpless. A system called witch hunting that the church has built up for thousands of years. You can’t resist this. It was the same with witches.

I had to get rid of that system, but even that wasn’t easy. Because the religious dependence of this era transcends the imagination of modern people.

Little by little, like underwear soaking in drizzle. They had to change very slowly so that they did not even feel that they had changed.

So, humans had to make sure they didn’t hate witches themselves. Training apprentice paladins was a very good place to do that.

‘There is no estimate in one or two years, and it is impossible even in ten years, but…….’

If you risk a person’s life, you can change very little. For Master, who will live on even after he dies.
For all witches were born in the future.

At least for this moment, I needed to bend down a bit to enter.

I arrived at the training ground in gear.

* * *

Several people were already gathered at the training ground.
Both women and men, all at once.
I tried to count the number with my eyes, but I met the eyes of the trainee on the far left.

“Number.”
“…… Yes, yes?”
“What a fool. Number!”

As I looked at the trainees while screaming, I started shouting out numbers. Hearing the number ending in 17, he nodded and looked at the trainees.

“I am John, who has been assigned as your instructor from today.”
“Nice to meet you! Instructor!”
“I’m not happy.”

At my words, the trainees tilt their heads. These foolish bastards, if Ludwig saw them, they were so pathetic that he would have frowned and sighed heavily.

There were a lot of guys with no awareness of what they were trying to become and no pride in being a paladin.

“You probably gathered here because you have excellent faith, talent, or to get revenge on the witch. Am I right?”

“You’re right!”

“But about half of them will give up on the paladins. Will make it like that If you’re ready, you’re there.”

“Yes, yes!”

“Run.”

“Yes?”

I pointed to the track inside the training ground with an expressionless face.

“Run.”

The guy who pretended not to understand the words made a dumbfounded expression, but just like that, he started running.

After that, the other 16 trainees also started running. Watching them run hard, I leisurely caught up.

‘I’ll take out my physical strength first.’

A healthy mind comes from a healthy body.
In other words, once the body is impoverished, the mind is also impoverished. I’ll make you devastated just enough to brainwash you that witches aren’t that bad.

* * *

How many hundred laps have already been run-.
They were medieval fantasy residents who were incomparably trained compared to modern people, but with that alone, they could never follow a trained person.

“At least this far!”
“Hey, hehe! Heck!Hehe!”
“Those who fall down will be disqualified from being Paladins with my authority. Run. It’s okay to run slowly, so don’t stop!”

Of course I don’t have that right. For simple scares. However, there is no way for ignorant apprentice paladins to find out if it is a bluff or not.

Even those who were gifted with brains, they put their bodies on hold so that they wouldn’t think like that. The body, which used all its energy in running, cannot do useless brain activity.

“Stop.”

“Huh! Aww!”
“Sah, save me…….”
“Water, please…”

When I gave the signal that it was okay to stop, the apprentices immediately sat down on the floor and started panting. Watching them like that, I started mental training without a break.

“Only like this, can we protect people?”
“Ha, you can!”
“Okay? Then get up and run.”
“…… Sin, sorry!”
“Don’t just babble, the most important thing is to think and judge for yourself. Don’t blindly follow what others are doing. For example…… You there.”
“…… Yes.”

At my nomination, trainee number 14 gets up. A big-breasted trainee with blonde hair in a ponytail. The male trainees had an appearance that was not very good for their eye health.

As she stands up, the trainees gasp for breath at the same time as she sees her bouncing breasts.

“If the witch is right in front of you, what are you going to do?”
“Kill.”
“Wrong.”
“…… What is that?”
“Always think first. Why are witches here, whether there are no hostages, whether witches are harming people.”
“There are no witches who do no harm.”

She shook her head resolutely and replied. But that wasn’t the answer I was looking for. Even if they really didn’t know, they shouldn’t have thought that way.

“Why do you think so?”

“Well, since witches have always done harm…….”

“How can you be sure that all witches are like that? Have you seen all the witches with your own eyes?”

“You don’t have to. Just as chickens cannot fly, it is common sense that witches are harmful.”

“So, how did you confirm that common sense?”

It is the devil’s proof. It is impossible to prove that you did not do it, so the presumption of innocence is the principle in modern law codes.

At my words, the trainee kept his mouth shut. He seemed to have a lot of things he wanted to say, but he must have had no choice but to keep his mouth shut in front of the instructor’s authority and unbreakable logic.

Looking at her like that, I continued talking.

“In the first place, is it justified to execute a witch as a witch right now? I doubt that.”

“…… Do you doubt the church? That’s blasphemy—”

“Okay. I deny this system itself. This system that executes and banishes all witches. What on earth could you gain from something like this? Have you actually benefited from anything?”

“I was able to kill the cruel witches.”

“No. It was not the witches who died, but the paladins, and the people who were enchanted by the enraged witches. Even the witches who would have done nothing if left alone become hostile, and this system that turns all witches into enemies after all——this country cannot develop because it has a system like this.”

The trainees’ eyes light up. It wasn’t that they were moved by my speech or anything like that, they were probably surprised by a blasphemy they hadn’t even thought to commit.

Perhaps, there will be some who will write to Elesis today that I am a follower of witches. However, soon they will realize that it is useless, and if they continue to do this kind of education, they themselves will realize that something is wrong.

‘I have to change little by little.’

At this moment, when many paladins have died, what if newcomers who would fill the positions of paladins had doubts about the system itself against witches?

And if they occupy a high position—in the distant future, this system that opposes all witches might be able to change even a little.

Imagining that future, I glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

“The break is over. Then run.”
“Yeah!”

After shouting vigorously, the trainees each started running.

* * *

Evangeline was sobbing tea, realizing the absence of her pupil. It’s a feeling I haven’t felt when I’ve been alone for hundreds of years.

When people don’t have it, they don’t even realize it, but only when they lose it do they realize the value of it.

I should have spent a little more time with my pupils- I don’t have time to teach paladins…….

My disciple, whether he knew it or not, indifferently left for church.

‘John, yohaaan…….’

The moment I slumped on the table, I heard the sound of footsteps. I couldn’t even feel the presence, but it was the sound of footsteps that suddenly appeared behind me.

Realizing that only Margaret could do this, Evangeline looked back with a wide smile.

Anger-! When she turned around, Margaret, who was standing alone, looked at her in amazement.

“What, what!?”

“…… What about John?”

“He is still at church. It could be dangerous if I’m alone, so I heard you’re going to pick me up later?”

“Aha—so now, I left John alone in the church. Is that what you mean?”

Hearing Margaret’s words, Evangeline grinned and fired her magical energy at Margaret. Margaret, who had removed the magical sphere flying towards her with space magic, frowned at Evangeline who was nervous.

“Don’t use magic in the house.”

“Hey- this is my house, are you going to pretend to be the landlord now?”

“…… It doesn’t mean that.”

“Yeah, if you have to, you can run away with John, right? Ah—what would happen if I killed you here and now so you wouldn’t do that, huh?”

“You are completely crazy. Just because John chose me and not you.”

Against Evangeline, who pecked at her, Margaret stepped forward with her nose raised. Although Evangeline was the strongest witch she knew, she did not bow too low.

In other words, the curse of a space that is isolated from the world is equivalent to being safe from all attacks, and even after the curse has disappeared, the curse can be artificially reproduced.

Since each is convinced that each other’s attacks don’t work, they can criticize and slander each other.

“Is John choosing you? Wrong. Just because you picked up a cat abandoned on the street, do you think that was a choice? It’s just sympathy.”

“Ahaha- yes. That’s what a loser who wasn’t chosen thinks of.”

“You— are you really going to die?”

“Try to kill him.”

At that moment, Evangeline’s hand her clawed at Margaret. Margaret used spatial magic to bend the hand of her so that it could not reach me.

At the same time, cutting magic that splits dimensions is fired. Evangeline also looked at him and rejected everything that touched her body her.

As if the S-pole and the S-pole had met, looking at the hand and the magic that bounced off- the two stood still and confronted each other.

Like this, it was extremely difficult to damage each other with each other’s magic. However, Margaret had a magical spell that could injure Evangeline.

“Why are you so sensitive today? Are you menstruating?”

“…… What a witch, and you talk as if you don’t?”

“I don’t?”

“Aha- I’m already that old…….”

“I got an injection that didn’t make my period. You’re not going to come for the next 10 months?”

It wasn’t something to say out of the blue, so Evangeline stared blankly at Margaret, not understanding what the hell she was saying.

But after a while, he understood her words and dyed his face black.

“You, you…….”
“It was cool, your disciple.”
“—Die!”

Evangeline said that and activated her magic her.
The sun descended upon the earth.