I was excommunicated from the Holy Knights

31 – The Heretic Questioner’s Worries

There are two main types of people involved in any radical incident.

One is people who move their bodies and work according to the guidance of their emotions, and they do it with all their might and radically under the great delusion that what they are doing is right and that if they do not do this, the world will be in great danger. do it

No matter what damages happen in the process, no matter what problems arise.

Just surrendering to their spontaneous emotions, they light a fire, wield a club, and do their best to eliminate the ‘great disaster’ in front of them.

And, those who stand one step away from those who stand at the forefront and act loudly and radically.

This other kind of people tend to go about their business quietly and stealthily behind the loud talkers.

It’s not driven by emotion.

Those who use this situation according to their own rational judgment and calculation.

They lost their reason and used to quietly take advantage of themselves by quietly collecting goods and stealing money behind those who were swinging clubs amidst cheers.

At first glance, they could be seen as timid and not too radical, but in fact, from a human point of view, the truly vicious ones could be said to be right here.

Unlike those who improvise according to their emotions, they calculate in their heads.

About how they can make their profits a little more comfortable and a little easier.

And for this, they start to use the situation, and from a certain moment, they reach the stage where they create the situation themselves.

Whether that was the right thing to do or whether it actually happened was irrelevant.

The purpose of those who created the situation was not because of a trite cause or a grandiose mission that did not help.

All they want is how much profit they can get their hands on in the process.

It didn’t matter to them to disguise an innocent person as a raging criminal, as long as they could make a big profit.

It was because they were purely pursuing profit, but at the same time they also had a justification.

A justification to hide one’s true intentions and erase one’s guilt…

‘This is all for justice’.. That’s what everyone around me is talking about.

and..

According to these standards, one of the people who is currently making the best use of this situation in this city.

Heretic Newspaper Lipton Eyesteen

At the age of his late 20s, he has a cunning yet ferocious impression, and lately he has been in deep trouble.

“Tch.. This is getting less and less profitable than I thought.

As the Heretic Questioner, Lipton is in charge of hunting down all the heretics in the city and punishing them.

He could be said to be a competent person in his own way in that he rose to the position of Heretic Questioner at a young age. was a person

And, for Lipton, who was born as the youngest child of a poor aristocratic family and was born with an extraordinary greed for money, the position of heretic inquisitor, the task of punishing heretics, could literally be a very good weapon to collect money.

The authority to identify heretics according to church statutes meant, in other words, that anyone he pointed out could be classified as a heretic and punished.

At the same time, there are members of the organization to carry out these tasks under him. In other words, there are many people who can be his arms and legs.

In addition, Lipton had captured a large number of crowds through his unique speech and agitation based on it, and accordingly, Lipton possessed authority and military power that could never be ignored here in Munich.

And now… Lipton was concentrating on raising money while wielding this authority to his heart’s content.

Even in the city, people who have quite a lot of wealth, but at the same time show signs of neglecting the church even a little.

Lipton immediately named such people as heretics, and then mobilized a crowd to raid them in the middle of the night. have been

However, in recent years, Lipton’s efficiency has been declining as time goes by.

It wasn’t because there was a decrease in the number of heretics.

Anyway, as long as he had a lot of money, regardless of whether he was a heretic or a member of the church, he had been treated as a heretic.

Still, the biggest reason for his diminishing returns was that the mobsters he dealt with were becoming more and more violent over time.

The rioters, who had a little hesitation at first, had no hesitation in killing people who were classified as heretics at some point, and at the same time set fire to the shop they raided or openly destroy precious items… He was doing something he didn’t want to do, and he was getting more and more disruptive to Lipton’s ‘business’.

‘That said, if you recklessly try to calm down a mob that is already on fire, you may lose your motivation… And if you lose the passionate support of the public like that, it will be difficult to continue doing the same thing…’

Although the passion was excessive, there was also the possibility that no one would respond to the search for the heretic any more if the atmosphere was wrongly cooled by recklessly turning it off.

In this way, Inquisitor Lipton feels awkward in a situation where he can neither do this nor that.

Then… in front of him, as it were, a large beer glass began to be placed.

“The order has been placed, Inquisitor.”

“Ah.. Thank you.”

Polena served her a glass with a bright smile as always.

As Lipton slowly drank his glass, he began to think that it would be better to just enjoy the situation as someone said, putting aside his current concerns for the time being.

at that time..

“What are you worried about, Inquisitor? Your complexion doesn’t look good.”

“huh? Ah.. well.. not a big deal. Just something to think about… you don’t have to worry about it.”

Even though there were unresolved worries running through his head right now, there was no need to tell her, the woman at the bar, about it.

In response, Lipton tried to pass her question off in a light tone.

however..

“Don’t say that, isn’t Inquisitor Lipton always working tirelessly to uphold the Lord’s justice? If such a person is worried about something, I would like to be a little bit of help with this Polena.”

“Hmmm..”

A word that seemed to convey the sincerity of a beautiful woman.

At her words, Lipton felt a bit dazed and cleared his throat slightly, blushing.

“what… It’s not that there aren’t too many worries. This is, after all, the work of a priest serving the Lord. Your heart is grateful, but there is probably nothing you can do to help.”

“Is it the job of a priest? Ah.. Then I don’t know if they will be helpful.”

“He…they?”

Polena speaks with a little joy.

Lipton began to feel a little curious, and looking at him like that, Polena said in a bright voice.

“Actually… a priest from another region is staying on the second floor right now. I heard that you worked as a Heretic Questioner in the past like the Inquisitor.

“Hoo.. is it? A Heretic Questioner from another region…”

“Yeah, I’m not sure exactly what I’m hearing. It seemed like he made a lot of money too. After all, they seem to be quite capable people, so why don’t you meet them at least once?”

“..really?..that’s right..”

From Lipton’s point of view, he had no choice but to automatically fall in love with the Heretic Questioner, even hearing that he had made a lot of money.

So, with deep curiosity, he decided to meet with them according to Polena’s opinion.