I was excommunicated from the Holy Knights

4 – a very small helping hand 3

Cazeros is showing a puzzled expression at my words to leave together.

Regarding this, in order to convince her even a little bit, I started to bring a realistic story.

“As you know… the Archbishop will not leave you alone for helping me. No matter how much I think about it, I can’t just go and leave you to suffer like that.”

“Santana…”

Cazeros seemed to hesitate at my words.

I didn’t know if her reaction was positive or negative, but I decided I needed to convince her a little stronger at this point.

“Furthermore, it hurts my heart whenever I see people being secretly discriminated against because they are from a foreign country. You’d rather go with me than stay in a place where nice people like you are treated poorly. At least… at least it’s a lacking body, but I should be able to take care of at least one of you with my own hands.”

“!… .”

Cazeros slightly bowed his head at my words and remained silent for a moment.

Looking at this, I also came to realize that from her point of view, this work required considerable thought.

The offer I was making at this moment, in other words, was no different than asking her to give up everything, including her position as a paladin, and start her life from scratch elsewhere.

In fact, it is a story that will not be easy to accept as you have to throw away everything that exists.

However, to be honest, there was no other realistic story I could do to save her at this moment.

‘I can’t believe it hurts so much that I don’t have talent for this kind of thing..’

If he was more attractive in the masculine part or was good at handling women, he could have persuaded her in a more flexible way.

However, as in my previous life and in my current life, as I was the one who kept a wall between dating, the only thing I can do now is a crude recommendation based on this realistic part.

Like that, I carefully waited for her answer while feeling bitter in many ways.

at that time..

“Are those words… serious…?”

‘what?’

Cazeros asks me with a trembling voice.

Regarding her reaction, which seemed to contain no reluctance, I spoke to her in a clear voice with the utmost confidence.

“Yes, even though I am lacking in many ways, I am confident that I can protect at least one person.”

“ah… ”

Originally, it was me who tried to save not just one person, but the Holy Knights and the church rushing to hell.

Now that it has gone in vain, I wanted to protect at least this person in front of me with my own hands.

Like that, I spoke with all my heart to her who was at the crossroads of life and death that she didn’t know about…

As a result, she began to show a slightly teary look with a reddened expression on her face.

Cazeros stares straight into my face with her beautiful blue eyes sparkling.

And… Then she turned to me and spoke in a trembling voice.

“… yes yes. All right.. with you.. as long as it’s with Santana!”

Her answer seemed to contain some kind of deep joy.

listening to this,

I began to wonder if she, too, had been living a difficult life here all along and wanted to get out of here if given the chance.

‘but. Being a paladin on this filthy floor is quite difficult. In particular, since I was in a position where I was usually discriminated against, this time I was firmly filmed by the high-ranking people..’

Like that, Cazeros agreed to my will much easier than I thought.

Deeply relieved and grateful for her action, I carefully reached out my hand toward her.

“thank you so much. Then, I wish you well in the future. Cazeros.”

“I am.. I am lacking in body, but please take good care of me. Mr. Santana.”

Like that, a bright smile began to bloom on Cazeros’ lips as he held my outstretched hand.

Such a smile that is so beautiful

*

Santana has a chance to organize his property due to Nune and Tine’s laxity.

But… in this regard, Archbishop Maxim was not greatly concerned.

‘By now, Santana and he might be trying to organize their fortunes to set their feet on fire… but that’s not going to happen. No matter how hard you struggle, in the end your enormous wealth will only be ours.’

Although he had to give up cash inevitably, things such as land and buildings accounted for more than 90% of his considerable wealth.

I don’t know the exact reason, but Santana has been particularly obsessed with land and buildings.

And, she knew perfectly well that there was no quick way for Santana to dispose of this kind of property quickly.

After six days, all the property he owned in the city automatically belonged to the church, and even if he fled with land and house documents, it was clear that they would lose their legal effect and become pieces of toilet paper.

In addition, it required a huge amount of money to purchase land and buildings, which were absolutely not small, and few people in the city could do that.

If so, you can think of simply handing it over quickly at a very cheap price, but that was also an impossible method.

It was because of laws related to taxes, not for any other reason.

In general, transactions between people, especially when expensive assets such as land or buildings are traded, must be reported to the government office and taxed.

The tax rate increases according to the amount of the transaction. For example, if you buy and sell a building worth 10 talents (gold coins), you have to pay 50 million silver coins, which is 5% of the tax, whereas if you buy and sell a building worth 100 talents, you have to pay 30% of the tax. I had to pay 30 talents as tax.

In other words, the lower the transaction price, the lower the tax, and conversely, the larger the transaction, the higher the tax.

The principle that the more you earn, the more you get.

Because of this, in the past, it has been common for people to use tricks such as buying and selling a house or land at a very low price as part of tax evasion, and then paying the price in a different way later.

And.. To prevent this, naturally, the lords and monarchs currently in charge of the laws of each region had enacted a law stating that land and buildings could not be sold below a certain price.

In other words, even if Santana tries to sell the assets at a low price with the intention of screwing the church, it means that it is legally impossible.

That said, if a legal transaction or book manipulation was discovered and this was revealed, of course, the person who bought it could not claim normal ownership, so there was no way anyone would respond to this.

In addition, in a situation where the archbishop and the church side are waking up like now, trying to make a deal with Santana, who is scheduled to be excommunicated prematurely, is a burden in itself.

Thus, the Archbishop, who started working after grasping a series of facts in advance, began to smile triumphantly as he recalled the image of the arrogant man who rejected his offer.

‘Still, I was going to buy my special talent and use it for a long time.. I was as merciful as possible and even conceded that I only had to pay 40% of the profits, but you dare to refuse it?”

Even though he was a paladin, Santana had a natural talent for making money, so Archbishop Maxim had planned to make a lot of money by using him as a paladin.

However, this attempt of hers has become a matter of pride due to Santana’s choice to reject her ‘compassionate proposal’, and from this point on, she built the belly of a goose that lays golden eggs named Santana. decided to cut

She knew very well that there was nothing more terrifying than a talented person who did not yield to his superiors.

It’s a waste of talent, but when you have to deal with it, there’s no harm in doing it clearly.

In addition, it was a bonus to satisfy the desire for property of the guy who had been drooling in the process of such a purge.

‘No matter how good a horse is, a horse that doesn’t want to burn its owner like this must be slaughtered resolutely. The foolish guy who didn’t know how scary the world was and ran wild, quietly become a piece of meat that melts in my mouth and disappear.’