I was excommunicated from the Holy Knights

8 – Legal transaction with no legal flaws 3

Archbishop Maxim Cafeora.

For her, the last week was the longest seven days since she was born.

Her time was enveloped in anticipation and deep excitement at every moment.

The excitement grew thicker and thicker with each passing day, even growing to the point where I couldn’t sleep when I lay down.

‘Now it’s tomorrow.. By tomorrow, Santana’s property will finally be mine.. That fertile and vast land.. and everything, even the beautiful buildings, will come into my hands!’

A staggering sum of thousands of talents in terms of value.

As much as she could have earned by embezzling funds and selling indulgences and holy relics for more than 10 years, she stayed up all night tossing and turning on the bed, but could not sleep.

and..

The roaring crowing of a rooster finally began to be heard.

At the same time, the Archbishop jumped out of bed, where he hadn’t slept at all, got up, immediately changed his clothes, and headed for the mailbox.

however..

Contrary to her expectations, the mailbox was still empty.

Although, the rooster crowed at dawn. Apart from that, it still takes a little more time for the letter from the Holy See to arrive.

At this the archbishop automatically began to frown.

“… No.. Why the hell hasn’t the letter arrived yet? Anyway, they’re like lazy people who exploded. How could those who follow the will of the divine Lord be so negligent? Call this separately later and take action..’

Archbishop complaining in the chilly morning air, going back and forth to the mailbox.

Then, in front of her eyes, she began to see an errand boy riding a horse coming this way.

“huh? Archbishop? What are you doing here at this hour…”

“That’s… ha… no. I have no time to speak, so please send me the letter right away, because I have a business with the Lord that needs to be dealt with right now.”

“Ah..Yes, please wait a moment..”

Along with those words, the errand boy begins to search for things that belong to the archbishop among the books brought with him.

Seeing that, the archbishop wanted to use his hands on this ‘lazy’ guy in front of her eyes, but at this moment, she decided to let it go for now, as there were more urgent things than punishment for interest.

and after a while,

After the moment when less than 30 seconds felt like 30 years. The errand boy finally put a letter in front of her.

“Here you are, Archbishop. From the Vatican..?”

The next moment, before his story is over, the archbishop snatches it and returns to the cathedral.

Seeing her like this, the errand boy felt a strange feeling…

Not paying attention to his attitude, the archbishop looked at the letter in his hand with eyes burning with desire.

To be precise, I looked at the certificate officially confirming Santana’s excommunication.

“Okay… it’s all over now. Now all we have to do is gather the paladins and go claim his property!”

At this point, when the excommunication was finalized, it was highly likely that Santana would no longer remain in the city.

Although it has decreased slightly in recent years, there have been cases where in the past, those who were confirmed to be excommunicated were dragged out to the center of the city, robbed of all valuables, including cash and clothes, and then lynched and killed.

However, these days, unlike in the past, the authority of the pope has weakened a lot, and as the power of heretics against the will of the church grows, excommunication has not been able to exert that much power. Nevertheless, the risk always exists.

As such, the archbishop could easily guess that if he were in Santana’s shoes, he would have disposed of as much as he could and left at the latest last night.

‘Well, what happens to that guy now has nothing to do with me. The important thing is to think about how to use his enormous wealth.’

As he pictured the rosy future that lay ahead, the archbishop immediately began to summon the Paladins.

*

Accompanied by the paladins, the archbishop goes to take over the real estate owned by Santana.

While moving so vigorously, the archbishop heard an unexpected story.

“what? Cazeros?”

“Yes, I left this place the day before yesterday, leaving the paladin seal behind.”

“From the circumstances, it seems that they probably followed Santa or the heretic. What should I do?’

“Ummm..”

The unexpected situation left the archbishop feeling a bit perplexed.

Although he knew that she helped Santana, apart from that, Cazeros’ faithfulness was something even she, the archbishop, acknowledged, so she didn’t intend to rebuke it that much.

However, apart from the Archbishop’s thoughts, Cazeros left.

Perhaps he fell for Santa or his cunning flattery, or he really feared his own punishment.

‘Anyway, the person who left has left… Now I don’t have the energy to care about that guy. At such an important time when thousands of talents are in my hands…’

That’s when I decided not to worry about Cazeros anymore.

The Archbishop’s eyes finally began to catch sight of one of Santana’s buildings, her first target.

Now, all that is left is to enter that place, read the excommunication declaration, and then write a new house document.

It was then that the archbishop, full of expectations, entered the building.

“..uh?”

“? What are you guys doing here?”

The next moment, the familiar crest of the upper ranks and countless workers began to appear in her eyes.

The archbishop felt a little embarrassed, but at first he spoke to them in a dignified tone.

“What are you guys doing here? It was the property of the excommunicated Santana and now belongs to our church. Accordingly, I, Archbishop Maxim, command you not to make a fuss, but to extinguish it!”

Archbishop giving orders while presenting Santana’s excommunication.

however..

Seeing her like this, the workers started to snort instead of showing signs of shrinking.

“Ha, isn’t the news from the archbishop too late?”

“I’m sorry, but this building has now belonged to the Beden Merchant. It has nothing to do with Santa or him, so it doesn’t matter if it’s an excommunication or whatever.”

“! what… what? What is that… unspeakable…”

Workers who bring out unexpected stories.

At this, the archbishop’s face began to look deeply embarrassed.

Soon, several possible facts began to pop into her mind.

‘eww… Hmm.. Ha.. Well… it’s not very impossible when you think about it. If it’s a continental-level merchant company like the Veden Merchant, it has the power to trade without looking at us. However, it is impossible for even them to take all of Santana’s property in such a short time. At most, it’s just a part of this building and land.’

Like that, the Archbishop consoled himself with the thought that even though he had taken away a little of the meat he was aiming for, there was still a lot left for him.

Then, she left the place and headed to Santana’s other building with the Paladins.

however..

“Eh… that’s ridiculous! Something like that… There’s no way that kind of thing could have been possible! No matter how much the Veden Merchant is, there’s no way they can come up with this kind of money..”

“No, so you mean this certificate is fake? Look here, obviously there is no trade agreement written four days ago. Even the archbishop is not aware that there is no legal problem as it is a contract that has been certified by the lord!”

“Kuh… ”

As you said, even the lord’s seal is clearly stamped on it…

A transaction contract that indicates that there are no legal defects at all.

According to the text, instead of Santana taking out a loan equal to the value of the building as collateral in accordance with the law,

If the payment was not made within 4 days, the building held as collateral was to be forfeited.

In other words, this building, like other places, had already passed into the hands of the Beden Merchants.

And this was the same phenomenon that appeared not only in buildings but also in all lands owned by Santana, and eventually that day..

Despite the fact that the Archbishop had gone through all the real estate that Santana owned with his paladins throughout the day,

I couldn’t get my hands on a single room or a piece of land.

“Damn it!!!!!”

like that

As the sun went down, Archbishop Maxim realized that everything was already ruined.

About this bizarre situation where you could get even a piece of goose meat, let alone a golden egg.

The archbishop finally let out a desperate cry filled with deep resentment and confusion.