Chapter 69: A Confused Heart
Katyusha's scolding is really a bit vicious in his words, especially the sentence "Do you do this because you are orphans and not afraid of death?" is like a sharp javelin, bloody into the hearts of those ruling warriors, making them extremely painful!
One by one, they were angry and wanted to speak, and Katyusha looked at them without fear, and after a long confrontation, someone could not help but shout:
"Patriarch Katyusha, of course we know what you said, but the problem is that we can't help ourselves! We all grew up together, in all fairness, do you think we are the kind of vicious people?
It is not because of our heresy that we have received an order directly under His Majesty the Pope, so that we can grasp the ideological issues without relaxation, gather the self-confidence of the sectarian culture, and strengthen the sectarian system to ......"
"Be cautious ——!"
Before the referee could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a loud shout, and Cole, who was the presiding judge, looked ugly and waved his hand, and under his stern gaze, the referee patted his thigh hatefully and returned to the group without saying a word.
Cole turned his head, glanced deeply at Katyusha, and said meaningfully:
"Patriarch Katyusha, you are right, thank you very much for scolding us, and even more so for the grounding order you gave us, I promise that from today onwards, all the ruling warriors will stay in the station honestly and will never go out a single step.
But there is one sentence that I must remind you of:
Patriarch, times have changed.
Now we are ruling that the samurai are in a dilemma, and the style of acting is like a madness, when one day, you paladin and priest department receive the same instructions, I hope you can still maintain your current mentality, do not forget your original intention, and do not follow in our footsteps!"
Katyusha narrowed her eyes, tilted her face slightly, and said:
"You really should thank me, Shrunken Turtle. ”
Cole was slightly stunned, his face was abrupt, and he sincerely bowed to Katyusha, and when he raised his head again, his face seemed to be ten years old, and he said quietly:
"Then thank you, Patriarch.
Also, thank you for pulling us back from the brink of demonization, you've worked so hard these days. ”
Katyusha waved her hand:
"I don't have to thank you for this, that's what I'm supposed to do. ”
Cole didn't respond again, and directly said to the ruling warriors, "Close", and took the first step, turning and walking into the dark doorway of the Inquisition.
Seeing that nothing was going on, and after thanking Katyusha, the paladins also left - the city had been in panic for three days, and they were in a hurry to return to appease the people, this was a good opportunity for the sect to draw believers, and it could not be wasted.
Soon, only Feng Bei, Nina, and Katyusha were left on the field, Katyusha had a calm face, walked in front with a very gentle pace, and returned to her own church after a short time.
Hanging the closing sign that reads "Pause prayer and repentance today, please hold it first if you have something in your heart", the wooden colored door was slowly closed, and when the squeaky and squeaking sound stopped, Katyusha could no longer maintain her figure, and collapsed limply to the ground along the door frame.
Feng Bei and Nina were taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to check, grabbed one of Katyusha's hands from left to right, and directly tested it with the power of holy light.
However, three or five seconds later, the two of them looked puzzled at the same time:
Katyusha is now full of holy light in her body and in good physical condition, shouldn't she be so weak at all?
Shaking her head weakly, she waved her hand to indicate that she was fine, and Katyusha smiled bitterly:
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine, this discomfort comes from the mental side, and has nothing to do with the body. ”
Nina asked worriedly:
"Spiritually, Sister Katyusha, do you have anything on your mind? Can you tell us about it? Just like the Holy Light believers are praying with us, maybe you will feel much better if you say it, sister?"
Katyusha hesitated for a moment, and whispered to Nina:
"Well, Nina, can you avoid it for a moment? There are some things that I want to say to your brother alone...... Eh, what kind of eyes do you have? I'm going to talk about business with your brother, don't worry, I won't take the opportunity to confess. ”
“...... Believe in you once. ”
Nina snorted, wrinkled her nose slightly, gave Feng Bei a warning look, and then stood up obediently and walked towards the door, and after a while, her footsteps faded away.
There were only two people left in the whole church, Feng Bei and Katyusha, and after a few seconds of silence, Katyusha suddenly asked without a head:
"You...... Do you think what I just did was the right thing to do?"
Feng Sorrow replied softly:
"You've saved so many lives, eased tensions between the clergy and civilians in Ink Wing City, and mended the rift between the two sides, what's wrong with you?"
"Don't try to get by, you know that's not what I'm asking. ”
Katyusha didn't look at Feng Sad, she raised her head, looked at the dome of the church with blank eyes, looked at the relief of the baby angel chasing and playing on it, and asked in a blank tone:
"I know that because the Inquisition is an internal department of the sect, it received the order relatively early, and I know that their task is to do everything in their power to preserve and glorify the image of His Holiness the Pope, to have a cult of personality, and even to mythologize it;
Maybe it won't be long before the work of the Inquisition progresses well, and you paladins and priests, departments that are more closely integrated with the outside world, will also receive the same instructions to shape His Majesty the Pope into a god in the hearts of the people, so that the Pope can centralize power and do great things.
I know that His Majesty the Pope may do this for some unavoidable reason, it is necessary to forcibly integrate all the forces of the sect, combined with the emergence of new demonic energy and new evil beasts, and I know that perhaps in places where we cannot see, some crisis is brewing;
Perhaps this crisis is so terrifying that His Majesty the Pope needs to establish absolute authority and integrate all the forces that can be integrated in order to confront it and win the war.
But ......"
Katyusha straightened her arms, spread her five fingers, looked through her fingers at the half-covered angel relief, and said in confusion:
"But is His Majesty the Pope really right to do this?
Is it really necessary to arrest so many innocent people to establish authority?
Concentrate your strength, is it really necessary to keep everyone's mouth shut and not allow a single murmur?
Is he really the only designated chosen one? Is he so irreplaceable? Is it so strong that it is necessary to amend the Sacred Code of Obedience to the Sect, remove the thousand-year-old rule that the pope cannot be re-elected, and restore the pope to life, and still call it 'in the fundamental interests of all Light worshippers'?
I do not know.
I don't know if it's right or wrong for me to hinder the development of this matter in such a remote Ink Wing City;
I don't know if it would be useful to stop this with such a meager amount of power;
I don't even know if I'm preventing the birth of a tyrant with a triad of theocracy, clerical, secular administration, or if I'm delaying humanity's response to an unknown crisis and causing trouble for a selfless saint who truly cares for all of humanity......
I do not know.
Xiao Beibei, my sister has known you for many years, and I can feel that there are a lot of miracles in you...... What kind of expression do you have, don't be in a hurry to deny it, I won't say it outside, if you want to say that I said it earlier, can you wait until now?
I want to tell you that, in my eyes, you are likely to be the true chosen one, the chosen one. So, can you tell me if my choice is right or wrong?"