Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 98



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Episode 98 Confession (2)

‘I have been given a mission to serve the light.’

Isolde stood in front of the door and recited a short prayer.

Hezabel looked at her strangely as she stood still, but she didn’t care.

‘Please give me wisdom and patience in the future, as you did before, and help me fill my life with light. Help me so that I never tire of serving you.’

She made up her mind and opened the door.

Inside, a pale-faced Isaac was sitting on the bed. Nevertheless, Isaac was still as beautiful as when I first saw him.

As if what I saw last night was a lie.

Isolde was wondering what to say to start the conversation, but decided to ask the one thing she couldn’t help but ask.

“Why did you put flour on your face?”

At those words, Isaac glared at Hesabel. He muttered, wiping his cheek roughly.

“I told you it wouldn’t help. “Do you think the Heretic Questioner would fall for this trick?”

“I’ve been fooled all this time… … .”

When I wiped my cheeks, the pale complexion came back. Isolde realized that Isaac had been trying to pretend she was sick and she burst out laughing.

“Even without doing anything like that, Isaac already looks sick. “It doesn’t make much of a difference.”

Hesabel glared at Isolde, but she didn’t care.

In any case, although the plan to buy sympathy votes failed, it seemed to have succeeded in lightening the mood. When I saw him smiling, I immediately thought, ‘You tentacle monster!’ It didn’t seem like he was going to rush at me.

Isaac gestured toward Hezabel.

“I’m going out for a moment.”

“Isaac… … .”

“If you’re here, the misunderstanding may deepen, so stay back for now. Even if something happens, will you be able to prevent what I can’t do?”

Heshabel grumbled, but since she was not wrong, she quietly retreated. She pointed two fingers to her porcelain eyes before backing away, then pointed them back to her Isolde in warning.

Of course, Isolde didn’t even seem to care.

After Hesabel left, Isolde opened her mouth.

“I was just wondering, but seeing how obedient I am, it seems like I’m under Isaac’s control.”

“yes. “I was worried that I may have made a mistake while I was unconscious.”

Before losing consciousness, Hesabel was about to fight Isolde. She is the heir to the Duke of Walaika, even though Hesabel often appears like a fool.

Neither the number of people she has killed nor the power she possesses can be compared to Isolde. If the fight had continued, Isolde would have disappeared without anyone noticing.

“He was a little irritable, but he was obedient. While taking care of Isaac… … .”

Isolde was about to speak naturally, but paused for a moment as if that moment came to mind.

Isaac felt it was time to have a serious talk.

“I think you must have been very surprised at that time… … “First of all, I would like to thank you for not reporting it to the church.”

“… … First, may I ask what happened then?”

Isaac thought endlessly about how to make an excuse. However, after seeing Isolde’s attitude, he was convinced that it would be okay to be honest. Whether it’s the price of her life or something else, Isolde is holding off on judging Isaac.

If so, there may be room for persuasion.

“It is just as you saw.”

“Then again… … .”

Isaac nodded.

“Yes, I… … .”

“… … As expected, my body was deteriorating due to the evil curse of the Immortal Church!”

Isaac barely managed to swallow the words, “I am using a nameless power of chaos.”

I quickly looked into Isolde’s eyes and it didn’t seem like she was joking.

Isaac remembered what it looked like when he revealed his tentacles in front of Isolde. At the threshold of the gate of the netherworld that Al-Duazzad had opened, tentacles protruded from his hands and eyes, fluttering with a strange sight.

‘Could it be a misunderstanding?’

Instead of hastily contradicting her words and lying, Isaac developed Isolde’s imagination with silence and a painful expression. People are more deceived by their own imaginations than by other people’s lies.

If you want to deceive, you can deceive as much as you want.

But Isaac read Isolde’s inner thoughts.

She is ready to be fooled. No, she wants to be fooled.

What he saw back then was nothing more than a hallucination caused by the curse of an evil priest, and the person in front of you was a perfect and godly Holy Grail Knight.

She wanted to believe that.

And Isaac had no intention of letting her believe that.

Isaac smiled bitterly.

“no. “That’s my secret.”

The expression disappeared from Isolde’s face.

Isaac is able to fool Isolde. But what next? Can you hide it forever?

Through this incident, Isaac realized that something could happen that he could not prepare for or predict.

Especially until I confirmed the identity of the yellow clothes that came from the afterlife.

Killing Isolde was an option, but no matter how many times I thought about it, I couldn’t do it.

Isaac didn’t want to do that.

For the same reason Isolde didn’t want to report Isaac.

“I am not cursed. “Heretic Questioner.”

***

Isaac spoke honestly.

The story goes that tentacles had already appeared in the monastery, and small animals were fed to them to grow, and what the tentacles ate also helped them grow and survive. Even the tentacles helped them fend off Walaika headhunters in the valley.

However, not everything was said. It was a selective confession.

‘Coming from another world, eating Carlsen or Heinkel… … There’s no need to say anything until then.’

To be honest, among the opponents that Isaac preyed upon, there was no one he could be bothered with. Because they were all animals or things that wouldn’t be worth killing. Even common criminals did not eat humans.

“… … That’s how I was able to defeat the Red Flesh Prophet and the Bishop of the Immortal Church. However, it cannot be denied that in the process, the power of an unknown god was borrowed.”

It was inevitable that tentacles would be discovered, so I had to tell the truth, but I didn’t bother to talk about the nameless chaos or the unpleasant predation. In the first place, the negative perception that Nameless Chaos built up had nothing to do with Isaac.

Isaac only wanted to take responsibility for what he was responsible for. From that perspective, although he acted with selfish motives, he did not commit any evil deeds.

Isolde was silent for a long time after hearing Isaac’s confession. She is not a priest who hears her confession. Rather, she was closer to squeezing out her truth through intense pressure.

Paradoxically, she felt unfamiliar with this innocent confession.

After a while, Isolde opened her mouth.

“So you don’t believe in the Code of Light?”

“It would be closer to the position of not specifically denying it.”

It is also ridiculous to deny faith in a world where gods and miracles exist. Rather, it is closer to having no intention of actively praising and worshiping that god.

“But the abbot performed a proof of faith for me. “I think faith cannot be proven solely through acts of praising and worshiping God.”

trust.

The Code of Light is a religion that teaches and fixes universal physical rules in the form of the ‘Code of Light’. It can literally be said to be universal order itself. Isaac believed that this was the reason why all faiths other than the Code of Light followed the order led by the Code of Light in some form.

Even if the form of belief is different, everyone agrees that the world itself exists in this form.

“Then miracles… … .”

“yes. “If you call it a miracle, I think you can say this is my miracle.”

Isaac openly showed his tentacles in front of Isolde. The black and red tentacles that parted the palm of his left hand were revealed to be overflowing the size of the palm of his hand. Isolde gasped at his physiological repulsion, but did not immediately declare that she would set Isaac on fire.

She suppressed her resistance and instead cautiously stretched out her hand and touched the tentacle.

The tentacles lightly wrapped around my fingers. Never be brutal.

‘This guy is also clever.’

Isaac was dumbfounded for a moment when he saw that the tentacle showed no teeth or eyes.

The tentacle was reluctant to show itself in front of Isolde, but following Isaac’s intentions, it hid its appearance to some extent so that it would not feel ‘threatening’.

After a moment, Isolde released her hand and let out a long sigh.

She couldn’t open her mouth for a long time because her thoughts were complicated. Isaac waited for her, thinking that if he were in her position, he wouldn’t be able to say anything for at least half a day.

Fortunately, it didn’t take Isolde half a day.

“Sometimes God’s miracles come in surprising forms.”

Isaac looked at her, wondering what she was talking about.

“A mercenary who rescues children from the battlefield and sends them to an orphanage, a merchant who offers food at low prices to a place starving due to a drought, a mother who jumps into a fire pit to save her child and returns alive… … “I think all of this is also a miracle.”

“Are you saying this tentacle is also a miracle?”

“Miracles do not come only to save us from suffering. sometimes… … Suffering itself is also a miracle. “Like the moment when Ruad-Din went from reaching the lowest point to being burned at the stake.”

Isolde held Isaac’s hand tightly. He didn’t seem to care whether there were tentacles or not.

“You have already shown a miracle. Even when you were easily misunderstood and in situations where it was difficult to expect even a miracle, you did good and stood up for the weak. “Unlike the priests who work out miracles every day but don’t even look at their feet!”

This time, Isaac looked at Isolde in shock at her words, which were more extreme than expected.

Isolde’s eyes were looking at Isaac’s hands, but she could tell that she was actually looking at a past that only she knew.

Things she had seen while working as a Heretic Questioner.

Contrary to Isaac’s thoughts, Isolde’s mind was not a flower garden.

“There is no need to say with your mouth that you believe in the Code of Light. There are already a lot of those guys. You are already practicing the values ​​and discipline you need to uphold. “That’s enough!”

Isaac felt dumbfounded by her words. He had already tried the idea of ​​making up for it with emotions rather than a real miracle, but he had no idea that he would become so overly emotional.

Her logic was not that of the Inquisitor.

‘No, if I say this, doesn’t that mean I should get away from this crazy Heretic Questioner?’

Isaac’s goal is to become a paladin within the Code of Light and to eat well and live well. All he had to do was get Isolde on the same side as things were going well for him now.

But Isolde was such an extremist… … .

“Heretic Questioner, calm down for a moment… … .”

However, Isolde squeezed Isaac’s hand even harder and said,

“Isaac, you must be the messenger sent by the Code of Light to reestablish the broken order!”

***

‘I’m going to turn.’

After Isolde returned, Isaac thought about her for a moment.

It was clear that Isolde did not act like an ordinary Heresy Questioner. The Inquisitor’s notoriety was so high that Gebel openly disliked him.

However, Isolde was a very honest and upright person.

It is not a virtue suited to a Heretic Questioner.

Isaac thought it was thanks to the Inquisitors who only asked her to do ‘unsophisticated work’ because of her family. But when Isaac saw Isolde today, his thoughts changed.

‘Reformists. Also quite a radical reformer.’

The nobles are divided into the religious faction and the imperial faction.

Among them, the Branz family is a noble family with deep religious beliefs. So is she of her own volition?

Isaac thought that was unlikely. If the denomination is radically reformed, who will benefit?

‘Are the intentions of the imperial nobles mixed up?’

Or are you really disappointed in the church?

It was unknown how pure Isolde’s desire for reform of the church was.

However, just as Isolde decided to believe Isaac rather than accuse him, Isaac also wanted to believe her.

Either for practical or personal reasons.

Isaac remembered the time when the afterlife was flooded by Al Duazzad’s spell.

When the world collapses and boundaries become blurred.

When even his body becomes filled with chaos and tentacles overflow.

Only Isolde was able to pull him back into the realm of order without collapsing.

Isaac had a hunch that it would be an important hint for his future.