Chapter 191: The Knight Hates Romance Events (3)
“...I'm just saying, but Instructor, if you're thinking of touching the temple, give it up.” “...?” “Drop that ‘did you also learn mind-reading?’ look. I can predict this simply because I’ve become somewhat adept at reading your patterns of action.” “...Really?” “No matter how impressive that may sound, never even think about messing with the temple. Better to capture the main culprit than to complicate things by meddling with the temple.”
As if he had already decided that he would storm the temple, Roen’s expression was one of desperate patience.
“I, too, harbor strong ‘regret’ and ‘displeasure,’ ‘anger’ and ‘hatred,’ ‘contempt,’ ‘disgust,’ and ‘nausea’ towards the temple, but even so, it's not something you should attack.” “...Hey, um, it seems like you despise the temple more than I do?”
Before true madness, pretense doesn’t even have a chance to show itself, and Roen’s intense loathing seemed almost akin to his own feelings towards magicians.
To him, magicians were like horrific monsters that needed to be exterminated from the world, perhaps to that guy, the temple was something similar.
The only difference was...
“He’s better at suppressing his emotions and acting logically.”
Just like now.
“As you know, in the southern continent, the temple’s status is immense. Precisely, it’s the authority of the 'Light of Glory' that is considered great, but the temple’s priests are well known as the chosen delegates of the Light of Glory, and their authority is not to be taken lightly. Because of this, there are quite a few among the people who would believe and follow whatever the priests say.” “Isn’t that common knowledge? Who in the south doesn’t know that?”
Ihan shrugged his shoulders at the overly verbose explanation. It was too obvious...
“...And you’re saying you knew all this, yet you still planned to attack the temple?” “......” “Instructor, attacking the temple is a different scale of problem compared to hitting a magic tower. Until now, you’ve been fine attacking opposing organizations because you had a just cause, power, and some unknown ‘backing,’ right?” “That's right, isn’t it?” “It’s easier to speak when you admit it. I know it may be presumptuous of me to say this, but even if the king is your backer, you cannot attack the temple. An attack on the temple is literally making ‘the entire populace’ your enemy.” “......” “The faith and power that a [religion] possesses can be that dangerous.” “...Hmm.”
...Ihan was slightly startled by two things.