Chapter 696: Love could turn a duckling into a swan, even in the weird category
"Damn...the place is bigger than this Castle."
I couldn’t help but exclaim as the Pope brought Jin even deeper into the inner sanctuary. How large is this place really? I mean...I had seen the floorplan, but I wasn’t a spatial person so it was kind of hard to imagine the scale with the real thing.
But, damn...the inner sanctum was twice bigger than the part accessible to the public--including the park. Then again, it should be the living place for the priests, paladins, and holy knights, so...
I bet, however, the Pope’s chamber alone was probably occupying a section--or a floor. And then there were the archbishops, who presided over three towers as the Grand Church’s pillars. Yeah...just those people’s residences would already be huge.
It was deep enough that I had the time to put my sleeping baby back in the nursery and moved Jade as well as Shiny to the bed--and came back to them still walking to the destination. They all had fallen asleep after declaring that this whole charade was boring.
The good news was that everything had been the same as the floor plan that Sangen provided. Well, so far anyway. They were leading Jin through the common areas--you know, the areas that personnel of the church could access. I was quite sure I heard that the Pope meant to take Jin to his office or something, but the room was clearly anything but that.
I mean...it looked more like a meeting room with a large desk and several chairs around it. The chairs did look comfortable, but there was hardly anything else there. Not even a pantry corner to provide the guests with a drink or something. The only thing available other than a set of a marble table and plush chairs were standard church decorations--pillar statues, banners, golden trinkets, paintings....standard things.
Definitely not a Pope’s ’office’.
But what did a naive and innocent Hero know about the Pope’s office, right? So, Jin did not make any reaction when he was led to the room. Nor did he react to the fact that some people had already been there as if waiting and that the paladins and holy knights were ’casually’ standing near the door and windows.
Wow...even ignoring the ’guards’, there were already six priests including the Pope facing Jin as he took a seat. Overkill much?
[Even if they have good intentions, these many people are just too much] Ignis commented telepathically in my head.