Chapter 149: Mermaid Bride (3)
"Blindly suspecting everyone isn't good."
Elsi said, clutching the Church of Love necklace. This was because the Church of Love's image was quite good in the Eastern Plains Region. Even within the Marimba Tribe to which Elsi belonged, many children had left, saying they would help the Church of Love and save their other comrades. Elsi pressed on.
"It doesn't make sense for the Church of Love to be strange. It's been quite a while since the Church of Love appeared, so how could they hide it for so long? If the Church of Love also subjected people to a slave life, it's only normal that they would have been found out by now."
Even in the heavily guarded slave markets, beastfolk would escape whenever they saw an opening. Their physical ability was that difficult for ordinary humans to handle. Slave merchants would even resort to all sorts of methods like torture and threats to break the beastfolks' spirits.
Eve frowned. Ann, seeing Elsi's murderous expression, darted her eyes around and spoke.
"Ah, no. I'm not saying the entire Church of Love is like that. That's right! They could be people impersonating the Church of Love, couldn't they? Anyone could make a necklace like this, and they could be mages trying to use the Church of Love's name to do bad things to me!"
That was also a possibility. Elsi said.
"I knew it."
"Do you believe in the Church of Love too?"