Surviving as a Saint in Another World - Surviving as a Saint in Another World chapter 108

Phase(8)

The moment the stone statue was broken, the hall fell into silence.

Most of the people gathered here went beyond simply being religious, and there were many people who had similar feelings for Ronan, so everyone was confused and confused.

And in the midst of the confused crowd, like everyone else, there was someone who was coldly judging Ronan’s actions.

On the surface, it was Melvin who took on the status of Bishop of Barca.

‘Did you take that approach? It doesn’t even become a hidden dagger, and the results are insignificant compared to the effort that went into it, but that’s okay.’

Melvin looked around once in that state.

Everyone else was looking around, staring intently at the stone statue Ronan had broken, perhaps not even thinking about the atmosphere.

Certainly, despite Melvin’s thoughts, it was definitely a shocking sight to see Ronan deliberately bringing the statue here and destroying it without hesitation.

‘As expected, Ronan is an extreme fundamentalist.’

Turning his gaze back to Ronan, Melvin focused on Ronan’s personality.

In fact, even within the church, including the shadows, opinions on Ronan’s disposition were divided.

When he was inside the main office, he showed an extreme attitude, as if he would be martyred by the words of the cardinals.

Someone said that Ronan must be an opportunist who has been deceiving the church all this time, and someone said that he is actually devout, but he is an idealist who is just rampaging because he doesn’t know the reality.

In the midst of such conflicting evaluations of Ronan, a new opinion on Ronan was presented from within the shadows in the wake of the expedition incident.

An extreme fundamentalist who only follows Orion.

‘It was our mistake to bring such a person into contact with the outside world.’

And now, through Ronan’s actions, Melvin was convinced of his inclination.

If contact with the outside world had not been allowed, Ronan would have become a very useful sword for the church instead of growing up to this extent as a nuisance of the church.

‘It’s not too late. Until now, the person named Ronan has taken unexpected steps, and it has not been decided how to deal with it, so the response has been insufficient.’

However, as long as you have identified the other person’s inclination and decided on the future direction, all you have to do is untie the knot from now on.

The first button that came down through the report of Melvin, who was dispatched to this place and grasped the atmosphere, was the stone statue of Ronan.

Very cleverly, people who fell in love with Ronan encouraged this work. It was not difficult because they had a deep faith in Ronan.

However, since they are also people with common sense, they were aware of the negative impact this could have, so they could not actively promote it.

It was Melvin who stepped out then.

He said that he would actively step forward and find a way to build a stone statue of Ronan. The number of goals was various.

In the first place, there was an intention to build a stone statue and use it as a chess piece for the grand scheme that the shadow was envisioning, and it was also an excuse to make it a stain on Ronan someday.

In addition, by offering to help like this, I could roughly know what kind of heart Ronan had towards the church.

If you are hostile to the Church, at least to the people around you, you would have spilled negative words about the Church. If there were those who were hesitant and refused, they were Ronan’s hands and feet, and he knew that Ronan was hostile to the Church.

And as a result of the experiment, there was no such person.

Although Celia, Ronan’s exclusive attendant, showed signs of being somewhat wary at first, it wasn’t even Melvin’s job to fool an immature kid.

As soon as they obtained official permission for the statue, that wariness turned into goodwill.

With this, Melvin found out that Ronan did not really have any special hostility, and that the conflict occurred in the process of fulfilling Orion-sama’s will.

In addition, he succeeded in forming friendly relations with Ronan’s aides, so all preparations were over.

Now all that remains is for Ronan to return and fall into the trap.

All these traps are completed the moment Ronan returns and sees the stone statue and leaves it as it is at the benevolent request of the people around him.

Until then, there is a corner to escape saying that he did not know, but from the moment he saw it and neglected it, he could never escape.

In fact, Melvin thought the trap had a pretty good chance of ensnaring Ronan.

It was already a well-established fact that Ronan cared for the people around him and showed an attitude of caring for them, so he couldn’t bluntly refuse to do what all of them wanted.

In addition, there were many complicated corners to determine whether this stone statue was really idolatry. The church only forbids believing in other beings other than Orion, but it does not completely deny or deny leaving someone’s image at all.

In fact, as there are paintings of dead cardinals hanging in the headquarters of the church and a separate space for commemoration, there was controversy over whether erecting a stone statue to honor Ronan’s achievements was really idolatry.

The reason why Melvin dared to insist that this was part of an artwork was to further increase this ambiguity.

The more stories added like this, the harder it is to grasp the essence, and in the end, wouldn’t it be more likely that Ronan would have the idea of leaving it alone, even though other people wanted it, the church allowed it, and it wasn’t idolatry?

Besides, if you’re a normal person, it’s not a bad thing, and you’ve done a good job and left evidence to honor what you did.

However, despite all the psychological shackles Melvin had prepared, Ronan eventually broke the statue.

I was honestly taken aback.

Even if he made up his mind to demolish the statue, he thought that he would collect opinions from people around him for at least a few days, persuade people by giving reasons why the statue shouldn’t exist, and quietly destroy it.

Then, in the process, there must have been a corner where Melvin would dig in again and interfere with Ronan’s wish.

But there was none of that.

As soon as he comes in the morning and sees the stone statue, only a few tens of minutes later, he deliberately destroys the stone statue himself in a place where many people gather.

It was impossible to act like this unless there was nothing but displeasure from seeing the stone statue in the first place.

He has absolutely no interest in his own fame or honor, and if it can be seen as insulting Orion, he will stick with his opinion no matter what others think.

A fundamentalist who transcends imagination.

If it wasn’t really the target of the burnt offering through the pattern, he was a talented person who would have attempted to be subsumed in the shadows first.

Although, because of Ronan’s propensity, the trap that Melvin had painstakingly prepared since he came to the academy was broken without a chance to use his hands, but instead of being angry or disappointed, he made his laugh even thicker.

Of course, it is true that the preparations so far have gone in vain.

But that didn’t mean the operation was a complete failure.

In the first place, this trap was an elaborate piece of work that was designed with Ronan in mind to destroy the statue. Although it would return a pitiful reward compared to doing the best, it did not lead to any damage.

Even though Ronan is such an ignorant fundamentalist, the reason why it has not been revealed so far is because Ronan’s will and the public’s will did not conflict.

But now, at the moment when each other’s thoughts did not match, Ronan unilaterally insisted that his opinion was right and ended the situation by showing a coercive solution.

Although this did not have the expected success, it was more than expected among the expected failures.

The scene where Ronan destroys a stone statue of himself is so impressive that it will spread in an instant.

And most would agree with Ronan’s solution.

Ronan will be praised for handling misleading elements well without being swayed by his own sympathy.

But are there really only such people?

Is anyone going to do that? will be questioned.

The more you have special feelings for Ronan, the more you get the impression that Ronan is different from the members of the Church so far, and the closer you are to Ronan, the more these feelings will inevitably grow.

As expected, even if most of these people think that way for a while, they will basically trust Ronan, so they will move on saying that it must be the right thing because Ronan saint did it.

However, if there is an opportunity engraved in the corner of the heart, it can flare up again at any time.

What about those who can’t understand and move on?

Among those who serve Ronan, are there any who start supporting Ronan because they are swept up in the atmosphere, because they hate the church, because they want to look special?

Among them, is there really no one who criticizes Ronan’s actions, saying that he had to destroy it while ignoring everyone’s wishes and ignoring everyone’s efforts to make it, even though it was recognized by the church and it’s not incomprehensible when you look at it as a work of art?

So far, Ronan’s actions have not been attacked because it is not easy to find an excuse to bite, but Melvin is fully aware of how easily humans are swept away when such an excuse arises.

And even if such people come, someday they will spit out nonsense saying what a big sin it is to worship someone belonging to Orion together.

You wouldn’t know that pathetic existence who tries to help all humans, that principled person.

It fell far short of idolatry, but it was enough to put a stain on Ronan’s spotless path.

Thinking that far, Melvin lowered his head and took a posture as if to pray. From the side, it was a scene that could have been seen as a clergyman praying while lost in a sudden situation.

However, Melvin’s slightly exposed eyes shone coldly through the laughing eyes of Melvin, who lowered his head so that no one could see.

Human beings are sometimes tested and shaken in their faith, but we, who hold the lamp of faith, will stand firm. In the end, everything will come true as it should, so do not doubt the lamp. Our faith will be rewarded in the promised land someday…

“Is your faith this material?”

It was then that Ronan’s determined tone resonated in the still quiet chapel.

Melvin’s gaze unwittingly turned to the saint.

Everything was going as planned.

Even though there was no reason to be anxious, the moment he looked into Ronan’s eyes, Melvin inadvertently thought that something was wrong.

Ronan’s eyes looked too calm for someone who had broken a stone statue in a fit of anger, considering it an insult.

…

After I decided to destroy the stone statue, I pondered for a while.

Even though I’m a guy who is willing to ignore the sincerity of the people who built the stone statues if I’m not helpful to myself, if I look down on human relationships that way, then one day I’ll get hurt.

In any case, now that I have destroyed the statue, aren’t all the people who sympathized with me in making the statue stand at odds with me?

The reason I broke the stone statue was to avoid being caught by the church, but it wasn’t until someone else caught the pod for breaking the stone statue that the story was completely different.

Of course, there are only a handful of people who directly voice that kind of voice, but that handful of reactionary molecules is eating away at my support in the first place.

Killing the devil worshipers and saving people was a one-sided good that anyone could see, so I didn’t have to follow up, but of course these things had to be dealt with.

“Is your faith this material?”

At my words, the eyes of many people who were staring blankly at the broken stone statue were focused on me.

I tried to ignore the aura rising from the people and moved the broken stone statue using divine power.

In fact, there is nothing special about follow-up measures. It’s only natural that I destroy this stone statue, but the people who were sympathetic to the statue’s creation provide an opportunity to believe that they are not at fault.

…what nonsense is this?

While I was thinking that, the broken stone statue was lifted into the air by my divine power and took on a similar appearance to the statue before being broken.

“Do you really think this speaks for me in any way?”

This time, I moved the stones so that they only took the shape of a human but looked grotesque.

“Do you still see this as me?”

Of course, it’s not my appearance. But people can’t confidently object to this saying, saying that it’s completely different from the statue of Saint Ronan a while ago.

It is an illusion of a light sense using Theseus’ ship paradox.

Even if one wooden board is replaced with a new one to repair the ship, the ship is of course Theseus’ ship. If you make another ship out of old wooden boards, is it the ship of Theseus?

I don’t know the correct answer. Is there a correct answer in the first place?

Some would argue that the former was Theseus’ ship, while others would claim that the latter was Theseus’ ship.

A person’s sense of matter is different depending on how he accepts it.

In the end, the moment an authority figure comes forward and says that the former is Theseus’ breach of trust in this unanswerable question, most people tend to become obsessed with that person’s authority.

The stage I have set up now is similar.

The human senses begin to create an illusion when using the same stone and watching it change in real time simply by changing its position a little.

Reasonably, I want to say that the two are different because the shape has been changed, but the same amount, the same stone, and even the same stone piece are used in both shapes. The only difference is the difference in the arrangement of the stone pieces.

If I give the nuance that I think there is a difference between the two and that you are wrong, do people think there is no difference between the two? I will recall the thought of

If you say yes, you have to admit that at that moment, making my stone statue is no different than making a stone statue depicting something of a bizarre shape, and then those who don’t think much of it finally ask, is this idolatry? It is quite a natural flow to arrive at the conclusion.

In fact, most of them are solved when you come this far.

No matter how plausible the words are, even if the church admits that the essence of this situation is no different from idolatry, if you hit it directly into the head with shock therapy, you will come to your senses.

However, if it ends like that, they may think that they have committed the same blasphemy as the devil worshipers, or they may start a nonsensical argument like that.

Then, in order to avoid this kind of situation, there will always be people who deny what I said.

A way out that the attempt to strengthen faith by making a stone statue itself is not wrong.

This time, I made the fragments of the stone statue into a lot of very small, smooth, round stones.

“Of course I understand your mind.”

I don’t really get it. I’m still not sure how this motion got approved.

Among countless small spherical stones floating in the air, I took one of them into my hand and carefully held it in my hand.

“Faith has no form, so I always doubt whether my beliefs are right and moving in the right direction.”

I breathed divine power into the stone in my hand and infused the same divine power into the floating stones around me.

Each one was almost the size of a pea, but there were so many that the surroundings began to glow softly.

“I think it’s also natural to try to materialize one’s beliefs with that anxiety.”

I don’t know if it’s natural because I don’t have faith, but the person who is the best person in the field of faith comes forward and says this, and everyone will think so.

After imbuing the pea-sized stones with divine power, I began to move them over the heads of the people sitting in the chapel.

People were just moving their heads in a daze following the stones that were beginning to settle on their heads.

“But everyone, please remember. Faith has no form. The faith you are trying to hold on to is, in the end, just a fleeting illusion.”

The stones slowly began to fall in front of the participants.

As the number of people who carefully grabbed the stone by one or two increased, everyone started to grab the stone like that.

“ah…!”

The stones he grabbed easily crumbled in people’s hands, and the moment people opened their hands in surprise, the divine power that permeated the stones began to spread to those who grabbed them.

Now…it’s time for today’s bullsh*t culmination…

I put saliva on my lips once and then opened my mouth again.

“Can you feel it? The faith you felt while looking through my stone statue just now has settled in your hearts.”

People were startled and started looking at each other.

Of course, there is really no such thing. It is simply impossible to forcibly show an image that the person did not intend to another person in the brain, and to show it to many people by using the divine power that is contained in just one stone.

In a word, I was claiming that I could understand your desire to make a stone statue, so I moved the stone statue into your hearts so that you would not be constrained by material limitations.

I have no idea what I’m talking about.

“Maybe you don’t feel a clear shape in your heart yet. It’s okay. As long as you don’t lose faith, the light that slowly settles in your mind will gradually begin to take a distinct shape.”

Of course, it doesn’t say exactly how long it will take. Because of course it’s a lie.

If you really start to see it, there is a problem with the person’s mind, and it’s normal to not see it even if it takes a lifetime, but it’s enough to cover this situation.

In the end, my goal is to get these people who were in favor of building the statue to admit that the statue itself is wrong, but to solve the case by maintaining their belief in me and why they did that, so this is enough. wouldn’t it?

After all, what these people need is not the right path suggested by strict doctrine.

What these people need is not the complicated and tedious truth, but affirmation that they are not wrong.

Saying what you did was wrong, but it wasn’t all wrong, and I was trying to refute my words. The logic was much weaker than usual, but it didn’t seem to be a big problem.

After all, these people want to hear that too.

“Bo, I see! I see the shape of light in my heart!”

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Look at this. Look at how excited they are to eat rice cakes.

No matter how much I encouraged the environment, it was a little absurd.

What do you see, Mr. Pak?