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Chapter 485

Day 109 – Evening, the Theocracy, a Certain Town’s Temple

Word arrived that a letter had come from Arianna, who had gone to the frontier. Yet the envoy who carried it gave only explanations that made no sense. At first I wondered if this might be a trap set by the papal faction, but the guards swore otherwise. 「That person has absolutely no connection to the Church. No mistake about it. Many have looked awkward in priest’s garb, many have seemed unsuited to it, but never has anyone worn it so evilly, so villainously well, as that one. Such a person could never be of the Church!」

So then, I asked if he was at least not suspicious. They all answered in unison: 「We have long served the Church, and yet never once have we seen a priest so suspicious, nor sisters so bewitching!」, and they said this with perfect confidence.

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