After all, there were those who don’t receive the benefits from a skill. Moreover, they were forced to live like this. Among those who’ve been abandoned by God――keeping faith was an absolutely severe effort.
One could say some poetic words like ‘God is testing your faith’…..but that’s what people with proper skills would say. Well, it’s the most convenient way to tell off the others with less advantages than they did.
I stopped praying to God at young age after my father died of sickness. Even now, I still believe that it was the right decision. No, it was the most convincing path I had to take.
Anyways, this is really crowded. When I tried to get into the crowd,
[Hyiiiiii!!]
After seeing what happened, Myne snorted a laugh while looking at me.
[Fate, did you do something terrible to these people?]
[I didn’t!]
[Your training is still insufficient]
[I can’t really argue to that.]
Myne didn’t care about the surroundings, she simply proceed to the church as is. Then, we noticed a small tent just outside the entrance. Even when I didn’t enter the tent, I could tell from the smell. It’s just as I thought.
[I want to eat]
[No can do. That’s not the meal prepared for us. Come now, let’s go.]
[This…Holy Knight-sama. Why, in such a place?]
[My name is Fate Barbatos. I came here because I want to have a cooperation with the church.]
[ I won’t force you. If, there are people who live peacefully here but have no place to return home to, then it’ll help me if you could introduce these kind of people to me.]
[I see…..will it be alright if I ask about several things?]
I nodded, then she began to ask after apologizing.
[Will they receive proper meals? What about the guard for the journey?]
We also talked about various other things. Apparently, the slums condition was worse than the time when I was still living here. It seemed to be because the absence of the Heart family, who had been keeping the more unsavory members of the Holy Knights away from the slum. Roxy’s father died in Gallia, and Roxy herself had gone to Gallia.
[Such a cute sleeping face]
[When she’s asleep….yes she is. If only she stays like that all the time, how wonderful it will be I wonder]
[That’s a harsh thing to say]
[Ahahaha, I’m just joking.]
Whilst answering, my face turned serious as I turned toward the god’s statue. The sister also turned toward the same direction.
[What’s the matter? The Laplace God?]
[Aah…now I remember, that name. I have abandoned my faith in the past. But seeing this, feels nostalgic.]
[I see. That is the God who created this world, so even if you are a holy knight, please refrain from saying blasphemous thing while you are here.]
