Book 4: Chapter 40


    My, my, I really dont understand why kids like to run around ying with guns these days. Did you happen to think that you would have an extrayer of armour for your wimpy minds if you carried a gun? Sorry, but youre still children from the standpoint of adults.


    Aiming your weapon at his majesty is treason. What are you trying to do?!


    I sat on the bench and looked at the guards on the ground groaning. Alice and Nier restrained themselves more than ever. Nier beat them with her scabbard and Alice didnt use her hands to tear them apart either. She just tore their armour and broke their wrists and ankles. The two of them stood in the middle of the group of guards sprawled out on the ground. They looked at the archbishop on his knees looking like he was going to wet himself and said: His majesty is looking for you.


    Your majesty your majesty


    He stood up while trembling. Alice grabbed him by his arm and dragged him like a corpse to bring him before me, and then tossed him onto the chair in front of me. I looked at him, nodded and said: Long time no see, your excellency. No wait. It hasnt even been a few days. But my visit this time is different tost time. Put it this way. Last time, you were running the ce, but not this time. Alright, Im not going to waste my time. Once I get what I want and find out what I want to know, Ill leave right away.


    Your majesty! You have no right to treat me this way! The church has not done anything wrong! The church is innocent! What youre doing is just violence! God will curse


    Giving no shits, I shoved my gun right into his mouth. I think I broke a few of his teeth. I looked at his mouth that slowly began to bleed and indifferently said: I never said you could say anything other than answering my questions. You think Im clueless? Arent your statues of god a little too salty? Mixing the salt into the ster and then smashing it before soaking it to revert it back into salt. Not only is that wasteful, you also cut the price of salt. I could execute all of you for privately trafficking salt. Im here to talk to you and you dare to curse me? God wont curse me. God will curse you people. Youmitted all kinds of evil in his name. Do you actually think you still have the right to say you believe in god?


    I pulled my gun out along with a few teeth. He spat out a mouthful of blood as he looked at me while huffing and puffing. I put one leg over the other, picked up a cape on the ground that belonged to a guard, wiped my gun with it and asked: First question, where are you imprisoning the elves?


    What elves?! I know nothing about that! We havent fallen that low!


    Alright then. Second question, where are the children from the orphanage?


    I dont know! They mustve left.


    I looked at him and asked word by word: Third question, who sent the assassins after me?


    He looked at me. Just as he was about to shake his head, Alice stepped forth, grabbed his wrist and twisted it. His cry of pain apanied Alices twist and then his arm drooped down powerlessly like a noodle. Alice looked at him, chuckled coldly and asked: Try keeping a lid on it. I know hundreds of ways to hurt someone without killing them. Where do you want me to start?


    It was Castor!!


    The archbishop cupped his hand and shouted: It was Castors Regent! It was her! She funded it! She recruited the people! We were just a medium! We didnt take part! I still have the secret letter she sent me! It had nothing to do with the church. We just helped her smuggle the guns in and she promised to give us salt! It really was Castors Regent! She wanted you to die when you were in the elvennds then her majesty would attack the elves while she contacts the other vassal states to revolt! Thats what the n was!


    Very good. I nodded and stood up satisfied. I then extended my hand out and said: Give me the secret letter.


    Its been burnt already


    What do you have to prove what you said then?


    The envelope! I still have the envelope! We were thinking of reporting it before it all went up in mes, but they actually did it! The envelope is sandwiched in Gods Words on the bookshelf in my room!


    I looked at Nier. Nier nodded and then ran toward his room. He knelt on the ground trembling. Alice kicked him on his back and coldly said: If you had resisted until the end, I wouldve admired you as a man. But you divulged everything after just that. I look down on you.


    I then turned around to face the door and shouted: Come in! Smash everything that can be smashed!


    Your majesty! Why?! Ive answered you! Ive answered everything! Everything!


    You didnt.


    I turned around, looked at him indifferently and said: You didnt answer my first and second question. You imprisoned elves and the children. They should be underground if Im correct. You think I didnt know? When I crashed your carriagest night, the sound of the rocks impact when they hit the ground sounded different depending on where theynded. At first, I thought it was a sewer, but I smashed the ground around the vicinity of the church on my way here. It was hollow. Youve dug underground, havent you? Since you didnt tell me where the entrance is, Im going to find it myself.


    The young men rushed into the church and looked at me excitedly. I walked up to a chair and sat down. I then waved my hand and said: Smash. Smash everything that looks like it can be smashed. Just leave this chair Im sitting on. Smash everything else! Most importantly, smash the statue of god! Of course, were smashing things, not stealing, so dont let me catch you taking things. Go ahead and start now.


    Humans have unlimited destructive power. Alice grabbed the archbishops hair and forced him to watch his church get destroyed. Flower vases got thrown down from upstairs, the statues of god got pulled down, the colourful ss got smashed His eyes were filled with pain and despair as he watched the god he believed in get smashed and the building he lived in get torn down. I however, paid him no heed.


    Nier then walked up behind me and softly said: Your majesty, Ive found it. The envelope has Castors royalty insignia on it. We can confirm it now.


    I took a look at envelope and stood up. I looked at the mess before me. The young men worked really quickly. They smashed everything here within a very short span of time. I stepped over the ss and destroyed bits of flooring littered on the ground. I looked here and felt something was strange. Theyve pried the floor as well, but I dont see any mechanisms or entry points. Its definitely hollow underneath the church, so why havent we found it?


    Where is the entrance to your underground area?


    There is none!


    I guess hes not entirely stupid. If he did tell me, hed be dead-meat, but since he didnt, I have no evidence against him. I kicked him away with frustration. I then shifted my gaze to the only statue of god that hadnt been smashed, and that was thergest statue of that goddess. It wasnt that I wasnt willing to smash it but rather that I couldnt. It was honestly toorge.


    I didnt ask god, but a trail of smoke came from a crack in the floor underneath the statue.


    Alice.


    What is it, your majesty?


    Can you smash this statue?


    Alice raised her head to look at the statue. She warmed up her neck and wrists. She then smiled and said: Alright then, please leave the church, your majesty. Otherwise, you might get hurt by ident.


    We then all left the church. A huge sound like a mountain copsing came from inside and something dropped onto the ground like an Earthquake. Everybody nearby was shocked. Dirt from inside blew like a violent wind causing me to almost wobble. After it calmed down, we walked in to find Alice standing to the side, desperately trying to fan all the dirt around away. The oncerge statue of a goddess had been reduced to bits of stone on the ground in front of her. The head had been broken into fragments with one eye looking at me as if it were crying.


    Underneath it was a dark entrance.


    Damn. This sort of job gets my clothes all dirty.


    Alice grumbled as she patted her clothes. She then walked up to the archbishop whod passed out on the ground and asked: Your majesty, do you still need him?


    No.


    Then Ill


    I heard the sound of bones breaking behind me, but I wasnt keen on sparing it my attention at the moment.