Chapter 1, Episode 36: The Temple Side (a while back)

"Grasil. Hasn't Farne-sama been in yet? "

　Sharla asked Grasil, who came to visit her in the room prepared for the saint.
　In the room, which was furnished with expensive furniture to the point of bad taste, a beautiful-looking male priest was taking care of Sharla.
　Grasil secretly killed Lars when he returned from an investigation of Farne, and he used the magical tool of transformation to turn one of his men into Lars.
　Therefore, since Grasil now held the real power in the temple, Sharla's selfishness was allowed to prevail.
　It was good that he had killed Lars, the obstacle in his way, but now that the weight of Lars was gone, Sharla's selfishness had grown unchecked.

"……I apologize for the inconvenience. We're looking for his whereabouts right now, but ...... if we can't find him after all this searching."

　Grasil, inwardly annoyed, replied.

"Are you trying to tell me that he's dead?" Enough of that. Better yet, make my saint's inauguration a grand affair."
"Of course. It is the inauguration of my sweet Sharla.
　Make it sparkly, please."

　Sharla and her mother Tencia commanded Grasil.

"Yes. Certainly, madam. I'll take care of the preparations……"

　Grasil smiled affectionately and left the room.
　He could not keep up with the selfishness of these two people.
　To hell with Farne!!
　The magic tool to change the appearance was used for Lars.
　Lars was killed on his way back from the forests of Eldia and fed to the monsters of the wasteland.
　For this reason, he used the magical tool to change appearance, turning his own subordinate into Lars, and now the Lars faction was also manipulated at his will.

　Therefore, there was nothing that could be used to disguise them as Farne.

　The appearance-changing magical tools were unearthed from ancient ruins, and the number of surviving pieces was limited.
　The only way he was able to do this was by using the magical tool that Grasil had hidden in his possession because using the temple's own tools would raise unwanted suspicions.
　He had spent so much on Lars that he couldn't afford to spend anything on getting Sharla a consort.

　Well, I recently assigned a slave to her basement.
　As a result, she has become more mature in her words and actions, so that's good.
　Perhaps venting her anger by abusing the slaves, she has stopped harassing the priests.

　……Nevertheless.

　I was told that any slave assigned to Sharla would soon become a corpse.
　The beating was so severe that they died shortly afterward.
　Is that woman really a saint?
　I have also heard that the saintly-reacting beads also seem to be getting weaker in light each time they take a measurement.
　Perhaps the graciousness of the Holy Tree of Kardiana has been influenced because of her genocidal behavior.

　As expected, if she's to take the official seat of the saint, I need to stop that behavior.

　Grasil walked away from the room, frustrated.


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　Fwop!!!!

　If you hit any one of the feeble-minded slaves with a stick...they will be dead in a heartbeat.

"Mother, are human beings so fragile? Sonia wouldn't have died from this."

　Sharla sighed when she saw her broken toy.
　I just can't forget the pleasure I had when I was abusing Sonia.
　Grasil, who had become High Priestess, had a hidden room built for her, where she tortured her slaves. ...... but Sharla did not feel the same elation as when she was abusing Sonia.

"I think it's because you've awakened to the power of the Saint.
　Maybe next time you'll be more comfortable with a guy instead of a girl who looks like Sonia? "

"Right. Let's do that."

　Sharla nodded at Tencia's suggestion.
　They had both been abusive for so long that they had become numb.
　The behavior was escalating more and more, and the normal abuse was no longer satisfying.

"I never should have dumped her in the woods.
　I guess she's already become monster food."

　Tencia sighed as she stomped on the dead slave's head.

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