Those believers were deceived and seduced by a twisted sense of justice. They seed confused that no one else could understand their noble ideals. Kagura felt like she would never get anything of use by continuing that path, so she changed her questions completely.
Now she asked about Chira Clauzen as an organization, and all its ties.
They were fully under the effects of hypnosis, so they listed the locations of their different bases all over the continent, the rchants that sponsored them, nobles, and various other bits of info. The combined knowledge of just the three Heads filled hundreds of entries in the notebook, all with a rit of their own, making it invaluable.
The dawn they stord the base with the underground control system, they had also seized information of people annexed to it, which increased the number of attack points into more than a thousand.
「I guess this is actually going to be the hardest part in a way. We can’t let a single one of them escape.」
Once Kagura finished extracting all the information from the three Heads, she took Mattie’s notebook and checked the entries with a wicked smile. Her eyes were those of a hunter stalking its prey.
「That’s all from us then. Mattie, the ministers from the church should be coming one of these days. I’ll leave the exchange with them in your hands.」
「Okay, you can count on !」
Chira Clauzen were branded a common enemy by the entire world. Especially the three heads, they were going to be judged by the Holy Law, rather than a country’s rules. The church had arranged a group to transport the three Heads out of the branch so days later.
「The Holy Law? I’ve heard that term before, but exactly what does it an?」
Mattie was taking care of all the paperwork necessary for that exchange, so Mira and Kagura left the branch. They were heading to the Union, where all the remaining mbers of Chira Clauzen that panicked during the announcent were being kept. As they walked there, Mira voiced a thought she had.
「Ahh, that’s sothing done mainly between Saints. It’s not really common in most conflicts, so I guess it makes sense you don’t know about them…」
Kagura spoke with a teasing smile, then began explaining with a bit of confidence.
The Holy Law. A trial that was carried out through a special ritual, where a judge truly appointed by God as his servant gave a decisive conviction. Because of that, not even a king from the Three Gods’ Countries could object to the decision.
The biggest difference between the Holy Law and human’s laws, were the evaluation criteria for one, but the weight of punishnt was far more severe.
The worst punishnt that could be granted by humans was the death penalty, but in the case of the Holy Law, it could reach soul erasure. A criminal’s soul could literally vanish without a trace.
Depending on one’s worldviews that might seem not too different from death penalty. But Gods existed in this world, and the concept of reincarnation was more than just an esoteric belief, but a system put in place by those Gods.
In other words, everyone in this world believed that death was not the end of existence. Soul erasure was different. That punishnt could only be granted by God, and ant the end of everything. Only the most heinous cris received that punishnt, which ant excluding one’s soul from the endless cycle of death and rebirth.
「That punishnt is reserved for when soone commits such atrocities that their souls get so tainted that even God can’t clean them. Artesia told that only happens in very rare and extre cases, but I can’t guarantee a good outco for Chira…」
A complex emotion took over Kagura’s face as she said that, glancing back at the location of the branch.
「Hmm, intriguing. You just said people reincarnate here, do you know if that’s also true for us?」
As they got closer to the comrcial district, where the Union was located, Mira brought the topic up again. Those born in this world ca from the souls of those who lived before. But what did that an for forr players who were brought from another world?
「I wouldn’t be able to tell you. No one speaks openly about coming here from another world, and if one of us dies, there’s no way to tell others about it. I’ve heard so think you might just get sent back to our world, but we haven’t found any other way to go back, and no way to verify if that’s actually the case. People are looking into ways back, but they haven’t found anything out.」
「Hmmm, I see. Well, I expected as much.」
Mira muttered that, not too surprised. After a short pause, she added, 「Still, guess there’s no way back after all then,」 in a bored voice.
「Huh? After all..? Solomon didn’t tell you anything?」
Kagura turned to face Mira, her voice sounding surprised. Solomon was king of Arkite, and as a forr player, he was part of the Rising Sun Committee, a special group of forr players in high positions across the continent.
That committee was conducting experints to figure out the chanisms and systems making this world tick. That involved thods to return to their past world, and as one of the mbers, Solomon knew the results obtained so far. He also had the authority to divulge those results to other forr players.
But Mira knew nothing of that.
Or to be precise, he decided to keep it secret until Mira herself asked.
「I didn’t find it necessary to ask… I’m sure he would’ve told imdiately if the thod to return had been found. Think about it, Solomon has been here for thirty years, Luminaria for twenty. Even if we refuse to accept it, it seems to be a fact that there’s no way to return. So wouldn’t it make more sense to stop worrying about that and instead focus on having fun while we’re here?」
Those were Mira’s honest feelings. There was no need to think about going back, and instead it was best to live in the mont. Though the only reason why she was able to think about it so rationally was that her good friends Solomon and Luminaria were here with her.
「Hmm, when in Ro, do as the Romans do, like they say. Sounds an awful lot like your usual attitude.」
Seeing Mira talk about that without a single care in the world brought back so mories for Kagura, who laughed thinking of it.
Mira and Kagura reached the Adventurer’s Union in Sentopolly, and they were guided three floors underground.
A sturdy prison was built there. It was usually just a montary prison for wanted criminals and those with a bounty, now it was overflowing with people tied to Chira Clauzen.
「Now these are impressive results.」
「The Spirit King’s appearance in the end pushed them all over the edge. I heard many of them were so afraid of the spirits taking revenge that they ca here on their own… so selfish of them.」
Kagura looked slightly annoyed with the lack of action as she observed the cells.
There were so sitting silently in their cells, others making noise, others looked dumbfounded, and others were laughing. Usually the underground prison was a gloomy place, but it looked unnecessarily lively now, and there were many workers from the Union behind bars as well.
「I never thought you were a mole, too bad for you.」
「…Hmph.」
Apparently they had also managed to catch the mbers from Chira Clauzen infiltrated in the Union. According to the other workers, those caught in the sa locations had been put in the sa cells as well.
Mira and Kagura looked into the cells as they walked along the corridors, eventually reaching the central managent room.
There were multiple Union workers, a man and a woman that had started aging, and a woman from the Fifty Bells, waiting for them.
「Welco, Lady Uzu.」
「Mm, good job here. So, who are these two?」
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