rha jumped.
“Let go— let go!”
The nobles who saw rha started blatantly gossiping.
“What happened?”
“I think the high priest is really insane! Look at his eyes.”
As rha struggled, people avoided him and stepped aside.
“Call the doctor. I need to get evidence! Soone drugged . The drug made misspeak. Sobody—so fucking bastard—drugged , so—”
He pointed at Lucerne.
“You did this! The Lord will not forgive you. You will be punished. No. Everything I just said was a lie… … . It’s a lie. everyone. I am the High Priest, I am the High Priest!”
rha shouted when suddenly his face turned ashened. He grabbed his neck on the spot and started to fall down gradually.
“Ahhhhhhhh!”
“Call the doctor!”
Soone shouted. It was the last voice rha heard before he lost consciousness.
***
“I’m sorry for ruining your debut, Elisha,”
Lucerne said soberly, with a smile contained in his eyes. But his mouth was not grinning.
“Are you serious?”
“No,”
Lucerne admitted after he thought for a mont. Elisha nodded
as she observed the attendees gathering around rha’s limp body and Risralpho’s corpse.
“I think it was a rather splendid party. If it was possible, I wish it would transpire every night.”
“How deep is your grudge against our family? You hate rha too? As much as Jacob?”
Elisha turned to her husband with her eyes filled with disbelief as if she had heard sothing exceedingly strange.
“Your enemy is my enemy. Because he tornted you when you were young.”
She didn’t think much of her statent, but sohow it made Lucerne freeze, unable to move or breathe.
Since there was a lot of commotion around them as they whispered and with a cacophony surrounding them Elisha did not notice his bizarre state.
“Ah, the security forces are here. Let’s go ahead and welco them, Lucerne.”
“… ……right.”
He moved slowly as she followed him.
***
It was only after the security wardens arrived that the place could be cleared. The mayor of Yurif, who was aiming for a long and peaceful public life by avoiding difficult work, begrudgingly accepted the case with bitter tears.
And the next day, the shock that began in Yurif swept the capital.
Those who donated money to the morial service for Lysralpo, the collection of Risralpho during his lifeti, and those who attended the biggest event, the bone fragnts auction, converged and rushed in the temple.
“How are you going to handle this?”
“Didn’t soone say bad luck would co to those who had Risralpho’s bone fragnts? The money I invested abroad has plumted. I’m going to sue you!”
“I heard that too. My parents’ health has deteriorated! The bone fragnts didn’t even belong to the prophet. What a scam!”
Additionally it was shocking to find the Risralpho’s body, who had a splendid funeral eight years ago.
But what made it even bigger was that rha appeared at the scene and blurted out that he had killed Lyst Ral Poe. Without witnesses, the scandal would have been suppressed.
But that night was the night of a grand ball. There were too many witnesses of high standing.
In the end, the heretical inquisitors of the temple ca forward and took over custody of rha in Yurif. They detained him in the temple’s prison and started the investigation. It was truly a major event that shook the empire. High Priest rha, who was Risralpho’s supporter and protector at the ti, was suspected of killing Risralpho. Overwhelming evidence was found in detail as if it had been prepared for discovery by soone else. The tattoo marks on the body, and divine powers of the first-class priests. And a close examination of the body revealed that LisRalfo’s body was real.
In addition, in Risralpho’s pocket, half of the ticket used for the concert at a theater in Yurif was found. The date of the ticket made it clear that Risralpho’s death was eight years ago.
“It’s ridiculous that I murdered Risralpho. I was on drugs!”
rha kept repeating the sa words, but no drug was detected in his body.
Regardless, there was no way for him to escape charges, even if he hadn’t confessed at the ball. At that ti, he was the one who had verified and retrieved the body, saying that the prophet had died in an accident.
Eight years ago, he said he couldn’t handle the excessive power in his body. He had testified that he had died of a fever.
But it turned out that it was all a blatant lie. In addition, a significant number of the temple leaders were involved.
“No, you an you didn’t even check the body properly?”
“It ans that High Priest rha, mber of the Cartier family, promised that he would personally take charge of everything at the ti. Inspection of the body and preparation for the event were all carried out by people from the agency set up by High Priest rha!”
About 50 priests were incriminated in one day. All were those in rha’s faction.
Given this situation, people’s eyes naturally turned to Gunner.
Overnight he beca the next most likely candidate for Pope.
‘Good riddance.’
People trembled at Lucerne’s terrifying plot. He used a tactic to slay his uncle and raise the one that greeted him to the position of Pope. There was no one in the capital that didn’t guess such a fact.
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