The Main Heroine Likes the Extra

82 – Unequivocal Blasphemy

While there are some differences depending on the country or ethnicity, there is one aspect that is common to engagements and marriages.

It is none other than to express gratitude to God and ask for permission.

The term “God” Here is different depending on the region, such as Yggdrasil, the World Tree of the World Tree Church, or the Spirit of Spiritual Faith.

Of course, the World Tree Church accounts for the most proportion.

As it is a widespread religion throughout the continent, there is a ceremony to go to church and ask God for permission to marry or betrothed.

Of course, in the beginning, there might have been a real ceremony like that, but it has long since become a formal ceremony.

Even if you ask God for permission, there’s really no way God will give you an answer. You just need to thank God in moderation and ask for permission at the same time, and the priest simply says, “God gave permission…” And that’s it.

These days, they say that there are even cases where they don’t go to church at all and are even criticized for doing it roughly.

The reason this story came out all of a sudden was because the World Tree Church had been arguing about it.

Yes. With this consciousness that had already been buried and could not even feel the meaning.

After Riel and I finished our engagement ceremony, we left the county and returned to the capital.

It is said that we have returned, but there is still a little time left until the academy opens, and there are many other children besides us who are preparing for the second semester by returning to the dormitory one step ahead.

At that time before school started, there was someone who became popular among the academy girls.

“Aww!!”

“Kyaaa! So cute!”

“Did I say he was the youngest brother of the Wentos family? He’s really cute!”

It is none other than Shirda who has followed the royal road.

As a child born after I came to the academy, I became too close with Riel, who came to the county to play, and when she tried to break up with me, she couldn’t stop crying so I had no choice but to bring her.

It happened that her hair color was the same green as her mother’s, so it was possible to cover it up like that.

“Oh?”

“Do…May I touch it?”

“Ah…Arya, I’m next…”

When Shirr arrived at the capital, she showed considerable dissatisfaction with the late summer heat, but she quickly adapted and returned to her lively appearance, showing curiosity around her.

She caught the attention of the students who were preparing for the opening of the academy, and was gaining popularity among female students with her cute appearance.

Well, Shire herself… Can she be called herself?

Anyway, Shirga didn’t show any objection to people’s attention, rather she showed curiosity from her own side, so there was no reason to stop her.

And one day, just before school started, I left the dormitory after receiving a sudden call.

“…The church said that?”

“Yeah, that’s pretty shameless.”

I was called by Her Highness Aine, who had returned to the capital one step ahead, and I was at a teahouse in the capital.

His Highness Aine and Captain Garrett were waiting at the teahouse, and the master of the teahouse served tea and left, as if there had been a separate request.

Leel left behind.

She has to take care of Shir, but she didn’t want to offend her because it was her church-related business.

“Haa, what a shame.”

“No. There are extreme people everywhere.”

The origin of this incident is that a report related to the engagement went up to the royal family.

It is information that the royal family must grasp when an aristocrat, especially a high-ranking aristocrat, is engaged or married.

So the news of my engagement to Riel was reported to the royal family, and the royal family passed the news on to various ministries for processing.

The problem is that one of the officials working at the ministry that received the report was a member of the World Tree Church. It is also said that he was a very fanatical believer.

He immediately informed the church about my engagement to Riel.

“At this point, I guess I should cut out the zealots in the palace.”

“…Wouldn’t it be a problem to dare to do something like that for religious reasons?”

“Religion is free, but if it causes problems, that is a problem.”

As an aside, the official who reported my engagement to Riel to the church has now been fired for leaking official documents.

Since the kingdom, as well as our count and duke’s families, were going to claim compensation from him, it could be said that his life was literally over.

Aside from that, what the church, after hearing the report, brought out was a wedding ceremony that, ironically, had already become an empty ceremony decades ago.

The church side did not confirm that Riel and I had performed the ceremony, so the church side told Riel and me to come to the church and receive the ceremony.

It was nothing but a blasphemy.

“…So shameless.”

“It’s shameless. It’s a board that asks you to enter the den of those who tried to kill them.”

Even in the kingdom, most of the churches have already closed, so the churches you can go to are limited.

In other words, the chances of them digging a trap and waiting are quite high.

Even if you break through the trap and receive a ritual, their target is just plain visible.

Anyway, if Riel and I get the ceremony and ask for thanks and permission, they’ll interrupt by talking nonsense about not being granted permission.

Until now, there has never been a time when permission was not given in the marriage license ceremony.

If it’s natural, it’s natural.

In the first place, raising thanks and asking for permission is an act close to a kind of show, so you probably won’t actually hear the World Tree’s voice.

In fact, even if she was really in charge of it, she, who loves all life on earth, would not have given her permission.

Anyway, they wouldn’t give permission like that and would try to interfere with Riel and me by talking about engagements that God wouldn’t allow.

I have nothing to say other than that the number of goals is really good.

But if you don’t get permission, they’ll fight public opinion, claiming that you got engaged without asking the god’s permission.

Even if the church weakened and withdrew, the number of members of the World Tree Church in the Kingdom could not be ignored.

There are quite a few followers among the nobles, so I’ve said that.

The official who leaked the fact that Riel and I were engaged right away was also from a lower-class nobleman.

Of course, since I am a duke in the kingdom and a count who almost controls the northern part, I can ignore such public opinion, but it is better not to have any seeds of anxiety.

“Your Highness, don’t worry.”

“Is there a solution?”

“I didn’t know the church would go this far, but it’s not like there aren’t any countermeasures.”

Yes.

Because we had someone familiar with the World Tree Church.

Cardinal Gerald was waiting for a report.

Not long ago, he was surprised when a report came up due to a believer’s tip.

It’s because the devil has decided to get engaged to a shaman.

I tried to stop it somehow, but the opponents were the dukes and counts, who are the powers of the kingdom.

No matter how many churches there were on the continent, they could not openly block engagements between high-ranking aristocrats of the kingdom.

In the end, the method that Cardinal Gerald used was the method of catching faults using old customs.

It was literally like childish nitpicking, but it’s not ineffective because it’s a church with believers all over the continent.

Especially since he is a high-ranking aristocrat whose image of his surroundings is important, he cannot be ignored at all.

If you can lead them to the church in that way, isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?

I didn’t know which choice they would make, but either way could hurt them a bit.

It was Gerald who was waiting for the report while thinking so.

“Mr Cardinal! Cardinal Gerald!!”

Seeing the priest rushing towards her, Gerald had a premonition that something was coming.

“What’s going on?”

“Heogh… Hehhhhh… I’m reporting!”

The priest was one of her own aides, and she knew about this plan as well.

I expected that the fact that he came running like this must be a report on the previous plan.

“So what do they say they decided to do?”

“That…That’s…”

The priest held out a piece of paper.

Cardinal Gerald took the paper and looked at it.

His eyes were wide open.

‘Certificate.’

‘This church certifies that the engagement of Kyo Wentos and Liel Ignis has been blessed and granted by the great World Tree.’

‘Priestess Alicia Merlot.’

“Ah… Alicia Merlot?!”

She is a woman who, not too long ago, she was considered a heretic.

She knew that her Holy Knights, sent to deal with her, had failed when they returned without a harvest, but she hadn’t heard from her since, so she was half-forgotten.

But you’re doing this?

“Null…Null! Alicia Merlot has been designated by me as a heretic…”

“That’s… The heresy designation has already been revoked.”

“Who the hell!!”

“It is the Holy Father. This certificate has also been approved by His Holiness.”

Cardinal Gerald felt like he was about to fall back.

He couldn’t care less about the pope because a lot of things happened lately.

It is said that most of the church is currently controlled by the cardinal faction led by him, but the pope was the pope.

Cannot be revoked without clear reasons what has already been approved by the pope.

In the first place, when designating Alicia Mellot as heretic, she was half-forced, so support for herself is already faltering.

If you act rashly any longer, you might end up giving the papacy an excuse.

Cardinal Gerald left the spot with a poopy expression on his face.