Chapter 981: Saint
Chapter 981: Saint
I didn’t know what to say when I saw all of them praying to me like this.
In fact, it put me in a very awkward situation since this was a public place.
It would be impossible to keep such a thing a secret, even if I was the king of this kingdom. There were just too many people here that authority wouldn’t be enough to keep things a secret.
In the end, the only thing that I could do was give a cough and say, “How about we go to a different place and talk about this?”
I really wanted to usher them to a more private place, but I couldn’t do that considering the other side’s status.
To my surprise, the pope looked up at me with that kind smile of his and shook his head before saying, “There’s no need to hide this. It is a matter that should be spread to the world.”
I really wanted to curse him out when I heard this.
After all, what he was doing now wasn’t helping me, but rather hurting me!
If everyone were to learn of this, there was no doubt that there would be many people that would be interested in taking this Mark of God from me. Or at the very least, they would try to find some way to kidnap me so that they would be able to experiment on me.
Regardless of what their intentions were, it was more likely that they would be bad than good.
So I wanted to keep this Mark of God hidden for as long as possible.
Only it didn’t seem possible now with how the pope was announcing it.
By tomorrow, the rumours would spread and it would be known all over the kingdom.
In the week, it should spread to the other kingdoms and soon spread even to the empires… It seemed that there would only be problems coming for me.
But the pope didn’t seem like he cared about this at all as he continued holding my hand and admiring the Mark of God that was there.
It was only after he admired it for a bit that he suddenly looked up and said, “Your majesty, I wish to confer upon you the title of saint. Will you accept it?”
I was shocked to hear this before deeply knitting my brows.
While I had no idea what the title of saint would give me, there was no doubt that there would be more trouble than benefits that came from it. So it was a title that I didn’t want to accept at all.
Since I didn’t want it, I didn’t hold back as I said, “No.”
This time, the pope actually looked surprised.
The look on his face was as if he had been fully expecting me to accept this without a single trace of hesitation, so when I rejected him like this, he couldn’t help being completely shocked.
It was the same for the other priests who had been praying to me this whole time.
All of them looked at me with shocked and confused looks as if they couldn’t understand what I was saying.
After a while, the pope said with the same kind smile, “Your majesty, I think that you’ve mistaken something. It is a great honour to be chosen as a saint, this is an honour that hasn’t been bestowed in many centuries.”
“I understand what it means to become a saint, but I also understand the disadvantages that come with it. As such, I would prefer to turn down this saint title.” I said without any hesitation.
The pope was once again surprised, but he didn’t seem shocked this time.
When I put it like this, the pope could naturally understand what I meant and what I was worried about. Even though I acted this way, the pope didn’t seem to panic as his expression changed to once again reveal a smile.
With that kind smile on his face, he said, “Your majesty, I’m sure that you must be worried about the possible consequences that come from this title, but you don’t need to worry. We will do all that we can to help you. In fact, you can even come to our Holy Empire and become the saint of our Solista Religion. As long as you are in the Holy Empire, there’s no one who will be able to do anything to you.”
I shook my head once more as I said, “I have a family and a kingdom here to care for and you’re telling me to abandon it all?”
The kind smile on the pope’s face froze when he heard this.
It seemed that even though he didn’t intend to act hostile, the arrogance that came from being the pope naturally came out.
He had been the pope of the Solista Religion for a long time and he had naturally been affected by his position, which had built up this arrogance in him. He felt that there was nothing greater than serving the gods, which was why he assumed that King Zwein would just give up the throne to become the saint.
Now that he had refused, it put him in an awkward position.
After all, it wasn’t as if he could force him to take the position of saint.
Doing that would just hurt the position of saint and the relationship between the Solista Religion and the one with the Mark of God.
The priests all had awkward looks as well since they were high ranking bishops of the Solista Religion that had come with the pope. They suffered the same problem in that they had been naturally affected by the arrogance that came with being in this large religion.
After another awkward silence, the pope suddenly said, “Your majesty, is it possible for us to talk in private?”
I shook my head before saying, “Thank you for coming today, but I think that it’s time for you to leave.”
Now he wanted to talk in private?
Only when he was in a bad situation did he want to talk in private, he didn’t care about my situation at all.
As such, it didn’t seem like there was a need to cooperate with them.
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