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As we followed everyone ahead of us to the lift, Dolan and the others were about to descend.

'Wait. I'll come with you.

'Oh!　I had forgotten Lady Luciel.

Luciel, you're late.

Mr. Luciel, please hurry.

Dolan, Paula, and Lisian each called out to me, but all three of them thought it was subtly awful, but they immediately got into the lift.

As the lift descended, the knights were gathered there, but it seemed a little strange.

The fact that everyone is stunned by the amphibians seems to be a fairly normal reaction.

However, they may have been engaged in a mock battle, and the fact that they didn't lose their posture of confronting each other with their weapons made me feel uncomfortable.

'Master, Lionel, what's the situation........Huh?　Where's Mr. Galva?

As I listened to that, I looked around and saw that Galba-san had already reached the bottom of Catherine-san, who was surrounded near the center.

It looked like Catherine-san and the War Maiden Holy Knights were surrounded by other knights.

''Galba would have jumped into that group without hesitation once he found out about the Knight Commander who had him spying for them.

You're safe.

'The Knights were not well-trained, and they seemed confused by the unexpected events, and there wasn't anything they could move, was there?

All right, well, let's get going. Can Lionel put the amphibian away for me?

Ha!

Lionel immediately put the amphibian away in the magic bag at my instruction.

After confirming that, I proceeded to the knights.

It's a good idea to be able to have a good idea of what you're going to be doing.

I'm sure that the captain-at-large who was giving me orders didn't have in mind that I would be riding a flying vehicle.

It's a good thing that you're a member of the knights, thank you for the day before yesterday. Some of you may not know it, so I would like to introduce myself. I'm Luciel, a former S-class healer who recently changed his job from a healer to a sage, and I'm currently a sage. This time I came to the Holy City after hearing the request of my benefactor, Garba-san, the wolf-beast man, did you have a mock battle in the morning?

It is already around ten o'clock in the morning.

However, it should have been talking to you, but everyone remained silent.

''Well, for now, we don't know how many of those who believed the rumors are in the Order, so realize for yourself that the rumors are only rumors.''

With a snap of his fingers, he snapped his fingers and activated multiple area high heels at once for the other knights, including the War Maiden Holy Knight Squad's faces.

In fact, they were slowly spinning a magic formation chant while talking.

Some of the knights would be able to sense magic power, but that was only if they were as expert as their master or Lionel, they wouldn't feel that they weren't concentrating.

That's why, as a staging mechanism, he activated the Area High Heel in six places at the same time, and instantly.

This should have proved that the rumor that he couldn't use holy attribute magic was completely just a rumor.

The people around them began to buzz with surprise that he could really use recovery magic.

They had decided to draw the line at being incompatible with them if they still maintained an adversarial stance with this.

''So why are the War Maiden Holy Knights and the Catherine Knight Commander surrounded?''

When I opened my mouth to say so, a hush fell, as if the buzz from earlier was a lie.

It's as if no one wants me to mention this topic.

That's why I approached the knights who were besieging Catherine and the others.

Then the knights released their stance and opened the way for me.

And when they opened the way for me, I met with Lumina-san.

''Lumina-san, coincidentally, have you been able to repay your debt from the day before yesterday?''

Mr. Luciel why?

'It's because Galba-san wanted to help Catherine, isn't it? Well, I had some unfinished business here at the church headquarters too, but more importantly, what is this all about?

'Earlier this morning, Lady Catherine was ordered to be captured and executed on suspicion of espionage.

The espionage charge is true, but there's no point in saying this here, so I'll keep it under wraps.

'Is that also the enforcement division?'

Yeah. I'm sure it was issued by the Executive Branch. Even with Luciel-kun, I was surprised that the order was given based on rumors alone, but when it continued to Catherine-sama, it seemed like a conspiracy of some sort.

When you went to the executive office to protest, did they order you and Lumina and the others to be taken into custody?

'Exactly, but does being a wise man make you able to see everything?

No, I can't do anything that superhuman.

I smile at Lumina-san and speak to all of the knights.

''Well, knights of the church headquarters'' fort, the current executive branch seems to be making you all do certain things. I know that you all have orders from above that you have to obey. But the next person to be accused of a crime may be one of you.

Looking at everyone's faces, most of them look lost, but the killing spirit is starting to leak out of a few of them.

But since the masters are deployed to protect me, they don't attack me, as if they think they can't do anything about it.

''The reason you are in the Order is to protect the order of the Church and the St. Surreal Cooperative State from various threats, right?　I think so. I'm going to go and fish out all the people who are currently running the executive branch from here.

Not to mention the knights, Lumina-san and the others are stunned and frozen by my declaration.

Well, at the church headquarters, I declared that I would strike the executive branch, which is independent and not under the jurisdiction of the Pope, so maybe it's natural.

The knights had no one to attack them with a look of hesitation on their faces.

'Just to be sure, I can revamp it as it is, but I'll leave that all to the Pope. Now that I have told you our purpose, those who are hostile to us should come and hang on. The rest of you, please put your weapons away.

Do you really mean it, Luciel?

Catherine, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.

'Yes. Well, then, Catherine, I'm going to take you to the place where the people in the executive office are, and say, "Gageeeeeeeeeee.

I was in the middle of asking Catherine about the location of the executive office when a high-pitched sound echoed through the arena.

From my blind spot, a throwing dagger, a throwing dagger, came flying in from my blind spot, and my master was playing it for me.

Moreover, that dagger was politely coated with a liquid that looked like poison.

''Those who are avenging the executive branch cannot be overlooked, no matter how many S-class healers they are, Luciel-kun.

I turned my gaze to the direction the dagger had flown, and there was Brutus-san smiling and speaking up.

''This is Mr. Brutus, it's been a while. I didn't expect you to come to me.

I didn't think it would be as expected so far, it's really going to be demonized.

I take stock of my master's position and promptly start preparing for battle.

''Huh, that's so white. Letting Catherine be a spy, that was one hell of a treacherous thing to do.

'No, no. That's right back at those deluded people who interpreted the idea of human supremacy as the will of the church in a twisted way.

I'm not going to sell him, but I'm going to provoke him.

'Mr. Luciel, Brutus is getting stronger than I can stand.

Then Catherine talked about how strong Brutus was, but to me it sounded like he was saying that he used to be able to win, but he couldn't win now.

This guy, I believe, said that he quit as the captain of the Priestess Knight Squad due to injuries. That meant that he was powered up at once.

''Humph, Catherine. He is a fool for not understanding our noble intentions and taking a liking to werewolves and other werewolves. However, an S-class healer is a twenty-something year old, and yet you are still able to say that.

He seemed to have no intention of hiding his human supremacy at the earliest.

''Yes. There are many people who only want to fry people and forget to work hard, so I was able to grow up naturally. Besides, there are a lot of people around me that I can respect.

'I've learned to say the things I really want to say in spades. But you had to be taught first that a mouth is only a recipe for disaster if there are no consequences.

When I thought I saw a red light for a moment, a few knights from within the Order attacked us and the War Maiden Holy Knight Squad.

If this is really a sign of demonization, then let's try that one.

I'll do what I can, believing that my masters will stop the knights from attacking me.

'Brutus, I see. Now, in return for the golden words, I'm going to invoke my new magic [Holy Healing Hand, Mother Earth's Breath, dispel the beings that have fallen to the demons, the impure beings, as a wave of purification that swallows everything, Purification Wave].

When I cast my new magic, a blue-white light spread out in layers like a ripple around me.

I had developed this magic when I was in Nerdal, in case I was surrounded by demons and had to flee, and in fact I had never tried it.

Still, for some reason, he was convinced that he could do it, probably because of his humble study in Nerdal.

It's a convenient magic that merely cleanses dirt when touched by ordinary people, but for beings whose power comes from the miasma of demons, undead and other miasma, it's nothing but a merciless poison.

I've been thinking about the sanctuary circle, but the power of the holy attribute magic is too high, and there is a possibility that it will be annihilated before I can get information out of it, so I abandoned it this time.

Including those who had attacked him, Brutus also seemed to be affected by the Purification Wave, and a scream from pain echoed through the arena.

Naturally, the knights who were about to turn into demons who attacked couldn't possibly fight in such a state, and their masters kicked them away at once.

However, my attention was not on the knights, but on Lucy and Elizabeth, the painful members of the War Maiden Holy Knight Squad, who were suffering from pain.