Stella's face, which always had a bright smile on it, showed a different appearance for the first time. Embarrassment swallowed up her laughter, and astonishment swallowed up her composure.
"This can't be happening… This can't be happening…? Why…?"
He seemed to have never even imagined what would happen if I was found out to be not a heretic, and he kept repeating with an extremely bewildered expression that this could not be happening.
He seemed ready to lose his mind at any moment. His pupils rolled and rolled without rest. His fingertips trembled, his legs swayed, and his whole body expressed the shock he had received.
The combat nuns surrounding us were also shocked.
The combat nun called Iris, who had been performing a striptease in front of me, was frozen in place with her bare chest and vagina exposed with a face like, "What…?"
The hands that were holding my shoulders and arms also loosened as if they could shake me off at any moment. The two behind me probably had expressions not much different from Iris's.
First of all, since it was impossible to openly look at someone else's private parts like this, I quickly lowered my head. I don't think the method of judging heresy that I remember was this kind of public exposure.
"All of you! Why… why aren't you a heretic?"
I noticed that Stella had changed the way she called me from "you" or "Idan" to "you" and I chuckled to myself.
If she still considered me a heretic, she would never have used a friendly title like 'you' because of her personality.
"How many times do I have to tell you that I have absolutely nothing to do with devil worship? Neither do Lize, Erica, or Claudia. You're just being ridiculous."
"Nonsense, nonsense... I can definitely smell the devil..."
"Didn't Erica tell you that too? She said that although she had ties to the devil, she never did anything that could be called heresy. We clearly emphasized several times that we were victims, but did you hear what people said?"
"Profit… Then I'll do it until you're proven to be a heretic! Everyone, come out! Come out and verify this guy's purity!"
Stella trembled and looked behind me and shouted. The combat nuns who had been holding me on both sides let go of their arms and walked towards Stella.
As the support disappeared, my body, which was about to tilt forward, was grabbed by someone with a loud noise.
It was Stella. Stella had come up behind me without me noticing, and she had my face firmly held between the handle of the hammer and her forearm.
The combat nuns stood in a line. Each one of them had taken off her underwear and was holding it in her right hand, while her left hand was resting on her breast cover. I could tell right away what they were planning.
It was clear that these guys were trying to do what Iris had just done as a group.
"Are you serious? You guys are going to take off your clothes here as a group? Don't you have any shame?"
"Be quiet! This isn't just an act of undressing, it's a test of your purity!"
"You already verified it, right?"
What did Iris just do? Was it an exhibitionist's strip show?
"There's no need to listen to such heretical words! Start, right now!"
Stella's voice rang out loud. She was a person who couldn't communicate. I rolled my eyes as much as I could and looked to the side, wondering if maybe Lizena or Erica could help.
Lize and Erika were both staring blankly at us with their mouths half open, as if they couldn't accept the situation unfolding before their eyes. It was unreasonable to expect help from them.
The combat nun standing in the front thrust her lower abdomen into my face. Then, just like Iris had done, she began to lift up her chest cover and lower body, exposing her bare skin.
Of course, the clothes rolled up without a single catch.
From then on, it was a repetition of looking down in shock at the pink bump on the tip of her chest and her private parts that were completely exposed because she had taken off her underwear, then collapsing.
I was forced to watch beauties with overwhelming beauty and violent bodies performing strip shows one after another right in front of my face.
Of course, I didn't hate it all that much. If there's a man who hates this situation, he's either gay, homosexual, or he likes men.
But my head was too confused to like it openly.
'Is this how you determine heresy? What on earth does it mean?'
What's the point of taking off my underwear and exposing my breasts and private parts, that you're going to judge whether I'm a devil worshipper or not based on this?
Regardless of my confusion, their 'purity verification' was over quickly.
From the beginning, they would come up to me while I was being held, lift my clothes, and then I would retreat in shock, repeating the same thing over and over again, so it took a long time and there was nothing to do.
The combat nuns all had expressions on their faces as if the sky had fallen, and Stella was no different. They all had faces that seemed to have had their beliefs denied.
No, it is true that my faith has been denied. It must have been God or the Pope of the Sun who branded me a heretic, but both are objects of faith and worship from their perspective.
"How, how... how...."
Stella was kneeling on the floor, her legs spread wide, her butt pressed against the floor, looking at me with a blank expression. Was that a pose that only women could do?
Finally free, I stood up proudly and met Stella's eyes.
"Did you see it?"
Now there was no need for me to shrink. The heretic judge of the Holy Land condemns heresy at all costs, but is endlessly kind to good people.
Now that the purity test has been completed, it's as if the god they serve has confirmed that I have no ties to the devil. Therefore, there was absolutely no way they could harm me.
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If you do something like that, you are betraying your own god.
"...."
Stella lowered her head. The combat nuns were similar. They must have been quite shocked. The situation must have been resolved, and I was about to help Lize and Erica up.
"I can't admit it."
"huh?"
Stella raised her head again and met my green eyes. Her eyes were filled with burning emotion. She held the handle of the bloody sword with a slight nervousness.
Are you really planning to rush in without any hesitation?
"I have to check it myself."
Fortunately, I felt a sense of relief since it didn't seem like he was going to just pounce on me, but I didn't relax. He said he was going to verify it himself, so what on earth was he trying to do?
"I can't believe it. How is it that someone who broke the seal of the devil and stole it not a heretic?"
Stella strode towards me and grabbed my right wrist. The force was so strong that I instantly frowned. Compared to this, the strength with which the combat nuns held me was child's play.
Stella pulled my arm up to her chest, then lifted the blind with her other hand and put it under it. I could feel the warmth on my hand hidden under the blind.
"Grab it."
"what?"
"Do you not understand, or are you pretending not to understand? Hold on tight."
The object was too obvious to ask, "What are you grabbing?" The squishy feeling I could still feel on my palms. Of course, I was told to knead it.
"Public exposure isn't enough, now you want me to touch your breasts?"
"This is the final step to verify purity. Why are you afraid of being judged a heretic?"
"...."
I tried to throw my arm away, but it wouldn't budge. It wasn't as if it was being held tightly, but rather that my wrist and palm were fused together.
My wrists were pulled even closer. My palms were buried in Stella's chest. Her breasts were gently squeezed between my fingers, and the flesh rose slightly.
As if that wasn't enough, Stella pressed the back of my hand with her other hand and buried it even deeper. I unconsciously squeezed my palm.
"...Ugh!"
Then, a faint moan escaped from Stella's mouth. Hearing that moan, I barely managed to hold on to my reason, which was about to break off. If I do something foolish here, I won't be able to eat or drink.
"What the heck is this…?"
While I was struggling with my inner conflict, desperately trying to maintain my senses, Stella met my eyes with a voice even more astonished than before. Her green eyes trembled.
The hand holding my wrist tightened. Naturally, my hand buried itself deeper into my chest. Without paying any attention to it, Stella opened her mouth.
"Why… why do I feel a divine power from you, who has no faith in God at all…?"
At Stella's shocking remark, even the combat nuns who had been in a state of shock as a group looked at me as if they had suddenly come to their senses. They looked even more shocked than Lize and Erica had been a moment ago.
'Oh, that's it. I was wondering why it suddenly did this.'
I was calm, regardless of the reaction of the Stellana Battle Sisters. I was nervous because she suddenly lowered her voice and opened her mouth urgently, but it was nothing.
What Stella just said was a small event that players can see in the game when they first meet the Inquisitor.
Players can raise their stats as they wish, so they can do things like me, such as filtering out faith and only raising divine power, but people in the world of Blizzard 4 cannot do that.
The common belief among the people of the Holy Land was that as one's faith deepens, divine powers will naturally be acquired. Therefore, it must be very surprising that someone without faith possesses divine powers.
For us, it was like seeing a smartphone working fine without a battery.
By the way, if your faith is higher than your divine power, the power you can exert is less than your faith, so he says to train harder. If your divine power is higher than your faith, the power you can exert is greater than your faith, so he laughs heartily and says that you will definitely receive God's love.
There were also many variations, such as when you didn't raise your Faith or Divinity at all, when both stats were 99, or when only one of them was 99, so it was quite fun to watch.
"Then you... maybe..."
Stella muttered something unintelligible with a blank expression. Her lips moved towards me once more, and at the moment when she was about to say something, someone grabbed Stella's hand.
"What are you doing now?"
It was Lize.