"I have no parents. I live in an orphanage in the General Church."

Baron, the dog eared boy, laughed and said so.

Barron-kun was supposed to take a short break from working for the guards and help me.

By the Duke of Euphemia.

I asked your parents if they wanted to say hello, but they don't seem to be close to her.

I guess I'll have to leave when I grow up because it means I'm in an orphanage in 'General Church'.

Maybe that's why I was working downstairs in the Guard.

I heard a little bit about it, but the city has an orphanage run by the 'General Church' and now they have sixteen orphans living there.

The pastor died a year ago and is now run by Sister alone.

Incidentally, the orphanage has two other orphanages in the city, apparently.

The orphanage in Baron-kun, which is not territorial, also seems to have subsidies from the city, but it doesn't seem easy to operate.

When I saw Baron's outfit, I got that impression.

It's old rubbed fabric clothes, isn't it?

Baron is fourteen years old and the oldest in the orphanage.

Even if Baron works downstairs in the Guard, he only gets a penny or so of wages, but that also hits the cost of food for the children in the orphanage.

It seems that there are not many people stopping by the church and there is little funding from church headquarters.

According to the story of the Duke of Euphemia, there has been the idea of secularism in this country since the time of the first King Kouroud, and the Church does not have much power.

They also basically say that the Church is not involved in national politics.

They only become involved in providing information when there is a special announcement or commission.

It's just that the Duke of Euphemia says that therefore there has never been much corruption associated with the Church either.

Sometimes that happened, it was that the Church itself, though it had no power, was building its place as the base of the hearts and minds of the people as a sacred being.

And as for becoming a priest or a Sister because of the lack of power of the Church itself, he has little such thing as a good, and he doesn't intend to be a greedy one.

Sometimes that happens, the Church itself seldom causes problems, and it seems difficult for politics to be confused by religion to occur in this country.

They say that there are religious states in the surrounding countries that only protect certain religions, or countries where the Church has power and is heavily involved in politics.

In this world… polytheism seems to be common in neighbouring countries, including the 'Kingdom of Kouroud'.

However, they say there are countries that believe only in certain gods, and monotheistic religions that do not recognize other gods.

There seem to be some religions themselves, but it seems that many religions often acknowledge to some extent about other gods, even if God as their Lord God is determined.

That's because the myth that has been told is rooted naturally in the idea that many gods appear mostly and there are various gods.

According to the inheritance, there appear to have been times when the gods were actually interacting with people.

But in modern times, it seems that God does not reveal himself, and that he is the object of a faith that cannot be met.

Still, under the influence of polytheism, where there are gods full of personality, the very existence of God seems to be perceived by people as familiar.

If I could actually see God, it would be fun to feel closer to him.

It's not “Idol to go see”... but it feels like "God to go see you”...

But... on second thought, Non from "The Great Spirit Gnome" seems to be practically a godlike being, so I might say I've already met God.

Modernity, by the way, is also known as The Age of Hidden.

According to historians...... analyzing the long history, there are times when gods frequently appear before people and times when they rarely appear, and it is believed that it is repeated.

They refer to the times when the gods frequently appear as the 'times of wide walking' and the times when the gods rarely appear as the 'times of hiding'.

There seems to be a theory that there is a certain periodicity, but a lot of the material from the old days remains, and they haven't been able to confirm that far.

Apparently, there are several researchers at the Royal Institute who specialize in history.

The discipline of 'historiography' has also been established, and those familiar with it are also said to be historians.

In The Kingdom of Kouroud, the only thing that can be described as a religious organization seems to be the 'General Church'.

The "General Church" is polytheistic and is supposed to worship various gods, but it seems that there is no such thing as scripture as general religion.

The fact that religious organizations only have 'general churches' may in fact mean that religion in this country is general, but people don't seem to be very aware of that.

Somehow, it may feel similar to Shinto in Japan.

Thanks, people seem to have a favorite god for each of them.

And if you go to "General Church," you can thank, ask, and pray for your favorite God, and the faithful go thriving, and the ones who don't, they go when they feel like it.

It may be similar to the feeling that the Japanese go to prayer for acceptance when they come to the exam, or not usually very conscious but only to Hatsumomo.

'General Church', in a sense, feels like a collective dwelling of God, and if you go there, you can pray to your favorite God, and he may be a convenient being.

It may be careless to be convenient to God...

Well, actually, I'm saying it's more convenient for the 'General Church' than against God.

It's user friendly in a way, isn't it?

Sometimes secularism is entrenched, the 'General Church' does not have much power, neither does the State intervene actively, nor does it actively fund it.

Basically, I think it's a good thing, but the only harm or problem with this seems to be the current situation where church maintenance does not extend to local municipalities.

Without money and people, you can't really get around to the province, can you?

Since few originally aspired to be priests and sisters, there are no churches in the territories near the border, like the Pigseed Border Uncle and the Earl of Helsing.

Even if there is a church as a building, there seems to be quite a few churches where there are no priests or sisters to run.

It feels like people in the area voluntarily clean and so on and come and pray when they want to... there seems to be quite a few places like an unmanned church.

Even in the Pigseed Borderline Berg Territory, I knew there was a general church, but it did feel almost non-functional as a church.

In my image, cooking out for the poor or running an orphanage was the image of church activity, but I saw very little activity like that.

Perhaps there is also a church itself in each municipality in the territory of the Earl of Helsing, but nothing impresses me.

Until now, it may be that I didn't particularly care about the existence of the Church.

Since there had never been talk of an orphanage run by a church, whether in Pigseed Border Berg territory or Count Helsing territory, maybe there was no decent church, even if it was just a church building.

In that regard, the Duke of Seyburn, even though it is a territory bordering the border, may also have the 'General Church' in place, since it is a Duke's territory, rich and populous.

Of course, there is no territorial involvement in the operation of the 'General Church', but a rich and populous place would also attract a stopover, and it would be natural for Church headquarters to invest in it.

Therefore, within the territory of the Duke of Seyburn, the small 'City of Seysay' also had a church, a priest and a Sister, and an orphanage, I guess.

However, even a year after the pastor's death, I guess the lack of a new pastor in office is still a scarce talent.