I Shall Survive Using Potions!

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In a carriage to the next faction nobleman's mansion, the Marquis Celidraque was silent with a pale face.

Well, it's obvious what happens if Marial doesn't like it. Maybe even complimenting myself for not doing that yesterday's face-to-face meeting.

... and maybe praying that the greetings to the Temple and the Royal Palace scheduled for tomorrow will be safe, at least to a degree 'safe' that will not be exhausting to me...

After that, there was no particular rubbing, and the face-to-face meeting was successfully completed. And the nobles who had their sons present somehow had nothing to say about Marial's marriage or engagement.

I don't know if that has anything to do with the fact that after that "mysterious explosion of the Count's Mansion," the Marquis Celidraque brought one of his horse riding escorts into the shadows to talk about something, and then that his horse riding escort drove off somewhere at full speed. Yeah.

And the next day.

Today, it's a double header: the Temple in the morning and the Royal Palace in the afternoon.

No, because the other team changes, is that an anomaly double header? And not home, away.

As for the game, it's not a zero-sum game, it's a non-zero-sum game, because the sum of everyone's interests is zero, that is, the amount of pie that can be shared is not determined?

... I mean, there are choices that make us all happy, and there are choices that make us all unhappy. Except - Marial.

Yeah, it's careless to compare it to a game, but Marial, not a player, but a staff member of a game operator, so you can't lose.

The royal palace is behind us.

I circled the faction nobility yesterday, so that today I could put the temple first and say, 'I circled from the inferior, and the most prestigious place last'.

Conversely, in the temple, it can be said that 'it took precedence over the royal palace', so that the Marquis Selidraq narrowed his wisdom.

If you're normal, you don't have to worry about that, but if you're the "goddess's beloved," you have a lot of considerations, power relationships, difficult things, troublesome things, etc. Socialists, when it comes to middle management or something like that, there's a lot going on...

That's why we arrived at the temple.

The question is, what is the positioning of "beloved child" for the temple side?

Is she only a little girl who has just been spoiled by the goddess and is she treated less than a cleric?

Or are you in a better position than the goddess, the priests who follow you, who are just ordinary people?

And how far does Marial's being aristocratic work on such a temporal rating?

I only have experience with goddesses and emperors, so I don't know about my beloved children. Neither did Marial, because she didn't know her beloved son.

... or don't the people in the temple know what to do? Maybe it's a SSR "Special Super Rare" card with no examples in the past.

Well, what happens......

Oh, whoa!

The Temple welcomes you in alignment, or...

Was this my beloved (Marial), UL (Ultra Legend)......

"Welcome, you're here. All the Temple people are most welcome..."

Apparently one of the bishops led me to this room. And now it is the Archbishop who is stating the words of welcome. Here, in the capital, that means, in this country, the most senior person in religious relations.

Popes and cardinals seem to exist nowhere, now that the Holy Nation has perished and vanished, although it previously existed only in the Holy Nation of Rueda.

Ma, even if the temples of some country take on a new pope or something from their country on their own, they won't deal with you anywhere, will they? As much as we admit it, we have decided to take on our own people as popes.

But with the demise of the Holy Nation and the ruin of the priests in sight, … and I exist, put Celestine on the back.

Exactly, because the temple will have pretty accurate information. Hey, regarding that case.

Well, I can't do anything bad......

That's why now, on an equal footing with each country, the archbishops of each country do it side-by-side and amicably.

... ostensibly.

Of course, there is not really equality because of the relationship between the temple and the royal palace in each country, the political speaking power, the financial power, and the difference in the power of the country itself in the first place, and some of them may be burned by ambitions such as' one day on the throne of the Pope '.

But, Ma, there aren't many true evil clerics.

Whatever, because it's a world where goddesses exist and divine punishment is actually dropped. Hey, this is...

And a little over four years ago, that crumbled one country, and the clerics of that country were in a state of devastation... or, you know, the other day, a new divine punishment just fell! And when that party says it's here, is it possible to plan something strange?... unless you're even going to sell a fight to the goddess.

So that orphan and Layette, the mastermind of the raider, can't possibly mean a temple official. Because if you are a temple official, you should be fully aware of the danger of selling fights to the 'Messenger'.

So the killer is likely someone who only has halfway information, someone who doesn't correctly recognize what 'Your Lordship' is, someone who thinks it's fake and intends to use it to make money, or something like that.

... Well, it could be that you're just an idiot.

And for a while the unusual conversation continues......

"What do you say, Viscount Raifel? To be the witch of my temple and to serve Celestine with me..."

Coming. Coming...

So, of course, Marial's reply is...

"No, the goddess didn't ask you to help make me a witch. It was I, the Orthodox Successor, who helped to prevent the Viscount Raifel family from getting into the wrong hands and to protect your home, your territory, and your people.

Yet you neglected to manage your territory to become a witch because you will end up falling, betraying the will of the goddess... "

Yeah, it's a perfect return. As a cleric, you can't deny this.

And, as you might think, the Archbishop can't argue, he's silent.

Marial says' goddess' in conversation and never 'celestine'. If you say that, you're lying.

Because Marial says' goddess' is about me, as far as I'm concerned, it's not a lie.... for Marial.

After that, he was eaten down a lot, like, "To the Witch of Honor," or "Just put his name on the roster," or "Just at the festival," but all resigned.

Ma, if you become a witch just in form, you'll be exploited for its existence, or you'll have an upward and downward relationship with the Archbishops and Bishops. As it stands now, however much you are one of Celestine's followers, you must obey orders from the Temple separately, because you are only a normal aristocratic lord.

The nobility obeys only 'unreasonable, convincing orders' from His Majesty the King and his own convictions.

No matter how many orders from His Majesty the King, if it is an unconvincing push for an order, there seems to be a lot of rejecting it, asking for help from the nobles of the faction, asking for help from the great merchants who are benevolent.

It is a 'faction' for this and seems to interact with merchants from day to day.

Ma, it seems that this country is not originally a king's dictatorship, and that many of the important measures are decided upon by the great nobles, or that the merchants have a fairly strong say, because they are in a slightly different political situation from the rest of the country.

That's why we just pull away after the resentful face of the archbishop, the untrained Taratara, who can't make an impossible gorilla push.

Marquis Selidrake has no problems because Marial handled it well in advance of the meeting, although he didn't say much about whether he was very good at (or not) temple related.

Okay, next, the last one left, the royal palace. Probably the most troublesome part.

The kings of this country seem to have relatively little authority over other countries. So rather than a king, it's just a nobleman with the greatest power, or a post that exists because he needed to have someone in the same position as a 'king' in another country for the time of negotiations with another country...... Anyway, they stand slightly different from the kings of other countries. Back in the day, maybe, it was a normal kingdom, but now, it seems that way.

... Easy to do if you have small permissions?

No, no, that kind of thing is usually determined to be desperate for these opportunities. To make it a stepping stone to strengthen authority at all......

That's why, once you get back to the Marquis Mansion, lunch.

Then take a leisurely meal break and then go to the royal palace......