178 – EP.9 Witness a miracle-1

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A dark night with a crescent moon obscured by clouds.

In a room where the chill from the cold stone walls penetrated the bones, the dusky moonlight came in through the window.

– Crunchy square

The bed that a person could barely lie on and the small desk resembled a modern gosiwon.

In a room devoid of any decorations, a blonde woman was sitting at a desk and moving a quill.

The ink-filled pen tip moved along the paper, drawing elegant lines.

The woman was transcribing a book.

It was something I had copied before, but it felt like I was gaining a new realization the more times I repeated it.

Her hand, which had been transcribing the phrase without interruption, stopped.

She put down the pen and traced the phrase with her fingertips.

[Anyway, faith is like air, realizing its existence without seeing it.]

“To realize reality without seeing…”

Searching for the phrase, she recalled what had happened today.

An era full of false saints.

Assuming the responsibility of the Heretic Judge, today she executed the false saint captured a few days ago.

In the square where people gathered, a criminal climbed up.

She, heretic judge Maria Loen, opened the Bible and asked the sinner.

[The sinner misled the believers by distorting the words of the Bible. He also called himself a saint and pursued personal gain.]

The sinner said nothing.

[When the time of the end comes, false saints will be infested, and those who call themselves gods will appear. Beware of this.]

Maria recited a passage from the Bible and turned to the people gathered in the plaza.

[Children of light, be vigilant. Are false saints deceiving you? Do not be deceived by appearances and commit sins.]

She pulled out a huge greatsword wrapped in rough leather.

Silence came over the square.

Concentrating her attention, Maria untied the string and unwrapped the leather covering the sword body.

The leather fell off, revealing the blade of a greatsword shining silver.

Grabbing the handle of the sword, Maria turned her body to the criminal.

[We will carry out a fair execution of the sinner who distorted the will of the light and deceived the world.]

– Woong Woong

With her words, the greatsword began to emit a soft light.

Mary stood by the sinner’s side.

The neck of the criminal with his head lowered was easily exposed to the knife.

She raised her sword mechanically.

Now lower the sword, and the criminal’s neck would drop to the ground.

She strained her arm and struck the sword straight down, and at that moment, the voice of the sinner lying flat at her feet was heard.

[You blind people who cannot believe without seeing.]

It was a voice that only Maria, who was executing the sentence, could hear.

[!!!]

At the sinner’s last words, she hesitated for a moment, but the knife was already pointed at the sinner’s neck without hesitation.

The great sword touched the criminal’s neck, and the criminal’s neck was separated from the body and fell to the ground.

My neck fell on the box I had brought beforehand, and I rolled over.

[…Enforcement is over. Let’s all go back.]

It was customary to leave the corpse of a sinner like this for a day.

It was to awaken the vigilance of believers whose faith was being tested.

Maria finished her afternoon routine with a heavy heart, and began to scramble to control her mind.

[Anyway, faith is like air, realizing its existence without seeing it.]

It was a phrase I always overlooked. However, the incident of the morning came to her mind and shook her mind.

“It’s obvious, but why is it that I feel strangely stabbed in my heart?”

After entrusting everything to God, she was a woman who could affirm that she had never once doubted the existence of God.

“Couldn’t it be that I was deceived by the sinner’s words?”

It must have been the action of a sinner trying to live. Maria decided to think so.

Shaking her head, Maria continued to copy.

Before I knew it, the short candle flame flickered, and the sound of an owl looking for prey could be heard in the distance.

With her eyelids drooping down, Maria knelt down on the desk for a while.

I thought I would just close my eyes and rest for 5 minutes.

So she fell asleep.

Is it because I slept lightly?

In the midst of the haze, a tumultuous noise tormented her ears.

– thump thump thump

A dull sound rang through the room she was in.

“-sir!”

“-Lia-sama!!”

It seemed that someone’s voice could be heard very far away.

She opened her eyes with difficulty.

‘Looks like he fell asleep for a while.’

She looked at the candle on the desk. The length was a little shorter, but it didn’t seem like that much time had passed since there was no big difference.

– thump thump

The door behind her rang.

“who are you?”

When Maria asked, startled, the girl’s young voice was heard.

“This is Lorian. Maria-sama.”

At the apprentice nun’s voice, Maria straightened her clothes and opened the door.

A busy atmosphere entered the room through the passage.

“What’s going on?”

“Go to the plaza now. Quickly!”

When Maria asked about the unfamiliar situation, an apprentice nun came to her aid.

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Hearing the apprentice nun’s words, she ran to the square in a daze.

Beside her were other heretic judges, followed by priests.

Something big must have happened.

It was still night in terms of time, but the whole world was bright as if the sun had misunderstood the time.

And the beginning of the light was the plaza where the execution was held today.

As she went to the plaza, the brighter the light, she felt an indescribable tension while frowning.

‘Oh, my God.’

Has the time of the end, which we only saw in the Bible, come?

her heart beat wildly.

“There it is.”

With the voice of a priest, the eyes of the crowd turned to the execution table.

It was a sight that could only be described as a miracle.

A huge beam of light was emanating from the box containing the criminal’s head.

As they reached the plaza, the criminal’s neck rose into the air.

While dazzled by that brilliant light, they slowly made their way to the scaffold.

“Oh… my God.”

I heard someone’s voice.

The criminal’s neck shone light in the air for a while, then slowly flew toward the prisoner’s body.

The prisoner’s torso stretched out on the scaffold, and the prisoner’s neck was attached to the cut surface where the blood had hardened.

and flash Light fell all over the world.

“Ugh, eyes.”

Looking at the light as it is, it seemed like I would go blind.

When everyone else flinched, Maria slowly climbed onto the scaffold.

“[The young disciple turned to the light and asked, ‘Light, are you my master?’ The light answered, ‘Yes, my offspring.’]!”

Maria recited a passage from the Bible and approached the light.

As Mary’s hand touched the sinner’s body, the light began to fade.

The light that had been brightly illuminating the plaza gradually faded, and the people gathered in the plaza to see this mysterious phenomenon opened their eyes.

What was in front of them was the figure of a man standing on his own two feet, emitting a soft light.

Everyone knelt at the fact that the person who must have died in the morning came back to life.

“…everything, what’s your name?”

Maria asked in a voice full of fear, and the man slowly turned his head.

Maria met the man’s clear eyes.

“Kang In-ho.”

When she heard again the name of the person she had executed today, she fell to the ground.

“Sir, saint…”

Hearing Maria’s muttering, the others in the square shouted after her.

“The saint has arrived!!”

“The saint has arrived!!!”

Seeing the people shouting like that, Kang In-ho thought.

‘What the f*ck is this?’