I’m Going to Destroy this Country

Isaac headed to the Colosseum, extremely pissed off.

“Yes. I thought it was strange.”

What? No newbies for 5 years?

My slaves dare to be absent?

“At the very least, the Blue team was suddenly selected as scholarship students, what? Study abroad?”

Shuri, following Isaac, was sweating profusely.

“Well, they were happy. It’s painful for the Blue, but as a friend, it’s something to congratulate…”

“Studyyy abroad and scholarshit, my ass. They’re not even smart enough for that, right?”

Shuri looked at Isaac as if startled.

“…You know you just said something really rude, right?”

“You know? You have to be at least as smart as me to get a scholarship and study abroad. Moreover, if you’re going to study abroad, go to an enemy country to be helpful! You idiots!”

…This guy, I’m afraid he’ll say he’s going to the Magic Empire.

“Anyway, I figured it out for sure this time.”

“What?”

“Someone tampered with the totem given when using the vision.”

“What?!”

At the unexpected words, Shuri was startled.

“Except for White, who uses healing divine techniques, everyone uses torture, rejection, and annihilation visions, so they’ll need a demon to be the target, right? It seems they used totems for that, but they only touched the Blue’s items.”

“!”

A totem is something that seals a demon, and most captured demons are made into item-like totems. They were used as trophies or like this when needed as demonstration.

“Ha, fucking guys, just summon a demon, why use a totem.”

“No… Only skeletons can be summoned by priests, and if you summon a skeleton to use the vision, it looks too lame.”

“Why skeletons! So what! Are you looking down on skeletons now!”

“Ah, no, why are you getting angry?”

“Are you saying the Blue is looking down on the Skeleton King! That’s why you guys are no good! Damn it!”

As Shuri was surprised, saying that’s also true when he thought about it, Whisper said something.

[I’m glad you’re not losing yourself, Master, but do you prefer times when you were the Skeleton King?]

No? This body is a million times better, I just don’t like being looked down on by priests!

“Anyway! They deliberately tampered with the totem to disparage the Blue.”

“Don’t tell me… To prevent newbies from coming?”

“Yes! If the guys who specialize in exorcism are panting and struggling to catch demons, how incompetent would they look?”

That’s why they only used tricks on the totem given to the Blue.

Of course, the impact of not being able to use the vision would be tremendous too.

Other guys would handle it quickly with the vision, but these Blue guys can’t even use the vision.

In that situation, they would have stupidly fought while bleeding with swords, trying to show their faith of patience. They’re the kind of guys who think that’s an honor, like Saints.

“Haah, perverted bastards. Then who would want to go? When they’re rolling around and fighting so dirty?”

“…No, I think that was to show the Blue’s fierce fighting stance…”

“Damn it, that’s not fierce, that’s low-level! If you were a newbie, would you want to go to a place that rolls around so fucking badly! Would you want to go to a place that fights with full power, bleeding against just slimes?!”

“…”

Shuri had nothing to say because it’s true.

“Well, the impact of not being able to use the vision is big, but there were probably more reasons why it was difficult to handle.”

“Is it because of the device installed in the totem?”

As Isaac nodded, Shuri seemed to have received a big shock. The fact that the Blue was deliberately made to eat dirt at the vision demonstration.

“What kind of device…!”

“Well, that part is obvious even without looking.”

Isaac had a clue that others might not know.

If what he knew was attached to the totem, it’s understandable that the Blue had a hard time.

“If my prediction is correct, they would have installed the device this year too without fail. That’s why they were surprised when I brought the totem from the Imperial Family.”

“Who the hell…! No, why do such a thing!”

“You can just ask the culprit directly.”

“What?”

Isaac, who had been striding somewhere, finally stopped.

The place Isaac arrived at was the weapon storage inside the Colosseum.

The door of the storage was already smashed and punctured by someone, and from there, where various weapons were lined up, a person’s groaning could be heard.

“Mmph, mmph! Mmph!”

Isaac and Shuri headed towards the direction of the groaning.

After a while, Shuri was startled.

It was because Shabnak was holding a man. The man, whose mouth was covered, was lying down and couldn’t move an inch.

Perhaps Shabnak’s doing, fierce blades were stuck along the man’s body. If he moved even a little, his body would be cut right away.

On top of that, there was a knife pointed at his neck. The captured priest had no choice but to wail.

Isaac approached Shabnak, who greeted him politely, as if saying well done.

Shuri had no choice but to look at Isaac and the man with surprised eyes.

No, no matter how you look at it, this person is a priest from the Papacy…? Is it okay to catch a colleague like this?

“Who’s this again?”

“The culprit who was spying on us.”

“What?!”

In fact, there was another reason why Isaac went to see the Crown Prince.

If the culprit is the person he expects, they will definitely be watched.

Why?

Because they will be very wary of him getting close to the Imperial Family. And if they’re being watched, it’s easier to catch them instead.

That’s also partly why he deliberately went to the Crown Prince’s palace. If he headed to the Crown Prince’s palace before the faith selection, those who wanted the Blue to be in trouble would wonder what was going on and follow him.

And as expected, he got caught like this.

Isaac took Shabnak’s sword as if it was trivial. Then, with the sword, he cut off the gag that tied the man’s mouth with a tap.

As soon as the gag was untied, the frightened priest burst out in anger.

“Eshua! What are you doing to a colleague who worships God together! …Aaaah!”

Isaac placed the blade on his chin as if it was ridiculous.

“Colleague, my ass? A colleague who does shitty things?”

“…Sh-Shitty things, you say?!”

“Don’t try to use your brain. You were spying on us, right?”

“Th-That’s because you were heading to the Crown Prince’s palace, not the faith selection place, so it was strange…!”

“You’re being ridiculous, you’re just scared that your tricks won’t work.”

“…Tricks! What are you talking about!”

Then Isaac laughed, heh, and went in front of a large box in the weapon storage. Having Shabnak lure him here was actually because of this box.

And at the sight of Isaac doing that, Shuri hurriedly stopped him.

“Hey! Stop! You can’t touch that box!”

The box Isaac was interested in wasn’t an ordinary box.

“Don’t you see the cloth covering the box? It’s the Pope’s insignia!”

For priests, the Pope’s insignia is absolute. Where it is located is classified as a kind of sanctuary. In other words, the insignia meant a warning not to touch it carelessly.

In fact, priests would have been unable to move in front of that absolute pattern.

“I don’t know what’s inside, but absolutely don’t touch it…”

“Is it okay? The totems to be distributed during the vision demonstration are in there, right?”

“!”

Shuri’s eyes changed. If what Isaac said is true, there must be some device in the totem to be given to the Blue!

In fact, the eyes of the captured Papacy priest moved restlessly as if anxious.

‘If the Blue confirms what’s in there now, won’t it be troublesome?’

But it was fine. If they are people of the Holy Empire, they absolutely cannot touch that cloth-covered item. Not only the Pope’s authority, but the Inquisitors won’t stay still.

Anyway, there’s no way to check…

“Ah, Shuri. Over there! Over there! Look over there!”

“What?”

Bang!!!

Aaah!

The Papacy priest screamed. While Shuri turned his head, Isaac mercilessly smashed the treasure box.

He tore the cloth engraved with the Pope’s emblem to shreds as if it were nothing.

‘That crazy bastard is smashing His Holiness the Pope’s item!’

Soon, startled by the loud noise, Shuri looked at him with a shocked face.

“You, what are you doing!!”

“I didn’t do it? That priest guy suddenly smashed the box. Oh my god. I guess he was trying to destroy the evidence…”

The priest looked at Isaac as if dumbfounded.

That little brat is framing me for the crime?!

“Right, Shab?”

“Yes. Tearing off His Holiness the Pope’s insignia, you will be punished if it reaches the ears of the Papacy.”

I’m going crazy!

But whether he did that or not, Isaac checked inside the box.

There were 5 dried fish-like objects in the box, each wrapped with ribbons of different faith colors.

What Isaac focused on was the totem wrapped in a blue ribbon.

“As expected, it’s attached.”

“!”

Shuri was startled by the appearance of the totem Isaac held out.

Dust-like bugs wriggling on the totem. They were even digging into the flesh of the totem and going inside.

Shuri couldn’t help but be shocked.

“Wh-What is this?!”

“It’s a kind of parasite that controls the host and regenerates it infinitely.”

“Infinite regeneration?!”

Isaac looked at the priest as if it was trivial.

“With this, even if you kill it, it won’t die. Because the parasite is killing the host and controlling the body.”

“…!”

“Well, it takes about a day for the parasite to dominate the host, so the timing would roughly match. Once it’s completely absorbed, it’s not easy to notice. The Blue has been stupidly catching this for 5 years, so of course it would take time to catch it.”

Sparks flew from Shuri’s eyes.

“Why do such a thing!”

“To prevent newbies from entering the Blue, of course. Grandpa said he didn’t participate for 5 years because of the Papacy’s mission, right? It would have been easier to scheme. Or did they assign him a mission to deliberately exclude Grandpa?”

“!”

Angered by those words, as Shuri tried to grab the priest’s collar, the priest shook his head as if surprised.

“W-We don’t know! It must be the other faith bastards who are jealous of the Blue! They’re fiercely competing for newbies!”

“Among the Five Faiths, is there a gutsy bastard who would touch an item covered with the Pope’s insignia?”

“Then it must be other minor faiths! Bastards who want to send the Blue to hell and become one of the Five Faiths themselves!”

“Ahh, so the Papacy’s security is stupid enough to allow such tricks, I see?”

Shuri grabbed the back of his neck as if pissed off.

“For now, I’ll go and report this fact. We have to stop it! We can’t let them do such a cowardly thing.”

Then Isaac laughed, haha, and grabbed Shuri.

“No. Let’s leave it for now.”

“What?!”

“In my opinion, it’s highly likely that the Pope is involved in this. No, in the first place, it seems like other faiths knew and condoned it.”

“…!”

“And if it proceeds like this without any issues, they’ll definitely think that this year too, only the Blue will struggle and catch demons.”

“!”

Isaac laughed wickedly, hehehe.

“But this year will be a bit special, right?”

He pulled out the parasitic bug from the Blue’s totem and lifted it up.

“Things like this should be done under the same conditions.”

And then he shook the bug towards the other totems, not the Blue’s.

“They should also try it under the same conditions.”