Chapter 20.5: Devil’s dare

"Why don't we throw a revolt right here and right now? To throw off the tyranny of the church" The first soldier crosses his arms

"I supposed that wouldn't be a bad idea but I prefer to find out another reason why the church is forsaken," I drop the handbooks on the ground ", With my merchant skill, they are not clean from greed. They collect money and yet they use for luxuries instead of orphanages, for prostitution instead of charities, for nonsense accusation instead of lending hands. Tell me, what I am saying wrong or not? Dear cleric" I unsheathe my dagger.

"I beg for mercy" They kneel to me

"God forgive you ," I politely bow ", But we won't" I make scars on their faces

"You may continue your work but the next time, I wonder, eyes or ears? Which do you want to lose next."

The reputation of being <mad merchant> is getting off hand. I do justice as I please but in the end, the gruesome is the thing sinners would fear. I am not a nice person. I just prefer the smell of blood, their terrorized scream lingering my ears and best of all, their thoughts are just purely fear.

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4th wall breaking: Why am I writing this?

Because I feel guilty about having skipped a part of story and jumped too fast

Why Jehidas hasn't used magic much?

Simple explanation: One is Joker prefers using a knife because he can taste the fear longer. Same goes to Jehidas, he prefers physical fights than magic. Second is the fact that Jehidas has aptitude for sound magic or music magic (explained in chapter 3), he feels this is weak and he doesn't know well.

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Chapter 20.5 part 2 : Ghost

"So one of you should be a vessel for <the ancient sage>."

"Ehem" Jehidas sways his hand

One is a sandfolk that has four souls so a ghost would get consumed.

"Not gonna be me or her" Kiltan strays further

Having the blessing of <serpent king>, Kiltan is impossible to get possessed and Miwra is a brawn head so that ghost can't stand with her intelligence.

"Not even us either" Garcel chugs a mug of alcohol and holds a barrel.

Drunkard and weak heart girl are not good either.

So the winner are anyone else that is not a sandfolk, drunkard, brawn head, weak heart and of course necromancer.

## This part does not affect the mainline story. Just a random thought##