Chapter 8- Pope Knows Best

After their introductions, Kazuki invited Maggie to ride pegasus with them back to town. When they arrived, they went to the church to meet the pope.

" Morning Pope! Long time no see!" Kazuki said while running as if meeting a long lost friend.

" I see you never change Kazuki." the pope replied while playing with his beard. Jut then, Pegasus entered the church.

" Greetings Pope. I am here to present the crown I've been guarding. Your church can have it back"

" Thank you. I see you have pulled the sword Kazuki." He thanked pegasus and turned to Kazuki.

" Y....yeah."

Suddenly, Kazuki fell to the ground. All he saw was darkness and felt the cold ground.

" Kazuki!!!"

All he could hear was Sakura shouting his name and he lost consciousness.

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The next day,

Kazuki slowly opened his eyes and saw the pope standing beside him looking at the window.

" What happened?" he asked looking dumbfounded. He could not remember much about what happened yesterday.

" I see you're awake. You lost consciousness a few minutes after you arrived" the pope greeted with a smile. It was a smile that could enlighten your emotions.

" I see. Where's Sakura?"

" She's asleep. She stayed here with you last night so I let her sleep."

" Sorry."

" Why are you apologizing?" the pope was surprised by Kazuki's sudden apology.

" Because I worried all of you."

" It's fine. After all you wasted all your MP on defeating that golem."

Kazuki tries to stand but his feet felt weak that he immediately fell back to the bed. I then tried to crawl on the floor but the pope stopped him.

" Stop it Kazuki" he said getting all worried.

" No pope. I need to get the reward now!"

" Seriously?" the pope facepalmed.

" Let me explain. We need money to live right?"

" Yeah?"

" So we use money to buy our needs. Which means if we don't have money, we won't have anything to buy our needs which is a huge problem for us because we need them to survive."

" Such sarcasm."

" Bye" he said as he trie to reach for the door.

The moment he tried to get up the Pope pulled a katana from his robe and aimed it at his neck.

For a moment Kazuki felt a chill in his spine. This was his first time seeing the pope's other side.

" The hell you did that for?"

" Stay and rest."

" I told you I'm gonna-" as he was about to reply, the pope threatened him.

" Wanna die?"

That moment Sakura entered the room. She was dumbfounded seeing the pope aiming a katana on Kazuki. Instead of helping Kazuki all she could do was laugh.

" Kazuki! Pope! Fufufufu what happened."

" This boy here wanted to claim his reward but he can't stand so I'm making him rest."

" Oh? Looks like someone's hardheaded."

Kazuki gave Sakura watery eyes but she did not respond. He felt like he was betrayed.

" Dammit Sakura help me!"

" Sorry Kazuki but it's for your own good."

" Nooooo!"

He kept resisting the Pope's advice so the Pope finally gave up. He called a servant and asked him a favor.

" Please bring Kazuki here to the torture chamber. Don't kill him just torture him until he loses consciousness."

" You call yourself a Pope?"

Sakura couldn't do anything but laugh from the side.

" Hahaha! Fufufufu! You should've listened to the Pope Kazuki. Fufufu. Pope Knows Best."