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Chapter 2138 Proof of Being Human

"Hyena Beastman, what brings you here?"

The Holy Cross representative squinted at Hervy, his expression unfriendly.

“I respect the neutrality of the Giant’s House, but that doesn’t mean I won’t uphold my beliefs and vows, and live in harmony with other races, let alone those with heinous sins.”

"If you don't want to die and become an honor on the cloak of our crusade, then don't appear before me when there is no one else around."

After speaking, the representative of the Holy Cross Church was about to close the door, but before the door could be closed, Herwie's hand gripped the door.

The Holy Cross representative's pupils contracted slightly, and his right hand, which was gripping the doorknob, reached for the cross sword on the door.

"Today's negotiations will not yield any results. Those people are not using the Crusades as leverage to gain bargaining chips, but rather to use the Crusades as bodyguards."

Herwie's voice came through the crack in the door, and the Holy Cross representative stopped what he was doing.

After a moment of silence, he replied indifferently, "Is that so? Even so, the Crusaders will only carry out their oaths. That's my answer to you."

"Even if you know you're being used, you still want to fight the orcs? They're bad guys!"

"..."

The Holy Cross representative pushed the door forcefully, but upon realizing that he was no match for Helvie's strength without having taken Holy Communion, he reluctantly opened the door.

He looked up at Hervy, his brow furrowed.

"You might think that sacrificing for such people is not worth it, but I can tell you clearly that the Crusaders went to war even if they knew it was a trap, even if they knew they were being used. They fought to the last moment for their oath, fearlessly, so that one day they could continue to fight for their oath even in the face of real fear and death."

“If today we choose not to keep our oath because we have been deceived or used, we have already taken the first step. The second and third steps will no longer be impossible. We will become increasingly distant from ourselves who made the oath in the first place, and from the martyrs who have always kept their oaths for thousands of years because of this wisdom. That is a shameful betrayal.”

The representative of the Holy Cross raised his hand to his chest, his eyes showing a calm acceptance of his fate and the future he had already decided upon.

"When a real crisis comes, only fools will continue to fight and will not flee, and the Crusades would be such fools."

"As for you orcs... you are not human, so we don't care."

After the representative of the Holy Cross finished speaking, he tried to close the door again. As expected, Helvie reached out to grab the door again. This time, he had learned his lesson and made a feint. Helvie's white gloves missed, and her tall body staggered.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the representative of the Holy Cross closed the door, successfully shutting Helvie out.

"Wait, I have something else to say!"

Herwi pounded on the door, making the Holy Cross representative's forehead veins bulge.

He immediately took the cross sword from the wall, raised it parallel to the ground, intending to stab Helvie through the door.

"If, and I mean if, there were a way to prove that orcs are human, would you accept it?"

A gleaming cross-shaped sword pierced through the door, grazed Helvie's cheek, took a few strands of her hair, and left a bloody mark. Then the door opened.

The Holy Cross representative looked coldly at Hervy, seemingly unsure whether he was angered by her outrageous words or simply lost in thought.

Before Helvie or the representative of the Holy Cross could speak, a scream rang out. "Oh my god! This is neutral territory! Do you even know how the Crusaders make their living?!"

Ander dashed between Helvie and the representative of the Holy Cross Church, glancing fearfully at the cross that had pierced through the door before turning to Blazer and Herbie, who were approaching, and grinning smugly.

"We have absolutely no objection to the neutrality declaration of [Hermes' Traveling Hat], absolutely not."

"Commander, what has worn down your backbone?" the representative of the Holy Cross Church said calmly.

"The daily necessities of hundreds of thousands of people!"

Anderson shouted angrily, followed by endless despair. He leaned against the wall, his intense resentment making him seem as if he were possessed by a vengeful spirit.

"A man's knees are worth gold. If kneeling down means you can have endless gold to support people who only need to train and eat every day, I'll kneel down right now and never get up again!"

"Those despicable, corrupt noble families have all become great philanthropists, not even giving us a chance to confiscate their property!"

"If I had known it would turn out like this, why would I have become a legion commander? Wouldn't it have been better to be a nun?"

"...Thank you for your hard work. Don't worry, as long as the person involved doesn't protest, we won't pursue the matter."

Blazer patted Anderson on the shoulder. Anderson used to be a weathered man who was always ready to die, and now Anderson is a weathered man who wants to die. Compared to then, he is not much different now.

He looked at Helvie and asked, "What you just said is what your mother, the Hyena Beast Queen, is doing, isn't it?"

“…Hmm.” Helvie hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement. “It’s the last thing that lord entrusted to us hyena beastmen: the key to proving that beastmen are human. My mother is already…”

Herwie's nose twitched suddenly, and she stopped talking abruptly. Blazer's eyes narrowed, and she turned to look out the window.

“The person outside, I can pretend that what you just heard was an accident, but what you’re about to do is that you’re deliberately eavesdropping.”

"I'm giving you two choices: either leave now, or come in and listen openly. Which one do you choose?"

A series of hurried footsteps came from outside the window; the person eavesdropping had clearly chosen the former.

"You're a representative of a small to medium-sized kingdom. Your voice was too loud just now."

"I'm sorry, I got carried away." Herwi lowered her head in shame.

Blazer waved his hand.

"Forget it, as long as the key points aren't known, you can continue. Although there are still some people eavesdropping, they're just some old guys with a twisted sense of humor. Don't worry about them."

"Someone's eavesdropping!?" Hervie sniffed hard, but couldn't smell anything. However, since Blazer said not to worry, she chose to believe him.

"Actually, this is a rather uncertain matter, so I didn't tell you. The mission that lord gave us was to find the totem in the orcish lands that tells the story of the gods creating mankind."

"They say if they find it, it will prove that orcs are also human."

(End of this chapter)