The magic cards I made are absolutely flawless!

Its eyes rolled back on the spot, and it fainted from excitement.

It looked as if a transparent cat-head ghost was about to emerge from the corner of his mouth.

Teacher Cat was murdered for unknown reasons.

285 Dekan's reliable teammates

It seemed that they had noticed the cat teacher falling from the windowsill.

Cornelia also released Dekan.

The two looked at the cat that had fainted.

I was a little confused at first.

They then looked at each other and smiled.

"I think I know why our cats are always so strange."

Dekan spoke as if he had figured out many things.

Actually, he had already sensed something a little while in the Shadow World last time.

It's just not confirmed.

"You finally figured it out."

Cornelia said with a smile.

"So, Morion is... I really didn't expect that. No wonder he gets along so well with Teacher Cat..."

Dekan shook his head helplessly.

Thinking of that unscrupulous businessman whom he both hated and loved, he didn't know how to evaluate him.

To say whether or not one holds a grudge against Morion.

He still remembers.

But there's no need to settle things so clearly with Morion anymore.

Next time you see him, treat him like a true friend.

"Aren't you afraid Morion will trick you again?"

Cornelia asked, clearly having discerned Dekan's thoughts from his expression.

"You're really getting excited about this. If he tries to cheat me again, it wouldn't be unreasonable for me to try to reason with him, would it?"

"I also prefer to win people over with virtue."

......

The two seemed to have forgotten about Teacher Cat again.

Until Teacher Cat seemed to see the goddess, received salvation, and returned to the human world.

Its paws twitched twice, then it shuddered and scrambled to its feet.

"Meow! You guys! What happened to you guys, meow!! What did I miss, waaaaah!!"

Teacher Cat jumped onto the bed and, watching the two talking, was first overjoyed, then burst into tears.

It was a cry of mixed joy and sorrow, a cry that expressed both happiness for the two people it was blessing and sadness for having missed many crucial moments.

It was sent to Mie by Dekan a day earlier.

Despite the cat teacher's several attempts to escape, he failed each time.

Until Mier let the cat teacher go, no matter how the cat teacher asked Mier, he said he knew nothing.

Teacher Cat knew there was big news coming.

Dekan definitely won't tell it!

It all depends on how much Cornelia is willing to tell it.

Do you want to hear it?

Dekan picked up the cat teacher and asked in a gentle voice.

"Meow? You're willing to talk?"

"Ah."

"Where did you hide the real Dekan, meow?"

Dekan rubbed the cat teacher's head.

I'm too lazy to argue with Teacher Cat today.

Although he never held it against the cat teacher.

"That story begins a thousand years ago, or perhaps ten thousand years ago... It's the tale of a young girl who, in the span of her short life, changed a demon..."

Dekan began to slowly recount everything he had learned in his dream.

Although he couldn't recall Deloitte's memories.

But this one paragraph is enough.

This must have been one of the most memorable moments of Deloitte's life.

It is unknown where Delois went after leaving that territory, or whether he found the answers he sought in the long years that followed.

But Dekan knew that Delois had been changed since then.

Like a small pebble in a rapidly changing era, it was pried up and rolled, ultimately potentially even changing the fate of that era.

Dekan had never seen any part of this dream before.

I don't know why.

Dekan was absolutely certain.

That is the Holy Kingdom.

In that era of the Holy Kingdom and the Demon Realm, it seems that many people in the present world have counterparts.

Now Dekan can also be certain.

In the scenes from the master's memories of the Holy Kingdom.

Standing next to Bishop Renn and his master was not Dekan, but Delois with gray hair and golden eyes.

There's more to it than just about the master; there's so much more about him that needs to be found in the Holy Kingdom.

He wanted to know the whole story of Deloitte.

After the Heroic Sacrifice, whether it is the seventh-tier Shadow World or the eighth-tier Shadow World.

He would seize any opportunity to revisit the Holy Kingdom.

......

Late at night on the same day.

In some unknown place, only tainted black stars shimmered with an eerie light in the sky.

This space is a mystical place that bishops of the Resurrected Church can only reach through their thoughts via their episcopal certificates.

Inside the illusory temple of the Church of Resurrection, the six walls felt oppressive, like a prison made of black stone slabs.

Sudden.

The structure inside the temple began to rotate slowly, like a Rubik's Cube, with the stones rolling with a clattering sound.

Its structure began to change. In the main hall, several huge black geometric shapes appeared out of nowhere, with only flat tops, as if they were floating without any support.

The strangely shaped black geometric object was covered with numerous eerie runes, which flickered faintly like countless eyes, creating a sinister and cold atmosphere.

Figures, seemingly formed from black mist, stood on the black geometric shape, with only a pair of eyes visible in the hazy mist.

Each person corresponds to a black geometric shape, which represents the bishop's seat.

This time, however, is different from the last bishops' council.

Surrounded by black geometric shapes, the seat belonging to the Pope on the central stone pillar is no longer vacant.

A figure sat down on it.

He seemed to sit on a throne, his eyes filled with seriousness and indifference, like the ruler of the world looking down on all living beings, noble and untouchable.

Apart from the already deceased Corrupted Bishop Fahim, the openly known traitor Bishop Dekan, and the incomprehensible Mad Bishop Clay, the other seven bishops were present, including the Nightmare Bishop and the Devouring Bishop who were absent last time.

Once the Pope, who possesses administrator privileges, returns to the mortal realm, he can disable certain privileges granted to the Bishop of Pain.

For example, in regular meetings like these, the Pope can isolate the suffering bishop.

In addition, the Pope can also use papal authority to produce certificates of nobly ordained bishops.

Generally, the certificate of a bishop without a master is used when a vacancy arises and the pope appoints a new bishop.

Of course, in cases like the corrupt bishop Fahim, whose authority has been taken away by Decan according to the rules of bishop duels, the position of bishop is essentially not vacant. Even if there are only nine bishops in reality at this time, the Pope cannot appoint a new bishop.

A single Dekan would have the same authority as two bishops.

However, the unclaimed bishop's certificate has another use.

That's what reporting a lost item means.

Once this unclaimed Bishop's Certificate is delivered to Clay, the Mad Bishop Clay can transform it into the Mad Bishop's Certificate, rendering the Mad Bishop's Certificate obtained by Dekan invalid.

However, since the founding of the Church of the Resurrected, there have been very few cases of cardinals losing their bishop certificates.

Not to mention that he deliberately lost his bishop's certificate.

Aside from that man who left even the Pope speechless—

The mad bishop was truly mad.

The Pope even considered whether he should just kill that bastard Clay.

However, in the subsequent operations, Clay became a crucial fighting force for them.

Moreover, in this church that is investigating the mole, apart from Carlos, only Clay is the Pope's most trusted confidant.