Innocent Holy Maiden In The City

"Fortunately, I arrived on time otherwise, haa..."

Roy 'Mrkl' Crowley is definitely not a good citizen who is eager to help others. It is just that he knows the power of Madame Aisha and the possible consequences from the sage council and his clairvoyance, in order to prevent himself from getting involved in too much trouble afterwards, it's better to take action beforehand.

His 'Face of God' derived from <Visage of The Alpha & Omega> took over Madame Aisha's <Charm or Curse>, thus turning these enthusiastic citizens from Aisha's chauvinists into his own fanatic believers.

This ability can forcibly twist the beliefs of others gives him the power to make others his believer-cum-slaves, but this trick doesn't work either on Heretic Gods or his fellow Godslayers.

He does not need ordinary people to believe in him as some god figure, this was the first time he was using this useless power.

Only.

"Saint Lord, please redeem us, we have sinned. Holy Sonnnn—! Please, punish usssss....."

"Tch-!"

Seeing the people who were even going as far as to lick the dirt on which he was standing on made his head hurt.

This was also one of the reasons he didn't like to use this useless power. People will become IQ less maniacal zealots pestering him left and right.

But undeniably, this time, this useless ability played a big role in handling the situation.

Compared with the arbitrariness of Madame Aisha's power where the civilians will loot everything in the surroundings to devote it to their queen, his power only makes them annoyingly pester him, solving the crisis nevertheless.

As his power control is more precise than Ms. Aisha, these fanatic believers of his will gradually turn to their normal selves in two or three days.

"This is simply a criss-cross of from one crisis to another."

The local mages of Athens who were called to handle the situation looked at this scene with a chill going through their spine and only felt more terrified.

These two people were indeed a group of Demon Kings, arbitrarily distorted the will of human beings.

The indifferent attitude of King Roy made them take a knot in their heart to never offend this terrible demon king.

As veteran powerful mages and knights stationed to specifically solve any magical crisis, they could see that this power was effective not only for ordinary people, but also for mages and knights like them.

Even thinking about losing his will as a human being inexplicably, and becoming a pure fanatic, the Commander-in-Chief-Chief who was following behind Roy broke in cold sweat.

As expected, the Gods and the beings who take fun in slaying these gods are not something even powerful mortals like him can go against. Just a word and show of face can make people lose themselves with their everything.

"My believers, go back to your abode, where we will pray to the Lord we believe in! God loves the world, and so he even sent the Holy Son down on earth, so that all who believe in him will not perish, take bliss in redemption and truth!"

Roy shamelessly compared himself to the Messiah the Savior, and wrapped up the stage to lessen the present situation from becoming more annoying.

The crowd on the street knelt on the ground in unison again and again, cheering from the bottom of their hearts, and then they all bowed to Roy, one step at a time with a fanatical but obedient expression, and left the streets to go back to their houses with the firm resolve to make their family members turn into firm believers of the Lord like them.

In the blink of an eye, the whole street was empty.

"Money."

Roy stretched out his left hand and demanded.

" H, Huh?"

The Commander-in-Chief woke up from the blank expression and stuttered stupidly, Erica smiled furtively, and quickly took out a paper bill with the denomination of five-hundred euros from her purse and placed it in Roy's hand.

Roy returned a pleased smile. With more than a year of getting along, he and Erica have become more and more closer in tacit understanding.

When he thinks about having some snacks she will magically appear with a plate of snacks. When he gets mentally exhausted from continuous alchemy experiments, she will randomly appear with a shy Liliana in a tow.

Sometimes, he even wonders if Erica can read his mind to know his wants exactly at the right timing.

Taking the five hundred euros, he slowly walked to the stall where Mrs. Aisha had finished the stall owner's food stock.

The stall owner was also effected by his power and went back home. He placed the five hundred euros in the stall owner's cash box and casted a simple magic seal.

While doing so, he smiled at the stupefied Mrs. Aisha: "…to 'chew and skidoo' is not a good behavior, Madame Aisha!"

Aisha face turned red. Although she did not intend to eat and ditch the pay, it was more of force majeure, but from the results, she was indeed suspected of being someone who takes free meals.

"Thank you for helping me out, sir!"

Mrs. Aisha said gratefully, thought others didn't know whether she was talking about Roy helping her to relieve her power's crisis, or helping her to pay, or for both.

Roy was taking a close look at the mysterious queen who spent most of her time in the past, or in her 'caves' where she lived in 'recluse'. Although Aisha was called 'Madame', she had never married, it was just out of politeness.

Her facial features were three-dimensionally distinct, her beautiful pure eyes were the ones to grab his attention. She didn't look the type that can make people fall in love at the first instance like Erica.

She belonged to the type that looked more beautiful the more one looked at her, just like many Indian women she withheld her own mellowing charming demeanour.

Putting them all in the same place, to him, she looked more like a holy maiden, a proper saint than him, a fake version with tremendous potential only because of his 'Face of God'.

Madame Aisha was born in northern India, during the British colonial era, and became a maid of an English gentleman who owned a diamond mine.

She was very close to the gentleman's daughter. So close that the gentleman's daughter pleadingly convinced her to travel back to England with her family, when it came time for them to return and even left behind Aisha, her close friend with her entire inheritance before both the gentleman and his daughter passed away when Aisha was just seventeen.

The Mysterious Queen's specific time of slaying her first God is unknown, but it was surely after the death of her close friend.

There are even rumors that she has made the arrogant first generation Campiones, the Late Marquis Voban and Lord Luo Hao flee in exasperation with her antics and troublesome authorities.

Roy recalled the contents of the report of the sage council, and at the same time looked back at Mrs. Aisha's past with his 'Eye of the Yore', and learned about this mysterious woman almost instantly.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Aisha, who turned around to look at others, discovered Athena in hindsight, she hopelessly backed away in a panic, and even hid behind the food stall.

There was no urge to kill the other party, nor the fear of ordinary people on seeing a Heretic Goddess, only panic on her face with a ear-blazing high pitch scream.

"Hmph, the look in your eyes are disgustingly annoying to this goddess!"

Athena snorted, dissatisfied with Madame Aisha.

Indeed, Mrs. Aisha's reaction was exactly the same as to when a woman suddenly sees a cockroach and hops onto a higher place for her 'safety'.

"T, This goddess, I don't want to fight… Please, I really don't like fighting, and I don't know how to fight. I have to kill gods out of helplessness. They always chased to kill me with scary looks, wuuu. I was forced to fight back."

Mrs. Aisha revealed sadly.

She was speaking the truth from her heart. Although she is a Godslayer, Madame Aisha is unwilling to fight against the Heretic Gods. In this case, she has the most stable control of her instincts beyond all the Godslayers, even Roy.

"Although the smell on your body makes us retch in disgust, but now the freedom of this goddess is not her own. Until that human gives the order, this goddess will be a forgiving one."

Athena just glanced at Madame Aisha in disgust, and didn't express the stance to take action.

Roy looked at Athena with some surprise. This tsundere proud goddess would actually admit to listening to him on this occasion. Could it be that Athena also knows the mortal world's way of a woman to give a man some face when they are outside?

"Don't look at this goddess like this. This goddess is a goddess who understands righteousness. Be grateful for that."

Noting Roy's surprised gaze, Athena turned her head slightly and harrumphed in a haughty tone.

Roy didn't expose her arrogance, just smiled and said:

"…As Athena said, as long as you don't do anything against her, she won't do anything against you. Of course, if you couldn't stop yourself from doing something against her, I can't help. If I act, as being in the same camp as 'this goddess', I can only regret killing you here."

Roy didn't care about the notion of enmity between Campione and Gods, and issued a declaration of killing to his own kindred.

Athena who had her ears perked up, nodded at the same time. Her beautiful and lovely face unconsciously showed a clear smile, very satisfied with Roy's declaration.

"Ah, ah? This gentleman, are you friends with 'this goddess', um, Miss Athena?"

Madame Aisha looked at Roy in amazement. Even though one Godslayer could not detect another Godslayer, when Roy used his power before, Mrs. Aisha was able to make sure of his identity based on the huge amount of mana he released.

"Mrs. Aisha, you can describe it the same way."

"It turned out to be a friend! Great, sure enough, the godslayer don't have to be enemies with gods. I have seen several gods in the past, and every time I enthusiastically go to make friends with them, those high-faced gods start chasing after me with blood on their face. It is just too much! In the end, I had to kill them just to save my life...."

Madame Aisha showed a relieved expression, as if her wish had finally come true, she looked at Roy and then at Athena, her pure emerald eyes were filled with joy.

"Ms. Aisha, the commotion here has attracted the attention of ordinary people. How about we go to another place to talk?"

Looking at Mrs. Aisha, who looked like an inexperienced girl from the countryside having her first experience into the city, evoking a pure aura attracting conners to con her, he felt tempted.

"Okay~ I too have many questions I want to ask you, sir."

Mrs. Aisha who didn't know the ways of the city people at all, nodded happily in jubilation.

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Side Fact: Aisha is the main antagonist of the series Campione: Lord of Realms.

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