The return trip to the Holy City was a good one for Father Weslie — no doubt fanned by how he had succeeded in securing a temporary truce from the Voidwalkers.
The chaplain's optimism was contagious. Even Baiyi felt as if the rising tension between himself and the Church had been seemingly assuaged, though a part of him wondered if it was just an illusion.
Back in the Holy City, the newly appointed Pope and the Chief Judge sat motionlessly in a majestic office. Unlike the architecture of the room, the furnishings were almost too simplistic for the two highest authorities of the Church.
Granted, the most breathtaking feature of the office was not the furniture but the walls and the ceiling over their heads. Murals of religious themes, drawn in Earth's Renaissance style, graced these oversized canvases.
The latter half of this chapter is just a rib on Monster Hunter, which I love — SWITCH AXE REPRESENTS! — but the front half of this is really damn intriguing. Young religious zealots gonna summon some angels to rain down retribution?! Now this is pretty fun! Of course, I wonder if Baiyi’s gonna really meet his match or if he’s gonna somehow be transported out of the main story because he has gone too OP or whatever, and then do really slice-of-life stuffs while the main action gets told in the form of “memory exchange”… That’s right, the Translator Walker is STILL salty over that sudden a** Type-Moon fanboy lolicon’s wetdream that had suddenly slid in during the Inter-realm War arc! I ain’t forgiving Baiyi for the hell those Type-Moon chapters had put me through! NEVER!!!