Please Stop The Pope

306 episodes

100. The Road to You

1.

I grabbed my compass from the armory of the Royal Palace of León and went straight back to the Holy See of the Saints.

Yuri and Haizu told me that before I left, they would make an official visit to the Holy See.

It was to formally declare the hosting of the "Continental Peace Conference" that I had spoken of, and to coordinate the opinions of the various groups.

They were trying to get their own pockets, but at least they didn't make a mistake even though they knew I was there.

Survivors of the war.

Being a survivor also meant that I had seen all the things I had accomplished.

That is why I have decided to return to the Holy See first.

"Your Holiness. You seem to have a lot of worries."

"Ah, Patriarch Bayer."

I was sitting in my office, fiddling with my compass.

Patriarch Bayer, who had come in with a cup of tea, looked at me with a gentle smile.

"I don't think I've ever seen His Holiness so seriously troubled."

"Is that so?"

"Wasn't he always ahead of his worries?"

Patriarch Bayer smiled and poured black tea into my cup. He squeezed a little lemon juice into it and handed it to me.

"This is the black tea that His Holiness loved. The elves make their own products and send them to Chengdu every year. The dessert you eat together is a tart made by the fairies who stay with the elves."

The variety of tarts is eye-catching.

I smiled softly and put my compass down for a moment. Then I took a bite of the strawberry tart and drank a cup of tea.

The right combination of sweet and bitter.

After the war, the elves and fairies who had regained their peace made me the food they wanted to give back to me.

It tastes so good.

It's clean.

"As long as you can travel between dimensions, wouldn't it be a bad idea to bring in Eden's ingredients?"

"Is that so?"

"I don't think we need to improve the breed. Hmm."

"Elves' tea and fairies' desserts are also highly marketable. You can see that the Demon Towers are hard at work developing conservation magic to bring the Fairies' desserts to the continent."

"Wizards used to be fire-crazed...... The world has changed a lot, hasn't it?"

"It means that we are entering an era where money is as important as force. Every business or research needs money."