The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

16 – Unbreakable Courage

Bella’s announcement of arrest was met with contempt from the students around her.

As she was captured and taken away by the Templars, she desperately thought about what to do next.

According to the setting, the church in this world was a gathering of true fanatics. Like the denomination, there was an extreme reluctance to anything that was contrary to their religion.

In particular, there was a church law that said that only the saints chosen by God could know anything related to the future.

That was the reason I didn’t write an anonymous letter to the church during the attack of the mutant orcs.

If it’s a church, rather than focusing on the fact that a mutant orc is attacking a village. Because he knew that he would investigate why he knew ‘in advance’ that the mutant orcs would attack.

The church drags you to the interrogation room under the name of ‘heresy’ just because you know about the future. It was a place where it was proved that it was a heresy.

Until now, there has never been a time when a person who was designated as a heretic by the church was not a heretic.

The village where they lived, their friends, and their lovers. It was the church that received evidence of heresy even from the family.

If it was an interrogation room at a church where all sorts of tortures forced confessions out, my weak mental strength would not have been able to withstand it and I would have confessed about possession and information about the future.

If that happens, I will be locked in a basement under the name of ‘heresy’ and spit out all the information, then the information I spit out will be passed on to a fake saintess and deceive believers with the word ‘prophecy of a saint’.

It was very obvious that I would be accused of ‘heresy’, burned, and silenced.

There is no possibility that Bella noticed my possession and planned this trap. It was just a coincidence that the angler matched.

While thinking about how to get out of the worst situation. With both arms grabbed, they were loaded into a carriage and headed to a huge cathedral in the capital city.

Get off the wagon led by the knight. The interrogator in a red priestly uniform looked at me with a benevolent smile.

“The lost sheep has arrived to be interrogated.”

Let the interrogator beckon. The priests in black priestly robes behind him took me over and stabbed me in the side with their black staffs.

“If you resist, it will hurt a lot.”

The female priest, holding a staff to her right side, whispered in a small warning.

“Then, I’ll leave the interrogation to you.”

“You can wait for satisfactory results as promised.”

The inquisitor, who watched as the knight turned away without answering the priest’s words and rode away, smiled benevolently and approached me, placing his hand on my shoulder.

In the light madness hidden behind the smile, I instinctively felt the touch unpleasant.

“I heard that you are a freshman at Hani Academy. So, is this your first visit to the cathedral?”

“Yes.”

“While heading to the interrogation room, let’s take a look inside the cathedral, which is the pride of the capital.”

The interrogator, who squeezed my shoulder once more, let go of his hand and beckoned me to follow him. Someone pushed my back and made me walk forward.

Follow the Inquisitor and head inside the cathedral. I stopped involuntarily at the statue that magically moved like a human and at the starlight coming down from space on the ceiling, I stopped involuntarily and looked at it with surprised eyes.

A huge cathedral in the capital. The cathedral described in one line of text was more wonderful than anything I had ever seen.

The inside of the cathedral was beautiful with its magnificent size and detailed carvings, as if it had been carved inside a cave. Even people who did not believe in religion came into the cathedral out of curiosity to see the interior scenery constantly changing with magic. It was to the point where I wondered if I would feel a sense of faith.

As if he saw my surprised expression, the interrogator explained with a satisfied smile.

“This is where many believers come. It’s a place to thank God for his care and love every week.”

The gigantic god carved into the marble wall looked down at me, moving his eyes as if he were alive.

I took my time and looked around. I hurriedly asked the interrogator about the priest’s behavior of pushing his back and giving a signal to walk forward.

“This is the first time I came to the cathedral. Can I pray once? I really wanted to do it once.”

“Sure. You must be very anxious, but at a time like this, what you need is desperate prayer. I’ll give you a little time.”

Did you think it was your last push before entering the interrogation room? With a mocking smile, the interrogator beckoned. The priests who were stabbing me in the side with their canes moved away for a moment.

Buy time as planned. I immediately knelt down to the God carved into the marble wall and put my hands together pretending to pray. Activated the Ring of Oath.

I had to find a way to survive the torture somehow.

As I touched the ring of oath and thought of the power to choose, a status window popped up in front of me. I looked sideways and hurriedly found what I needed right now.

[Indomitable Courage] – 3P

Required points are 3P. The points I have now are only 1P.

There was only one way to get points right now.

Oath – Repay Eli’s trust.

It was an oath that I had left behind because of the condition without a fixed frame of faith and the fear that I would be dragged by Ellie even more than now.

What we need now is 2P. I quickly thought of the restrictions in my head. The constraints that I urgently came up with were less risky and less than 1P.

“Shall we go soon?”

The priests, who had widened their distance at the interrogator’s words for giving them a short time as he said, approached again. In a sense of urgency, I placed a high-risk restriction.

Restrictions – Lose most of your abilities while not reciprocating your beliefs. 2P.

-Are you sure you want to confirm the constraints?

I finally found the constraints of 2P. Resolving the immediate situation was the priority, so I decided to think about the next thing later and hastily confirmed the restrictions.

After that, let’s select [Indomitable Courage] Using 3P. A message popped up in front of my eyes.

—–

[ Ross ]

Age: 20

[Abilities]

Strength 1.5 / ▲0.1

Endurance 1.3

Instantaneous power 2.2 / ▲0.1

HP 1.9 / ▲0.2

mana 1.2

Innate Ability

Luck 1

Charm 2

Intelligence 8.3

[Talent -*Indomitable Courage]

*Activated by Gias

– Gain the courage to work hard without giving up on the goal you have set in spite of any adversity, temptation, or difficulty. It is the armor of will and the fortress of reason.

[Personality]

◇ Nervous breakdown

◇Sense of defeat

[Power]

◆ Check ‘Yonghari’ setting book

– Start language Yonghari

—–

I expected indomitable courage to be my personality, but I went for talent. Whatever the case, I got up from my seat with a sigh of relief at the fact that I was now able to withstand the interrogation.

While following the Inquisitor down to the basement of the cathedral. There is no difference from a moment ago, I wondered if indomitable courage had been applied now.

Let’s go down the stairs for a long time deep underground. The interrogator took a bundle of keys from his waistband and opened the white door.

“This is the red room for interrogation.”

The place we entered after the interrogator did not match the name of the red room. It was a pure white room with no stains.

After sitting me on a black chair that was placed disparately in the white room, the priest swung his staff. Trees grew from the handles and legs of the chair, and he bound my limbs.

Being confined to a chair. Let’s look at the busy priests. The interrogator smiled benevolently and asked me.

“Do you know why this place is called the Red Room?”

I don’t know. I had never written a setting that there was an interrogation room like this under the church cathedral.

Let’s shake our heads silently. The inquisitor smiled and accepted the small ax handed to him by the priest.

“It’s so named because the interrogation doesn’t start until the entire room is stained red with the interrogator’s blood.”

Bang-!

Blood splattered and the knuckle of my little finger was cut off along with part of the chair handle.

“Keep it off… !”

I gritted my teeth at the excruciating pain I felt in my hand and endured a scream. Let’s bite our lips to suppress the excruciating pain. A priest in a black priest’s uniform placed a box full of potions in front of me.

“There are a lot of potions, so you don’t have to worry about dying. Even dying here is my decision.”

Looking at the interrogation tools that the priest put on display, the interrogator smiled mischievously. As I looked at it, I felt repulsive, and the intense pain I felt in my left hand began to disappear.

“… If I count ten thousand sheep, will this be over?”

“What… ?”

Let’s ask the interrogator, who was smiling mischievously, questioning himself. I raised one corner of my mouth.

Because the message that popped up in front of my eyes gave me the courage to believe that I would be able to endure this worst situation.

– Unbreakable Courage is activated.

“Please, let me sincerely beg you to kill me.”

The interrogator picked up a long black needle and grabbed my finger with a mad grin.

“No, I will definitely count ten thousand sheep.”

A black needle pierced the flesh between the fingernail and flesh of the index finger. My whole body trembled like a spasm, but I was able to ignore the pain by focusing on other things.

“Sheep… one animal.”

At those words, the interrogator erased his smile and released the madness he had been suppressing under the mask.

***

It wasn’t long before Transcendence Academy was out of chaos.

An attack by a warlock that occurred while Principal Nelson was away to search for an ancient dungeon discovered on the eastern border at the request of the imperial family.

Many people were injured, but luckily, no one died.

The black magician who raided the academy led the monsters through the academy’s old secret passage.

While the professors were fighting against the monsters, Rosalind was investigating the core found in the heart of a mutant orc. The warlock came to retrieve the core.

Roel appeared and saved Rosalyn, and after a fierce battle, he eventually killed the warlock.

But Roel, who was poisoned by Dan Magi sprayed by the warlock, is now unconscious and under treatment, and Rosalyn is stomping her feet that Ross has been taken to the church’s interrogation room, trying to somehow inform Roel about this. Headed to the treatment ward.

As Rosalyn opened the door to her ward, holding the magic cleansing potion she had made herself in her hand. Her long, white hands stopped Rosalyn.

Rosalyn, startled, turned her head to the owner of her hand. The woman with golden eyes glared at Rosalyn like a snake.

“Bell, Bella.”

“Sorry, Roel needs a break now. It is forbidden to visit.”

At Bella’s cold words, Rosalyn tried to convince her Bella.

“Bella, you know how devastating Roel will be when she finds out that her brother has been taken to the interrogation room at the church….”

“Right, so don’t talk nonsense to Roel. Are you going to give the injured Roel a bigger shock?”

Even as Rosalyn felt awe at her Bella’s ferocious expression, she struggled to open her mouth in her belief that the Ross she knew wouldn’t have done it to her.

“Ross did nothing wrong. It must be a misunderstanding!”

“You really think so?”

Rosalyn nodded her head as she instinctively lowered her gaze at Bella’s gaze at her.

“There’s no way Roel’s beloved younger brother would be like that….”

Bella laughed at Rosalyn’s muttering.

“You’re not sure, you see?”

“Well, we don’t know each other very well.”

She only talked about Roel a few times. In fact, Rosalyn was not very interested in Ross. Because it was a pointless relationship where she wouldn’t even have a conversation if she wasn’t Roel’s sister in the first place.

But an academy student, and a freshman at that. It was nonsense that she was taken to the interrogation room. If the headmaster had been present, this would not have happened.

“I know what the interrogation room is like. I should have made a crime that didn’t exist and attached it to Ross…. If this causes damage to Roel.”

“Do you think I will act to harm Roel?”

Interrupting her words, Rosalyn bit her mouth tightly, touching only the potion bottle she was holding.

“Ha, good. If this continues, you will not understand my actions and talk stupidly to Roel. Follow me to my room Why did you send Ross to the church interrogation room? I won’t stop you from telling Roel that Ross went to the interrogation room. How is it?”

Rosalyn was troubled by Bella’s suggestion. She nodded her head with difficulty and followed Rosalyn.

As she said, she wasn’t sure that Ross wasn’t helping the Warlock, so after hearing Bella’s explanation, she decided to talk to Roel.