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How dare you come up with such a cryptic argument? Do you intend to use such logic to override everything you have ever done, Ars?"

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"Well, why not, Pope Paul? No one loses anything.

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Yes, well, yes. Yes, well, if those who lost their lives are saved, then so be it. But I don't think it's so bad to treat the Holy City as a cemetery to be restored. I, for one, have always thought that a holy city located so far away from here would be difficult to deal with.

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"Okay, so that's what I'll do. I'll act as a shield of God and conduct the funeral for the royal family of Doren and make a tomb in the sky cemetery. And the details of the funeral procedure will follow the existing methods of the church, is that correct?"

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"And nothing is done in the Divine Realm?"

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"Hmm?　Is it the Divine Realm?"

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"Yes. You are right, people want to go to heaven after they die. Whether or not the sky cemetery falls under that category depends on the person's opinion, but I think that historical royal families and aristocrats have the perception that the divine realm is heaven, based on the knowledge they have had so far.

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"Hmmm...but God doesn't want people on earth to be too involved in the divine world anymore. Then, should we make a splendid tomb in the sky cemetery, and ask if we can leave some kind of relics or grave markers in the god world?

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"Yes, that's right. I think it would be better to keep the function of the tomb in the sky cemetery.

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　After Rion, I explain my idea to Pope Paul.

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　He seems to agree with the idea, although he is just as stunned as Rion.

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　I asked Pope Paul about the arrangements for the funeral.

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　Basically, the way of funeral ceremony differs from region to region.

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　The act of sending people off to the afterlife itself is the same, but there are subtle differences in the way it is done, and those left behind may not be satisfied with a way that breaks with their tradition.

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　However, the style is generally similar for civilians and aristocrats.

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　I have served as a mourner before, and there is a rule at the end of a funeral when the head of a noble family dies.

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　It was to use the magic of the head of the family.

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　When Fontana was still a noble domain, Carlos, the head of the Fontana family, who was on his way to the capital with King Doren before him, lost his life on the way.

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　After his death, I became the acting head of the Fontana family and served as the pallbearer for the funeral of the noble Fontana family in place of the young Garod.

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　At the funeral, Bishop Paul prayed and at the end I cast a spell over Carlos' body.

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　Although it is no longer available, I used the "Summoning of the Ice Spirit," the head-level magic of the Fontana family, to put Carlos' body in ice.

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　It is said that the funerals of the royal family of Doren and other noble families are generally held in this way.

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　Perhaps it is because of the existence of immortals.

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　Immortals are unclean beings who become living corpses that move even after death.

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　It is not a good night's sleep for such immortals to see a dead person from their house.

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　Therefore, it was customary for the nobles who could use offensive magic to use magic at the end of the funeral ceremony to prevent the corpse from ever coming back to this world again.

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　It was for this reason that I was able to serve as a mourner for the Fontana family after Carlos's death, even though I had nothing to do with the death of Carlos.

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　At that time, I was the only one who could use the [Ice Spirit Summoning], because it was only me and the two-year-old Garoad in the Fontana territory.

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　The royal family of Doren has lost its former power, and the great magic of [Light of Judgment] has long been unavailable.

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　But that is not the reason why this custom continued.

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　It is said that the official procedure is to cremate the body and burn it so that it will not be resurrected as an immortal.

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　Incidentally, nobles who do not have offensive magic in the royal capital area, and knight families who do not have the magic of the head of the family, sometimes use the same method.

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　In fact, it is probably a good thing that no one has been immortal for a long time.

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　If I follow this method for the funeral of the previous King Dorren, it will not be a big problem.

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　However, I can't use [summon ice spirit] now.

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　That's why I can't put him in ice.

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　But there are many other ways to do it.

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　We just have to make them in such a state that they are not likely to become immortal.

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　We could turn the corpse into stone and make it into a statue.

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　In any case, we should dispose of the body in some way and bury it in the sky cemetery.

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　In this way, this funeral is not limited to the royal family of Doren, but other nobles may hold it as well.

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　Basically, all of them believe in the teachings of the Church, whether in the Kingdom of Fontana or not.

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　We want to live a clean and righteous life and go to heaven when we die.

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　Nobles, knights, and commoners, everyone wants that.

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　And the only one who can do it in concrete steps is me, the shield of God who can go to and from the divine world and who owns the land of the sky cemetery.

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　I will team up with the Pope of the Church to conduct the funeral, bury the dead, send their bodies to the sky cemetery, and send their souls back to the divine world.

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　Then, we may come to the opposite idea.

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　If I hold a funeral, the souls of the dead are sent to the god world.

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　Then, what if I don't hold a funeral?

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　Wouldn't it be logical that the souls of the dead wander in this world and cannot go to heaven forever?

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　In other words, if I don't hold funerals, all of them will have no place for their souls after death, that is to say, they will go to hell.

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　If all the nobles or all the knights could be made aware of this, it would be harder for them to be explicitly hostile to me.

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　It might be worth a try.

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　I will make sure to explain to Josef about the Doren royal funeral.

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　And make sure that the funeral will be held in a grand and peaceful manner.

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　After that, I will advertise that other nobles can also have a funeral if they wish, and then I will gradually change the argument to the one that they will not go to heaven unless they ask me.

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　Thus, my image strategy was steadily becoming a concrete plan to be implemented.

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