The Academy’s Health Teacher Wants to Take a Break

Episode 22. One cut.

In my previous life, I was a terrible atheist, but in this world, I have come to awaken my true faith.

There is also a power called divine power, and at the time I was brought to this world in the first place, I was in a position where I had no choice but to affirm the existence of a god.

Even from the ant’s point of view, humans are considered that way.

In this vast universe, there is no being superior to humans. Who can say for sure?

“…… There is no afterlife.”

However, that is nothing more than affirming the fact that there are beings superior to humans in the universe.

No matter how much they were dragged into a different world and even awakened to their faith from it, it does not lead to an affirmation of the afterlife.

Because it would be a leap to affirm all the fantasies imagined by humans that they were brought to another world.

Even Halo, a symbol of respect, eventually has a basis for ‘building a single existence over thousands of years’, but how can that alone prove that other mysteries exist?

“Really… …. Do you think so?”

The black saint of Heide grabs my hand at my answer.

My claim seemed shocking, but she had doubts about it from the start.

She just called me to ask for a definite answer since it’s not her specialty.

“…… Do you know what the first book I came across when I went to the medical powerhouse?”

Of course, as a believer, these words may be considered foolish.

I am afraid of not knowing, and I materialize the abstract that I created to eradicate that fear from generation to generation, and eventually, from generation to generation, it becomes an aspect of history and culture…

And eventually, denying what everyone believes to be the ‘truth’ is something a believer who worships abstraction from the very beginning must never do it.

“Anatomy book. It is the study of dismantling the human body and examining its organs in every nook and cranny.”

Unfortunately, I was a believer and a doctor at the same time.

A being who worships the dignity of life, but studies humans for that purpose.

Even that dignity should have a completely different meaning from what the public claims.

“I realized it as soon as I saw it. That medicine itself is a science that denies the afterlife.”

The heart knows that it is false that it pulsates because it has a soul, and it knows that consciousness is maintained by chemical reactions in the nerves of the brain.

I realize that what people believe to be the soul is bound to the body, and when the body dies, the soul they say will also disappear.

Hardware and software created generation after generation over billions of years.

The material is only an organism, but the concept can be defined as belonging to the commonly-speaking category of mechanical engineering.

“I guess you asked me because you felt that too, right?”

Yes, that’s what being a doctor is like.

Acknowledging that the mind, ideology, and values are, after all, mechanical beings created for some reason.

And ironically, the group driven by such ideology was cited by Heide as the protagonist of the new era.

“…… Yes.”

Of course, you can do anything you want to deny.

What matters in religion is belief, not truth.

No matter how much you ignore the truth, there is a huge price to be paid for it in this world.

Even if medicine can cover up the stain of divine power, overall, the benefits gained from divine power are much greater and stronger than medicine.

“That is enough.”

But don’t you want peace?

If we don’t want the tragedy that lasted two years ago to happen again, those who want to save people will have to pursue a comfortable life rather than an affirmation of death.

Convenience that more people can enjoy, not a miracle that only a few can enjoy.

The technology and ideology of saving people by non-gods was something that had to be spread in the future era of peace.

-Rumble.

At the end of the story, the carriage stopped.

It tells you that you have arrived at another village that exists near the border.

“…… It’s okay to say this with confidence, but what I just said is not the truth that someone has decided. It is just my personal opinion.”

Recognizing that, I stood up quietly and reached out for the carriage door.

“I have never seen it myself in the first place, so I just believe it doesn’t exist. In fact, only those who have really died know the existence of the afterlife.”

If it is not revealed, the existence of a scholar is to rule out the immediate possibility.

As much as I also went through an emergency case called a previous life, I was open enough to accept the unknown territory that I did not know.

It’s just that now is not the time to accept it.

“What did you talk about?”

Just as I was about to leave the carriage, a man in black armor who had been waiting in front of the door approached me.

The leader of Heide’s Black Knights.

Perhaps his name was Vincent.

“What can women talk about? We came to share a love story with a spoonful of weirdness added.”

“…… Your guy.”

“It’s a joke, a joke~”

How nice it would have been if we had just shared obscenities.

I patted the chest of the wooden man, who still had a stiff attitude, and left the seat.

“If you have any questions, ask the saintess directly.”

Unfortunately, I didn’t want to continue the topic for a long time.

Because I realized it only after it had already passed.

Even if you stepped on a mine, you stepped on it too hard.

…Damn it. What if Heide and Kleas fall apart over this?

Should I be prepared to be cut to pieces by other believers?

-Crash.

As I was trying to get out of myself, feeling such anxiety, I suddenly began to feel signs of something in the forest behind the place where the carriage was leaning.

Is that of a beast?

No, it’s too faint to be a beast. There are quite a lot of things that feel more than anything.

And yet it doesn’t disappear right there……. If even a pack of wolves aren’t targeting us, there’s only one answer.

“Good. I just needed something to apologize for.”

Mariel That guy.

As expected, the nib is really good.

***

After going around several villages, the sun was setting at some point, and Heide’s carriage eventually came to a stop in the middle of the forest road.

Of course tonight is homeless, but for the clergy, camping during the pilgrimage is included in their training, so it won’t matter.

Right now, we have time to pray by sitting around a bonfire like a campfire.

“Where are you going?”

As I was trying to get away from such a group, one of the paladins guarding the nearby area approached and spread a killing blow.

I asked who it was, and it turned out to be our captain.

“I just wanted to light a cigarette.”

“…Are there no restrictions on smoking in Kleas?”

“The forbidden things are mostly limited to standing in front of an operating table. And while I’m a doctor, I’m also a former soldier.”

When I was in the military, I lived with a cigarette in my mouth.

Because the battlefield is a very harsh and exhausting space.

As a paladin protecting the Order, Vincent, who had experience in the battlefield, would know that well.

“… ….”

“… Why are you like that, brother?”

“Be careful with your words and actions.”

hahahaha~ Is it embarrassing for our paladin to call a younger lady oppa?

You have a surprisingly cute side. I want to tease you.

“All right, take this for now.”

But now is not the time to do that, so let’s deal with the coincidence.

As soon as I handed over the note I had prepared in my pocket, he looked back at me with a questioning feeling.

“This is…”

“I’ll finish it soon and come back.”

That’s it.

I quietly walked through the forest with a cigarette in my hand.

How much time has passed?

– Chichik.

In a deep forest where even the light of the campground has disappeared.

At the time I stood there, the embers that burst with the friction of my fingers burned the tip of the cigarette and spread the smoke.

From my mouth, into the dark forest all around.

“Me and these.”

With that warning, the shadows appear one by one, pattering and making sounds.

It was clearly felt through the thick smoke. The fact that there is a lot of caution in those who face me.

“… How did you notice?”

“I know when I see it.”

About 20 people can only be seen.

It’s too many people to gather just one person.

Yes, what they are aiming for is definitely the pilgrims being protected by the paladins.

“Hey~ I guess there are a lot of people who can’t accept that our saintess is going to do some evangelism?”

No, even at this moment, there must be those who are monitoring Heide’s followers and looking for opportunities.

You should keep in mind that the total number goes up to a platoon unit of about 50 people.

“… You won’t tell me who bought it, will you?”

In terms of head count, our followers are similar, but unfortunately only the Holy Knights are less than half as capable of combat.

If left alone here, it will surely struggle.

In other words, if I reduce it to the extent that I can reduce it on my own, it is less burdensome for them.

“If you surrender politely, I will let you go without pain.”

“Kyaa~ Naked and bowing naked here, there is nothing that even a man can’t say to a virgin. Like these cheesy perverts.”

“What nonsense!”

A black shadow jumped out of the bush at that moment.

I couldn’t see it closely because it covered my body with a black hood, but only the metal in my hand was reflected in the moonlight shining through the trees in the forest.

Dagger. It is also an aura blade sharpened by mana.

If it’s a person’s neck, the moment it touches it, it’ll cut out the whole thing.

– Grasp!

But it didn’t happen that the blade stabbed me in the throat.

Before it even reached his neck, my hand was tightly gripping his wrist.

“Look at how they rush at me for making fun of it. Don’t you know hot-tempered men aren’t popular?”

“Oops…… !!”

Did you feel wary of the young power in the other fist?

The opponent also drew mana into his body and hurriedly developed a defense.

The enemy is presumed to have undergone specialized training, judging from his quick response.

But I thought it was a handshake.

-Puuong!!!

If you think it’s really dangerous.

I shouldn’t have blocked it, but I should have avoided it by cutting off my palms.

“Cheer, huh… ….”

The detonation sound of physical force echoed right after the fists collided.

I grabbed the guy who was about to fall out of the shock and pulled him by the hand and threw him right under my feet.

“One guy cut.”

The battered man was drooling ugly and lost consciousness.

I stomp on his head, waving his fingers at the rest of the rats.

“Next.”

It was something I had repeated many times until two years ago.