"stop."
The sudden shout slowed down Liz Baife, who was ready to attack.
"If you have anything else to say, even if it is heresy, the Lord will give you an equal opportunity to speak."
Shinji covered his face with his hands and complained madly in his mind.
When I was playing games before, I thought this guy might be a stubborn idiot, and now it seems that he is right. Since God gives everyone a chance to speak, why didn't you say it earlier? You just rushed up like this, you are a believer.
"Speak up, or I'll attack." Liz Baifei on the opposite side obviously couldn't understand what Shinji was thinking and kept urging him.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you, I'll tell you." Shinji sighed helplessly, "Do you know who I hung on the cross?"
"who?"
"Hero Hayama, homeroom teacher of Class 4, Grade 1, Reien Girls' Academy High School, and younger brother of Chairman Huang Lu."
Liz Baifey's body tensed up again when she heard this.
Shinji waved his hands quickly: "Don't get excited, just listen to what he has to say - this guy is a complete bastard..."
Then, Shinji told Lizbeife exactly what Kurogiri Hana had told him, as well as the reason why he did this tonight. Of course, he didn't tell her the details of the suggestion magic, but just glossed over it as a lesson to teach the scumbag a lesson so that he wouldn't dare to retaliate in the future.
"Scum, scum, and those girls, actually, here, do, do this..."
The content of Shinji's words was too shocking, which greatly shook Lizbeife. As a member of the dark side of the church, she had experienced darkness before, but she did not expect that in the school established by the church, which should be the cleanest place, there was such filth hidden.
"So, do you still think I'm unqualified as a human being?" Shinji spread his hands helplessly.
"I take back my previous comments about you being a bad person and apologize for it. I'm sorry."
Liz Baifei was also straightforward and apologized to Shinji without hesitation.
"But I still think you are a heretic! This has nothing to do with whether Yeshan Yingxiong is guilty or not. Your actions blaspheme the Lord and the sacred chapel. I will punish you here!"
As he said this, he was about to rush forward again.
Shinji shouted again: "Stop!"
"Anything else to say?"
"Hey, I say, stop talking about heresy. I know what I did was wrong. Can't I just confess to God? Why do you label me a heretic?"
This is the modern era, not the era of theocracy. Even if Hero Yeshan is hanged on the cross, he should not be considered a heretic.
"Because I am the leader of the Knights of the Inquisition, if I don't identify you as a heretic, I have no reason to fight you in this sacred place."
Lizbeife's answer left Shinji dumbfounded. He had thought of many reasons, such as the hostility between magicians and the church, or his own attitude, but he had never thought that this would be the reason.
In order to attack me, you labeled me a heretic. What's the difference between that and just saying I'm going to beat you up
But think about it, this is also in line with Lizbeth's personality. Although she looks righteous and has no confusion, she is actually a very troublesome, lazy person who never considers the future and is self-indulgent as long as she has fun now. Maybe she instinctively felt that Shinji was not simple and became interested in him - an interest in fighting.
"Are you looking for trouble?" Shinji was both angry and amused.
"No, I'm just fighting heresy." - Yes, I'm looking for trouble.
It seems that there is no way to avoid a fight tonight, but Shinji doesn't dislike Lizbaifei's straightforwardness. At least she is much better than those guys who beat around the bush.
"So, heretic magician, are you ready to be punished by me?" - I'm going to beat you up, are you ready
"Even if I said I didn't do it well, you won't let me go." Shinji's words were full of helplessness.
"That's right—"
"Stop again! I'm not going to run away. Why are you in such a hurry?" Shinji interrupted Lizbeife's impatient attack for the third time.
"What a nuisance! What else do you want to say?"
"I'm thinking about you. I'm asking you, where is this place?"
"chapel."
Shinji scoffed, "Oh, you know, I thought this was my magic workshop, strong enough not to be destroyed by the aftermath of our fight."
Liz Baife's expression froze immediately.
Shinji continued, "A believer among believers would destroy a chapel where people pray to the Lord. Well, I, a heretic, don't mind. I don't mind if you really want to hit me."
"Lord, forgive my sins." Lizbeth used her free right hand to draw the sign of the cross on her forehead, chest, left shoulder and right shoulder. After praying, she also said "thank you" to Shinji.
"You're welcome. If you really want to thank me, just do me a favor." Shinji waved his hand.
"It's impossible for me to let you go." - What an unlovable personality.
"I haven't thought about it that way. I just want to ask you if there is any other suitable place to hang someone on campus. Since you, the Knight Commander, are here, it would be inappropriate to hang him here."
"A place to hang people?" Liz Baife thought carefully. "There is a clock tower near the main school building. That should be fine."
"That's it." Shinji grabbed Ye Shan, who had been a bacon for a while, and said to Liz Baifei, "I'm not familiar with this place, please show me the way."
"Oh, okay."
Liz Baife did not refuse and casually jumped down from the roof of the chapel which was nearly ten meters high. The sound she made when she landed did not sound like a human body falling to the ground, but rather like steel bars and concrete hitting the ground.
"This is a humanoid Gundam—" Shinji complained as he thought about whether he should take the opportunity to escape. Fighting with a guy this hard would make his whole body swollen for a while, no matter if he won or lost.
But in the end, Shinji gave up the idea of escaping.
It's not that he was worried that Lizbaifei would come to him. This guy's personality probably wouldn't allow him to handle such a troublesome and boring job as looking for someone. Shinji stayed mainly to take this opportunity to measure the level of the church's high-level combat power.
So far, the only fighter of the church that Shinji has seen is Kotomine Kirei. Although he is a leader among the agents, he cannot be ranked in the church full of monsters. As far as Shinji knows, the one in front of him can probably be ranked in the top ten of the church in terms of combat power and the number of heretics he has conquered. He is also a shield girl (knight), a profession with high defense and low sensitivity, so he can be said to be the most suitable opponent.
Later, at the stadium near the clock tower.
The majestic knight holding a shield and the assassin wearing a cloak and concealing his presence stood opposite each other.
"The Knights of the Inquisition of the Templar Church, Lizbefe Stolindobarry, with the Holy Shield in hand—"
"I, the unknown person who hides my identity, respectfully invite you to—"
"—Fight against heresy!"
"—Teach me!"
The battle begins!
PS: Because it was in the chapel, Liz Baife found an excuse and thought that if it was somewhere else, she might have been able to get in directly.
PS2: I originally didn’t plan to write about Liz Bailey, because there is too little information about her and she is more difficult to portray than Lorelaia. But a few old book friends insisted on reading it, so I just gave it a try. I don’t know if my book friends are satisfied or not.