"I can't spare anyone on my end."
As someone with whom she had forged strong ties, Veronica spoke without any courtesy, very bluntly.
"It can't be that bad; the church has so many people..."
"But now they are accusing us of hoarding arms and having ulterior motives. All our combat teams have been disarmed and are gathered in the cathedral for scrutiny."
"It's not like you're hoarding arms for the first time."
"Yeah, but now we've hit a snag. There's a saying, 'a heart is separated by the belly'; why do you have such confidence in the church, thinking that there would definitely be no problems within?"
I never felt that the church definitely wouldn't have problems.
As a Western sect, one hand preaches with an iron cross, the other wields a shotgun to exorcise demons, and they have a backing of more than a dozen factories with tens of thousands of female workers ready to arm themselves at any moment.
