This Holy Knight is So Despicable!
Chapter 40: Think About It, Think Carefully

Chapter 40: Chapter 40: Think About It, Think Carefully

"I think what you’re doing is wrong!"

After seeing Taylor off, Lette returned with the three girls to the Pope Palace and took a carriage home.

Inside the carriage, Flander looked seriously at Lette.

"What you’re doing is blatantly challenging the law and the system!"

Lette lay in the most comfortable corner, squinting at her opponent: "I don’t care what you think, I care about what I think."

"You! You are such a person!"

"Call me master! Otherwise, I’ll send you to Lilith to learn etiquette!"

Lilith, who was being as lazy as he was, instantly perked up: "Really? It’s a deal! Ah~ Finally, another new toy?"

"Hey, Lette, Lette! If I accidentally break her, will you blame me?"

"I’m serious!"

Flander leaned closer to Lette: "Do you know the consequences of doing this?"

Lette lifted his eyelids: "I remember you belong to the New Church, right? Your spirit totem is with the Light God. In your faction’s doctrine, the law holds a high position, doesn’t it?"

"Hmph, I didn’t expect you to have some knowledge."

"Then can I ask a question about your doctrine?"

"Of course! I’d be happy to answer!"

Lette shifted his body to sit up straight, putting on a very serious question: "If I do something that the law doesn’t forbid, is it a crime?"

"Of course not!"

"If I do something the law doesn’t grant me the right to do, is it a crime?"

"That certainly counts as a crime!"

"Then if I do something that the law neither forbids nor grants me the right to do, is it a crime or not?"

"Ah... this this..."

Flander’s brows furrowed into a tangle, feeling that something was wrong, yet unable to articulate.

Lette watched Flander, who was tricked into his argument, and helplessly shook his head.

"Too hard to answer? Then let me change the question. If someone exploits a loophole in the law, is it the person’s fault or the law’s?"

This time, Flander performed a bit better: "It’s both parties’ fault! Both people and the law are at fault!"

"If the law is wrong, is it still the law?"

"No... no. Wait! Yes! It’s still the law, just an incorrect law."

"So if someone exploits the loophole of an incorrect law to achieve a correct outcome, is it right or wrong?"

"This... this, that... I..."

Seeing Flander on the verge of tears, Lette asked the final question: "So, is the law’s significance in its existence, or in defining right and wrong?"

Flander stared blankly at her own hands, like a sculpture.

Emily essentially witnessed Flander transition from aggressive to nearly collapsing in less than five minutes.

She cautiously asked, "So, in the end, is it right or wrong?"

"The law discusses compliance, not right or wrong. Moreover, whether or not to comply with the law is just one reference metric in evaluating behavior. Not to mention, right and wrong themselves are relative and ever-changing."

Lette bitterly smiled and looked at Emily: "I’m teasing her, don’t get confused with it!"

Upon hearing this, Flander became furious and embarrassed: "You! You’re toying with me?!"

Lette chuckled: "Whether I toy with you is actually not important. What’s important is, did you just have a tiny bit of doubt in your belief?"

No need to prove anything to me, after all, you can’t deceive yourself."

Flander’s expression suddenly turned immensely panic-stricken. Clearly, during her moment of confusion, she indeed doubted her original belief.

Realizing this, Flander developed an intense hatred for herself.

At this moment, Lette’s expression suddenly turned incredibly gentle. He reached out his hand, placing it on Flander’s head.

"Don’t blame yourself; you did nothing wrong. Also, don’t blame the Light God for He is not wrong either."

Although Flander was resistant to his touch, her quest for knowledge evidently took the upper hand.

"Then who is wrong?"

"It’s the misinterpretation of the Gospel of the Divine that led to the erroneous understanding of the belief in God, which then caused the distorted perception and eventual plunge into a bewildering abyss. It’s like I wrote you a letter, said a sentence, but due to a misunderstanding, caused unnecessary misunderstanding between us. So, both the believers and God are faultless! It’s just a misunderstanding!"

Flander seemingly clung to a life-saving straw, nodding repeatedly: "Exactly, exactly! No one is wrong, and God could never be wrong! It’s just a matter of misunderstanding!"

Lilith covered her eyes nearby, looking unwilling to witness any longer.

Lette opened his hands, glowing with a gentle white light, looking incredibly holy. Even the tone of his voice became solemn and ethereal.

"The law is the cornerstone. The purpose of its existence is support!

Under morality, emotions, etiquette, there must be laws to provide support.

Without the support of law, virtue, decorum become castles in the air.

A society comprising only laws would undoubtedly suffer corruption.

Yet without laws, it would descend directly into chaos and disorder, making virtue and etiquette pure castles in the air, with nothing to speak of!

Just the same with the Law of Light!

The path of law granted by the Light God is to solidify the foundation for the Holy Light!

Only when the most foundational laws are perfected, can the Holy Light soar into the heavens to create immortality!"

Flander promptly knelt before Lette: "Then, how can we perfect the Law of Light?"

Lette guided patiently, his voice becoming increasingly transcendent, seemingly able to reach the depths of one’s soul.

"A perfect law is one that is self-consistent! A law that is self-contradictory can never become a cornerstone!"

Countless glimmers of light gathered into a ribbon in front of him, then slowly twisted into a halo.

"This is the perfect Law of Light! You may also call it - Magic Ring!"

With that, Lette gently placed the halo on Flander’s head.

At that moment, Flander felt incredibly holy!

Emily couldn’t help but exclaim: "Isn’t this an angel? Just missing the Light Wings."

"See!"

Lette clapped his hands: "The Light God has already shown you the way! It’s simply due to your previous misunderstanding that caused stagnation.

Now that you’ve found the direction, isn’t everything aligned?

Once you master the perfect Law of Light, you’ll be the angels of the Light God walking the earth!

Think! Think deeply!"

Lilith mumbled softly, "An angel’s halo isn’t a law ring..."

Lette gave Lilith a sharp look, moving to block her from the side.

"So that’s how it is! No! It’s how it should be!"

Flander, feeling the Light Magic Ring above, blushed with excitement.

"No way! I must hurry and tell everyone in the New Church about this!"

Unexpectedly, Lette held her down: "Don’t rush, don’t rush, have you now grasped how to forge the Light Magic Ring?"

Flander was taken aback, then shook her head.

"So, you need to perfect yourself first, then you can perfect others!"

"Yes! Master, Your Highness is right!"

Flander devoutly bowed to the ground: "Great Master, Your Highness, please forgive Flander’s previous rudeness and arrogance!

I beg you to let me serve at your side! To follow you and learn how to forge the Light Magic Ring!

For this, Flander is willing to do anything!"

Lette displayed a satisfied smile: "Rest assured! I will definitely teach you well."