History of the Azure Church

Actually, I realized I'd really been overthinking things.

The moment I thought about Moblado's billions of people being thrown into complete chaos, my head started pounding. I'd been so focused on figuring out how to help them face this calamity that had fallen from the sky that I'd blown certain side issues completely out of proportion—for example, how to explain the conflict among the Sages. But it was actually ridiculously simple. One sentence from liliNa cleared everything up.

She put it like this: "Boss, did you forget that they worship the Shilin Apostles as 'Sages'? Would they dare not believe what the Sages said? Just bullshit them as hard as you can. Say whatever you want! Then we'll make it a genuine return of the Sages. Change the people, time, and place in the Bible's story about Satan's rebellion and pin it on ourselves. Just tell them that the Shilin fleet outside trying to break in is a rebel army, and that they plan to destroy the world. That's the truth, isn't it?"

I thought the biggest difference between liliNa and me was moral integrity. My first consideration was always whether something would cause social unrest, while this girl's first solution was to lead people straight into a ditch. Yet I had to admit that the latter method was often simpler and more effective.

And now I was beginning to wonder how much of the Life Goddess Church's scripture had been written by this girl with a similar mindset.

LiliNa's idea of using stories from the Bible to explain the current civil war among the Sages to the Moblado people was extremely fitting. Strictly speaking, aside from being a little mystical, it was the truth. What had been troubling me was that even if the truth itself was flawless from