Unicorns were the purest of creatures.
As mounts that only Cardinals could ride, they were practically symbols of the Theocracy—some poets even used "unicorn" as another name for the Theocracy.
They required at least the Fourth Level of the Devotion Path, as well as the aura of a Pillar God. On top of that, the rider had to be a pure maiden—even a Cardinal Bishop who had mastered Advanced Divine Arts would be rejected by a unicorn if she were male or had been married.
But Isabel was already pregnant, so she could hardly be called a pure maiden. Iver, meanwhile, was not even female, and the "No. 14" within him had already split off and become Aleister. In theory, he could not be touched by a unicorn at all. Otherwise, it would attack him.
However, Iver had only discovered this by chance during the wedding rehearsal. Even now, he still had not been rejected by Pansy the unicorn.
Not only that, he could even bring people who normally could not ride a unicorn onto one with him. Or rather, as long as he stayed beside a unicorn, it would not feel uncomfortable from coming into contact with anything impure. He did not even need to mount it himself.
Pansy found this strange as well.
But she had indeed said that as long as she was with Iver, she felt no resistance or discomfort. A unicorn's aversion to the impure was physiological. They felt uncomfortable not only when touching impure people—even contact with filthy water was enough.
However, their abilities also allowed them to purify any filthy water that touched them. That was where the rumor that unicorns could purify people's souls came from.
Iver was not sure why this happened either. The only thing he could confirm was that