After beginning his search, Lumian sought out the Father of the Parish, whom he had killed once with his own hands, for a chat and some probing questions. He encountered Pierre Berry and spoke to him about the church.
Afterward, Lumian sneaked into Pierre Berry's home and saw three people who had been turned into sheep, which gave rise to more conjectures.
Although he wrestled with the idea of killing Pierre Berry, he ultimately refrained for fear of triggering the Loop.
"Sheep... people turned into sheep..."
Lumian walked along the road, pondering what he had seen:
This must be an ability that the son-of-a-sow Father of the Parish and his bunch obtained from the evil god they worship. Otherwise, why would a priest who enjoyed unrivaled prestige in the countryside worship an evil god?
It could only be to obtain power he had no way of gaining through the Church!
If that's the case, these sheep are most likely sacrifices for the ritual!
Having already disrupted the Lent ritual once, Lumian quickly connected it to the purpose of these "Human Sheep." A malicious thought suddenly surfaced in his mind:
If I kill these sheep and replace them with real ones, could I sabotage the ritual?
That would undoubtedly be deceiving a god. As long as they don't notice that the sheep have been replaced, there's a good chance their ritual will fail, or even backfire on them!
Even though... even though Godfather told me that everything I'm experiencing now isn't real, I still have to give these bastards the fate they deserve-something worse than death!
Lumian rubbed his fingers together, then abruptly clenched his uncontrollably trembling fists.
He slowly exhaled and suppressed the malice within him.
It wasn't that he couldn't bear to kill these sheep that had once been