Please Stop The Pope

It had been a time of complete peace.

“Your Holiness! Urgent news has arrived from the temple in Los Angeles, USA. Heretics impersonating our church are spreading their false teachings! We have confirmed that they are using the name of the Rimen Church to extort money from victims by forcing them to make donations.”

“Dispatch the Inquisitors immediately.”

“Shall we carry out immediate judgment?”

“…No, the legal negotiations with the United States aren’t finalized yet. But we can still bring them in.”

“Yes, Your Holiness!”

I let out a deep sigh as I slumped back into my office chair.

It had already been a year since the final battle in Beijing ended.

I thought I’d finally be able to rest once the war was over, but what awaited me instead was a swamp of endless paperwork and responsibilities.

A lot had changed over the past year.

After regaining her full strength, Rimen established temples in Los Angeles and Paris, drastically increasing the workload of the church.

We had essentially become a global organization.

Honestly, if it weren’t for Park Ji-won, our business consultant, building this system might have been impossible.

Rumors were spreading like wildfire.

– It’s better to get a job at the Rimen Church than at a major corporation.

Apparently, joining a company managed by the Rimen Church guaranteed both pride and a stable livelihood.

I thought I’d avoid excessive expansion, but before I knew it, we had grown into a massive conglomerate—the “Rimen Group”—with pharmaceutical companies, equipment manufacturing for Awakened beings, welfare foundations, and educational institutions under our wing.

Oh, and of course, we’ve always paid our taxes faithfully.

We were even selected as exemplary taxpayers by the National Tax Service this year.@@novelbin@@

Anyway.

There was one big secret behind this incredible growth. And that was...

“…I don’t actually have to do anything.”

Even if I were to step away, the massive organization would continue to run smoothly.

That’s how meticulously the system had been built. Watching our church grow like a living organism sometimes made me feel religious myself.

Could it all be thanks to Rimen’s blessing?

I sighed again as I looked at the bishops presenting reports from each temple.