[Inside the Holy Dungeon]

While driving my camper van golem, a sudden thought crosses my mind

"Oh my god!" [Ash]

"What is it!?" [Linda]

"I just realized what I did was nothing short than an act of international terrorism!" [Ash]

"I'm surprised you just realized that" [Alaric]

"Well, they will suspect it was us, but they have no concrete evidence to say it was us who did it. So don't worry" [Saint Louis]

He said that in such a relax manner while eating a red bean pau with some hot tea.

"For a saint you sure are overly relaxed after what we have done, no... more like, you actually have done this more than few times. During the succession war perhaps?" [Ash]

"Looks whose talking. Plus, you wanted to ask something to else, aren't you. Something about my past" [Saint Louis]

"You aren't cutting around the bush. I'll be honest, what you said did leave a deep impression on me, so much so that I wonder what you have gone through" [Ash]

"It isn't anything special. Just that I was once the dark guild master during my younger age" [Saint Louis]

""""I see"""" [Ash, Alaric, Linda, Seraph]

"..." [Saint Louis]

Dark guild master. Cool. That mean that...

""""WHAT!!!!"""" [Ash, Alaric, Linda, Seraph]

Saint Louis is... Saint Louis, the very same saint with the title saint beloved by Goddess Achalasia was once the leader of the dark guild!

"Please tell me you're joking..." [Linda]

"I don't, though not many know about it" [Saint Louis]

"Then just how on Achalasia can you become a saint?" [Alaric]

"Haha! Can it be, when you meet Mr Filvisar not to long ago?" [Seraph]

"Short version is..." [Saint Louis]

"Hold on! Let me put this camper van golem of mine on autopilot mode!" [Ash]

Quickly turning it into autopilot mode, I let the camper van golem drive around at slower speed as to avoid any accident. I can just hear it while driving, but that will be disrespectful to a saint. Plus, it's interesting, so I wanted to hear it with my full concentration

"Sorry, now please continue" [Ash]

"Ash, he's still a saint you know! Have more respect!" [Linda]

"It's fine. I'm more comfortable with it. Though don't do it when you're with children. You're someone with the title guardian of children, which makes kids believe in you and imitate you more, so you should remember that" [Saint Louis]

"Ohh believe me, I have tone down my usual rudeness way more than any one of you think. Just ask Alaric" [Ash]

"That's true, but you're still a bit rude if I'm being honest" [Alaric]

"Anyway, about this story of mine, just don't go around telling other about it. Even Saintess Rumia didn't know about it" [Saint Louis]

~Nod~

Taking a deep breath, Saint Louis started to tell us his past.

"I was an orphan with quite a number of elder and younger siblings. We aren't rich, but we aren't exactly poor either. Even then, we can keep our stomach from becoming empty, until..." [Saint Louis]

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Until...

"Until the royalty in my country started to draft us all, immobilising all the national fund and forces for one single objective, and that's to capture the Holy Beast of Wind, the Rampaging Garuda" [Saint Louis]

"I see. That famous accident" [Seraph]

"Is it really true that the holy beast of wind actually goes on a rampage?" [Linda]

"Of course not. It was only an excuse to seize the holy beast power for themselves" [Saint Louis]

"But I do heard that the holy beast actually attack the country" [Alaric]

"That's nothing but a retaliation from the holy beast side. Just like how a country will retaliate when another country attack them, so does the holy beast. In this case however the retaliation from the holy beast make the people believe the propaganda from the royalty, which make the mobilization of funds and soldiers alike easier" [Saint Louis]

"What happen afterward?" [Ash]

"Well, the holy beast manage to beat the country forces, and disappear afterward. The citizen, angry with the royals and nobles who trick them, but little did they knew that it was to late. Those at the top simply fled the country and thus leaving us crumbles. With nothing much to do, that's when my journey as the members of the dark guild began. In order to feed my family as well as my neighbors, I begin to take various job while wearing various masks. Killing contract, slave auction. Name it, I actually quite proficient with it, so much so that they make me the guild master while not knowing my identity" [Saint Louis]

"And...?" [Ash]

"Well, of course I feel guilty, but at the same time, there was a friend of mine who is now an S rank adventure as well as the current adventure guild master in our headquarters. He suggested to me to raid the nobles and royals who fled the country, bringing back the wealth" [Saint Louis]

"I suppose it works" [Seraph]

"Indeed it does. With wealth starting to pour in, people started to become healthier and happier, and at the same time, people need someone to guide them, and that's when this persona of mine, Saint Louis come into play. I work for both the light and the darkness of our country. Bringing back the wealth of the country while killing those royals and nobles who comes back as they wanted to claim their right to rule us once more. As for the light of the country, it was also at the same time that I met Mr Filvisar, Saintess Rumia and the other, and thus I perform my duty to lift their spirit up, ended senseless discrimination so that the country can move forward as one. I keep repeating it, both lifes of mine, until my life as a saint becomes that of a true devotee, but..." [Saint Louis]

"I see. You also have your life as the dark guild leader, which brings a problem to your life as a saint. So, how do you handle it?" [Ash]

"Did you know what those people at the dark guild called me now?" [Saint Louis]

"The bloody saint?" [Linda]

"Indeed. The origin of that begins when I tried to cleanse the country from the dark guild. It ironic, as they're the one that help to rebuild the country, but alas, they refuse to serve in the light, feeling comfortable with doing various nasty things for easy money, and thus, this bloody saint as well as my adventure friend started to massacre them, all of them in a single night. Not leaving a single one of them behind, and thus, my life as the dark guild leader ended and my new life as the saint can truly begin. Than as you know, I help stop the succession war as well. I guess along the way, I received the title Saint beloved by Goddess Achalasia. As for bloody saint, you can say that being their leader once, I kinda know their modus operandi and where to looks for them, and instead of successfully converting them to become a devotee, I ended up killing them, which understandably gain me the title, the bloody saint" [Saint Louis]

I see. So that's his backstory

"Pretty epic if you ask me. Not everyone can do that" [Ash]

"True. If anything, you actually make a fine leader" [Alaric]

"I can see how you actually received that title from the goddess" [Linda]

"Pity for me as I can actually compose multiple epic songs from your story. Alas, I won't. This is a secret that we should carry to the grave" [Seraph]

"Appreciate it" [Saint Louis]