Summoning at random Side 1

Side story 1: Hairstyle in fashion
I plan to embark on section 2 after inserting 2 side stories

Church of the Sacred Light – A religion that believes in the Goddess St. Sophia, and the state religion in all countries within the human race territory with the exception of Holy Anri Thearchy whoch worships Evil God Anri.

Although there are no other religion on the continent, there is a difference in scale when compared to the Church of the Sacred Light.

As a matter of fact, it’s not an exaggeration even if one says that most of humanity are believers of the Church of the Sacred Light.

In recent years, the statement of the goddess they believe in has cause a contradiction with the doctrine disseminated so far, and the degeneracy such as the corruption and philandering of the high ranking clergymen have been exposed, and moreover aside from that, with it is the situation of waning influence due to the previous incident of the kingdom of Fortera which played a leading role of a opposing denomination, but still, it remains unchanged that the religious group Church of the Sacred Light, as well as it’s headquarters, the Luxiria Theocracy, holds an overwhelming influence in the human territory.
(TN: Did you know how much effort it took to translate this one line? x_x)

Besides, when it comes to the pope at the apex of that, he has more influence compared to a king of a country.
It seems that those are reasonable words too., because support within the country may be lost in a go if they are excommunicated from the Church of the Sacred Light, even if they are the royalty.
Even for the king of each country, they pay special attention carefully so as to never displease him. It is such an existence.

That is to say, the Pope of the Church of the Sacred Light in such a manner, is an extremely important person.

Hence…….

“……Pupu” (TN: Holding laughter)

…….one must never laugh even if that hairstyle is amusing.

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“…..Pfttt”
“──────!”

Hearing the sound of laughter, Pope Artorius the fourth glared, but because people in his surrounding had suppressed the laughter and looked down before his sight was directed, he was not able to identify the scoundrel who laughed.

The Pope who had his hair burnt off from the top of his head, by the hero summoned from a different world in order to restore the influential insignia of the Church of the Sacred Light, currently has a style of a soldier who just lost a battle with just the top of his head smooth.

Even if the burn can be treated with recovery magic, the hair that was burnt doesn’t return.

It would be natural if he became the current appearance gradually with aging, and because the people around would have been familiar with it, it would not be amusing.
However, to become so all of a sudden when there was plenty of it until just the other day, it appears comical due to the gap.

“……….Pfttt!”
“──────!”

Therefore, even though the other party is his Holiness the Pope, the people around unintentionally burst into laughter at that hairstyle. As one would be in danger if laughter leaks out, they desperately endure it.
However, they are unable to be endured by all means, and stifled giggles frequently occurs around the Pope who is walking along the corridor of the St.Sophia cathedral.

“………hee, ahem”
“──────!”

Although the Pope knows that he is being laughed at too, he glares at those he hear and as a result the other party laughing hides it so as not to make him angry, there wasn’t anyone he could point his spearhead of anger at.

He had thought about wearing a hat or a hood, but because rumors of his hairstyle has already spread, it will be completely understood as trying to hid the tragedy on his head now. To be ridicule on top of the shameful thing of hiding sneakily when he is exposed……his pride did not permit such an unsightly thing.

Glaring at the laughter heard, scowling at the laughter heard…….and repeated in a cycle, the Pope was accumulating frustration day by day.

And accumulating shame and anger till his limit, an eruption will be triggered before long.

“T, This hairstyle……”

“Your Holiness, Pope?”

To the old man who began saying something while quivering and trembling slightly, the people around are staring at him intently in a puzzled manner.
Among those are those anxious ones thinking ‘Dangerous, did I laugh too much!?’.

“This hairstyle! This hairstyle is the easiest to receive the light of the sky of divine protection from the saint goddess-sama!
Therefore from now on, everyone above the ranking of an archbishop is required to have this hairstyle!”

── Something strange was said.

The thoughts of the people around came together.
No, more accurately, what was united was only the heart of the lower ranking people among that place.
The people above archbishop, was sent into a panic as soon as the inexcusable words from the Pope was said.

“Y, Your Holiness, Pope!? W, What are……..”

“……T, This has been decided!
I will not overturn it. Carry it out at once!”

Turning stiff from understanding what was said, although they came to their senses after the Pope’s shouting, it’s already impossible to take back the words spewed out.
Human being, when losing their calm and acting on feelings, this is the result.
In the end, he seemed to have forcibly overcame the remarks of resistance, and gave an order to the religious soldiers waiting nearby.

“U, Uhhh…… Is that all right?”

“Do not be concerned, just take them along!”

“P, Please wait for a moment!”
“P, Please excuse me somehow!”

“I’m sorry, because it’s an order from his Holiness, the Pope……”

The religious solder around asks timidly, but the half desperate Pope doesn’t care and orders the cardinal and archbishops in the place to be taken.
Although the religious soldiers stuck between 2 high ranking side wished that the flustered Pope changes his decision, that wish did not come true and they had to forcibly take them along from there.
In order to shave them.

“………..”
“………..”
“………..”
“…………”

The people left behind were dumbfounded to the comedy happening abruptly before their eyes, remains standing silently in that place just like that.
In that painful gaze and silence, the Pope left a concluding word causing them to break into cold sweat.

“This is the the will of saint Goddess-sama.”

If, those Gods are in this place, they would have opened their eyes wide in surprise.

Thus, all the higher ups of the Church of the Sacred Light came to shave the top of their head in the same way as the Pope.

Distracted from the intrigue with the Pope’s hairstyle by the surrounding higher ups spotting the same hairstyle too, he is no longer laughed at alone. The Pope smile contentedly while eyes of dissatisfaction are turned towards him by the cardinal and archbishop around.

Thereafter, the conference room where the upper echelon of the Church of the Sacred Light gather, an awfully  bizarre scene extended.

But, the Pope who created the strange custom with a momentum like this forgot something important. Since the widely declared custom has taken root in this way, he himself will have to shave it even if his hair grows out in the future.

In this way regarding the ‘mysterious custom that occurred all of a sudden’, it produced a brain-racking custom for historians of the future.

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