I AM AN ATHEIST

The Sacred Ritual

When Rohan opened the door, a bunch of males and a single female appeared in his vision.

The common thing was they were all naked, and all of them doing it with the female together.

Rohan's veins bulged as he knew who that woman was, no one was much familiar to him than her, it was his sister, the sister that grew up in his arms.

" You bastards "

Feeling angry, with a strong urge to beat them up, Rohan barged in.

Immediately, the people halted the job and looked towards Rohan, they did not expect someone to defy the god in his own home.

Among those priests, a priest came forward, showing his righteousness, he said: "How could do that? Don't you fear God? How dare you disturb the ritual?.

Rohan was not in his usual state, he was boiling with anger, and being asked to stop in the name of God did make him angrier so he just slapped the priest.

" What are you doing? It's God Tora's sacred ritual."

With a shout, while seeing his fellow priest being slapped by an intruder, a fat guy appeared in front of Rohan.

Switching his target Rohan punched the fat guy's face as he shouted

" Sacred Ritual, my ass".

" You think you can do anything in the name of God"

Rohan yelled as he punched him again.

" Don't you have a sister? "

Rohan kicked his stomach.

" In the name of God, you guys violated my innocent sister, and you expect me to remain calm"

Rohan kicked his lower half as he was venting out the anger built within him along with the words.

" Aww"

The fat guy cried out as he felt unlucky to be the only one to get hit there, he regretted his brave actions from a moment ago.

Rohan wanted to continue beating him, but he was taken back as he heard the familiar sound " Brother stop".

Rohan did not understand why his sister wanted him to stop Instead of asking him to kill them all, so he looked at her for an explanation.

"Brother stop, don't beat him, he did not do anything wrong, it was me who is responsible"

Erena pleaded.

Understanding that his sister was tricked, pointing his fingers at the men one by one, Rohan explained: " Erena, you don't know a thing, he, he and all of them disgraced you and you don't even realise".

In reply, "Brother, I am not a kid, I know what I did, it was my consent and I was the one who suggested it, they were just following my order"

Erena shifted all the blame onto herself.

Hearing the sentence, Rohan felt as if his heart being stabbed with countless needles, his body felt weak, he never expected such an answer from the innocent sister who grew up in his arms.

Hoping that he might have misheard her, Rohan turned towards Erena and asked: " What did you say? ".

Replying to Rohan, she put her hands on her chest and said: " Yeah, Brother it was me who told them to do it with me ".

Faced with the answer that he least wanted to hear, Rohan could not utter any word for a minute, he opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted with

" Not only them, but I will also do to it with all 300 priests, due to limited time of one day I decided to do it in a group, brother please don't blame them"

Erena spatted out her explanation of the need to do it in the group.

This is not my sister, this is not my Erena, she is not like this, Rohan still refused to accept the reality in his heart.

" why ?"

Rohan wanted to know, why just why she chose this.

"Brother, It's for the prosperity of the next generation, God Tora passed this big responsibility to me, he scattered his blessings among all his priests, my life's goal is to give birth to the blessed one who will bring us to paradise, I need to gather all scattered blessings into my body to give birth to the blessed one"

" Brother, the purpose of my life is to give birth to the blessed one, I know you would try to stop me, this is also predicted by God Tora that's why I forced you to travel the city, I know it would hurt you, so I did not want to hurt you after all those things happened, I expected to keep it as a secret"

" Stop!"

Rohan yelled as he did not want to hear further.

" Erena, forget about God Tora, you don't need to this s**t, this is not right, come with me, we will go far away from where no god would reach us "

Grabbing Erena's hand, he started pulling her along.

As Rohan walked a few steps, he felt her resistance, she was trying hard not to get pulled.

" Brother I can't"

Erena said as she set her hand free.

" Brother, I am Holy Mother, the firm believer of God Tora, I never gonna betray him, I will give birth to the blessed.."

" Slap"

" Don't say his name again, You are my sister before anything else, As a brother, I can't see my sister turns into a w***e for the sake of some God or the blessed one"

Rohan roared as he slapped his sister for the first time in his life.

Rohan was left with no choice but to bring her with him using force, he never in his dreams thought that the sister who once refused to pray to God would become a blind devotee who was even ready to sell her chastity.

Erena's eyes turned red, there was an additional mark on her face but it did not stop Rohan, he undressed his shirt and covered her with it.

The onlooking priests were in shock, they never imagined someone to not only openly defy their God in his turf, but also forcing their holy lady to obey him, but none came forward to stop him.

However, when Rohan was about to cross the exit,

" phat "

following the sound of a revolver, a bullet hit his right thigh disabling his leg.

" Aaaaa"

The intense pain made Rohan cry out.

Meanwhile, Erena who could not handle the instant scene fainted.

" chapter 66 para 4, those who defy me shall be punished in the hands of the destined ones "

While preaching and carrying the revolver in his hands, Bishop Ruma made his entry, he walked towards Rohan and put his revolver on his head.

"Sinner Rohan looks like I am the destined one to punish you on behalf of mighty God Tora"

" But God Tora is so generous he says in chapter 47 para 9, Oh believer! if you leave me one day, then I will leave you but if you wanna come back then I will gladly welcome you back "

" So sinner Rohan, I am giving you one last chance to return to the God and seek his forgiveness "

Hearing Bishop's words, it could not be denied that Rohan was tempted but the events that happened appeared in his mind again he shouted " No"

" Oh my dear brother, I am disappointed you did not cherish the opportunity to serve the god once again"

Bishop Ruma said as he closed his eyes and rubbed them.

" Oh mighty Tora, I am sending this soul to you "

Bishop said as he put his finger on the trigger, and was about to pull it, but interrupted with irritating the voice:" High Priest, Please stop I want to redeem my wish ".

The infuriated Bishop gazed at the speaker and yelled:

"Don't you see, I am busy ".

" I am sorry High priest, but my wish is to spare this guy "

The man replied without any fear in his eyes while pointing his finger towards the injured Rohan.

"Gogoan, Are you sure about your wish?"

Bishop Ruma asked for his confirmation as he started at Gogoan.

" Yes "

When Bishop heard the reply from Gogoan,

" haha.. ha..ha...hahahaa..."

" Interesting "

He laughed his belly out while the revolver away from Rohan's head.

" Sinner Rohan looks like I am not the destined one, I wonder who could it be then"

Bishop said as he looked at Rohan then ignoring Rohan, he walked towards unconscious Erena, placing one of his arms behind her head and the other below her legs, he lifted her.

"Little miss, let's continue the ritual"

Bishop Ruma said to the unconscious Erena while carrying her towards the room.

As he was walking towards the room, the Bishop felt as if some had grabbed his leg, he shifted his eyes and found the culprit and yelled: " Sinner Rohan "

It was Rohan who was clinging to his feet.

" Release my sister you bastard"

Rohan shouted while tightly gripping Bishop's foot, he did not want to let it go, he had some inner fear if he couldn't protect his sister today, he wouldn't see her again.

" phat "

Having no thoughts of further cursing, the Bishop pulled the trigger of the revolver, the bullet did not take Rohan's life instead his other leg began to bleed.

The pain from his other leg made Rohan release his grip on Ruma's legs.

" Sinner Rohan, I may not kill you but remember that I am not afraid of disabling you from top to bottom"

Ruma shouted.

" You there, stop watching and kick this dirty bastard out of the cathedral and clean this mess up, I should not see this dirty blood here for my next visit"

Ruma ordered the priests who were watching the scene.

" Yes, High priest "

They replied simultaneously.

Rohan was heavily injured, he could not stop the bishop anymore.

Having none to block him the bishop carried Erena back into the room.

" Thud"

The room was closed.

" No...no...no...no.."

" No"

Seeing that he was helpless, Rohan cried out, his cries were so loud that even the people passing by the cathedral heard it.

"Hahaha look at him, just now he was acting brave"

" That serves him right "

" How dare of him to behave rowdily in the home of god "

Obeying the order of bishop Ruma, the priests whispered as they gathered around Rohan.

"Should we teach him more lesson"

A priest among the crowd took out a container filled with salt.

"Move"

With a shout, Gogoan appeared next to Rohan.

" Don't you dare to lay hands on my brother? If you do, then I will chop off your head "

Gogoan roared as he pulled a pocket knife.

" Gogoan, have you gone mad? You are one of us, why are you defending that sinner"

The man who held the container of salt yelled.

" It's none of your business"

Grabbing the salt container from his hand, Gogoan made a small cut on his finger.

"Awww "

The man cried out in pain, but this was just beginning as Gogoan took some salt out and rubbed it on his wound.

"Aaa..Aa...Gogo..."

" Is there anyone else who wanna hurt my brother?"

Gogoan asked.

" Gogoan you are insane"

Another priest said as he did not want to let the sinner walk away easily.

" So you wanna oppose, come let me give you taste of the salt too"

Gogoan said as he took some salt on his palm and licked it.

Even though it was normal licking, it gave chills in the people after looking at the tragic cries of their comrade.

" If you don't desire to taste salt then make away"

"Mad man! this thought ran through the priests after seeing the actions of Gogoan.

Everyone moved away giving Gogoan a way out, they did not want to enrage this madman who was living with them, they feared him because he could kill anyone he desired when one was sleeping.

The next day it was announced that the Holy lady became pregnant as a virgin indicating her purity and importance in the eyes of God Tora.

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After 20 years

Somewhere in the city

" Grandpa, grandpa you said that the holy lady has been pregnant for the last 20 years? , why is it taking so long for a baby to be born?"

a little girl asked her grandfather.

" Your grandpa does not know, but the baby is not some normal baby, it's the blessed one, every day a group of priests take shifts to nourish the baby in the holy lady's chamber, they are doing their best, we can only wait for his birth"

Grandpa answered.

" Grandpa, grandpa why do people call holy lady as Virgin Mother? What's Virgin grandpa"

The curious girl asked.

" Ahm. Ahm..that's enough for today, you go out and play"

Grandpa escaped from the embarrassing question.

Rumble, Rumble...

" Grandpa, what's happening?"

" Grandpa"

" Hold me tightly"

The earth began to shake violently, the sky turned blood red, then a ray of light shot out from the cathedral into the sky making the red sky into milky white.

" The Blessed One has descended "

" praise the God "

An announcement came from the cathedral to the whole city of Herbia.

All the citizens of Herbia, bowed towards the cathedral as they chanted

" Praise the God ".