I AM AN ATHEIST

Henry's Bible

"Your Majesty, we need to talk"

"Your Majesty, the prince defied the goddess"

"We don't need crown prince like him"

" Goddess would curse us to death if the prince becomes the next king"

" Your Majesty, you must uphold the judgement as a believer"

" Make elder prince as the crown prince, we don't need a future king who goes against the traditions "

"Yes, Abolish the crown prince"

"Abolish the crown prince"

"Abolish the crown prince"

The gate of the palace was overwhelmed with the shouts of citizens of Yuzu as they were pushing each other while trying to enter the palace.

But thanks to the foresight of the king Alfred, the entrance gate was closed ahead of the time and guarded heavily by imperial soldiers but still, these soldiers did not know how to handle the situation and make things better.

The soldiers were at the verge of losing their patience as they wanted to go out and beat all these citizens who were cursing their prince.

" That f*****g prince, he knew nothing but sleeping with women, today he sleeps in brothel and tomorrow he would do it with our women"

Retired Minister and great scholar Tewa, an old man who served under the current and previous king, shouted as soon as he came along with a bunch of his students at the outside of the gate.

" Yeah, We don't need a fucker as the future king, we don't need a crown prince who would snatch our woman"

To appease their master's ego the male students of Tewa supported their master while cursing the prince.

When Tewa appeared in the crowd, the rest of the people calmed down showing their admiration and respect towards the once brilliant scholar who had hands in the implementation of passion following policy.

Forget about those old men and women, after seeing even the fragile students of a scholar cursing the prince, imperial guards were boiling with the rage, some of them could not endure anymore and took out a bow and aimed the arrows at the students of Tewa but did not release them.

" Oh, it's Minister Tewa, welcome, welcome"

Hearing the familiar voice, the imperial guards looked at each other and felt relieved as finally their saviour.

Razor walked on the top of the wall and looked at Tewa and the people who wanted barge in.

" Sir Razor, I am not here for a tea but here to ask for proper justice, please open the gate"

Looking at Razor on the top of walls, Tewa said.

" Tewa, I hope you won't mind but still some guests are missing, so we can't allow you in  until they arrive"

Showing no respect and without using any honorific Razor replied.

It was worth to note that this minister spent all his life under two kings, he proposed several policies, and worked day and night for the sake of the kingdom, due to the overwhelming contributions he made, the kingdom prospered and he was honoured by the kings and citizens, because of his dedication towards the kingdom he was respected everywhere and no one called his name directly from a long time, if someone does is it, then iI would be considered as utmost disrespect.

But today Razor did it, not only he called the name directly but also refused him straight on his face.

As a result, the minister was fuming in anger while gritting his teeth.

" Sir Razor, how can you refer my master with his name directly? how could to not give weight to his request? Did you forget that the big hand behind the passion following policy? Did you forget how much my master sacrificed for the sake of the kingdom? Is this how the royal family pays back to the benefactors?"

An enraged student of Tewa yelled out.

" Who are you? Know your place "

Grabbing a bow from the hands of an imperial guard, Razor shot an arrow on the student

" Aaa"

With a shout, the student fell as blood oozed out of his injured leg.

" Did you do anything? Did you spill your blood for the kingdom? Did you put your life online for the people? then tell me how could you curse the prince who came back after risking his life? Are you qualified?"

Razor was as loud as possible, he was not saying this to only the student but everyone.

" You are so angry just because I called out your teacher's name directly, but your teacher cursed my nephew, who did also gave his contribution to the kingdom, Don't my nephew deserve even tiny respect? Tell me "

The exploding voice of Razor reverberated throughout the atmosphere silencing the remaining people who were still cursing the prince.

Then he looked at an old woman in the crowd, sensing the gaze of Razor, the old woman felt like she was being watched by a tiger.

" Aunt Graya, before I came here I was with your husband, we had a competition of swimming but I did not know he could not swim as I accidentally pushed him in the river "

Razor paused a little then continued: "Forgive me Aunt Graya but don't worry I took him to the doctor as fast as possible however his life and death was still not known, hope he could see you one last time after you abolish the prince"

Hearing her husband being hospitalized, the old lady pushed aside the people while uttering "move, move" as she ran towards the house of the doctor.

" Aunt Graya, wait you can see your husband later, first you got to abolish prince right"

Seeing the silhouette of an old lady moving away, Razor said in sarcasm.

Now his predatory eyes set on a mid-aged man.

"Gulp"

The man swallowed his saliva while faced with the eyes which seemed to pierce his flesh everywhere.

" Tony, how is your shop? I loved the clothes that I brought from you last time"

Hearing the question from Razor, With a spark on his face Tony replied: "It's my pleasure that your grace liked my works, you can visit my little shop anytime".

" Of course I would love to visit it again but I seem to saw a fire in the street of your shop, I pray for your shop to be ok".

Razor said as he looked in the west direction.

Tony followed his sight and saw a big smoke from there, of course, his shop was right there.

"No"

He yelled as he ran towards the shop.

" Tony wait, don't you wanna see the abolishment of the crown prince?"

Razor shouted when he saw the running Tony.

Tony ran away and disappeared without heading to Razor.

" Who else wants to still abolish my nephew?"

Razor questioned.

It was dead silent as there was not any reply from the crowd.

"You"

While pointing towards a young woman, Razor said: " Just now isn't it you who was shouting about casting curse if nephew becomes king ?"

"No, no sir Razor, it was not me you have misheard, I am just passing by"

The woman ran away as soon as she said.

" And you? You were shouting something about defying the goddess "

Razor switched his target as soon as that women began to ran.

"Sir Razor, this is a misunderstanding, I am also just passing by here, see ya later"

The man walked away.

Razor moved his eyes from one corner to the other while looking at the people who kept their head down and shouted: "Those who do not want to abolish the crown prince, Scram"

Hearing the word scream, dozens of people walked away understanding that the common people should not interfere in the personal lives of the royals.

The few who remained included minister Tewa, his students and a few figures of the court, at the same time bishop Zim and prince Vintage arrived, the other important officials also arrived.

" Sir Razor, we would like to have an audience with the king "

Bishop Zim expressed his desire.

Razor knew that he could only handle common people, he got no right to refuse too many people of the court.

" Open the gate and Inform the king "

Razor ordered the soldiers.

Soon the gate was opened letting the people in.

At the same time in the home of a soldier who martyred for the kingdom.

" I am sorry"

Prince Xavier bent on his knees in front of a child.

" prince, stand up, my father died for the kingdom, his death was glorious and was also his dream"

" prince you are not responsible for his death, he died for us, for the people and tomorrow I would follow in his footsteps and do the same"

" prince, my father used to say if I died, don't grieve if the war is won, because I will be glad that my death would have a meaning, so celebrate the victory and don't cry"

The child tried to control his tears but they fell regardless of his efforts.

Prince hugged the little kid as consolation, then he bid them farewell.

After separated from Faiza, the prince visited all the homes of his subordinates who perished in the war and this house was the last one.

His next destination was his sister-in-law's hideout, the prince covered his face with a cloth so no one could recognize him before boarding the horse.

The matter about his sister-in-law was a big secret, she was the daughter of General George who died some time ago, even George did not know that the one who ran away with his daughter was the eldest prince of the enemy.

And this scandal was of course planned by our mastermind the second prince after knowing the love story of his elder brother.

This matter is something even hidden from the current Emperor, so his sister-in-law has to live in an ordinary house in the city alone.

After traversing some streets, the horse of Xavier stopped in front of an ordinary-looking house.

As soon as Xavier entered into the house, he saw an elegant lady watering the plants, she may not be as attractive as Faiza but had her charm with long black hair and well-shaped body.

" Sister-in-law"

Xavier called.

Hearing it, she rushed at him, while clinging to his hand she asked:" You came, what about my father? Did you spare him?".

Xavier did not say it out but turned his head the other side.

" No...."

Understanding Xavier, she started crying.

After crying for a while, she moved away from Xavier and said: " I want to meet him"

Xavier knew who 'him' was, it was his brother, he did not deny to take her to meet him as he said:" Let's go"

Xavier boarded the horse while his sister-in-law sat on the back of him and held his wrist to not to fell.

As far as Xavier knew, his brother must be in the cathedral, so his next destination was the cathedral of goddess Anoushka.

" Neigh"

The horse stopped after entering into the gate of the cathedral, the main building was somewhat far way and this place where they stopped his a part of the empty ground reserved for the horses.

After parking the horse, Xavier said: "sister-in-law you know me, I won't come inside"

" ok, wait here I will be back" she replied as she took her steps towards the main building.

Around a 2 metres away from Xavier, there was a tree, it was sunny so he went ahead and stood under the tree.

Time passed, after around ten minutes.

" Ouch "

" what the heck?"

Xavier felt pain on his head as something seemed to fell on his head from the sky, he looked on the ground what it was.

It seemed to be some iron piece but when Xavier took it into his hands, he realized that it is not some iron piece but a book with a rusted iron cover.

There was a group of big letters and under them, another group of letters but small in size seemed to be carved.

" Henry's Bible " These were the big letters while the small one was " A way to be blessed "

Out of curiosity, Xavier tried to open it.

"Ummmmmm"

The book was refused to open up

"Ummmmmmmmmmm"

Xavier put up more force but was useless as the book did not even show the slightest movement of being opened.

" What is this?" While Xavier was trying to open the book, his sister-in-law returned.

"Nothing, some junk I found on the ground," Xavier said as he threw the book.

When the book touched the ground, " Am I dreaming? Xavier felt some unknown intense murderous intention as sweat appeared on his forehead.

" Are you ok?" Noticing something was wrong she asked.

"Yeah, nothing to worry about, oh, by the way, did you meet him? "

Xavier enquired.

" No, he seems to have gone to the place with the bishop to ask your father to punish you"

" hahaha..."

The sister-in-law law laughed.

" Ooo, I have to go then, come let me drop you before I go "

Xavier said as he boarded the horse and pulled her up.