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Ferris:  "Wait a—! Don’t just turn it our way like that! Subawu, don’t you do something stupid and try to read a Gospel! I genuinely don’t know what it’ll do to you!" Ferris averted his eyes, raging like an inferno toward the book raised before him.
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Wilhelm:  Wilhelm turned his back, displaying his aversion to the book as well.
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Subaru:  "I know TB reacted like that, too, but what, the book’s seriously dangerous?" The book was about as big and heavy as a pocket dictionary, with binding that was strictly ordinary. As it was from the Witch Cult, he would’ve expected a cover made out of human skin, but there was no sign of that. However, the grimaces on the faces of all save Subaru made their sentiments easy to read.
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Ferris:  "To the Witch Cult, having one of those books…those Gospels is proof you are a fellow cultist. Yes, I suppose one could say they are like holy scripture to them."
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Subaru:  "Scripture…?"
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Ferris:  "Rumor has it that the Witch Cult sends them to particular people, meow. And when they arrive, that’s it…poof, another pious Witch Cultist is born! Or so they say."
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Subaru:  "Huh? !" Subaru’s voice went shrill at the unexpected and astounding tale. These Witch Cultists were eerie, creepy people he couldn’t understand even the tiniest bit. Yet, they had once been normal human beings, their transformation triggered by the arrival of such a book. A deep reading of Ferris’s words suggested that the Gospels were books that brainwashed the human beings reading them. If that was so, many of the Witch Cultists were brainwashed, ordinary people—
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Subaru:  "If that’s true, then maybe all the people we buried alive in the cave were just…"
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Wilhelm:  "Sir Subaru, you are mistaken. By the time the Gospel reaches them, they have already passed the point of no return. They are not innocent people brainwashed into obedience that can be saved. Sir Subaru, did that Archbishop of the Seven Deadly Sins appear sane to you?"
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Subaru:  "N-nah. He didn’t, but…I thought maybe he was an exception." Brought back from the brink of thoughts of regret, Subaru passively shut his mouth. So Petelgeuse’s madness, far beyond the norm, was just one example of the dangerous mental states within the Witch Cult that didn’t involve brainwashing. Put bluntly, a part of him was reluctant to take their current conversation as absolute proof it was so.
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Ferris:  "Now, Subawu, I know you did a great job as a decoy against the White Whale and the Witch Cult…but I feel like this is putting you in a lot of danger, meow, so don’t let the Gospel get you, ’kay?"
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Wilhelm:  "I must ask that as well, Sir Subaru. Please do not make me cut you down."
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Subaru:  "I’ll try, but is being careful really gonna cut it…?" It seemed that whether the book “got” someone or not depended on the recipient’s mood. If the other side was headhunting, it depended on whether Subaru accepted or declined.