Evil God Chapter 94

Let's search for a decent religion.

No, it's not like I think there's anything wrong with the Bridget Faith as a whole, but I was a little worried.

I wonder if anything else is okay?

Therefore, I transferred to the Bridget Faith's head office.

Then I saw the Daguza Faith Rhodan Branch across the street.

Why is their rival faith's building right across the street?

On the contrary, that's a matter of course.

When starting a business, where is a great place to set up a store?

Well, in the middle of the city or downtown.

Places like those.

Customers tend to go to the places that are closer to where they live.

Following this to its logical conclusion, the middle would be the most advantageous.

In the town there are places of high population density and places of low population density, so you have to take that into account too.

Considering those, in Rhodan it'd be ideal to set up a shop in the downtown area, which is still the center of the city.

Inside the downtown area……when you think like that, you naturally find your location.

The first ones to set up their store don't have to think about this too deeply.

They can determine where to place their store, and just set it up in the ideal location.

What then should someone in the same business do when they're opening a store after?

If they think to go to the north side of town and avoid the nearby shop, then they've lost.

Most of the customers from the south can be taken by the rival shop, but most of the customers from the north won't be.

Residents of the middle area would be taken by the rival store.

In the end if you're going to compete, right next to the rival shop would be the ideal location.

Convenience stores are set up across the road, facing each other.

Gas stations are right next to each other for some reason.

These are sights that are seen often.

This is called Hotelling's Location Model.

There is no Hotelling-san in this world.

However, even if a scholar doesn't clarify this theory, the people setting up stores somehow know it from experience.

To the end, this is only talking about location.

It's normal to go far for good service.

How about in the world of religion?

If someone is truly impressed by the ideology of their religion, they'd probably go to the far one.

However, for those who are not, they can't ignore the location and choose the most convenient one to them.

That's why the 3 faiths' buildings are all right next to each other.

"Welcome."

When I entered the Daguza Church, a large muscular man wearing a priest's robe greeted me.

Looking inside the church, people like adventurers and soldiers stand out.

Because he's also a god of war, many people like them worship him.

"A student of Cantabridge Academy. Are you from the Adventurer's Course?"

"Yeah."

Since I was wearing my uniform, that was understood at a glance.

"Have you already entered the faith?"

"No, I was just taking it into consideration……"

"Is that so."

He explained that I could observe freely.

I lightly looked around, but it was just a normal church.

Well, there's no church where you can find strange places just from a little tour though.

If there was something that I was worried about, it would be that there were some people who were *jii* staring at me.

Robust staff members seemed to be looking at my body from afar.

"It seems like this won't be the place."

Some people muttered at a distance I wouldn't be able to hear from normally.

But, it was clearly captured by my Evil Ears.

What is it with this side?

When I took a closer look, people with short hair and beards wearing tank tops were everywhere.

Well, just from a brief field trip I wouldn't be able to find any strange places.

I didn't mind it, and quickly left the church behind me.

Finally I headed for the building of the Angas Faith.

It was the building beside the other 2.

"Welcome."

As soon as I entered the Angas Church, a smiling middle aged man approached me.

"Are you here to worship, or are you a newcomer? Right now there's a campaign going on……"

"What about tours……?"

As I thought, the followers of the god of business push strong.

I interrupted his advertisement, and told him my business.

"Of course we don't mind."

"Thank you."

When I looked around, I saw lots of merchants and craftsmen. It's because he's the god of production and trade.

"Are you interested in business?"

"No, not really."

"Well then do you hope for medical service? Our Angas Faith provides the least expensive medical service."

"Is that so."

"Yes. Due to him being the god of commerce, we get many donations from wealthy people. That's why we can reduce the fees for our ordinary believers."

The staff member left to give an explanation to the next person who entered the church.

"Dude, don't be fooled."

A young follower with a bad appearance called out to me.

The center of the Angas Faith is naturally in the north, in Scottyard.

Rhodan's branch of the faith isn't very motivated.

There's no doubt that the prices are cheap, but the service is bad to match that.

His point is, it's cheap and bad.

"There's a fierce battle over believers in this city. What will they do if they lose their power?"

"Oh it was bad, so they sent the Cardinal over from the head office."

The Cardinal is the highest adviser, who can advise the Pope, the top of the faith.

They're not limited to being clergymen. As long as they're a follower, anyone can do it.

"The one who came is the current king's sister's son. His nephew, that's it."

What was at the location where the man pointed his finger to was a fat man.

He was covered with expensive-seeming accesories, and his vestments were also extravagant.

He had a gold cane with a fine design on it.

Probably, it'd be hard for him without the cane.

I saw that man scold the staff.

They seemed to have all sorts of problems.

Thinking that, I transferred back to the Dark Temple.

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"Seriously, this con't bi." (TLN: Yes, I used an 'I'. Not a typo. Only his endings are messed up in the raws, so I'll change the last two words.)

The one being annoying with his complaints was the Cardinal.

He was so overweight that it was hard to hear his words.

He could see a student from Cantabridge Academy with a bad look in his eyes, but he ignored it and continued to preach.

"In Rhodan, we have the least number of followers in all the free colts."

"I,I apologize."

The faith's staff deeply lowered their heads.

"However, due to the [2 year binding], it's become difficult to pull people away. Right now there aren't many people who don't belong to any faith."

"Fuu. I was brought out of my way, all the way over here because obb zat."

Nicholas wanted achievements.

He thought that domestic affairs, diplomacy, and war achievements would be safe.

However, without needing to be said war achievements were out of the question.

He himself has no ability, and in the first place Scottyard slights military power.

On the other hand, domestic affairs are stable, and there's nothing that could instantly produce results.

Diplomacy had failed just recently.

Then what was left?

That would be religion. Do not make light of religion.

The wars caused by religion are not few in number.

"I will dye this city in the colors of the Angas Faith. My cousin failed just recently, so a chance might visit me aff vweell."

"Wha, yeah……"

What is he doing, and what is he talking about?

The staff members couldn't understand, and just gave an ambiguous reply.

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