"The corps quickly became a private army for certain... privileged members of the church. And as the saying goes, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." She shrugged, then continued eating.
"Wait a minute," Lukas frowned. "If some people began using the church corps for their personal use, wouldn't some people notice?"
He found it hard to believe that people wouldn't notice corruption of that level. If there's one thing he knew about humans, it was their ability to sniff out places where things weren't right, even if they weren't sure about it.
And from the way Akira had spoken about them and the things they did, surely someone would've noticed that their supposed religious paragons were fake.
"Of course, they did." Akira replied. "But such problems were easily solved. If anyone begins to question the church, they're quickly labeled an apostate on the side of evil. And there's no worse stain than that."
