Council (4)

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The heavy binders, each as thick as a book, were placed before the priests with a thud!

They were copies of the research ethics guidelines I had submitted.

‘As expected, the Church is pretty quick at making copies.’

It happened less than ten minutes after I submitted the original.

Perhaps the know-how they had gained from distributing scriptures to the masses through centuries of transcription and printing had not gone anywhere.

They had produced enough printed copies for the priests attending the Council to read in ten minutes flat.

Well, now that I thought about it, there was nothing particularly surprising about that in a world where people breathed fire and called down lightning.

The priests in the hall gazed silently at the title of the copies.

『Ethical Guidelines for Life Research. feat. Mercure』...