Crossing the Saint Seiya, the strongest silver leads the gold

"Should I kill you?"

Esther couldn't help but feel nervous after hearing this.

Then Dongfang Long waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't be so nervous, I'm just joking with you."

"I won't kill you."

"If you want to be honest, you should call me brother-in-law."

"I don't want Sharna to blame me one day."

Esther's eyes widened in surprise. "What! You're my brother-in-law?"

"Impossible, you are my brother-in-law, how could I not know? My sister never told me."

Dongfang Long replied: "What do you think? If I weren't your brother-in-law, with my strength, would you still be alive now?"

"I just became your brother-in-law, and Sharna hasn't had the chance to tell you yet!

That makes sense! Esther believed it when she heard it.

Chapter 89: Sister-in-law, please be good

Dongfang Long added, "But Seiya, Suisheichi and the others are my apprentices, and I can't watch you go on a mission and hurt them."

"So I had no choice but to come and stop you."

After saying that, he walked forward, grabbed Esther's waist and said, "So, sister-in-law, please be good."

"Stay at home and don't move around."

Esther said, "But this is the Pope's order, we cannot disobey it."

Dongfang Long cursed and said, "Pope is a piece of shit!"

“This pope right now is a fake.”

"The Pope was assassinated more than a decade ago, and the current Pope is someone else pretending to be him."

"Soon, Athena will lead the Saints back to the Sanctuary. Don't choose the wrong side."

"Otherwise, we will truly become rebels in the future and will not be accepted by the Sanctuary."

Esther cried out in surprise when she heard this: "What? The Pope is fake, how is that possible?!"

Dongfang Long replied: "Nothing is impossible."

"Otherwise, why don't you see why so many of the Gold Saints of the Zodiac are in the Sanctuary?"

"Why are there still many Saints who secretly disobey the orders of the current Pope?"

"If he were really Pope 830, any other Saint who dared to do this would have been stripped of their constellations and cloths long ago."

"The reason he didn't do it is because he didn't have the right to do so."

"Because the real Athena is no longer in the Sanctuary."

In fact, this was also the most confusing thing for Dongfang Long as a Saint Seiya fan. The Pope has the right to grant or deprive the Saint Seiya of his holy clothes.

After Saga pretended to be the Pope, in order to consolidate his rule in the Sanctuary over the years, he should have stripped the Saint Cloths of those Saints who were disloyal to him and then gave them back to those who were loyal to him.

Not to mention that like in the animation, not long after Seiya left the Sanctuary, he passed the throne to his younger brother Aris in the guise of the Pope, and then began to crack down on dissidents.

What has he been doing for the past ten years while pretending to be the Pope?

You must know that the Saints are ultimately loyal to Athena, so in fact the granting and deprivation of the holy clothes ultimately requires Athena's consent.

Only the Pope recognized by Athena has such right.

In particular, the deprivation of the holy garments must be approved by Athena before it can take effect.

As for bestowing the holy garments, in addition to the consent of Athena and the Pope, everyone is born with a guardian constellation. As long as one can activate and burn the microcosm through acquired efforts and gain the recognition of the guardian constellation, he or she can also become the owner of the holy garments.

This is why Saga cannot give the holy clothes to anyone who is loyal to him.

Because only with Athena's consent can a guardian constellation and its sacred garment be given to others at will.

Otherwise, this is the only way.

This is why Saga, who pretended to be the Pope for more than ten years, could not do whatever he wanted in the Sanctuary.

At the same time, the animation says that after Seiya left the Sanctuary, the Pope passed the throne to his younger brother Aris.

It was also a logic loophole and was fixed by the system.

First of all, every Pope must be a Gold Saint to take office.

It doesn't mean that the Pope can pass it on to anyone he wants.

Without that kind of strength, the Saints under him would not be convinced.

But the twelve golden saints that everyone knows each have their own masters.

There is no such thing as Alex.

And the former Pope that Saga attacked was not Shion.

Because Shion is a Gold Saint who survived the previous Holy War and is extremely powerful. Even if it was a sneak attack, it was impossible for Shion to be killed by Saga without any movement.

If there had been even a little noise at that time, the Saints would have arrived and Saga would not have been able to succeed.

Even if (afcb) is just an ordinary god, it is impossible for him to kill Shiang silently!

The pope who survived the holy war was the one who was given a special mission and protected by Athena.

In the Saint Seiya Pluto mythology, the twin gods once traveled through time and space to kill Shion, but failed.

How could Saga possibly do that? Could he be even more powerful than a god?

So the system's explanation is that the Pope killed by Saga was Aris.

Because Shion did not have the immortality of the gods, he lived for less than two hundred years relying solely on his powerful strength. After training a large number of Saints for the next Holy War, he died of old age.

After his death, he passed the position of Pope to Aris, a Gold Saint at the time.

And Aris is the Sagittarius Gold Saint.

When he was very old, he passed the Sagittarius Cloth to Aiolos.

This was also the reason why everyone in the Sanctuary thought that Aiolos would become the next Pope.

After the next generation of Gold Saints was determined, the old Pope Aris was assassinated by Saga on the eve of his abdication.

This is because Aris's strength cannot be compared with Shion at all. He is just an ordinary Gold Saint. In addition, he is old, and the armor has been passed to Aiolos.

That's why Saga's surprise attack was successful.

After Saga pretended to be the Pope, he always wore a mask and did not dare to show his real face.

It was precisely because of his behavior that he gradually aroused the suspicion of many Saints, including Dohko.

At the same time, Saga did not dare to pass the throne to himself by pretending to be the Pope.

Because when the new and old Popes take over, it is not just a matter of saying a word. A series of complicated ceremonies need to be held, and many Saints need to be present.

In particular, the testimony of the Gold Saints is required.

And during this ceremony, the old Pope must give his true power, that is, the right to grant and deprive the holy garments, to the new Pope with the consent of Athena.

This is a world with gods, and miracles will occur when power changes.

But Saga has already assassinated Athena. Do you think that if this ceremony is held, Athena will recognize and grant him such rights?

Then the miracle that should have occurred at the Pope's coronation ceremony would not have happened, and this could not be faked in any way.

So after assassinating the old Pope, Saga could only wear a mask and pretend to be the Pope for more than ten years.

Then he continued to cultivate his confidants and consolidate his power in the Holy Land.

Chapter 90: No need, what I want is the Saint Seiya!

But because Saga does not have the right to grant the holy clothes at will, to put it simply, he does not have the divine power granted by Athena, and cannot casually give someone the ability to protect the constellation.

Therefore, we can only use the second method, and try to cultivate some Saints who are loyal to us and can gain the recognition of their guardian constellations.

This allowed Seiya, Hyoga and others to take advantage of the opportunity and obtain the holy clothes.

Otherwise, as long as Saga holds the right to grant or deprive the Saint Cloth, Saori will not have any Saints as her subordinates in the future, and she will have no chance of counterattacking the Sanctuary.

Therefore, in the animated version, the statement that the old Pope suddenly passed the throne to his younger brother Aris is an obvious logical flaw.

If they're going to change the position of the Pope, why not just pass it on to Saga? Take off your pants and fart!

If the throne could be passed on normally, to himself, wouldn't Saga be able to be the Pope openly and honestly? Would he still need to hide and dodge all day?

If the throne can't be passed down normally, and you still have to wear a mask when passing it from one hand to the other, then what's the point of all this? Is it fun?!

Therefore, the system of the world that Dongfang Long traveled through corrected this obvious bug and error.

The current Pope is the old Pope Aris, disguised as Saga.

Moreover, he disguised himself very well, and did not engage in nepotism or blatantly exclude dissidents in the Sanctuary as shown in the animation.

With Saga's wisdom, during the more than ten years of pretending to be the Pope, he had already been able to quietly and gently cultivate enough subordinates.

There was no need to make it so public, as if telling the other Gold Saints that something was wrong with him.

When Esther heard what Dongfang Long said, she did feel a little confused.

The original Pope was kind and would not order them to kill someone casually.

Moreover, the responsibility of the Sanctuary is to maintain peace and justice on earth, so normally the Sanctuary is mainly responsible for training Saints and investigating the situation of evil gods and their warriors.

People rarely participate in things like regime changes and power struggles in the human world.

But in recent years, she has received many orders from the Holy Land, always interfering in the regimes and powers of other countries.

They even received many missions to assassinate politicians from various countries.

Now that I think about it, this is all very abnormal.

The Demon World Island where they were exiled was not because they had really committed any crime as announced to the outside world.

Instead, five years ago, the Pope found them and gave them a mission, asking them to do some inconvenient things for the Sanctuary as Ghost Saints.