Good Does Not Guarantee Profit

Maine had tried to do the right thing and gotten hurt for it.

In most places, that would have been annoying. In Paulus Levius's cathedral, it became the exact question the dungeon wanted someone to ask. Maine turned to Jonah and asked why anyone should choose good if bad outcomes still happen.

Jonah healed him first.

Then he answered from faith rather than accounting. Djeebus did not promise that good behavior would always pay out, and he did not take pleasure from knowing the end of the story like a closed book. Djeebus gave people the ability to create within the story. That was different from rewarding every good act with safety, money, or proof.

Maine's morality was practical.

Jonah's was devotional.

The confessional arcade had been built by someone who turned guilt into a transaction, so the argument mattered. The dungeon's lesson was not that good pays. It was that creation, offering, and devotion mean something even when they do not guarantee profit.

Maine did not have to like that answer for it to clarify the room.