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The schedule went smoothly. I couldn’t move fast because there were a lot of people, but that’s why it was better. I felt it when I came to the ecliptic with G-Zac before, but when I travel as a human, it feels different from when I travel as a soul.
You can feel the horse’s body temperature on your thighs, squint your eyes in the warm sunlight, and appreciate the coolness of the shade. When the wind blows through your hair, you can feel the smell of nature and people carried by the wind.
Jake approached me as I was passing through a lonely road, fully feeling that I was alive as a human being.
“It looks like there are disturbing forces nearby.”
I knew. It’s close to the ecliptic and it’s on the main road, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely safe. Sometimes there are thieves and demons.
But look at the composition of our party now, there are close to 100 knights in shining armor, so who would dare to fight here? Rather, it is more like the other person being scared and vigilant.
The same goes for the unsettling forces Jake spoke of. They look like a group of thieves, but in reality they are like slash-and-burn people who came out of a certain territory. Of course, that doesn’t mean they’re unconditionally good. Such groups sometimes become real thieves.
“If you can, just scare them away and tell them to chase them. There’s no need to kill them all.”
“All right.”
Jake moved to speak to Joseph, the Inquisitor of Heresy, who is in charge of the party’s leadership. It means that the attitude toward me has changed, but the fact that the Heretic Judge and his unit are a massacre unit does not change. If you don’t give me a word in advance, I will really kill all of them without leaving even a little disquieting movement.
But after a while, the lead stopped. I knew why I stopped. I moved forward slowly.
About a hundred people who appeared to be slash-and-burn people blocked the road and all of them were lying face down.
“Please save me. Holy saint!”
The person who seemed to be the representative was banging his head on the ground in front of them and shouting that his throat would burst. As I tried to step forward, Joseph tried to stop me, but he gestured and said it was okay.
“Raise your head”
Where did you hear the rumor that I was passing by? I must have heard the rumor that I was passing this way. Since the large number of people move slowly, rumors spread.
The man who seemed to be the representative raised his head covered in blood from his head on the ground and looked at me. I looked embarrassed for a moment, as if I hadn’t thought about it, but soon the man hit his head again and shouted.
“Even though my life is insignificant, I cannot die like this. Please help!”
“Tell me slowly what is going on.”
The man raised his head and began to explain the situation. These are the people who escaped from the evil lord’s exploitation. After that, it is said that they went deep into the nearby mountains and managed to survive by burning fire. Well, this is a common story in this world.
But not too long ago, an epidemic began to circulate in the village. It was not a sudden death disease, but the rash started to occur all over the body, it was very itchy, and eventually, it was said that the skin was peeled off on its own and died from scratching. You will suffer and die for a very long time.
So, people who were not sick came out to find out how to cure it, but there was no income, and in the meantime, it seems that they heard rumors that I was passing.
“Is any of you afflicted with the disease?”
The man shook his head. It is said that only those who are not sick came out, so there will be no. I would have thought so
Someone raised a hand in one corner. It was a young woman. The moment the woman raised her hand, the people nearby shouted swear words and fell from the woman’s vicinity like lightning.
I got off my horse and approached the woman. Jake and Joseph quickly came up to either side of me to escort me.
“show symptoms”
The woman blushed and pulled her top up slightly. The rash bloomed in the shape of a black chrysanthemum flower. There is no such disease to my knowledge. It’s either a new disease that I don’t know about, or it’s not a disease.
I raised my hand and used the power of healing. As expected, the power worked on the woman, but the rash remained the same. that is not a disease
So what is this? The answer is simple. It is a kind of curse. Most of the reasons for being cursed are known to be the work of warlocks, but the reasons for being cursed are actually very diverse.
“This isn’t a disease, it’s like a curse, let Sir Joseph try to heal it.”
“All right.”
I can use some of my divine power, but not as much as the Heretic Inquisitor. As Joseph approached the woman and began to use his divine power, the color of the rash began to fade. But even after using it for a while, it didn’t completely disappear.
Joseph’s divine power is very strong. However, the fact that the curse is not completely lifted means that it is a very strong curse. After thinking for a while, I went back to ask the representative.
“Are you the village chief?”
“no. I am the son of the village chief.”
“Is the village chief ill?”
“Yes, it is.”
The man who answered that far lowered his head again. It feels like he doesn’t want to make eye contact with me.
“Then why didn’t you get sick?”
“That’s it… I don’t know.”
Of course, most people don’t know why they don’t get sick. But what if it’s a curse? The story is different.
“Take off this man’s clothes.”
At my command, several paladins from behind rushed in and took off the man’s clothes. There was some resistance, but it was meaningless in front of the knights.
“Ugh!”
The people around them panicked and backed away. There was also a rash on the man’s body.
“Let’s go to your village. take the lead”
With about a hundred slash-and-burn villagers at the fore, the party changed direction.
“Holy Son, you may have a will, but you do not have to do this yourself. I will put a message in the denomination.”
Joseph came over and talked to him. It is very rare for Joseph to speak directly to me. It’s been a while since we’ve been together at the manor, but Joseph hasn’t spoken to her first few times.
Of course, this is something I don’t have to do myself. It would be convenient to leave it to the church. But how does the church deal with this? They’ll bring a lot of priests and treat them. Or they could be accused of heresy and killed all of them. But that is not a fundamental solution.
“There is something I want to check. Our schedule is not that tight.”
It is not a tight schedule. Cthullah is not going to run anywhere, and the crisis of the world is not coming in a few days. I never thought that I would solve everything in the world. Still, sometimes quirks do happen.
Villages of slash-and-burn farmers seem to be located in very deep mountains, but there are more cases where they are not. Moreover, it is even more so if the number of people who escaped is large enough to exceed 100. It is difficult to maintain a village that is completely cut off from the outside world.
After moving for a day and a half, the slash-and-burn village reached was quite large, as expected. At least it was much better than the Akasha estate before I arrived.
Of course, the condition was not good. There were signs of burning bodies everywhere, and no one was walking around like an empty village.
The people who arrived in their villages scattered in all directions and returned to their homes. Cries began to erupt from within some of the houses. There will be dead people in it.
“I want to meet the village chief.”
There was a village chief who was almost dying at the village chief’s house, which he went to with the village chief’s son. The appearance was truly miserable. It was as expected. It was even more surprising that he hadn’t died yet.
And the appearance of the other village chiefs was as expected. Dark souls, countless spirits of resentment hovering around them, but they are not the source of the curse. He used the power of healing. As the trauma healed, the detail of the village chief began to improve. First of all, I sent No. 1 to search around the village.
“Can you hear me, chief?”
“Who, who are you?”
Although the trauma has healed, the village chief’s curse is already deep.
“Father, this is the saint of the church I have brought.”
When the details of the father improved, he was happy that he was still a son and raised the village chief to sit down.
“What have you done?”
My expression and tone must have been cold, but the faces of the village chief and his son hardened. Jake and Joseph, who were around, were also a little nervous.
“Oh, nothing happened. We are just ignorant people who came here to escape the tyranny of the lord and lived quietly.”
I snorted at that excuse. Since when did a rural worm carry dozens of grudges like that? Then No. 1 found something.
I got out and headed there. It was a place that looked like a garden at the back of the village. But it’s camouflage. Called the spirit of the earth to bring out what was buried in the ground. Then, the ground turned over, and numerous bones gushed upward. These are the remains of at least dozens of people.
The village chief’s son, who had been following me, waved his hands and made another excuse.
“This is the place where people who died in the village are buried.”
“Couldn’t you tell me straight!”
It’s a situation where anyone but me can tell that it’s a lie. When Joseph shouted in anger, the chief’s son collapsed in terror and bowed his head.
“Wrong. Help me!”
The atmosphere between Joseph and the Paladins was on the verge of bursting. It seems that an occupational disease is triggered.
At that time, No. 1, which was exploring the surroundings, found another.
“From now on, don’t let anyone leave this town.”
“Honorable name!”
The paladins and combat priests, who spewed life on the verge of exploding, responded in unison and began to surround the village.
So, I gave the instructions and moved on to what No. 1 found. Joseph, who had been following behind, spoke again infrequently.
“How did the Holy Son know that?”
“Isn’t that enough to be a saint?”
“no···. Dear Junon…”
When I answered lightly, Joseph couldn’t find the right answer and crossed himself. Jake smiled at it and gave Joseph some advice.
“My lord is such a person. Don’t try to understand.”
Joseph shook his head. In the meantime, what No. 1 found began to become visible.
There was a girl who looked about my age lying on the floor. He was wearing rags that were embarrassing to even call them clothes, and his hair was scattered on his skinny body. I got close and used the power of healing.
Still, the child did not wake up. You haven’t eaten properly for quite some time. He was a child with a great soul. And I can feel the powerful magic power.
He probably never learned magic properly. There are people who use something similar to magic because of a combination of natural talent and circumstances. In this case, bizarre phenomena that differ from ordinary magic may occur.
When women do this, the normal world calls such women witches. Such a witch is here. Perhaps the source of the curse is this girl.
“Sir Jake, let’s get the girl.”
“all right.”
Jake picks up the baby and we return to town. There were villagers who were frightened at the sight of the girl.
“witch! That girl is a monster. I must kill you!”
“My mother’s enemy!”
The girl opened her eyes as some villagers were foaming at the mouth and screaming. The child who came to his senses went mad in Jake’s arms, but could not escape the knight’s hand. I came closer and made eye contact with the girl.
“I am Count Saint-Germain Akasha. The honor of the nobility will be staked and a just judgment will be made. So far, tell me the truth.”
The girl’s eyes shook violently. But deep inside, mistrust lingered.
“Couldn’t you say something!”
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When Joseph shouted from the side, the girl’s throat tightened even more. I told Joseph to stop.
“Aren’t you going out? Let’s eat rice.”
I started cooking after a long time. Although it was an outdoor instant cooking, Joseph and the Paladins were startled when I took out the cooking pot and started trimming the ingredients. On the other hand, Jake, who was aware of my cooking skills, was looking rather expectantly.
Cooking was no big deal. It is a porridge with chicken and vegetables. However, since the smell had already been emitted, everyone around was only looking at the pot.
The girl also ended up salivating from her mouth. I first scooped a large ladle into a bowl and held it out to the girl.
“Eat. eat to live Shouldn’t you live and take revenge?”
The girl burst into tears and started to eat the porridge. After the meal, when the people were full, the girl started to open her mouth.