132 – 22: I tried to be an honest citizen again today.
After finishing the meal, I threw the dishes in the sink and thought about calling Nokra home again.
Suddenly, there was no contact, so Gaedong thought that her grandmother collapsed because of her exhaustion, but it wasn’t just that, she collapsed because of her curse?
It was a statement that was difficult to believe.
In this world, a curse is the desire and power to kill another person.
Contrary to spiritual power, which is likened to life force, the power to kill people that arises from such negative emotions as pure murderous intent, fear, fear, anger, and hatred is a curse.
The characteristic of this curse, unlike spiritual power, is that it occurs even in ordinary people who have no power. Looking at it this way, it looks very threatening, and it is true that it is actually dangerous, but-
Even evil spirits cannot be born from the emotions harbored by one or two ordinary people, so the curse is insignificant, and even if you have spiritual power or just a fetish, you can avoid the curse.
There is something else I need to explain, but what I want to say is that basically an exorcist with spiritual power can resist curses.
Even for me, it doesn’t work unless it’s a curse wielded by a class A evil spirit. If an exorcist the size of an old lady can be cursed, just how strong is the curse?
Can such a curse exist in the first place?
I continued to worry as I opened the door and let people in robes and suits into the house.
If I were someone who knew nothing, he would have scoffed and told me not to say such nonsense.
I don’t know Gaeddong’s grandmother’s personality or ability to handle things, but her power was truly overwhelming.
Even if I now hold a grade A casting iron and have improved my physical ability more than before, honestly, I don’t see any way to win.
When dealing with Mama before, even in her crazy state, Mama only looked at her grandmother, and her Gaedong grandmother had a level of power that it was natural for a spirit-level evil spirit to be wary of.
Although she carelessly threw away her powerful spiritual power to the point of plowing the ground, she was a dog who fought hand-to-hand combat with a god-level evil spirit. Her grandmother was more than worthy of her title as the strongest.
If a person like that had been cursed, other people besides me would have scoffed and said it wasn’t funny.
In this world, there are crazy evil spirits, people, and a dark side who try to destroy the world after neutralizing the spirits.
In my personal opinion, even if Grandma Gaeddong suddenly loses her spirit from this world, she alone will be able to prevent this world from being destroyed for a while.
Even if Gwi-tae’s plan succeeds and her divine power weakens, if Grandma Gaeddong is alive and well, her plan will never come true.
Guitae couldn’t have known this, so of course she would have thought of a way to neutralize her grandmother.
According to the story my younger brother told me, in most routes except for the Gwitae route, she succeeds in her plan but fails and collapses at the moment when the destruction of the world is just around the corner.
This means that Gaedong will succeed in killing or incapacitating her grandmother, which proves that my idea is correct…….
I recalled the image of Gwi-tae, who had been injured on the streets of Hongdae before, silently leaving her place while receiving fearful looks from the people she had rescued.
The child who was suffering so much while talking about her atonement and mistakes suddenly says that her dog sh*t is cursing her grandmother?
It wouldn’t be strange if everything you showed me was an act and a lie. That wasn’t a lie.
In that case, it’s probably someone in the dark or something like that who cursed Gaeddong’s grandmother. Therefore. There is one thing I need to think about here.
“So, you said you would give me money as compensation?”
“Ugh. “As much as you want.”
“There are things I want to do now rather than money. “After this is over, there is something I would like you to help me with. Can you help me?”
Nokra widened her eyes as if slightly surprised beyond her sunglasses and rolled her eyes.
Nokra seemed surprised that I wanted something other than money, and quietly muttered in his characteristic tone, ‘You’re talking about the evil spirit that appeared in the sea of Busan.’
It is as clear as day that if Grandma Gaeddong falls, she will be in big trouble, and if she has something to gain, she must get it. I was sitting with a satisfied smile on my face, but suddenly my eyes fell on Wooshin and Yuri Lee sitting next to me.
Even so for Wooshin, is it okay for her to hear this story as she is currently being investigated for terrorism charges?
Did you happen to arrive in a hurry without even thinking about it and didn’t even notice the presence of that young lady? I rolled my eyes slightly and looked at Nokra and Yu-ri alternately. Nokra said with a smile.
“I’m sorry~ First of all, I’ll apologize for what that idiot, Interim Director Park Seon, did~ That person’s parents are big in politics, so he just went up to that position and did things while the dean was away?
Anyway, I was attacked by an evil spirit and couldn’t come out of the hospital for the rest of my life, so there’s really nothing to worry about.
I still have something to say about that young lady’s future. Can I take you with me for a moment?”
Oh my! It involved political action!
I smiled and stepped back, pretending not to notice, as I watched the people in suits behind the robes rolling their eyes.
I hit the person who was supposed to be the temporary head of the headquarters, but I didn’t hit him to the point where he ended up in the hospital for the rest of his life.
Then what does that mean? That person, Park Jun, was quietly [Forced] Into seclusion due to political issues.
“Then~ Saint Yuri Lee. I would like to interview you for a moment.
…… Jun, I wanted to talk to you in a more proper and serious way. The situation is like this, so…… Huh. “Shall we go to a quiet place together first?”
“Uh…… Yes.”
Nokra clearly has a different tone of voice when dealing with Lee Yu-ri and when dealing with me. The way he looked a little embarrassed when he looked at me was somehow familiar.
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When I wondered why it seemed familiar, the construction foreman with the nickname Hyde and Hyde treated me that way.
A person who was a dick to everyone else was only nice to me, so everyone asked me what I did. I haven’t done anything.
I quietly followed the people with Wooshin on my back.
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The place we arrived in the car with Nokra, in addition to a large group of people in suits, was the basement of the academy building.
Not long after encountering the corpse snake, the newly built academy building was built larger than before.
The ugly tree in the middle of the academy had already been demolished, and a memorial stone engraved with the names of those who fell while dealing with the divine-level evil spirit Mama was standing in its place.
I had no intention of seeing the newly built academy, so this was all I saw.
Perhaps in order to avoid finding out that something had happened to the plum blossoms, all the people moving this time had castings to impede their recognition, and the cars were also moving separately.
Even I could see how carefully he was moving.
I frowned at the smell of incense and the strange air wafting from the large basement.
Her grandmother, who was lying motionless on the bed like a dead body, had an ominous curse wrapped around her whole body that even an ordinary person without spiritual powers could feel.
Gaeddong said her grandmother had a bad taste in her mouth. The smell of rotting meat filled her basement.
It seems that by lighting incense and placing castings around her, she was trying to somehow relieve the stench and curse that was oppressing her dog poop grandmother, but the stench of the curse that was oppressing her dog poop grandmother did not go away to that extent.
A curse so disgusting that not only I but even Wooshin, who came with us, frowned.
It was to the point where it was questionable who on earth did something and how such a curse could be poured down on one person.
“…… After this happened, I looked back and saw that the Dean…… No, the old man had been very tired recently, but neither I nor anyone else thought that this person had been cursed.
A week ago, the elderly man suddenly stopped waking up, and as soon as he realized that the curse had progressed to this level, he called a trustworthy shaman, but they all failed.
But at least I knew that this curse had a medium…… “I couldn’t confirm what the medium was or where it was.”
As she said that, Nokra put her sunglasses into her front pocket with a tired look on her face.
A strong curse surrounded her grandmother’s body, but Nokra massaged her body, as if he was worried about the bedsores that would form if she lay in the same position for a long time.
If you were cursed to that degree, you would still be in pain no matter how much spiritual power you used to protect your body. Nokra, who calls her grandmother “Elderly,” Seemed to be closer to her grandmother than I thought.
Although she pretended not to show it, her sadness and sorrow were showing on her face.
“Actually, this is not a big problem. No matter how powerful a curse is, there are limited ways to place a curse on an elder, so you can find anything suspicious.
We’re checking all the suspicious areas, so we’ll find them soon, but it’s not easy to place a curse of this magnitude. So-“
“You’re asking me to destroy that medium.”
Nokra nodded her head with a wry smile at my words.
Nokra said that he would be happy to find a medium soon, but I thought differently.
The curse that defeated a strong man as strong as an elderly woman is definitely not an ordinary curse.
And if this is a curse prepared by Guitae, or the dark side of this game, it will definitely not be easy to find.
It’s not a story about the academy being incompetent or anything, but it’s a curse that not even Grandma Gaedong could have predicted, but is it really that easy to find out?
He must have cursed Gaeddong’s grandmother in an unusual, disgusting, and absurd way.
If this was included in the original game story, since it is a game played by a crazy person like my brother, it would definitely be said that Gaeddong cursed Grandma in a ridiculous way.
If it were the original game story, you could just go to the main character and hope that things will be resolved through a series of miraculous circumstances.
I have done too much to hope for that. If so, there is only one way left.
“They say a knife wielder is sought after by someone who can handle a knife.”
In order to find a way to reverse the curse that defeated Grandma Gaeddong and the cause, it would be better to find someone who has thought more about how to defeat Grandma Gaeddong than anyone else.
If this is really something Gwitae planned and is trying to use me to do something-
Well, why not break the arms and legs, fold the body up, and throw it to the academy? I’m planning on scrapping it all anyway, so what’s the point of knowing the original?
But before that.
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[ The special linked quest ‘Curse of the Plum Blossom’ quest has been unlocked. ]
＜ This is a linked story to a previously accepted quest, so you cannot refuse the quest. ＞
＜ The world’s strongest exorcist. Investigate the curse that weighs on the plum blossoms. ＞
＜ Compensation: 100 million won in compensation and 1 billion worth of special castings. ＞
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Unlike usual, I opened my eyes slightly as I opened the quest window again, which said that I only had to ‘investigate’ the curse.
What on earth does this want from me? With that question in mind.