134 – 22: I tried to be an honest citizen again today.
“Before I explain. What kind of emotion do you think the curse that kills people usually begins with?”
The girl said that and got lucky.
After hearing the unbelievable words that Maehwa, the strongest exorcist, had fallen due to a curse, the girl had no choice but to open her mouth.
The girl couldn’t ignore the look on his face as he pondered the answer to the question, saying that he didn’t come to see her thinking he was the culprit, but literally came to ask for advice.
“Uh-usually it would be hate or hatred. “If you say it’s a curse.”
“Yes, that’s usually the case. Lives stolen, happiness trampled upon. Because of that, a curse arises. But such curses have no real significance. A curse that cost you your entire life? There are very few curses that are so severe that they leave you dead.
A lifelong curse left behind by a person who lived an ordinary life cannot properly create even a single low-level evil spirit. “Most truly dangerous curses are born from pure love and good intentions.”
The girl said with a smile.
This is how the world works. Even if a non-bangsa uses magic and skills to kill people and creates a huge curse, most of them fail or are simply consumed as consumables.
But the curse that is born unhappily from human emotions that should be called good will, love, and affection is different.
“Let’s see, what example would be good? Okay. Let’s take as an example the Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, where exorcist Lee Jun purified it.
Thanks to the activities of exorcist Lee Jun, we were finally able to check the inside. The reason for the creation of that cursed land, revealed through the Academy’s activities, is simple.
It was because a fool didn’t know his subject and did something stupid to save his dead daughter.
Yes. The reason for the creation of that cursed space that has so far consumed dozens of exorcists and left numerous civilian victims is paternal love. “From what I hear, it’s because of pure emotions that seem so beautiful~.”
Guitae spoke in a lively tone on purpose, and the corners of her eyes were sharply curved.
The truth obtained by combining the information obtained by the academy while investigating the scene and the information the girl had was as funny as expected.
Surprisingly, the reason why hell was created was not an ambition to conquer the world or a hatred to kill someone.
Moreover, it was not the result of a curse done out of selfishness to make himself famous before the hell called Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital collapsed, but a fatherly love to see his family.
Is it family love or something? Even though you are a nobleman who has never felt anything like that. That’s why the girl thinks hell could be such a dangerous place.
“Well, I’m not saying that such human emotions can easily degenerate into curses. Naturally, such emotions do not leave any real traces.
The simpler way to leave something in the world is to hate someone and curse them. But if that feeling turns into a curse and leaves a mark on the world……. “It’s easy to create hell.”
Well, Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital is actually one of the better examples of the miserable things that pass through the girl’s mind.
I am not talking about the number of deaths, but the level of severity.
“How great are those feelings. Human sacrifice involving other people makes it successful. Skills and spells are ultimately equivalent exchanges.
However, the rule does not apply to human sacrifice using someone other than oneself. Because it will definitely fail.
Monsters like the Hong Kong grandmother are also ‘failures’ that were created when Bibangsa tried to do something using the lives of the people on the plane and failed.
What makes such human sacrifice successful is great love and faith, right?”
The evidence is now next to that man. A girl with bleached white hair and a cross in her eye, a sign of faith.
A living sacrifice that sacrifices one’s own body according to one’s faith and seals a divine-level evil spirit in the body.
If the qualities of a vessel, which are confirmed through the act of Christian baptism, are sufficient, they can be brought in under the guise of coincidence and miracle.
The madness that made people sacrifice their all, not caring about being offered as a living sacrifice for the sake of the world, seemed to fit the essence of the curse of hypocritical humans.
“I am not a living sacrifice, but I embody the grace of the Lord in my body.”
“It seems that the great Lord spoke and killed people? Oh my. Did all the people who died that day deserve to die? Actually, when you are about 3 years old, you have committed a crime worthy of death.”
It can be said that Gwitae’s discussion of good and evil is funny. It’s a shameful hypocrisy for a murderer who killed hundreds of people to talk about morality.
Gwi-tae says this to set an example, but in fact, she puts it in her mouth more to be sarcastic.
Isn’t the ‘thing’ that was abandoned by the Vatican, which I believed in so much, and thrown alone in this country without being saved by the God I believed in, enough to be laughed at?
Even that woman is in a place like this with Lee Joon.
The reason why Lee Joon took action in the face of the unprecedented situation where the plum tree fell due to a curse was because the Academy asked him to do so.
Lee Jun came to see the person who, as far as he knows, had the most information about the curse.
The reason why Yuri, that saintess, is involved in such a thing is that the humans at her academy and her Ijun are suddenly influenced by her saintliness and follow her –
A meat shield to be used in case of an emergency that might happen to Lee Joon.
“Stop.”
As I was laughing at the saint’s downfall, he spoke firmly.
Gwitae realized that he might get angry at the firm words. Feeling the pain of her chest being squeezed, her face hardened and she carefully watched him.
However, contrary to Gwi-tae’s worries, Lee Jun just picked his ears and spewed out irritated words as if he was annoyed.
“I know what you want to say. Okay, well, positive emotions are not necessarily good results~ Okay, okay.
So what you want to say is that Grandma Gaeddong didn’t become like that because someone cursed her to kill her, but she happened to be like that by chance?”
“Gaddong…… “Grandma?”
“Oops. Plum blossom. Plum blossom elder.”
“…… Who calls the world’s greatest exorcist that? Are you crazy? …… Anyway……. Yes, that’s roughly correct.
Not only did we use that, but we used more things gathered together. That means this is not a coincidence, but something someone planned.”
The sight of Gwi-tae smiling and talking suspiciously was very suspicious to anyone, but Lee Jun and the spirit Woo-shin just blinked as if nothing was wrong.
Yu-ri Lee tensed alone and was wary of Gwi-tae, but Gwi-tae also didn’t seem to care about Yu-ri anymore.
“I heard there is a medium. Do you have any doubts about what it is?”
“If you do it anyway, there is only one way.”
To be exact, there is no way to defeat the strongest exorcist in this world other than the curse he planned. Guitae was so sure.
It’s good to use the most powerful curse born of good will and love, but where would you roll around with a curse that only targets one person?
However, Guitae was born with good intentions, became a curse, and was maintained by the hatred of many people for a long time, a curse aimed solely at plum blossoms.
“If she is cursed, the medium must be the plum bounty itself, which is posted on the dark web.”
“…… ?”
The plum bounty posted on the dark web is actually a pretty famous urban legend.
There were many people who wanted to kill her, who had been living since the Joseon Dynasty, and her curse that wanted her death was piling up in the form of money, and now the bounty on her head is at the level of the national budget. We arrive.
Even before the creation of the dark web, plum bounties were always paid in advance.
The strongest that cannot be killed. In order to ask to kill the strongest person, who cannot be expected to decline due to aging and who becomes stronger over time and cannot be weakened through poison or skills, one had to pay money first.
Money that wishes for death accumulated so gradually.
There are various reasons for money accumulating, and among them, there are those who are rich and add bounties in the hope of financial luck simply because they have accumulated money for a long time.
The evil Bibangsa and the shamans who left their mark in history but fell due to the plum blossoms also added money, and the monumental tower of curses that wished for death, which had been piled up even before the development of the Internet, was completed in this era.
If you use this golden pagoda, you will be able to magically kill anyone – but of course, plum blossoms are not included in that ‘anyone’. Usually.
Nevertheless, the reason Guitae paid attention to this bounty was because he discovered in the Annals how the bounty began to be collected.
It is said that the vast and gigantic monumental pagoda built in hopes of her death began as a meager offering collected for her by a small village that hoped for her safety and health.
Gwitae couldn’t figure out how the sacrifices collected every year in a small village had turned into such a bounty.
No one will ever know how the offerings collected in a small, nameless village ended up cursing the plum blossoms.
But the reason is not even important. A curse this old and pure can even reach the plum blossoms.
Even more so if it is a plum blossom that has been worn out for a long time.
“Then what should I do? Can I find the place where the money was saved and burn it?”
“If that’s possible, yo.”
The most important thing in the black market behind the scenes is trust.
And this also applies to those who do the dirtiest work in this country. In reality, the largest amount of money is at stake, and it is not easy for back-world managers to reveal where the long-collected commission money is located.
No matter how powerful an exorcist Lee Joon is, it will be difficult to get anything from these so-called managers.
If you break that safe, then as he said, the plum blossoms will recover easily.
However, if an exorcist like Lee Joon, an academy, or the government try to take away the safe, non-bangsa and people from the back world will also notice that Maehwa’s condition is not normal.
If that happens, what will the non-radiators do?
It is not for Guitae to say, but every single one of the non-bangsa is a beast created by a curse that is crazy, irrational, and has dangerous powers.
Of course, even if non-exorcists run amok, they will be able to be easily suppressed with only the power of the exorcists who are currently in the A class.
Even if there is damage caused by the government, it will be possible to suppress it to a minimum, collect everything, and then destroy the cursed monument.
Yes, if we only look at suppressing slanderers.
“…… We can’t let the outside world know that Old Man Maehwa collapsed. Citizens’ anxiety has already reached its limit. “Wouldn’t it be strange if a class A demon was born in the middle of the street right now?”
It would not be strange to say that the country of Korea is currently barely hanging on by a thin thread.
With the appearance of the spirit Wooshin, the number of deaths caused by evil spirits suddenly began to increase abnormally.
Mama, a spirit-level evil spirit who ran rampant after the seal was broken.
The corruption and destruction of the Exorcism Office, which is so corrupt that it is difficult to express in words.
Imaemangryang, a group of Class A evil spirits that appeared in the middle of the city and are still operating in secret.
Recent Vatican terror attacks and strangely increasing number of drownings. The burned body of a person discovered a few days ago.
People’s fear and anxiety are like a lid placed on a boiling pot.
In this situation, the fear of the citizens will become uncontrollable as the news that the strongest guardian of this country has fallen has been leaked.
If that happens, the number of evil spirits that exorcists can handle will be far exceeded. Everything will fall, like dominoes falling.
Gwitae also aimed for this. Aim for precise timing and place a curse using the monumental towers accumulated with curses just before the critical point is reached.
Gwitae has the ability, information, and knowledge to do all of this.
“…… How do you know that? “Knowing in such detail only makes it sound like you planned this.”
That’s right. Guitae told everything he knew. Everything about the plan, the method, and what will happen.
No matter who heard this, it was just suspicious. Even if he looked at himself and thought it couldn’t be like that, if he said this, he would definitely be suspicious.
But. He just said as if he was annoyed, pulling the back of the saintess who was glaring at him while holding a crumpled mace.
“Is he going to say all that after he did it all? I didn’t do it even though I thought about all of that. But then again, you’re being so rude to me to check something.
What is that, that’s it. It’s about wanting to be recognized by others. First of all, if she were a saint, she would be a nun, so let’s treat an adolescent brat like that with some warmth.”
“Are you going to kill me?”
“… ….”
Guitae spoke with sincerity, but he could not hide the heat on his face.
Anyone looking at Gwitae’s appearance now could only see her as angry because her true feelings were revealed, and that was actually the case.
She knows it herself. She knew that he might be hostile to her, but he dared to speak in this way and reveal everything he knew. As if testing his reaction.
It is irrational, inefficient and stupid. But for some reason she did this.
Her brain and reason tell her it doesn’t have to be like this, but it feels like something she’s never felt existed in her life is forcing her to do something ridiculous like this.
It was absurd that her plans had been taken away by someone, but this was the first time she had had her feelings revealed to someone so easily.
Guitae just squatted down, covering her face with his hands.
After meeting that man, it seemed like so much had changed from his previous self, and Gwi-tae was even feeling scared.
…… Rather, that mushroom seems to be a cursed mushroom that only grows in literature where there is a person who has made a contract with a powerful evil spirit. Why is the divine spirit Wooshin holding it?
An ordinary person rolled his eyes as he looked at the multi-colored mushroom, which is said to cause his whole body to twist and die just by touching it with his hand.