149 – 24: I had a doubt
Maehwa groaned in disappointment as she watched the boy leave without mercy.
I mustered up the courage to say something I’ve never said before in my life, but they turned around so coldly.
Maehwa, who was making a sad sound as she scratched the end of the stick that had already been cut off a long time ago with her teeth, glanced at the report that Lee Jun had written.
Jigwi, who knew his name and sealed himself hundreds of years ago, opened his eyes today and cursed himself. The level is ghost level. There were also unique areas.
An evil spirit so powerful that it is certain that he would have died without the help of an exorcist who Lee Jun knew ‘personally’ and without the activities of Seo Yoon-seo.
In fact, considering that the two strongest A-level exorcists in this country besides himself and a saint who was about to be abandoned by the Vatican were also present at the scene.
If they were defeated, Jigwi would have had no choice but to classify them as spirit-level rather than ghost-level possessed entities and forcibly seal them at the cost of countless losses.
The spirits may not have died, but humans Lee Jun and A die when they die. And Maehwa’s name must have been on the list of dead exorcists.
An evil spirit who even knows his real name. Because names have magical meaning, exorcists did not use their real names until the Enlightenment period.
However, the practice disappeared after it was discovered that hiding one’s name carries a greater risk of being discovered, and that disclosing one’s name confidently poses less risk.
Maehwa has continued to hide her real name. The reason is that he did not have a grand cause, such as the risk of being cursed.
She was just embarrassed by her real name – Gaedongi.
In small mountain villages, they were called things like hey, you, etc. After her family was wiped out in a drought, a nameless woman gained a name by being sold to a gisaeng house.
The name Gaetdong was like a derogatory term given to a skinny kid whose hair had turned white.
The girl who didn’t know anything just thought that was the name…… After knowing everything, I used the name Maehwa that I was given after being taken to the palace.
In fact, her name, Maehwa, was given to her by Lee Geum, a crazy man who threw his own child on her back while she was running around in her palace like a slave to catch her evil spirits, for his own political reasons.
Depending on her mood, her name and position were almost taken away –
Maehwa truly did not expect that hiding this name because it was both an insult and an embarrassment would turn around and strangle her.
She is not an evil spirit who has survived for hundreds of years, and her real name does not remain in the Annals.
She wanted to hide it because she was embarrassed, but in fact, she didn’t hide it on purpose. But her name, which made her laugh even in that dark and dirty royal family, was forgotten.
Her name, which was not recorded anywhere and was half-forgotten even by herself, became a blade sharp enough to cut off her life.
“I wonder who it is. “The guy who did this outrageous thing.”
Something about her has prepared her curse to weaken her in this age as she is mentally exhausted and even prepared her trap called Jigwi to make sure to kill her.
Maehwa recognized that ‘something’ hiding in the darkness and persistently trying to destroy the world existed in this world.
The future of her destruction that she saw was clearly triggered by an unknown entity.
Maehwa gently raised the corner of her mouth with a prediction that was close to certainty.
Even if Maehwa dies, she will not fall like dominoes. Even though these times are bad.
Yin-Yang and the Five Elements have not yet established themselves. An exorcist and an evil spirit strong enough to turn the era upside down come out at the same time, killing and killing.
The death rate of exorcists has nearly doubled in recent years and a group of Class A demons. It was like stacking dominoes, so I was wary of toppling the dominoes, which cannot be artificially toppled.
It is impossible to believe that the starting point for toppling the dominoes was his own death.
“Are they being ignored? Or are they being guarded to that extent?”
It hides in the shadows, targeting people, and laughs at the very fact that the human survival instinct tells us that something is there. An enemy of humans who enjoys the fact that every choice ultimately leads to destruction.
That’s what evil spirits are. However, the evil spirit targeting her this time is not just strong, but meticulous, quiet, and has probably endured at least the same amount of time as her.
If we hadn’t done that, we wouldn’t have been able to prepare all of this. There were truly unexpected dangers still remaining in this world.
“I thought my presence had tipped the scales toward humans, but has something been sitting on the other side of me since ancient times?”
I came this far by killing and destroying things, but in the end, is there anything left? Although Plum had become lighter, she looked at her body, which still needed to recover.
Yes, I have to admit it. I felt weak. Mentally.
Maehwa knew that this curse was directed at her and that it was prepared, but she probably tried to solve it on her own.
An exorcist must resolve the curse on himself.
This is the right thing to say as an exorcist, but solving the problem on your own means that you have to find your own way, not that you have to throw yourself directly into the curse.
She decided that for herself, and she forgot that fact because she was so tired of the topic that she had been talking about to others as a habit.
If Lee Jun had not been there, the name she had unintentionally hidden for hundreds of years would have become a curse and taken her life away.
To plan, prepare, and execute a plan like this, you must have extreme perseverance and great eye. Who is it? Is it a human or an evil spirit? Is he or is he simply a formless curse?
No matter what happened, I wasn’t really worried. After all, isn’t there a boy who is strong, unlike himself, who is weak?
“Well, that’s it. First of all, I have to search for everything that seems suspicious, so I won’t be able to go home for another month!”
“Oh, I really hate it. “I’ve suffered so much since you collapsed. Can’t I get some vacation time?”
“hahahaha! It’s impossible! “Because I don’t have time!”
Maehwa laughed at Nokra’s words and tipped her drink again.
There is no time- is a bit different. To be precise, I would have to say that I don’t know exactly how much time is left.
Events that occur simultaneously as if they are threatening to tear down the pillars of this country are also problematic.
In Maehwa’s view, the biggest problem is the fact that the Vatican attacked the country, accompanied by her saint and her fetish, as if chased by something about her.
Of course, it is an abnormal situation, and the terrorist act has already been criticized at the national level and a protest has been sent to the Vatican, but what is more important in Plum’s view is the cause, not the result, of their terrorist attacks.
Why on earth did they attack this country? According to the testimony of Saint Lee Yu-ri, who is currently staying there, she said that the reason they attacked this country was to kill a being called Cambion who would destroy the world.
And that Cambion is not just one, but Lee Jun and another one. And the other is an unknown exorcist girl who is close to Lee Jun and has the skill to control evil spirits.
The headquarters of the most influential religion in the world took all the risk and risk by saying that they would kill them.
Of course, should Maehwa kill the two terrorists after hearing what they said and tried to kill the Class A exorcist in the country by dragging in civilians? There is no need to think nonsense like that.
What she cares about is that the future of destruction that the plum tree sees is not just limited to this country, but may be common throughout the world.
Such ominous prophecies have occurred simultaneously in the world in the past.
“…… I saw something like this in 1999 too…… “Is there a prophecy spreading about the destruction of the world that is out of season?”
1999. A similar thing happened when, as times changed, rumors were spread that the world would be destroyed by a prophecy made by Angolmoa or Nost.
The devotees went wild and the evil spirits ran rampant.
At that time, there were so-called world destruction prophets who gathered together and argued about doing whatever they wanted to the world, which was going to be ruined anyway.
There were also cases where they worshiped the being who would destroy this world as if they were gods or made a fuss by saying they would create it themselves. It was an even bigger problem because among the mentally ill were government researchers and exorcists.
The people sent to Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital to research what happened were idiots obsessed with such apocalyptic theories, and the incident that led to something dangerous vaguely crossed Maehwa’s mind.
Anyway, even at that time, everything was shaking as if the world would be destroyed at any moment, and those who could prophesy predicted the destruction of the world at the same time, but the world was actually fine.
Will it be the same this time? Or is it simply that the prophecy of the end of the century has been postponed until today? Where on earth did this cause and effect come from?
Maehwa closed her eyes. What does her intuition say about this incident?
“…… She says let’s find out about Eola who has the skill to deal with the evil spirit. They’ve probably noticed that we care, so they’re more careful. Don’t forget to make sure the information doesn’t leak out to the evil spirits around you.”
Plum’s persimmon was telling her that there was something in this case about the girl who had the skill to deal with evil spirits in any form.
A simple feeling with no clear logic. However, for an exorcist, his sense is his greatest weapon and self-protection device than anything else.
Manipulating evil spirits means that destruction is predestined, and just trying to deal with low-level evil spirits will lead to a miserable end.
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However, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the girl has many A-class evil spirits and can control them.
A clear destruction of common sense with Lee Jun. It was clear that the unknown girl had some secret about her.
“…… But I don’t think Jun will be angry that he touched his friend…… ? “He does share construction, but you never know.”
“What is it, old man? Are you really worried that he will get angry?”
Maehwa pursed her lips as if she was embarrassed, even though she had said the words herself. Her words, which had not passed through her brain, were nonsense even she had not expected.
But she didn’t feel like taking back what she said. Plum was quite genuinely worried about that.
“She knows he’s close with her dean, but when she makes a face like that, she can’t get away with the joke. Uh, um, just kidding, Joe…… ?”
“Hmm. It’s a joke. Huh.”
Yes, it’s a joke. I was simply exhausted physically and mentally, and it was very unfamiliar to receive help from someone, so I decided to do this prank…….
“Hmm?”
Maehwa rolled her eyes as she suddenly realized something. A girl born in a poor mountain village who worried about making a living was born amidst famine and drought.
After her village was wiped out by evil spirits, she was sold as a slave and became the lowest courtesan in a gisaeng house.
Even after it became known that she had spiritual powers and she was taken to her palace, there was no one to help her, so she even took the oath to live only as an exorcist in order to survive.
So, to put it simply. As for the person named Maehwa, at least as far as she can remember, she has never been protected or saved by someone like she is now.
When she was weak, she would have been abandoned, saying that she was not needed if she showed weakness, and when she became the strongest exorcist, she no longer had to be protected by anyone.
If someone knew this about her, they would have thought that she had a very strange life. She is a plum and she has never regretted it until now.
She was never protected by anyone in the first place, so what does that mean?
It didn’t matter to her when she had no experience receiving help from anyone like she does now.
After receiving her help, she felt really good. Not only that, she was the first person to tell me that it was okay to quit if it was painful and difficult.
Nokra is a ‘person’ she can immediately trust, but she can only maintain this relationship if Maehwa is present as her exorcist.
This is not an exorcist named Maehwa, but the only person who cares about people right now is that little boy.
So- Well, that’s it.
“I’m such a ruthless person too.”
It’s just a matter of making excuses. An older girl with a body without any s*xiness was just acting like usual. Plum swallowed her breath and said mischievously with her wry smile.
“You too, don’t be afraid of your strategy.”
“Please don’t say anything about my teaching certificate… ….”
Even as she said that, her face seemed a little different – Maehwa held her glass to her lips in frustration.
The scent of alcohol tickled her nose, but she felt that she wouldn’t be able to get drunk today.