49.Lorelei (4)
“…Something familiar.”
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I looked through the bodies of men whose bodies were forever incapable of making children, and looked at the objects found in the moonlight. A small crossbow that can be worn on the wrist and made to be hidden under long sleeves, and an ominous pendant. I felt an unpleasant aura from the pendant.
…And it was something I’d seen in the game.
It must have been the mark of some religious order… Hal… Hal.. Ka… What was it?
What were you going to do?
“Anyway, this should be enough evidence.”
Ordinary people wouldn’t carry such a hideous aura around.
I made handcuffs for the three prisoners from a nearby tree, immobilized their limbs, and sprinkled numbing powder over them like salt.
Ah, I should be saving this now.
Since it was brought from an uninhabited island, there is no place to supplement it anymore. It would be nice if there were mushrooms with the same vegetation here, but there probably isn’t. If it was a mushroom on the continent, there was no way I, who had been collecting it like crazy, wouldn’t know. No, maybe I forgot, so I can’t be sure.
I thought I should try to make a deal with the alchemists when I go to the academy. If possible, the goal was to establish a relationship with the Faculty of Alchemy. After all, my ability was compatible with alchemy.
Well, it’s not something to think about right now, so let’s move on…
“…How do I get these bastards?”
If it was only one person, I would have been able to carry it on my back, but I couldn’t do that with three people. Should I make a wagon on the spot and take it with me?
A cart, a cart… I remembered a cart I saw on the street. I don’t have a horse, so I’ll make it in the form of a rickshaw, right? I drew the rough shape of a cart on the floor with the moonlight as the lighting. I have no talent for drawing, so it was an ugly drawing that anyone would think was a child’s graffiti, but I was able to recognize it, so there was no big problem.
After capturing the images that popped into my head, I walked around and looked at the trees nearby. Fortunately, the trees growing in the forest looked pretty good.
“…Isn’t that illegal?”
Now that the culprit has been caught, will you extenuate? It’s not confirmed yet…
“Production.”
Split the tree into quarters with the skill, and use the skill again to make parts. Since it was my first time making a cart, it was difficult to make a finished product right away. Having made the wheels separately and the body separately, I combined the two with my skills.
“Production.”
When the skill was activated, a pretty plausible cart appeared in front of me. A little sloppy part caught my eye, but since it was disposable, it didn’t matter much.
It looks pretty good for a first-timer.
It wasn’t made with riding comfort in mind, so motion sickness and bruises will come at the same time, but since I’m not going to ride it anyway, there’s no reason to worry. Unlike Koreans, this place doesn’t care about the human rights of criminals at all. I put the three people on top of the cart in turn and grabbed the handle.
And I belatedly realized one fact.
“…Where am I supposed to go?”
I can’t go back to the sewers.
… You can just run around the wall.
I started moving my legs recklessly with the feeling of moving.
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“Who are you!”
“We have arrested those who tried to murder the saintess.”
“What? Who are you…”
Before the guard finished speaking, I took out the Kalonist badge from his chest and showed it to him. As soon as the guards saw the certificate, their wary faces softened a little.
“You mean the customer caught them?”
“It has a long tail.”
Judging by the questionable look in his eyes, it seems that he doesn’t trust my words. It was natural. If a man brings a cart full of people and asks you to let him in while calling you a guest, you should be suspicious.
“…Hans. Inform the captain.”
“Yes!”
As soon as the guard with a name that could be betrayed heard the order, he rushed over. The guard who was checking me said to me with an expressionless face.
“Wait a moment.”
If you wait. Not wanting to cause trouble, I obediently obeyed the guard. Fortunately, a guard by the name of Hans had just brought along an elderly guard. A tired expression was clearly visible on his face, as if he had suffered a lot from this incident.
The man, presumably the head of the guard, looked at me with a surprised face and said.
“You must have come with Karina-sama…”
“Right.”
Knowing my face makes things a little easier. I stepped aside and stood in front of the people lying in the cart.
“They seem to be related to the attempt to assassinate the saintess.”
“How sure are you?”
“Look at this.”
I handed the necklace to the guard. The guard looked at the necklace and looked at the men in amazement.
“This is…”
“Is this something you know?”
“It is the mark of the Harpas Church. You mean you had this?”
“Yes.”
The guards stared at the three men who fainted. In this city full of Kalonists, it is obvious what the view of heretical religion will be. I spoke to the guards, who were ready to draw their swords at any moment.
“Can I come in?”
“Of course I should. Hans, Pierce. Instead of this person, pull the cart and take it to the temple.”
“Yes!”
Are you saying that it will protect you from an unexpected attack?
Then you should be grateful.
I arrived at the temple escorted by the guards. When I arrived in front of the temple, Archpriest Pierre, who had heard the news, jumped out with a heavy body and came closer to me.
“John! Is it true that you caught the culprit?”
“I’m not sure. But this came out of my bosom.”
“Harpas… !”
The face of Archpriest Pierre trembled. As soon as I showed the pendant, Archpriest Pierre glared at the pagans I had captured with faces that looked like they were going to explode at any moment… Still, the jjambab that was serving as the high priest hadn’t gone anywhere.
“Take them to prison. In the temple… I will interrogate myself.”
From the look in Pierre’s eyes, I sensed that they would never look good.
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“Lenny…”
“Karina-sama, are you okay?!”
I have no strength. It was the first thought that came to Karina’s mind when she woke up. She feels the same as when she was first stranded on a deserted island. Karina rolled her free eyes and looked at Lenny, who looked down at her with her worried face.
“What happened…”
“An assassin sent by the Harpas Church disguised as an escort and shot a crossbow in Lady Karina’s back. John caught them and they are now being interrogated by the church.”
“John…?”
“Yes. It’s because I tracked down where I caught it in an instant and caught it. How did you find it… I would have been suspicious if it hadn’t been for the escape from the deserted island together.”
Due to the attempted assassination of the saintess, which brought shock and fear to the church, which had been loose for a long time, the church was in the midst of a storm every day.
At the same time as the search for the spy hidden in the church, the people involved in this incident who did not notice even though they were replaced received severe punishment, and a search operation was launched throughout the city, frantic to catch the remnants of the Harpas religion. There was. Lenny also wanted to join the ranks, but he was an escort himself.
She buried her rising anger deep in her heart and focused her attention on protecting Karina’s side.
Since a spy was discovered inside the church, I couldn’t entrust someone else to escort me.
“I’m glad…”
“The curse is said to be unsolvable by the priests of the Lorelai branch. I guess I’ll have to go to Lennon, a professor of haeju studies at Calon Academy. Because that is the most certain.”
The curse placed on the arrow he made to somehow kill Karina was by no means easy. It was to the extent that the priest who picked up the arrow to draw the arrow immediately was cursed and lost his vitality in an instant and became a mummy. Even so, the priests poured holy magic and barely sealed it.
“I didn’t expect it to go like this…”
“Me too, Miss Karina.”
She thought that she would be able to enter the academy in peace, but she felt uneasy that this would not be the end. There was no way the guys who were openly trying to kill her saintess would end with this once.
‘…Why are you targeting Karina-sama?’
Everyone knows that saints are a nuisance in a church that worships demons like Harpas like gods.
However, the reason they haven’t touched it until now is that the power of the cult of Harpas was defeated in a war that depended on the fate of the cult hundreds of years ago, and it must have lost even the power to organize the work.
By the way, you’re doing an ambush like this? Why the hell What’s good about touching the planting of Calonism?
An unresolved question coiled itself in Lenny’s head and started pounding on her head. The snake in his head would continue until he destroyed the Harpas cult.
‘…For now, let’s focus on taking Karina-sama to the academy. Archpriest Pierre said he would organize a large-scale escort…’
Lenny calmly held Karina’s trembling hand as she made a resolution inside her.
Whatever she was, the most important thing to her was Karina.
Even if the world perishes.