116 – Curse of the Spirits
“Nice…Nice to meet you, Mrs. Ma!”
“Please take good care of me in the future.”
In the end, the men were excluded and two female priests were selected.
I chose people with weak personalities who seem to be underage and get along well with Etheria.
By the way, who the hell chose the priest to serve the other day?
Looking at Dave, Eri, and Etheria, you seem to be the owners of excellent choices.
Well, it’s already in the past and it would be funny to ask someone.
“Then, let’s spend the day in the dormitory for the last time. I will sleep in my room for the first time in a while.”
“Thank you…”
“What? Then take a good rest.”
I yawned with my mouth wide open, then shut the door and went into the room.
In my dormitory after a long time, the atmosphere was the same as before.
I didn’t have anything to carry, so it’s the same.
“Hmm… Hard.”
The bed I had been lying on in a long time was also hard.
Obviously, when I had just arrived in this world and had a headache, it felt very soft when I lay down.
Before I used this bed, I was sleeping with a blanket on the hard floor.
Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten used to a bed that’s softer than this.
“Ehh… Let’s go to sleep.”
I wanted to reminisce more, but I have to wake up early tomorrow to go to work.
I went to work after a long time, but if I’m late again…
***
“Ugh! I said you shouldn’t hit strangers!”
“Pw.”
Seeing the way he slapped the new priests who came out to work at the spirit sanctuary on a different route than my priestly priest.
I hugged her and started giving her attention.
By the way, this is the first time I’ve seen this emperor penguin baby spirit bully anyone.
This kid always played in the corner, because he didn’t pay attention to anyone.
“Are you okay?”
“Thank you…!”
The priest bowed his head to me and started to suffer from other spirit children again.
Something made me feel weak…
Isn’t it a foreign aristocrat or something?
“Still, the kids are interested in it. Seeing that they even hit you, it seems like you can touch them.”
“That’s right…”
“Have you ever been like that since you were little?”
“Yes…”
The spirit doesn’t even pay attention to those who are not its contractors.
No matter how much I try, it ends up harassing me, but I’ve never hit or touched it.
That doesn’t mean he doesn’t follow me well, so I don’t think he’s born like Etheria.
“First of all, take a break.”
“Boo…Your mama is busy, how can I…”
“Because it’s fine. You’ve been suffering for quite a while, haven’t you?”
Isn’t this what happened because I went out to get some fresh air?
If you’re a follower priest, you should be careful because he’s a low-ranking priest with the same position as me.
Somehow, they let the newcomer out and started to clean up the mess inside.
Without that newcomer, the spirits became docile and began to play by hugging each other, rubbing their faces, and grooming themselves.
Is there really something about that person?
I’ll try experimenting with Perry later.
*
“Wooo! Wooooow!”
“Uh huh, so does Perry…”
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Perry still didn’t hit me like the little emperor penguin spirit.
But it felt very strange to just bark.
When I look at it, the expression is somewhere in the middle of a smile or expressionless expression, so it’s not like I hate it…
FYI, Perry is hugged by her new priest.
“I…You don’t like being hugged by someone like me?”
“Hmm…Give it to me.”
The new priest shudders after realizing that the baby puppy spirit he is sitting on is a holy beast.
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People attach meaning to the fact that they are King Jin’s pets, so there are cases in which they are afraid.
“Bung!”
“Perry, why did you do that earlier?”
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Perry sticks out her tongue and tilts her head when asked.
She didn’t know why she was barking either.
Why is he like this?
Looks like you really don’t know why?
“Hmm…I wonder if someone who started working as a spirit sanctuary has this kind of ability…”
“Ho…Maybe there’s a problem…”
“No, it’s not like that. Rather, it wouldn’t be bad to take care of the spirits.”
Anyway, can’t you pop it?
Although Perry and the penguin barked and beat each other, it was while holding still.
Considering that the spirit of the baby dog in Etheria hates me, the spirit won’t even hold me if I don’t like it.
“First of all, your power is enough to be called an ability. The details will probably be delivered to the high-ranking members of the church.”
“That…Is that much?”
“Until now, there were only two people, including me, who could touch the spirits I hadn’t contracted with.”
It’s a bit cheesy to say this, but it can be a good example of spirit research.
Sufficient data will be accumulated just by working here at the Spirit Shelter.
Well, it’s fine now.
***
“Hmm… Is that so?”
“Just in case, I came to inform my father-in-law first.”
This is the Pope’s office.
I came to inform you about an ambiguous new priest who is neither friendly nor ignored by the spirits.
The father-in-law thought it over, then got up and walked slowly to the bookshelf.
He fumbled through each book with his fingers, took out one, opened it, and read.
“My lord, did you ever hear the story of Einhyar’s flower when you were training for priests?”
“Isn’t it an incident in which the husband of a 22nd generation saint gathers his supporters and causes an uprising?”
Einhyar is the name of the 22nd saintess, and the flower is to tear her husband off.
She was not even allowed to leave his name in history because of him who caused a civil war, but she heard that the 23rd saintess pardoned him.
It was the only case in which I was pardoned for the crime of civil war.
I have heard that there have been various rumors going back and forth about that in history since then.
“Although this book is not a history book, it is a diary written and written by the priest Subal who served Einhyar at the time.”
“Looks like that still exists.”
“There are various records left at the church headquarters. Since the foundation of the country, there is also a list of executions of those who betrayed King Jin and the first saintess.”
As expected, the power of preservation magic is amazing.
I never thought I’d leave those things behind.
But isn’t that an impossible task?
I heard that the verdicts of Galileo Galilei’s Inquisition are still kept in the Vatican City of the world where I lived before.
As for records, the more you leave them, the more valuable they become.
“But if the priest’s diary…”
“Actually, it’s a diary of a person who doesn’t like the owner, so it doesn’t contain much.”
“I see…”
“However, there is a part in the story where the spirits screamed when they saw their masters.
“Really?”
So, isn’t that a phenomenon that didn’t exist at all?
There may have been in the past, and there are still many people who can come into contact with spirits in places we don’t know about.
“But here’s something even more interesting.”
“Could there be more people like that?”
“No. It’s about the family history of Einhyar’s flower.”
It is said that the flower of Einhyar was a foreign royal family.
I don’t know which country the royal family belonged to, but it is said that the founder of that dynasty was a person who disturbed the resting place of the spirits and was cursed by the Great Spirit to be passed down from generation to generation.
The Pope put the book back on the bookshelf and took out another book.
This time it was a very old and dirty book, even with preservation magic.
“And this book is a diary written by the great sage.”
“Pu-huh…”
I thought I’d seen it somewhere, but the great sage was famous for dirtying his things.
It must have been dirty when the preservation magic was applied in the first place.
“The great sage’s diary mentions the ‘cursed clan’ who helped them during their travels.”
“Is that family the family where Einhyar’s flower was born?”
“I don’t know about that. More research will be needed in the future.”
The Pope closed the book, saying that we need to find out more in the future.
As expected, the pope was a doctor of animology and a cardinal before becoming the pope.
You have great knowledge about spirits.
“But what does it mean to disturb the Spirit’s Rest?”
“In the spirit academia, there is a hypothesis that the place where Einhyar’s flower was born may have something to do with the place where the country was founded.”
“Hmm… Then you built your country in the spirit’s resting place and were cursed by the Great Spirit.”
But speaking of great spirits, aren’t they about Perry, Yongyong, and Yuri?
Looks like there are other great spirits as well.
“Then the new priest…”
“If there’s one thing I’ve overlooked, Einhyar’s flower clearly shows dislike, but isn’t the new priest different?”
“That’s it again.”
When I saw it, at least I didn’t hate it.
Even though they barked and slapped me, they were quietly held in my arms.
Could it be that the effect of the curse is diminishing over time?
Maybe that’s why he reacted that way.