222 – 222 – A Nail Named You #23
222 – A Nail Named You #23
“Hey, come with us.”
Lot, the priest of the Genesis Church, stretched out his hand toward Enio.
And Enio is hesitating in many ways.
“My brother died… , I mean it could be because of me… ?”
Enio looked healthy, but was a sick person inside.
And I had once felt keenly that religion penetrated more intensely into the hearts of the sick and poor.
Religion tenaciously targets people’s gaps.
One day, my older sister, who said there was a good part-time job, recommended a cafe part-time job.
As it turned out, all of the cafe staff, except for me, belonged to a certain pseudo-religion.
The boss, the women who work part-time, and the barista hyung are all!
When I found out that the part-time job itself was an excuse to recruit me into their heretical church, I felt doubts in many ways.
The question of whether it was necessary to evangelize me like this——.
But most pseudos are like that.
How to evangelize one person as tenaciously as a lion hunting a rabbit with all his might. It was the same with Lot, who is now teasing Enio with his serpentine tongue.
“We can tell you the answers to your problems. did you lose your brother? Poorly. It’s not your fault. However, in a way, it is also your fault due to your ignorance.”
Ruth’s story sometimes sounded like a scolding from a stern father, or like comfort from a benevolent mother.
“But it’s okay. If you go with us, your sins of ignorance will be forgiven. And you will be able to meet your dead brother again.”
Even my heart listening to it from the side is tempting.
To be able to answer all my questions and even solve them.
What about Enio, who is suffering directly from agony?
“My brother could be because of me… . my… ignorance… ?”
I honestly didn’t understand what it was like to fall for a cult.
I don’t even go to a certified church, so why go to a place called pseudo?
People who struggle to live on a daily basis give up their daily allowance with offerings or something.
Sometimes, even paying debts, he just donated to the religious leader.
But when I went through really hard times, I came to understand their feelings to some extent.
People who are going through a really hard and turned away time.
Only pseudos reach out to them and comfort them, so stop holding onto them.
Even though I know sometimes it’s ‘wrong’.
Because they are the only ones who take an interest in them and reach out to them.
I just want to believe in something.
Like an opium administered to forget the pain.
But Enio is different.
There are many people who can lend a hand to Enio.
“Don’t listen to them.”
I put my hand on Enio’s shoulder.
It was a small shoulder.
“These are the ones who make a living by dazzling and deceiving people. I don’t really care about your pain and sorrow. I am only using you.”
My older sister, who had recommended me to work part-time, couldn’t get her out of the pseudo heresy.
She was kind and sincere in many ways, so she was a good older sister.
So I hate religion.
Even more so if it was named pseudo.
“Hey, come on, take my hand.”
“… … .”
Enio looked at the black robes of the priests and me alternately.
The trembling in that shoulder gets stronger and stronger.
I said to Enio.
“Don’t listen. The voices of such pseudos. You only hear my voice.”
Then, he tugged at Enio’s arm.
After losing his balance, Enio, who seemed to be hugged by me, finally sighed, “Huh.”
“Yeah, that’s right. Look how I’ve been for a while. Is it because of these strange acting… . to see my brother again To be stunned by such nonsense for a moment… .”
You’ve come to your senses.
If that sister had been pulled like this, would she have come to her senses?
It was then.
“Listen, are you noisy in front of people? I must have looked down on you quite a bit.”
Therese growled like an angry dog.
Soon Ruth said, “My child, we have already touched each other’s destiny. We’ll see you again soon.” He threw the lantern he was holding onto the floor with all his might.
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Quaang-!
“See you again, Therese!”
“Nokio, you bastard… !”
* * *
A great fire burns.
Fire.
The tongue of the blazing fire began to flow in this underground casino.
“Coke, Coke! Ehchu!”
Enio started sneezing and coughing again.
It looked very painful, so I thought it would be best to escape this place quickly.
“Enio, we have to get out.”
“… yes! Coke, but people here… .”
Enio seemed hesitant as he looked at the people around him.
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Just like what he said, the people around him who have hardened their behavior due to the large-scale restraining magic performed by the priests of the Genesis Church are about to be swallowed up by the fire.
“Tch, did you run away… !”
Therese burst into anger at the priests of the Genesis Church who escaped by taking advantage of the explosion and arson.
The momentum to follow them to the place where they fled immediately.
Because the interrogators of Seonghwangcheong Division 12 hate heretics and apostates more than anything else.
It wouldn’t be strange if I followed them like this.
However, Therese looked back and forth between the entrance where the pseudos had fled and the people on the burning stage, and finally shouted, “Shit!”
“I’ll try to catch the flames, so in the meantime, get them out!”
You’re saving people here?
I’m surprised
Therese opened a strange potion and poured it into her mouth.
The guy finally shoots a poo-woo-water into the air.
“Dampen it, ＜＜Sweet Rain of Grace＞＞!”
《Danbi of Grace》.
As a healing skill of priests, the healing amount itself is low, but it works in a wide area and has the advantage of increasing fire resistance.
Woo woo woo-.
It must have been a skill to pour holy water into one’s mouth.
As if a sprinkler had exploded, raindrops started to fall in the air, which is very strange.
In the current situation, the effect is outstanding in its own way.
“Mo, my body moves.”
“Fire!”
“Kyaaak!”
Are the hardened bodies of people starting to recover?
With everything in chaos, I helped Enio and sent him out of the casino.
After that, people who still seemed to be unable to move were brought out by carrying them on their shoulders or carrying them on their backs.
A few minutes longer than a day passed like that.
The flames finally spread throughout the gambling hall, and now it is impossible to calm them down even by spraying them with holy water in their mouths.
“Water Wizard! We need a water mage! There’s a fire in the underground market!”
“Nymph of the stream! Call the nymph of the creek! The nymphs of the stream are excellent water wizards! Hey there, you are a nymph!”
“Hoeh… ! This hoenoi is a nymph of ditch water and can only spit out ditch water… !”
Fire.
A gambling house that is eventually swallowed up in flames.
Fortunately, however, they pulled out all the people inside.
It’s a pity that the items inside burn up, but I’m sure you’ve got fire insurance.
of course.
The problem did not end here.
“Hey, there.”
Therese, her face illuminated by the bright lights of the burning gambling hall, turned to us.
“I couldn’t catch the heretics. While I pulled out my knife, I had to cut something to keep the name of Section 12 alive. In particular, the young lady over there seems to be very interested in heretics.”
Guy Therese.
Did you end up smelling it?
If possible, I was avoiding situations where Seonghwangcheong and Enio might come into contact.
There have been times when I had a hard time because the story didn’t go the way it was originally, but when I try not to go the way it was originally, it goes back to normal.
“Let’s go to the church and talk about the details. Then everything is supposed to come out.”
It was like a detective who witnessed a suspect.
If Enio falls into Therese’s hands like this, it will be difficult in many ways.
If Enio is handed over to Seonghwangcheong, the bad ending is confirmed.
the world is crashing
“Little boy, are you Viktor? Even if you wear a mask, you know everything. Pass the girl over there. Then you can ignore today’s deviation.”
“… … .”
can’t you do it
“Thérèse, this is the end of my short and thick relationship with you. I’m going to take a look at today.”
I put my hand on the scabbard sheathed at my waist.
Therese also reaches for a small holster-like object hanging from her waist.
“A short but deep relationship. I like thick and long ones. Of course, the size doesn’t really matter as long as it suits you.”
Knock.
After unbuttoning the button, what I hold in my hand is a nail that looks like a dagger.
Power seemed low.
I think it’s a weapon that doesn’t suit the current situation, so it’s rather a boundary.
When you’re watching nervously what to do with that.
“I’ll show.”
Therese raised the dagger-like nail in reverse and stabbed it hard into her chest.
“The grace of the gods… !”
Soon, the sound of grinding teeth is heard.
“Grrr… .”
Therese growled like a starving beast on alert.
It was probably saliva dripping down the lowered head.
“To think that he would drive the nails of eccentricity into his own body.”
Wasn’t he a sorcerer who planted eccentricities in the bodies of others to control them?
I was nervous in a way I wasn’t expecting.
“… Whoa, okay, something big and thick got inside me.”
Therese caught her breath and lifted her head.
Looking at the bulging-tendons on his face and neck, it is probably a ‘body strengthening’ type of quirk.
“The grace of the gods spreads to every corner.”
Therese clenched her fists with a giggle.
He immediately kicked the floor vigorously and lunged at me.
Swoop, pat-!
The fist that I pulled back with all my might was directed at my face and I had to be beaten without even having a moment to avoid it.
It seems like a big spark is flying in front of my eyes with a huge impact on my cheekbones.
“Kuk.”
It took me a few steps back.
Therese, who was shaking her fists as she was trying to hold herself back because she almost stepped on Enio who was lying on the floor, said.
“It’s strong. Quite a few guys must have sunken cheekbones. Is your strength a bit lacking?”
“It’s fast, but it’s a light fist for me now.”
Is it some kind of quirk that lowers strength instead of increasing agility?
I knew one such quirk.
“The nail you planted, 《Hurry up》.”
“What, did you take an introduction to eccentric studies?”
Are there any classes like that?
However, even without taking such lectures, I also had some sharpness about the kinds of quirks.
How many playtimes have you been repeating so far?
I mean, I know everything except for the ones added in the DLC.
Shuk.
Therese put her hand on her waist.
“But you. it’s viktor How can you be so fine?”
“What do you mean?”
“A quirk built into you. Are you holding out there right now? I didn’t know there was such a person in the world. I can’t believe it even when I see it with my own eyes.”
“If you don’t believe me, don’t believe me.”
“But you’re not holding up perfectly, are you?”
“… … .”
“As evidence, look. like this.”
Seruk.
Therese unzipped the zipper that had been pulled up to her neck.
“This is how you look at me with sticky eyes. the women say Did you know that you are surprisingly sensitive to men’s gaze? I’m just pretending not to know.”
His white neck and the heat of the fire exposed his sweaty sternum.
The drops of sweat dripping down into the deep gorge of the chest are like sweet rain of grace.
pat-.
“… … !?”
The chest disappeared in an instant… No, Therese.
I hurriedly turned my head, and before I knew it, he was reloading his next fist with his back bent under my head.
“This fist will be heavy.”
Swoop, peouk-.
A fist pierces my defenseless stomach.
“The Fist of Punishment!”
Paaang-!
“… … !”
when you come to your senses.
I was already on my knees on the floor.
He looked up and saw Therese, her hands glowing white.
Was it the bare-handed fighting technique of the priests of Seonghwangcheong?
Fortunately, it didn’t hurt.
It seems that my stamina is high.
“Now we’re barely at eye level.”
“… … .”
Seruk.
Therese snaps her high-heeled shoes on my kneeling shoulder.
This didn’t hurt too much, but it was somehow humiliating.
“Are you sick? But you won’t be able to take your eyes off me. That’s such a quirk. It’s called Boiling Blood. Even in this situation, you have to look inside my stockings or skirt, right?”
this fight.
I have a feeling it will be more intense than any boss fight I’ve ever been through.