Do-jin stood by the window holding a mug of freshly brewed coffee.
It’s black water that I wouldn’t even think of drinking normally, but I was curious because there was a coffee machine and coffee capsules in my new house, so I tried it.
Do-jin, who savored the spicy acidity, took a sip of the hot coffee in his mouth.
And I thought while enjoying the scenery that I could never see from the shabby one room outside the window.
‘Don’t drink again.’
Do-jin spit out the coffee he had in his mouth into the cup as it is, and brushed off the remaining bitter taste.
“What do people like to drink? It’s bitter, sour, and bitter.”
Dojin twisted his forehead without mercy.
But that’s for a while.
As soon as he turned around, his expression softened.
Seeing the panoramic view of the officetel, which was incomparably more luxurious than the shabby one-room I had been living in until yesterday, naturally made me feel better.
Do-jin recalled the process of moving into this officetel as he threw away the garbage drink that tasted like water washed with a rag in the sink.
‘Is that already three days ago?’
Three days ago, Do-jin found a woman lying in front of his house, and it was his exclusive manager.
Her personal details and impressions that Dojin remembered were roughly like this.
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My name is Jihyun Cheon. 22 years old.
The peculiarities were excessive diligence, a reluctance to be branded as incompetent, and a tremendous obsession with regular jobs.
I could see how diligent he was and how he morbidly hated not being able to complete the work he ordered from above, just by looking at Do-jin, who did not answer the phone and knocked on the door, even bringing a long padded jacket and squatting in front of the door until 1:00 AM.
A person who just shows you a prepared accommodation and asks if you like it or if there is anything you want to be prepared for, and then stays late until dawn when you are told to come.
From Dojin’s point of view, it was a good thing that the manager was someone who worked hard, but I wondered if it was a bit excessive.
belt ring-
I was thinking about this and that and taking out milk to drink instead of coffee when my smartphone rang.
Due to a habit in his previous life, Dojin always turned off his smartphone if he had nothing to use, but these days he just left it on.
After leaving a person outside until 1:00 in the morning because the smartphone is turned off and the capsule is set so that notifications do not pop up for external stimuli other than physical stimuli.
[Do Jin-ah, I think I can finish preparing the video by this afternoon. I’ll send it to you when the video is finished editing, so can you confirm it? I think the time will be around 6pm. And I have to decide how to upload the video.]
The sender was Cheon Ji-hyeon.
About the video to be uploaded to the newly created Dojin’s YouTube channel.
I handed over the video source to ask when they would start their activities, but it seemed that even the editor was attached and doing something.
‘But I was talking about this last night… … ?’
I wondered if this person had a disease that would kill him if he couldn’t solve his task within 24 hours.
‘Are you saying this is an A-class?’
Dojin seemed to see a system message in front of him.
[You got an A-class slave!]
-same.
It was an impression that did not need to be conveyed as it would be rude to him.
Since Dojin is busy, he sent a reply telling him to take care of it, and then he started his daily routine.
It was obvious what to do.
It’s a game.
* * *
After passing the Horcon Marsh, where Dojin had been hunting for three weeks, and moving for a full day, a place called Marzia Viscounty appeared.
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Marzia was a fairly large city for a vassal territory.
Since the surrounding mana concentration was low, there was no chance of strong monsters being born, so it was chosen as a base city for merchants traveling up and down, and people and money naturally flocked to it.
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Merchants from other cities, townsfolk touting them, and beauties who seduce all of them with a smirk.
Little kids selling flowers were flocking around, and adventurers who escorted the merchants going up were gathering in groups of threes and fives and chatting loudly.
Although Viscount Marzia had such a lively appearance, this liveliness was very unfamiliar to Dojin.
It was because the Marzia Viscounty he saw was not like this. It was different from the place called in the first place.
At that time, this place was called ＜Marzia, City of the Dead＞.
‘A place like this… … .’
Seeing the people living their lives chattering loudly, I felt a chill in my heart.
Soon this city will turn into a land of the dead.
The pristine walls surrounding the city will be overgrown with mysterious black brush, and the interior of the city will be a gloomy land of corpses and ghosts.
The reason is that… Dojin didn’t know exactly.
It wasn’t just Do-jin.
Even in his previous life, no one knew how this city was erased and became a level 70 hunting ground overnight.
It was just a lot of speculation.
“Adventurer, Adventurer! Could you buy me just one flower? Just give me 1 silver and I can buy bread for my younger siblings!”
It was a white flower that woke up Do-jin, who was immersed in contemplation.
Do-jin saw a girl holding out a white wild flower.
Her trembling eyes and hands showed her fear of Do-jin.
The girl’s fear was far from a mixture of vague admiration and fear for the magician.
If I had to pick one, it was a specific fear that had a basis from experience.
Do-jin speculated that it might be the fear of ‘adventurers’.
I’m sure you’ve suffered or seen the rough guys go through a few times.
Even so, giving flowers must mean that much is desperate.
The seemingly easy-going customer was preoccupied by big, old kids, so it seemed that he had no choice but to challenge an adventurer dressed as a wizard, whom no one was paying attention to.
Dojin showed her face and smiled so that the frightened girl could be relieved.
“How much does it cost to buy all the flowers you have?”
“It’s 1, 1 silver!”
Could it be because of tension? It seemed that the girl did not properly hear what Dojin said.
“Each flower is 1 silver, but if you buy the whole thing in the basket, is it 1 silver?”
“A bar, a basket? Are you referring to this one I have?”
“okay. How much is it for all the flowers?”
The girl’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Still, as the head of a family who is selling flowers to feed her siblings, the girl did not miss the opportunity that came her way.
“Eight silver, oh no! Just give me 5 silver!”
A girl who calls out loud, but immediately lowers the price, fearing that Do-jin will not buy it.
Seeing that, Do-jin silently took out 10 gold and put it in the girl’s hand.
to be invisible to others. Be careful.
To the girl who opened her mouth in surprise, Do-jin hissed and cautioned.
“Don’t show off. Buy something delicious with your younger siblings. I think one flower will be enough, so I’ll take only this.”
Saying that, it was the moment the girl was about to accept the first wild flower offered.
The black spot on her excessively thin wrist caught Do-jin’s eyes.
Dojin seemed to have cold blood.
“Wow!”
The girl screamed in surprise as Do-jin suddenly grabbed her wrist.
For a moment, the eyes of the people around him were focused, but after a while, he clicked his tongue and turned his head away.
When he saw the scruffy girl, he turned his attention thinking that he must have been caught pickpocketing.
“Sorry, sorry, sorry!”
From the moment she was born until now, the girl who has lived as an underdog has apologized without knowing why.
“This, when did this spot appear?”
“This is it?”
Dojin nodded to the girl who asked with tears in her eyes.
“hehehehe, that, that happened a few days ago… Now, I’m not sure… … .”
“You have to come up with it. Try to remember as accurately as possible when it happened and what happened around that time.”
The girl, who was intimidated by Dojin’s intense eyes, recalled the memory of forcibly discovering a black spot.
It must have been a lucky day for me.
okay. I remember being lucky enough to sell a basket of flowers at once, just like now.
At sunset, when all the other children had gone home, a kind-looking priest showed up, offered flowers, and was able to sell all the remaining flowers.
With that money, I was able to buy bread and soup and feed my younger brother and sister to their full in the first time in a long time.
And that day, I found a black spot while filling my stomach with the leftover soup my younger siblings ate.
“Yeah, that’s a week… No, hey, I saw it about ten days ago… Well, it’s not an epidemic! I’m really fine and I’m not sick!”
Some misunderstanding, the girl begged not to kick her out of the city because it was not an infectious disease.
After appeasing her, Do-jin was able to hear about the girl’s experiences on the day she discovered the black spot.
“… He was wearing a priestly uniform with black flowers on a pure white cloth.”
Looking at the girl who sniffled and nodded, Dojin thought.
Also, do
Priests enshrining Bella, the saint of creation, engrave a pattern symbolizing light with gold thread on pure white priestly clothes.
Even if it was the same white priest’s robe, those who carved black mist flowers on it were not the stars of creation, but the ones who served the stars of destruction.
‘Have the bastards of the Church of Annihilation been on the move since then?’
And the black spots on the girl’s wrist were like the signature spells used by the bastards of the Church of Destruction.
For 15 days, it only looks like a small spot, but from the moment the 15 days pass, the spots multiply explosively and cause unimaginable pain. The end, of course, is death.
‘Did they say it was a flower of rest?’
Even the name of the order is a joke.
Dojin consciously suppressed the unpleasant memories related to the perishing church.
I don’t have any good memories of being involved with them.
Thinking about it will only get in the way of making a cool decision.
Dojin let go of the girl’s wrist.
The girl’s wrists were almost bruised, perhaps because she had unconsciously applied force.
Seeing that, Do-jin took out a healing potion and holy water from his inventory.
“sorry.”
“… … ?”
The girl just rolled her eyes as if she still didn’t understand what the hell was going on.
However, it was something that Dojin could not explain.
‘The guy you met isn’t a good person, he’s a bastard who belongs to a group of idiots who are trying to destroy the world.’ can’t you say
The best I could do right now was to just heal my bruised wrist with a healing potion and remove the curse placed by the priest of the Church of Destruction by sprinkling it with holy water.
Fortunately, the 「Flower of Rest」 was a minor spell that could be removed by sprinkling holy water on it.
“Okay, that’s enough.”
“Oh, it’s gone… … !”
The girl, who watched Dojin do it with anxious eyes, touched her clean wrist.
Seeing that her face brightened slightly, it seemed that she herself was paying a lot of attention to her birthmark. When I saw something like an epidemic, I noticed that I was anxious about that.
“Looks like I wasn’t worried. thank god.”
Dojin laughed while lying to reassure the girl.
Then he took out another 10 gold and put it in the basket the girl dropped, covered it with flowers and returned it.
“Today, buy something delicious and go early. Take good care of your siblings. and… It would be good to take a few days off if possible.”
Looking at Do-jin, who became kind again, the girl hesitantly took what she had received.
“Go, thank you. Thank you very much.”
The girl bowed her head and carried the basket to her chest as she ran.
Then, after looking back at Dojin a few times, he disappeared into an alley somewhere.
At that moment, the expression slowly disappeared from Dojin’s face, who had no more face to face with the girl.
‘I guess I’ll have to find out more.’
If the priest of the Church of Destruction was here, it was certain that they were related to the disaster that would come to this city.
So now I had to find out what they were up to.
‘Honestly, I don’t know if I can stop it right now… I have to try until I try.’
Do-jin decided to start by looking for the damn priest of the Church of Destruction that the girl had seen.