chapter 23
23. A saint knocks on the door of a general store (6)
“Hmmm.”
Fran, who came to his senses and seemed light-year old again, drank the cold water.
I also drink cold water from the opposite side and shake off my energy from sleep.
Frank, who had caused me a strange misunderstanding, took a deep breath with his regained sanity and broke the silence.
“…I didn’t know that brokers were such people. In the meantime, people called brokers made me an offer. At that time, I thought it was not right, so I turned it down.”
“Innocent kids like you get involved in crime to earn pocket money and never get out of it. Being involved in crime itself is a great blackmail tool for them.”
Do you know how to dispose of academy students who commit crimes?
As I briefly mentioned earlier, it extends the period of enlistment in the military.
‘Double punishment of sending a prison sentence and extending the military period depending on the severity of the crime…! There is a reason why students who seem to have nothing to fear are trembling.’
10 years is terrible, but they say to spend more time in the army.
It is also a desperate measure to prevent children from having big accidents while attending the academy.
‘Because it’s obvious that all sorts of accidents will occur if the punishment is not excessively strengthened.’
It would be unfair to have 10 years of my life stolen, but no one would want to dedicate more of their lives to a polluted area.
‘Of course, even if I do that, the person who will commit will still do it.’
One of the causes of trouble is the existence of brokers who seduce naive kids they don’t know well.
Of course, they don’t touch the academy student who has a back stomach.
If so, wouldn’t the student, in a fit of anger, tell the family and try to deal with the broker?
‘It’s worse to check the student’s background and approach it.’
A student like Fran, whose back stomach is nothing more than a pseudo cult, will probably be sucked to the bone.
It’s not about making money, but rather being extorted from your abilities.
“So, calmly go to practice. You can earn money if you go there.”
The military does not provide free volunteer service to academy students under the pretext of practice.
pay as much as you work
Making money illegally should have been much more convenient and easier, but if Light Years had the ability, there was no reason to take the risk of committing a crime.
“Isn’t there not much money you can get from practice?”
“Depending on how active you are, you might be able to make quite a bit of money.”
“…..”
Honestly, it’s fortunate that he hasn’t gone to practice for a while.
Wouldn’t it be obvious that if he had continued to practice all this time, he would have given all the money he earned there to the church?
I felt the need to go deeper into that guy’s story here.
It’s important not to cross the line because if you go too deep into the third person, they will express their disapproval and kick me out.
“Did those women tell you that they couldn’t help it because they had to make money?”
“yes?”
“Seeing that he suddenly needed money, I guessed it roughly.”
“…The sisters were sacrificing for me. I was acting proud without knowing that. I regret it. If I had known earlier, I would have helped the sisters when they were having a hard time.”
Frank, who has been stabbed to the point, sheds tears.
I’d rather shed tears like that.
Suppressing your emotions inside is not good for your mental health.
Even to a guy like me, you have to spit out the words so that your feelings can be sorted out.
“Do you think that if the church has more money, those women called your sisters will stop prostitution?”
“Because you have no choice but to do it. The church will listen to me when things get better.”
No, no matter how much money you bring, the church won’t be satisfied and will ask you to send more money.
I asked with tears in my eyes if my expression was worse than expected.
“Are you suspicious of the Order?”
I hate it when you openly doubt it.
Here it was necessary to turn the other way around.
“I’m curious. Like you said, if I send a lot of money to the church, what will happen? Aren’t you curious?”
“…I’m not curious about that at all.”
It is a church that is steadily investing in Gwangnyeoni.
It will roll your eyes if you find out that he makes money.
And you will try to extract more money than you have invested so far.
Until now, I would have thought of waiting until Gwangnyeon finished his military enlistment and returned, but the situation has changed.
In the scenario, after killing men, Gwangnyeon started making money by contacting brokers.
And all of that money is donated.
The church must have been thinking of making a profit from it since he gets a salary when he enlists in the military.
But he didn’t even enlist in the military, but he’s earning money?
He realized that he received money through a broker and heard that he was earning money by illegally treating people.
‘This is a business that works!’
The broker secretly takes off his hair and starts making money in earnest using light years in the church.
Since Gwangnyeon will be used, he asks to stop the sisters from selling their bodies for missionary work.
The Order says they will, and orders only those around her to keep quiet.
Naturally, members of the denomination in other branches still suffer from missionary activity.
Gwangnyeon, who does not know that fact, treats people as the church orders.
Because he believed that the sisters could carry out normal missionary work by sacrificing themselves.
‘I will at least listen to what the child wants.’
There are only a few things the player can do in a light-year scenario on a fixed route.
After experiencing the essential scenario, we test our ability to save the franc by throwing the divergence like a good ship.
“…He will surely make things right that are not right.”
“What if the church doesn’t come out as you thought?”
It would be perfect if Gwangnyeon told me the option to abandon the Order, but I’m sure that won’t happen.
Sure enough, Gwangnyeon answered my words as if asking for something obvious.
“If not, I have to work hard to correct it.”
I gasped at the answer that seemed like arteriosclerosis would come because light years were blocked.
His throat was compressed, so his muttering came out in a low voice.
“There is no answer here or there that you are coming from the Church.”
“Yes? What did you say?”
In fact, even if Gwang-nyeon reads the scenario to the end, he will never come out of the pseudo-church.
The blackened Gwangnyeon had a scenario in which he overturned the pseudo-church and became the leader of the cult.
The ending of being exploited by the church is a bad ending.
The true ending is to overturn the church and become the church itself.
Other than that, there are minor endings, but they all happened within the church.
‘Since it became a reality, I thought I could get him out of the church if I did well.’
It seemed impossible, too.
They say you can’t leave the church even if you seduce them with sacred objects, so what should you do?
I just think it’s right to see the true ending at times like this.
“It’s okay because I’m talking to myself.”
“????”
I gestured to Fran, who was bewildered, to go into the bedroom.
“Because it’s late, the next talk is tomorrow. I’m going to die of sleepiness, so let’s get some sleep. You’re not going to stop it this time, are you?”
“Ooh..! It’s not like that. You misunderstood.”
Frank entered the bedroom obediently.
If you talk when the day is bright, you will be able to have a conversation in a more alert state.
* * *
What the hell did I do yesterday?
When she woke up, Fran kicked up the blanket with all her might.
There is no such thing as a black history.
If only I could go back to yesterday, I want to do that.
At the time, I thought that was the best choice, but looking back today, it wasn’t.
‘How could you do such a foolish thing… !’
It is true that I wanted to sympathize with the suffering of the sisters.
But it was wrong to use such an extreme method.
If he hadn’t saved me, I would have made an irreparable mistake.
“Oh right. mister… .”
How do you see your face?
She even asked her uncle to hug her.
The uncle avoided the seat for her, but he went all the way there and protested why he didn’t come.
What guts did you have to do that?
She staggered and buried her face in the bed again.
“Ha ha… .”
I wish it wasn’t real.
Can someone please tell me it was a dream?
smart!
Startle!
“Are you still sleeping?”
The old man’s voice came from outside the door.
I woke up and woke up quickly.
No matter how busy I was with yesterday’s work, I was so lazy that the old man came to wake me up!
“woke up!!”
Embarrassed, I forgot how to look at Mr.
The uncle was looking down at her with his wet hair, as if he had just washed.
Fran, who met the man’s eyes head-on! He made a strange noise and sat down.
“… I was just staring at you, did I do something wrong?”
“sorry!! I’m sorry!!!”
“Oh, an apology? It seems to be coming to its senses now.”
“Yes, yes! I shouldn’t have done that, but I must have been crazy for a moment. I am really, really sorry for bothering you!”
I don’t know if I’d rather have been bad alone, but she said to the uncle to hug.
It was the same as treating the uncle like a local thug.
It was very, very bad.
In the meantime, I’d been in and out of my uncle’s general store, and I knew he wasn’t a bad person.
However, even though he repaid the favor, he sprinkled feces on the hat board.
“I know you’re bothering me. He’s really come back to his senses.”
“I will go back too. Because I can’t cause any more trouble. Thank you so much for entertaining me. I will definitely repay this favor!”
Even if you can’t right now.
If the opportunity arises, I promise to return the favor to my uncle.
But the uncle stopped her from going somewhere else.
“Where are you going when you get out of here?”
“We should go back to the church.”
She left the church impulsively, but in the end, the only place she could go was the church.