I Am an Evil God

Chapter 9-Law

The villagers cried out for Lemfra and Feint and were delighted that they had truly become Lemfra’s children.

In the ceremony held on the day when the full moon was bright, people from Katria village, Lemfra village, and newcomers were mixed without discrimination.

A man with tanned skin and a man with yellow skin rested their arms on each other’s shoulders and tore meat, and the man and woman they met for the first time today entered an empty house.

“On a day like this, you need alcohol, but it’s really unfortunate.”

“If you twist it, you make it. That’s your role, isn’t it?”

“I don’t know how to make it. I don’t have all the knowledge.”

Catria pouted and stuck out her lips.

“Wouldn’t it be okay if you didn’t have alcohol yet? I don’t think there’s a big problem with believers mixing without the help of alcohol.”

“You’re right. I’ve heard that alcohol played a huge role in the development of culture, but it’s still in the Neolithic Age. Even on Earth, every country has its own way of making it, so someday they’ll develop it on their own.”

The festival, which started when the full moon rose high, only cooled down after the dawn.

Thanks to a frenzied festival that happened all night, they were able to blend into one.

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“Ah… It’s cold.”

Elia grabbed her own shoulders and pressed towards her paint.

“So you’re just in town, what are you following?”

“They suddenly went out of town in the middle of winter, so I followed them because I was curious about what they were doing. There are no animals, so what are you doing here?”

“Don’t worry, I’m just here to get some fresh air.”

It has already been a month since Feint was appointed an apostle.

When she became an apostle not long ago, she was Eria who used her honorifics to Feint, but when Feint directly mentioned that she didn’t need to say honorifics to herself, the relationship between the two returned to normal.

“There’s no reason for a human like an apostle to come out for no reason. Why did he come out? Did Lemfra-sama give you an oracle?”

“I’m just wondering what’s out there outside our town, so I came out to think for a while.”

There was a Kinki tribe not far from Lemfra Village.

Going east, there was a village that was once destroyed and now only the ruins remain.

What does the world Lemfra created look like?

I was curious about the paint and couldn’t stand it.

“I’m curious about the outside of town.”

Elia grinned and looked at the paint.

Feint had to involuntarily frown at her because her smile was full of conceit.

“Oh, but why?”

“If you’re out of town, you know where I can really get to know you.”

Elia laughed and dragged the paint.

For Feint, whose physical ability increased dramatically after being appointed as her apostle, her Eria power wasn’t that strong, but she knew that if she gave her power and endured, her work would eventually flow as she intended. So she followed her without saying anything.

The place where Aria guided the paint was a tall tree.

It was a tree that grew at least three times taller than the other trees, but it was hard to see because of the thick leaves covering the sky even when looking this way from the village.

“Follow me.”

Eria skillfully climbed the tree.

Feint didn’t have the same skills as Eria, but it wasn’t too difficult to follow Eria because she had excellent physical abilities.

“Come on, look.”

Standing on a thick branch, the two looked around.

“Wow…”

Nothing but admiration came out.

To Feint, who has lived only in the forest until now, the forest seen from above was spectacular.

The luxuriance that I didn’t know when I was in the forest delighted Feint’s eyes.

“Look over there.”

Climbing on top of a tall tree, you can see not only the forest seen from above.

In the forest, the terrain that was hidden by the trees began to come into view.

“If you look over there, there’s a river, and if you look over there, there’s a stone mountain.”

“A mountain of stone…”

As Feint was comfortably watching the scenery, she began to feel an unknown sense of déjà vu, as if someone had placed a stone on her chest.

“What’s wrong?”

“You know the people I brought with me this time. They said that the village was destroyed because of the monster that came down from the mountain, right?”

“Isn’t it?”

No matter how much I looked around, I couldn’t see any mountains other than that one.

“There must be a monster living on that mountain.”

“A monster? There’s only one mountain nearby, but…”

“I’ll have to go on an exploration someday. If I see something blocked by the village security guard, I’m sure it’ll be possible to run away.”

“Are you going right now?”

Elia raised her own bow as if it would follow her at any moment.

“No, I’ll talk to the villagers, gather them up and leave.”

The paint went down the tree.

She jumped from a height of well over 10m without any safety devices, but the feint seemed to be okay, and she watched her surroundings until Eria came down.

“Let’s go back to the village now. We can’t stay here forever.”

“How long have you been there?”

She clung to the tree and Eria whined as she descended.

“I only came out for a short walk in the first place. She didn’t intend to be out for a long time.”

Eria stuck out her lips and grumbled or not, Feint walked towards the village.

While the paint was spinning, she, Eria. There was no way that she would ever be able to say that she was left alone, so she followed closely behind her.

-Woong Sung Woong Sung

‘What happened?’

After I went out for a while, the village became noisy.

Could it be that the Kinki have come?

‘No.’

If the Kinki came, it would have been noisy at the entrance of the village, not inside the village.

Then what the hell happened?

When I entered the village with a quick pace, there were many people gathered in the square.

There were originally a lot of people in the village as they were not doing most of the work due to the cold midwinter, but it was strange that so many people were gathered in the square, especially in one part of the square.

“What’s going on?”

“Paint!”

As Paint walked, people moved out of the way.

Where people had moved out, two men were staring at each other while being held in the hands of others.

For some reason, the bodies of the two were disorganized and there were many wounds that looked like bruises.

“Paint.”

The men struggled to fight each other even after they were caught, but soon became docile when the paint arrived.

Paint is Lemfra’s agent.

I couldn’t have shown such rudeness in front of him.

“What happened?”

“That bastard hit me!”

“It was because he took my food!”

After Feint appeared, he thought he had calmed down to a certain extent, but when the opportunity for the two to fight reappeared, they started growling and staring at each other.

“You stole the food?”

“I didn’t steal the food. I just borrowed it.”

“I’ve only borrowed food like that once or twice! I’ve borrowed it and never returned it, so I’m not at fault.”

I understood roughly what had happened.

‘A quarrel over food…’

In order to solve the root cause, it would be necessary to produce enough food so that no one would consider it insufficient, but Lemfra Village’s ability to afford it made it impossible.

[Tell them that you are all my property, and whoever harms my property without cause will pay the price in death.]

“This is Lemfra’s word. We are all Lemfra’s property. Anyone who harms Lemfra’s property for no reason will pay the price in death.”

It was meant to live kindly.

If you commit a sin, you go to hell.

Along with the law and morality, it was a religious law that protected humanity’s ethical consciousness for a long time.

“Death…”

“Borrowing other people’s food and not returning it is also harming others. Punishment for you will be given by Lemfra-sama.”

Paint stepped forward to the man who had been deprived of food, looked at him and said,

“No matter how much your food is taken away, hitting someone else will not be forgiven. Master Lemfra will give you your punishment.”

“Sorry.”

As we mentioned Lemfra’s name, both of them sat down and started praying to God saying they were sorry.

Since the status of Lemfra is so strong, there probably won’t be more people committing crimes from today.

“Great! Everyone, pay attention! I also received an oracle from Catria.”

Elia came out to the center of the village, picked up a branch, and started writing something on her floor.

“Lemfra said that we would be punished after death, but Catria told us what we wanted to protect.”

Do not hurt your neighbors.

Give to those who are hungry

Do not steal from others.

Etc., A total of 15 sentences appeared that adequately summarized various crimes.