chapter 18
05 : Even in this world, the police are the ones who solve cases.
What would be a good word to describe it? If you are new to this place, it will be enough to understand if you say the place is a chapel in a church.
The candles are lit and it exudes a sacred atmosphere, and the chapel chairs are tightly placed throughout the room, and there is a podium in the foremost.
Up to this point, the atmosphere is similar to any church or cathedral, but if there is one difference, the difference is that there is a strange building instead of a cross in the place where the cross should be.
The pattern that looks like a person standing in a round circle is also a pattern that seems to have been made by following Leonardo da Vinci’s human body proportions in textbooks.
And a man kneeling in front of such a pattern and bowing his head. A man who failed in his attempt to kidnap psychic children and was almost caught by Detective Lee Mun-soo, but luckily escaped thanks to his colleagues.
He was breaking out in a cold sweat, running through thousands of thoughts in his head.
The mission failed, or simply failed, so he sacrificed his comrades to return here alone. Even stories about them appear in the news.
This man, who was defined as skinny by Detective Lee Mun-soo, is not at all a smart person if you look at it objectively.
I came here not because I was attracted to the doctrine of being saved by killing evil supernatural powers in order to preserve the innocence of mankind, which the ‘human center’ says.
I came here because I can kill psychics, monsters who are unpleasant and kill people, and I can feel like an emissary of justice through them.
But even such a man could tell that the current situation was by no means good.
this meeting. ‘Human Religion’ has been around for a while, but quite a lot of people have gathered thanks to the unique doctrine that uses the anxiety and fear of psychics that are prevalent in the current era.
That does not mean that there are many ‘zealous believers’ who will practice the actual doctrine.
It will be different later, but it is because there are many people who have signed up thinking that it is just such a meeting where most believers just gather together and enjoy talking about their antipathy and hatred for psychics.
However, until now, even a small number of like-minded comrades gathered their strength to hunt psychics after thoroughly preparing under the command of the religious leader and with strange tools that they did not know where they were obtained, but today they failed.
And the cause of that failure is yourself.
Unable to hold back his anger at the fact that even a child had become corrupted and turned into a monster, the planned plan went awry because he had to take care of the child’s parents instead of only kidnapping the target child.
As a result, most of his comrades were lost, and this religion was exposed on the water. What will the teacher do to me? What if you find out that you are the cause of all these events?
As the man was sweating with his head on the floor, he gasped and opened the door behind the platform leading to the principal’s office.
The man shuddered and lowered his forehead so deeply that it touched the floor, while struggling to lift his eyes upward to examine the presence coming out of the principal’s office.
He wears a bridal outfit that Catholic priests would wear, and wears a mask on his head that looks like he cut out only the face from Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of the human body.
He walked slowly in front of the man, stepping like a noble aristocrat. It was bizarre that there were no footsteps, but what was even more bizarre was the gaze beyond the mask.
A human-centered bishop. A being who calls himself ‘a person’, not a person. but those eyes.
The man thought that those eyes staring at him unwaveringly from behind the mask couldn’t possibly feel human.
No, in the first place, not only the eyes, but the overall behavior was like a machine. A man who does not raise his voice, inorganically follows his goals, and inflicts terrifying punishment upon failure.
Since no emotion can be felt there, isn’t it like a purifier given by God to kill a monster called a psychic and purify the world? He was a person who made me think.
“[failed, you said]”
But at the voice of such a being. Anger is brewing now. The man swallowed a scream as he felt his chest rise to his head and fall to his toes.
Do you know everything too? The man trembled, fearing what punishment the being might inflict on him.
The punishment this man does is cutting off his fingers or cutting off his ears. Or it’s a way to make them pay a clear price for failure, such as gouging out an eyeball.
But no matter how much I waited, he didn’t do anything different after he said the first word, nor did he utter a word of criticism. I just stood in front of the man and looked down at him in silence.
What are you thinking? The man felt even greater fear at the sight of the bishop in front of him without a word, rolled his eyes, looked down, and clenched his teeth.
How much, what terrible corporal punishment are you trying to inflict? Why is the person who usually silently punishes those who failed in their mission and then leaves, so quiet?
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Just like that, 1 minute, 2 minutes passed silently. Around the time when the man struggled in the deepening swamp of fear and began to feel that even breathing was painful. The bishop opened his mouth as if satisfied.
“[Raise your head. Brother.]”
“yes… … yes!”
At the Bishop’s words, the man hurriedly raised his head. As if the anger in his voice earlier had been false, the bishop slowly raised the man to his feet with a tone and gestures that seemed benevolent at first glance.
The man looked at the bishop dumbfounded at the appearance so different from his usual image, but he couldn’t read the expression of the man wearing a mask.
But the bishop patted the frightened man on the shoulder slowly, as if to soothe him. Tuk-tuk, a kind touch that would make you goosebumps.
The bishop brushed off all the dirt from the man’s knees and then slowly turned around behind the man. Then, as if warning something, he put it on the man’s shoulder and continued.
“[Brothers who share the same will as the brother’s stupidity and stupidity were captured by Satan’s messengers. yes. It is something that can never be forgiven.]”
“Sorry, sorry-”
Crunchy. As the man tried to apologize, the hand that had been on his shoulder became tense, and pain ran through his shoulder.
The bishop shook his head as he saw the man unable to speak in pain.
“[The apology is meaningless. The walls that stand in our way are only because of you.
But there’s an old adage. Man sins and God forgives. I’ll give you a chance to be forgiven. This is an oracle given directly by God. God has given you a chance.]”
The bishop put his hand into his bosom as he spoke those words, and with a very relaxed hand pulled a syringe out of his bosom.
Inside the disposable 10CC syringe, there was a liquid that glowed red enough to be mistaken for blood.
However, unlike normal blood, the liquid glowed slightly vermilion and stirred very minutely, making it look like a living creature. Anyone who sees it will soon deny it.
Because if you are a living creature contained in that syringe, you have to admit that there are such disgusting things in this world.
“[Let him who does it be saved. brother To be honest, I envy you. If I could, I would like to fill this role.]”
Immediately after, the bishop inserted the syringe into the man’s neck without hesitation. The man shuddered at the sudden pain,
As soon as the liquid from the syringe entered her body with a gurgling sound, she immediately turned her eyes open and began to tremble.
The trembling of the man’s body was at first the level of trembling in surprise, but as time went by, it changed to the level of trembling that caused seizures.
At the same time as the tremors intensified, the man twisted his body as if he felt pain, and strange changes began to occur in his body.
A strange sense of touch that begins to sprout on the male body. A strange object, reminiscent of a spider’s legs, began to appear on his back, and the man trembled as if he felt fear.
The bishop looked down at the man with emotionless eyes, and in contrast to the frightened man, as if performing a noble ritual, he took out another syringe containing red liquid from his bosom.
“[Because you are the one pointed out by him, let me tell you our human-centered ‘real’ doctrine. There is only one word of God that we follow.
Our salvation is to kill false prophets other than the gods we worship and faithfully follow his words. ah – I hear you. I will follow
For the sake of God’s world, sadly, someone needs to become a false prophet and teach fear to the ignorant.]”
Poo-wook.
“Uh-uuu!!!
As the bishop inserts an additional syringe into the man’s body, the man screams uncontrollably. The male body began to undergo even greater changes.
From the change in level where the spider’s legs appeared on the man’s back, the man began to change more and more bizarrely.
The legs of the spider that sprouted from the back gradually changed like human arms, and a total of 4 pairs of arms including the original arms were created in the man’s body.
In the man’s face, only the eyes enlarged strangely, and soon changed to resemble the compound eyes of an insect.
What would it look like if you mixed insects and humans clumsily? Seeing that it was a man pouring liquid out of his mouth, whether it should be expressed as saliva or bodily fluid.
The bishop held a few syringes filled with white liquid and a photograph as if to take a closer look at the ‘thing’.
The liquid in the white syringe was a strange drug that ‘neutralized’ the power of the psychic, which the man had used once before becoming like this.
The picture was blurry as if it were taken secretly, and the body was half-hidden by the wall, but the face was recognizable enough, and the clothes were also known.
Wearing a school uniform, probably a student, and a cute appearance with red eyes and long black hair, the child was photographed waving his hand as if wiping sweat.
A roar, the sound of a monster. The headmaster said firmly, as if he was sure that the unknown person in front of him could understand what he was saying.
“[This is the power of God, it is the word of God. I have heard the word to bring down the trials. Even false gods lose their powers with this medicine. Alas- we are faithful servants who simply follow. You can have your sins forgiven at the end of this road.]”
The Bishop opened his arms and said. As if that hand gesture was a signal, that something that was a man immediately stood up from his seat and ran outside making a sound of a beast.
As if he understood what he had to do, he grabbed the syringe and the case with four pairs of arms, and quickly broke the door with his grotesquely twisted legs and the creature disappeared.
And the bishop, who was alone in the chapel where the monster had left, looked at the place where the monster had left, then silently approached the podium and turned on the tablet placed on it.
The bishop rolled his eyes under the mask and focused on what appeared on the tablet screen.
What appeared on the screen was a picture of a tired-looking man with blood on his head against a background of what appeared to be ruins.
The bishop looked at the picture for a while, then broke the tablet.
*****
“[At 00:00 this morning, a group of more than 20 people attempted to kidnap a child in the middle of Seoul. Thanks to the efforts of a detective who happened to be passing by, the kidnapping ended in an attempted kidnapping and the children were safely rescued.
Most of the suspects have been arrested, but a few are currently on the run. It is said that they have identified themselves as human-centered personnel.
Currently, the police suspect that the abduction was not the purpose, considering the kidnappers’ remarks in addition to the fact that both of the abducted children are psychic awakenings, and additional investigations are being conducted-]”
“Is that what you did?”
“yes.”
“You fought 20 people alone?”
“no.”
“You are really crazy. Ugh.”
no. If you’re not going to believe what people say, why are you asking?
I narrowed my eyebrows at the shamelessness of the doctor who sewed up my palm, but I kept my mouth shut because I knew that if I threw up at the doctor’s words while I was being treated, the stitches would be more painful for no reason.
No matter how much the doctor said it wouldn’t be like that? Because I was often hurt, we met so often that you and I became friends with each other.
The nature of this guy, I learned from that, is that he is a guy who tells the patient to take care of himself even if he does something wrong during treatment.
If I offend you, you’ll make a mistake[not] putting the needle in a different place than the one where the anesthesia was put, with a nonchalant face.
I can’t catch this guy for a medical accident, so I changed my mind while snorting.
incident today. 16 of the guys who chased me were caught at the scene, but 5 of them managed to escape the scene.
Considering that there were only 8 police officers dispatched to the scene, they made a lot of arrests.
The police and I, the first witness, will have to be busy trying to figure out what madmen organized themselves in broad daylight to kidnap the children in the first place-
Funny enough, I am in the hospital like this because the members of the special investigation team and the police who dispatched to the scene thought I suffered a stab wound in the palm of my hand after fighting 20 people bravely while rescuing the children.
It’s a misunderstanding that can be resolved by just using CCTV in the suspects’ statements, so why doesn’t everyone listen to me?
Although the fact that people’s ears are plugged is quite bleak. There was something darker than that.
It is now that 20 members of the pseudo-religion ‘Human-centered’, the main group that causes the suppression of psychics in the original work, have been arrested. It is not known how the case will unfold in the future.
In the novel, it was described as a pseudo-religious group with many people gathering, rapidly growing by using the anxiety and fear caused by the sudden increase in human-centered psychic crimes.
Usually, pseudo-religious organizations exist at an early stage, and the most important thing in order to eventually become a pseudo-religion, no matter what the doctrine is, is the number of heads.
As a result of a light investigation before coming to the hospital after the incident broke out, it was said that, contrary to my expectations, a human-centered pseudo-group had not been created for a while.
I don’t know if they are serial killers who have already hunted and killed people with psychic powers as I know, but I don’t know at the moment.
Members of a newly formed religious group were in the news for the attempted kidnapping of children. It didn’t just come out as some religious group, but even the name was directly mentioned, and close to 20 people were arrested.
It goes without saying that quite a few regular believers will escape. How many zealous believers are left who are willing to commit murder themselves?
At this level, isn’t the religious organization itself in danger? Then what about the psychic suppression case?
I don’t know what will happen in the future.
By the way, since we captured a lot of human-centered personnel in advance, there is not even a single micron of thought that it will flow without incident.
Since this incident was also concocted by Sai, the incident will happen even if there is a new organization of some kind.
As I sighed, worrying about what kind of bullshit would come up in the future, the doctor who sewed my hands seemed to take my sighs in a different way and said in a contemptuous tone.
“Hey, even though 20 people are rushing at you, you can’t even run away from them. Your life must be attached to it, not to save the children.
I know your body is strong, but really buy it. In just a few years, you will be in your 40s.”
“No, he ran away.”
“Ugh, yes. I never thought you would listen to me and eat me.”
Why do people think that I was right in the middle of the day with those idiots?
Without saying a word, I watched the needle go in and out of my palm, which was painless due to anesthesia. After some time, the flesh was completely sewn up.
“Now, there are 6 stitches in the palm only. I don’t know if I should call this a big wound or say it’s great to fight with those guys and lose my hand.”
“Yes, yes. thank you.”
Hearing familiar but mostly impossible words such as don’t use your hands for a while, don’t touch water, and don’t drink or smoke, I tried to drive back.
But before I left, a nurse came up next to the doctor and whispered something in my ear, and the doctor narrowed her eyes. He said he had something to ask of me.
“Hey, I don’t know if I can ask for something like this. They say there’s a strange car in the parking lot with a really bad smell right now?
The tan is so bad you can’t see inside, and the smell is so bad that even the guards can’t get close to it. If you check it once, I will pay the hospital bill for you today, so please check it once.”
It’s a car with severe rot and severe tanning. What was definitely not good was the car that came to mind. It was something worth checking, and I nodded my head happily when he said that he would pay for the hospital bill with an acquaintance chance.
“thanks. They say the car is in the parking lot over there? On a jet-black Starex, the plate number is-”
Obviously, I accepted it thinking that I just had to check it once, but then I laughed when I heard the license plate number and model the doctor said.
That will be too. that’s my car
I’ll be sure to catch the green stink terrorist. I burned my will.