chapter 18
04: I’m kinda f*cked up. I’ve been thinking and thinking about it. It’s definitely f*cked up.
I think it’s a bit f*cked up. I sat down and thought about it for about 10 minutes, but it’s true that I’m f*cked.
A public official threatened to harm himself and was caught in the act.
What is the problem with this world, why are public servants doing self-inflicted bullying?
It is absurd and it flies freely toward the sky, but there is nothing it can do.
I was beaten from the start. Accompanied by evil spirits, people were forced to attack their opponents. In the original world, it is a way that I dare not imagine.
There is a black box for running into a running car, and if you’re lucky, it’s like a CCTV, but the situation is filmed.
Only people with spiritual power can see evil spirits, but the other person is a civil servant and I am an orphan with no social status.
No matter how much I explain the situation, I will believe the officials instead of the police or whatever.
Because I’m really dirty and mean. Siipal.
I never thought I’d be dragged into a flash in my life.
No, would it be better to simply be dragged into the campfire?
It was such a crappy situation that I was in tears, but I went to the lady before it was too late rather than thinking about it any further.
It was clear that if he was arrested like this, he would not be able to achieve his goal of giving money to his mother.
The time when the sunset begins to draw food in the sky.
I made a terrible decision thinking that this was the last time and stood in front of the lady who was leaving work.
In the middle of the sidewalk where no one can be seen.
Looking close to her, a woman with sparse white gray hairs was walking towards her weary face.
But that’s only for a while. My aunt spoke in a slightly weeping voice, expressing her concerns about me.
I wanted to talk more, but there was no time.
It was more than the original goal of 10 million won, but it didn’t matter.
Anyway, from the moment I received this, I was thinking of giving it all away. I say so
“Sorry. Madam. I couldn’t see you because I had work.”
“No, no. Nice to meet you even now. However…… What is this passbook?”
“…… She is the money the guy earned. She wanted to give it back to her aunt sooner, but she has work.”
“Chunsik is…… ?”
The lady blinked her eyes with her sullen face while checking the inside of her bankbook. Then she opened her eyes wide in amazement.
“This is the money he was making while working part-time. Jeon…… Uh, I’ll give it to you instead. I want my aunt to use it. Because that guy wanted it too and collected it.”
“And uh…… I came to say goodbye because I made a big mistake today and it will be hard to see you again. Thank you so much. Thanks to her and her, I was able to survive.”
For 50 million or so, I’ll be able to do everything that her friend, the bastard, can do for her.
Even in the midst of this, I, a snob, asked in my head if it would be a waste to give all the damage compensation I received this time.
The grace I received from my friend and aunt is worth it.
Is it usually easy to truly believe in the words of a suspicious child who claims that Ji is an adult different from the outside, and feed her, put her to sleep, and buy her clothes?
I know how difficult it is, so I wanted this hat to be even happier, but the result is this sh*t.
Hiding my heartache, I expressed my sincere thanks while bowing at a right angle.
After waiting with her back bent for a while, when she lifted her body up again, the woman seemed to be holding back her tears.
“ㅡ Go, thank you. For not forgetting my son. Call me friend, give me, stand. For my son……. I, only I remember my son….”
As if the feeling of resentment she had endured had burst, the woman shed tears without being able to speak her words.
I was surprised by that appearance, but I could understand that feeling.
The damn suits keep your mouth shut and give you f*cking money, saying you’ll get hurt if you tell anyone about your son who was wrongfully murdered.
She had to endure it alone. She must have been bitter and miserable. I understand.
I also felt the corner of my eyes getting a little cold. I wanted to take her aunt to her house safely, but I didn’t have time.
If public officials were to harm themselves, they would have already prepared everything to use me, starting with the police.
There is no end to being put in a cell.
For the Exorcism Hall to try to weave a child like this- it means they are trying to drag me into something bad.
Otherwise, a government official who is not a bully would not do such a thing.
Huh. The more you think about it, the more absurd it is. Wasn’t this world just a world where ghosts appeared?
My younger brother said that this game is a harem combat horror youth story.
If public officials do this, wouldn’t this world be the world of a third-rate noir movie?
It is quite possible if you look at the bastards who threatened to shut up to the person who lost their family.
I decided that there would be nothing good for him to stay with her aunt for a long time. She was sad, but bowed again and said hello.
Just like that, I ignored her aunt’s call and ran behind her.
And then I ran to the nearest park and sat in the best view position and thought.
Once I’m being blackmailed for self-injury like this and the other person is a civil servant- If I’m dragged away like this, will you make me do only dirty work without freedom?
The dirty things I’ve been through and the dirty things I’ve been through while living on the street with my brother.
In addition, things I’ve seen in TV dramas and movies pass through my head.
No matter what you go through, honestly, it’s impossible to live a life of making money while catching evil spirits freely like now-
There are strangely many abandoned houses in this world, and there are many abandoned furniture, so I lived comfortably-
“If you get caught and try to do weird things, buy a bunch of dynamite and blow it up.”
You must have been prepared to get hit by a bomb if you tried to blame someone for the crime.
Even if I run away, there is no way I will succeed in escaping from this country.
Now that this has happened, I’m going to enter the academy as the lesser evil choice, so I’d like to ask for your help, but-
If the guys who orchestrated this said that I was going to arrest someone because I attacked them, wouldn’t the academy not be able to do anything?
Aside from the reason why the guy who orchestrated this was targeting me, he must have already calculated these things while ordering blackmail.
If you look at it objectively, I have no status or anything, but my spiritual power and combat power are good enough, but that’s about it.
I have some kinship with Nok-La, but it’s hard to let her protect me through her academy by herself?
It seems that Nokla had a position in her academy, but the image of her in my head is just a teacher who may be a pedophile…….
“Okay, let’s forget it.”
I looked at the remaining money, and it was over 5 million won anyway, so 10 sticks of dynamite was no problem.
I sat sprawled out on a park bench, waiting, with one hand tucked into my bank account so I could throw the dynamite at any moment.
The sun goes down, the night rises. A street lamp in the park lights up.
No suspicious-looking person has yet arrived. If it was natural, it was natural.
This park is a place where a lot of people roam around, and since it’s still early, people who have finished their day are walking around. How dare those who want to do dirty things proudly in such a crowded place?
Nevertheless, the reason I am here is to show that I have no intention of running away.
In the past, when my uncle sold our internal organs to a prostitute to make the best use of them before selling them.
In this way, I lured them in and my younger brother made a big fuss behind them and escaped successfully.
Those like bullies have a habit of wanting to swarm if they see a prey right in front of them, so they went looking for that opportunity-
Really- It’s a f*cking memory. The initial process, the result, and the post-processing afterwards are all.
“Sifal.”
I felt my throat dry as the bad memories came back to me.
I bought a bottle of water that cost only 10 won at a store, drank it, and stared blankly at the sky.
One hour like that. 2 Hours.
Time passed, and it was early morning when people disappeared from the park.
Even so, no one approached me as I kept my seat. Even the police, who had to come because they had received a report of assault.
Um, well. Those who like dirty work like dark things, so they might wait for the moon to get deeper.
I sat there again, staring blankly at the sky, and had a boring waiting time.
Time continues to flow. As soon as the sun starts to rise I looked at the sky and muttered blankly.
“Goodbye.”
Are you trying to kiII people by making them anxious?
No. It doesn’t have to be. Like I said, I am an orphan with no backing, but I am a child with the delectable value of spiritual power.
I thought that if they were enough to threaten self-harm, they would come without needing to be seasoned…. What?
I looked around vainly, rubbing my lower back from sitting for a long time, but I didn’t see anyone suspicious.
What is it really? It took a long time to blink, wondering that even the police weren’t coming.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been racking my brain to understand this incomprehensible situation.
It was Gwi-tae, not anyone else, who gave the answer to this sh*tty situation.
“If you’re waiting for them, give up. They won’t show their faces for a while because they’re so scared.”
“…?”
It was also strange that Gwi-tae appeared and talked to me while I was sitting on the bench. It was even more strange to say that the government official got scared and ran away.
I distorted my face a lot at the words that were out of common sense and looked at you.
Because I couldn’t understand what she just said beyond asking why she appeared in front of me, her face must be more ferocious.
Gwi-tae, who must have a tougher personality than my angry face, said with a smile as fresh as the early morning sunlight.
“The humans who came this time are the ones who listen to the stupid people at the Exorcism Office, so there’s nothing to worry about? It’s just what they did.”
“Of course it’s going to be a headache. I tried to scare you and drag you away, but you seem stronger than I thought and your threats don’t work.
“?”
Gwi-tae’s words were truly shocking and out of common sense.
A while ago…Or should I say yesterday?
Anyway, if that statement is true, the new concept of self-injury blackmail that the two public servants accompanied by evil spirits reflexively attacked yesterday was not actually self-inflicted blackmail.
Isn’t that what an idiot did?
Ever stronger than I thought and ran away? Do you want to cooperate?
Why?
“Yes. Why? I think it’s because you’re a very special person… What?”
Gwi-tae said with a serious smile.
Gwi-tae quietly sat on the seat next to her bench and looked at me.
There was no malice or hostility in that gaze as the black pupils that lay horizontally narrowed in the yellowish cornea as they glared at me.
As if the malice shown at the restaurant yesterday was a lie.
ㅡBoahani. I don’t think this villainous lady came here to come after me and kiII me. It doesn’t look like it’s trying to do anything.
That’s why I pushed Gwi-tae’s existence into the corner of my field of vision and continued to think with my chin resting.
Let’s think about it under the premise that what Gwi-tae brought is true.
Grandma Gae Dung told me to ignore the exorcism request, but since she can’t do that, she thinks.
Let’s assume that the officials are from the Exorcism Agency and they want some cooperation from me.
The easiest way, as I’ve been worried about, is to use the attack on the evil spirits of the public officials as an excuse, and if you don’t cooperate, you can threaten them by saying they’ll put you in the dark.
But if you don’t do that, it’s a situation where you can’t do that, or you can’t achieve what you want even if you attract people that way.
…But then there is ‘something’ that needs my complete and moderate cooperation, but from the beginning, you threatened people by showing them a knife (evil spirit)?
A person who has studied enough to become a civil servant and can give such an order can’t be that stupid…….
There is!
You can be such an asshole!
This situation and Gwi-tae’s words. And the knowledge about the world in this game that my younger brother taught me told me that the Exorcism Office was an asshole.
Well then, that’s good. They want something from me, but I’m an idiot beyond imagination.
“It’s annoying.”
I pouted my lower lip.
It sucks to get caught up in something like this all of a sudden, but if the Exorcism Office wanted something from me, something more sh*t could have happened.
On the contrary, I was lucky to find out that the government organization called the Exorcism Agency wanted something from me through this happening.
Then, what’s left now is how to deal with it–
“I honestly don’t know.”
A government department wants something from me, so I’m trying to drag it in.
How many people have encountered this kind of situation?
There is no one who can help me in a situation like this, and there is no younger brother with whom I can overcome any crisis.
I feel lonely and empty all over again. Even if he is ugly, he misses the face of his only flesh and blood relative.
Is this what fathers who go abroad to earn money feel? I really had a lot of respect for the fathers of that era.
Of course I have neither a father nor a mother!
“ㅡYou seem to have a lot of worries. How about going with me? If you go with me, whether it’s the exorcism office or the academy. No, not even this world can touch you.”
Suddenly, Gwi-tae whispered in a tempting tone.
The white skin visible through the islets of her clothes, leaning her upper body toward me, drew my attention.
As I whispered in my ear, my ears itched and the smell of perfume that seemed to twist my nose gave me a headache.
The temptation to join me. Does it make you feel like whatever troubles you’re having will be resolved if you follow her voice?
“I, no, we can help you. We can understand you and release all your anger and resentment. Like us—?”
“That’s because it’s a bit embarrassing. Men feel embarrassed too, so please get away from it. It looks like you’re not even wearing underwear, isn’t it embarrassing?”
“Ah…Ah?”
I pushed the gwitae away.
You know that men say that when a woman approaches them, everything is fine. Men feel embarrassed too.
Even the woman who seduces me is the worst slanderer in the world. Is that a sound reason? Of course not.
To be honest, Gwi-tae has a nice scent and even the special eyes have a jewel-like appearance that makes her appearance even brighter, so even though her heart beats and her head hurts when she gets closer.
I don’t know if this is because of the fear of the spiritual power I felt yesterday.
However, if such an unexpected situation occurs, we must pretend to be at peace.
After pondering the truths I had learned in my life, I stood up from the bench and walked away from Gwi-tae.
As I was running fast to escape from the perpetrator, a familiar spear appeared in front of my eyes.
[ Special Quest ]
< You’ve heard the worst non-radiant calls. As a result, fate…… Moved. >
< Currently, the ‘Class A virtual evil spirit Red Mask’ is plotting to raid the academy in line with the event… Is. >
< …… It would be nice if you could stop that ‘class A virtual evil spirit red mask’. >
< Compensation ㅡ 100 million won >
[ Do you accept the quest? Y/N]
Now, as if he had given up halfway, he was carefully asking in the quest window.
As expected, it would have been fun if this was a human figure.
I was about to erase the quest window as usual, but I opened my eyes wide at the memory that suddenly popped up.
The red mask that appears in the original game story. Class A virtual demon. Academy Raid.
And the exorcism agency says that they want something from me, but there is no point in forcing it, so they’re trying to get me into a good place somehow.
The moment I realized these two facts, I remembered them too late to the point where I felt pitiful for myself.
The Exorcism Office is watching me to the extent that they won’t even use the easiest move.
If it’s that important—what. Under the premise that you’re not trying to do weird sh*t, you just have to pay for it, right?
A mercenary who works for money, not an exorcist, a public official belonging to the Exorcism Office.
That’s better than going to the academy, as this quest window so demands.
Of course, if it goes on like this, it’s not common to deal with B-class demons, but the number is not small, so the ransom as an exorcist would be normal.
If you show something to the A-class evil spirit, the red mask, you will be treated as an A-class, receive a higher ransom, and become an existence that cannot be easily discarded.
Of course it’s not possible at my level right now, but it’s definitely possible if you use the ban.
Of course, if someone hears my thoughts, I can ask them. Are you really going to intrude into the original story, the academy raid, as that pissed-off quest wants?
It can’t be. The kid who judged me to be a dick is a naive person who makes me suck until the end.
Quests to simply catch evil spirits are a source of income, but I don’t want to do things like that.
So I looked at the window again. Thought.
The quest window told me to block the red mask to hinder the ghost.
Didn’t there be a word to stop ‘when’?
I thought so and pressed the Y button.
< Quests cannot be canceled once accepted, and there is a penalty for failure. Are you sure you accept? >
[ Y/N ]
A quest window that asks if you really accept it as if you were surprised.
I pressed the accept button again.
A class A evil spirit has appeared, but as an exorcist (not) with spiritual power, of course I have to fight it.
Of course, I will fight Red Mask before the academy raid, the incident in the story my brother told me.
< The world will be saved by your excellent choice. >
< Thank you for your choice. If the quest is successful, you will receive an additional A-class weapon, ‘Blue Dragon Sword’. >
The quest window that gives you an extra gift because you’re excited.
Um. I’m starting to feel a little guilty because I think I’m cheating on a kid who’s not good enough.
“You put on your underwear properly—oh!”
I can hear the sound of a demon screaming in the distance. You must have heard it wrong.
There’s no way the world’s worst slanderer would make such a noise in broad daylight. I rubbed my eyes and yawned.