chapter 3
01 : I kiIIed one of the main players in the game today. Today, maybe yesterday.
In this worldview, exorcists are treated as strange monsters by ordinary people.
Although the existence of evil spirits that threaten people’s lives is known to the general public.
Evil spirits, born of human negative emotions, cannot even be seen with the naked eye unless spiritual power, which is the basic condition of an exorcist, exists.
Unless a dangerous evil spirit appears in rare cases or is attacked by an evil spirit, ordinary people cannot see it with their own eyes.
That is why ordinary people have an ambivalent attitude towards the existence of evil spirits and exorcists.
The exorcist who defeats evil spirits is treated as a hero or a celebrity, and they are revered.
At the same time, children before becoming exorcists who can see something they cannot see, point their fingers at them and harass them, saying that they are unlucky.
Humans are such creatures.
Society and people praise what people hold up as great.
Similar to but different from the things people praise, they treat the small child in front of them as an outlet for their feelings of inferiority or disgust.
It’s a phenomenon that happens not only in Korea, but all over the world.
That’s why academies all over the country are concentrating their efforts on securing children with spiritual power.
It is not simply to increase the number of exorcists to deal with the suddenly appearing evil spirits.
They have spiritual power, but their family or acquaintances hate exorcists.
Children who grow up under an existence that simply cannot tolerate anything else are subjected to terrible abuse. In the worst case, it becomes a disaster called an ice body.
There is a dedicated team at the academy to find children with spiritual powers in order to prevent entities more deadly and powerful than Class A demons from appearing in this world.
To be honest, there are very few cases like that. Those with spiritual power are so strong that they cannot be compared to ordinary people.
If you have a special skiII, conversely, there are more cases of attacking and kiIIing people who abused you.
It’s to the extent that other departments ridicule the dedicated team as a blanket that quietly covers the case of a child with psychic powers attacking civilians…….
The important thing is that they are experts in chasing down cases involving children with psychic powers. Being such an expert, there are things that are even more incomprehensible.
“I can’t believe it…….”
Women. The best exorcist training academy in Korea. Nokra, a member of the search team for ‘unprecedented’ spiritual power holders, rubbed her temples as she stretched out her words.
It is common for children with spiritual powers to attack civilians for various reasons.
It’s not even a demon…… Did the spirit get kiIIed?
When Nokla heard a tip from a student at the academy that she watched with interest, she frankly – couldn’t believe it.
Isn’t that obvious? Since a divine spirit resembles a human being and possesses transcendental power, it cannot be kiIIed, so it is a divine spirit [神靈].
When exorcists fight evil spirits, their own spiritual power is not enough, so they pray to the spirits and offer their faith to receive blessings [Strength].
Divine spirits give strength by receiving such people’s faith and keep their position as divine spirits.
That’s common sense in this world. Humans kiIIed the spirits?
Even the spirit that the boy kiIIed is called the most terrible and vicious spirit among the spirits, and is the punishment? It didn’t even make sense.
O was born of darkness and fear of it.
It is particularly hostile to humans due to its nature, but exorcists cannot stop it.
Although I know that those who believe in the spirit form are not ordinary exorcists, they are called non-radiators who harm people with spiritual power! Exorcists cannot stop O.
That’s what a divine spirit is. An irrational and irrational being is a divine spirit.
Of course, it is difficult to deal with other spirits, even if they are spirits, so the exorcists made a minimum safety device.
The demon named Younghyung is hiding in the shadows and is not caught by the safety device. It is to the extent that he is not even known what he usually does when he walks around.
Although it is a dog’s way by non-radiators who believe in the power of the zero sentence.
Is that brother dead? Although Nokla would dismiss it as an illusion and laugh it off, even if it was a report from a student he cared about.
I heard that slanderers who believed in the death penalty were suddenly hiding.
The exorcists who watched and tracked down the spirit brother said they no longer felt the spirit of the spirit brother.
I haven’t been able to see Young-hyung for a week already.
Aside from that, quite a lot of evidence indicates that the existence of the O-hyeong has disappeared from this world.
So, while Nokla was dubious about it, she went to find the kiIIer who was reported to by her beloved student.
And what I met was a boy over there who pushed himself away and left.
The first thing I encountered was a ruin that was reported to have been heavily inhabited by demons recently.
There, with a sword filled with spiritual power from which he did not know where it came from, the boy sliced through a terrible looking evil spirit that seemed to melt people until they turned into jelly.
After removing only the human head, removing the eyes, nose, and mouth, the evil spirit, which seemed to have been thrown at random, was kicking and popping with its leg, showing off its strength.
I forgot about the incredible news that the spirit of Nokra had died and watched the boy move in pure admiration.
The naturally occurring evil spirits inside the ruins are E-D grade at best, but even those evil spirits have the power to kiII people.
It was amazing to see a boy without any training fight fiercely against a beast-like evil spirit that wants to kiII people.
Even if you have spiritual power, it’s not easy to move like that. No, on the contrary, he moved better than most exorcists, and he felt great spiritual power.
With that level, he had enough spiritual power and skiII to deal with C-grade or even B-grade evil spirits without being blessed by a divine spirit.
Even among the exorcists, few have the level of spiritual power of the boy she saw.
I found it because of the report that he kiIIed Hyung-yeong.
The boy who banishes evil spirits even without any education has a talent to the extent of admiration as an exorcist.
For the moment, Nokla put aside the punishment and wanted to take him to the academy.
As an exorcist and as an academy instructor, it was unacceptable for that level of talent to be abandoned.
If, really, if it is true that that child kiIIed the spirit. All the more, since that boy would be the one who would shake the world, he was the one who had to come to the academy all the more.
“Yes, but… ….”
Yeah, it was. There was one problem.
That boy had no intention of coming to the academy. No, he didn’t seem to want to talk in the first place.
Irrespective of whether or not to kiII the spirits, Nokla approached students with outstanding talents with prepared lines as they do to students with normal spiritual powers.
As you can see from the very small number of exorcists, there are very few people with spiritual power. Unless it’s a special place like the academy, it’s difficult to meet people with spiritual power.
There is an incomprehensible wall between those who have spiritual power and those who do not.
When the exorcists of the Spirit Search Team first meet a person with spiritual power, they inform them that they see evil spirits or see things that normal people cannot see.
Education is given to prioritize forming a sense of identity so that it is easy to persuade the other party.
However, that attempt was futile and the boy cut off the conversation with Nokla as if he had no interest at all. No matter how many times he visited, he was treated as a shopkeeper and ignored.
He decided that curveballs didn’t work for him, so he tried to say that he had come to invite them to the academy with a fastball…….
“Academy? What about the star? Picking a medic? If you want to go to a PC room…… I don’t star with people who are worse than me.”
“This guy?”
Nokla continued her investigation into the strange boy.
Here’s what I found out. He has a lot of spiritual power, and a level of fighting talent that allows him to fight even B-class demons without a divine blessing. The star is so good that it annoys him.
Unknown name. No parents. The boy, presumed to be a so-called street orphan, appears to be around the age of a high school student.
Surprisingly, there is no social security number or anything, and it seems to have suddenly appeared in this world.
Yeah, he was a really bizarre boy. I checked to see if there was anything suspicious, but I didn’t see anything strange. There is no evidence of stowaways abroad.
I watched the boy closely, as if investigating non-radiators, with suspicion.
After observing her for a week, she finally came to one conclusion.
That boy is a being who needs help from adults.
The boy that Nokla found was a bottom-line being. He is a person who has fallen under the social law and exists without a name or anything, and then disappears without being known to anyone.
The reason why a boy who will disappear without even appearing in the news has survived to that age is probably thanks to that boy’s powerful spiritual power.
I get money from trash business people and people who want to get rid of evil spirits at a low price, but I don’t buy anything like food properly with that money.
I often sleep in ruins where I can barely avoid the rain and wind, or I sleep on a park bench.
The more I look at it, the more I wonder how I was able to survive until now, but as I said, it’s not impossible to survive if you have the spiritual power of a boy…….
How long can we last? It would be better for that unknown boy to enter the academy.
“…… I don’t know what kind of life you’ve been living boy. But I think I can get help now. Come to the academy If you come to the academy, you will be able to live a better life than the one you have now. I can promise you. You can take responsibility too. As an adult.”
“Ugh.”
Even if Nokla spoke sincerely, the boy only distorted her face as if he had heard him.
After that reaction, the boy turned around as if he had no intention of listening.
Even when she saw the boy crossing the dark road, she couldn’t do anything.
Although she denied even her own true nature, she wanted to save even one more child to understand.
Even so, her boy was drifting away, as if to show that it is difficult to save someone.
Seeing that, Nokla sighed slowly.