Chapter 389 – Suspicious Demon (2)
Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul.
A downtown area that is considered a must-visit destination for foreigners.
Spiers and crosses rose higher among the tall buildings there.
Orthodox Church, the religion with the largest number of believers since the beginning of Hunter society.
The headquarters of the Korean Orthodox Church has a church building measuring several hundred pyeong and a garden measuring over 1,000 pyeong in the middle of Myeong-dong, which boasts the second highest land prices after Gangnam.
The name of the person in charge of the diocese of Seoul along with this place is Andrea Oh Jong-hyuk.
The seventh Korean cardinal in history and an A-level healer.
In terms of personality alone, he is a good person who can be said to be S-level, no, SSS-level.
“Welcome, Hunter Dojin Kim. “I was waiting.”
He came out to meet me with heavy steps.
And that too in a very polite manner.
Bow your head politely towards the other person and respond to their greeting.
“It is an honor to meet you, Cardinal Oh Jong-hyuk.”
He shakes his head with a sad smile and points to the church building.
“Please eat inside first. “The saint is waiting.”
“Yes.”
As I follow him inside, a warm energy embraces my entire body.
The source of energy came from the huge cross hanging on the wall behind the pulpit.
It seems to be intended to convey a sense of stability to believers through a warm and cozy feeling.
“… “It’s enormous.”
If I could only take one item from here, I would choose that cross without hesitation.
An artifact that evenly spreads energy that creates a sense of stability throughout a building measuring several hundred pyeong?
It would be no exaggeration to say that this is worth the price.
Following Cardinal Oh Jong-hyuk, we arrived at a prayer room about 50 pyeong in size.
There was a large screen installed on the podium.
Looking at the equipment around, it looks like they are planning to talk face-to-face, at least via video.
When I looked at him with a subtle gaze, he read my eyes and answered.
“This is what the saint requested. “You want to see Hunter Kim Do-jin’s face and talk to him directly.”
“Is that so.”
Look directly at the face.
Suddenly, one of the rumors surrounding her comes to mind.
It is said that the saint of her time had a unique eye that could determine good and evil in humans.
Because of her vicious heart, her husband cannot receive any help from her even if he comes to her with hundreds of millions of dollars.
“Please sit here and wait a moment.”
“Yes.”
Following the cardinal’s instructions, I sit in a pre-set chair and stare blankly at the screen.
The power turns on shortly.
And the background that appears.
Flowers in full bloom, a wide window with soft moonlight seeping in, and a rustic wooden chair placed between them.
A woman sitting somewhere, as if she were part of the extremely beautiful background, greets me.
A woman wearing a pure white dress and covering her face with a specially woven veil.
-Nice to meet you, Hunter Dojin Kim.
A voice that is ordinary, but full of warmth that is difficult to fathom.
A woman who creates a benevolent atmosphere that makes you want to shake off everything and be forgiven.
Her name is ‘Sophia Saintess’.
She is a saint of her time who is credited with having the greatest healing powers of all time.
She immediately got up from her seat and bowed her head politely towards her.
“Nice to meet you, saint. “This is Kim Do-jin.”
As she slowly raises her head, she sees the saintess staring at her from beyond her screen.
I felt strange.
Even though she is just facing the other side of her screen, the feeling that never leaves her mind is that her inner thoughts are being revealed to her.
It was about five minutes later that she, who was hidden behind her veil but gave the impression that he was staring at her, finally opened her mouth.
-I heard the general idea from Hunter Joohee Han. She wants to undo her acquaintance’s curse.
It has changed.
The atmosphere that your voice creates compared to when you said hello and now.
If the former was just warm, what can I say now?
Should I say that it gives the feeling of alternating between hot and cold baths in a bathroom?
Cold yet warm, warm yet cold.
I wonder if she did that because of some kind of change in her state of mind in those 5 minutes.
“… Yes, that’s right. To be precise, it is a restriction obtained in return for breaking one’s oath.”
-It’s a constraint… , You paid a big price to help Hunter Kim Do-jin.
“Yes, that’s why I want to save her.”
And I need your help to save it.
After being silent for a moment, she asks me.
-How much time does she have left?
She answers, recalling her condition she saw in the VIP hospital room the night before.
“It lasts about a week to 10 days.”
-Then fortunately, the time is right.
Being on time means… , Does this mean that there can be treatment in it?
While I was swelled with anticipation, she continued speaking.
-There is a meeting in Beijing in a week.
“Meetings… “That’s it.”
Since I’ve never heard of it, it appears to be a secret meeting between China and the Vatican or some other country.
-Originally, His Holiness the Pope was supposed to participate, but he has not been feeling well recently, so I decided to participate.
“Is that so.”
She spends most of her year at the Vatican and visits China, her country’s neighbor.
That means.
-I will heal Hunter Kim Do-jin’s acquaintance there.
Ah, that’s it.
Just as she was thinking about that, she got up and was about to say thank you to her.
-However, there is a condition.
It’s a condition.
I was puzzled.
She remembers that the saint was not directly involved in saving people.
The enormous amount of donations that went to them must have been ‘voluntary’.
Her words continue.
-I would like Hunter Kim Do-jin to act as my escort while the meeting continues.
A completely unexpected proposal.
There will be plenty of people in her Orthodox church to escort her, so why bother?
-As you may have guessed, this is a meeting that is being held in secret. You can’t invest that many people.
She is a global celebrity.
Once it starts moving, dozens of paladins come to guard it, and such movements are exposed in Internet articles every moment.
Her paladins who escort her are equally famous people.
Therefore, it may not be easy to accompany him on his journey to participate in the secret meeting.
However.
“Although not as much as the saint, I am also quite well-known.”
I am also famous, although not as famous as she is.
In particular, it has the second highest level of recognition after Korea in China and Japan, two countries adjacent to Korea.
Isn’t it a bit strange to use me as an escort?
Then she answered clearly.
-I will prepare well for that part, so you don’t have to worry.
I don’t know how on earth you prepare, but if you take care of that part, there won’t be any more trouble here.
“If you say so… , I’ll do it. The saint’s escort. Instead, as time is running out, I would like to ask you to heal first before starting the escort.”
The saintess nodded at my suggestion.
-Great. Let’s do that.
Seeing that you answered willingly, I guess that’s what I was thinking from the beginning.
Her words continue.
-We will take steps to ensure that the exact date is delivered by tomorrow. Oh, and just in case you didn’t know…
“… ?”
-There are more people trying to take my life than I thought. So it’s better to prepare well, right?
“… “I will keep that in mind.”
If something happens, it will happen.
Her advice seemed to say that to me.
* * *
Her sense of strangeness, once engraved in her, made her doubt everything that surrounded her.
Moments that I normally would not consider as a big deal or a big deal.
Each one of them instilled a new sense in her that woke her up to her sense of discomfort.
‘Strange.’
He barely wakes up an hour before he goes to work.
‘Strange.’
Every time his eyes meet, he quickly looks away with a very nervous face.
‘Strange.’
To maintain his health, he no longer eats meat or ham unless he eats it often.
Even if you add up all the moments you encounter in a day, it is less than 30 minutes.
The actions, gaze, tone of voice, and habits he shows in every brief moment.
Everything looks strange.
‘No, it’s not strange…’
Strange.
To the point where I doubt that the person who repeatedly appears and disappears before my eyes is my husband.
I thought about that too.
Could it be that my husband got tired of my coldness and left behind a fake fake?
Suspicious of her illness, she actually secretly cast her detecting spell without him noticing.
But no.
He was my husband.
That made me even more curious.
‘Why… , That’s how it changed, right? And so suddenly.’
His change was what she hoped for, too.
But I know it’s impossible.
Because he is that kind of person.
A person like a pine tree who alone does not change even through the years when even the rivers and mountains change.
That’s why I liked it, and that’s why I hated it.
‘I need to find out.’
What caused him to change.
I just wanted to know.
Who was the person who brought about the change in him that even he could not have planned?
Or what it is.
With her deep curiosity and a little bit of jealousy, she called someone over.
She was the most skilled at what she wanted to do from now on.
