Chapter 503 – Quasi-Priest Kim Katt
“Winia, are you sure you can handle this alone? You’ve been collapsing after just one use lately. Won’t you have to come out right away?”
“How funny, you darkie’s gotten so cocky lately.”
“Then I’ll have to punish you quickly.”
“You can’t punish the darkie anymore. I’m the one who gets punished instead.”
She knows it.
“Heh. So that’s why you’ve been so quiet.”
“Whatever. Just walk faster.”
Winia looked quite excited. She’s so cute every time I see her, it drives me crazy. I can’t let this go. The moment we get to the inn, it’s endless pounding time.
As I was walking and flirting with Winia, I spotted a familiar red-haired woman walking ahead.
What’s that bitch doing here.
“…?”
A woman with big tits and a fierce look, wearing a red cheongsam-like martial arts uniform—Lisette. We stopped simultaneously as soon as our eyes met.
A brief battle of wits ensued.
“Ah… the married man, was it?”
Lisette spoke first.
She glanced at Winia and said that.
“That’s right. Nice to see you. How have you been? Is the guild leader doing well?”
Lisette hadn’t changed much since the last time I saw her. However, looking at her now, she seemed weak. Well, I was a step behind back then, but not anymore.
I could clearly sense that I could win.
Even if I took off the battle priest equipment set I’m wearing under my cape and fought, I’d still win. My sharply honed senses coldly assessed the gap between her and me.
“I’ve been fine. Well, nice to see you too. Sis is just living her life. She seems a bit down lately, though.”
“Why is she down?”
“Who knows? More importantly, your vibe has changed a bit? Did something happen?”
Lisette narrowed her eyes as she said that, probably noticing that I had gotten stronger. Of course, there’s no reason to fight this girl. After all, we were comrades.
“Well, this and that happened. More importantly, is the business of extorting the poor going well?”
“Fuck you.”
Lisette shook her head with a tired expression.
“I tried to rebuild it, but the original organization disappeared completely, so it didn’t work out. No, I mean, the entire slum crime organization disappeared? Not a single one left. So I gave up. Maybe later if they reappear, but I don’t think I can do it now.”
“This bitch…”
—I would have been pissed if it was going well, so it’s a relief it failed.
Still, since the slum crime organization was eradicated, I felt good, as if it was because of something I did. Doing good deeds seems to bring good things.
“So, it seems hard to keep the promise to go extorting together.”
“Is that so? Too bad.”
“Come to the martial arts guild sometime. Mariel talks about you occasionally.”
“Oh? Really?”
With those words, Lisette waved and passed by me. Hmm, I wish there was a chance to fight sometime. But I don’t want to go back to the martial arts guild.
It would be troublesome if that Liztina woman asked me to show her my dick again.
“…Darkie? Who’s that woman?”
As Lisette left, Winia looked up at me with a suspicious expression.
“Ah, she’s someone I can call a comrade-like friend. I’ve mentioned her a few times, right? She’s a senior instructor at the martial arts guild, and we got entangled somehow.”
It might be the first time seeing her face, but I had told Winia about her several times.
“Is that so? That senior instructor? But the atmosphere was a bit strange?”
“Strange atmosphere?”
“…”
Winia frowned slightly, closed her mouth with a questioning expression, and stared at my face. No way, does she think there was something going on between Lisette and me?
Not even if I died and came back to life.
“Ah, it’s not like that, Winia. We’re just acquaintances. We’ve even fought each other twice.”
“Bullshit. Seeing how big her tits are, it’s obvious that’s your type. You say she’s a friend, but you’re just being friendly because she has big tits, right?”
It was a fact that big tits were my type.
“I swear, absolutely not, Winia.”
“Whatever. Just carry me.”
Winia seemed a bit angry because I said a few words to Lisette.
I guess I’ll have to massage her breasts for a while to cheer her up when we get inside.
In the end, I went to a nearby inn and tried to cheer Winia up. Of course, not even five minutes passed before her mood was not only lifted but sent flying to the other side.
* * *
The next morning, I took Claudie and Winia with me to the guild.
Since the employee told me to come back today, we might be able to leave right away. So I said goodbye to Karin and Risha and came out.
“A serial killer… Hehe, Katt can’t lose. Let’s do our best, Katt?”
I didn’t know what she meant by doing my best, but since Claudie smiled and clenched her fist, I decided to do my best.
“I will do my best to the limit.”
Anyway, Winia went to the counter, said this and that to the employee, and received a certificate. She handed me the certificate and said.
“Darkie, they said they accepted what I requested yesterday. They’ve prepared a rapid carriage, so we can go right away.”
“Oh, really?”
So we left right away.
The destination is a village called Ohill on the outskirts of Isbant. It’s just a normal rural village that makes a living from farming and local specialty fruits.
The serial killings occurred around that village. There are also several missing people, but judging from the circumstances, they were probably killed a long time ago.
Accidents happen so often.
But I heard that the number of traffic accident deaths in Korea is about 4,000 per year. Every year, more people die in accidents than in a regiment, but honestly, I had never seen anyone die when I was living there.
It’s just that adventurers keep crawling to places where accidents happen, so they encounter such incidents all the time. Well, that’s how it is. We boarded the prepared rapid carriage and set off for the village of Ohill.
It took about a day and a half to get to the village. I can’t get used to this carriage. I got off with a drowsy body, and the rural scenery of the harvest season came into view.
“Cough, a serial killing incident is so scary.”
The coachman who parked the carriage said that and greeted us.
Now let’s meet the village chief.
As usual, I asked around and headed to the village chief’s house. And as expected, the old village chief, who looked the same as all the others, greeted us with suspicious eyes.
“…Adventurers?”
“That’s right. I heard that the adventurers who went to solve the case last time went missing, so we came again. Have the missing adventurers returned?”
“…No. Come inside first.”
We went straight into the village chief’s house and listened to his complaints and grumbling. He paid money to hire adventurers, but they disappeared, and one more person died.
“How terrible!! The soldiers were useless too!”
Due to the demon incident, soldiers were dispatched to this remote village to patrol and establish security around the villages, but the incidents did not stop.
“Calm down. We’re here to solve that. Anyway, please guide us to the scene of the incident.”
“What will you know by looking at it…”
“If we don’t look, we won’t know anything, so just guide us. I’m a busy man. And it’s best not to show too much that you’re displeased because the person next to me is a mage.”
When I pointed at Winia, the village chief bowed his head.
“…I’m sorry.”
Listening to him, it seemed that the village chief thought that the adventurers who came before had just run away. It can’t be helped that his attitude is bad. Anyway, I’m here to work and earn money, so I don’t care about his attitude.
The village chief immediately guided us.
The harvest was in full swing outside.
This village chief bastard should be helping, but his clothes are clean. Looking at it this way, it’s an extremely peaceful village, but a serial killer is roaming around, which is a ghostly thing. As we were going to the scene, the residents’ eyes turned to us.
“Are, are those the adventurers who came again!”
“Please! I’m so scared I feel like I’m going to die! Please save us!”
“A serial killer appearing can’t be real! Ughaaaaaack!!!!”
“We can’t even go out at night! All the adventurers who came last time ran away!”
The residents, who were in the middle of harvesting, ran up to us and begged, as if they had seen a savior. Their eyes were filled with fear.
Should I reassure them here?
“Hehehe, don’t worry. I am Quasi-Priest Katt of the Brass Celestial Church. I also work as an adventurer. Now that I’ve come, you can rest assured and engage in your livelihoods.”
I took off the cape I was wearing and said.
—Shine!
Then, a brass-colored light was reflected from the edges of the battle priest’s breastplate. The armor, which looked luxurious and expensive at first glance, would instill positive emotions in the residents. Giving people peace of mind is also a proper duty of Fusion Confucianism.
“A, a priest?”
“Priest…!”
The eyes of the residents widened when they saw the armor.
When else would they see such high-quality armor?
Even I would wake up in a flash if I glanced at it after waking up from sleep.
“He said quasi-priest.”
Then, I immediately took out my quasi-priest certificate from my pocket and held it out. —Shine! It also shone in brass color, receiving the sunlight. The residents were now completely shocked and shouted.
“It’s a priest!”
“Ugh, ughaaaaa!! A priest has come! A priest has come!!!”
“Priest! A priest from the Brass Celestial Church has come!!!”
“Call the people!! Bamel! Go and call them all.”
Why call people?
When I glanced back, not only Claudie and Winia but even the village chief looked flustered. Soon, people flocked like bees.
“Oh, priest! Please give us your blessing!”
“I can’t sleep because I’m scared!”
“Please save us!”
“Please kill the serial killer, please!!!! Such a tragic and unjust life cannot exist!!”
They clung to me like beggars begging for bread. It seemed that the fear the serial killer gave was considerable.
“These crazy bastards… No, that’s not it. Calm down!”
When I shouted loudly, the residents’ madness subsided. As I was about to say something, a middle-aged man in a straw hat cried and asked me.
“Priest! I have a request! Please hold a funeral so that the souls of the victims can be saved!”
“A funeral?”
“They are the people who were killed by the serial killers! It would be wonderful if the priest could hold a funeral! Please, have mercy on us and help us!”
I don’t know how to hold a funeral, you bastard…!
“Priest!”
“Priest! Please!”
All the residents who heard that burst into tears and knelt down.
This fucking shit.
“…I understand. Guide me.”
I can’t just pass by in the way of Fusion Confucianism.
We were guided to the village’s cemetery.
All the village residents who had already been sacrificed were buried there. Of course, the bodies of the deceased with no family were also buried in the corner of the cemetery. I just wanted me, a priest of a famous church, to help them on their way.
It’s not a professional funeral, but rather they want to be comforted.
The residents sent me sad glances while sobbing.
“…I don’t care what god you believe in. Pray to the gods you each believe in.”
When I threw out some priestly words, the residents lowered their heads with solemn faces.
—Solemn.
No, shit, I ended up holding a funeral for the residents.
It’s a bit awkward to confess that I’m a fake priest in this gloomy atmosphere, so I just chanted something similar to a prayer with a solemn face.
“Mahaprajnaparamitahrdaya Sutra Avalokitesvara… Cast off the suffering of this world and live peacefully by the side of the gods…”
In this world’s religious view, ordinary people believe that when they die, they go to the side of the god they believed in. In the first place, this is a world where polytheism is prevalent, so unless it’s a murderous religion, most doctrines don’t come under fire.
Some believe in reincarnation, and others dream of paradise. I roughly said something that took those religions into consideration.
“Ughuhuk!”
“Heuk! Hans! Why did you leave my side!”
“Uhheuk!”
The cemetery quickly turned into a sea of tears. Sadness. The sadness of the black people who were massacred by the whips of cruel imperialists was scattered here.
The serial killer inflicted terrible pain on innocent others just to satisfy his own pleasure. You fucking bastard, I will definitely cut you into pieces and judge you. It was a natural thing as a seeker of Fusion Confucianism and a quasi-priest of the Brass Celestial Church.
The funeral ended briefly.
The residents just wanted to honor the spirits of the victims.
“Priest, hurray!”
“Brass Celestial Church, hurray!”
“Thank you!! Priest!!”
The villagers thanked me repeatedly and praised my virtue. They even offered to treat me to meals during my stay. I saved on food expenses.
“Even if we can never see them again, overcome that sadness and stand up. The living must live. Anyway, I want to look at the scene of the incident now.”
“I! I know everything! I will guide you!”
One of the residents shouted with a moved face.
Well… I guess it’s a good deal since the residents became cooperative after holding a funeral once. Since he says he knows everything, let’s drag him around for a day and find out the location.
