Chapter 325 – Politics (4)
The shattered atmosphere.
I feel dirty at the news of a clumsy counterattack by a mere priest.
Her things are entwined with her, making her realize that she can no longer go on with her.
I had no choice but to end it here today.
Instead of making her progress no further, he took her to her home.
Then, she discovered something she didn’t know.
“… You were still living in the dormitory.”
That Elena still lives in a dormitory at a Korean university.
Although she started her life as a full-fledged hunter, she is still a student at Korea University.
It’s not crazy that she still lives in a dorm, but… , A little disappointing.
A woman who lives on her own is the unchanging ideal type of men, but jjeop.
“Housing prices in Seoul are very expensive. Regardless of rent, charter, or sales, everything is terrifying.”
While saying that, Elena trembled as if she had been engulfed in real fear.
What… , The gestures are a bit exaggerated, but I understand.
The current land price in Seoul is so expensive that people say that it is crazy.
Still, at Elena’s current income level, she should be able to get a decent room.
“I don’t want to waste a lot on monthly rent. Elena, I will live in a dormitory and save money hard.”
She is sleeping more than I thought, no, more than I thought.
It is also a very filial love.
As she clenched her fists and asserted her will, her heart jumped at the same time.
I smiled bitterly at her and asked her.
“You want to collect that and give it to your family in Bulgaria?”
“That is correct!”
The reason she saves her money is for her family, everything from one to ten.
In order not to let her family, who have lived in poverty all her life, live in hunger any longer, she is fighting monsters with a huge shield in a faraway foreign land.
“If you earn like you do now, don’t you have enough left over to send to your family?”
In fact, her earnings are by no means small.
Every time she clears a dungeon, the amount of money falling in front of her is about millions of won.
In addition, when a good artifact or high-grade magic stone falls, it often jumps to more than 10 million won.
We regularly go around four to eight such dungeons every month.
Enough money for her parents and her younger siblings to live comfortably.
“It would be nice if Elena could live while using it, too, I.”
Although it was said from the heart of Elena, who wanted her to enjoy abundance as well, as the source of it was Elena herself.
She lightly pushed my body against her arm, pressed her mouth tightly with her index finger, and began scolding me with a stern expression.
“Dojin! That mindset isn’t right. Don’t you know that you have to earn while you are young?”
“Uh… , I know that.”
“Hunter, this is a job that makes a lot of money. But… , You may get hurt or die at any time.”
“…”
Was that the reason?
“Elena wants her family to eat their fill until they die, even in the future. Even if Elena dies or gets hurt.”
She is preparing for the distant future.
Even so, she thought of the worst ending she could picture in her head, such as when she retired from injury or died in a dungeon.
Okay.
That’s right, and it’s the right mindset.
Because hunters are high-risk occupations where profits and risks are proportional, and you don’t know when you’ll die.
What’s more, she is the first and closest to face to face with the monster.
It might not be so strange that she prepares for my death in advance.
But there is one fact she is overlooking.
“Elena.”
“Yes, Dojin.”
“You will never die.”
After speaking in a confident tone, she put on a stern expression again.
“Dojin… , Only such a person? Oman? The same is not good.”
The appearance that my words reflected conceit or arrogance.
However, this time it was wrong.
I replied, pressing her lips with her index finger just as she had done a moment ago.
“As long as I’m here, Elena will never die.”
“Dojin…”
Elena looks at me with a sad expression.
Is now the kissing moment before parting… !
As he slowly brought his face in front of her.
All of a sudden she opened her mouth and she swallowed my finger which was pressed against her lips!
The pain you feel immediately.
“Evil!”
It wasn’t until she screamed out in pain that she let go of my finger that she was biting with her teeth.
And then say
“Do-jin, you are too proud to say that you have been doing well lately. I will reflect in the future.”
“Okay…”
It doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.
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Let Elena into her dormitory and on her way home.
In the end, they succeeded in sharing a goodnight kiss.
… Of course, I had to listen to her sermon about getting rid of pride before that.
“Be proud.”
The words, which a little while ago were regarded as a bit of an ordeal toward kissing, spread softly, like the bitterness that comes after the intense sweetness of chocolate.
A piercing feeling, as if sharp arrowheads were poked here and there in my chest, which had been calm for the first time in a while.
“Mmm.”
It wasn’t the kind of reflection that I’ve been conceited lately.
But… , Recently, I felt that I was getting further and further away from my existing personality.
When I felt my personality becoming more and more unstoppable, I thought it was my original personality that I found by getting a younger body and releasing the shackles that were oppressing me…
“It doesn’t seem like that is the case these days…”
His personality, which is too outspoken to simply dismiss it as that, raises questions.
There is an impulse in anyone’s heart.
When you’re extremely excited, when you’re angry, when you’re happy, etc.
When my emotions are more intense than usual, in some way, I have thoughts like ‘do it all over again?’.
However, it usually ends in thought and does not lead to action.
No, it shouldn’t lead to action.
It’s extremely rare to have a good result or end, apart from an act done out of impulse.
But how is my life now?
“… Extremely impulsive, no plans.”
When I slowly think back on the process since I acquired this body, I have many regrets.
This time like this, that time like that.
Sometimes, did you have to do that?
If you think about it, you can see a better way.
When I think of the road I have passed, I cannot be comforted by saying that everyone is like that.
Even though I was able to recall enough at that time, the ways I let go countless times.
“Change.”
I am changing.
And change doesn’t always happen for the better.
Just like a child who was absolutely kind when he was young, gets derailed in a rapidly changing environment and walks the wrong path.
I, too, longed for the freedom that had been suppressed until now.
If so, where did it start to diverge?
“… That’s obvious.”
Lift one wrist
A bracelet set so that only me can see it, and two beads hanging from it.
Probably from here
To be precise, when he went beyond a ‘person with qualities’ and gained a ‘person with karma’.
If the things I enjoy right now are self-indulgence.
“…”
Maybe this business.
It might be eating me up.
* * *
The chastity denomination has the second largest number of adherents in Europe after the Vatican Orthodox Church.
Apart from that fact, the power in Korea has not changed.
It is because their advancement is one step, no, two steps behind compared to huge religious forces such as the Vatican Orthodox Church and Buddhism, as well as large and small religions that are dominant only in Korea.
Whatever it may not be, it is important that religion is ahead of everything else.
The reason is, once you embrace religion, it is rare for you to change your mind.
The number of believers in the Chastity Church, which is no different from a latecomer, is small compared to other religions.
If so, is the position of the chastity denomination in Korea also small?
Funnily enough, that wasn’t the case either.
Despite the small number of believers, their position was better than expected.
What is the reason?
It is because not all of those who seek the Chastity Church are to keep their chastity.
“How was this Mass, President?”
“Hmm… , Very good It feels like the promiscuous past of my childhood is being washed away a little bit.”
“Haha, I’m glad. Perhaps the president will be able to arrive at the gates of heaven.”
“Thank you.”
There are quite a few of those who seek the Chastity Church for the purpose of repentance.
To look back and reflect on my dissolute or promiscuous past, and finally wash away my sins.
And such people are conglomerates or powerful people.
Why do they belatedly show such behavior when they acted without hesitation?
It is also simple.
Because we can no longer deny the existence of God.
“This is this donation.”
“Thank you every time. The Goddess will be watching over you too.”
Divine power, the power to heal injured bodies and wash away unclean energy.
Because the miraculous power made it impossible for even those who deny the existence of God to do so easily.
Acknowledging the existence of God and believing in the afterlife, their existence takes care of the position of the Chastity Church.
It is for that reason that the church building was able to be built on the yolk land of Gangnam.
“Oh, and the kiddo Kim Do-jin I talked about last time was also mentioned in the association.”
“I’m beholden to the president.”
“What is your status? Please pray for me one more time later.”
“I will definitely do that.”
At the same time, it was in the same context that he was convinced that he would be able to condemn Kim Do-jin, who was arrogantly sticking his teeth into the Chastity Church.
“I’ll just go. Spring tax at Mass next week.”
“Take a look.”
Joo Kyung-tae watches an old wealthy man step out of the church in a wheelchair led by his secretary.
Just a little while ago, they talked about repentance or something, but now I can’t stand it, and I immediately frown at the female secretary’s twitchy buttocks with her hands stretched out and massaged.
But that’s for a while.
‘It doesn’t matter. That sin will also come back as money.’
He who committed the crime will come back and hand over a huge amount of money.
Okay.
Something like the thick envelope that is now on the table.
Important believer… , No, Joo Kyung-tae entered the church after seeing off the customer.
He asked the apprentice priest who was in charge of various tasks under him.
“Did you call the Mage Tower regarding the disappearing magic circle installation?”
“Priest, that is…”
When an excuse came out first instead of a ‘yes’ answer, he frowned.
“I told you it was definitely the most urgent thing to do… , Haven’t you done it yet?”
The outer walls of the building are empty.
It is because all the magic circles that protected the church disappeared due to the actions of the wicked man, Kim Do-jin.
I told you to coordinate the schedule with the Mage Tower as soon as possible to reinstall it.
At the angry voice of Joo Kyung-tae, the apprentice priest hurriedly waved his hand and shook his head.
“Oh no, priest! I made sure to call the magic tower.”
At this, his anger subsided a little.
And the place was filled with questions.
“It doesn’t look good for that kind of thing.”
When asked why he was making such a face, the apprentice priest struggled to speak.
“Yeah, that’s it. He called the Mage Tower and talked about setting up the magic circle, and from there…”
An apprentice priest who blurts out the end of a conversation.
At this, Kyungtae Joo frowned again, and only then did he speak again.
“I heard that there has been a directive not to do any more business with the Church of Chastity…”
Quaang!
Joo Kyung-tae slams the desk and gets up before he can finish his words.
He asked in a softer voice.
“What ungodly man gave such instructions?”
The apprentice priest, who shuddered once at the cold anger pouring into him, closed his eyes tightly and answered as if shouting.
“Eh, it’s an instruction that came directly from the owner of the Mage Tower, I did!”
“What, what… !”
Joo Kyung-tae’s face was distorted at once by the appearance of a giant far beyond imagination.
