Chapter 76 – Heretic Saint, Forbidden Nun (9)
11. Heretic Saint, Forbidden Nun (9)
“Beth, Tia…”
“Cestia!”
“Bestia. Bestia, that child. The sister.”
“Sestia!!!”
Cestia, who showed a calm appearance throughout her life, was stunned while holding on to her necklace, which had begun to be engulfed in her black aura. She quickly dropped her necklace from her and shook her shoulders. Soon she came to her senses.
“I’m sorry. Hendrick.”
“Ruler. Breathe in, exhale keep calm.”
Cestia came to her senses, but she still seemed to be close to panic. She felt like she would burst into tears just to be touched or screamed at. So I suppressed her desire to urge her and tried to calm her down first. Fortunately, her efforts were effective. It was because Cestia, who controlled her mind to some extent, quickly started explaining her situation.
“If I’m not mistaken, what I just said must have been made by Bestia, one of the sisters in our branch. She was heard not once, but twice, and most of all she was the child… She’s one of my students and raised like her daughter… I don’t think she heard it wrong.”
A lot of thoughts almost jumped out of her mouth. Did you still not know that such a precious child had been kidnapped? Even if you did not know that you had been kidnapped here, it would have been true that you had disappeared. What have you been doing all this time? Did you officially dispatch a combat team after seeing the black necklace? .
It wasn’t something worth asking in the current situation. The nun she said, ‘Bestia,’ and that necklace were important.
“So the owner of that necklace is a nun named Bestia?”
“I can’t be sure. Basically, the necklaces of the sisters walking the same path of the same denomination all look the same… However, the fact that only this necklace is reacting at the moment when Bestia’s voice is heard, I think it must be related.”
“Is she your own, or is she a nun with whom you have a close relationship?”
“Yes…”
“Then Cestia, don’t you know how much?”
“Bestia was kind, but she was a strong-willed child. She was a child with excellent temperament, talent, and faith to the point that she might be the closest child to La Ella. That’s why she was friendly with just about everyone that kid. She’s too quick to guess who she belongs to.”
To her nun, Bestiara, she is her teacher and like her mother. Since Sestia is here, all she can think of is her super close friend…
‘She’s a talented, good-natured, and religious nun… How the heck did the heretic bastards get kidnapped? What are you trying to use by kidnapping? She feels something different from the horror nuns I’ve encountered so far.’
– AA AA AA!!!
“Bestia… !”
I wanted to be quiet, but her voice rang out again. Her Sestia’s face contorted in sorrow.
“I think the answer is to put everything else in and use that.”
“Couldn’t this serve as a milestone?”
“I’d rather be like that, but no way. I don’t know who this is, but it’s related to a nun named Bestia, and that it might be the only way we can get out of here.”
As I silently lifted the bag, my colleagues quickly formed a formation. The necklace was carried by Shay in the lead.
Now that there was a variable, it was time to move forward again.
**
“Aaaaa… Libea! Rivera!!”
“This. He must have been a very precious person to the saintess.”
“La Ella! Take care of me with cold tolerance! Dear Raella!”
Bestia screamed and wailed incessantly. Before her eyes, her best friend and sister was unconscious, disfigured. She had bloodstains all over her, her hair was cut sparsely, and her very thin body was completely emaciated.
Bestia repeatedly activated her healing skills, but she did not even move, let alone recover.
“Libea! Libea! Wake… Huh?”
“Indeed. To think that the saintess who had maintained her composure on the outside would collapse in an instant like this. I had no idea that this insignificant nun could be so precious.”
“You didn’t know? Do not lie! What the hell, how far are you going to bully me!?”
“You were very excited, saintess.”
“Stop that pretense!!! Stop hiding your expression behind that eerie mask and reveal your true feelings!!!”
A man in a black mask raised the corners of his mouth. It was so much easier than I thought. He was about to collapse. The impregnable fortress, which had endured without being corrupted despite countless attempts, was on the verge of collapsing because of her only friend.
‘I wanted to abandon my faith in a fundamental way, but since time is time, I have no choice but to use such a low-level method.’
Fear is what you have to face the fear itself. It was vulgar to elicit fear through other secondary emotions, but the plan was already coming to an end. The holy woman’s power of fear and purity might be blurred a little, but she couldn’t help it.
Of those who have already embraced the fear, there is no one to take on that honored role. He did not express any doubt or regret that he had to proceed with the plan in an unprepared state. —- How could someone like me figure out the meaning of –?
“This person is still resisting.”
“What… ?”
“She was a nun whose body was weak, but her mind was as strong as that. However, her body is not able to support her brilliant mind, and her body is collapsing. If you look at it calmly, the saintess will understand right away.”
“Huh…”
Bestia, biting her lip until her blood bleeds, staggered to her feet. She glared at the masked man colder than ever.
“Promise. I swear to that proud fear. I will return Libea safely to her original place, to her original state.”
“Then?”
“Then… Whatever you want, I will not resist.”
“It’s not that we don’t resist, we have to fully and actively accept it.”
“Don’t pretend you don’t know the subject that has been pressuring you to accept it until now! If I stop resisting… It will change soon… So swear Otherwise, I will resist to the end.”
“What will happen to this woman in the end?”
“Don’t threaten me any more. Don’t let my mouth speak more miserably.”
“Hmm.”
“Don’t touch me! If you touch me, I will die! Everything you prepared will be lost!”
Bestia was blackmailed by a masked man who tried to lay her hands on her fallen nun. The man smiled as if he had seen a joke and nodded his head.
“Great. —- -To the glory of God, I, Findlier, who have received a handful of graces, swear to return her nun named Rivera safely to her original place and to her original state. If you break her oath, you will lose the grace you received from —- -. However, all of this is based on the assumption that Saint Bestia accepted her grace.”
The man’s black mask instantly burst into flames. It was a sign that the oath had been properly invoked.
“Now, it’s the saintess’ turn.”
“… Libea first!”
“No. The saintess is far away.”
“How can I trust you… !”
“Under.”
Bagak-
The man’s mask split in half and immediately fell to the floor. At last his face was revealed.
“Suck!”
“Saint. I don’t think you understand your current situation well…”
The tone of the man who had always been respectful to Bestia from the beginning to the moment suddenly became cold. He touched the left side of his face, which was distorted and stained black, and grabbed Bestia by the collar with his other hand. As she drew in her breath, startled by her hideous yet grotesque face, he gave her a low warning.
“I, who received grace, swore an oath on the grace that could be said to be my everything. And he was received by Himself. Do you dare to doubt His intentions when you have seen them before your eyes?”
“Ugh…”
“Put down false hopes immediately and stop resisting. Before you sacrifice that dear bitch in a ‘different way’ right here and now.”
“Ahhh… That’s all… !”
Dump-
Bestia collapsed as the man violently brushed her hand. He picked up a piece of mask that had fallen on the floor and muttered something, and the mask became one. Again the masked man carried Libea on her shoulders and bowed her head respectfully.
“I’ll be back in three hours, saintess.”
“No…”
The masked man disappeared in an instant.
Bestia, who blankly followed her back, to be exact, the figure of Libea who was hanging, habitually held her rosary and prayed to La Ella.
However, the firmness contained in that voice was already halfway broken. Like Rosario, which has been dyed black for over a third.
**
“I just passed the fifth.”
“What about the necklace?”
“To the point where I can’t black anymore…”
They moved forward with the necklace at the fore, but the loop phenomenon was still not resolved. But it wasn’t without success at all. Each time the distance was repeated for about 30 minutes, the necklace became more and more black, and after repeating it five times, it was 100% black itself, so that there was no place that was not stained. The black necklace, darker than charcoal or ink, seemed to imply the fate of the necklace’s owner, so it was very confusing.
“Perhaps… On this advance, other places may greet us.”
“I think so too.”
The owner of the necklace representing complete depravity, Bestia, or someone else blocking us from the position of a monster came to mind so naturally that I could never say it.
“Let’s go.”
Now I just move forward.
Two and a half hours, including the one I walked earlier, I walked the same path over and over again for nearly four hours, but my steps did not slow down. My heart grew heavier, but paradoxically, my legs quickened. Shado, Kayado, me, and Cestia too. Even if no one said anything, the owner of the necklace already knew very well that it would be difficult to get it back. No matter who and what appears, you will have no choice but to face the consequences you did not want to face. Nonetheless moved forward.
‘I don’t think Sestia will collapse all at once. But just in case, I should pay attention.’
After a suffocating 30 minutes of progress, we were standing in a completely different place as expected. To be precise, I just moved my steps, but at some point, it was close to ‘appearing’ in another place.
Pair- pair- pair-
Accompanied by disparate applause, the space, which was difficult to move properly without magic torches, suddenly lit up.
As I hurriedly looked around, frowning at the surprise, I was able to spot the backs of the heads of three women blankly staring ahead.
I, who had barely adapted to conformity to life, turned my head to follow them…
‘How come this doesn’t go wrong…’
A naked woman with her limbs bound on a disc with intricate patterns that make you dizzy just by looking at it. She was the one woman who knelt down by her bedside, didn’t even move, and constantly muttered something to her and repeatedly exhaled and sucked out her black energy. And a masked man looking at the two women with satisfaction from a little distance away. In addition to the fallen nuns and priests lying like corpses all over the huge circle surrounding the disk.
Nausea and dizziness went away. Because of all the negative energy that filled the space, my body naturally reacted with rejection. It was a feeling of repulsion that was incomparable to the feeling of nausea at the sight of horrible corpses and dripping entrails.
Pair- pair- pair-
“Welcome.”
Applause broke out once again, and a very polite voice greeted us, uttering words completely out of place with the current situation.
“——–For those of you who have come all the way here to get to know me, I have prepared a little something for you to enjoy. Would you like to join us?”
“What a crazy sound…”
“Of course, there is no veto.”
Just-!
Accompanied by the snapping of fingers, the nuns and priests lying here and there showed abnormal movements and looked at us at the same time.
“Huh!”
All of their eyes were stained black.
