## Chapter 1048 – 1048. Divine Authority
I arrived in Hokkaido.
The accommodation was a high-class inn with natural hot springs. It was said to be a famous inn not only in Japan but also overseas.
‘It’s certainly very neat, as befits a high-class inn.’
The inn was made of wood, and it was so grand and luxurious that it could be mistaken for a nobleman’s mansion.
‘At this rate, the accommodation fee will be higher than staying at a luxury hotel, won’t it?’
Still, I was indifferent.
It wasn’t me paying, but Kang Jiwoo. Of course, it wasn’t Kang Jiwoo’s personal money, but the funds of the Light Source Church.
Anyway, having arrived at the high-class inn, we decided to enjoy the natural hot springs first.
Men’s bath. Women’s bath. And mixed bath.
Kang Jiwoo recommended the mixed bath.
“The best hot spring in this inn is the mixed bath. Originally, mixed bathing was the tradition, but they created separate men’s and women’s baths to keep up with the changes in society. Since we’re here, let’s go to the mixed bath.”
There were no objections.
The believers don’t refuse Kang Jiwoo’s words in the first place. And I was also drawn to the mixed bath. However, I didn’t have any expectations of seeing a new beauty. Maybe it was because it was Monday, but there didn’t seem to be many guests at the inn.
It was a mixed bath, but there were separate changing rooms. I confidently took off my clothes. One of my hobbies is going to public bathhouses. It’s to enjoy seeing men shrink back when they see my dick. Anyway, I was confident.
There were three people already in the hot spring. They were middle-aged men. One was a bald octopus, and another was a bespectacled beard. The other one was surprisingly a woman. She was also middle-aged.
The common thing about the three of them, who were sitting silently in the hot spring, was that they had tattoos on their bodies. Was it called irezumi? They were flashy and intimidating tattoos. In fact, Park Suho’s face was stiff, as if he was intimidated by the yakuza’s tattoos.
‘A hunter getting intimidated by yakuza….’
It wasn’t that I didn’t understand.
Park Suho was still a rookie hunter.
The men of the Light Source Church, including me and Park Suho, quietly rinsed our bodies and entered the hot spring, forming a strange atmosphere with the yakuza. As I let my body sink into the warm hot spring water, I felt like my fatigue was melting away. Although, I didn’t have much accumulated fatigue.
‘It’s ordinary. The bathhouse in my mansion in the Baekhwan world is more luxurious and better.’
While waiting for the women, I stared intently at the yakuza woman in front of me. Her face was a bit old, as befitting a middle-aged woman, but her figure was quite outstanding. If you covered her face, you could believe she was in her early 30s. Her breasts were B-cup and perky. Her nipples were dark brown, and her breasts were slightly saggy. She had irezumi tattoos on her shoulders and chest.
The area below her chest was obscured by the cloudy hot spring water, so it was hard to see clearly.
“Hey.”
The middle-aged woman called out to me. It was a rough voice, deliberately meant to look threatening. I, who had been looking at the woman’s erect nipples, raised my gaze.
The woman, who seemed very uncomfortable, was glaring at me as if she would kill me.
“Staring at someone’s body is not polite. Take your eyes away. I might pluck them out.”
The yakuza woman threatened me.
My mood also became dirty. If she hadn’t said she would pluck out my eyeballs, I would have obediently turned my gaze away. The yakuza woman wasn’t a striking beauty, and I was just looking at her because she was in front of me.
“What’s it to you what I look at? And do you have proof that I looked at your body? Huh? Isn’t your self-consciousness too much for an old woman?”
“Hey!”
“Konoyaro!!”
Two male yakuza jumped up from the hot spring.
My face crumpled like a crumpled piece of tissue paper. It was because I saw their dirty things as they stood up.
I couldn’t stand the unbearable unpleasantness, so I also got up from my seat.
“You little, small, Jap bastards! Wanna try me? Huh?!”
“Is this guy a Joseonjin?”
“He doesn’t know how scary the world is!”
Even the yakuza woman got up from her seat.
“If you come to Japan, you have to follow Japanese law! We’ll teach you some manners!”
My eyes naturally went to the yakuza woman’s crotch. Because of the thick pubic hair, her pussy wasn’t clearly visible.
“This guy still hasn’t come to his senses.”
“A guy like this needs a fist.”
The yakuza were approaching.
I clenched my fist. I didn’t intend to kill them. Even if they were yakuza, killing them would cause trouble. I was a hunter and a foreigner.
‘But it’s okay to beat them up since they’re yakuza. If the Japanese police make a fuss, I can use a space-movement scroll to escape to Korea. And then prepare for a public opinion battle.’
I had the advantage in a public opinion battle.
They were yakuza, and I was a hunter on vacation. I had finished planning everything in my head and was about to throw a punch when Park Suho grabbed my arm.
“Hyung! Yoo Jin hyung! Calm down! They’re civilians!”
“……”
I looked at Park Suho with strange eyes.
The other male believers had already jumped up from their seats to fight with me rather than stop me. That was why the yakuza couldn’t approach me and stopped. Because we had more numbers. There were as many as seven healthy men on our side.
“Park Suho, you….”
Before I could finish my sentence, several presences rushed towards us. It was the women. As befitting women who prayed naked, they walked confidently in their bare state, without even a towel on their bodies.
The male yakuza’s eyes widened. It was because there were many beauties, including Kang Jiwoo, at the forefront. I was so annoyed that I slapped the bald yakuza’s head with my palm. A crisp sound rang out!
“You bastards! Don’t you lower your eyes?!”
“Konoyarooooooo!!”
The yakuza rushed at me. I clenched my fist and punched the yakuza one by one. It was hard to control my strength. And the yakuza woman was no exception. She wasn’t a beauty, so there was no reason to go easy on her.
The yakuza, with bruises on their eyes and bloody noses, prostrated themselves on the floor outside the hot spring. Kang Jiwoo looked at me with wide eyes at the sudden turn of events.
“…Yoo Jin-ssi. What on earth….”
“These yakuza disrespected me! Me, the honored guest of the Light Source Church!”
Kang Jiwoo was startled. Soon, she clenched her teeth and trembled.
“Dis, disrespecting the honored guest! Disrespecting the honored guest is no different from disrespecting the Light God! It’s unforgivable!”
“That’s right!”
“They need to be punished!”
“We must punish these people!”
The believers shouted in unison.
I could feel the bizarre madness unique to the fanatics. The yakuza also seemed to feel it, as their complexions were not good.
“Punishment! They must be punished!”
Park Suho was also shouting at some point.
The matter was decided by the unanimous agreement of the believers. They rushed at the prostrating yakuza and threw punches and kicks. There was even a believer swinging a wooden stick that I didn’t know where they got from.
“Kkyaaaak!”
“Stop!”
“Save, save me!”
The yakuza shouted. No one here knew Japanese except for me and Kang Jiwoo. Kang Jiwoo glared at the yakuza with eyes gleaming with madness and spoke in Japanese.
“Repent! Repent! Only repentance is the way for you to live! And pray to the Light God and receive his mercy!!”
The blood flowing from the yakuza increased. It seemed dangerous if I didn’t stop them soon.
“Jiwoo-ssi. It’ll be a big problem if the yakuza die like that. Let’s stop here. Those idiots must know their sins now.”
“Yoo Jin-ssi, you’re too merciful. In my opinion, they haven’t repented yet. Even if they die, they need to be punished.”
“No. If they really die….”
“It’s okay. The people of the world won’t know about their deaths. This ryokan belongs to our Light Source Church. Or rather, it’s a building of the Japanese branch…. The Japanese branch of the Light Source Church will also help us.”
“I, is that so.”
It was an unexpected fact.
I didn’t know how big the Japanese branch of the Light Source Church was, but judging by their current madness, it seemed like the Light Source Church could just bury a few people.
‘Things shouldn’t get out of hand.’
I somehow managed to stop Kang Jiwoo and the believers. My status as an honored guest was helpful. The yakuza, who were in a pulp, trembled in fear.
“Yoo Jin-ssi. I won’t kill them right away, but… they need repentance. I’ll send them to the Japanese branch of the Light Source Church later to conduct repentance education.”
It wasn’t repentance, but brainwashing.
“Well, just don’t kill them.”
The situation calmed down. Only then did we leisurely enjoy the hot springs. I sat with the women, including Kang Jiwoo, around me. My hands relentlessly fondled their private parts.
“Haaah.”
“Aaaah….”
The moans of the beauties were pleasant to hear.
“Yoo Jin-ssi. If you want, you can hug that woman too. She’ll be happy to serve you too.”
Kang Jiwoo pointed at the yakuza woman.
I shook my head. Her face, which was a mess from being assaulted, was even more unsightly than before, and when I saw her pussy when she prostrated herself earlier, it was very dark. It was a pussy I didn’t want to put my dick into.
“It’s okay. Rather than that, I want to taste Jiwoo-ssi’s pussy.”
“You can use my pussy anytime.”
“Then shall we taste it now?”
“Aaaah!”
I hugged Kang Jiwoo’s back and sat in the hot spring. My dick was buried deep in Kang Jiwoo’s pussy, who was sitting on top of me.
•••
After eating a high-class Japanese meal at the inn, we gathered in one place.
Originally, my plan was to move separately at night and find the 침식 dungeon. According to what I learned through Koyori, it was not far from the inn where we were currently staying.
‘I was going to sneak in and check. Even if it was someone else, I could move in a transparent state using the Illusiter.’
However, after dinner, Kang Jiwoo called us all together. It seemed that moving separately would have to wait a little longer.
Kang Jiwoo led us to the back of the inn. It was a building that looked like a warehouse, but when we went inside, there was a secret passage leading to the basement.
“Everyone. Actually, the reason I brought you here wasn’t to build friendship or train.”
I felt a sense of unease from Kang Jiwoo. But it didn’t seem to be the case for the others.
“Jiwoo-ssi. What do you mean? Did you hide it even from me, the honored guest?”
I asked her with a stiff face. Kang Jiwoo looked at me with apologetic eyes.
“I’m sorry, Yoo Jin-ssi. It was the order of the Church Leader… I couldn’t help it.”
“……”
“Yoo Jin-ssi. Do you know what my title is within the Light Source Church?”
“…I heard it’s the Seventh Guide.”
“Yes. That’s right. As the name suggests, it’s my role to guide the believers. And now, I am faithfully fulfilling my role, and I am guiding you according to the will of the Light God and the Church Leader.”
“…Where to?”
Kang Jiwoo’s smile deepened. She looked at the inside of the secret passage with eyes filled with fanatical faith.
“To the place where the Church Leader is. And to the place where the Light God’s divine authority is.”
“Why didn’t you tell me from the beginning?”
“I’m sorry. The Light God gave an oracle that I shouldn’t.”
“Oracle…. In a dream?”
“Yes. That’s right. Originally, the oracle was to bring Suho… but on the day I learned about Yoo Jin-ssi through Suho, a new oracle was given. An oracle to guide Yoo Jin-ssi, the honored guest, to this place.”
“……”
I quietly sank into thought.
I had a bad feeling.
A sense of being screwed over was dominating my whole body.
The Light Source Church had been targeting me and Park Suho from the beginning.
The warning from the woman Park Suho saw in his dream. And the Light God’s oracle. Once I acknowledged the existence of the Light God, the story seemed to fit together. And the more it did, the more I couldn’t help but think that I was screwed.
And I was also curious. What exactly was at the end of this passage?
“Everyone, let’s go now. I’ll guide you to the Light Source Church’s temple.”
I followed her, thinking of escaping using a space-movement scroll if necessary.
