Chapter 287 – 5. There Were No Victims Anywhere (7)
“Kkeuh… I’m Marie~ Huh?”
The drunken man, staggering along, tilted his head at something that appeared in front of him.
What is this?
If you twist yourself, you twist that too. If that thing twists, you twist yourself.
I thought I’d seen it a lot somewhere, but when I saw that he was copying himself, it seemed that it was a shadow.
“Hiccup! Euhhehe”
The drunken man smirked as he watched the shadow following him here and there.
Let’s start to get excited little by little, what about the drunk? I realized again that something was strange.
Is it night now?
Even though there was moonlight and starlight, was the shadow so clearly visible?
“Heeep?”
For a moment, a drunken person who was not completely awake from alcohol, but who was somewhat awake, thought that it was something black and moving in a cobbled place. He hesitated and stepped back.
And that, too, staggered away.
“What, what is this!?”
“What, what is this!?”
Hearing the voice, which was basically the same as his own, resonated with a grotesque resonant, the drunkard felt that even the slightest bit of drunkenness had completely run away, and hurriedly turned around and started running.
This is dangerous. Something is dangerous!
However, the drunk had no choice but to stop his feet immediately.
As soon as he turned around and ran, the sword that was running towards him hurriedly stopped at something, and that sword also hurriedly stopped.
I looked back, wondering what the hell was going on, and there was no black thing behind me.
Just in case, I turned around again and it was in front of me again.
Slow down. As I slowly stepped back, the sword that had been almost right in front of me a moment ago began to move away.
The drunken guests also faltered. The black one also stopped.
It was only then that the drunkard realized that that black thing, for some reason, always appeared in front of his body and moved in the same way as himself.
There is a difference in the degree of left and right reversal like a mirror, but isn’t that a minor problem?
Then, if you keep walking backwards like this, that thing will continue to go farther away.
Now. Let’s walk back Slowly, slowly, checking the road from time to time.
I don’t know what it is, but once I go back to the village…
In the meantime, he looked at the floor, feeling that something had stepped on his foot.
There was something on the floor that looked like black muddy water. It was a strange feeling, like stepping on a creature rather than the usual muddy mud.
“What, what are you!?”
Out of something that looked like black muddy water, clear white snow emerged.
It’s not like I opened my eyes. Eyeballs came out of it.
“Uhhhhh!?”
Even in the middle of it, he quickly started to run away in the middle of the day.
Damn! Damn! Damn!! Absolutely no way to run forward! That weird asshole will show up again!
He took a quick backward step, checking the front and back of the extension, but very slowly. I kept running backwards, frightened by the black sludge that was approaching really slowly.
There were several more eyes floating in the mud before I knew it, and they all looked different.
I don’t know for sure, but it seemed to have human eyes and beast eyes.
“Oh shit!! What is that!?”
The drunkard fell backwards and fell over at the strange monster he had never heard of before, but he never forgot to run backwards and kept running.
I had never heard of a monster or monster like that.
Not all monsters and monsters had a countermeasure, but at least those monsters whose identities were known had their own countermeasures.
Whether to hold your breath Would you close your eyes Have a strong heart, etc.
But what is that?
In the meantime, his complexion darkened as he saw something huge happening in the distance.
I’m in the middle of the day.
I know what that monster is. The more you step back, the bigger it gets. It is a monster that gets smaller the further you go.
“Eh, what a shiver!?”
Now it’s so far away that you can’t see it, but if you go forward, you’ll get closer to yourself with an unidentified yokai. That unidentified liquid monster with eyes creeping up slowly, and this time, a monster that grows bigger the more you step backwards.
Hey, this is a scam!!
Can go forward can go back can’t even stop
“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!”
Sloppy -!!
“Ah?”
While he hesitated for a moment, the liquid monster that had been crawling on the ground began to wrap around his leg.
Even though I backtracked, this liquid monster kept pushing me! Falling backwards, he screamed at the liquid monster climbing up his body. Aww!! He screamed, but he couldn’t stop the monster from climbing up on him.
Starting with his legs, he gradually climbs up and eventually his torso. As it reached his arms and locked up to his neck, he cried and screamed, but no one came to rescue him.
Fondant.
Before I knew it, it was completely engulfed in the black liquid, and after wriggling for a while, I hugged the liquid monster, which soon became quiet, and one more eye came to my mind.
Those eyes were somehow very similar to those of a drunkard who had been devoured.
* * * * * *
Aaaaagh-!!
Aww!!
The village began to turn upside down at the sound of screams from the outskirts of the village.
The townsfolk, who came to their senses and wondered what the hell was going on, screamed and rioted at the sight of all sorts of monsters and monsters slowly approaching.
“Hey, what is this!!”
It was different from ordinary people for a long time, and the same was true of the congressman Yang, who struggled to find out how to treat the girl and barely fell asleep while seeking a cure for the girl.
It was fortunate that Yang Clinic was located in the center of the village for the convenience of the villagers, but he looked around in anxiety at the sound of screams from all over the village and unusual movements.
“Yes, Senator. This is what it is.”
“Mo, flock! This is a one-person wireless bridge.”
“Father! What are you talking about! Hurry up and don’t pack!”
Yang’s wife, the woman, hurriedly packed her bags and came out.
“Bachelor! Bachelor, take care of him first!! Come on!”
“Ah!”
Chen Ming hurriedly entered the hospital room.
Fortunately, there was only one patient in the hospital, Yuria, so it wasn’t too difficult.
Although it is a light hospital gown unsuitable for going out, the clothes she had worn before had already been torn by the damn old man of Changryongdae, so she just wrapped one more blanket over it and hurriedly picked it up and came out. He was standing with a cane on top of it and a load on it.
“Follow me quickly! If you go to the temple, even the monsters won’t be able to follow you.”
“Eh, what if going to a temple is useless?”
“Nandle know! At least there is a monk with magical powers, so please tell me the way to escape!”
At those words, Chen Ming had no choice but to follow Congressman Yang on the way to evacuate.
Most of the villagers seemed to have made the same decision as Congressman Yang, but the number of people started to increase as they went along the road.
“Can a monk really help me?”
“Crowd! But he’s always been the one who solved the problem whenever a monster or monster appeared in the village, so he’s the only one who understands the situation the best.”
YuRia opened her eyes with a feeling of struggle, probably feeling the turmoil in that situation.
“Yu, Mrs. Yuria?”
“God’s presence…”
Sign of god?
Yuria moaned softly and shook her head.
“Rather than being evil, something foreign that shouldn’t exist in this world… Someone opened the door…”
“What are you talking about? Does the lady know anything?”
“The law… Is useless…”
In her words, Congressman Yang and his wife also. Chen Ming also turned her face pale.
This uproar. Even the monk, who was our only hope in this chaos, is useless.
“That, is that precision?”
“…”
As YuRia nodded her head with difficulty, everyone’s face gradually turned white.
“So. Then uyako! Do we have to die like this?”
At that, Yuria shook her head.
“First, to the monk…”
“No, didn’t you say that legal power is useless?”
“Stamina… Low. I have to tell the monk directly…”
He said something for a moment, but Congressman Yang realized what YuRia was saying.
“Hey, villagers! Ki, get out of the way! The girl in the arms of this young man right now has a clue to solve this situation! I have to tell the monk right now, so please get out of the way!!”
The people who were hurrying along the road looked back and side for a moment at Congressman Yang’s cry.
“Yes, Senator?”
“What’s wrong! Why don’t you go quickly?! You have to take that girl to the monk as soon as possible so that even one more person can live!”
At those words, Chen Ming hesitated for a moment, and then started to run hurriedly along the road where the crowd of hers started to split in front of him.
She ran and ran and ran for a long time, and even though her breath was rushing to the tip of her chin, Chen Ming did not stop her steps.
In the meantime, one of the village youths started to support Chen Ming from the side, and another young man also started to help Chen Ming quickly towards the temple.
With the help of the two young men, Chen Ming arrives at the temple. The two young men who helped Chen Ming were really out of breath and fell to the floor gasping for breath, but thanks to that, YuRia was able to sense the situation and come out to the door with her gate wide open to face the waiting monk.
“Hey, what’s going on here?”
“…”
After catching her breath for a while, Yuria somehow gathered her energy and opened her mouth.
“The beings that have now appeared do not belong to the laws of this world. They are beings of another world that do not belong to either nine thousand or three.”
“What do you mean?”
“Among them, there are definitely youkai and demons, but there are many groups that do not apply the laws of this world. Normal exorcism does not work for them. You have to run away.”
“Huh, but. Then how?”
YuRia opened her mouth, choosing her stamina again.
“The direction they are in… I can feel it.
Should the monk believe this girl? She wondered what to do, but soon she decided to trust her.
It was impossible to accommodate all the villagers in this temple anyway. If a being truly unaffected by the Buddha’s protection appeared, it would just be annihilated.
“I’ll believe you”
Seeing the young men struggling to catch their breath, the monk asked them to follow him.
She asked for help in collecting as many exorcism items as possible from the temple storehouse, and Chen Ming just looked at Yuria.
“Is there anything I can do?”
“… Right now, just ‘seeing’ is overkill for me…”
At that, Chen Ming couldn’t say anything more.
It’s exhausting just by looking at it.
“Are you okay…?”
“Anyway… If I don’t, everyone will die… Everyone…”
YuRia herself. Monk too. Yang’s couple.
All the villagers entire.
Yuria prepared to turn all the channels of her ability, which were very slightly perforated, toward her eyes.
Today, I felt like I had to overdo it with the feeling that the pineal gland was on fire.
Carrying a backpack full of exorcism supplies from the temple’s storage room, the villagers followed the monk down toward the procession that had been coming up to the temple for a long time. They met in the middle and the monk spoke in place of YuRia.
Incomprehensible, different from the evil that cannot be defeated by legal power.
Due to beings that cannot be defined by the laws of this world, they have to evacuate and avoid them.
Although not all the villagers understood and agreed, at least they seemed ready to evacuate with the monk. YuRia, who was hugged by the princess in the arms of Chen Ming, who was standing next to the monk, quietly nodded her head to the monk and signaled. After sending it, I cut off all the flow of psychic energy toward my body and poured all energy into my eyes.
Normally, this would have been easier than breathing.
Yuria’s blue eyes began to show many things that her normal eyes would not be able to see.
In order to control the psychic energy that is concentrated in the eyes, the pineal gland has started to be activated, and of course, these bloody spines in the head have been interfering with such activities and causing excruciating headaches.
“Heuk!!”
“Yu, Mrs. Yuria!”
“So-so-so, are you okay?”
Yuria shuddered from her excruciating headache, but without trying to close her eyes, stared straight ahead at her surroundings and pointed her trembling hand in one direction.
The safest way for now.
A road I would never normally take.
No. Crossing the mountain, not even a road, countless villagers moved forward.
While holding the talisman distributed by the monk and constantly reciting the sutras taught by the monk, the villagers moved forward slowly, helping each other.
No matter how many amulets and exorcism supplies they brought, it was not enough to distribute them to all the villagers, and in fact, they distributed the amulets and exorcism tools around the outermost ones of the group as if they were conducting a battle. I was holding on somehow and moving forward with difficulty.
In the meantime, monsters and monsters appeared, but the monk was able to deal with most of them, and although some monsters struggled greatly, the villagers mobilized exorcism tools and defeated them as the monk taught them.
In the meantime, there were also injured people one after another, and accordingly, others carried amulets or exorcism tools in their place, and people continued to move forward.
“Haaaaa…”
The girl, with her blue eyes shining brightly in a cold sweat, continued to point people in the direction they should go with her trembling hand.
Certainly, as the girl said, I haven’t met a yoma that’s so strong yet. I haven’t even met the strange beings that the girl said the laws of this world don’t work with.
However, people believed the girl’s words because among the survivors gathered here, there were some who had witnessed the strange being that the girl was supposed to have spoken of, whose identity could not be identified.
Yokai too. Not even a monster. Something beyond common sense and understanding.
That there was such a thing
It is something that is impossible to understand.
Kyaaaaa!! Kyaaaaa!!
Three of the villagers firmly pressed down on a ghost who rushed at it with a baton densely inscribed with Buddhist scriptures, and then another man struck the ghost as hard as he could with the baton.
After hitting the yoma’s head like that several times, the yoma’s head split open and shuddered before collapsing.
These things were happening all over the place even at this moment.
Even at this moment, the creepy sounds of demons and monsters echoed from elsewhere, but they tried to ignore them and went back to their place.
If they recklessly leave their seats, ordinary residents like them, who don’t have magic tools or talismans, will be killed without being able to move.
“I’m worried about this. Isn’t this object originally intended for this purpose?”
Speaking of magic wands, it was not originally meant to be wielded like this to break something, but to prevent infidelity, such as standing around a woman giving birth to her child near her house.
As such, direct physical force could be exerted on the demons, so although they used it like this, it was an act that greatly reduced the lifespan of the beop.
“Is there anything special? For now, this is the only way.”
Please, the only thing I can do is pray that the beopstick will hold out until I get to a safe place.
“Exorcism with a tool to ward off evil is tsk…”
There is no way that such a small temple in a rural village could be so full of excellent items.
Even this monk uses it as a pastime in his spare time. It was absurd because the things he had made for his own training were piled up, otherwise it would have been insufficient to protect this number of people.
No, to be honest, even now, it was still extremely lacking.
But surely the girl’s eyes were accurate, but the number of the approaching youkai. The level was also very low, so I was able to hold on somehow and move on.
“How much longer do you think you can last?”
“Well… If you go forward like this, the limit is three or four. Even if you try to change it to a role of holding them down instead of beating them, considering safety, the limit will be up to two.”
“Then grab those two and swap them for someone else.”
At that, he sighed and sighed.
“Why am I acting as a hunter and beating monsters instead of wild beasts here?”
While moving forward like that for a while, tears of blood began to flow from YuRia’s eyes.
Seeing this, Chen Ming and the monk were frightened and told Yuria to stop.
“Hee-euk… Hee-euk…”
Yuria, who closed her eyes and breathed heavily, felt that the aftereffects of using her abilities in an ignorant way were worse than she thought, so she closed her eyes and focused all her efforts on recovering her eyes as much as possible.
“Hey… Are you all right?”
“Ten minutes…No, just let me rest for 30 minutes. I think it’s too much.”
Her eyes are also eyes, but YuRia, who was breathing heavily at the feeling that her head was boiling, asked for something cold to be placed on her head.
When Chen Ming put his hand on YuRia’s head, she felt ‘Aww!?’ And her hand snapped off.
“Oh, hey! Your head is a ball of fire!!”
“Haha…”
She was Mrs. Yuria, and Chen Ming, who was a bit difficult, shouted, saying ‘You’, probably not in the spirit to even show such courtesy in this situation.
“Joe, let it cool down some more…”
“This…”
Chen Ming said she didn’t know and put her hand on Yuria’s head.
Chen Ming’s hand, which was still cold in the cold spring night air, took the heat from her head, and her head cooled down a little. While changing her hands to cool YuRia’s head temporarily, Chenming hurriedly moistened a cloth with water and brought a wet towel to put on YuRia’s head.
The villagers were very worried when they saw YuRia struggling with her breath.
She was worried about YuRia’s safety, but more than that, she was very worried about how long she would pass through this road if YuRia’s eyes, which could see through her surroundings, disappeared.
“Is this an ability with such severe side effects?”
“It’s not…”
She exhaled breathlessly and changed a towel from Yuria’s struggling head, and Chen Ming asked again.
Then why is that?
“My ability was sealed, but I’m forcibly using it in an expedient way…”
“U-what is that…”
“So… Her eyes and her head are just overloaded.”
After saying that, Yuria became very limp.
Looking at Yuria’s condition, Chen Ming simply shut her mouth.
30 minutes.
At least she thought that during that time she just shouldn’t talk to her at all.
Obviously, that time is the time set up with the assumption that you will rest as much as possible.
So the villagers temporarily lost their only eye to discern the approaching threat.
