Chapter 160 – A Bright Red Liar From Another World
“Hands up, now!!”
As soon as they checked the situation in the isolation room, the men pointed their guns and shouted.
Isabelle and Harumu arrived one beat later than William’s agents.
Everyone is looking at me sitting in the isolation room, sweating.
William, who died with blood pouring from his face, and the two agents who shot each other dead.
Let’s just follow what they say and explain calmly, then there will definitely be misunderstandings…
No, let’s think a little more.
Cooperation with headquarters was no longer the best option.
Because I witnessed with my own eyes the power that turned Jack and Emma into saints in an instant.
Some of those standing in front of you may have already turned into a ‘red saint.’
Giving up resistance to prove my innocence became a dangerous choice.
Jack and Emma said, ‘I leave it to others.’
Those words sounded like another red saint was planning something.
Maybe I was just scared, or maybe it was the first saint’s bravado.
But now the organization called the Special Phenomena Task Force can no longer be trusted.
The organization has already become nothing less than the army of the first saint.
So what should I do now? Of course I have to run away.
“…Woo Joo, you have to hold on tight…?”
Hye-mi, who read the rough plan.
My sister Hye-mi, who wrapped her tail around my body and connected me with her lifeline, picked me up.
She was held like a princess, so it looked a little weird, but this was the safest position.
“What are you doing? Get down on the floor right now───”
The agents were yelling as if they were going to shoot at my sister and me’s strange behavior.
‘Isabel, please open the road for Harumu.’
A telepathic message was sent to the two saints who were mixed in the crowd behind the agents.
At the same time, Hye-mi ran forward quickly, covering her whole body with her wing shield.
The flames that spewed out from the muzzles of the surprised agents soon dispersed.
“Ugh?!”
“W-what?! It’s a saint! Two new saints discovered in 12-3!!”
The sounds of gunfire, people screaming, and the sound of bullets bouncing off my sister’s wings.
The isolation room was in chaos with the faint smell of gunpowder filling my nostrils.
Among the agents that Isabelle knocked down and Harumu threw away,
Sister Hye-mi rushed forward, throwing up a shield made of her wings.
“Sister, just go to the door of the isolation room over there!! Isabel and Harumu, follow me!!”
The saints’ answers were hard to hear in the midst of the noisy sea of people.
However, Isabel and Harumu, who were blocking the agents from behind, immediately overtook Hyemi.
They were literally shutting down the reinforcements coming into the isolation room.
The huge door of the isolation room cut through the crowd of people and finally came before our eyes.
“What should I do now?!”
“Just keep running!”
Sister Hye-mi bites her lip and lets out her final spurt.
I take out card number 402 that I had hidden in her pocket and hold it tightly.
And just as my sister, Isabelle and Harumu, who were following behind, passed through the door—
Paaaaa─
I extended the card towards the ‘door’ and created the entrance to the bedroom of desire.
My sister’s startled moan and my vision suddenly become engulfed in darkness.
After feeling a moment of pressure, insert the card again and light comes into the darkness.
The mechanical door that was supposed to be behind us was replaced with an ordinary iron door.
What should have been a long hallway became a motel room with a large bed.
“…Hehe, hehe…! We’re at Mom’s motel…? Ugh, I thought I was going to die…”
Moving through space using the bed of desire.
It was the optimal escape route that could clearly cut off the chase.
“…Sister, are you okay? Are Isabelle and Harumu hurt anywhere…?”
“Uh, I only got a little scratched, so there’s nothing to worry about!”
“I’m fine. Isn’t the owner hurt? What happened…?”
“Me too. Brother, I wonder what happened…”
“Ah, that’s good… First of all, please call the other saints here.”
After examining the condition of the saints who were each breathing heavily,
I get down from Hye-mi’s arms and stumble into the bathroom.
“Uh, yes… But, where are you going in the universe…”
“Wuweee!!”
Terrible motion sickness.
Because of this, I didn’t want to use things like spatial movement.
“…I woke up and found myself a fugitive being chased by my employer.”
“…Sounds like the title of some Japanese anime.”
“…”
“Sorry.”
I followed Noah, who was the first to open his mouth in the heavy air, and tried to tell a joke.
It was so quiet that I tried to brighten up the atmosphere, but I failed…
The serious silence continued for a long time.
Everyone was lost in their thoughts after hearing the story about the first saint.
The first to speak up was Luna.
Luna asks a question to the twins sitting on either side of me.
”Are you saying that the agents who were fine suddenly turned into saints?
And that includes men… So you didn’t feel anything about the moon or the stars?”
“Not at all, if there was a mask or an owner nearby, we would have known.”
“What we noticed was around the time that person finished transforming into a saint.”
“Then what is this ‘first saint’ woman that you were talking about?
“To turn a human being into a saint without a mask or without revealing her face…”
“They made men into saints and even caused ‘contagion.'”
Emma, who was captured by Jack who became a saint, also became the same red saint.
As soon as he heard the word ‘saint’ recited by Jack, he was brainwashed.
Just as the cold spread to others, Jack infected Emma.
“That’s something we can’t do either.”
“Yes, all we can do is create fanatics with Woo-ju’s semen…”
As Hye-mi and Yoon Sol-i said, there is something different about the ‘red saints’.
If you look at it closely, there is a strong feeling that the saints here are upwardly compatible.
What exactly is the ‘first saint’ who can create something like that?
“…The first saint, does that mean she is our distant predecessor?”
“We don’t know that much, but it is clear that she is after her master.
Since the Korean branch missed us, she’s going to use headquarters to track us down.
Noah, Luna, Harumu, and Natsuki Hana. “I’m sure you handled the communicator well, right?”
“We threw away everything that could be traced, and even scrapped the vehicle.”
Isabelle, the most senior agent, sums up the situation nicely.
Isabelle, who had been looking at the equipment Noah had installed in her room, turned around and said.
“Okay, it may be inconvenient for the owner, but I think it would be a good idea to stay here for a while.”
“…I was wondering if that was still the case. Sweet, star, is everything okay here?”
“This is a space I created with her brother’s desires, so even she cannot interfere.”
Just like when she was avoiding the Japanese branch, she is stuck in this room again, but that’s okay.
This was the only way to go when it became clear that the first saint was targeting me.
It would be helpful to the saints if I hid myself safely.
“…Everyone, I’m sorry, but I think I’ll have to be quiet for a while.
And for the time being, please help Isabelle find the masks.”
That’s the only way now.
Regardless of my hiding, the First Saint will probably not stop spreading her mask.
Because I need the owners of the mask to turn me into something called a ‘vessel of desire’.
Because I have to extract the desires of the mask owners through the saint and feed them to me.
I don’t know what will happen if I eat them all, but I can’t stop either.
I have experienced first-hand how dangerous it is when the owners run away.
If the only way to stop that tragedy is to drink your desire, then you have to do it.
Even if this is what the first saint wanted, she doesn’t want to see that horrible thing again.
“…I ask you to be careful and avoid getting hurt as much as possible.”
Let’s do our best so that we are not ashamed of our commitment to take responsibility for everything.
If you collect masks and save people, you will be able to learn about the first saint.
All of the men who have become the owners of the mask so far have been ex-convicts and people who have been unable to control their desires.
They are trash who committed such acts even without a mask or wearing a human mask, but they must be saved.
Even for the sake of the victims who will become their saints, and for everyone around them.
You must capture the first saint.
“Okay, then should we disperse first? What should we do?”
“There are 10 of us, so we divide into teams of 2.”
“Uh, then I’ll do it with Go-eun! Yunbyeol will do it with Yunsol!”
“Okay, then will Isabelle come with me?”
“Everyone, change your clothes first! There are a lot of clothes in the motel’s lost box, so choose appropriately.”
I bow my head in silence as the saints begin to take on different roles.
I don’t know why, but I was so grateful to them. For following my stubbornness.
“Wow, it’s amazing… He’s thankful for his saints…”
“Do you know, brother? That your desire has become greater than before?”
“Really? I don’t know…”
The twins sitting on either side of me on the bed said.
I don’t know if my desire has increased or not, but it is true that my heart feels refreshed than before.
“Well, when I first picked up the moon, I had no idea what it was…
“I finally feel like I’ve figured out what to do.”
“It’s wise man time?”
“The moon won’t buy you chicken tonight.”
Dal-i turns around in surprise and says, ‘What?!’ And Byul-i giggles.
He separates the twins who are running at each other as if they are about to fight.
Before I hide, I need to see Mom and Dad’s faces one last time.
I don’t know if I’m alone, but my parents would be worried if Dal and Byeol, the youngest children, disappeared.
Would you feel safe if I told you that I went to a church camp with a sister I know only a little bit and then came back?
Anyway, let’s catch it as quickly as possible so you don’t have to worry.
That red bastard.
“…They don’t even call her ‘the first saint’ anymore…”
“───────”
Just blinked her eyes once.
The chattering voices of the saints disappeared into the darkness under the eyelids,
The beautiful and soft voice of a woman I had never heard before rang in my ears.
When I opened my eyes again, it was not room 402──
“Hut…”
It was a witch’s hut.
When I slowly turned my head towards the direction from which I heard her voice, there she was.
Her cabin had faded to a colorless color, and she was sitting on a chair in her study, letting down her bright red hair.
A pristine white robe decorated with gold and black embroidery.
A mole under his right eye, skin that shines like pearls and captivating bright red eyes.
Her beautiful hair glimmered as it carpeted her wooden floor.
“You…”
“Erdanis Erendel, if it’s too long, please feel free to call me ‘Er’!
It’s a strange name… Right? Because it’s an ordinary name in our world… Ahaha…
Huh, it’s been a while since I told you my name, so I’m nervous…!”
She introduces her own name in a very gentle and kind tone.
She covered her face, elegantly placed her hand on her chest, and smiled.
She was the first saint.
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