Chapter 121 – Cleanup
#121.
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As soon as the door closed, Gaon immediately put down the blanket he was holding on the floor. When I opened the entrance, I saw Jake, who was shivering, and the madam, who was calmer than I thought.
Gaon played with his fingers and freed Ahyeol so that he could speak his words. Immediately, Madame bit off his tongue.
“Ouch! Gagging— keureuk…”
The madam glanced at Gaon with a feeling of being unattractive. She looked like she couldn’t get any information from herself. She must have noticed in a short amount of time that there was no healing priest in the group.
Unfortunately for her, however, they have healers who are much better than the priests.
Above all, it is just a lie that a person will die if her tongue is cut off.
It is unknown to Gaon why such a rumor spread not only to Earth but also to Union, but it means that Madam’s suicide attempt is meaningless nonsense anyway.
Gaon turned his head and sent his glance, and immediately Chorin came running and healed Madam’s wounds.
The madam, who had laughed at Gaon right after cutting her tongue, put on a puzzled expression as time passed, as if she felt something was wrong, but after Chorin healed her wound, her face turned pale.
Gaon released Jake’s pointy blood as he stared at Madam and glanced at her. Unlike Madam, with only the level of sanctions applied so that she could not break free of her body.
He carefully raised himself and knelt down in front of Gaon. He thought about it earlier, but even if he is a doppelganger, his personality seems to be very different. Or this guy is particularly clumsy.
Gaon got down on his knees and met Jake’s gaze as he opened his mouth.
“You know what the situation is. It’s nice to cooperate. If you don’t want to go to the church.”
“Hey… ! Gyo, Gyodan, please… !”
As expected, he’s a timid guy. It is clear what kind of future awaits him if he is taken to the Order.
In the case of a doppelganger, it takes place in the brain, so other parts are no different from humans. Healing with divine power is also possible.
If he is captured, he will probably be tortured over and over again until he vomits up all the information, neither dead nor alive.
The madam reprimanded Jake, who begged for unconditional cooperation.
“Jake! Are you going to betray me!?”
“Oh fuck! Then die together!? If you want to die, either you die! Being born as a fucking doppelgänger and noticing like this day by day is still fucking disgusting, but what do you know about betrayal!”
As if there were a lot of things piled up on a regular basis, Jake poured out abusive language at the madam who had been clinging to her as if she was dying just a moment ago. It was even more regrettable to see his tenacity toward life.
‘I’m a little sorry.’
Anyway, I plan to send it to the church after the work has progressed to some extent. Didn’t he have to leave the element of anxiety behind? His conscience pricked him a little, but he had no other options either.
Gaon quietly watched Jake and the madam argue and called his name quietly.
“Jake.”
Jake jumped up and replied with a benevolent smile on his distorted face.
“Ah, yep! Do you have any questions? Ask me anything!”
“Apart from bars, where doppelgangers gather? Do you know?”
Jake’s eyes went blank. In that state, he remained silent for a few seconds, then hurriedly turned around with awkward gestures.
“Ah, ah— you mean the rendezvous point? That’s it. Wait a minute. I have a little something…”
Then, she sneaks a glance at the madam. As expected, he doesn’t know much, and the middle liaison madam seems to have useful information.
Gaon abandoned Jake without regret and approached the madam, relieved the point and straightened her body kindly.
“Would you like to cooperate?”
“… What if we cooperate? Since it is no longer useful, are you going to hand it over to the church?”
Madame asked cynically. Not because Jake was so stupid, but she understood their predicament.
She had a clear understanding of the fact that doppelgangers and humans could not coexist, so she gave up her life the moment she was captured.
In order for her madam to open her mouth, she has to reassure her that she won’t throw away her information after spewing it out. But even Gaon couldn’t answer carelessly.
It would be nice if she just lied, but she didn’t want to do that since she promised Cho-rin and Ha-yeon that she would become a person everyone could acknowledge. Even if it was with the demons.
When Gaon said nothing, Madame suddenly smiled bitterly, and then she said.
“I’m not going to ask for your life unconditionally. But we don’t live like this because we want to. It might sound like an excuse.”
“… Let’s think about it as much as possible.”
“Great. So what are you curious about? Another contact point? I don’t know anything about that either. I would like to ask about other information.”
I don’t know what kind of thought flow made me want to cooperate. However, the madam’s pupils were already riddled with poison.
Those calmly sunk eyes made it impossible to believe that they were living beings by swallowing a life.
‘It’s a demon…’
Demons often appeared through cracks in the union and dealt a heavy blow. Therefore, regardless of the reason, the existence of the demon tribe joins forces to subdue them without distinction of country or race.
Of course, if that was the only thing, Gaon wouldn’t be shaken by just one look.
At the time of the second playthrough, there was a time when demons appeared before the full-scale invaders appeared.
At that time, everyone wanted to finally start a full-scale war, but they didn’t want to fight. They said that the dimensional wall would soon collapse, so we had to work together to prepare.
But could such an offer work? In the end, they were taken to the temple for interrogation and sentenced to death after being told that they were in fact dangerous elements who secretly infiltrated Union society and tried to cause division.
At that time, the church’s decision was too sudden. In just a few days, the interrogation was completed and the death penalty was executed without any time for other forces to intervene.
As time passed, he was able to find it when he accidentally arrived at the temple site while wandering around looking for survivors while remaining alone in the world.
‘Interrogation record.’
Booklets containing the contents of the interrogation so far were buried in the underground space. At that time, the heat of the flame that burned the temple was so strong that the booklets were also in a burnt state, and Gaon found an interesting writing there.
‘Drank.’
It was the word drunk.
Currently, within Union, the Healing Church is solidifying its position as the only religion. The world tree that the elves serve is a divinity with a faint ego, and the gods that other races serve have long since disappeared and cannot even exert their divine power.
The Healing Church, which can even exert divine power, is accepted as the only one who is cared for by the gods, but what if a demon god appears?
Of course, his position within the Union would suffer a serious blow, and he might have to hand over the position of sole religion to the demons.
If you combine the words in the booklet, it is said that the demons were blocking the cracks even while they were actually ignoring them.
Gaon, who was building a hypothesis by combining memories from his previous life and information from the present, opened his mouth after feeling Madam’s gaze.
“Then let’s start with the most important thing. Who is the king of you doppelgangers?”
We already know that the king of doppelgangers is Kaldran Orgius. It’s just Gaon’s one-sided argument. The temple needed a witness to prove that fact.
Unfortunately, Madame’s answer was to shake her head.
“Sorry, but I don’t know that either. The King doesn’t always reveal himself. All instructions were transmitted by transmission.”
“… Okay. Then one more thing, the carriage overturn accident that happened a year ago. Do you know any information?”
His first priority is to thwart the Doppelgänger King’s scheme, but it is also important to complete the request he received from Priscilla.
Fortunately, the madam hardened her face and nodded, as if she knew the answer to this question.
“There was an instruction I received a month before the carriage overturned accident.”
“What is it?”
“… It was to prepare a woman. It was an instruction to select a woman who has an excellent appearance and body and is good at seducing men.”
“No way…”
“That’s right. The woman I prepared at that time is now a member of the count family.”
It means that Calidora Barrymore was originally supposed to work at this bar. In the end, they sacrificed a poor woman to their ends.
As Gaon’s eyes grew cold, the madam who flinched at him bit his lip and said.
“I was a woman who lived by stabbing men in the back anyway. You will understand if you know how many victims there are!”
“Are you serious?”
“…”
At the question asked again, the madam kept her mouth shut and lowered her head. Because she knows she can’t be proud of herself.
However, Gaon was rather relieved by such a reaction.
This is because it means that even a doppelganger has a minimum conscience. He would have been even more disappointed if he had lined up excuses to justify himself somehow.
Gaon continued, thinking about how to decide on his treatment later.
“Anyway, you’re saying that Doppelgänger King purposely overturned her carriage to plant her?”
“… It’s natural to think that way. It’s too tight to be a coincidence, right? In fact, sooner or later you will take the place of her wife.”
“Yes, I got some useful information. So next question How many people are contacting through the bar?”
“Five except for Jake. Except for the bar holidays, I visit every day in turn.”
“Hmm… 5 people…”
I don’t know how many doppelgangers there are in total, so I can’t tell if there are many or few.
Since then, Gaon has repeated her Q&A, asking about various information. And after the interrogation, he made a decision. Handing it over to the church will be postponed for the time being.
If you go to the church, you will most likely be tortured and die, but it is embarrassing to hand it over like this. Above all, we cannot be absolutely sure that there will be no doppelganger in the Church.
A doppelganger is definitely the type that controls the body by taking over the brain. This means that unless divine power is injected directly into the head, it will not take any damage. If so, it is possible to hide as a priest.
This means that if you take your doppelganger to the temple carelessly, information may be lost to the doppelganger king right away.
First of all, it is wise to approach the center by capturing Madam little by little based on the information.
‘I should go soon.’
Since there was progress on the request, it was time to report back.
