Chapter 71 – Cancellation Ticket
Knock knock knock
“It’s over!”
“Then, please help me here too!”
“Okay, wait a minute!”
Three days have passed since the attack last night.
Thanks to the timely action of Sprout spirits, the village was able to almost recover from the damage caused by the arson in just three days.
“Give me some wooden planks here!”
“It’s here.”
At the shout of a villager, Jun took out a board from subspace and handed it to him.
The day after the coming-of-age ceremony, contrary to his original plan to leave the village immediately, he still stayed in the village.
Fulfilling the promise we made with Fortuna when we prioritized and wanted to save the church people first.
To be honest, thanks to Sprout’s performance, I felt less indebted and didn’t have to keep my promises.
The reason I made a promise to her was to ease her sense of debt.
However, since everyone else was participating in the restoration work, and I was just watching, I decided to help out until the news I was waiting for arrived.
“Thank you, no Jun. Are you still doing that? “Now it’s almost over, so stop and relax.”
“… That’s it, so hurry up and get it.”
When I noticed with cold eyes, the villager politely handed me the board with both hands, as if he was grateful.
Jun quickly left the scene without saying a word, knowing full well that telling him to stop acting like that would only hurt his mouth.
“Oh!”
“Angel.”
As if they had heard the villager’s voice and recognized his presence, the people who had spotted him while walking along the road reacted in the same way as the villager just before.
He was taking advantage of his busy schedule to help, but now it seemed impossible.
Jun sighed, putting his hood on more tightly, and turned his steps toward the church.
“Oh. Angel, are you coming back already? “I’m coming home earlier than usual today.”
Kate, who was sweeping the broom in front of the church, spotted him and made a mischievous expression on him and joked with him.
The frustration and anger that I had tried so hard to suppress came out.
“Fun? “I’m dying of trouble because of an old maid’s explanation.”
“Woo! “I’m not an old maid!”
“Lie. “She is an old maid who has never even held hands with a man in her 30s.”
“No! “She’s not even 30 yet!”
Kate protested with tears in her eyes in response to Fortuna’s fact bombing.
But why are you protesting only about age? I really haven’t held hands with a man even once…
“Well, what are those eyes? “Don’t look at me like you feel sorry for me!”
“All right. Okay. So calm down.”
“That’s right. Cheer up, Kate. That could be possible.”
“Black! Make a lot of noise, you deceivers.”
Kate eventually bursts into tears.
Jun said, soothing her.
“So how can we fix it? It’s really serious. “People think I’m an angel.”
As the fire was extinguished quickly, the villagers inevitably discovered the presence of assassins attacking the church and Jun’s appearance surrounded by light.
Because of that, Jun and his group had to explain what happened to the villagers.
Kate, who came to explain on behalf of the injured Leonard,
The assassins are kidnappers sent by a cult that targeted Leon as a sacrifice to kidnap him,
It was explained that Jun’s appearance was God’s blessing upon his earnest prayer to save everyone.
This was to avoid criticism being directed at Leon and to hide Harry’s identity.
Originally, the two planned to reveal their identities after the coming-of-age ceremony, but they put it on hold when the black mana emitted by the head assassin turned out to be magic energy (mana not of this world).
This is because I thought that if my identity was revealed, similar things would happen more frequently.
Anyway, after hearing Kate’s explanation, the villagers stopped being angry at the cultists for a moment and began to sincerely praise Jun.
How earnestly did you pray for God to bless you? Not only does he look like an angel, but he also has a heart like an angel.
As this continued, the villagers now believed that Jun was an angel who came down to earth with a story.
The fact that a lucky fairy who uses divine power sticks with her wherever she goes, and that one day she ran out of town in surprise and was held in the arms of Leonard, who returned with a possessed expression on his face, increased the credibility of the ridiculous speculation.
“Sniff. Well, how about it? It’s not like I’m harming you.”
“It’s burdensome.”
“Just be patient. But… Aren’t you really an angel?”
“Huh. Sister Kate. “Are you believing such nonsense?”
Jun looked at Kate with a puzzled look.
Then Kate waved the broom in her hand and responded as if she was being wronged.
“Yeah, but! Even if Harry, who had not yet been properly educated as a saint, used a miracle, there was no way he could make an angel stronger. That means…”
Kate looks at June with suspicion.
Unlike the villagers, she was suspicious with sound logic, not just speculation.
If it had been speculation, I would have been able to refute it, but the situation became annoying.
“Oh, no! “Our Junie is an angel!”
Fortuna, feeling Jun’s trouble, denied her suspicions on his behalf.
However, her voice was shaking, as if she thought it was because of her that things had happened, which made me even more suspicious.
Jun hurriedly covered Fortuna’s mouth and spoke.
“You heard what Fore said. I’m not an angel. Rather, the being that was given to me is an angel, right? “Something else on Harry’s level might have impressed me.”
“No. I’m sure it’s an angel. I saw it clearly the moment you struck the final blow. A small halo floating above your head.”
Kate’s eyes didn’t waver at all as she said that.
She didn’t seem to have any doubts about what she saw.
‘It may have only been a moment, but did you see it?’
Halo is an unmistakable symbol of angels.
Lee Sang-jun, who was equipped with clear evidence and her sound logic, decided that he would no longer be able to persuade her.
So,
“Did you? “I didn’t know.”
Cast ignorance,
“What! That makes sense!”
“Then what! “I really don’t know!”
They ran amok.
Still, when Kate showed no signs of backing down, she shouted.
“I swear to God!”
“Uh? “Huh?”
“I am not an angel. That’s it!”
If you break the oath you made to your god, you could incur the wrath of the god, so most people keep it, but there are cases where they break it.
Kate probably knows that too, but she would never think that an angel would break his oath to God.
“Oh, no, I mean… This is it.”
As expected, Kate’s eyes, which were full of confidence, began to waver.
However, the reaction was a bit harsh. She must have firmly believed that Jun was an angel.
‘No, rather, I remember seeing this now. ‘No way?’
“Did the church say that? “Maybe I’m an angel?”
“Hi!”
Kate’s body trembles
The question seems to have hit the nail on the head.
“No~. What’s wrong with you there? Last time you treated me as a weapon of some organization, this time you called me an angel? Huh, indeed.”
Jun was about to ask if he was just a delusional patient, but held back because it didn’t seem right.
“Yeah, but.”
“That’s it again. But anyway, go to sleep, and this story is over. Please answer my question. “If it had been three days, a decision wouldn’t have been made.”
The original reason why he stayed in the village for three days.
It was to compete with the church over how to dispose of the corpse of Cerberus, the triad left behind when the demon energy was destroyed.
“First of all, do you acknowledge that I have full ownership of Cerberus’ body?”
“The saint’s share is…”
“He said he was giving up ownership. Please do not claim that the decision is invalid because it was a decision made by a minor. He was confirmed this morning, the third day after becoming a saint.”
“Ugh~. I admit it.”
“Hmm?”
I thought it would get more muddy, but Kate nodded her head obediently.
Although Jun was puzzled, he opened his mouth.
“Then do you agree with the purchase of about half of the Cerberus corpses that I suggested?”
“About half of that includes the half magic stone, right?”
“Of course.”
“Then I will agree. The price is…”
Kate looked around her and motioned for June to bring her ear closer.
How long have you been trying to whisper?
‘No, let’s not get our hopes up.’
Jun tried to calm his pounding heart as he recalled the denomination’s behavior of not being able to make decisions quickly due to factional fighting.
However,
Whisper
“…?!”
At Kate’s few words, my heart fluttered again, and my distrust toward the church melted away like the snow that greeted spring.
“Thank you, Hogaeng! As a token of our gratitude, we will deliver the item quickly and safely!”
“Chii~. That’s natural. Rather, why are you trying so hard to protect your other half? If you just want to keep it, sell the rest. “I will pay you the same generous price.”
“I’m sorry, but I’ll decline.”
“Don’t do that. Do you know what we’re going to do with that body? Present it as evidence that Labyrinth has begun invasion activities in earnest, and put some pressure on the 1st Prince to say that this was brought about by the people you hired. Anyway, it will be used meaningfully in various places, and the body needs to be complete to achieve maximum effect.”
After hearing the reason, it seemed better to sell everything for the greater good. Since the church paid the price generously, it was not a particularly loss-making business.
So, just when I was thinking about it seriously,
-Jonggeuu~ Jjongjong!
Sorrow and earnestness were conveyed through the strings of the soul.
In the end, Jun shook his head.
“Sorry. It is useful.”
“Where on earth? Oh, come to think of it, the classical records left in the religious order say that an angel sacrificed the blood and flesh of his demons to increase his divine power…”
“No, angels do that”
Hot!
“You can do… Anyway, it’s not what I’m going to write. “It looks like someone else has some business for me, so I’ll just go.”
Jun pushed Fortuna, who was about to hiccup, into his clothes and hurried away.
Although he felt suspicious eyes behind his back, he never looked back.
“Was it a distraction?”
“No, it was just the right timing.”
To Jun’s answer, Leon nodded, saying that it was okay.
Then, without saying a word, he led him to the back of the church.
Heading to the backyard, June looked up at the sky.
Pure white snow was gently falling from the gloomy sky.
I slowly lowered my head following the one that caught my eye, and before I knew it, I saw Leon looking at him with his sword drawn.
His face was as cold as snow, and his black was as cool as the weather.
Jun smiled bitterly, drew his sword, and looked up at the sky once again.
Gloomy sky, falling snow.
It was the perfect weather to face the regrets that were stored inside.
