chapter 19
19. The saintess knocks on the door of the general store (2)
Smart, smart, smart!
Would you like to build a snowman with me?
‘I don’t buy it.’
kiik-
It already creaks how long the door has been oiled.
“lol.”
I thought that if he hadn’t knocked on the door every day, the door wouldn’t have creaked already.
After Gwangnyeon first knocked on the general store door.
The boy’s footsteps continued.
On the first day, I was caught up in my own pace and bought things, but from then on, I became a ‘true customer’ who came in as a customer and only looked at things to my heart’s content.
“Are you here?”
I wanted to put ‘again’ in front of my words, but I decided to refrain from doing so because it would make me sullen and upset.
Gwangnyeon came into the store as if he had accepted my words as a welcome.
“How you doing?”
“Yeah, I’ve been doing well for half a day. Seeing that you came early, it looks like today was a waste of time.”
“I will. hehehehe.”
Gwangnyeon sat down on the chair in front of the counter as if it were his assigned seat.
I felt sorry for him standing up and talking about it every day, so I put a chair in front of him, but he sat down to see if he noticed.
There are times when Gwangnyeon is annoying to come often, but the effect was good for killing time at a general store without customers.
In addition, through Gwangnyeoni, he was able to hear the situation of the pseudo-church.
Maybe the last time I slightly brought up the church, it was still in my heart, and since then, I’ve been constantly talking about the church.
“You know I’m an academy student, right?”
“know.”
“Actually, before vacation, my classmates asked me if I would like to go to practice with them. But to apply for practice, I need a lot of money. But my friends said that since I’m in therapy, it’s okay not to pay.”
“Then why don’t you follow me? Most of them will go practice during vacation.”
They are children who have to run on the field as soon as they graduate from the academy.
The practice, which can only be applied during vacation, was a good experience for the future and for growth.
“But I have work to do.”
“Are you talking about missionary work?”
“yes.”
“…..”
I don’t know what to say to a kid who takes pride in his missionary work.
It is true that anyone should consider practice more important.
“Does your church say that?”
What is the reason for the children to hold down their desire to play and go to practice during vacation?
It’s because it’s less risky if you go out to practice in advance and build up experience.
Even if you die while running in the field without experience, the country will not compensate you.
It is because their mind is to invest more in the battlefield with that money.
“You didn’t say anything.”
“Then, are you going to continue spending time in missionary activities during vacation like this, and then go to the field after graduation?”
“Uh… I wonder if that’s the case?”
How is it that this child has no one to tell him to go the right way?
There’s no way all the people in the church are trash.
Or maybe you’ve been so busy with your own life that you haven’t had time to care about how others live their lives.
“Don’t you know why students practice during vacation?”
“To improve my skills. To gain experience.”
“But you?”
“Uh…but I have an important activity called missionary work.”
“What are you doing?”
“yes?”
Gwangnyeon is startled by my words.
“Or do you want to die?”
“Yes?! No. Why would I want to die?”
“Then other students die. Do you think it’s X that they are accumulating experience while running on the field?”
“!!!”
Gwangnyeon’s eyes widen wide.
“Go to practice. Unless you want to die early.”
“Yeah, but I have to propagate…”
“If we don’t propagate, will the church perish?”
“……”
“answer.”
“Oh, no.”
“Did the church threaten to kill you if you don’t propagate? Or will you starve if you don’t propagate?”
“It’s not like that!! I know there are people who call us pseudos. But they’re misunderstanding. They’re not bad people.”
“You’re not a bad person, so why do you let your child not go to practice? Is that what normal adults do?”
“You don’t know much about the academy. You don’t know how important practice is. It was my choice to choose missionary work.”
It was very sad that I was desperately defending them.
If he had just come to his senses and got out of the pseudonym, there would have been no reason for users to call him Light Years.
It was obvious that even if I said it in a fit of anger, he wouldn’t listen to him, but rather would leave a bad impression of me.
“f*ck, then you’ll have to take the blame.”
“yes?”
“How stupid are you to propagate instead of practice during vacation? How many lives do you have? Or a suicide attempter?”
When I, who was swearing at the church, drifted and cursed at myself, the child is embarrassed again.
“Po, thanks to the propagation, you met a man who knew the location of the holy relic!”
“Sacred relics are an excuse. You’re not interested in relics.”
“Oh, isn’t it!?”
I couldn’t lie, my eyes were trembling.
“If you’re interested, you should’ve sacrificed yourself or brought something to match.”
“That’s…because the old man asked for my body. It’s easy to trade and that’s why it shouldn’t be.”
There is no way they would have the money to buy holy relics from their church.
But even if he asks for some money saying he thinks he can buy the holy relic, would you believe him and give him the money?
‘How do you buy and sell holy relics in the first place? I can’t put a price on it. Besides, he’s the only one who can use this.’
If someone else sees the relic, they won’t be convinced that it’s a relic.
Even looking at it, I have no idea what this is or what it is.
I don’t feel any power.
Even if I throw it on the dirt floor, will no one pick it up?
To that extent, the performance itself of unique equipment varies greatly depending on who is in the hand.
“If you don’t like it, sell it to someone else.”
But doesn’t he know that?
While living here, I realized a few truths, that if there is something that can be used, it is right to use it.
“…You said you’d sell it to someone else if I didn’t buy it, right?”
“Of course it should. What am I going to do with it?”
“Why do you want me?”
“The value of the sacred object is honestly impossible to compare no matter what you bring. You know that, right?”
“yes.”
“I haven’t gotten married yet.”
“…”
“That’s why I was trying to buy some of my wife as a sacred object. In the meantime, you caught my eye.”
By now, wouldn’t this guy think of me as the worst pervert?
But I was confident.
In this unusual world, it was not uncommon to find a wife like this.
‘There’s a guy who makes bossam at night, brings him to his house, and makes him his wife.’
I think it’s quite gentlemanly if you’re like me.
Besides, am I not making a ‘sacrifice’ to save him from the cult?
Of course, the party doesn’t think so.
“Then, let me continue attending the church. I will marry you if you promise me that.”
“Why do I have to allow that? My wife tells me to calmly give birth and raise a child at home. Where do you go outside? You know who to meet at the church. What if you meet a guy there and start an affair?”
“I can’t do that!”
“Do you know that there are women who sell their bodies as a means of propagation? If the church tells you to do the same?
“…”
Of course our church doesn’t do that! I thought you would say
Strangely, however, Gwangnyeon kept his mouth shut.
“What is it? Our church doesn’t do that.”
“…I don’t do that. I.”
I wondered why he came to me and talked about this and that, but it seems that the scenario was going on without my knowledge.
The beginning of Gwangnyeon’s scenario was to find out about the church’s corruption.
If you learn about one corruption act, several things come out.
Thanks to this, as time goes by, Gwangnyeon’s mentality is shattered, but the problem is that it turns black later.
The problem is not to blacken by abandoning the church, but to corrupt like the church.
“I’m coming.”
I didn’t know that the scenario had already started and I hit the pole.
I said to appease the child because I felt bad when I saw the grouchy Gwangnyeon leave the general store.
“Are you upset?”
“…..”
“You must be upset. I spoke too harshly.”
“Doesn’t anyone who knows that even apologize?”
“It’s true that I said it too loudly, but I didn’t say it wrong.”
“…..”
“Did the fact that you haven’t been preaching lately and come early have something to do with that?”
Fran, who was sullen, burst into tears at my words.
It looked like I had hit the mark.
He shakes his butt and then sits back in his chair.
“That’s it… A strange rumor has been circulating around me lately. I think it started when I was almost dragged away by a nobleman a few days ago.”
Listening to Fran’s story, the situation was more serious than expected.
After almost being dragged away by an aristocrat, he barely escaped by telling him that he was an academy student.
Heading to the square for missionary work as usual, she noticed that the attitudes of those who had not shown interest in her had changed.
The problem is that that changed attitude has changed into a way to make fun of her.
And in the process, Fran said that she found out how the other sisters do missionary work well.
“At first, I didn’t believe it. When I said I couldn’t believe it, he took me to show it to me.”
“Did you follow me there?”
“Then what should I do? They said they would show me proof! I believed it until then. The sisters couldn’t do that. That kind of thing…that kind of thing is wrong.”
“…”
However, Fran, who saw a familiar woman merged with a man in an alley, could no longer maintain her faith.
“Look at that. Your sister is working hard on missionary work.
pup.
“It seems that I was the only one who was stupid and didn’t know. The other sisters had already been doing missionary work in that way for a long time.”
I knew that his scenario was exhausting, but since it became a reality, it was much spicier than I thought.