chapter 20
04: I’m kinda f*cked up. I’ve been thinking and thinking about it. Obviously f*cked.
After Gwi-tae’s kind and lengthy [50 Minutes] Explanation, I was able to know exactly what powers the red mask had.
The red mask in this world is an existence wearing a coat with long, blood-stained hair hanging down, and wearing a bright red mask like its name.
Am I pretty to the person I’m facing? I ask. No matter what you answer, you kiII it with question and answer dance.
If you encounter a red mask like an A-class demon in this world, you will be dragged into your own area and trapped until you answer.
It is said that no matter what you answer, you will be forced to make the worst option, death.
The red mask I know is something that gets torn in half depending on the answer. I remember being decapitated or something.
As expected, the red mask in this world was different from what I knew.
But it is said that it also possesses the peculiar quality of a f*cking urban legend.
Running at 100 km/h, so fast that it would be impossible to run away. A subject with an extremely strong feature.
It doesn’t have anything to say that it’s a weakness that you can’t enter a pomade or a building with more than 6 floors.
Extreme speed and superhuman strength. If you answer anything to the question there, your mouth will be torn to death due to the futility of the question and answer.
Even the scope of that ‘answer’ is too broad, so if you say something wrong to yourself, it’s over.
“How did you kiII him?”
How did they defeat such a monster? The main character.
Even exorcists are said to be superhumans who can strengthen their bodies with spiritual power, and ordinary people cannot dare to look at them.
No matter how you think about it, the A-class virtual evil spirit red mask that Gwi-tae told you about is different.
The apron’s pervert power was higher than mine, but it was clear that it would be worse than the red mask Gwi-tae said.
Indeed, Class A demons are of different classes. I’ve never pointed a knife at Saetani myself, and I’ve only seen it from afar.
Saetani, who suddenly appeared at the end when she was attacked by the slanderers, had already been eliminated by the time she came to her senses.
That’s why I didn’t feel realistic when I said that I was fighting a class A demon directly.
Gwi-tae’s unpleasantly detailed explanation of the damage is even me, ah, if you really touch this wrong, you’ll die? It made me think.
Well, I don’t mean to say anything.
More than that, how did the bald man Lee Kang-doo, who was said to have subdued the red mask, live?
According to Gwi-tae, when the red mask first appeared. Exorcists from the Exorcism Agency, not from the academy, went to exorcise.
However, the exorcists at the Exorcism Agency pathetically went without investigating the red mask ghost story and answered the red mask’s question.
The exorcists belonging to the Exorcism Agency were instantly wiped out on the spot, so the red mask was greatly strengthened.
While there were hundreds of additional victims as a result, the Exorcism Agency sent a man named Lee Kang-doo and his colleagues to make up for their mistake-
It is said that only Lee Kang-doo survived and came back.
Did you say that Lee Kang-doo was promoted to Class A for surviving against Class A evil spirits and exterminating the red mask, and was promoted to a high position in the Exorcism Agency?
Even if the exorcism office knew about the red mask and buried it, there must be a reason why this person survived…….
I can’t remember what it was.
I scratched my chin and rummaged through the memories in my head.
My memory is that Gwi-tae is the final boss and eventually becomes the main character’s worst enemy. I couldn’t think of anything more.
“What happened?”
Anyway, my current goal is to deal with the red mask itself.
The more you listen to the Exorcism Agency, the more it looks like a bunch of idiots, so I think it’s a prank to listen to what you want in the first place and work like a mercenary, but-.
Isn’t it all up to me to decide which choice to make?
Thanks to the quest window, if you survive against the red mask, you will receive 100 million won.
If you have that much money, even ignoring the Exorcism Agency is a good enough profit.
The fact that the government departments may directly target me and bother me is no problem if I win against the red mask.
If you can overcome a Class A evil spirit, even an orphan with no status will not be able to touch you easily.
Combining Gwitae’s words and Gaetdung’s grandmother’s remarks, it seems that the Academy and the Exorcism Agency are fighting each other.
If you see an A-class exorcist who doesn’t belong to any of them, you’ll notice they’re touching each other.
It’s my ability to walk the tightrope in that gap, but I’ll take care of that myself tomorrow.
First of all, the premise that I succeeded in defeating the red mask is indispensable.
It wasn’t difficult to find the red mask.
Miraculously, my head recalled the reference in the game about the red mask sneaking around the academy building even before the retreat started.
In fact, I went and walked around the unheard-of academy building pretending to just take a walk.
Pretending to be a low-level evil spirit, he discovered a red mask while observing the academy while hiding his presence, perhaps in preparation for the retreat.
When I first saw it, I tried to ignore it, thinking it was a low-level demon rather than a red mask.
I was able to recognize at once that it was a red mask as it was wearing a trademark red mask.
I was wondering how a Class A demon could suppress its spiritual power to such an extent.
As well as information about the red mask that was needed. And now that the location where it appeared was found, there was only one thing to do.
That is training against evil spirits.
According to my younger brother’s explanation, there is a level up in this game, so I will definitely be able to awaken myself. I thought.
When I looked at the status window, there was no level written.
Still, if you keep beating the evil spirits, won’t you wake up to something just like in the web novel? I ran without sleep for two days.
And the result is-
“Go, thank you!”
“Ah. Yes.”
> Name: Lee Jin-seok <
[ Strength : B ]
[ Spirit Power : C ]
[ Agility : A ]
[ Possessed SkiIIs: Divine Spirit Extermination [EX], Shop Function [EX], Combat SkiIIs [B] ]
< Possessed funds: KRW 6,011,060 >
I scratched my neck as I skimmed over the person who was bowing down to thank me.
This is because he was the person who accidentally saved his life while catching and kiIIing evil spirits in hopes of an awakening that would bring about a level-up function.
The expression “No coincidence” Is also a bit strange. I just kiIIed the demon because I saw it, but that person bought it.
If I had seen a person in front of me, I would have helped them, but what if someone I didn’t even know existed said thank you for being saved because of me?
Should I say that I feel a little guilty? Should I say sorry for swinging a knife without knowing anything?
I saw the man bowing over and over again, waved his hand roughly, and put the knife I bought at the store into the sheath.
This, first of all, the important thing is this stat table right in front of you. Not to mention level awakening, stats didn’t rise either.
I sighed when I saw the stats that were the same as the root of a tree.
Like the main characters in the web novels I’ve seen so far, there was nothing new that came about because I was a bit overworked.
It’s a bit disappointing, but there are 5 days left until the event occurs. The only thing to believe in was the bomb and the ban.
Should I say that feeling when using the taboo is the spiritual power within me or the soul?
Whatever it is, what should be called power has swelled several times and seemed to break even my body, so with this, even a red mask could win.
If you drop a lot of bombs on it, won’t anything work? I thought so.
…… For some reason, after finding out that you can buy bombs at the store, it seems that accidents are flowing with bombs before riding, but is it an illusion?
ㅡ It must be an illusion. Thinking so, I lay down on the sofa in an abandoned house where I was supposed to rest for the day.
Looking at the ceiling of the abandoned house where holes were opened in my exhausted body and dust was flying in the air following the wind, I tried to fall asleep… ….
“Are you a person with strange hair?”
“I haven’t slept for two days, so can I get some sleep?”
I haven’t slept properly since I escaped from the hospital, so I haven’t slept for three days.
I’m going to get some sleep today and have a fight with the red mask guy tomorrow, but are you interfering with this?
I looked at Gwi-tae with an annoyed face.
She has no real friends. She follows me around like a bored kid. That was very inconvenient.
It’s not because the person who is the worst slanderer in the world is chasing after you. It’s inconvenient to have people chasing after you in the first place.
If someone said they were chasing me, I could only remember that it was a creditor or a bunch of idiots targeting my intestines.
Before, Nokla or the person attached to Nokla kept watching me, but now Gwitae is following me.
I don’t know why there are so many people chasing me in this world or in the original world.
“I really don’t understand. What kind of saint do you imitate? Dealing with evil spirits that cling to completely unrelated people along the way. What did you do after not sleeping for two days?”
As I was thinking that, Gwi-tae gave off a bleak atmosphere and asked me.
You can just leave people alone, but Gwi-tae, without any emotion, asks why they are suffering so much, reminding them of a bomb that is about to explode.
The cold air and the sound of the wind, which felt relatively pleasant just a moment ago, are gone, and you feel a terrible silence and a tearing chill.
The signs of the insects that were rustling and moving due to her unconscious spirit power subsided in an instant.
What the hell is this. The elongated goat’s eyes lost their light and looked at me.
When I saw that creepy and strange sight, I thought.
Why did he press the seizure button in a strange place by himself?
Sometimes. A person who presses the seizure button in a part that normal people cannot understand.
A woman named Gwi-tae. No-girls are like that too.
A person like that is someone you can’t communicate with, so if you suddenly feel like a button is pressed, the correct answer is to just avoid the seat.
I was sleepy. With this body, it’s okay if I don’t sleep for a week instead of three days.
The wound on her stomach wasn’t completely healed yet, and she fought off the evil spirit by running for two out of three days without a break.
The level of fatigue is no joke. If it kiIIs you, kiII it. I closed my eyelids as if a weight had been put on them. She responded with annoyance at Gwi-tae’s words.
“I don’t know…… I’m going to sleep, so you go too.”
She doesn’t know why she keeps chasing me and has no interest. I have no intention of doing anything
Gwi-tae is evil? If you get to know the back alley thugs and live on the streets, you will see and know more about rotten people than weeds in the streets, whether legally or fundamentally.
The reason I dared to kiII Young-hyung was because I couldn’t tolerate people who kiIIed my friend and called the person who kiIIed him an ant.
In that sense, even if Gwi-tae was a villain similar to Young-hyeong, I didn’t care. It’s not that she believes that she will be defeated by the main character, it’s because she didn’t touch me, everything.
If you try to touch her aunt, she will really kiII you no matter what-
You don’t have to think about these dark thoughts before you go to sleep. I just closed my eyes.
*****
Gwi-tae frowned at the man who had really fallen asleep at the same time she said he was sleeping.
It’s pitiful, it’s like an idiot. This person is.
Gwi-tae realized what this human must have been through as soon as he looked into the man’s eyes.
Struggling to survive on the street, struggling harder than anyone else, trying to survive.
Those who wear plain clothes and know nothing about themselves evaluate and ridicule them as they please.
It gets angry as if its intestines are going to burst, but it endures it and lives by crawling on the floor gnashing its teeth.
I am more familiar with cold than warmth, and betrayal is closer than recognition.
I have no choice but to know. Because he is the same as himself.
You must be crazy to save people on a topic like that. Or rather, because he was so crazy, he might be behaving like this. Gwi-tae thought of that man.
Once I first became interested in this man, it was simple.
Because he was the first person to joke with shamelessness without fear or disgust when faced with him.
He himself is a mix of demons and humans. From his name, he is a ghost [鬼胎], And he has goat eyes that symbolize bad luck, and as an exorcist, he has eyes that embrace demons.
A normal person would most likely end up looking at it with wonder, and some with a sense of ominous feeling.
If you are a human, regardless of exorcism or slander, you will instinctively feel disgust towards yourself.
Human beings loathe themselves to the extent that they say they’d rather be worms crawling over a swollen corpse.
I can’t help it. Because there is no such thing as a human being who is kind to evil spirits. Half a demon, her body is such a being.
Because no one will approach you unless you are a madman who wants to be friends with a divine being-
She approached this man with even more interest. She followed him around and observed him.
And in a small amount of time, from what I’ve observed so far, I’ve only figured out what the hell this guy is doing.
He looks calm and rational even though he is a child who has lived on the street like himself. Conversely, there are times when it is emotional.
A person who wants to be indifferent to everything in the world, but also has a part that he is not. And the biggest difference is the behavior.
You must have gone through the same thing as yourself. He would be crawling on the bottom and gnashing his teeth. Why don’t you curse the world?
Isn’t it refreshing to see someone die by an evil spirit? No one saved me, so there’s no need to save anyone?
Gwi-tae felt his stomach churn and become irritable.
I’d rather just curse this world like myself. I didn’t understand that.
Birth difference? She has already seen many people to harbor feelings of inferiority or resentment over such things.
How many humans are worse than evil spirits? She does not think that this boy is better because of his birth.
A human being can always become a more terrible being than an evil spirit, and can look back and laugh at what he did wrong.
Isn’t it better to have a part that doesn’t change because half of it is an evil spirit? So rather, like me-
“Why am I doing this?”
At the moment she was like this, she felt ridiculous.
What do I want from this person? Do you feel a sense of kinship with people who have lived on the street?
Those who live a similar life may not know if they live well, but if you are a noble, you can easily see them.
So far, she has seen a lot of similar-looking humans. Seeing them, she felt no emotion.
Until now, the only beings that she was interested in were powerful evil spirits or possessed bodies.
But why do you care about that man yourself?
Is it because you didn’t show disgust and hatred for the first time when you saw yourself? Are you looking for a friend you don’t fit in with?
It was funny. With just that? He’s angry at himself for saving people?
Gwi-tae blinked slowly as she heard the sneer of the evil spirit inside her. She fell asleep and sat under his couch.
Her face, whose expression had disappeared like a human-like doll, gave off an ominously foreign atmosphere. No one saw her face.
A quiet silence ensued in the abandoned house.