chapter 7
02 : I am still living in the game world. Today, tomorrow too.
After he said he would be taught about psychic powers by Nokla. I thought about it.
People have to learn anything. Even though I don’t go to school properly and have been around construction sites since middle school, I know that much.
I honestly don’t hate learning anything either. Wouldn’t it be nice to go to school if you could……. I do have some thoughts.
In the past, when I was learning about car repair and maintenance from a hyung I knew, I thought ah, I wanted to keep making a living with this.
If I hadn’t had an accident, I would have dreamed of graduating from an internet university or whatever, getting a license with confidence, and opening a repair shop in my name – but human life doesn’t always work out the way you think.
I knew it, but I thought about the fact that I realized again. If a person decides to learn something, do it first before regretting it. I came to think of it.
The idea is that even if you go back to your original body after saving money, it’s the same as being an idiot without using your legs.
Wouldn’t it be better to get as much as possible besides money before going back? Came to the realization that
It was a miraculous realization considering my level of intelligence. After all, if your body changes, does your intelligence change?
I immediately picked up discarded books while wandering around like a gosiwon, and looked at the books imitating Han Seok-bong, albeit clumsily.
Fortunately, this body was able to get out of the state of thinking that black is letters and white is paper, because it seems to be able to turn its head as well as it does when it is young and understand the contents of the book well.
It’s definitely an admirable achievement for me. I was able to get a new realization while studying those old books.
They say that a guy who wants to study will study even if he beats him to death. The environment was important.
Saying this is, of course, not saying that I am going to go to the academy because my brain is broken due to the act of reading.
As the name suggests, evil spirits are more likely to appear at night, so at night they hunt evil spirits to make money.
I realized the importance of the environment when I saved sleep during the day and studied on a bench in the park, where people thought I was a lost child and called the police.
Because the environment is important for learning anything. I had no choice but to ask.
“In this situation, do I have to do a spiritual power class in this place where there are so many f*cking evil spirits? … Are you curious about the structure of the brain?”
“Because it’s a place like this, it’s even easier!”
Saying that, Nokla put on a razor blade in her mouth and smiled as if showing off her gloves.
The day exactly four days passed since the day I ate rice from Nokla.
Nokra suddenly appeared and led me to a place where there were many evil spirits nearby.
To be exact, she received a request from an acquaintance of hers to exorcise evil spirits.
I nodded my head kindly when he said that he would give me money if he would take care of the evil spirits there instead of me.
Yes, if there are places with a lot of evil spirits and they take me there, that’s fine too.
But if someone belonging to a huge organization called the academy entrusted the work in this way, of course, wouldn’t it raise doubts?
That’s why I was thinking of taking me to the academy, and if I was going to do anything wrong, I’d have to break those weird sunglasses that I wear at night and run away.
Nokla went beyond my expectations by several steps.
“Originally~ I didn’t have time either, so I asked you~ But now I have time~ So what? I’ll take care of the money, so I’ll go with you to that abandoned house and tell you about the spiritual power as we promised before!”
It was bullsh*t. It was clear that the request was bullsh*t and that was the intention from the beginning.
It can be said that it is good to receive money and learn about spiritual power!
Still a bit! This, in an abandoned house with more evil spirits than expected! Dark! Turn it off! Studying in a stinky place!
Do students who go to places like academies study at places like this? I had doubts.
On the game screen that my younger brother forcibly showed me in the face, I saw a classroom that was incomparable to the elementary school I attended when I was young.
If you want to study in such a flashy classroom, come to the academy. What kind of threat is that?
I had such a stupid idea.
Recently, when I was studying, it was more comfortable to study in an abandoned house like this, so I decided to think of it as an extension of my usual studies.
…… I did. This is a bit unexpected. I sighed deeply and looked ahead.
What I saw in front of me was so huge that it reached the ceiling of the first floor building.
The disgusting evil spirit of Koraji, which seemed to have gathered all human fat and animal fat and clumped together like clay, stretched out the fat like tentacles from the huge lump of fat and attacked me.
However, the scaffolding demons seemed to be of a low level, and their attacks were slow, and the flying tentacles didn’t seem to have much power.
Roughly…… By persimmon, would it be about D-class? Most of the things here seemed to be D-class.
I dodged all of the tentacles for the moment, then stuck the fan blade in my hand into the rushing mass of evil spirits and stabbed them.
I twisted my wrist and carve long and vertical scars on the body of the bulky evil spirit.
Until I plunged the knife into it, I thought that stabbing it would feel like waving my hand in water.
The inside of this scaffolding evil spirit must have been filled with blood. When the knife was inserted, the blood flowed like a water balloon bursting! And burst out
“Ouch!”
The remnants of evil spirits that will soon disappear without leaving a trace, but this summer! To be soaked in this kind of blood at this dirty time!
I gnashed my teeth in displeasure. This time, an evil spirit that looked like a mummy of a monkey rushed at me, so I drew my sword again and tried to wield it, but-
Sipul. After I bought it for the first time, the sword that I had been using for quite a while broke.
The evil spirit that rushed in while spitting curse words tried to explode it with a kick full of spiritual power.
A step ahead of that, Nokla, who had been watching me, cut the monkey mummy demon with the razor she was holding and said while slowly stroking her chin.
“Hmm. Yes. Little boy You use your spiritual power too roughly.”
“What?”
I frowned at what Nokla said.
It’s not that I’m annoyed with the word ‘rough writing’.
It’s absurd to really try to teach me something in this situation. I spit out the blood in my mouth and let out a laugh.
This woman is trying to teach in this situation. Well, if it were simply ruins in the dark of night, there would be no problem.
But here…… As I said, there are many evil spirits. It’s not just that there are evil spirits, but there are so many of them.
There are no B-class dangerous objects, but there are people who can kiII people and they are all black, so this isn’t an abandoned house, but some kind of cave? It was as much as I wanted.
As far as I know, in order for the number of evil spirits to increase to this level, the rumors of haunting houses spread on the Internet and people have to be afraid of them. The evil spirits will gather here.
After I found out that I could get money by falling into this world and dealing with evil spirits, I somehow found it while searching the Internet to gather information about evil spirits.
Certainly, what kind of idiot was this brain teaser?
My chin tightened up and I felt that the cost of the internet cafe I spent at the time was not worth it.
Anyway, it was clear that now was not the time to take classes seriously.
That’s why I’m sorry again. Said the same thing
“In this situation, do I have to take lessons on spiritual power in this place where there are so many f*cking demons? Again, sir.”
“Rather, there are things I can teach you in this situation! …… And now you don’t even use another word instead of idiot.”
Nokla pretended to cry as if she was hurt by my words, but that was only for a moment.
She stood in front of her as if protecting the day she lost her weapon, and showed off the little razor slicing through the charging demons.
Light movements like dancing. The way she slices her something can look so beautiful—I looked at her with admiration.
“The most basic knowledge. You can kiII evil spirits only if you have spiritual power, no matter how small the spiritual power is, as long as you have spiritual power, you can be blessed by a divine spirit and if you are lucky, you can receive a skiII and become stronger. Let go of common sense.”
“Today, I will tell you what exorcists need to know first in order to survive!”
Is it for class? Even though I listened to the easy-to-listen words thrown into my ears, I gathered my spiritual power in my fist and tried to beat off the evil spirits that attacked me.
First, I dealt with it by tearing it vertically with the razor, which is the weapon Nokla is holding.
Yes, thank you for protecting me. I lowered my fist. Watching her back, I listened to this messy lesson.
“Spiritual power is similar to magical powers in fantasy novels, but there are definitely differences. Spiritual power is directly related to life force.”
“The survival instinct that humans want to survive. Spiritual power can be strengthened or weakened depending on this instinct. Exorcists, in turn, use this property to strengthen themselves.”
“Strengthen what could be your weakness or crisis by forcing yourself! Exorcists call this a no-no~ Ah- exactly like me right now. It will be fighting with this razor that is not suited for battle!”
She grinned and proudly showed off the razor in her hand.
I nodded. Although it was strange to cut the demons with a razor that was a little longer than my palm.
Wouldn’t it be better to use a proper weapon instead of a razor like that? I thought about it, but there was such a purpose.
I thought it was something like an advertisement for a game wearing strange armor to catch people’s attention.
I nodded, satisfied with my new knowledge. Nokla said with a satisfied smile at my appearance.
“If you use these characteristics of spiritual power, not only your spiritual power will increase, but the power of your physical abilities and skiIIs will also increase, but as I said, the risk also increases depending on the prohibition, so I have to decide carefully?”
“And it is not only spiritual power that is strengthened like that, but also how to use and understand spiritual power. If you continue to fight as an exorcist, you’d better make your own taboo.”
Pu-wook! This time, she stabbed and kiIIed an orangutan-like demon with blue skin.
I thought about the words I just heard. It would have been nice if I could become stronger through that ban.
The more dangerous the forbidden is to me, the stronger I can become, but if I do something wrong, I will die. Understood.
But how do you decide what is forbidden? Can I just say that he doesn’t fight with all his might or use his arms like President Freezer?
I’ve been scratching my head and thinking about it, but the right one is perfect! Didn’t come to mind
How about fighting with only fists? I bought several spare weapons in my bank account before, so not using them is a waste of money.
I’ll think about the ban later. Let’s deal with the situation right in front of us.
I immediately took out a spear, a weapon I had bought at the store, from inside my bank account and tore the evil spirit from the back of Nokla vertically.
The one that appeared with the momentum to destroy the floor of the ruins and then the building was at least a C grade.
It seemed to be the most powerful evil spirit in this abandoned house.
“[ ㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!! ]”
He is the owner of this place, but he showed up with a lot of rage, as if he was angry because Nokla kept rampaging.
I slammed the spear into its body, whether it was angry or not.
Let’s hold onto the spear and swing it wide! With a sound, the demon’s hand disintegrated into left and right parts and disappeared.
At the same time, the evil spirits that filled these lungs began to scatter like cockroaches under the rocks and disappear.
…… I have a feeling of déjà vu why. Why? I feel like I’ve seen demons and movements I’ve never seen before, but I can’t remember where.
Something was strange. As far as I know, evil spirits don’t run away just because the strongest one is gone.
Since a person came in, kiII him first. Because they lack intelligence, it is usually a characteristic of low-level evil spirits to attack anyone.
I’d rather roll my head to pretend I’m smart.
I asked Nokla, who had brought me to such a place.
“So. Why did you bring me to a place like this? Why are there so many evil spirits in an ordinary abandoned house?”
“Don’t worry~ I’ll tell you everything. Wait a minute! I have something to check-“
As she said that, she looked around her, as if to make sure it was really safe, then checked the hole in her floor, and she frowned as if she didn’t like something.
That’s for a while. Soon, she let out a deep sigh, relaxed her expression, and continued.
“As expected, there is none… …. What happened Because I knew it would be like this. Anyway~ The reason I brought you here today is to teach you about the dangers as well as class.”
“Danger?”
After accepting the bar from Nokla, who handed me her chocolate bar for her hard work, I asked her back.
Being an exorcist is inherently dangerous, so why did you come here to tell me the danger?
“A special evil spirit has appeared recently? Estimated grade is B. It’s shaped like a child’s hand~ It’s a guy who controls low-level demons around him and preys on various people, especially homeless children.”
“Then didn’t you catch it a little while ago?”
“That’s it…… That’s not the body No matter how many times you remove your arm, it will reappear somewhere.”
“Exactly where the main body is~ what the main body looks like~ attracts evil spirits—- people wandering around at night, and it’s because they don’t know what exactly they do besides targeting homeless children… ….”
A troublesome thing has appeared again. Nokla sighed, saying that if she continued like this, she might become stronger.
But why are you telling me that? Why did he bring me here to tell me about spiritual power and show me his hand?
I looked at Nokla. As if looking at me, she took off her sunglasses, glanced at her, and answered meekly.
“…… Did you say This evil spirit preys on people wandering the streets and lost children. You are also a target of evil spirits. It’s fine as long as this evil spirit is eradicated. I brought you because I wanted to ask you about going with me.”
Is it like that?
I finally understood why she had brought me to her ruins in her car.
Nokra was a class on spiritual power, and since I was among the people attacked by the evil spirit, he was worried about me and brought me to these ruins.
If I become the target of that evil spirit, I won’t die right away because I have my skiIIs.
I could fight so many evil spirits without a day off. Then it could be really dangerous. From her point of view, this is because she is worried about it.
I was impressed. I was very grateful for that kindness.
To be precise, I was especially grateful for the cash I received before coming to these ruins.
Couldn’t it be that he spent his own money for a kid living on the street, since he couldn’t actually back someone’s request?
Also, I heard that evil spirits are targeting lost children, so it’s better to rest comfortably in a safe place if you can.
The best part is not to drag them into the academy, but to help them personally.
There is no reason to refuse even if you think about it a hundred times.
“Okay. Then I will be indebted to you until the case is over.”
“As expected…… Say that, huh? Huh? Really?”
“Really.”
She opened her eyes wide, as if she didn’t know I was going to take her word for it.
After a while, I couldn’t speak properly and started asking if I really wanted to go with you.
Since I’ve drawn the line so far, I can understand that kind of reaction.
I don’t like that damn spear that tries to wield people with money to tell you to go to the damn academy.
I have no objection to the fact that nokdo will tell you something. A divine spirit that gave up its own power? Be not interested in.
Suspicious of being a pedophile? All you have to do is touch me.
The person who wants to help me is going away, but I just have to be grateful and not accept anything I don’t want to receive.
While thinking that, I passed her words in one ear, saying that Nokla would be staying at her house for a while and that she would take good care of her.
Instead, I thought about what the identity of the sense of deja vu stuck like a thorn in the corner of my head.
I don’t know if I don’t know this at all. It wouldn’t be like this unless there was something about the hand demon. What is it really?
“And uh…… I’m sorry. My house is a little, poorly maintained, so it can be dirty…… Whoa, I don’t go home so much that it must be a bit dirty for the kids…… Oh don’t worry! I’m going to call a cleaning company to clean it up! I’ll do it soon! If I can get through tonight, I’m sure it’s enough…….”
“Ah.”
Among the words Nokla is talking nonsense. I was able to realize the identity of this sense of deja vu like a miracle at the word “Dirty place for children to live.”
An evil spirit that appears roughly around Chapter 2 of the game’s story.
An exorcist, but Saetani, an A-class slandering evil spirit who gave birth to the ghost of a child who was brutally murdered by the worst parents as a human being.
An evil spirit that hates and kiIIs adults, but takes children like itself to protect it, but in the end, it is a demon that has no choice but to kiII it.
My younger brother, who usually only talks bullsh*t like Uhyo-ot- and Kita-at-, suddenly uses the name Saetani, which seems familiar.
[ Special Quest ]
< Your strength is needed. Help the exorcists to fight and deal with the ‘Class A slander demon Saetani’. We promise you a solid reward. >
< Compensation – KRW 15 million >
[ Do you want to accept? Y/N]
As soon as I had that thought, the window popped up.
The moment I saw that window, I remembered the information and weaknesses I had heard about Saetani from my younger brother. I proudly pressed N and put the window away.
If I was going to fight that thing, I wouldn’t have followed Nokla.
Are you going to tell someone who doesn’t want to be tied with this stupid spear?
I laughed at this window again and chuckled as I put the cash I received from Nokla into her bank account.
Today, in addition to the money I earned from hunting here, I finally reached 5 million won with the money I received from Nokla.
What a nice day. I smiled at the rising moon and halo.