The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 276
Episode 277: Cross-examination.
“…No way!”
Someone in there.
I felt very embarrassed.
“Repelling the power of the Great Spirit?”
The room was very cramped.
With everything around dark, only a few candles were lighting up the surroundings.
Especially.
The inside is shrouded in thick darkness.
The person inside was hidden.
‘…only.’
Unfortunately.
An ordinary human would not know.
‘Because I am not an ordinary human being now.’
A ‘noble of the night’ who lives in the dark.
I share some of those characteristics… I
tend to have very bright night vision.
Let’s look straight ahead.
What was there was a small altar.
An oriental-style altar made of wood.
Foods that could only be put on a ancestral rite table, such as apples and pears, were placed on top of it.
I turned my back on that foundation.
One person was glaring at me.
and.
When I saw what that person looked like…
“Crazy.”
After coming to this area.
I couldn’t help but be most surprised.
[Identification of food ingredients (enhanced)]
No.
Of course.
‘Taejun…’
Unlike
our unit’s [Planetarium] Sergeant Park Taejun.
[Han Yi-seo]
[Job: Intermediate Shaman Lv.27]
‘You were a fake…’
That woman in front of me.
Because he was a real shaman.
* * *
The shaman of our unit.
In the case of Sergeant Park Tae-jun.
Although they call me a shaman.
In fact, his real job name was not shaman.
‘It was [a planetarium].’
By looking at the stars moving around this universe and reading their flow.
A job that predicts future work and prosperity.
In fact, it was a bit far from the work that real shamans do.
Doing something good or something?
Like talking to ghosts.
Because I couldn’t do that at all.
I feel a bit bad about giving vague information about everything.
I had arbitrarily given myself the nickname shaman.
But now.
Right in front of my eyes.
[Han Yi-seo]
[Job: Intermediate Shaman Lv.27]
The real thing has appeared.
“You’re projecting the power of the Great Spirit…!?”
The woman whose job is a real shaman.
He was shocked looking at me.
“I heard you came from that devil’s land. He is truly a dangerous person….”
[Skill]
[Spiritual Summoning River God]
[Read Soul Determination of Truth]
[Sending Soul Flesh]
[Characteristics]
[Spiritual Vision]
[Intermediate Spirit Affinity]
[Curse Trait Being Applied]
[Confession]
. …
….
Even though it is a shaman…
She was a woman who looked quite ordinary in her clothes.
What’s unique about it is the fan and large knife held in both hands.
however.
I noticed something strange about her characteristics.
[Curse characteristic being applied]
[Confession]
“….”
What is it?
‘Why is that there?’
When you enter this room.
A ‘Fear’ type attack flew towards me.
That was clearly a characteristic gained when exposed to that peer.
I was skeptical for a moment, but
It wasn’t difficult to figure out the cause.
[Sending the soul]
[Summons the soul related to the curse and sends it to the opponent.]
[Ghost of the old interrogator]
[This is the ghost of the old interrogator who existed in the other world.]
[If you interrogate him because he enjoys the interrogation itself. He is a being who does not ask for much in return.]
[He offers his interrogation curse in exchange for a small sacrifice.]
[Caution!]
[This is a curse-type skill.]
[Curse-type skills have great power, but carry a significant risk. Accompanied by.]
[If the opponent succeeds in defending against the curse, the curse may return to the caster, so be careful!]
“….”
When I saw the description of the skill, I was dumbfounded.
‘I used to do it and now I’m summoning a ghost.’
Not long after coming down to earth.
There was a time when the unit members were in a situation where they felt like they had to fight against ghosts.
‘The enemy at the time was actually a [blue drop of water], not a ghost
. ‘
I used to think.
‘It’s a world where monsters appear, but there are also likely ghosts.’
That shaman is.
It was a job dealing with such ghosts.
Even.
[It is the ghost of an old interrogator who existed in another world.]
‘Isn’t it also a ghost from Earth?’
It seems that monsters are not the only ones flowing in from the other world.
We just couldn’t see it.
Ghosts are also flowing into the Earth and being used by that shaman’s skills.
“indeed.”
She uses that ghost.
He sent me a curse where I had to confess everything I said.
Let me block the curse with the effect of ‘Kingslayer’.
The curse returned to her, the caster.
I got goosebumps for a moment.
‘…I’m glad I made it out.’
If I had fallen under that curse…
it would have been incredibly dangerous.
A curse that forces you to answer every question sincerely.
What if the curse was not deflected by the effect of [Kingslayer]?
What if she had asked me to introduce herself in that situation?
-I’m 23 years old! Gender is male! My occupation is a soldier and my hobby is cooking. Oh, my name is Sergeant Shin Young-jun, and he holds the position of corps commander at a guild called the Steel Corps in Gangwon-do!
He would have said something like this.
[If the fact about the movement becomes known to the humans in the movement area.]
[A penalty is given.]
[Penalty – Death]
– Ugh!
Because of that penalty.
He would have lost his life instantly.
“Tsk.”
She may not have even intended to kill me.
From my perspective, my life was threatened in real time.
to be honest.
I couldn’t have good feelings for her.
but.
The curse bounced off and returned to her.
…then.
hmm.
“What is your name?”
“I’m Han Yi-seo… Wow!”
While answering my question naturally.
She was startled and covered her mouth.
‘also.’
Of course, we didn’t have enough cooking ingredients.
Now that the other person is wary of me, it is impossible to feed them my cooking.
‘It doesn’t matter if I don’t feed it.’
At least there is no need to cook a confession-related dish.
“I heard you called me to interrogate me.”
“That’s right….”
“Curse… why are you using such dangerous means? “It’s dangerous.”
To my question.
She answered with an annoyed look on her face.
“Until now… there has never been a time when this curse didn’t work…”
“Now is the first time.”
“….”
I never thought there would be a case where it blocks mental skills.
It seems like I couldn’t even imagine it.
“Honestly, it was unpleasant.”
“…The effect of this skill is only to tell the truth… It is not a dangerous skill. “I don’t plan on causing harm either.”
I almost died, man….
“Let’s just ask a few questions about how this happened.”
“Anything…”
Originally she was going to interrogate me.
Somehow it happened.
Now I was the one interrogating her.
so that.
Something I’ve been curious about since I was imprisoned in that prison.
‘Is this group really trustworthy?’
I decided to check it out.
“Has this group… ever committed a crime or done anything bad?”
“Crime….”
To the question I asked.
She seemed speechless.
I was lost in thought with my mouth open in a daze.
After a while.
Due to the effect of ‘confession’.
[Sincerely] I opened my mouth.
“I’ve done something like that… many times.”
“!”
To that answer.
I was inwardly shocked.
‘These bastards!?’
On the outside, it looked normal.
It turned out that it was actually a group of violent criminals who committed frequent crimes.
-Master’s master!
-we! Is it our turn?
In the shadows.
The excited sounds of former pleasure killers echo.
‘I think that could happen!’
I also bring out the troops in the shadows.
When I was wondering whether I should use all my might to subdue these criminals.
“If someone commits a serious crime…”
“…?”
“Originally, we should have put them in prison… and given them a chance to rehabilitate… but we couldn’t afford to feed them… so we used to put them to death.”
“…Oh indeed.”
I guess.
It seems they aren’t the type of criminals I thought they were.
‘The barbarian warrior also said that.’
Criminals face the death penalty.
To be honest, I don’t like it either.
“…Isn’t that inevitable?”
This is something I would never do.
At least make him a vampire.
Methods such as feeding ‘cooking’ will be taken.
but.
From their perspective, I could understand that it was something that could not be helped.
“There is nothing that cannot be helped.”
but.
Her thoughts are different.
“No life…just because a crime has been committed is not a reason for it to die.”
“….”
“We only killed them because it was advantageous for us to survive. The three worlds are going crazy, but killing people in private…! “It doesn’t change that this is a crime.”
I thought I could have died if I got that curse.
To be honest, I was pretty pissed.
“…Is that so.”
I thought about what she said.
‘I said this curse would make me tell the truth.’
Even though it was a case of executing someone who had committed an obvious crime.
She thought she had committed a crime.
Even worse, there was no confession of any other crimes committed.
Aside from that incident, he seems to be a person who has lived a fairly honorable life even in these times.
in other words.
‘At least this woman is not a villain.’
She’s not a villain.
Realize that this is the normal survivor I was trying to meet.
I was in trouble.
‘If it were a den of criminals, they would have tormented him with cross-examination like this…’
If you listen to the story.
She has a very moral mindset.
No matter how much it is said to be for interrogation.
She launched the curse attack without any warning.
In some ways, this could be seen as cowardice.
As someone who almost died because of it, it was hard to think positively about it.
‘To the right group of people I barely met… ‘It wouldn’t be good to give too many bad memories.’
I was worried.
After looking at her status window a little more.
‘…Well, it might be okay if we do it this way.’
Make a decision.
Soon he opened his mouth.
“Let’s do it this way.”
“Let’s do it like this…?”
“You called me here to interrogate me, didn’t you? “You probably have a lot of questions for me.”
“That’s right.”
“Things went awry and turned out strange. “Actually, I originally planned to participate in the interrogation relatively faithfully.”
On my word.
She said with her eyes wide open.
“Are you serious…?”
“therefore.”
I head towards her hiding in the dark.
He spread his palms out and said.
“five things.”
“five things?”
“I will sincerely answer your five questions.”
I didn’t come here to deceive them anyway.
instead.
“The situation has come to this. I don’t want to be interrogated one-sidedly. In exchange for me answering yours, I’d like you to answer five of mine.”
At my words.
She tilts her head as if wondering.
“If you just ask… I guess now I’ll have to answer every question you ask…?”
“If you were a villain, you would have done that.”
I crossed my arms and spoke in a relaxed manner.
“But after listening to the story, I don’t think he’s that bad of a person.”
“….”
“I don’t know why, but I have a general idea that you are treating me like a dangerous person. But I’m not that kind of dangerous person. “I also want to prove my innocence… and I don’t want to be forced to come out.”
“So let’s make a deal?”
“yes.”
Although she had a puzzled attitude.
Within.
“…indeed. All right.”
On my suggestion.
I nodded.
* * *
‘Shaman’ awakened person.
Han Yi-seo watched as the man in front of him did not harm himself.
‘Whoo!’
I sighed inwardly in relief.
‘thank god. Contrary to expectations, they are not very aggressive.’
According to the testimony of the three criminals questioned earlier.
The man in front of me is probably quite strong.
When the ‘flesh’ sent towards him bounced.
She was prepared to lose her life.
Since it is a skill for interrogation, there is no risk of losing one’s life.
Nevertheless, it is a curse skill.
It must have been unpleasant from the other person’s point of view.
Nevertheless.
The man only asked her a few questions.
It didn’t cause any particular harm.
‘…No, let’s not let down our guard.’
Her occupation was a shaman.
I’ve only had a little excitement since I was young.
It was a strange job that I accepted even though I had never worked as a shaman before.
but.
At the point when she received that job, it became clear that she had magic.
like that.
Is it because he has enough spiritual power to become a shaman?
When she sees a person.
I was able to see ‘a little more’ than others.
okay.
For example…
from the man in front of me.
A cold sweat….
‘The overwhelming smell of blood.’
Blood has the taste and smell of iron.
And from that man.
I felt a thick and dangerous scent, like a mixture of blood and iron.
With a strangely sharp impression.
Even though I almost got cursed just now.
Even the appearance of not feeling anxiety at all.
‘This situation is not a threat to that man.’
Of course, a group of awakened people are surrounding this building.
Despite being forced into this unfamiliar environment of the shaman’s room.
That man was relaxed the whole time.
She
was convinced that this man could be more dangerous than she thought.
And I thought.
‘Let’s exchange five questions… D.’
It was something I didn’t understand at first.
I thought about it for a moment.
I felt like I knew why the other person had made such a suggestion.
‘I have no choice but to tell the truth now due to the influence of [the confession]… but I am not the author.’
At first glance, it seems fair to ask five questions.
Unlike her, who had no choice but to answer sincerely.
That man could lie.
‘If you have any questions, you can just ask… Are you going to act to gain my trust?’
but.
She was pleased with the man’s proposal.
‘When [Sal] didn’t work, I thought I wouldn’t be able to find out the author’s information… I thought the interrogation was also a failure.’
Even if they say it’s a lie.
If you exchange five questions and the other person answers what you say.
That was enough.
I just sent a ‘confession’ in case the other person didn’t open his mouth.
If you open your mouth obediently.
Whether it was true or not…
it didn’t matter to her.
‘The author probably made that suggestion because he doesn’t know the power I have.’
she thought to herself.
This transaction involves asking five questions.
That it would be an overwhelmingly favorable deal for her.
* * *
[Ingredients Identification (Reinforcement)]
I don’t know what she’s thinking.
When I suggested this to her.
The idea was simple.
[Reading the soul – Determining the truth]
[Creates a special environment in which the soul is revealed.]
[A shaman reads the soul of the person revealed in this way.]
[He can discern the truth and lies contained in words.]
This.
I think I can use it and eat it.