The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 134

Avard Finish Show.

Avard Finish Show.

First of all, I was the only one invited by the lord, so I asked for a moment’s respite and followed the soldiers with only my mother’s hand in my pocket.

I had some idea why the lord called only me. I spoke to the nearest soldier.

“Is the reason why the lord is calling me because of what happened in the plaza during the day?”

It must be even more strange that my story does not reach the ears of the lord, after running around all over the place, claiming so openly that I followed the assassin.

Sure enough, the soldier acknowledged my prediction by nodding straight away.

“you’re right. After waking up from the sickbed, Abad heard the story that the priest had chased the shooter and wanted to meet him. By the way, can you find out what happened to the culprit you chased?”

“Unfortunately I missed it. He was not very quick.”

There’s no reason for me to bring up the story that the devil is involved first. The moment I bring up the word devil, I, who is externally claiming to be a priest, will have to provide unconditional cooperation to them as a priest who opposes them.

“But as I was leaving the plaza, I saw soldiers heading towards where the second arrow had come from. How did it go that way?”

“When we arrived, all we had was a crude crossbow that appeared to have been used by the shooter. There must have been no way out, but I still wonder how he got out. Just in case, I asked other priests in the city, but they said that they did not feel the divinity of the evil spirit.”

It’s natural that you can’t feel it because it’s the devil’s power. If other priests had seen the culprit disappear, they would have immediately recognized that the devil was involved in this incident, but because of the culprit’s meticulous behavior, it seemed that the priest had never personally witnessed the scene.

After that, I arrived in front of an unfamiliar building while chatting with the soldiers. It was a very simple building for a building with a lord staying inside. When I looked at the soldier with a little doubt, he smiled bitterly.

“Here is the senator. Originally, it would be correct for a councilor to visit the lord’s mansion and take care of the lord, but after all, an unsavory incident happened at the mansion… the lord hates going back to the mansion.”

Well, even if it were me, I wouldn’t be able to stretch out and sleep comfortably in the mansion where the disaster took place. At least until the culprit is caught and beheaded.

“You can go in once.”

knights and soldiers. Passing through the strict boundaries that did not suit an ordinary building, he headed to the highest floor where the lord was staying. At the same time as the soldier knocked on the lord’s door, a large, muscular priest opened the door and walked out.

The priest of Subokgyo, who enshrines the goddess of healing and health, checked my priestly uniform and bowed his head to greet me first. With a bit of politeness not befitting those huge muscles.

“Your lord is now in a stable period. However, since he has just recovered from his injury, he needs to rest, so if he gets too excited, I hope the priest will stop him.”

“All right.”

“then.”

He only conveyed to me the precautions for the patient, and then walked away in silence. The soldier looked at the back of the departing priest with a little respect in his eyes.

“That is Priest Dilgent. He is a quiet and sincere person. Despite being forced to stay here in Ebedos because of the lord’s blockade this time, rumors are spreading that he is a model priest as he is always busy giving. Oh, of course, he himself says no.”

The eyes of the soldiers watching the departing priest were full of goodwill. Perhaps that priest’s virtue is to some extent in his favor toward me.

A Dilgent priest. Let’s not get involved as much as possible. From my point of view, the other priests were very burdensome.

“You are a good person.”

“That’s right. Now you can go inside. I will wait here until you come out, and then I will guide you back.”

“I’ve roughly memorized the way back, so there’s no need to wait. Besides, he has his own business.”

I gently declined the soldier’s offer. I was thinking of stopping by the smithy on the way and buying some daggers. In the middle of the occasion, I take my mother out of my arms and give her some snacks.

“May I come in?”

“Oh come. Come in.”

As I entered the room, a middle-aged man with a haggard face greeted me. He took off his shirt and wrapped a clean bandage around the spot where the arrow had been pierced, and judging from the traces of his muscles visible through the gaps between the bandages, it was easy to guess that he had trained a lot in the past.

Abad Finisho, lord of Ebedos, pointed his finger at the chair next to his bed.

“Come and sit down. I didn’t call you to interrogate you, so don’t be too pressured.”

Unlike the speech in the square, he spoke to me with a very benevolent voice and tone.

To be honest, it was an unexpected attitude. Personally, I expected to face a lord full of boiling anger. So, on the way here, I prepared my heart to put up with the lord’s rudeness in my heart.

I sat with my butt on a hard chair. The three knights standing by the lord didn’t pay much attention to me, watching the windows of the room or observing other buildings outside the windows.

“I heard that you went after the alleged culprit.”

“you’re right.”

“I will ask straight forward. How did it go?”

It was a moment of choice. Here, I had to choose whether to reveal that this work was related to the devil or to remain silent.

Hiding the truth from the soldier and hiding the story from the lord. The two cases were slightly different. There was one thing that bothered me right now.

The hunchbacked man. That he, along with me, watched the culprit melt. If he went around talking about it, of course I would be questioned and questioned as to why I kept quiet about it.

As much as there is something to be gained by asserting the position of a priest, there are also restrictions on behavior. I finally made up my mind after standing in front of the lord.

“Younglord. I hope you won’t be too surprised by what I’m about to tell you.”

“What do you think you saw?”

Youngju looked at me quietly with deep eyes. I took a quick look at the articles looking at me and slowly opened my mouth.

“Anyway, this incident seems to have something to do with the devil. The moment I caught the culprit, he melted himself in an inexplicable way and escaped.”

“devil? Devil?”

“yes.”

Avad Finisho clenched his teeth and spoke in a low voice.

“Is that why you haven’t caught on yet? I understand now. okay. devil. The devil was involved, so I couldn’t even get a trace! Hello!”

“yes!”

“You quickly go out and call all the priests of this city together and announce that the devil has appeared in Ebedos and seek their cooperation!”

“yes!”

With a clanking sound, one of the knights quickly moved away. Youngju looked at me with burning eyes.

“Won’t the priest also cooperate in saving our city?”

“Of course.”

There was no option to decline here. Besides, the lord’s proposal was something I was quite happy with. I just thought of a way to use this situation to my advantage.

Since the lord announced that he would find demons, of course he would give various preferential treatment to the priests so that they could find them. For example, the right to search anywhere.

It was a car that needed that kind of authority anyway, since he had to find traces of the holy relic where his mother’s divinity was sealed.

While searching the holy relic, you should also look for traces of the devil.

“By the way, does the lord have any guesses about the killer’s motive?”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Anyway, rather than seeing that the devil himself had a grudge against the lord and committed such atrocities, it would be more correct to say that the devil’s contractor wished the devil such a situation. What kind of grudge does he hold against the lord?”

“Resentment…”

After thinking for a moment, the lord looked into my eyes and slowly opened his mouth.

“I, Abad Finisho, have lived a life that is not ashamed of in front of any god. Some may have shed tears because of my lack, but I always listened to their stories with open ears and did what they could to minimize their pain. Even if he’s not perfect, he did his best to remain a good lord and a good person.”

Yeongju washed his face dry and let out a deep sigh.

“The most frustrating thing for me is nothing else, but really, even if I put my hand on my heart and think about it, I can’t think of anyone who would hold such a grudge against me. A grudge to kidnap my son and kill my wife and family. To be honest, I swear I’ve never killed a single person. I never ordered you to kill me.”

In order to gain enough power to annihilate the lord’s family, the price the contractor had to pay must have been that great. It was not something that could be done with any grudge.

If so, it was either the lord’s words were not true or the lord was hiding something from me.

However, the face of the lord complaining to me was really that of a person who was unfair, and every word he said was filled with earnest appeal.

If all of that is acting, then this year’s acting grand prize should be given to that lord, Avad Finisho.

“If there is anything you want to point out, please let me know. It could be a great clue to finding your son.”

“My son…”

Youngju let out a deep sigh.

“Honestly, I wonder if my son is still alive. Judging from this cruel behavior, I don’t think he’ll be left alone just because he’s an ignorant kid. Honestly, what scares me the most is that the culprit might have ruined my son. Heavenly gods… If you can hear my prayers, please let my son be safe…”

He ended with a low prayer and issued a gentle order to return to me. I left the councilor where the lord was staying, saying that the detailed authority to be granted this time would be delivered tomorrow in the form of a document.

‘killing!’

After taking my mother out of the dark alley, I strolled the streets with my excited mother. My mother watched the market while strolling among the lights on the fading street with her jingling coin purse hanging from her body.

According to the soldiers, even though the lord blocked people from coming and going, the movement of goods was allowed under strict supervision, so at least no one went hungry because of this blockade.

Even in such a trivial action, the lord’s personality could be seen a little. Revenge is revenge and a city is a city.

‘killing!!!’

Mother’s steps stopped in front of a large chicken skewers that were being grilled on the street. Instead of taking a coin out of her jingling coin purse and paying the bill, my mother poked me in the side and begged me to buy it.

I wondered what he was going to do with the pocket money in that coin purse, but I put my curiosity aside.

“How many would you like to eat?”

‘killing!’

Ten fingers wide open. It seemed that the offering to mother today was ten pieces of chicken skewers. I nodded and spoke to the merchant. The chicken skewers the merchant was grilling at the time were about twenty in total.

“I want you to give me everything you are baking.”

“Hi go! yes!”

‘Hat killed?!’

When asked why they buy so many when all it takes is ten, I smiled.

“Ten are for my mother, but I intend to bring the rest to others waiting at the inn.”

Hearing that I called my mother mother, the merchant’s eyes widened as he flipped over the chicken skewers, but he seemed to be determined not to ask unnecessary questions to customers with big hands.

I called it out of habit, but I guess I’ll need a different name to keep going around like this. The merchant carefully wrapped the chicken skewers with paper of an unknown material, put them in a small paper bag, and handed them to me.

After paying the price, I took out a chicken skewer and held it out to my mother.

“I will carry it with me for now, so ask for it whenever you want to eat.”

Mother quickly grabbed a chicken skewer and hummed a humming song while biting into the chicken skewer as she walked.

Now that I’ve brought something to eat, I’m going to go to the nearby smithy I asked for the location in advance. As I walked toward the smithy while touring the market with light steps, someone tapped me on the shoulder.

When I turned my head, the priest of the Restoration Church, Dilgent, with a solid muscular mass, spoke to me.

“It’s nice to see you again.”

“Ah yes.”

What’s the matter? That moment when my mother, who was standing next to me, tilted her head. Dilgent looked me straight in the eyes and asked.

“I heard that the priest personally witnessed the devil’s actions.”

Did the story already spread to the priests? It’s a really quick job. While I was admiring the lord’s handling of the job, Dillgent continued his words.

“Did you not see the suspicious person at the time you witnessed the power of the devil?”

“Are you suspicious?”

The eyes of the Restoration Church priest shone.

“For example, a man with a crooked back.”