charge
charge.
“Hmm… Should I just kill him?”
“Eup!”
The captivated researcher tried to say something constantly, but he couldn’t utter a properly completed sentence because of the gag that Pearly had put in his mouth.
As I looked down at the man, a question suddenly came to my mind.
“But isn’t this man a priest?”
Pearly reached out for the man, stopped gesticulating at my question, and shrugged.
“Because not all priests chosen by God are smart. Hiring these smart guys and giving them money to do research. There are quite a lot of people who have moderately good hair but don’t have a chance to use it for various reasons than you think, right? Maybe he’s like that too. maybe? then kill it first? I guess my intuition is telling me he won’t be of much use.”
“Eup, Eup, Eup!!!”
As Pearly tried to reach out again, the bound man writhed more violently. I grabbed Pearly’s wrist and stopped him.
“No matter what, what if I want to kill you blindly?”
At my restraint, she smiled.
“Who do you think made the monstrous test subjects I killed earlier? It was created by researchers like him through a bunch of inhuman experiments with people. Will you keep me alive? I don’t think you’d want to spare too much, do you?”
“hmm.”
“Eup!”
After thinking about it for a while, I winked at Pearly and asked her to step back for a moment, and she just shrugged her shoulders and stepped back without regret.
I crouched down in front of the man who was spread out on the floor and removed the gag that was covering his mouth. He shouted so much that the gag that had fallen to the floor was already soaked with saliva and was damp just by looking at it.
“ha.”
The skinny man took a deep breath for a moment, looked up at me, and spoke calmly.
“Help me.”
I smiled softly at him.
“Why are you the one who learned? If you so blindly ask for help, can’t I save you? You have to come up with a reason why I have to let you live.”
The man who appeared to be a researcher rolled his eyes, and he quickly looked over my party one by one, starting with me, then my mother, and then fixed his gaze on me again. He licked his lips with his tongue a few times before opening his mouth again.
“Looking at the people in your party, it doesn’t seem like you came all the way from the entrance to here. As if he had fallen right in the middle of our laboratory building and came right here…”
He stopped talking to himself and widened his eyes.
“You came right here from the lab building! no how?! Adjusting the divinity’s wavelength and connecting the door to the desired place must have been the realm of theory…? But seeing as they didn’t go straight to the destination and caught me, it seems like they didn’t intentionally connect the door to the laboratory building…”
The first words were directed at me, but the words that followed were more like mumbling to find an answer to something. . I lightly snapped my fingers and pulled the man out of his world.
“What are you doing?”
“ah! sorry. I often hear that I am too distracted.”
Do you have good manners or thick tendons? The man didn’t really want to die, but somewhere in his life, there was an aspect of deviance to some extent. He licked his lips again and asked me a question.
“May I ask what the purpose of your visit is? That way, I think I can cooperate more actively. First of all, if the data of the research that my colleagues and I did here are the purpose, all the related documents have already been destroyed or moved to other places. Of course! I roughly remember everything, so I can transcribe it all and hand it over! Even the detailed figures!”
“Hoo? Do you remember all of that?”
“yes yes! It’s because I usually have a rather good memory.”
Pearly, who had been listening quietly, looked at the researcher with a slightly grim expression, then shook her head.
“I was a little bit moved, but when I thought about it, I couldn’t believe that I could escape with her alive.”
“Do you know the road around here in Pearly?”
“no. I went in and out of here in disguise a few times, but I had no access to the lab or the lab side. However, the road itself is a matter of asking Jamel to figure out the passage around here with authority, so there’s no reason to keep that man alive. Once you get out of this area, you can go to the road I had in mind.”
When his name was called, Jamel laughed and stabbed himself in the chest before vigorously declaring, ‘Leave it to me!’ I smiled and nodded to Jamel and quickly shook my head.
It was clear that the researchers here were inevitably the ones who conducted research related to the ‘God’s Vessel’. That’s why Pearly was shocked by this man’s words for a while.
for a moment.
If researchers need to study or fine-tune the vessel of the god, wouldn’t there be a passage that leads directly from this place to the place where the vessel of the god is located?
I turned my gaze back to the researcher.
“Is there a passage here that leads directly to the ‘God’s Vessel’?”
The man nodded.
“Of course there is? It was one of our main tasks to check the condition of the vessel of the gods every day.”
“Is the road very dangerous?”
“The passage is only used by our researchers, so no one seems to be there…?”
Great. If you do this well, you can eat it raw without fighting a single battle, right?
“I could eat this whole raw!”
‘Kill kill!’
As if their hearts were connected, Jamel and Mother just said the same thing as I thought. I quickly cut off the cloth that tied the man’s legs and laughed as I straightened him up.
“You didn’t know this precious person.”
I laughed even louder as I brushed off his dusty body.
“Please guide us there immediately.”
“That’s…”
He rolled his eyes and opened his mouth cautiously.
“If I guide you well, will you save me…?”
“I will save you! I will definitely save you!”
Pearly answered happily and patted the man on the shoulder.
“Is it a problem to save someone if they can just take out the bowl without fighting? I’m actually a bit covetous of those research materials in your head! So don’t worry, can you guide me? huh? huh?”
“You’re guiding me knowing that you’re really guaranteeing my life?”
“Yes yes! does it really save you? What kind of man has so many doubts? Let’s go! depart! Let’s go!”
She pushed the man on the back and made him take a step. The man had an expression of disbelief, but he soon began to move on in silence, perhaps realizing that he had no other options.
As the group started moving along with him, Dacia and Giselle, who had been still, quietly approached me.
Giselle was the first to speak.
“Is it right to blindly follow that person’s guidance? It doesn’t seem like there’s a possibility that they’re deliberately luring us to a strange place. Whatever it is, wouldn’t it be better to go the route Pearly originally planned?”
Dacia nodded at Giselle’s words.
“I also agree with Giselle. Whatever it is, I think it’s better to move as planned in advance. Pearly, who actually made the plan, seems to like this variable that suddenly appeared.”
It wasn’t that I didn’t think that this guidance might be a trap.
Nevertheless, like Pearly, this change in plan was positively accepted. According to the original plan, as soon as our entry was discovered, we had to run to the place where the vessel of God was in the form of a one-point breakthrough.
That too, while shortening the time as much as possible by splitting the party into certain units and entrusting them with one area.
Ever since I first heard of this plan, that part has always worried me the most.
And what if the comrades I left out of reach were seriously injured?
In a way, it may seem like I don’t trust them because I’m so worried, but if there’s a way to go together somehow, I want to go together.
He knew better than anyone that this mindset of always wanting to put as many colleagues as possible within reach if there was a danger was not a good way. However, the mind was originally not going to go its own way.
It seemed a little too early for me to divide the group into small groups.
I smiled bitterly at both of them.
“That’s a good comment. First of all, let’s try to be as vigilant as possible. Besides, since we also have a teacher, it won’t matter too much if the author really leads us into a trap.”
Dakia blinked her golden eyes and nodded.
“all right. For now, Gisele and I will be on our guard.”
After that, Dacia stepped a little faster and headed in the direction closer to Pearly with Gisele.
As the two left, Master Pridya, who had quietly followed us at the end of the group, approached me.
“Are those children still unreliable?”
A short but poignant word. I smiled awkwardly and nodded.
“Rather than being unreliable, I keep worrying. I’m afraid you might get seriously hurt in a place where I’m not there.”
Master Pridya looked at me with those piercing blue eyes and then slowly opened her mouth.
“No matter how strong you become, you cannot hold everything in your hands and control it by yourself. Even the gods residing in that lofty heaven can’t do it. cancer.”
“I know.”
Master grabbed my cheek with one hand, pulled it tight, and smiled softly.
“It’s enough to know. Yeoni, you are a smart kid, so you will understand it well when the time comes. Trust those kids sometimes. After living together, those kids are much stronger than you think.”
I just silently nodded.
***
There was an endless passage of dark passages that made me doubt whether this was really the right path.
When I asked him why it was so wide because it was a needlessly wide aisle for only researchers to pass through, he replied that it was wide because it was the way he usually transported the materials needed to make God’s bowls.
“How much do you have left?”
“We are almost there.”
The man answered in a calm tone, as if he was guiding him properly.
“So you’re saying that if I work under you, you’ll guarantee my annual salary?”
“Yes yes! Will you take care of me as much as I received before? When I heard about it, I didn’t even do much!”
“Then, raise it a bit more…”
Seeing that he even talked about job hunting with Pearly, it seemed like he was really full of ideas to join us.
But still, not everything goes smoothly.
“Everyone, stop. who is coming.”
I felt the floor rumble in my senses. The clear echo of a series of hordes approaching this place.
The identity of the vibration was soon revealed. Those wearing black robes appeared in front of us one after another.
A man walked slowly through the crowd of groves.
“I don’t know how he did it, but he managed to sneak in like a rat. Gisele Jamel.”
The man threw back the hat of the robe that was covering his face. Then, a face I had seen several times appeared.
Jamel widened his eyes in surprise.
“Jarn!”
He was a priest under the direct control of the Liberatorio, who acted with Giselle Jamel. I treated Jamel as a traitor attached to me and even tried to kill him.
“Whoop whoop.”
Some kind of sullen laugh. The owner of that laugh was Jamel. Jamel, like Jarn, strode proudly to the front across our party, looking straight at him.
Jamel smiled and opened his mouth.
“I don’t normally enjoy meaningless killing, but…”
She sneaked out and looked at Master Prydiya before bursting into an even more sullen laugh at Jarn.
“Heh heh. At this moment, I have such a powerful power! Changed my mind! Jarn! just wait there! Last time you dared to shoot me as a traitor? Prepare to die for real today! Hahaha! I’ll give you a big blow to the face with the cold fist of this traitor Jamel!!! ha ha ha!!!!”
Jamel, who uttered the most villainous lines, quickly ran behind me and pointed at Jarn and shouted at him without hesitation.
“charge!!! Priest Marnak! It’s an assault!!!”
“…”
