Episode 159 A familiar face (2)
Tsutsutsutsutsutsu…
Ephebo’s face melted at an incredible speed and was dissolved in the water.
Sticky oil floats on top of the water that has turned black, and at the same time the smell of rotten meat vibrates.
Meanwhile, Bikir and Dolores had already seen Ebebo’s face before it melted.
It was a familiar face to both of them.
“…Mozgus?”
Bikir murmured as he picked up the black bag floating in the water.
Bald hair with no eyebrows, round eyes, tight lips with a bulbous nose.
The face he had just seen was definitely Mozgus’s.
Quo Vadis Family Paladin A devout priest who took the lead in inquisition for heresy, carrying a thick bible.
According to fate, when the era of destruction arrives later, why are those who have to go to the forefront and fight the demons here, strewn with corpses?
Bikir frowned in unresolved puzzlement.
‘Mozgus before his return was clearly a human. It was also a hero who had been with a thousand demons at the time of destruction, but how could it be……’
Dolores answered Bikir’s question about him.
“This is not Mozgus-sama.”
Dolores shook her head as she examined Ephebo’s body still remaining.
“Mozgus-sama has a twin brother. Unlike us, he belonged to the Old Testament faction.”
Mozgus’ brother, Mozgus.
He, too, was a paladin who possessed mighty divine power in a body as large as an iron wall.
However, he had long ago been secluded in the depths of an Old Testament monastery for closed-door training, and had not met anyone.
……Once known to the public, that was the case.
“It didn’t disappear because of lung training, it seems that the body was taken over by the devil.”
As Bikir swallowed, Dolores frowned in concern as well.
“There are quite a few people in the Quo Vadis family who are currently undergoing closed-door training… It can’t be, right?”
“I can’t guarantee anything.”
Now that’s not the only problem.
Bikir recalled that Set, the second son of the Baskervilles, had also entered the practice of closure.
If the condition of the Baskervilles and the Quo Vadis is already like this, even those who are in close training or have been missing for a long time among the world’s famous strongmen are also at risk.
Bikir looked down at Ephebo’s dismembered body.
The ninth of the ten poems (九僠尸).
He must have the power to turn others into demons and control them, while at the same time stealing their faces.
Most likely, Quilty’s face was also stolen from someone.
‘Come to think of it, Quilty’s face resembles a retired actor a long time ago, right?’
It is understandable why the actor retired and why the recent situation is not being communicated.
Bikir also knew of a strong man who had recently disappeared, saying he was going to practice closure.
‘When do you enter the academy? let me fit I think I will probably go in early for a year or two. It would be very fun if we became freshmen together…’
A strong bond that started when we were 8 years old. If it was originally, they might have entered the academy together.
Morgue Camus.
As he pictured that face in his mind, Bikir somehow felt a part of him uneasy.
She said that since Bikir went missing in the waters of the Red Mountains and Black Mountains, she had been continuously searching for him.
All the while Bikir has been training in Balak’s village for the past two years.
However, Kamu suddenly left the Myeongdang one day and moved to the Dark Dang, and after that, he disappeared from the world because of the lung training.
Even Bikir couldn’t quite figure out why.
‘……Worry about it later. For now, it’s time to focus on hunting.’
Bikir clicked his tongue once inside the mask.
Most of the troubles and worries were to be solved if you succeeded in killing the demon.
Suk-
Bikir took the black leather sack Ephebo was wearing over his face and put it in his pocket.
It was a relic emitting demonic energy similar to that of Baalzebub, but compared to Baalzebub, the concentration of that demonic energy was relatively weak, about 25%.
‘But if I peel off the skins of Hebe and Pedo Geronto, the story will be different.’
When Vikir was thinking about this and that in her mind.
“Hey there. Night Hound.”
Dolores hesitantly called out to Vikir.
As Bikir turned her head, she opened her mouth with a mixture of sadness and confusion, doubt and trust.
“If this is what is happening in Quo Vadis, a religious chant, what should I believe from now on?”
Quo Vadis, which has been believed to be the absolute good so far.
Although the Old Testament and New Testament factions are in conflict, it was only a temporary quarrel over the sale of indulgences, and there was a belief that they could eventually become one under the Rune religion.
But now, looking at the misery within the family, I don’t think that’s the fundamental problem.
There is a devil behind the Old Testament faction.
Seeing and hearing this with her own eyes and ears, Dolores felt that everything she believed in was denied.
Quo Vadis is no longer an absolute good.
It is no different from any other secular family that is easily soiled and easily manipulated.
What’s more, the devil appears directly among humans like this. What does this mean?
‘……War! Demon World War!’
Clever Dolores could sense just how great a whirlwind she was right now.
And how long and arduous a fight this mysterious monster, the hound of the night in front of me, is fighting.
“I don’t know. What to believe anymore. Maybe what the eye sees isn’t everything…”
Dolores bowed her head in a voice that lost confidence.
It was so beautiful and so pitiful that any man’s heart would tremble.
But Bikir didn’t offer much consolation.
“You have to decide what you believe in.”
Just as usual, I just stare straight ahead and walk.
like it always has been.
* * *
Bikir left the 4th hall and entered the 3rd hall.
Dolores, too, was following Bikir’s back even though he noticed.
Building 3 for children aged 13 to 16 and Building 2 for children aged 8 to 12 were connected in an H shape like twin buildings.
< Information Statement >
-This nursery school provides the following code of conduct for the safety of night shift employees.
※The contents below must not be disclosed to the outside, and this nursery school does not provide any compensation for accidents caused by violating these items.
The same instructional sign was also pasted here. The only difference is that the letters are slightly more broken.
And as they went deeper into the building, the demonic energy was getting thicker and thicker.
The damp, disgusting stench made me guess that something like meat was rotting in large quantities deep inside the hallway.
A feeling of waste, like digging down a mound filled with dampness from a narrow and deep cave, was pressing down on the lungs along with the stench.
‘……There’s something else inside.’
The hounds of the night advanced with their keen sense of smell.
Meanwhile, Dolores seems to have fully understood that the night hounds did not attack the branches of the Quo Vadis family recklessly, but acted according to their own rational reasons and principles.
So, from then on, she actively tried to help Bikir.
“First of all, I’ll inform the upper echelons of the family. The New Testament, not the Old Testament, among them, some of the groups I belong to will be able to believe it.”
“……do whatever you want.”
With Bikir’s permission, Dolores diligently wrote the letter.
The main content was the existence of Ephebo and the request for thanks to the Indulgentia family for Mozgwis’ corruption.
Dolores took a little dove from her bosom and tied the letter to her leg.
The recipient is Cardinal Martin Luther, the head of the New Testament sect.
If you are an Old Testament figure, you can’t help it because it’s a reality that even your father, Cardinal Humbert, can’t be trusted.
“Kokko, please hurry up. I’m sorry I made you work at night.”
Upon hearing the saintess’ earnest request, the white dove flew up into the sky with a powerful flap of its wings. A few white
feathers
fluttering in the dark.
The dove carrying the letter from Dolores soared high into the sky.
……but.
Perpuck!
Before long, a red-hot slash flew in and tore the pigeon’s body in two.
Dolores’ correspondence was also entangled in the aura and turned to ashes.
“…”
Bikir narrowed his eyes behind the mask. It was because the speed at which the slash flew was unusual.
Ssssss…
The smell of rotting meat and humus began to mix.
Eventually, two dark shadows are cast lightly in the center of the corridor connecting the 2nd and 3rd halls.
“Who are you!?”
Dolores’ expression was wary.
Before long, two men appeared in front of Vikir and Dolores.
Tall and skinny, neatly dressed in a suit and wearing a black bag over his face.
‘Pedo & Hebe’
Pedo and Hebe.
Like Ephebo, they are two breeds that act as Quilty’s hunting dogs.
Even at a glance, both of them were exuding unusual momentum, and they looked like high-ranking undead.
……But there was something I was more worried about than the mighty aura and scent that they exude.
“Were those undead people we knew before they were alive?”
Dolores asked in a worried voice.
Humans whom the devil directly corrupts could never have been ordinary beings in their lifetime.
It is highly likely that they are people whose reputation is known to the public in some way.
Bikir looked at Pedo, Hebe and beyond in front of his eyes and answered in a nonchalant tone.
“…I hope that’s not the case.”
