The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

“yes. Shall I show you?”

Of course, the easiest way to prove that you have mastered the Arahant Buddha Way is to do it yourself.

At this, Seohyun Cha nodded, and I perfectly reproduced the Buddha’s teaching of Arhat in front of her.

And at the end, the tradition of Arhats was opened.

It’s not that strong, but a gentle flow of divinity dwelled in my body.

Seeing this, Cha Seohyun couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

“How can I…excuse me for a moment?”

She lightly put a finger on my arm.

Beneath it were even tighter muscles.

This was not only the effect of Arahants that increased their physical specs, but also thanks to their increased level.

After catching the boss of the mine organization last time, the experience capsule obtained from clearing the main quest and handling minor incidents raised the level to 6.

So my current level was 31.

So, even with that stat increase alone, it was a level that could never be ignored.

“To achieve this much in just one month is unbelievable.”

“What is there to believe? I hear there are people who did it in a week.”

“That’s… yes, but…”

Cha Seohyun, at a loss for words, withdrew from me and smiled helplessly.

“Are you still busy with police work? Isn’t it very difficult to work and train at the same time?”

“Of course I was busy. But if you want to pay for the training time, you can pay for it, right?”

I said it proudly, but it was actually a lie.

If you want to make time, can you make it?

It was only possible for those who did not search the foot of Jirisan Mountain for 2 nights and 3 days in order to find a freak running away.

Did you say cheongdanma?

What gave me trouble was, to put it simply, a horse monster.

As is often the case with eccentrics with a history of horses, he was much faster than other horses.

In addition, he has a legend of running away from numerous soldiers for 15 days through mountains and fields, so his ability to escape was truly amazing.

Because of this, it took me three days to catch him, even though I identified his location with arrows and even mobilized long-range sniping from Naha-jeong.

But where do you make time for training?

Coming today was a little early, so I barely made time for it.

However, Seohyun Cha looked at me and nodded her head.

“You are great too. You have talent and put in effort, so you must be able to achieve this much.”

“You are not wrong.”

I did try.

10 years ago.

It is also true that the efforts made 10 years ago shine through in Buddhist training, so Seohyun Cha could not be wrong.

“So, are we moving on to the next step now?”

“of course. Next is Mahuraga of the Arms.”

“Aha, but what exactly is Mahuraga?”

“He is one of the Buddhist law guardians with a human body and a snake head. Commonly known as ‘Naga’. It is a monster originally from Indian mythology.”

Are they like Lamia?

Although the body and head are opposite.

I remembered the memories of Lamia.

Then, it seemed that he knew what the ability of the Mahuraga’s succession was.

“Then do you let me use poison or something?”

The basic material of Lamia and Nagga is a snake.

And, of course, the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about snakes is poison.

But…wouldn’t it give you something like poison resistance?

That’s because it’s of no use to me now, who nullifies all status ailments.

However, Seohyun Cha shook her head.

“It is closely related to the outgoing poison of Indian mythology. But it is not Mahuraga in Buddhism.”

“is that so?”

“yes. In Buddhism, Mahuraga is a being with a tradition that when Sakyamuni Buddha meditated under a tree, he protected himself from the rain and wind that raged outside for a week. In return, Mahuraga was taught by Shakyamuni Buddha and became a guardian deity.”

I nodded.

It was a completely different tradition from the image of Lamia I knew.

It is not cunning like the image of a common snake, nor is it aggressive and insidious like poison.

Rather, it is a defensive yet righteous tradition that says that he protected a saint who was meditating from the rain and wind.

“So, the meaning of Mahuraga in the Dharma Hall is the protection of meditation. In the exorcism side, this has to do with spiritual power.”

“If it’s spiritual power…?”

“Mafuraga’s succession completely restores the user’s spiritual power.”

Is it like a mana potion?

However, in reality, there are few means to restore spiritual power.

On the other hand, this is a complete recovery in one succession.

It was an overly good effect.

So, of course, there must be some penalty.

“There must be restrictions.”

“yes. Once the power of lore is unlocked, it cannot be used again for a week.”

Also, the cooldown was extremely long.

It’s a week.

Is it a week because they blocked the rain and wind for a week in the legend?

However, the effectiveness of the succession was sufficient.

If it’s an enemy to the point where you have to use all of your spiritual power, it’s either a hugely powerful enemy or a huge number.

And when you encounter such an enemy, fully restoring your spiritual power even once is like a strong insurance.

There was no reason to be dissatisfied.

“Then let’s begin.”

I urged Cha Seo-hyun.

Then, Seohyun Cha nodded and showed Mahuraga’s Buddha Way.

30 minutes later.

“It’s easy.”

I returned home after learning the story of Mahuraga.

* * *

next day.

“Inspector Kang, would you like to see me for a moment in the meeting room?”

As soon as I entered the police box office, I received a call from Seo In-na.

It also comes to the meeting room.

This meant that it was not simply a work order.

Is it a fairly big event or does it include confidential information?

It would be nice if it wasn’t another troublesome incident.

However, when I went inside the conference room, there was one more person besides me and Seo In-na.

“Police Choi?”

“Oh, hello…”

Choi Eun-young looked at me and greeted awkwardly.

Are you handling this case together with Choi Eun-young?

And Bonnie, except when I was first hired, she and I had rarely been on the same case.

It was because Choi Eun-young and my positions overlapped somewhat.

The role of the other team members in solving the case is, after all, a combatant, regardless of the difference between close and long range.

In contrast, Choi Eun-young plays the role of a combatant, but at the same time has the ability to support and track using summoned beasts.

And that’s the same for me who uses arrows.

So, from Seo In-na’s point of view, who had to assign cases to each team member, it was efficient to manage Choi Eun-young and me separately.

“You’re here. Have a seat.”

Seo In-na pointed to the empty seat where the coffee was placed and said.

Next to Choi Eun-young.

I nodded and followed her words.

“Are you talking about the case?”

“yes. Also, I was wondering if Eun-young would talk about it. It has something to do with the case.”

It’s a case related to Choi Eun-young.

I couldn’t guess anything from hearing that, so I quietly waited for Seo In-na’s next words.

“You still haven’t heard how Eun-yeong became an exorcist cop, right?”

“yes. I haven’t had a chance to ask.”

“okay. I thought that would be the case, so I made a place for it. Constable Choi… the story is a bit complicated.”

At those words, I secretly looked at Choi Eun-young.

Choi Eun-young was looking at one end of the table with a nervous expression on her face.

In the meantime, Seo In-na started talking.

“Inspector Kang, have you ever heard of the Irisom Incident?”

“Iris Island…?”

A name you’ve probably heard of somewhere.

But I couldn’t remember clearly, so I shook my head.

“It was a big incident that happened about seven years ago. It was a demonic incident, but the scale of the incident was so large that it would have been reported quite widely in general. I do not remember?”

It was only when I heard it that I remembered it.

As Seo In-na said, it was an event that was widely reported in the news at one time.

But even if it was 7 years ago, as far as I remember, it was 17 years ago.

I didn’t remember much.

“Ah…what was that pseudo-religion saying?”

The content was that the head of a pseudo-religion had been using false beliefs to rule an entire island for 30 years.

Also, during that reign, numerous violent crimes, including murder, followed.

The shocking content was on the news one after another, drawing great attention from society.

“Yeah, that. The report said it was a pseudo-religion, but in fact the cult leader was a demon. He used his power to charm people and ruled over the islanders.”

Seo In-na then informed me of the incident.

it’s mine

Hagiya, if you use demonic power, that would have been possible.

But what does that have to do with Choi Eun-young?

The question was resolved the very next moment.

“And Constable Choi Eun-young here. She was the granddaughter of the cult leader.”

“Granddaughter…?”

It was an unexpected development.

That Choi Eun-young is the granddaughter of the religious leader?

Looking at his appearance or personality, it doesn’t really suit him.

“That religious leader was quite cunning. Iri Island was a fairly large island with 3,000 inhabitants. So I decided that I couldn’t rule them all by myself, and the first thing I did was to bring in my own relatives.”

Seo In-na’s explanation continued.

The cult master used the power to possess humans and forcibly opened the family’s demons.

The family seemed to rebel at first, but they could not withstand the temptation of power as the ruler of the island along with the threat of the leader and eventually sympathized with the leader.

In this way, Irisom became an island ruled by the head family.

“The resulting period of domination is over 30 years. So when Choi Eun-young was born, it was already the time when her family was ruling the island.”

As a result, Choi Eun-young opened her eyes before she was mature.

And she became the granddaughter of the religious leader, and was raised with care.

It was much later that she found out about the island’s reality.

“Then, was Constable Choi’s crime committed by sympathizing with it?”

It was a reasonable assumption.

If Choi Eun-yeong had not directly cooperated in killing people, even an accomplice would not have been sentenced to death.

However, Seo In-na shook her head.

“No, Eun-yeong’s crime is… murdering an ascendant. That, too, is mass murder.”

“···yes?”

I tilted my head at the crime I had heard of for the first time in my life.

It’s not just parricide, it’s something else mass parricide.

“Captain River. How do you think the tyranny of the pseudo-religionist, which only takes place on a closed island in the first place, was known to the outside world?”

Irisom was a place strongly controlled by the cult leader clan.

At that time, the Gyoju clan owned all the ships on Iri Island and monopolized exchanges with other islands.

Even the police and government officials in charge of the place were all members of the cult leader’s family.

That’s why they’ve been able to rule the island for 30 years while maintaining complete closure.

But how did their crime leak out?

“That was none other than the report of the head family and themselves. A monster they couldn’t handle appeared on the island. And it was Choi Eun-yeong who summoned that monster.”

The story was like this.

Choi Eun-young, who lived without knowing the reality of the island, had a friend she grew up with since she was a child.

But one day, Choi Eun-young’s uncle, a member of the family, tried to rape the friend.

Choi Eun-young desperately tried to stop this, but ultimately failed.

Later, the friend was murdered by the family of the cult leader for causing trouble.

With this incident, Choi Eun-yeong finally learned how the island works.

It came to him that he had to use his power to liberate the island.

“So Eun-yeong drew the worst monster imaginable using her own blood and summoned it. That’s what Ima Mang-ryang was.”

double net amount.

It refers to a collection of spirits and monsters with the same kind of grudge.

That’s why it’s much more difficult to deal with than simple spirits or monsters.

“Even so, aren’t they summoned after all?”

“yes. However, the problem is the nature of the Lee Mae Mang-ryang. Li Mae Mang-liang increases his strength by absorbing demons with similar grudges. However, Eun-young carved her anger at the death of her friend, that is, her resentment towards her clan, into the Immae Mang-ryang she summoned. What do you think will happen if something like that appears on Erie Island?”

“…That means he ate all the similar resentment that had been piling up for 30 years.”

Seo In-na nodded.

Over the past 30 years, the number of people the cult leader’s family has killed has reached close to a hundred.

There must have been strong resentment for each of their deaths, so from the point of view of Mae Mang-ryang Lee, the whole island of Iri would have been no different from a big banquet.

“As a result, Li Mae Mang-ryang gained substance and ran out of control. And about 40 of the 70 or so religious leaders were murdered by the Li Mae Mang-ryang.”

Is that why he was charged with the bizarre crime of mass murder?

“By the way, the sentence… I don’t think he received it long enough?”

“Yes, I was sentenced to 10 years.”

It sounds long, but the sentence for parricide is usually much longer than that.

So, 10 years is actually a very short time for a topic that has a lot attached to it.

“But really, that wasn’t the problem at the time.”

“Isn’t that the problem?”

“A non-regular exorcist used a horse to kill people. That’s why you judge Eun-young as a demon, because there was a lot of talk.”

“ah···”

“But fortunately, thanks to the grudge engraved on Li Mae Mang-ryang, the only ones Goi killed were the Gyoju family, in other words, the demons. So in the end, it ended up being yummy.”

I nodded.

Then, with a sudden question, I looked at Choi Eun-young.

For some reason, she had her head down with a very nervous expression on her face.

“By the way, wasn’t it only summoning fantasy monsters?”

“···yes?”

Choi Eun-young asked my question a beat late.

It’s like he didn’t know I’d ask such a thing.

“No, it is strange. Lee Mae Mang-ryang is on the Korean side.”

“That, that… I can summon it. I just don’t want to.”

Um, is it a trauma?

Then I had nothing to say.

So I continued talking to Seo In-na.

“I can understand the story. By the way, does this have anything to do with this case?”

“huh. Because… this time, the target you’re going to exorcise is the Imae Mang-ryang called by Eun-yeong.”

7 years ago?

“You still haven’t caught it?”

“Unfortunately yes. At that time, some of the surviving members of the cult’s clan fled from the police. But Lee Mae-mang-ryang disappeared while chasing them. But… that has only now appeared.”

So is it related to Choi Eun-young?

It was the moment I was so convinced.

The quest icon flashed out of nowhere.

And its contents

＜Character Quest＞

Target: Choi Eun-young

Alignment: Chaos, Good

– Complete Character Story 1.

Reward: Among the sealed hero’s job abilities, [Hero’s Guide] is unlocked.

It was a character quest I haven’t seen in a long time.