The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

73.

“… A story to tell?”

I took my eyes off the quest for a moment and looked at Monica.

I was also curious about the contents of the quest, but for some reason, Monica’s expression was quite serious.

Even though I’m not a person who doesn’t even joke well.

It was like he hadn’t said anything all day, and it seemed like something was going on.

“huh.”

“then… ”

Standing on the street, I didn’t think it was something to say, so I looked around.

I was thinking of going into any store that I could go into.

But Monica said, pulling on my clothes with her fingertips.

“In my car, talk. Follow me.”

Saying that, Monica led me to the parking lot in the basement of a building.

do you have a car

FYI, I don’t have a vehicle of my own yet.

I could have bought it if I wanted to, but I have to say I don’t really need it.

Yes, I rode a police car on weekdays, and I could use a police car on weekends if it was related to work.

But lately, it has always been related to work, not only on weekdays but also on weekends.

I’ve never felt the need for my own car.

It’s new, but for some reason, it was a very sad reason.

“… It’s here.”

said Monica, pointing to a black car parked in the corner of the parking lot.

The door opens with a beep sound.

She was in the driver’s seat, and I was in the seat next to her.

“Home, where are you?”

“Will you give me a ride?”

“huh.”

Instead of answering, I stamped my home address into the navigation.

Then the vehicle carrying Monica and me smoothly pulled out of the parking lot.

It doesn’t look like he has a lot of driving experience, but it was a stable movement.

That’s how Monica’s car ran out on the road where the sun was setting and the streetlights and neon signs were shining.

“… What are you talking about?”

I spoke first.

But it wasn’t until a few seconds later that the answer came back.

“Before, my spear. Did you use it?”

“what… It did.”

“at that time. How did you do it?”

It was a pretty old question.

Maybe when you were at the training center, you were asked the same question, and you answered like this?

“You did it because you were a warrior? I told you.”

Monica just nodded without saying a word.

Then, after a while, he spoke again.

“Can you teach me?”

Exorcists belonging to a church like Monica must be recognized by their holy relics and unlock the abilities of the holy relics one by one.

That leads to the growth of the exorcist himself.

But are you asking me how to unlock the holy object?

I shook my head at Monica’s words.

The reason I was able to use Monica’s spear freely without restrictions was just the effect of the skill.

Because I couldn’t teach you what I wanted to teach you.

“That is difficult.”

“Somehow… no?”

Monica’s expression was still calm, but her voice was somehow desperate.

It also seemed like something was wrong.

Also, Monica brought up the story of the power of using the Holy Relic.

And looking at her level, which hadn’t risen that much, I thought I knew what the problem was.

But I didn’t have to pretend to know here, so I gave a negative answer.

“If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.”

Without any reaction to my words, Monica just stared at the road in silence.

The car was crossing the Han River bridge before I knew it.

The sparkling night view decorated the river.

Then, suddenly, Monica opened her mouth first.

“The reason I came to Korea. know?”

“no? Did you ever tell me?”

“… doesn’t exist.”

“Then do you know?”

At my words, Monica smiled lightly.

However, she soon returned to her expressionless face and continued.

“I came here to kill the devil.”

“Mine?”

“huh. My enemy, hiding in this country.”

“You mean you’re here for revenge?”

Monica nodded.

“I, too, had a family. But that demon killed them all.”

Monica told me something from her past.

She was a victim of a terrorist attack in Italy 10 years ago.

An incident in which a shopping mall completely collapsed by a certain mine and dozens of people there were killed.

At the time, Monica was at the mall with her family.

“It was just an ordinary day. Suddenly there was an explosion.”

Monica calmly recalled the day.

The building collapsed in an instant due to the intense explosion that exploded without any sign.

Trapped in the rubble, her parents died instantly before Monica’s eyes.

Monica was lucky to survive with her younger brother, but is said to be isolated inside a collapsed building.

“In that darkness, I lasted three days. But my brother… My condition has deteriorated.”

After 3 days, her little brother had an abnormal reaction.

It was caused by dehydration or exhaustion.

So Monica couldn’t stay still.

Meanwhile, after the building collapsed, there was a constant noise from above.

Thinking it was the movement of the rescue team, she tried to make an upward hole by digging through the rubble to get her brother out as quickly as possible.

You don’t even know how dangerous it is.

“Then I took out a large stone, and the top collapsed greatly. I saw the light. I thought I lived. however… I couldn’t see my younger brother next to me.”

The wreckage above her had collapsed and hit her brother.

Her younger brother died, leaving Monica free.

After that, he went to an orphanage, was picked up by the church, and reached what he is now.

“… I’m sorry.”

It was a sad story, nothing else to say.

But there were still doubts in my head.

Why did Monica tell me this story?

“… arrived.”

Before I knew it, the car was near my house.

The place I just took with the navigation.

So I asked her before getting out of the car.

“Then why did you tell me this?”

“I am… I really want to get revenge on that demon.”

“so?”

“But I can’t win now. I am still too weak.”

“then-“

“no. It has stopped growing.”

Monica said as if she knew what I was going to say.

growth has stopped

Wasn’t it simply a matter of slow growth?

“What does that mean?”

“No more, I can’t accept karma. If you go beyond this… I will be eaten by a demon and become a demon.”

“… … ”

Each exorcist has a limit to the karma he or she can accept.

When the limit is reached, the exorcist himself is said to know, and if he accumulates karma beyond this, he becomes a demon eaten by the devil.

Not just an exorcist who commits a crime, but a real demon who goes crazy with demons.

In other words, Monica had reached the limits of what she could reach, far too early.

“Are you asking me to help you with that?”

Monica nodded.

However, there was no exorcist in this world who exceeded that limit.

That’s why I didn’t want to go beyond that limit, but I wanted my ability to unlock the limitations of the sacred object.

“Do you think there might be a way for me?”

“… Maybe not. But you were the last possibility.”

“… … ”

Monica’s circumstances were roughly understood.

So I was thinking about how to answer this, but with a click, the door lock was released.

“Get down now.”

Monica said nonchalantly.

“What, can I not hear the answer?”

“It doesn’t have to be today.”

She talked as if she would see me soon.

Even though today is the first time I see her face in person after completing the training center.

“What do you mean? I just met you today.”

“huh? no, did you hear? you tomorrow They said they would be dispatched to us.”

Send me to church?

It was the first I’d heard of it.

And if that happened, of course team leader Seo In-na would have known, then tell me in advance…

“… I guess you didn’t.”

I murmured like a sigh.

In the past three months, the number of times she slept at her house was Seo In-na.

It must have been too busy to keep track of all the schedules of the team members.

“Then see you again soon.”

“huh. Answer me then.”

The conversation with Monica ended there.

I got out of her car and it disappeared in the street lights.

“… … ”

As I walked home, I stared at the quest window in silence.

＜Character Quest＞

Subject: Monica

Alignment: orderly, good

– Complete Character Story 2.

Reward: +1~+3 random reinforcement ticket

The reward stood out more than anything else.

I’m sure the first quest gave me the hero skill as a reward.

Now it’s a random reinforcement ticket?

“Hey, you bastard. this… ”

Seeing the intent of the quest, I clicked my tongue.

I had the skill to solve Monica’s troubles at once.

The hero’s guide.

That skill that can make a country girl who didn’t even know how to write into a great wizard by creating a talent that she doesn’t have will surely raise the limit of the exorcist that Monica has.

But what bothered me was the content of this quest.

The reason why the quest reward was lowered was not a big deal.

As the first character quest is the first time, it is carried out in a state where there is not much relationship with that character, that is, that person.

So, from my point of view, there is no need to do this.

Someone who is well aware of this has induced me to carry out the character quest with excessive compensation.

But from the second time onwards, you don’t have to.

Because he knew I wouldn’t wait and see if I didn’t break the character quests and that would lead to a loss of connections.

If the quest is neglected because the reward is not good, what if the ending awaits Monica’s misbehavior and becoming a Mine?

You still won’t break the quest?

The guy who gave me this quest was asking me like that.

“Should this be considered a gimmick? Tsk, you dirty bastard.”

Looking at the quest, I spat out curse words at someone I didn’t even know, but of course there was no reply.

The bleak night air.

A bright full moon hung in the sky.

* * *

next day.

As soon as I arrived at the police box, Seo In-na called me.

Monica had already told me about that matter yesterday, so I walked to the team leader’s seat with a light heart.

“… Are you here? I’m sorry, but I need to send some.”

Seo In-na had a tired face from this morning.

I nodded and listened to the team leader’s words.

“Do you remember the last time we went to the hideout of the messengers?”

“yes. The ones who used voodoo?”

“Yes, the Organized Crime Investigation Team is still tracking down the fire fox they stole as a sacrifice. Then, I investigated the funds that had flowed into the messenger recently, and something was caught.”

Seo In-na handed me some documents.

There, along with a complicated-looking tracking procedure, including account tracking, the identity of a demon at the end was written.

“… Are you from the tribe of Judah?”

“okay. One of the 5 tribes that betrayed the church. That is, heresy. As a result of tracing the funds, it was revealed that the money of a demon named Belissa belonging to heresy had flowed to the messenger.”

It was said that a Mine belonging to heresy had made a deal with the messenger.

Originally, messengers were smuggling, so it’s not that strange.

“However, the church has the priority to investigate cases of heresy. So the case was passed on to the church, but we decided to dispatch Inspector Kang instead. Do you understand?”

“yes. then… Am I going alone?”

As long as it is not a request that came in by nomination like the last time at LB Academy, two or more team members are mobilized even if it is dispatched.

But Seo In-na nodded at my words.

“The church tends to be wary of prisoners coming in from outside. To go there, you need two people with rank of lieutenant or higher, but it’s not easy.”

“It’s tricky.”

“Yes, the church is especially closed among formal institutions. Any questions anyway?”

I shook my head.

The information needed for the case was supposed to be in the hands of the church anyway.

“good. then go right away The location is the 7th church in Seoul. It’s right there by car.”

After a while.

I was visiting a church in a residential area in Seoul.

The exterior is a Western-style building made of dark brown bricks.

There was a high fence around it, and there was an entrance to the church by going up a short flight of stairs.

However, it was not that large.

It really just feels like a cathedral or church in the neighborhood.

No, it’s probably a place that’s usually used for that purpose.

And there was a familiar face in front of the front door of such a church.

Unlike yesterday, it was Monica wearing a nun’s uniform.

“I’m here? come in.”

She looked at me and smiled lightly.

I nodded and followed Monica into the church.

Then, as expected, the inside of the church, which was decorated in a Western style, caught my eye.

Monica passed the large chapel and headed for a small room inside it.

A room with no sign on the door.

Monica knocked on the door, and the door opened.

Inside, another person was waiting for us.

“welcome. You are from the police, right?”

It was a nun.

Age around 30 years old. Perhaps because of the nun’s uniform, she gave the impression of a soft woman.

Are you a church person?

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Judging that, I immediately revealed my identity.

“Ah, yes. My name is Inspector Kang Jin-woo.”

“nice to meet you. I am Bishop Agnes, who is in charge of this church.”

Black hair, black eyes.

Because of the Western-style baptismal name, it was unbelievable, but it seemed to be Korean.

Bishop anyway.

Clergy – deacons – bishops – cardinals – presbyters – ranks within the church that lead to the leader of the tribe.

If you are a bishop there, you are equivalent to an intermediate official who bumps into the field.

By the way, I said Monica was the butler.

Taking the police as an example, these two were just me and Seo In-na’s position.

“Sit down, then. I will tell you about the case.”

Agnes ushered us into the room.