Chapter 209 – For Elise

“Yeah, even eternal life!”

At my ferocious question, Lina responded with a smirk.

“Yes. Do you know anything about our Rina? If there is, I’ll forgive you. Of course, if you don’t, we’re going to search here. Do you dare to use this oppa?”
“Oh, oppa, wait! Why are you asking about eternal life?!”
“Is this bastard talking back?”

She raised her hand violently and Lina curled up over her as she screamed. Still, she knows that Gigi is wrong. Let’s just accept 1 silver as the fair price of murder and forgive him.

“Kyaaaaagh!!! Please don’t hit me!!! I know!!!”
“Draw? You know?”

However, once he said he knew, he felt the flames of his anger her fading away. He immediately picked Lina up and brushed the dirt off her shoulders. He looks pretty, but he doesn’t shine because he’s messy.

“Oh… Yes. Oh, I know.”
“As expected, our Lina is the best! She can tell us what she knows!”

She was sure to have useful information from Lina who was well versed in the slums. Wealth accumulated by pagans. It was as if it was floating in front of my eyes. I immediately changed to her kindness mode, smiled kindly and grabbed Lina’s shoulder of her.

“That, I mean… That’s… If I know what…”

Lina, who couldn’t keep up with my tension, mumbled and evaded her answer her.

When she made her unspoken hint to Lina that if she were Gura, she would be like her strewn corpse over there, she began to shake her body in contemplation.

Oh

“Ah, Shibeol. The story can’t progress. Calm down. I won’t hit you. Personally, I’m curious about the eternal life. If you know anything, tell me quickly.”
“…Curiosity?”
“Yeah. Well, I’m not trying to join. I’m just curious.”
“…”

Even though he removed all violence and spoke kindly, he only avoided her gaze while biting her lip. At this point, I’m so frustrated that I’m going crazy.

Fuck you talk fast
Do you want to just hit one?

She couldn’t bear to beat her child in front of Elise, so she suppressed her violent impulses with superhuman patience.

“Tell me quickly before I fall behind!”
“Ugh, ugh… Ugh! Ugh!”

But suddenly Lina bursts into her cry!

No!

Why!

“Hey what! Why are you crying!”
“Heuuuuu…!”
“I’m sorry! I know you’ll see me cry! Eh! Hurry up!”

As I was doing that, she stood next to Elise and asked me to explain what was going on. No, what the hell is this?

“Heh, hehe…! Help me, oppa!”

As she tried to explain to Elise, Lina cried out.

“What?”

Want help?

“…I need to calm down for a while. Saint, please step aside for a moment.”
“Uh… That, yes.”

Elise stood in front of Lina, holding a mace stained with her soggy blood. Elise urged her to stop crying in an extremely calm tone, and Lina stopped her wails as if she had calmed down a bit when a red-haired girl of the same age spoke to her.

Anyway, since I was fucking in a place like this, there was a lot of aggro, so I moved to a place where people were moderately sparse. It was only then that Lina, who had calmed herself down, opened her mouth as her body her trembled.

“Yes, what are you asking for help with? Is that something related to the eternal life?”
“…Yes.”

Answer as if he knew something.
Lina had her say.

“Actually… That place called Eternal Life…”
“What, did you take any money?”
“That’s not it…”

A gloomy and terrifying tone. Lina, who looked around her left and right as if anxious, looked at her face her again and she started to shed tears.

Fuck you again!

“Heh, hehe! We, our grandmothers…!”
“Grandmother?”

Suddenly, memories of the festival came to mind.

Lina stole my money.

Catastrophe that resulted from it.

I had raided Lina’s house and collected 10 silver from her. Looking back, I feel as if her grandmother her, who had become ill, was lying there. I’m sorry, but what can I do? She doesn’t live well enough to intervene in other people’s lives.

What to keep, what to keep
You must receive what you receive.

“Hmm, grandma…”

Could it be that her grandmother died?
I’ll have to keep my mouth shut on this one.

… I was thinking, but the words that came out of Lina’s mouth were shocking, different from that.

“Huh, Grandma… Huh! The disease got worse so she went to Yeongsaeng Island… Huh! I went there… There…! Heh!”
“…!”

Feeling ominous for a moment, I looked at Elise. Elise, as if feeling the same thing, opened her eyes wide and looked at my face her.

“…Saints.”
“Ah, yes. There must be something.”

Something popped up.

“Now, my Rina, stop crying. When she cries, all the chicks come to eat. So, what happened to her grandmother when she went to Yeongsaeng Island?”
“…Ugh. That’s… So…”

Lina began to tell her story line by line.

Roughly speaking, while I was searching here and there to save my dying grandmother, I recently learned about the island of eternal life, and when I asked, I was enticed by the word that it was a mysterious group that could cure incurable diseases, so I took my grandmother to a meeting. Say

“She has n’t been able to see her grandmother since then… She said she could live if she was baptized… Ugh, if I didn’t ask to go… Hey!”
“So. She was baptized?”
“Yes…”

As soon as she heard that she had been baptized, Elise bared her teeth and let out her trembling breath. He seemed extremely upset after hearing heretical stories.

“So, that’s why I was trying to find her grandmother her myself…”
“She’s looking for herself… Did she ever say she was being chased for it?”
“Yes, yes! That’s right!”
“Hmm…”

Did she dig deep enough to be chased?
I don’t know if this can be solved easily.

“So you found her grandmother her?”
“That… I don’t know about that, but.”
“But?”
“Somehow I feel like I’ll be there…”
“That’s it…”

Lina, giving her her account her, also appeared to have roamed her slums in search of her grandmother her. Then she gets closer to the truth, and she must be pursued. But when she saw that the pursuers were at most two paupers, Lina’s guess would be correct.

“Ahhhhh… Grandma Susan… I miss you…!”

Well?

“What? Sue, what?”
“Yes, yes? Sue, Grandma Susan. Her grandmother’s name is Susan.”

A name you’ve probably heard of… Ah!

“Assembly!”

That mummy old woman who came to the meeting!
I’m sure she said his name her was Susan!

“Elise! It looks like she’s coming after something!”
“I feel the same way. Did you say Lina? Please guide us to that place.”
“Wait a minute. If you’re going, you’ll need to pack your gear!”
“I see…! Preparing for the holy war!”

To be honest, I don’t feel like it, but I’ve found the most valid clue. I had to pack my gear because I didn’t know what was going to happen.

He immediately took Lina outside the slums.

Since I didn’t have enough time, I quickly went to Elise’s quarters and fitted her combat nun’s uniform, then went to my quarters and put on a full set of equipment and came out. There was no Cloudy or Winia. Both of them seemed to be gone.

Anyway, I put on all my equipment and put a shabby mat on top of it. That being said, quite a bit of time has passed.

“Lina! Here we go! Let’s go find Grandma!”
“Yes, yes? Really?!”
“Then of course!”

It’s grandma and nabal, and you’ll have to go there and think about it. Let’s trust Rina’s research skills! I believe in you for trying to find her grandmother her!

We followed Rina towards the deepest part of the slums. It was also an unstoppable guide, probably because he was familiar with the geography of this place. I wanted to check before the sun went down, so I literally sprinted along the shortcut.

The place we arrived at was an old and shabby building on the outskirts.

“Um, over there… I was trying to check over there and got chased.”
“Why were you chased? After all, what’s there? Is there any evidence that it’s related to the Isle of Eternal Life?”

I asked for a final confirmation.

“Yeah… I’ve been trying to find her grandmother for a while. I’ve been hiding and researching… Then I saw one of the priests of Eternal Life going in there.”
“Yeah, what. Elise.”
“I’m ready.”

As I was looking at the building with my body covered in the shade, I saw a few poor people wandering around. All of them looked skinny and emaciated, similar to the ones who had been amputated earlier.

It is questionable in many ways.
So, let’s try breaking in.

“I’ll follow you…”
“I may search.”
“Yes.”

ㅡSureung. She drew her sword, and Elise drew her mace.

“Elise. How, just break through?”
“Hmm, that’s when there’s going to be a commotion. I think it’d be better to take a quick look and infiltrate it secretly.”
“Yes. Let’s start with that first. If that doesn’t work, then we can break through.”

After sharing such opinions, Lina said that she at least knew a good route.

“No. You were chased after that. Then you can’t use that route.”
“Ah…”
“You fool. Think about it and live.”

After sneaking around the building so as not to be discovered, I came to the conclusion that I couldn’t get in without making a fuss.

“I can’t help but get caught no matter what I do… “
“Saints. Why don’t you try hiding until it gets dark?”
“Um, how about this…”

I don’t want to go in at night… No. Rather, it might be better to go in at night. Because what you can’t see in the dark is mutual.

“Oh. There…”

As we put her heads together, Lina pointed to the building and said.

All the poor people who were wandering around started walking in one direction. Eventually, they all disappeared, leaving only the building.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but it looks like an opportunity. Let’s go!”
“Gajat!”

She lowered her stance and approached the entrance of the building, hushing her footsteps. I don’t know why, but all the poor people who would make a fuss are gone.

“Let’s go in.”

I quickly went inside the entrance.

“I don’t see anything special.”
“That’s right. Lina, are you sure about this place?”
“I’m not sure. It’s just that this place is suspicious…”

The interior of the building was quiet, as if it were almost completely empty.

Are there no people at all? Looking around, the first floor seemed to have been neglected, and there was nothing special about the second floor either. The only thing was that there was no one there.

The building itself seems empty…
Maybe there’s a hidden basement?

“As expected, suspicious things must be underground. Elise. Let’s find the first floor.”
“All right.”
“Lina. You should stick around and find something plausible.”
“…Yes.”

I went down to the first floor again and conducted a search.

There must be something like a passage leading underground. In between, I sneakily checked out the window to see if anything was approaching, and searched for an entrance somewhere on the floor.

“Saints. This carpet…”
“Let’s listen.”

The carpet that had been ignored came into view. As Lina and I were wary of our surroundings, Elise tensed and pulled the rug.

ㅡWheek!

“…It’s out.”

Under the rug was what appeared to be a door to an underground passage. After looking outside for a moment, I pulled on the door with Elise, taking care not to make as much noise as possible.

ㅡ Kikkiik.

“I can see the way down.”
“It’s dark.”

We descended the stairs as if possessed by something. Elise, who was holding the mace tightly, had a somewhat hazy face. Drunk with violence…

“Lina. Stay right behind me and follow me. I won’t know even if I search.”
“Yes, yes, I understand…”

Slowly. I walked down the stairs slowly. The door had been knocked off its hinges and left closed. I left the door half open and somehow put a rug over it… But it didn’t work as well as I thought.

Anyway.

Leaning on Elise’s low-powered Holy Light, she headed for her basement her.

“…Saints. No matter what lies in front of us, as long as we, the Divine Friend, have firm faith and devout faith, there is no trial we cannot overcome.”
“You said it well. Let’s kill all the evil cultists and come out.”
“I can’t hold back my anger any longer…!”

The stairs ended, and a hallway appeared.

Orange light was emanating from the other side of the hallway.