Chapter 70 – Foir (6)

“Keuk… ! Buy, save me… !”

It seemed that absorbing all the power of one demon was still too much for me. I sat down on the floor feeling bloated, as if I had forced myself to overeat. The power of the imp inside my body was slowly melting into my body, but I could also see that my body couldn’t stand it if I absorbed more power.

The imp stretched out his hand to me like a lanky old man on the floor. He was so skinny that it looked like it would break if you tapped it with his foot and could crush it just by squeezing it with his fist. The imp was begging me with a sad voice.

“Hey, please save me… ! Me, I made a promise with Taffy… !”

Another devil’s name came out of his mouth. I asked, frowning.

“Taffy? Who is that?”

“A new, new branch manager… ! Ah… ! Sorry… ! Taffy… !”

“What did you promise to do with that bastard?”

“Cow, boy… ! Bring the boys around 20 years old… ! That, in particular… ! Ah…! Taffy… !”

The imp stopped explaining and called out the name Taffy over and over again. I saw it and it sent chills down my spine. If I was a boy in my early twenties, wouldn’t I be included in the candidate group? I had no intention of meeting another Demon World branch head.

I murmured, sweeping away the goose bumps that had sprouted.

“Fuck, he wasn’t just a devil, he was a sex offender.”

“This, this Noh Ohm… ! Tae, don’t insult Taffy… !”

The imp pointed at me and cursed at me. I picked up the holy water bottle still standing on the floor and grabbed him by the hip trying to somehow survive. Feeling the touch of my hand, the imp trembled in fear.

“Now, wait a minute… !”

“Hey, aren’t you curious too?”

“Stop… ! Stop… !”

It was pitiful to see him praying pathetically, but he drained all his energy from this bastard and got all the information he could get. If he survived here, he would definitely take revenge on me, so I had no choice but to kill him. I told him with a sorry heart.

“You should have won if you twisted it.”

“This… ! Pup… ! Ahhh… !”

Chiyiyi profit!

“Ahhhhh!

The demon, who fell in a miserable state, let out a desperate cry and finally died. He could have been pretending to be dead, so I stepped on the crumbly back of his head once and sent him to the underworld.

“After…”

As I was shaking off my shoes, I looked around and saw the paper on the dressing table earlier. I held up the paper and held it up to the moonlight as I tried to read it.

“Fuck, it’s the demon world again.”

Looking at the seal below, it seemed to be a contract, but the name was written in Makai language, so I couldn’t read it at all. Instead, there was a stamp next to the name, so I decided to just remember the shape of this stamp.

“It gets complicated.”

The demon has been captured, but the underlying problem remains unresolved. Who the hell was trying to harm Jack by making a pact with the devil? I thought I should talk to Alice about this.

*******

“How is it?”

“I punched him and killed him.”

In my bag was a holy water bottle filled with water. I carefully held up the holy water bottle and said to Alice.

“Look. Because I am such a talented person.”

Alice, relieved that I had returned safely, looked suspiciously at the holy water bottle I had poured into her.

“…I didn’t have to show it. Didn’t you use all the holy water and fill it with water?”

“…It’s not?”

I put the holy water bottle back in my bag and turned my head. Alice smiled and nodded her head, and I laughed too. It was because it had nothing to do with using holy water or not. That I came back safely and became a little stronger.

“Thank god. Dad.”

That was the most important thing. Alice took a deep breath and hugged me. Her chest was flat, but as much as her warm heart was conveyed to me. I leaned her head against her chest and looked at Jack’s house.

“Dad. So is it over now? Because he killed the devil too. Can we call the priest tomorrow and clean things up?”

“It’s not over yet.”

I shook my head. Alice tilted her head at my answer. The lights in Jack’s house were still on during the night. I could see tossing and turning in Jack’s bedroom, and Lorena was sitting and reading on the first floor. Turning to her side, Hansen’s four sons, Charlie, were watching Lorena with their chins resting on her window.

“It’s not over yet, what do you mean?”

“There is a guy who made a pact with the devil. There was a human who even made a pact with the devil to harm Jack and tried to accuse him of being a thief.”

Alice’s face hardened. I said stroking her face.

“Didn’t you investigate anything today?”

Alice looked puzzled at my question and turned her head away.

“…I thought it would end once I caught the devil, so I just chatted.”

This time it was my turn to laugh. He laughed lightly and massaged her breasts before standing up. Alice ran her finger down my side as she blushed and winked at her.

“Let’s investigate tomorrow.”

“Huh. Dad.”

We quietly walked into the bedroom. My hand lifted her thin cloth, and Alice’s hand entered my chest.

*******

“Um, what’s going on? Again?”

Is it because our gazes, which have been barging in since morning, are so sharp? Lorena staggered back. She had a duster in her hand, and behind her was a stack of papers and a bottle full of alcohol. Said Lorena, putting on her apron and hood.

“Can you come a little later? I was supposed to clean today. There is a lot of trash in the house.”

“Trash?”

I looked at her stack of papers with her behind her back. Lorena came over as if trying to stop me, and Alice followed me through the stacks of papers. There was a lot of really meaningless paper waste, but there were also letters and documents that seemed to contain fairly important content.

I picked out a document with a title that caught my eye and checked it.

“What is this?”

[Claim for union dues for Poir regional unions]

I stared at the paper, then looked at Alice again. Alice glanced at the paper over my shoulder and squinted her eyes. Lorena held the duster and she was at a loss. Alice silently went through her bill and then cast her gaze back at the stack of papers.

It wasn’t just one bill. A total of 6 bills existed in a bundle of papers. Lorena said.

“Oh that… This is a document that has nothing to do with this case… !”

“Is the amount quite large? That’s the union fee. To pay the newcomers to town.”

But to Alice, the papers seemed like a serious matter. The union fee was a type of robbery in which a newcomer to the village was forced to donate a little money for the village because he was using the village facilities.

Said Alice scratching her head.

“Claim dues. This is illegal It is now forbidden to collect money separately from local unions other than taxes. Did you tell me to do this for you? At the local union?”

Alice spoke in a comfortable tone, as if she had become close with Lorena. At Alice’s sharp tone, Lorena shook her head and spoke hastily.

“They’re all good people, don’t think badly of them. This was also resolved well because my dad was from the Knights and knew a little about the law.”

“That it was resolved well, how exactly was it resolved?”

Alice did not back down. Lorena narrowed her brows as if a little offended, she said.

“The head of the union told me for sure that I don’t have to pay this money. It’s already over, so I don’t want to cause trouble with this at a time like this.”

Alice looked at the paper with a suspicious look on her face, but I said to Alice while properly separating the two of them.

“Come on, Alice. I know you’re upset because you saw something suspicious. It definitely has nothing to do with this case. Let’s go out Let’s go out and talk. I’m cleaning.”

Lorena spoke to us as we hurriedly left.

“Hey, come later. I will prepare the tea for you.”

I waved her hand at her and then quickly walked away from Jack’s house. I let Alice go only after reaching a deserted corner. Alice, who had been dragged by me, looked at me, she said.

“Is there a reason other than that? Since you don’t pay the union fee, didn’t you sign a contract with the devil to get revenge?”

“You’re going all the way there because you didn’t pay the union fee? No, if Jack goes to prison, who will pay the union fee?”

I was skeptical of what she was claiming. It was certainly suspicious, but when Jack went to prison, there was no union dues. Giving livestock to take revenge on the offended Jack, and even taking the risk of making a deal with the devil?

It was an act where the belly button was bigger than the belly. No one risked their lives for a little exhilaration.

“That is, but…”

Alice nodded her head as she said that. She seemed to think that she, too, cooled her head and thought that her argument made no sense to her.

She thought to herself with her eyes closed, nodding her head, then looking back at me with her usual smile, she said.

“…I think Dad is right. With this… It’s hard to see any connection right now. I don’t know if there are other reasons.”

“Yes. There is nothing left for Jack to go to prison.”

“That’s right. It’s hard for Lorena to be left alone.”

I nodded her head at those words.

“Therefore.”

Alice also nodded her head and said.

“I know.”

And we shut up.

They met each other’s eyes and then looked back at Jack’s house.

“Ah.”

There was.

When Jack is gone, he must have been left behind.

There was a girl who was about to become a debtor because her family’s property was ruined by paying for lost livestock.

There was a girl who had nowhere to run and no place to turn to.