Chapter 99 – [Raccoon Man Beginning]

The logic arises here.

Atlas conducted human experiments seeking the fusion of Raph energy and Gaia Force.

There is some kind of relationship between Atlas and the Gaia religion.

Gaia Church is located in Jecheon.

Then, on the express bus to Jecheon, I found that a child with a sick heart had a weak, but Raff energy that only an enemy species would have. Is this really a coincidence?

It can’t be a coincidence.

The raff energy in the child’s heart is weak, but it did no harm to the child. It was playing the role of moving the weak heart.

First of all, the basic ideology of Raff energy is ‘denial’, but in the end it is this ability, so just having it even a little bit can have the effect of making the body healthy. But it’s because the amount you have is weak…

You’ll need more Raff energy to get as healthy as you grow, then?

If you have more than a certain amount of Raph energy, you will end up like the Atlas test subjects I met. No, it’s worse quality.

At least they were Force users, so reason could remain. Even the most severe test subject in Mt. Duryu had his mind fluctuated like dementia, but his reason itself remained to some extent. However, if you inject Raph energy directly into an ordinary person who is not a Force user… It is only natural that something bad will happen.

“Mom, can I have some cookies?”

“Should I just eat one?”

“Then I’ll only eat chocolate cookies.”

Outwardly, the child, who was only a little short for his age, took out a snack from his bag and ate it. Even though the cookies weren’t big, he couldn’t fit them in one bite, so he split them several times. It’s just that kids of that age are pretty.

I know this because I have raised many children. It’s just that she had no children with Shion, not that she never had children with others. I’ve never given birth to anything.

“Ugh, Coke! Cough!”

After eating well, the child coughed as if powder had caught in his throat. Her mother’s side tried to get water out of her bag and it was going to take a while, so I gave her a cider to drink that I had next to her. It’s carbonated, but the sand will go away.

“Thank you, mister.”

“I’m not old enough to be called an old man yet…”

To the children of Hagi, as long as they go to the army, they are all uncles. Even if he was discharged this year, it wouldn’t be strange if he was called Mister at that point.

……I thought of it because I was in the army, but it’s time to go to the reserve army this year. Even if I can’t, I think the notice will come next month.

“Thank you, bachelor. I’ll buy you a drink later when I go to the rest area.”

“No, it’s okay. I didn’t give it to you for that.”

Let’s gather information while having a sneaky conversation. I had a rough impression of myself, so I was worried about how to put it into words, but it turned out better than I thought.

The person who seemed to be the father also greeted me, but it was the mother of the child who spoke most of the time, as if she had a lot on her mind.

“Are you going to play with your child?”

“Oh, there’s something like that, but I’m going to the prayer house.”

“Is it a prayer house?”

“Eugene has a bad heart. She feeds a lot of things that are good for her body and has been to many hospitals, but to no avail… But after going to the prayer center, she got better and goes to pray often.”

“Is there a prayer center in Jecheon?

“There’s a big church. It’s a prayer house there, so people like us often get together and pray.”

“Oh yeah?”

That’s the answer.

How many times will the first person you meet on the way to that place have a deep connection with your goal?

In fact, the probability of that happening is extremely low, but if it did happen, ordinary people might think it was a coincidence. But I frowned because I knew someone who could do this.

What do you want from me, absolute destiny? It makes me fucking sick.

Even though I have no reluctance to kill people, I do think about it once again as much as a child. It’s not that I won’t kill it, it’s that I don’t want to.

“Do you go to church too?”

“No, I have to go somewhere else. I need to find someone I know.”

“Is it a trip?”

“Not similar”

“I want to travel far too. But I can’t go far because I’m sick.”

“Aren’t you still going on a trip?”

“In the past, I couldn’t even take the bus because I was sicker.”

Did you say Eugene? If you think about it minus the raff energy of this child’s heart, she is a body that almost has to live lying in a hospital room.

I don’t specifically differentiate between red species. If Raff energy is helpful, I will use it, but I don’t judge it as evil just because I used some of it.

Just thinking about the aftermath after that makes me angry. Compared to the Gaia Force, it is unlikely that we will see anything good by injecting Raff energy, which is unstable, into humans who are not hostile species.

However, if Raff energy is removed from Eugene’s body, she will be so weak that she will have to spend her entire life in a hospital room. She must live like that for the rest of her life to the point where she can’t even walk on her own.

As for which one is right, I’m on the former side.

“After I get better, I will go on a long trip. I want to go to Africa and America.”

“Your uncle went to America once before.”

“Wow! Really? Did you see the Statue of Liberty?”

“You know a lot more than you think? Of course I saw it.”

The fact that a child of an age who would be interested in having fun without even entering elementary school knows something like the Statue of Liberty, an American landmark, is proof that he has a lot of interest in it from the beginning.

You wouldn’t know unless you’ve seen a movie or something, but it seems that you’re really interested in travel.

“Everything will be better when you become an adult, right?”

“………”

Eugene had only two choices left.

One is to have the Raff energy removed from me now and live in a hospital bed for at least several decades. At least you can live.

I don’t know how long the other one will take, but it will be eaten up by Raff energy and turned into a monster. Even if you can’t do it, you can go around like this on a yearly basis. But after that, he just dies as a monster, not a human.

Wherever she chooses, there is nothing but hell for this kid.

“Yeah, everything will be fine. Surely”

Did she say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions?

This is why I hate God. Even if you pray a hundred days and a thousand days, salvation will not come down. So it has to happen on its own.

…… I thought of a way to fuck the absolute of fate.

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The express bus arrives at Jecheon Terminal. People started pouring in. Yujin waved at me, who had been my companion for two hours.

“Uncle, bye bye”

“Okay, bye. See you next time.”

The next one will be faster than you think.

I moved to an inconspicuous place and took out the Raccoon Man transformation headphones. When I put it on my head and press the button, a metallic mask is placed over my face.

I picked up my phone, turned on the map, checked the direction, and ran unnoticed. If I get out of the city and move through the mountains, all I can find is a satellite.

The idea of ​​going up to the cliff side of the church has not changed.

“It’s not as high as I thought”

Not long after I ran, my goal, Jecheon Daeji Church of Jesus, caught my eye. The buildings built nearby along the course of the river are so large that it is usually impossible to get there unless you take a boat.

Well done church, boys.

The size was quite large. First of all, there is a church that looks like a castle on a cliff, and several buildings around it that look like two or three stories. There was a 4 meter fence around it all. Ordinary people can only go through the entrance.

“There are quite a few Force users…?”

I expanded the base and tried to figure out the number of Force users in it. The number is about 50 people. There are too many levels to be in one church.

There are many things a single Force user can do. However, if there were 50 Force users, even if a dimensional earthquake occurred nearby, they could handle it.

Of course, under the assumption that the same super-large antagonists or humanoid antagonists like last time don’t come out… But still, 50 people is half a hundred, but it’s enough to use for maintaining public order in such a community.

How could an organization like this have been so quiet?

According to the data of Team Leader Cho, it was active as an ordinary large church until a month ago. No matter how much I destroyed the Atlas Korean branch laboratory, how did I remain undetected and quiet?

There is no way that a church like this could have been created in just a year or two. At least it took two or three years to build a building, and several years to spread the religion. Even if you can’t, you need 10 years.

I contacted Zion first.

“Oh, it’s me. I’ve arrived.”

[Is that so? I’ll figure out the location with artificial satellites]

“I have a question. I don’t have too many troubles compared to the scale here? I’ve never heard of the number of Force users gathered or stories related to this pseudo-religion.”

No matter how much I’m not interested in religion, if it’s a fake of this scale, it’s normal that an incident should have come out at least once in the news or something. But I haven’t heard anything

Did you cover it up? No matter how much it is, there must be a limit to concealing it in a pseudo-religion?

[I hacked the server there and checked the list of followers]

“Do you have something?”

[Many of them are people who have some money, such as people who have touched some money through real estate speculation or landlords. And among them are the local councilors]

“Didhehelp conceal information? But couldn’t he just help?”

[We also found out how the city councilor used the unidentified funds. He probably got it in cash and used it, but then I don’t know where he got it]

“Just look, it’s here”

It is easy to raise money if the scale is this large and the main believers are rich. Could it be that the guys who smelled like fakes and even built churches this big don’t have money?

And it’s easy to buy high-ranking people with that money. Then you don’t have to worry about it after that.

First we need to gather more information. There are hundreds of people inside, but it is difficult to find the ex-wife of team leader Jo among them. I know the name and face from the photo you sent, but I can’t find the person among them.

I can find people I’ve met, even if they’re hiding in a nuclear bunker on the other side of the world, but I can’t find people I’ve never met, even if they’re hiding right in front of their noses. In the first place, if you were told to find someone who only knew your face and name, who would do that?

However, it is possible to grasp if it is at least within the range of sight. There are hundreds of people, and we won’t be able to figure out all of them, so let’s sneak in first.

“Who climbs a cliff with bare hands these days?”

The cliff on the other side of the church was not very high, but it was as high as the 6th and 7th floors of an apartment building. It is a height that is difficult for ordinary people to climb alone.

If you are a Force user, you will climb well, but you will climb up holding the groove in the middle of the cliff.

I just need to lift myself up. My body went up as if I had been in a transparent glass elevator.

The glass elevator reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I used to like James and Super Peach by the same author.

I climbed the cliff, climbed over the wall, and looked down into the church grounds. It was very well made and looked like a small town.

“If a zombie avalanche breaks out, it will be quite easy to defend.

Of course, except for that, it’s just a church built in a place that’s annoying to come and go.

The closest to the cliff was a building used as a church, and there were about five three-story buildings used as accommodations in front of it. In addition to that, there was a building like a restaurant, and even that was not enough, so there was a cafe.

Hey, I heard that there is no one who doesn’t drink coffee these days, so I guess Jesus drinks too?

Is this a church, or is it a tourist destination? I put my thoughts aside and climbed over the fence and went inside.

There are dozens of people passing by just by looking at them. In the middle, I saw people wearing black clothes that were improved from priestly uniforms, but they were all Force users.

It’s easy to tell them apart, so that’s fine. Even though it’s still summer, isn’t it hot wearing clothes like that?

“Brothers and sisters, it’s time to go into the chapel.”

“Ah! Is it worship time already?”

Force users dressed in black priestly clothes approached the people who were talking and spoke to them. Gradually, people began to flock to the church.

I went into the church with such a crowd. It caught my eye, but it didn’t seem to bother me much.

Let’s hear what you have to say. They say that if you know, you can play better, so you have to listen to what they say so you don’t know whether to play or not after that. Could it be a surprisingly good religion? Although the chances are extremely slim.

Entering the worship room, the interior of a huge cavity caught my eye. The huge worship hall, which seemed to be made of grayish stone, felt grand enough to resonate at the slightest whisper. That’s why I can’t even talk about it.

And the person who was already waiting on the podium in the front stood out. Dressed in a white priestly robe, he was quite young, but he was a man in his thirties.

“Brothers and sisters, welcome.”

I frowned.

That guy who looks like a religious leader is a force user.

The probability that this is a good church has dropped to a few percent even after zero.