Chapter 24

Chapter 24

The Monk Flew

“······?”

I pulled out the grabbed hand and stopped the music.

Since I turned off the translator app I don’t know what he said···.

A person whose condition improved greatly in a few seconds is looking with shining eyes, is there a need to confirm?

Scratch scratch.

[By any chance is there a cat in the next room?]

I showed the sketchbook to Sato uncle.

“Yes, there is. But··· is it over?”

When the [Contagious Disease Patient] tried to raise his body himself, he hastily approached and supported.

[Are you okay, Chairman?]

[I’m fine. The cough···. Haha, the throat is a bit dry, but it doesn’t come out as much as before. The dizziness also went.]

[I will measure the temperature. ···This can’t be.]

Instead of the translator app Lee Mun-yeong approached and interpreted.

I nodded and put the pen to the sketchbook.

[Can I briefly see the cat too?]

When Lee Mun-yeong conveyed instead, the [Contagious Disease Patient] nodded.

[Our Miko too? Please open the door.]

[Yes, Chairman.]

Sato uncle carefully opened the next room door.

A luxuriously decorated cat room.

I patted my gradually numb legs and stood up.

Miko was lying powerlessly on the cushion.

Even as a pitch-black stranger approached, it seemed to have no energy to be wary.

[Contagious Disease Patient]

Actually this green text was visible even before treating earlier.

[This is a Contagious Disease Patient. Do you wish to treat?]

[(Estimated MP cost 40)]

Fortunately it’s not a very high number.

Scratch scratch.

[It’s not a curse but infected with a bad virus. It would be good to take to the hospital and get tested.]

[···Is that really?]

Scratch scratch.

[And tomorrow at dawn 5 o’clock I will proceed with the 2nd treatment prayer.]

***

I received the proposal to rest in the guest room but declined. The carrier is also at the hotel, and I thought I couldn’t rest comfortably in an unfamiliar house with a complicated internal structure like a maze.

Moreover unlike Korean houses there was no boiler laid, so chill rose from the floor and it was cold.

[Then see you tomorrow.]

After exchanging greetings I left the [Contagious Disease Patient]’s room.

The passage surrounding the courtyard again.

The cult monk who insisted it was a curse was still standing in that spot, looking at me.

“······.”

“······.”

“‘Plague Doctor’-nim?”

When I stopped my steps and looked at him, Lee Mun-yeong carefully called me.

I clasped my hands and bowed.

This is the leisure of the winner.

“······.”

The cult monk didn’t hide a reluctant look at my greeting yet bowed his head in return.

I turned my body and moved my steps again.

A short while later, in front of a hotel.

I got off Lee Mun-yeong’s car.

“Then tomorrow at dawn I’ll come to pick you up. Rest.”

I bowed and waved my hand.

I watched until Lee Mun-yeong’s car was no longer visible, then entered between buildings quickly took off the bird-beak mask and walked in the opposite direction.

Just in case I informed a different hotel.

A short while later.

I arrived at the real hotel I’m staying at.

“Hashimoto··· Kichiro.”

Sitting on the edge of the bed I searched the [Contagious Disease Patient]’s name on the phone.

“Oh.”

He was the former chairman of a quite large and famous company in Japan.

The current chairman is his eldest son.

No wonder the mansion was grand, and he readily presented 1 million yen for a suspicious treatment prayer.

There is work that needs to be finished urgently, but because of the flu a hitch in the schedule so in a difficult situation was it?

I became a bit curious what kind of work, but it would be something largely unrelated to an ordinary small citizen like me.

Nationality is also different.

What I need to worry about is the psychology of a person that changes when entering and leaving the restroom.

Right now they marvel that the condition improved a lot, but as time passes they might feel the money is regrettable due to suspicion ‘wasn’t it originally getting better and felt bigger because of the placebo effect?’

Or.

This time for real ‘has a suspicious superpower!’ and get kidnapped, confined?

That mansion, it was so wide and complicated that if they decide to hide one person it seems they couldn’t find properly.

“Hmm···.”

I thought for a moment then left the room.

The next day early dawn.

I got in Lee Mun-yeong’s car at the place we parted last night.

“Hello, ‘Plague Doctor’-nim. Huh? Did you newly buy a cane? Cool.”

I nodded then sat with my waist straight.

“By any chance is somewhere uncomfortable?”

Lee Mun-yeong asked with a puzzled face.

I gestured that it’s fine and looked outside the car window.

Actually last night, I went to a famous store called Don Quijote that sells all kinds of items.

There I bought several long and short needles suitable for use as weapons, and a cane that would suit the ‘Plague Doctor’.

Whatever try to attack.

I’ll shout ‘Bloodletting’ and ‘Divine Punishment’ activation without hesitation.

Since it was still early dawn the sky was very dark.

We met Sato uncle who was waiting in front of the mansion annex, and together headed to the [Contagious Disease Patient]’s room.

There was no one in the courtyard.

“Come in everyone.”

The [Contagious Disease Patient] sitting on the bedding greeted me welcomingly.

In awkward Korean pronunciation.

I bowed then looked at the next room where Miko was.

[Contagious Disease Patient]

[Contagious Disease Patient]

The low position would be Miko.

The a bit higher one is a sitting person?

Sato uncle quietly informed.

“The chairman’s eldest son Kenichi-nim is waiting in the next room to pay respects. Until the chairman’s permission he won’t enter, so you don’t have to worry.”

Greeting at dawn 5 o’clock?

Knowing that my treatment prayer last night has an effect, and came to confirm if it’s really real?

I nodded for now, then knelt and sat next to the [Contagious Disease Patient].

[This is a Contagious Disease Patient. Do you wish to treat?]

[(Estimated MP cost 60)]

Is it because of the underlying disease originally had.

It rose again in the meantime.

The voice is also a bit hoarse again.

But thanks to the ‘Silver Cross Necklace’ equip effect the recovered MP is 54. Adding the ‘Plague Doctor Mask’ equip effect here, I can treat all at once.

[Please lie comfortably.]

I wrote and showed on the translator app.

The [Contagious Disease Patient] who was examining me with eyes full of goodwill nodded.

“Yes.”

Sato uncle helped him lie well then stepped back.

Today’s song selection is choir music.

A song with a magnificent feeling flowed, and I calmly raised my hand.

The moment I was about to make the sign of the cross.

[You must stop the wicked ritual immediately!]

A loud shout resonated from outside.

[It’s a ritual transferring the curse energy staying on the chairman to descendants! Please stop!]

Seems like that cult monk from yesterday.

What is he spouting.

“That person?”

Lee Mun-yeong muttered with a dumbfounded face, then interpreted for me.

[Chairman! What would be the reason that guy covers his face! If there is not a single shame looking up at the sky, he would have revealed his face proudly long ago! Name too! You must not fall for the trick of a person whose face you don’t know either!]

I admired.

···Wow.

This is the class of a real cultist.

I knew from when insisting a simple contagious disease is because of a curse or something.

That degree of brazenness seems to be basic quality.

As a rookie cultist let’s deeply engrave it in my heart.

[Kenichi, was he your guest?]

The [Contagious Disease Patient] asked with a hardened face. Beyond the next room door another [Contagious Disease Patient] moved.

[Sorry. However, he is not a person who says such things carelessly. Previously the Niwa family’s···.]

[Noisy. Immediately take your guest and go out.]

[Chairman···!]

Outside the cult monk spouted noisily again. Whether using a bit difficult words, Lee Mun-yeong who was interpreting tilted her head and muttered.

“Hmm··· ’s energy? Hmm? Dark clouds containing the curse energy to the west···.”

Anyway it was very noisy.

To the point there was no need to hide the skill command in the music.

While quickly making the sign of the cross I muttered.

You spout to your heart’s content.

I’ll do my work.

“Treat, yes.”

[System]

-Used ‘Plague Treatment’.

-‘Plague Treatment’ proficiency +1

-Experience +2.95%

[MP 0/130]

As soon as treatment ended the [Contagious Disease Patient] stood up abruptly.

[Kenichi! Doesn’t my words sound like words!]

Resonating.

A vigorous voice hard to believe for a sick 80-year-old elderly.

Sato uncle’s eyes widened.

[Chairman? The voice···.]

[Ah···.]

Inhale.

The [Contagious Disease Patient] largely inhaled then exhaled.

[Breathing··· has become much better.]

[The voice has also gotten better, Chairman. I will measure the temperature.]

Outside became quiet for a moment.

[I will open the door, Father. Please forgive the rudeness.]

The next room door opened smoothly.

The [Contagious Disease Patient]’s eldest son [Contagious Disease Patient]···. No, Hashimoto Kenichi came out.

Emitting the aura of a large company chairman.

“······.”

“······.”

He looked at me with a flustered face, then examined his father.

Sato uncle checked the thermometer.

[The temperature has returned to normal.]

[What···?]

[Haha, amazing, amazing. How is it, Kenichi. Even like this will you insist that I became senile and brought in a scammer? Listen to my voice. Isn’t it refreshing as if the phlegm cleanly disappeared?]

[No, how did something like this···.]

[System]

-Equipped a stick.

-Can use skill ‘Divine Punishment’.

I held the cane I had placed beside and stood up.

[This is a Contagious Disease Patient. Do you wish to treat?]

[(Estimated MP cost 40)]

At least the son seems to have a light cold.

Aaaah~.

Click.

I turned off the music where beautiful harmonies were stacking.

[I will call the attending physician immediately. Until the results come out···.]

[Kenichi. Now that you sat in the chairman position do I look ridiculous?]

[Sorry, Father. But···.]

Fitting the person who called the cult monk, Hashimoto Kenichi’s eyes were full of suspicion toward me.

Suspicion that the father who was extremely unwell recovered overnight, whether I really used wicked tricks like the cult monk said.

Wearing pitch-black clothes from head to toe, and a bird-beak mask with color in the lenses so I would look more like a cultist than their own monk.

Hmm, I understand.

[Chairman, will you even bring the wicked energy of the West into the household? It must not be! It is a matter that must not be!]

The cult monk started spouting again.

[Kenichi.]

[···Yes.]

Hashimoto Kenichi who was hesitating stood up and passed by my side. And opened the two doors connected to the passage and courtyard in succession.

The cult monk was standing holding a staff with a thoroughly hardened face.

[Sorry, mo···.]

[In the end···!]

The cult monk looked at Grandfather Hashimoto sitting upright, then glared at me.

[In the end you bastard!]

How much was he planning to receive to perform such passionate acting.

Lee Mun-yeong made an unpleasant expression, then said toward Sato uncle and Grandfather Hashimoto.

[Since the treatment prayer has ended, I will escort the ‘Plague Doctor’-nim and go now.]

It was also an expression of not wanting to deal with the cult monk directly.

[Sorry. If the uninvited guest is cleaned up and it becomes quiet, may I invite again then?]

After hearing Lee Mun-yeong’s interpretation I shook my head.

[Hehe, regrettable. Sato, please see them off well.]

[Yes, Chairman.]

I moved with Lee Mun-yeong and Sato uncle.

When will you give the money···.

Clang!

The cult monk’s staff blocked in front of me.

[You must not send like this, Chairman.]

[Kenichi, not yet?]

[Sorry, Father. Monk, sorry but···.]

Uh uh, at this rate he’ll hit a person?

[At least confirm the face and send. Only then when a problem arises can find this guy···.]

[Hey. Listening listening so···!]

[Don’t touch!]

Clang!

The moment Lee Mun-yeong who couldn’t watch stepped forward, the cult monk shook the staff threateningly.

This cult bastard?

Gradually I also got annoyed, and pushed his staff with the cane I was holding as if tapping.

Move, ma···.

Sssk.

A faint blue light flowed from my hand, and wrapped the cane in an instant.

[System]

-‘False One’ has been detected.

-‘Divine Punishment’ activates.

The cult monk flew 2m.

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