31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 80)
A terrible thing that happened in the twilight village.
The villagers there were obsessed with false beliefs and captured foreigners and offered them as sacrifices to their gods..
Snowfall's group wiped out the village in the process, and Karen was temporarily unable to respond to the external attack due to psychological shock..
Afterwards, a man who was a shadowy figure in the dusk village appeared and chased after Kang Seol. In the process, Kang Seol, who had to deal with the man with only Jammad, chose to run away. It floated all the way to the mist village..
‘The guy came.’
A demon-like person who embodies hell.
Its power was not great compared to the enemies that Snowfall had encountered so far, but the fact that one person's unclean influence had stained the entire village was enough to warrant caution..
Because the malice was the most terrible..
‘How did they chase me? There would be no trace left.’
It made no sense to pursue it along the waterway. If there was an evil tracking technique, they would have noticed it right away..
“Give it to me….”
The severed head of the monster at Snowfall's feet kept saying something..
The monster's body was slippery, like rags covered in slime, but its head had a human face, making it even more repulsive..
Snowfall paused for a moment as she watched it..
“…for a moment.”
“why?”
Chorak.
Snowfall opened Chao's scroll..
The face of the man drawn there.
And now, the face of the monster beneath the snowfall.
“…Looks similar.”
“what? where!”
Karen approached Kangseol and looked at the scroll together. And she also nodded at his words..
“Really? They really look alike!”
“This monster was the target?”
- omg; My whole body is burned, what should I do with the medicine?!
- I even burned up all the medicine.
- But where did you hide the medicine??
- pocket!
- I don't have any pockets?
‘No, something is strange..’
The more I looked at the face, the more it resembled the picture on the scroll..
However, the probability that this ghost of the fog had a sleeping pill seemed infinitely low..
“Give it to me….”
“What does this head keep saying??”
“Shhh, be quiet..”
Snowfall bent her knees and approached the severed head. Then I heard the words in his head quite clearly..
“Give it back to me….”
After hearing those words, Kang Seol’s expression hardened..
“Why, what are you saying??”
“I want it back.”
“what?”
The severed head suddenly became stiff and did not move..
Kang Seol told Karen exactly what he had just heard..
“face... I want it back.”
“…this.”
[‘The main content of 'Sleeping Medicine' will be changed..]
[‘‘Sleeping Medicine’ is changed to ‘Face Collector’.]
Adventure 12-1. 'Face Collector’
You have arrived at Water Mist Village to fulfill Chao's request. It seemed like all I had to do was find someone and retrieve the medicine, but what seemed to be going smoothly continued to go wrong..
The fog disease that has spread to the nearby village has created another infected person in Water Mist Village, and the monster you faced in Dusk Village before coming to Water Mist Village has appeared near the village..
This monster's face looked exactly like the one depicted on the scroll, and it spoke like a human. Even as the monster was dying, he completed one sentence.
‘give me back my face.’
To get to the truth, you must find the one who took this monster's face.
Goal: Achieve the goal written on the scroll.
Chao's favorability decreases when the goal is not achieved..
Current remaining time: approximately 10 days」
The adventure goal of retrieving the sleeping medicine written on Chao's scroll has not changed, but most of the content has changed..
A day after encountering the monster, Snowfall's worries continued until nightfall..
“Stealing my face, is it really true??”
“Probably true. Considering that we haven't been able to find the person written on the scroll so far,.”
“damn… If this is the case, how can I find it??”
Come on.
Karen complained and pushed the chair with her foot..
“No, on the contrary, I learned something..”
“what?”
Kang Seol crossed his arms and said what he was thinking..
“Remember the assumptions we made in the beginning?”
“Someone with medicine would have spread the disease? The drug itself may be the cause of the disease.….”
“And if you made a bottle, of course you have the solution to it..”
“surely. People who value other people's lives always cherish their own lives..”
“That's right. Then, if we find him, there is a hope that this situation will calm down to some extent..”
Karen listened to Kang Seol's reasoning and agreed..
Kang Seol continued speaking..
“The problem is how to find this bastard. But fortunately, I have the guy's face drawn by Chao..”
“That's the face of the monster from earlier….”
“You asked me to turn my face back, right? Even though it has a face?”
“It did.”
“Why did he say that? I already have a face, but asking for it back….”
“You changed it.!”
“They were forced to exchange it. Well, I guess that’s what it means..”
Karen, who was listening to Kang Seol's story, got excited and nodded her head furiously..
“and? also?”
“If we look back at Chao's words left in the scroll, she told us to go to the Water Mist Village and even told us that this face was the goal..”
“I'm sure he was in Water Mist Village..”
“Yes, and we received the scroll from her a month or two ago, so she saw the target long before she handed us the scroll..”
“That's what Chao had on his face when he saw him.!”
“that's right.”
Karen slams the table! and pounded.
And then he got up and looked at the snowfall and said.
“In the end, my first thought was right! He might still be here. With your face changed.”
“okay.”
“However, it's not normal for the villagers to notice when he changes his face.?”
“I don't know, maybe I learned illusionism or necromancy... Or maybe there is some other knowledge. Even in simple mental magic, there are a lot of things that can easily cause cognitive impairment..”
In the meantime, while staying in the village, Snowfall's insight was never activated..
‘Even insight is not omnipotent yet..’
Since the flowering of insight had not yet progressed, it was not possible to catch all the problems..
Currently, very simple magic can be easily seen through, but there is a possibility that higher level magic, especially camouflage magic, may not be recognized..
‘How do I find him? Now, I'm running out of time.’
I was not in a very leisurely situation as I had already wasted about 15 days. Still, the only positive thing was that since we had gotten to the core of the problem, all we had to do was come up with an answer..
‘I wonder if we should at least gather all the villagers and cross-examine them.….’
Thump, thump, thump!
Kang Seol, who was worried, turned her attention to the sound she heard outside the door..
A voice was heard from outside the door..
“…This is Gunt. Are you at your seat??”
“You are Mr. Gunt. For some reason….”
It's good…
When Kang Seol opened the door, Gunt was standing there with a miserable expression. The feeling of desperate sadness on that face made Karen and Kang Seol uneasy..
“Miss Sarah… I fell asleep.”
“sleep… If you sleep?”
“My condition got worse..”
“then….”
“Now, there is no obvious way. Miss Sarah will probably spend the rest of her life sleeping. Even that… Although it is a short life. Now, follow me..”
Snowfall went with Karen to where Sarah was..
She was sleeping like the dead in her bed..
All the villagers who were not sick came out to see her last time..
“Sarah, how could this bright child….”
“God is so indifferent, he took this poor child away..”
“I don't have any family to take care of me, so what should I do out of pity?….”
Gunt sat next to Sarah, who was sleeping peacefully..
and started talking.
“Miss Sarah, I must confess now that I am a coward, but I gained a lot of strength from looking at you..”
People listened to Gunt's confession from a distance away..
“Like Sarah, I was also an orphan. I hated the world and blamed my fate. I thought that was natural. As if I was born with an unfortunate fate, so I think I have the right to complain..”
Gunt shook his head..
“But Sarah was different. Miss Sarah made many people happy just by her presence and overcame misfortune with great strength. You made me realize so many things just by your actions..”
Snowfall and Karen felt Gunt's sincerity every time he sobbed. A feeling of fondness for someone that goes beyond the doctor's love for the patient..
Sasak…
months…
Next to him, the youngest girl in the water mist village was drawing a picture..
It was Gunt and Sarah..
“Are you drawing a picture??”
“Yes, brother.”
“why? why are you drawing?”
“Because I want to leave it behind. When sick people fall asleep, they draw pictures..”
“You have good intentions..”
“huh. This way, even if you never see it, you can remember it. I already have a lot of pictures like this piled up at home. I'll show you when you come to my house..”
The more pictures there are, the more sick people are falling asleep. Snowfall became confused as she saw the village child talking about it so casually..
Sasak…
buy…
“huh?”
“what's the matter?”
“no… This is good... Umm… Because it wasn't drawn.”
The child tilted his head, pondered with the art supplies in his mouth, and then began drawing again..
That image caught Kang Seol’s attention and he too saw the picture the child was completing..
“I'm good at drawing?”
“huh! So her mother saved a lot of money and sent it to Audenin. She can learn properly if she goes there..”
“You are a good mother..”
“Yes, come on! Done! I want to see you?”
“where.”
Snowfall accepted the child's drawing.
A gravely drawn picture of Sarah sleeping soundly and Gunt weeping..
In the uncolored picture, Snowfall felt many different emotions..
Pure admiration for such excellent skills that I wonder if this is a child's drawing..
In the picture, Sarah seems to be just sleeping, but in reality, she is heading towards the process of death, which creates a feeling of disconnection..
And, strange.
“…uh?”
“why? Let me see too.”
Karen didn't want to be depressed anymore, so Kang Seol took over the picture in her hand..
“…uh?”
And it showed the same reaction as Kangseol’s reaction..
[Sensitivity is triggered..]
[It's a disparate picture..]
Just in time, the insight was triggered, and Jiang Seol was convinced that this feeling was not due to an illusion..
the face was different.
Gunt's face, not Sarah's.
Gunt's face depicted in the picture was the same face that appeared in Chao's scroll..
Snowfall calmly put down the picture and asked the child..
“This is Mr. Gunt.?”
“huh!”
“Why did you draw Mr. Gunt like this??”
“huh? Why??”
The child pointed at Gunt, who was still sobbing..
“It looks like this?”
With a stern expression, Kang Seol patted the child’s head once and then handed him the picture..
And I hinted to Karen.
“Sometimes you get lucky like this.”
“I know? I just thought I had bad luck.”
Then, Karen and I approached Sarah's bed where Gunt was..
Gunt was still sobbing, tears streaming down his face..
“Miss Sarah, please next time... black….”
“…Mr. Gunt.”
“Black sends Miss Sera... crab… It's not easy. sorry. Just a little more, just a little more….”
“Mr. Gunt. I have something to ask.”
“Black… Black… It's difficult now. Why are you being so rude??”
Gunt raised his head in anger at the rude snowfall. And then I saw his cold expression.
“why did you do that?”
“what….”
“Karen.”
whilick-!
Karen wrapped Sarah's cloth around her and held her in her arms. And put it down gently behind her..
The villagers were frightened by their incomprehensible radical actions..
“Wow! Why are you doing this to Sarah?!”
“You-all! Why is it suddenly like this?!”
Gunt asked Kang Seol with a dumbfounded look on his face..
“…what are you doing?”
“Miss Sarah, why did you do that to the villagers??”
“Black… Are you doubting me now??”
“Please answer.”
Gunt lowered his head and cried..
“Okay… Black… Black… why… black….”
And the crying gradually became more bizarre..
“Black… Black… Hehehe… Hee hee hee hee! why!”
He got up and looked at the snowfall..
Gunt's eyes turned red..
“Why did I get caught??”
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