The Outer God Needs Warmth – Chapter 61

The Outer God Religion began a witch hunt.

But they couldn’t immediately find and kill the witch as desired.

Considering that the current era is close to early modern times, it’s not that strange.

There is magic in this world, but it’s divided into fragments, so magic is rarely seen except for some privileged classes.

The most important point here is that the speed of information transmission is slow.

Most information moves at the speed of people walking.

The fortunate thing is that although the speed is slow, the spread range is wide.

If there’s an Outer God Religion, everyone knows.

Because the holy land is a place where all Outer God Religion believers in the world gather.

The subjects carrying the stories are pilgrims visiting the Kingdom of Anselus.

They talk with people gathered there while waiting to receive blessings at the holy land. Then they hear about the witch hunt and return home.

Rebecca actually aimed for this and created a system modeled after some religion to make her words spread far.

She won this religious war. She took the opportunity to spread her words along with the good news.

Originally, Rebecca created the holy land and had people write in the guestbook for this purpose.

Once, when something entered her body and was moving, Rebecca learned these things while watching a man’s memories.

There was a strange world in the memories.

The most interesting thing was the history he saw and learned.

A story of how one world flowed.

Actually, Rebecca didn’t intend to dig deeply into other worlds.

But the Outer God’s memories she peeped at were mostly filled with overwhelmingly empty void.

And it was full of memories of humans going crazy without even being able to scream in a place so empty it could make one vomit. And above all, the cold that was more painful than having one’s heart ripped out by a strange device piercing the chest.

Rebecca felt like she would go crazy watching that. So Rebecca forcibly looked more at when the Outer God was human.

So she gained various kinds of memories.

Half a year was a short time, but since she had completely lost control of her body, she had a lot of time to focus.

No, rather, if she didn’t focus on those memories for just a little while, she had to see memories of humans going crazy, or completely crazy, so Rebecca clung to it without even resting.

And suddenly she regained her body.

Though she knew what the Outer God’s identity was, she spewed words that would make Yasle suffer.

At the moment when Yasle finally collapsed and Joanna died.

She recalled one witch, but at that time she left the place because she didn’t want to be near the pseudo-religion anymore.

The world is very harsh for a girl to live alone.

But what if you have special abilities?

In her chest was a heart made by the Outer God. When it starts rotating in earnest, it consumes a tremendous amount of calories, but it can use power strong enough to defeat not only armed bandit groups but also fairly powerful armies.

Rather, thinking how well she pretended to be weak while having such a heart, she lived her life.

But she realized something was strange with her body after finding a good person, marrying, and having a child.

Fortunately, the child was an ordinary person, but Rebecca didn’t age.

People reject what’s different from themselves.

The villagers gradually came to regard her with uneasiness. So eventually she moved, almost driven out, to a place slightly away from the village.

Rebecca can instantly destroy dangerous beasts or bandit groups if they attack. So the villagers didn’t want her to leave the village.

But she was someone they didn’t want to see in the village. So they sent her to a remote place away from the village.

Still, since her child lived in the village, Rebecca didn’t care much.

As time passed and her child grew up, and her grandchild became an adult. She almost stopped going to the village.

The village had grown to some extent and no longer needed her power, and if she went, there were more people who called her a disgusting monster than those who treated her warmly.

That was fine until then.

But one day.

A bad harvest came. The forests dried up, much of the food people ate disappeared, and strange diseases spread.

One more year of bad harvest.

And when it came again for another year.

That year, one day. When Rebecca entered the village for some business, the villagers attacked her, spreading the crazy logic that since she alone was young and healthy, if they ate her they could survive.

Rebecca, running away saying they had gone completely mad from hunger, saw something very strange.

At the butcher shop, something that looked like the upper half of a human body was hanging, said to be meat that could cure all diseases.

And nearby. In a bubbling pot, a human arm floated up. But the appearance of that hand was very familiar. She approached as if possessed and overturned that pot.

Human corpses spilled out.

And it was her child. And when she saw the tiny hand of her grandchild, who had once, just once, tightly grasped three of her fingers, under that lump of meat.

Rebecca lost her reason.

Rebecca didn’t think of them as monsters.

She thought they did that because they were human.

Because since her heart doesn’t beat, she thought she was no longer human.

What’s on the opposite side of something not human is human. Therefore, they are human. She is a monster.

Monster and human.

There was no reason to hesitate.

It didn’t even take half a day to turn the place that was once a village into a plain with only soil and sand.

She blankly looked at the bare ground where not even ruins remained, then moved her steps. Instead of returning home, she wandered here and there like someone looking for a place to die.

She saw the sight of people eating people many times.

While wandering the world where 3 years of famine occurred, she really thought people were the problem.

Thinking logically, that’s strange.

No matter how emotionally she viewed it, she defined humans as those who did anything to survive in extreme situations.

But she didn’t think logically.

She wanted to vent her hatred.

She decided to call the worst monster she knew. A monster that knows people too well because it was once human.

Referring to that Outer God’s memories, she made plans for the Outer God to devour all people.

This happened before Rebecca entered the Outer God Religion.

And her search for Hyunkeshuni wasn’t out of pure revenge.

Rather, the opposite.

It’s because she predicted she would interfere with her plans.

She knows Yasle and Hyunkeshuni had a relationship.

And she remembers Yasle removing the Outer God from her body.

She guessed with high probability that Hyunkeshuni has a way to send back the Outer God. So Rebecca decided to eliminate Hyunkeshuni.

Coincidentally, she was also the enemy of Dakota who was moving like her hands and feet, so it was killing two birds with one stone.

But do all things in the world flow as people intend?

The witch hunt changed differently from what she wanted.

Most people don’t have strong feelings about Hyunkeshuni.

Because a figure who gave hardship to the Outer God appears every time they pray, they can hate without hating.

The expression is strange, but it’s close to habitually hating because it’s originally a name to hate, even though there’s no particular emotion emotionally.

Originally, the Kingdom of Anselus was far from Hyunkeshuni’s area of activity. So stories about witches were at most stories that bad witches live in deep forests.

In short, it was someone else’s business.

And the story of the Outer God Religion defeating the Holy Spirit Religion was more important.

The fact that the Holy Spirit directly erased those who believed in the Outer God Religion even a little was more important. The fact that those who preached morality right next to them turned out to be bad guys. And an opportunity to legally beat those bad guys?

The witch hunt transformed into a Holy Spirit Religion hunt.

They burned Holy Spirit Religion items and caught and killed those who were priests.

Hatred spread quickly like fire on dry fields, riding on the witch hunt festival.

In an instant, traces of the Holy Spirit Religion disappeared from the streets and the Outer God Religion took their place.

This happened in all places east of the Skard Desert.

That doesn’t mean Rebecca’s intentions were completely buried.

Hatred wasn’t easily erased.

People killed Holy Spirit Religion believers under the pretext of punishing Hyunkeshuni. It spread so widely that not only Outer God Religion people but also people who didn’t particularly believe in gods habitually used the phrase “punishing Hyunkeshuni”.

After several years, it reached the witch’s hermitage in the middle of the deep forest of Adu Jungle, west of the Kogni Kingdom, where the Luminous Theocratic State once was.

Hyunkeshuni was very displeased.

Because people held festivals saying they were punishing Hyunkeshuni.

But by the time it reached Hyunkeshuni, the witch hunt festival wasn’t just an event burning things related to the Holy Spirit Religion.

It had become an event mixed with folk beliefs where they put old or disposable things in the middle of the village, made dolls out of straw calling them Hyunkeshuni, beat them, then burned them with the things.

She might have been scared if they were burning Holy Spirit Religion believers. But such folk beliefs were extremely unpleasant to Hyunkeshuni.

People she didn’t even know attached her name to dolls, cursed and beat them, then set them on fire. And around that, they held festivals eating and drinking, saying they defeated the witch.

An evil-warding festival.

The witch hunt festival changed into that kind of event over time.

It became a simple festival.

Again, Hyunkeshuni was extremely displeased.

So she cursed and killed everyone in the village where she first discovered it. And she repeated that several times over several years.

She just cursed and killed to resolve her displeasure at that time and forgot about it. Since she had lived like that originally, there was nothing special.

But.

Dakota’s hatred reached Hyunkeshuni.

Barely, the Outer God Religion caught Hyunkeshuni’s tail.

And the Outer God Religion sent official documents to the Religion’s branch in that area to catch and kill Hyunkeshuni. And the Outer God Religion headquarters sent a legion of experts gathered to catch such people.

The person at the forefront was a tall beauty with blue skin and purple hair. It was Dakota.

She was a saintess of the Outer God Religion and a war hero who survived the war with the Holy Spirit Religion. Of course, they called her with words like patron saintess, but the essence was the same.

It means she wasn’t just someone who was there, but someone who fought in earnest.

The woman who lived her life solely for revenge on Hyunkeshuni moved.

Now, people moving to exterminate witches increased in that area including the Kogni Kingdom.

Wherever Hyunkeshuni goes, information about Hyunkeshuni circulates in villages she visits. And capable people began to station at Outer God Religion churches to catch and kill her.

Even if she tries to wreak havoc as usual, people appear to exterminate her.

Her curses are gradually being analyzed and blocked from the root, and people searching for her near her hermitage are increasing.

On Hyunkeshuni’s lips, very slightly.

A smile appeared.