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We moved away from the area where the black soup was infested.

At the same time, the screams of the immortal spirits also became weaker.

“The afterlife is a world where the karma that one has achieved during life is accumulated and judged.”

Listening to the words of the self-proclaimed messenger, it seemed similar to the underworld I expected.

Each sin accumulates and you are punished by death.

“I don’t want to be punished.”

“If you don’t want to be reborn, all you have to do is stay in the afterlife.”

“Oh, really?”

“My mother, whom the spirit body here misses, must have found life in this world quite difficult and chose to live in the afterlife. We are settling in an underworld village where spirit beings gather.”

“It’s interesting that there are some people who are never reborn.”

The afterlife was also a world where someone lived.

Even though it was full of only dead spiritual bodies.

“But it looks like we decided to find the soul vessel first… The place we’re going to is the village where Margaret’s mother is?”

“Ah.. That’s because my mother and the bowl are together in that village. Hehehe.”

“Aren’t these vessels stuck on the floor the vessels of the soul?”

I asked, looking closely at the bronze bowl spinning on my finger.

“Say..Is there any way you can get it so easily? What we are looking for is not just a vessel, but a vessel of the soul. It’s not easy to find!”

“Hmm.. It looks suspicious..”

Judging by the loud reaction, it seemed likely that what he had just said was a lie.

So, just in case, I decided to ask Aphrodite.

“Aphrodite. Is this the vessel of the soul?”

“After checking, there is spiritual energy that traps something. This might be what we are looking for. Let me take care of it.”

After hearing Aphrodite’s words, I looked at the spirit guide and saw that he was whistling and looking at a distant mountain.

Did he really fall into that black bath because he suffered something unfair? I was a little suspicious.

It seemed to me that the strange actions just like before had accumulated and piled up, leading me to fall into the black bath.

“Uh! I can see it over there! I can feel your missing spirit in that village.”

The spirit leading the way suddenly made a fuss and walked forward.

I felt like I was being scammed, but since I was still feeling the blue energy, I decided to trust him a little more for now.

-Hwiiing…

After passing through a road full of sharp stones, the spirits finally gathered and arrived at a village.

“It’s a strange town.”

One house is a huge building. Next to it is a small thatched house and a wooden house. And next to it, a space station half the size of the village was blocking the sky.

“The spirits gathered in the underworld are people who have experienced different lives and faced death. So the houses you stay in are all different.”

“Then…”

“Yes, your mother must have that mansion.”

The place the guide spirit pointed to was a mansion where a nobleman lived.

When Margaret looked at the mansion, she slowly raised her hand and grasped it, as if it reminded her of the past.

“Mother.. didn’t forget her family even after she died..”

“You will only find out when you meet. Coincidentally, the vessel of the soul is here.”

The self-proclaimed lion explained to Margaret and showed me a bronze bowl.

“That bowl is the same as the one I picked up earlier.”

“It looks similar, but it is different. This can hold more spiritual bodies. If you look here, doesn’t the blue look a little darker? This is a vessel of the soul that can only come from the tragic underworld!”

“…”

Just as he said, it was a vessel with a darker bronze color.

Even the same bowl had different grades.

It seemed like a fraudster who said something true but mixed it with lies.

Although it was shameful to say only vaguely correct things, it was true that I was able to reach this village with his help.

So, as the goal was achieved, the spirit body’s mission was completed. So I decided to send it quickly.

I felt like I would get scammed again if we continued to be together.

“I finished these two tasks.”

It was a spirit body that said it had just finished its work.

After hearing what he said, I decided to leave right away.

“Good. Go now.”

“There is still one wish left.”

“Um… I don’t need it right now.”

“Is that so? Well then… if we meet next time, we will make it happen then.”

With those words, the guide’s spirit body jumped up into the sky and faded away.

“Somehow… I feel like I’ve met Kiyeon, but I feel uneasy..”

“This is the afterlife. I will never meet that spirit again. You don’t have to worry that much.”

“Well.. I like it. Let’s go to the mansion right away.”

Margaret nodded.

Her dead eyes seemed to come back to life.

I headed to the mansion.

“It’s clear that the mansion is just an illusion, but I feel strange seeing it again after 50 years..”

“Is this the house where Margaret lived when she was young? I lived well.”

“The father, the head of the family, was a count. So I never went hungry.”

As I entered the mansion’s garden, I saw that it was filled with numerous spiritual bodies.

“I was betrayed by the colleague I trusted the most on the ship. Cluck..”

“I see. After returning from my last mission with an assassination organization, I was buried alive when the building collapsed on the spot.”

“Only that much? Captain Nan’s plan turned the space station itself into a testing ground. I had no choice but to shoot the rail gun at my beloved lover who had changed…”

It wasn’t a place to show off stories, but everyone was talking about their own bad endings.

“It seems like everyone had an extremely scary experience.. Compared to that, I was nothing.. As soon as I was born.. the thatched house caught fire.. and I burned to death. I think maybe my dad started the fire because I inherited my mom’s blood..”

“Keuhm..”

“Such a tragedy!”

“Oh my…oh my god…”

“You must be reborn quickly.”

It felt really affectionate to see everyone looking at each other and comparing their last moments.

Although we may have lived in different worlds and spaces, we all felt the same thing in our hearts.

“Hmm? This is my first time seeing a spirit body. What have you been through?”

“Me?”

A pirate cosplay spirit with both normal eyes but wearing an eyepatch looked at me.

“Okay. You.”

“I.. So..”

Have I ever been the worst?

As I thought about it, I remembered myself right before I got the summoning app.

“It was a world where men born into the world became sex criminals. So, I could not meet a single woman and only had daughters..”

“Ugh.. He was born as a man and died without knowing who he was as a woman!”

“It’s a world where people are forced to leave no descendants. It’s a tragedy.”

“Before I was experimented on… I did a lot with Polly… but I couldn’t do that good thing and died of starvation. Tsk.”

There didn’t seem to be any bad guys among the spirits gathered here.

Everyone comforted me and seemed to understand my feelings.

Of course, only Margaret was glaring at me, but I cleared my throat and rushed into the mansion.

Margaret followed me.

“I didn’t know such a situation existed. There was a reason why I lusted after Yera’s body.”

“Keuhm.. well.. of course..”

I thought it was Margaret who was suspicious, but now I see that she looked at me pitifully, just like the other spirits.

“If I go back to the physical body, I will let you feel it with my body.”

“Good!”

I answered right away and made an appointment to have sex.

“Did I say something wrong..”

“Tsk tsk tsk! No softness!”

I made an X with my arms and kept the promise she made earlier.

“Margaret..”

“…”

As we entered the entrance of the mansion, we saw a spirit that had met us.

Margaret looked at the spirit body silently without saying anything.

“My daughter..”

“Is it your mom?”

Margaret asked, looking at her mother as if evaluating her.

“Yes.. But.. Margaret. Why are you here..”

“I came to meet you… Because the man called your father made you die…”

“Margaret..”

“…I missed you. Mom.”

Margaret and her mother grew closer and embraced each other.

In the meantime, I quietly moved out of the way.

“How..how..did you come to the afterlife..”

“I learned necromancy and came to the underworld..”

“You can’t believe you did that… You’re really the same as when you were young.”

The two seemed to have a lot to talk about.

The stubborn daughter worked hard for decades to meet her mother, and it seemed like the mother was also waiting in this underworld, missing her daughter.

“It’s a touching reunion.”

“When did you come?”

“That is now.”

A spirit figure calling itself a messenger who had left a little while ago suddenly appeared next to me.

Perhaps because it was the afterlife, it was difficult to feel who was approaching or where something was disappearing or something appearing.

“Seeing things like this makes me want to continue being the Grim Reaper.”

“You can do it.”

“Hehe. That’s why it does the opposite. I threw away the lion’s name plate.”

“At first, you said you fell into the bath because of something unfair.. I don’t know about anything else, but I think you shouldn’t buy it.”

“I think so too.”

Quick recognition.

As expected, there seemed to be a lot of really unique spirit bodies in the afterlife.

We stayed at Margaret’s house for a while.

The two were even able to hear about the past and why their mother was executed.

“Wasn’t he unfairly put on death row…”

“I loved the Count. I wanted him to live and raise my daughters well.. Now seeing Margaret come to see me like this. It was right that I died instead of the Count.”

“To protect the Count… I came to you like this without even knowing…”

“I’m sorry, Margaret… No matter what the Count did, he couldn’t explain why the family’s secret magic had fallen below the kingdom. So I had no choice but to become the witch controlling the Count.”

“Whatever happened to the Count… he hid the fact from me. It’s too much.”

“I’m sorry. Margaret..”

The two talked the truth and unraveled what was on their minds one by one.

“After listening to the words of that spirit, the Count’s sins will become even greater.”

“Have you gone yet?”

“After I left and thought about it… I had no time to go anymore, so I came down to this tragic underworld again.”

It seemed like I had saved this spirit for no reason.

Something was sticking next to me and didn’t seem to want to let go.

“Would you ever consider going back to where you originally lived?”

“Where to go back?”

“Yes, haha… This is the lions’ main home, so if you stay there for too long, you will be caught. It would be better to go back soon.”

It seemed like this spirit was planning to escape from the underworld with me.

‘Is it time to stop cutting losses?’

Although he was giving off a blue energy to me, it seemed like dangerous things would happen if we went out into this world together.

“I have one last request.”

“Oh..what is your last request?”

“Please re-enter the black bath that you missed earlier.”

“Yes..?”

“That is my last request~ Lion.”

When the spirit heard my last request, it rolled its eyes suspiciously.