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056 – Hyde, casts out a ghost from a woman’s body! # 2

When I was young.

I had heard a shocking story.

The story was that my favorite strawberry milk actually contained bugs!

I thought it was a lie.

But it was real.

Strawberry milk contains coloring made from bugs!

Is that still the case?

anyway.

That’s when I learned about these ‘cochineal bugs’.

It is also true that these were used as luxurious dyes in the olden days after quite careful processing.

Floating─.

These insects were floating on the well water, which was stained red like blood. Although it was mixed with water, when I touched it with my hand, the bug itself was dry.

It is not simply dried, but dried through a complex process in a high temperature and dry environment.

“The technology is good.”

He must be someone who knows a lot about bugs.

And he was smart enough to know the secret of dyeing that had been used since ancient Inca times.

Also, it must be someone who approached the well.

“Didn’t Miss Lucy disappear saying she had to draw water from the well?”

I looked around.

Lucy Emma was nowhere to be seen.

“Curse!”

“Ma, it’s a witch’s curse! It must be a terrible curse!”

“This convent is truly cursed! Everyone needs to get out of here!”

“The well is polluted! What do we drink now to survive!”

The nuns’ panic grew.

Everyone is making an uproar that they should abandon this convent.

aha-.

I felt like I had a clue here.

But before that, I felt like I needed to calm down the nuns first.

“Everyone, please calm down! This isn’t real blood, it’s just red water! There’s nothing to be scared of!”

It’s similar to strawberry milk.

The taste may be different, but you won’t die if you eat it.

Of course, just in case, you should leave the well until it is purified.

“Shut up!”

“What do you know! Do you know more about blood than us women? That’s blood! Heee!”

Fuck.

Women in panic had a way of being this annoying.

Very annoying.

I want to take out the mask and make it quiet.

But that wasn’t possible.

On this cramped island, where I am the only male, becoming Rust would be like openly promoting my true identity.

Of course, there were many ways to avoid being found out, but I didn’t want to transform in front of Psyche.

“What, it’s not real blood?”

Sze-.

At that time, Milione bravely stepped forward and touched the well water in the bowl with her hand.

Milione, who often got his hands dirty with blood, seemed to realize that this was not real blood.

Do you feel reassured at times like this?

“Tch, it would have been better if it was real blood.”

After all, you are a crazy bitch.

Soon Psyche also took a sip of water.

“It looks like there is no such thing as poison. It’s just red water. Who on earth did this? It looks like this bug or something is the problem─.”

As expected, Psyche was quick-witted.

I spoke without hesitation because I had guessed the criminal and his intentions.

“Psyche, please call me Miss Lucy Emma.”

Few people have approached the well this morning.

And I felt like I had some idea of Lucy Emma’s purpose.

Lucy Emma.

She was not possessed by a demon.

And as I expected, it wasn’t tics or Tourette’s.

He’s just a liar.

I really believed in Lucy Emma.

You’re trying to play a prank on me by taking advantage of my trust.

It’s unacceptable.

guiltiness!

# # #

“Heehee.”

Lucy Emma felt good.

It was because he had troubled the bad girl Anemone.

Anemone was a bad girl.

She was a woman who secretly went to the beach every night and recited blasphemous prayers.

‘Anemone was definitely a witch! But no one believed me!’

Lucy was called a liar by people.

No one believed Lucy.

Childhood─.

This was because Lucy, who wanted to get people’s attention, lied to various people, causing people to hate her.

Now Anemone greatly tormented and scolded Lucy for doubting herself. Lucy had to do daily chores, say boring prayers, be beaten, and whipped.

‘But Hyde believed me! I scolded the anemone! And he said he would get me off this island! ‘This is the first time anyone has ever believed in me!’

Lucy had never been outside this island or convent since she was born. The nuns either came to the island or left, but only Lucy could not leave the island.

I’ll probably have to stay confined to the island until the day I die.

‘I also want to go to the mainland. At the very least, I want to go to another convent! Why do I have to stay in this convent? Director Midnar won’t let me out either!’

Lucy studied the outside world only using ‘books’.

Great Evangelism.

High acidity.

Even beautiful meadows and fields were just words, not experiences and scenery, to Lucy.

‘I want to see it in person too! ‘Not in words, but in real life!’

So Lucy made a plan.

A plan to get out of this convent.

Lucy wanted to go to the mainland and see the cathedral and eat something called ice cream.

I wanted to see the dogs and see the sheep.

In particular, what ignited a fire in her heart was the book “The Demonic Sword,” which she had accidentally picked up not long ago.

The stories of the people written there were embarrassing, but they made me feel that they were all living hard lives.

Everyone was living really hard.

Lucy thought her life was at a standstill and she couldn’t stand being sad.

‘I’m going to leave this island too! And by now, everyone would have been shocked and turned upside down, right? You’ll think it’s a curse. The curse of Rust! ‘You’ll think so!’

A foreign book I read a long time ago.

There, I discovered a way to make blood-red water using bugs, and I thought it was a very amazing thing.

They used it to decorate the well as if it had been cursed with blood.

To someone who doesn’t know you, it will look like you’ve really been cursed.

Then the nuns would abandon this convent, and it was clear that Lucy would also be able to escape this convent and the damn stone island.

‘They say Rust is an omnipotent man. It would be easy to curse the wells on this island. I’m just borrowing Rust’s name for a moment!’

“Puhuhuh.”

It was a time when I was smiling alone while thinking that.

Someone knocked on Lucy’s door.

“Who?”

“Miss Lucy, this is Psyche!”

Psyche.

He was one of Lucy’s favorite people. Psyche was kind, pure, and one of Lucy’s friends who listened well.

“Psyche! What happened! I was going to ask you to go eat breakfast together, but it worked out!”

“Miss Lucy, I didn’t come for breakfast. Miss Lucy, did you lie to me?”

“Lie? No!”

Lucy was heartbroken, but shook her head.

Psyche looked at Lucy with narrow eyes.

These were the eyes shown by those who had once doubted Lucy.

“I want to believe that too, but. Lucy, it’s better for you to be honest from now on. Because there is someone in the world who can help Miss Lucy. You shouldn’t even lie to people like that. It may not be what I want to say, but… .”

Saying that, Psyche led Lucy somewhere.

Stone chapel.

There all the nuns were sitting solemnly, and the fearsome Mother Superior Midnar was holding a whip in her hand.

‘Hi!’

Lucy was a little surprised inside.

This was because the atmosphere was too strict and scary.

‘Has it been discovered that you contaminated the well water?

It felt like cold sweat was running down my back.

But I wasn’t worried.

Because Lucy had a secret weapon.

‘Just play the mentally ill and you’ll be fine!’

book.

According to what I read in the book that Director Midnar brought with him when he took office, there was research on mental illness that involves telling nonsense.

Director Midnar was a person who viewed ‘possessed people’ as ‘mentally ill’, and Lucy took advantage of that to gain sympathy and people’s attention by acting as a mentally ill person.

‘Even Hyde sympathized with me!’

When Director Midnar was about to whip Lucy.

Hyde stepped forward and protected Lucy.

Lucy was very moved because it was her first time doing something like that.

“Miss Lucy.”

Hyde called out to Lucy in front of the chair placed in the center of the chapel’s podium.

“Why did you lie to me?”

“Me? I didn’t lie!”

“Miss Lucy, I think you are the only person who might know about cochineal bugs. And Lucy was the one who wrote in blood last night, right?”

Lucy was surprised.

How could Hyde, a man from the mainland, immediately notice his crime?

From the looks of it, he thought Lucy was a liar.

‘Now that things are like this, I have to use my secret weapon right away!’

Lucy closed her eyes tightly.

And he trembled and acted like a sick person.

“Sex! Chase! Pussy! Ahhh, chase!”

It was a very embarrassing word.

Is there anyone in their right mind who could say something like this?

Lucy was embarrassed, but she screamed as she felt like she had to act like a real sick person.

“I don’t want to say this! Sometimes I don’t even know… A me that I don’t even know comes out! I have another personality! This is called dual personality!”

“Dual personality?”

Hyde seemed interested.

Lucy realized that Hyde was a kind person who listened to her story.

As Psyche said, Hyde was a really good person!

“Dual personality! I have another personality inside me! So I just say and do things I don’t want to say! There is nothing wrong with me, Lucy! The bad one is Emma!”

“I see. Then I’ll kick out Miss Lucy’s other personality. I know more about dissociative identity disorder than anyone else in the world.”

Dissociative nature – what?

Lucy didn’t understand what Hyde said.

Soon, people started tying Lucy’s hands and feet to the chair, and she was pinned down.

Sze-.

Hyde held out a coin tied to a string in front of Lucy.

“Do you know what hypnotherapy is? Miss Lucy, you will now go inside and face another personality.”

# # #

Tics and Tourettes were diseases that could not be cured even in the 21st century.

That means I can’t fix it either.

However, fortunately or unfortunately, Lucy was a ‘liar’.

There is no such thing as illness in the first place.

So there was something I could do too.

“Okay, then you will fall into a state of hypnosis. Watch this coin shake.”

Hypnotherapy.

It was a treatment that began to be recognized in earnest by Austrian doctors in the 18th century. In this barbaric world, hypnosis is the latest treatment – these were the words.

Of course, I didn’t know how to do hypnotherapy or anything like that.

All you have to do is pretend to do something.

Is there anything better than a false cure for a false illness?

Under the pretext of giving hypnotherapy to this mean girl who gets in trouble with people with her lies, I will give her a bit of honey and pinch her cheeks.

You should get scolded!

“Now, Miss Lucy, when I snap my fingers, you fall into a deep inner world until I snap my fingers again. Three, two, one─.”

Just-.

I snapped my fingers.

Then Lucy Emma’s gaze instantly relaxed.

I asked Lucy that question.

“Now, Lucy. Let’s talk about when your other personality arises. Miss Lucy, how old were you and where were you? What do you see?”

“Hyde.”

“Are you saying you can see me? Who are you? Is this another personality of Miss Lucy?”

“I am Emma. Emma was burned to death by the nuns in this monastery! I told you I would be back! He’s coming back to kill you all!”

Emma.

Lucy Emma.

Is this a setup where one name is shared between two people?

When the nuns thought that, they were very surprised.

“, your name is Emma?”

“It must be some kind of joke.”

“Jin… Is it really Emma?”

“I am Emma! Emma, whom you killed by hanging me on a tree and burning me!”

“Don’t lie!”

“Why are we hanging you and burning you to death!”

“You crazy bitch!”

The nuns shouted fearfully at Emma, who was tied to a chair. Looking at them, Milione reacts by saying “Everyone is angry.”.

Of course, the person who was most angry was Lucy tied to the chair, or rather, the woman who claimed to be Emma.

“The pain of that time! Still vivid! Even though I cried until my body melted and my bones turned to ash, no one came to save me!!! I will burn you all to death equally!!!”

Hwareuk-.

The candles and lanterns burning in the dark chapel suddenly blazed brightly. It was an amazing sight, and the intense fire soon engulfed the chapel.

Grumble, rumble!

Suddenly it catches fire.

This time it’s a fire I didn’t even start?

When I felt puzzled by this situation, Midnar held my face.

“Is this the real Emma? Same as Emma. Even being talented in magic─.”

horsepower.

I felt like my eyes were wide open at that story.

I knew that beings called ‘witches’ and ‘wizards’ existed in this world, but most of them were fake.

Holy power, auror, magic power.

Did you say that among these three miracles, magical power is an extremely rare and rare talent?

“Sa, save me! Emma! I was sleeping at that time! I didn’t even know you were going to die!”

“Anemone! Anemone told me to burn you to death! I was against it!”

“Hiiii! It’s a real witch’s vengeful spirit! A witch has inhabited my daughter and came to kill us!”

“Save me! help me! I only threw one firewood! I didn’t know you would die from that! It’s true!”

The nuns went wild.

They tried to escape the chapel, but the fire was so strong that they could not do anything.

Seeing this, Milione burst out laughing.

“The chapel is on fire, right? good. I don’t know what it is, but burn more! If the Grande Convent disappears, you won’t have to stay here for a year!”

I’m going around.

The only one I can trust is Psyche.

“Psyche!”

“I know! If things continue like this, everyone will burn to death! Hyde, I’ll take charge from now on, so don’t worry! Lucy! Stop!”

Pot─.

Psyche jumped towards Lucy.

And he caught Lucy running wild.

“Lucy! Come to your senses!”

“We are Emma!”

Grumbling!

A spark lit up Lucy Emma’s body. It was a natural combustion and the heat was hot enough to melt even Psyche’s clothes.

I had a feeling that it might be real.

It might be a real devil or ghost.

Then strength surged from my body.

Now is the time for me to step forward!

“Emma! You are the identity of the ghost that is eating Miss Lucy! I command you in the name of the Lord, Emma! You go back to where you belong!!!!”

I shouted loudly.

Emma slowly turned her head towards me.

“Really? Hyde, have you ever heard the voice of God? Have you ever seen him? Do you truly believe in something you’ve never seen? It’s a lie, right? under. under. under! The only thing that exists in this world is the devil!”

My evil spirit, who is more godly and spiritual than anyone else, is of no use?

weird.

If there is a devil or a ghost, there is no way I, the most faithful priest of all, can’t drive it out.

Isn’t it the devil?

Psyche felt pain when she thought of that.

“Hyde! Don’t listen to this woman! Because like Rust, demons have a tongue that can deceive humans! Ugh! Hot, hot!”

“Me, really. Psyche, Hyde, what are you doing?”

Pot-.

Milione moved and punched Emma in the face.

It was a strong force and Emma was thrown straight into the wall.

But Emma stood up as if nothing had happened.

“Hyde, don’t you want to hear about the secrets of the world? I wonder if there is a God in whom you believe so much! We know everything. Ask us anything. I’ll tell you the answer.”

Tell me anything?

It was a fascinating story.

I had more questions than anyone else.

Phew—I caught my breath in the scorching heat.

“Yes, Emma. Are you saying you are the one who knows all the secrets of the world? Then what is my name?”

“Hyde.”

“Is that the end?”

“… … .”

Lucy Emma couldn’t answer me. She didn’t seem to understand my question itself or the intent of my question.

While I felt relieved at that fact, on the other hand, a feeling of disappointment washed over me like a wave of water, calmly soaking my heart.

It wasn’t a devil either.

“You were a fake after all. You are not the devil or anything. Dissociative identity disorder is a loss of defenses that occurs due to extreme trauma experienced in infancy.”

“What? We are the devil! It’s a legion ghost!”

“No, you are just a trauma stuck to you like soot by the memories of the woman who burned to death. So─.”

Lucy.

She was just a sick person.

There was no devil like Emma anywhere.

“Get out. Forever.”

Just-.

I snapped my fingers again.