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057 – Hyde, casts out a ghost from a woman’s body! #3

Lucy Emma.

Her body fell like a marionette whose strings were cut.

But the chapel was already on fire and we had to run outside.

“Hee hee! It’s fire! fire! It’s Rust’s flame! Burn brighter! Master Rust, this chief maid, Galatea, will burn this building down! Heeek!”

“Galatea! You crazy bitch!”

“Someone stop that bitch!”

Galatea, a female knight who I heard was being treated in solitary confinement, was somehow released and was pouring fuel on the fire.

Psyche ran towards Galatea and hugged her to block her movement, but the flames were already out of control.

As a result, it took less than half a day for the convent on Stone Island and its facilities to be completely destroyed.

“Fuck! The Grande Convent burned down! Then I am free now! No one can stop Milione Archibald!”

While everyone was sad, Milione raised her hands in joy. I, who had been happy to have Milione confined to this convent for a year, felt truly frustrated.

It’s terrible.

“Our convent… .”

“Black… .”

The panicked nuns were devastated and collapsed on the floor or shed tears. The only noise was the laughter of Galatea, who had lost her mind.

At that time, Mother Superior Midnar took out a stick from her bosom, placed it on the embers that had not yet completely gone out, and lit them.

The abbess sucked it in deeply and then took a deep breath.

“Maybe it was natural for it to burn. It’s a fitting story for the tragedies that occurred in this convent. You guys burned that Emma, right?”

Midnar asked the nuns.

Shock—surprised nuns.

While they were confused, Midnar continued to speak.

“When I dropped Emma off at this convent, her mind was obviously not sound. But like you reported, I wasn’t crazy enough to pour oil on myself and jump into the flames.”

Sister Midnar’s deepening eyes.

It seemed like fire was burning in those eyes.

I was able to roughly infer the past that took place in this convent through the flames.

I thought I might be able to find out the reason for Lucy Emma’s dissociative identity disorder.

“You guys burned it. Because she’s a witch? Because she’s prettier than them? Or because you’re annoying? I don’t know why─.”

People burn living people to death.

Whatever the reason, I thought it shouldn’t be done.

This is a story that is repeated over and over again, but there is no such thing as a person’s right to kill another person. We are all precious beings created in the image of God.

But the nuns of this convent did not do that.

Lucy Emma.

It may have been when she was still a baby, but I thought she had seen her mother burning. That must have had a huge impact on Lucy Emma’s mind.

Wasn’t the defense mechanism that arose as a result of another ‘personality’, Emma?

It seems like it was asleep deep inside.

Did my hypnosis really work?

“Well, you still drove out the ghost, right?”

“Emma’s Ghost! I definitely kicked him out! Hyde, the priest from the land!”

The nuns seemed to have a good past.

They thought that Emma’s ghost, which had been on Lucy’s body, escaped because of me, and they seemed to have no doubt that they believed it.

I’m sure it would have seemed that way to people who didn’t know it.

I said with a slightly bitter heart.

“I think there will be a problem because this case is handled by the convent on Stone Island. I think this matter should be resolved in the courts and chapels of Veneto.”

The scale of the incident is too large.

And since the Pope’s illegitimate child is involved, it’s a story I can’t bury alone.

There are many witnesses.

It would be better to formally submit it to trial.

“I will sue Lucy Emma, who set fire to the chapel, and all the people who burned Ms. Emma in the past, to the Veneto Chapel and the court.”

# # #

“Hyde, the ship will arrive tomorrow morning. Tomorrow we will be able to leave this island and head to the mainland.”

“Very good.”

Sze-.

Psyche put her hand on my back.

Psyche’s hands were warm, and her heart was sure to be even warmer.

“Hyde, you don’t seem to be in a good mood.”

“Didn’t the Grande Convent burn down? Lady Milione would have had to spend about a year in this convent to reflect and repent, but that place is no longer available.”

“Haha! I am free!”

Milione Archibald was walking around the completely burned down building site with great excitement.

Seeing that makes me really sigh.

Psyche spoke to me as if comforting me.

“Is that really all it is?”

Is there anything worse than that?

While I was thinking for a while, Psyche sat next to me and looked at the dark horizon.

“Hyde, you will become very famous in the future. A priest who chased away demons! It’s an amazing achievement even if it’s recorded in the church’s history books! Wouldn’t it be nice to be a little happier?”

“Psyche, as I said before, what I drove out was not a ghost. It was just part of the mental illness. I don’t know if I’m completely healed or not.”

“Is that so? I don’t know much about diseases, but if you say so, it must be something like that. But I think it’s eating away at your heart, Hyde.”

“You mean my heart?”

“Hyde, have you ever heard the voice of God? Have you ever met him in person? Have you ever had a conversation?”

I didn’t answer.

That’s never happened.

Psyche understood my silence and added.

“Is there really a God─. It is a story that anyone with faith must have kept in their heart at least once. If there is a God, why is the world so unhappy─, why do innocent people have to be sacrificed and die unrighteously─.”

The question Psyche asked was quite vivid. In fact, many people doubted the existence of God when they saw the injustice in the world.

If a truly just and righteous God exists in the world, why is the world filled with grief over injustice and corruption?

What kind of being is God?

Is God really just?

Theodicy.

It was already a famous story in the 21st century, but wouldn’t this story be a bit radical in the Middle Ages, when theology was not developed?

Soon Psyche hesitated.

“I’m a little embarrassed to say this, but… . There was a time when I thought that way too. When my younger brother is sick, the territory is becoming more and more difficult, and there are many men who are only after the family’s reputation and my body. I wondered if there really was a God, and I really wanted to see the proof.”

“Psyche, do you think that?”

It was amazing.

The Psyche I have seen was a noble woman whose faith was so strong that she was not even afraid of death.

Psyche seemed very embarrassed by the confession she had just made, and her face blushed and fidgeted.

“But, Hyde, looking at you made me believe even more that he exists. I can’t express it well in words, but when I see you not losing your balance even in difficult times… .”

Psyche’s story was somewhat awkward, but I felt like I knew what she wanted to say.

I, too, was convinced of the existence of God while watching Psyche.

During the invasion of the royal capital, where everyone was corrupted and heading towards destruction.

Even though Psyche experienced all kinds of hardships and hardships from heretics, she did not lose her faith, but shone brighter and became stronger.

I thought it was dazzling.

At that time, I was the opposite of Psyche under the name Rust, but from then on, Psyche was already a source of pride for me.

Should I say that it is the only resting place for my heart?

Psyche seemed to think the same thing as she looked at Hyde.

“Psyche, just like Adam and Eve, we are clearly a match made by God.”

“Is that so? Come to think of it, there was something I wanted to tell you, Hyde, when I got back to the Agarpe territory─.”

Psyche hesitates.

Then Milione Archibald came between me and Psyche.

“Hey! you! It’s past 6pm! According to the convent rules, from now on men and women cannot talk! You have to follow the rules! Huh?”

The convent is gone, so what are the rules?

However, Psyche was a pious person and someone who knew how to respect rules.

Psyche now shut up, as per the 6pm rule, and that was the end of our conversation.

Milione, you naughty bitch.

Are you going to interrupt the conversation between couples like this?

As I glanced at him, Milione slapped my back with his hand.

“Hyde, did you do something this time? When crazy Lucy’s body was possessed by a ghost, I thought she would urinate and run away. Well, it doesn’t make sense if you expel that powerful demon Rust from your body but you can’t get a single witch’s soul out.”

Milione’s evaluation of me seemed to have increased.

Being recognized by others was a good thing, but being recognized by Milione always gave me an ominous feeling.

“But Rust, that guy is also amazing. You even controlled Galatea from this far away and set it on fire, right? That man is truly the devil of devils! Burning down a convent after the Great Crusade!”

What are you burning, you crazy bitch!

I felt dizzy in many ways.

# # #

Buuuu-.

The boat departed with the sound of the horn.

It was a sad feeling to leave the burned-out island behind.

“Mainland! It’s my first time going to the mainland!”

Lucy wearing wooden handcuffs.

She seemed happy even though she was a criminal who set fire to a convent.

It seems like the defendant is happy to leave the island and head to a city on the mainland.

“Didn’t I tell you, Miss Lucy? I will get you out of this island. Although it is not as positive as I thought.”

“Ugh! This much is enough! It’s my first time being this far away from the island! Hyde! Thank you so so much for keeping your promise!”

“So can you use magic?”

Lucy.

She burned down the chapel through her magic.

Magic was a very strange art and truly felt like a gift or miracle from God. I wondered if Lucy could use it again, but she shook her head.

“No, you can’t. I don’t know how to do it!”

I see.

Was it the magical power that was awakened along with the second personality that had been sleeping in the unconscious?

Well, I heard that’s what magic is.

They say you have to work hard to polish it after it appears.

It’s difficult to control.

They say that’s why all wizards are so eccentric.

“Hyde, will I end up in jail?”

Then Lucy asked me in a low voice.

A long-awaited freedom.

He seemed afraid that he would be imprisoned again.

Of course, I knew the answer to this.

“I won’t do that. Lucy, actually your sin is not that big. There are people who really have to pay for their sins.”

Lucy’s father.

Pope Arud Gregory.

If you think about it, it could be said that all the problems arose from the fact that he confined Lucy and her mother, Emma, to a convent.

And even though he was a priest, he never got married and gave birth to an illegitimate child. If there had been rape or sexual assault in this situation, you should never have sat idly by.

I will stand up for this matter.

As I was thinking that, Lucy held out her handcuffed hands.

“Fireball!”

It felt like he was trying to use magic, but it didn’t seem to work.

It’s magic—when you think about it, Lucy had an amazing talent like magic.

“Miss Lucy, when she was locked in solitary confinement. Didn’t Miss Lucy talk to me when I was trying to get it out with the key? At that time, Miss Lucy pretended to sleep, right?”

“Huh?”

“At that time, you acted like you were completely asleep. How did you do that?”

I was very knowledgeable about acting.

That’s enough to perfectly play two roles.

Even to me, Lucy at that time was amazing.

Honestly, when I was acting like Tic, Tourettes, or Possession, it was obvious that it was acting.

But what happened in that solitary confinement at that time did not feel like acting at all.

It was time to ask about this secret.

“Have you ever been like that? I don’t know.”

You don’t know?

Is it a lie?

No, what reason would there be to lie now?

And Lucy really didn’t seem to know.

“Still, Hyde, I know full well that you tried to free me! Thank you so much!”

Wow-!

Lucy hugged me.

It was stronger than I expected and it smelled like peaches.

Pot-.

Lucy fell again.

“Then I’ll tell you something good in return! I don’t remember very well, but I remember sporadically when I started the fire! I asked you what your name was then?”

“It was like that.”

“If you really want to know the answer to that question, I know someone who can answer! Try to find the center of the six horns!”

“Center of the six horns?”

“When I was very young. I can’t tell if it’s a dream or reality, but my mom told me. It is said that the person who lives in the center of the six horns knows everything. I’ll tell you anything!”

A person who lives in the center of the six horns.

Is this just a lie?

Lucy felt embarrassed when she thought of that.

“Isn’t it strange? I saw my mom when I was one year old. I can’t believe I remember what my mom told me. You don’t have to believe it… . To be honest, I don’t even believe it… .”

“No, I believe it. The center of the six horns. I don’t know what it is, but I’ll remember it.”

There is no harm in memorizing it.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a lie, but if this story is true…

─The human sitting in the center must be eliminated.

If you really know anything, you also know that my true identity is Hyde and Rust!

Lucy said, whether she knew what I was thinking or not.

“Hyde, please believe me! This is my first time seeing someone like this! I feel lucky to be alive! I’m really happy to meet Hyde!”