episode_0087

I couldn’t read his expression because of the owl mask, but the ‘Scouter’ seemed quite embarrassed and was silent for a while.

“hmm…”

Is it because the level of my soul and karma has risen?

Intuitively, it feels like its existence is small and insignificant.

“…Excuse me, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Shall we take off our shoes first? I don’t know who you learned manners from. Do you have any parents? Oh, by the way, I don’t have any, so that’s not true, right?”

“Oh my, I’m sorry about this. I came in a hurry right after I confirmed the information.”

He takes off his shoes and holds them in his hands, elegantly turning his back and staring at me with a smile.

I didn’t like that leisure and leisureliness.

“I am…”

“You’re from Pandora of the Old World, right? But where did you get my information from?”

“…It’s not that big of a deal just checking the information from the management bureau. It’s a very easy task.”

“Does the Bureau have my information now?”

“That’s right. Eun No-eul, the branch manager of ‘Ordinary Small Business’, posted a report and application for employment about you.”

“You can see that?”

Did they at least plant a spy inside?

“Of course. Well, it took a little longer because that’s what an ‘ordinary small business’ is like.”

“Hmm…? Really?”

I don’t know what the problem is with ‘ordinary small and medium-sized companies,’ but I think we need to let them know as quickly as possible that there is a spy.

“What should I call you?”

“I would appreciate it if you just called me ‘Scouter.’”

“Yes, Scouter. Are you here to call me to Pandora of Salvation?”

“You know exactly! That’s amazing. Not only do you know me…do you even have the ability to read the future?”

“Hmm…well, you could say it’s similar.”

Since we have returned to the past, it would not be wrong to say that we know the future to some extent.

“Amazing! Amazing! It looks like the Apostle of this Constellation Community is the winner! We hope you will work for Pandora of Salvation!”

“What if you don’t like it?”

“I wish you would at least pay me a visit. I swear, I won’t mean you any harm!”

The scouter raised his voice and took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket.

Oh right. There was something like that.

“Is that what I think? A magic scroll from a fantasy world.”

“Oh? Are you sure you recognize it? Yes, it is a very excellent item. Do you even know what kind of magic it is?”

Rustling.

The guy who opens the paper shows a complicated magic circle as if saying hello.

“It’s a teleportation magic circle.”

As I remembered the time when I was hit by that, I became angry and secretly gritted my teeth, but he seemed to have not noticed the change in me and was surprised with an angry voice.

“This is so amazing! As far as I know, teleportation magic circles are something ordinary wizards can’t even interpret! And even though you know that, you’re so bold and relaxed! That’s amazing!”

“That’s too much praise.”

“No! Not at all! What kind of post have you been through? What kind of ordeal have you been through? I think you might be the hero I’ve been longing for! We must bring you to Pandora of our salvation!”

A faint glow shines in his eyes, reflected behind the owl mask.

“I don’t know what your ideal world is, whether you’re a hero or not, but just keep talking. Are there many characters from the fantasy world in Pandora of the Salvation?”

“That’s right! We, Pandora, don’t discriminate between dimensions or races! Do you know orcs and goblins? They are great workers for our company! Also, ogres are strong guards, and elves and Amazons are great teachers! We I learned how to use magic and manage magic from them! Well, since I was born completely different, there is very little I can use it properly!”

I nodded to the guy who suddenly became chatty and was secretly shocked.

No, these guys were bigger than I thought.

Is there a way to freely cross dimensions like Retel?

“Hmm… Then, was that magic scroll also made by an elf?”

“That’s right! A teleportation magic circle is not something that even famous elves with many years of experience can easily make, but they willingly made it for our company!”

“…that’s amazing.”

Most likely, they’re just brainwashing and manipulating me like they tried to do to me.

The numerous monsters encountered at the Salvation Restaurant were, of course, brought about by Pandora of Salvation.

“I’m glad to see such a positive response! Then, why don’t you stop by our Salvation Pandora? We’ll talk more there!”

“No, I’ll decline that.”

“uh?”

The scouter made an uncharacteristically dumb noise.

For some reason, the teleportation scroll suddenly floated out of my outstretched hand and landed in my hand.

“Why are you so surprised?”

When I gently shook the teleportation scroll, he was dazed for a moment and then opened his mouth with difficulty.

“Is this… telekinesis? No, it felt different than that… but what on earth did they do?”

“Well? Should I even tell you that?”

When I smiled triumphantly, he pursed his lips.

In reality, Rael just opened his hand and took the teleportation scroll, but to a guy who can’t see Rael, it would seem like a literal superpower.

“Oh my… I guess I was caught off guard! And I was underprepared! I really respect you! How could I be so rude to someone who is so much more amazing than I could have ever imagined? Ah, I feel so stupid!”

I burst out laughing when I saw him flailing his arms and legs wildly while talking in a theatrical tone as if he still had some free time.

“So what do we do now? Are there any other means?”

“No! The teleport scroll was my secret weapon!”

The guy who said that makes eye contact behind the owl mask.

For a moment, I lost consciousness and felt like an unfamiliar ‘command’ was digging into my mind.

Damn it!

“Kkkk!”

“Kuh…!?”

The scouter, who was deeply shocked, stumbles and lets out a groan as the grotesque and disgusting snout that unknowingly protrudes lets out a terrible scream.

“What? Did you try to hypnotize me?”

I glanced down and saw that the ‘Mirror of Resentment’ had already been activated.

“Wow…! This is really amazing. Oh wow…how much karma have you accumulated? What great and noble achievements you have made!”

“What? Are you okay? You just reflected the damage, so you wouldn’t have been able to defend yourself with any means…”

“Hehe, hehe… Hangil is great too, but it would be difficult if you ignore Pandora, our savior. I have various mental barriers and resistance to mental attacks, so, this…”

Even though he says that, it seems that it is not easy to resist as he is staggering and panting.

Well, it’s not a normal mental attack, but a mental attack with the curse spell ‘Mirror of Resentment’ added to it, so it won’t be easy to destroy or neutralize.

“…kneel.”

“Ugh, eup…!”

The guy kneeling down and looking up at me with disbelief.

“What on earth is it…?”

“You can figure that out on your own. Is there anything else? Then, should I contact the management?”

“Hehehehe…! Hehehehe!”

I looked at the guy with a sullen face who suddenly started laughing as if he had lost his mind.

“Unfortunately…I think this is the end of today’s recommendation.”

Suddenly, the guy who naturally stood up bowed his back exaggeratedly.

What, the mental attack has already been released?

No, for something like that, his movements are stiff…do he have some kind of means to forcibly control his body?

“Next time, I’ll see you again. I’ll make more preparations then. Until then, I hope you’ll be safe.”

“Are you going? Who wants to?”

“Haha! No matter how great the hero is, it won’t be easy to catch me!”

The guy who shouted out quite confidently spreads his arms wide, and surprisingly, his body turns opaque.

“Oh…what is that?”

-It’s fluidization! It’s a technique that temporarily renders the body in a non-entity state! Hehe! Well then!

The guy who turned around to run away froze when he saw Rael facing him from the front.

-……

-……

Really awkward eye contact.

It seems that Rael is visible in his corporeal state.

-Well, who are you…

-……

The scouter asked a difficult question, but Rael did not answer and raised his hand expressionlessly.

Wow!

-Wow!?

As the guy who got slapped falls to the floor, his physical form becomes meaningless.

“Huh, huh!? W-what…! Mr. Han-gil! There is an evil spirit living in this house! It is the highest-ranking evil spirit monster with the status of a monster!”

“That’s my girlfriend.”

“……”

I couldn’t see his expression because he was wearing a mask, but I almost burst out laughing at the dumbfounded look with his mouth open.

-Ha, Han-gil!? What do you mean by girlfriend…!

He smiled playfully at Lael, who was shocked and blushing, then fixed his gaze on the scouter.

“Is there more? Then I want to arrest you soon.”

“Tsk…!”

Only then, as if sensing a sense of crisis, did he grit his teeth and pull out something from his arms.

It was a small object whose purpose was unknown, but it had a red button on it like a decoration.

“Hahaha! It’s a ‘random space movement device’! I didn’t want to use this if possible, but I can’t help it! See you next time!”

Kuuk!

He pressed it hard, but nothing happened.

“…Is this also because of Han-gil?”

“Well? Isn’t there a possibility that the item you brought is not a supernatural entity but just an ordinary toy lying around somewhere?”

As he smiles leisurely and shrugs his shoulders slyly, cold sweat trickles down from under his mask.

“Is there really nothing more now? Then we will slowly arrest you.”

In fact, it had already been captured.

Slurp, slurp!

“Keuw!? W-what on earth…!?”

When he heard the ‘sound’ of something wrapping around him, he was so startled that he jumped up, but because his legs were already restrained, he couldn’t move from the spot.

“Do you know what Heanna is? I modified it a little and placed it around the entire room. Two days ago… no, is it three days ago now? Since then. Ah, but you won’t be able to see or feel it. That’s how it was made.”

If I, who had been taken to the Pandora branch of Salvation in the past because of that guy, had no defenses in place, there would be nothing more foolish than that.

Slurp! Slurp!

It is the so-called ‘undetectable absolute restraint Heanna’.

Once something is wrapped around something, no matter what the target does, it can never escape.

That is what prevented the operation of the ‘random space movement device’.

Well, it probably won’t work against high-level opponents.

Slurp! Slurp!

“Kuuu of!?”

The scouter’s face turns pale as his entire body is quickly restrained by something that cannot be seen or felt and only makes a swirling noise.

It’s quite useful.

I was a little worried that I applied a little less imagination to extend the duration, but it seems there was no problem without worrying too much.

Well, no matter what, I sacrificed a lot of my soul, so of course I have to do that.

“Eup-eup! Eup-eup!”

Not only his limbs but also his eyes, mouth, and ears are meticulously blocked, struggling in place and crawling across the floor like an insect.

“Okay then…”

After watching that for a while, I picked up my smart phone and sent a message to Eun No-eul.

She immediately checked the message, was shocked to hear that she had caught a scout, and decided to come here right away.

“Oppa Han-gil!”

About ten minutes later.

Noeul, who was running at a truly incredible speed, was out of breath and grabbed my shoulder and shook me.

“Is it true that you captured the scouter!? Where is he now!? What condition is he in!? You sure didn’t kill him!?”

“Uh, calm down. I’ve properly restrained you, so come home first.”

“Hello, Han-gil! It’s been a few days!”

“Excuse me, Hangil.”

Since Sae-ron and Gyeong-gyeong were also there, we greeted them warmly and welcomed them into the house.

It’s a small house, so it feels crowded just by three people entering it.

If I don’t get a job at an ‘ordinary small or medium-sized company’ soon, I’ll have to look for a house separately.

“Eupeup…”

“Hey, this guy is a scouter…! He’s wearing an owl mask just like the data says. Oppa. Have you checked his face?”

“No. I didn’t feel the need to do that.”

“Good job. If that mask had been removed, an irreversible disaster would have occurred.”

“…For example?”

“Something like a huge hurricane or an explosion equivalent to a thousand TNT. Mostly for self-destruction purposes.”

“……”

That’s kind of scary.

I think it’ll probably be okay since I tied it with the special Heanna I summoned, but there’s no need to take a gamble.

“Well, most likely it will be self-immolation, but it’s still a good harvest!”

“Ah, alter ego.”

Now that I think about it, I think I heard that important people in Pandora of the Salvation used such methods.

For some reason, Averill Hinds still died… but wait, now that he’s back in the past, does he come back to life too?

“If it’s an alter ego, doesn’t that mean they can get rid of it at will?”

“That’s not true! Because the clones used by the Pandora of Salvation are connected to the main body, so they are just real clones! Although it is impossible to kill them, the clones are enough to obtain information!”

“Ohh…”

“So, he usually carries a self-destruct device and destructs himself whenever he is subdued… doesn’t this guy do that? Is this really his body?”

“…It’s probably because of Heanna.”

“Huh? Heanna? The vine that produces that sweet water? Ah! Did the power of the constellation give you imagination?”

“Oh, yes.”

It’s convenient because I know all my abilities and don’t have to explain them.

“This is a huge achievement! Then we’ll go! Oppa!”

“Go already? Have some coffee and go.”

“I’m sorry, but I’m really busy!”

“Is this because of a problem that has arisen in an ‘ordinary small and medium-sized company’? Can you tell me what the situation is?”

“Oh, that’s it. Uhm…”

Noeul, who was conflicted for a moment, quickly said one word.

“‘Ordinary small and medium-sized businesses’ are becoming truly ordinary small and medium-sized businesses…”

“…huh?”

I didn’t understand so I stared.

And only then did I discover the deep dark circles under her eyes.