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Revival (5) – One Mind Salvation Church Paradise

“Wow~ Wasn’t today’s play so good? The sudden unexpected situation in the middle was also very touching~!”

A hotel hallway with soft lighting that creates an old-fashioned atmosphere.

Park Yuna put her hands together with a dazed expression, as if she was remembering the play that took place a while ago.

Inari said nothing and smiled awkwardly.

A play with a strong intention to promote the One Mind Salvation Church.

It was a play that did not resonate well with those who were not believers, but as Yuna Park said, the events that occurred in an unexpected situation were very impressive.

“They say they will hold a contest in the future and give salvation to believers who write good scripts! Ah, if you wake up after fainting for about 6 months, there will be a lot of fun plays, right?”

Park Yu-na chatters excitedly without showing signs of being tired after almost a day.

Her chattering, which I didn’t really dislike, was now coming to an end.

“Ah! There you go, room 1511!”

Beep-

Yuna Park hurriedly put the card key in the door lock and opened the door to room 1511.

“Ta-da~ This is the special suite where prospective Inari believers will stay~!”

The inside of the room indicated by Park Yuna’s quick, gently fluttering hand gestures as if imitating stars.

The white wallpaper and brown furniture and floor welcome you at first sight.

I felt modern and warm at the same time in the cozy atmosphere.

Inari couldn’t keep her mouth shut and slowly walked to the back of the suite.

As I looked around, I saw a truly luxurious bathroom like a hotel and a bed that could accommodate two people for a long time.

Plus, a luxurious view of paradise at a glance.

‘… … It’s really a hotel.’

It is not just a hotel in words,

I had indeed assigned myself to a luxury suite in the hotel.

“Wow―”

This was a luxury we could not enjoy even before the disaster struck.

“Here’s the card key. I’ll check in and leave~ Then, if you need anything, please come to the next room~ That’s my accommodation~!”

Park Yuna, who was watching herself admiring the suite in the hallway, gently closed the door.

“Oh indeed! There are plenty of clean new clothes in the closet, so please refer to them after your shower!”

Park Yuna, who appeared just before the door closed, chattered one last time.

Thump-clap-!

The door closed and the suite was immediately filled with silence.

The silence that had enveloped him ever since Park Yuna disappeared was awkward.

This is a woman I met less than a day ago.

Suddenly, I realized that I had been imbued with the liveliness she exuded without even realizing it.

“… … Let’s take a shower first.”

An awkward muttering to myself to break the silence.

I turned on the shower in the bathroom, which somehow made me feel yellow just by stepping on the tiles.

Shoot~

A shower head that spits out hot steam the moment you turn on the hot water.

“Wow―”

She gently touched the stream of water and was amazed again.

She looked at the hot steam filling the bathroom with blank eyes and shook her head.

“What is this.”

It’s like being amazed by the suite and the warm water.

It was as if he was a caveman admiring modern civilization.

She let out a helpless laugh and piled up her shabby clothes and underwear in front of the bathroom.

The white ribbon attached to the left chest was carefully placed on the shelf.

Entering the bathroom again, she carefully took a step into the stream of water coming out of the shower.

Shoot~

“Ah―”

I feel warmth and fatigue for the first time in a long time.

Even though she was dying of heat, she took a shower in warm water and enjoyed the hot water with her whole body for a long time.

“Aaaaagh―!”

She slowly opened her eyes, got scared and screamed.

The color of the hot water flowing through the tiles was a little strange.

A black color, not the color of pure water.

She thought she had been washing thoroughly with water, which wasn’t enough as usual, but was speechless in shock.

“No- that- that’s not the water that came out of my body-!”

The shampoo and conditioner she placed on the bathroom shelf, denying reality.

I used the cleansing foam haphazardly.

Shoot…

The sound of running water echoed in the bathroom longer than she had showered in the past.

“Whoa—!”

She simply dried her hair with a hair dryer, rolled it up with a white towel, and opened the bathroom door.

The hot steam that filled the bathroom spreads widely into the suite.

“Hmm hmmm―”

Inari hummed happily and opened the closet that Yuna Park mentioned.

Suddenly—!

Inari’s humming naturally faded as she looked at the clothes filling the closet.

A closet filled with the uniforms of the One Mind Salvationists.

She took out her Shinto clothes with anxious eyes and stared at the shabby clothes in front of the bathroom.

Clean underwear and Shinto clothes well-stocked in the closet.

On the other hand, when he looked again, his everyday clothes were so dirty.

“It’s been a while since I washed properly… … .”

If you wear dirty clothes again… …

In her mind, the black hot water from before appeared again.

Inari shook her head and changed into the Shinto uniform she was holding.

“It’s comfortable… … .”

Light and soft.

As she looked around at herself in her Shinto clothes, she immediately jumped onto the bed.

“Hmm—!”

A matrix of luxurious beds that gently embrace you.

I felt that the towel covering my head had been undone, but I didn’t really want to touch it.

She stared blankly at the ceiling with half-glazed eyes.

“Good―”

This nostalgic feeling of absentmindedly killing time,

This comfortable moment of swimming through unconsciousness without any thought.

She turned slightly to admire the view the suite offered.

A night in paradise that still welcomes you with bright lights.

A city of the past that has regained its ‘night-time nature’.

No, perhaps another paradise more peaceful than the past.

She thought back to the events that occurred in the play a moment ago.

The sound of a child crying during a play that was nearing its climax.

Even though the child’s mother worked hard to console him, the child cried so loudly that the actors’ voices could not be heard.

However, in the unexpected situation where the play was temporarily halted, no one blamed the child and the mother.

On the contrary, all the actors who were performing on stage came down and helped comfort the child with bright smiles.

The believers give warm applause and smiles as they see the child who soon stops crying.

Even myself, who usually disliked anything that interrupted the flow, whether it was a movie or a musical, was suddenly applauding the child and mother.

Everyone wearing white ribbons smiled softly as they followed the applause of the believers.

Perhaps a utopia filled with more leisure and happiness than in the past.

Inari recalled two discomforts he felt here.

The fanaticism of the Salvationists towards their religious leader and the forbidden areas she could not enter.

However, now that I have experienced paradise for a day, I can understand their fanaticism.

And every time the guided believers stopped him, what he always said was, ‘This is an area not permitted for prospective believers.’

Doesn’t that mean that it is a naturally permitted area unless you are a ‘prospective believer’?

In the end, the reluctance I felt in Paradise may have been due to the prejudice that arose because my mother repeatedly told me that Number 1 was a dangerous man.

Rather than being dangerous, the paradise she saw in person was a paradise so happy that she almost prayed that it wasn’t a lie.

“I don’t want to go back―”

The sincerity that came out without any intention of stopping it.

She, who was quietly adjusting her Shinto clothes, turned her head to the ceiling again.

Minguk’s awakened seniors who seemed grumpy but were always good to him.

Our citizen representative who always treated us warmly with a kind smile and was truly like a mother.

The new pieces I got today touch my heart more than those short, precious pieces.

He is just that kind of person.

The faces of Park Yuna and Lee Jeong-wook, who were answering with serious expressions on the broadcast, passed by.

He was a stranger who had a hard time adapting,

She was just an ordinary female college student, not Superman or Batman.

“But why… … .”

Why did my mother give me such an important mission?

And did he say such a burdensome thing about believing?

“Why… … .”

That single word was tying me up to no end.

If it were seniors Yoon Kang and Yoon Hyeon…

No matter what the circumstances, you would have completed the mission given to you by your mother.

Your spirit will be no different.

… … no.

If you were an old man, wouldn’t you have spread out a mat and laid down at the Salvation Church?

Whatever decision he made, he would have decided on a more firm and certain course than he did.

However, she was not a senior.

“Haa―”

A sigh that was too heavy for a newly awakened person to contain slowly enveloped the suite.

Inari ultimately couldn’t decide on anything and left herself to the comfortable matrix.

I did not refuse to let my eyes slowly close.

***

thud-! thud-! thud-!

“Inari prospective believer~! Inari prospective believer~!”

A dull call entered the keen senses of the Awoken.

Inari got up, squinting slightly, and opened the front door.

“Ah! Looks like you’re awake now! Good morning, prospective believer~!”

Yuna Park, who was knocking on the door, chirped like a chick.

She bowed her head slightly in greeting, then put her hands together again and made a fuss.

“I don’t have time to be like this right now! The church leader is holding a revival blessing prayer meeting himself today! You have to hurry up and get a seat so you can see the leader a little closer!”

“… … Yuna, wait a minute.”

The tension was too high to handle as soon as I woke up.

Park Yuna urged on, not paying attention to Inari’s frowning eyebrows and touching her forehead.

“No, no! They said this prayer meeting was for prospective believers! The main character shouldn’t be this late! You have to wash up quickly, eat breakfast, and get to the square on time!”

Park Yuna entered the suite, pushing Inari’s back.

After Inari, who had been unexpectedly guided to the bathroom, took a quick shower, Park Yuna, who had been waiting in front with her feet shaking, moved quickly.

She put on a new ceremonial uniform and even attached a white ribbon to the left breast, and led me to the lounge holding hands.

“Wow—!”

An exclamation from Inari, who slowly came to her senses.

Everyone was busy coming and going in the lounge, enjoying the breakfast buffet prepared.

“Quickly, quickly—!”

Park Yu-na continues to urge Inari.

Thanks to this, I could only eat three plates and dessert instead of five plates, dessert, and coffee.

However, Yuna Park, who had finished eating breakfast in just one dish, was waiting for her breakfast to be finished with her eyes wide open.

A slightly different sense of urgency than yesterday’s friendly appearance.

Park Yuna, probably reading her embarrassed eyes, smiled and made an excuse.

“You can eat breakfast anytime, but you can’t always see the leader in person~!”

Inari’s eyes widened as she left the hotel, almost being dragged by Park Yuna.

All believers walking on the sidewalk were moving to one place.

It would be fair to call it a white wave.

“Ahh! It’s ruined!”

Park Yu-na, seeing the white crowd, clutched her head in despair.

“Ah― It’s okay! I missed out on the front seat, but I’m sure I can get the middle seat. No, you have to get it!”

Park Yu-na drags Inari away with solemn words.

Inari, whose conscience was pricked for some reason, hurriedly ran toward the square, following her footsteps.

“Brother, please give me some corn!”

“Sister, I would like some butter squid here!”

A straight road leading to the square.

Inari’s eyes widened as she ran through the crowd.

The image of believers enjoying snacks with bright smiles at the festival booth.

pop-! pop-!

“Wow! Those ten balloons! I exploded ten!”

“Hahaha― What doll should we give to our future vigilante?”

There is even a boy who receives a knight doll handed to him by a middle-aged believer with a bright smile.

Park Yu-na, who must have seen the eyes busy scanning the surroundings, said indifferently.

“It’s okay—! Festival booths are open almost every day. As I said before—!”

Meeting the leader is much more important!

Inari laughed awkwardly at Park Yuna’s hot voice.

At the end of the long straight line, a huge circle and square welcomed them.

Yesterday, the square where the fountain cooled the paradise was filled with numerous chairs and a high platform in the center.

“Wow! there is-! There are still middle seats left―!”

Park Yuna’s voice trembles with joy.

Are these little things so happy?

Inari awkwardly leaned back in the position Park Yuna had acquired like a wild beast.

“You are so lively today as expected, sister.”

“Ahh! Instructor Hyewon Seo also came!”

“The leader of the church said he was holding a prayer meeting, so of course I should come. Sister Park Yu-na also came at the right time, as she was the one who graduated from our learning center in the shortest amount of time.”

“Ah, that’s too much praise! I need to listen to the leader’s words as close as possible, but I think I still lack a lot of faith.”

Two female believers exchanging friendly greetings with themselves in the middle.

Park Yuna, who noticed Inari rolling her eyes uncomfortably, hurriedly beckoned her over.

“Ah! Instructor, this is a prospective Inari believer!”

“I see. Welcome to paradise, sister.”

“… … ah. Thank you.”

He croaked and nodded to the new female believer.

Fortunately, the uncomfortable conversation between them did not continue.

[Tap – Tuk –!]

The murmur of chatter died down in an instant at the sound of a gentle tap on the microphone.