episode_0163

I thought that since I knew the characteristics of the people the other side was kidnapping, tracking them would become somewhat easier. But it wasn’t that simple. Isn’t it strange that the church doesn’t know something that a child living in a slum could have noticed in the first place? When it comes to Stella’s divine power, they would be much better at it.

“…It’s difficult. It’s very difficult.”

Wayne, unable to hide his fatigue at all, sighed heavily. She, a warrior who is second to none when it comes to handling divine power, expressed her disapproval when she saw the ‘kidnapped people’ taught by Ian. She couldn’t tell the difference between the kidnapped people and ordinary people.

“It’s so light… It’s almost like it’s not there at all? Actually, even though I am seeing it with my own eyes, I am not sure.”

Yes. It has been a long time since everyone, including the church members and Wayne, considered divine power as if it were their own bodies, so they have become insensitive to the extremely small amount of divine power.

I was becoming more and more curious about the identity of those who had the talent to select only a certain level of people that ordinary people could not sense and those who had been involved in the religious order could not even notice.

“I’m going to turn….”

It was no different just because it was me. As a god, what I can know is the faith of each individual, but it is impossible to determine ‘Stella’s divine power that she gives to all of humanity in return for their faith in her’ itself.

In the end, I needed Ian’s help to approach them, but I still had a lot of social skills left in me to encourage a child who was having a hard time even remembering the situation at the time to look for the enemy together.

“Phew, I can’t help it.”

“Huh? What are you going to do?”

When I got up from my seat, Wayne also got up as well. The place where I started was where Ian was.

“You’re not planning on asking that child to look for it together, are you?”

“Don’t worry. I’m not a sociopath. Not yet.”

If I lived like this for a thousand or ten thousand years, I would definitely not have any humanity left, but I was still living a time equivalent to the human lifespan.

“What I’m asking for is not guidance, but finding people.”

“Find someone?”

“Yes. If we were to select those who have not yet been kidnapped among those who have divine powers so small that only the child can sense them, wouldn’t we be able to step on their tail?”

It was known to the guards at the checkpoint that the cardinal was so anxious, and the fact that he was continuing to commit crimes meant that he was confident that he would not be caught. In fact, I haven’t noticed it until now.

But they don’t know Ian exists. In a situation where the opponent’s hand is revealed, your hand is hidden. You can take advantage of this unfair information balance.

When I conveyed my intention to Ian, he readily walked with us through the slums and looked for people with weak divine powers. Wayne shook his head every time he looked at the people Ian pointed to. It may be a gesture that says he has no idea.

Anyway, Ian had selected the people, so now it was my turn to step forward. It was simple to find out whether someone had already been kidnapped or someone who had not yet had such experience. You can just ask directly.

“Hey, have you ever been kidnapped by someone?”

“Ugh, wow!”

“Hmm. If you see him screaming and running away as soon as he mentions the kidnapping, it means he has been kidnapped before.”

“…are you looking for it that way?”

“Then, do you want me to use mind reading? It’s impossible because I’m not a dragon like Arjen.”

In fact, there is nothing impossible if you use faith, but looking into other people’s heads is like opening Pandora’s box, so I absolutely refused.

“Have you ever been kidnapped?”

“How do you know that…?”

When asked if they had been kidnapped, the responses were varied. If I ran away or expressed doubt, there were some who were like nobility and mistook me for a kidnapper, so they rushed at me as if to kill me or screamed that they would call the guards. After ten people and a few more, I finally got the answer I wanted.

“Kidnapping…? Why are you talking about dogs eating grass in broad daylight? I can’t sleep well these days because of all these crazy bitches who keep having sex in the middle of the night, so if you don’t want to see blood, go quietly.”

“Um… sorry.”

I guess it was a nearby neighbor who suffered because of my foolish behavior. I apologized for causing him to lose sleep, but the man seemed to think I was apologizing for something else and just clicked his tongue.

“For now, I found what I was looking for.”

After making sure I knew where the man was going, my routine changed to observing him. Of course, we couldn’t watch it openly, so we only followed it when it wandered on the street and kept an eye on the area around the house when it entered the house.

After about four days of observation, I could feel a suspicious figure approaching. Wayne and I hadn’t had sex for a while, so someone arrived in front of the man’s house, where he was sleeping all morning.

“Hmm….”

From the looks of it, it seemed certain that they would kidnap the man who was sleeping inside the house. I was alone with my worries. I had to decide whether to block the scene of the kidnapping and interrogate that person now, or follow the kidnapping route and find their home base.

It would be easy to prevent the kidnapping now, but there was a very high probability that it would not be possible to eradicate them at their source, and following the kidnapping process from behind was like heading towards a threat that had not yet been identified.

I wanted to get some advice from Wayne, but unfortunately, Wayne wasn’t with me right now and was at the cathedral. He was conducting an undercover investigation alone, believing that the kidnappers might sense Wayne’s enormous divine power and try to save him.

In other words, even if you block it, you must block it alone, and even if it chases you, you must chase it alone. Strangely enough, my worries didn’t take long, because the kidnapper neatly finished his business while I was busy.

The man sneaked into the house without a sound and came out carrying a large bundle that wasn’t there when he went in. It seemed like the man was inside that bundle. Since the kidnapping was over without any time to stop it, my job automatically became the latter, following the main base.

“…….”

I kept my mouth shut and called Sirocco in my heart. Sirocco, who had somewhat understood my thoughts, quietly appeared and made eye contact with me.

‘Would you please make everything around me a vacuum? Don’t let even the slightest sound escape.’

‘Then Eugene can’t breathe too?’

‘are you okay. ‘It doesn’t matter if I don’t rest.’

Even though he looks like this, he is God. Life-sustaining activities such as breathing were nothing more than actions that others saw and felt were not awkward.

‘okay.’

The surrounding air disappears in an instant. I immediately and carefully followed the kidnapper. I created a vacuum around me to block out the noise spreading through the air, but since there was nothing I could do about the footsteps traveling through the ground, I had to follow them as quietly as possible.

Fortunately, the kidnapper was only carrying one person as luggage and was not moving very fast, so it was not difficult to follow him. After walking for two hours, we arrived at a place deep in an unknown forest.

‘Wow, I can’t believe you’re doing it on such a grand scale…’

There were unconscious people in the wide area, regardless of age or gender, and they all looked to be in their twenties. If this number of people were kidnapped every time there was a kidnapping, at least 500 people would have had their blood sucked by the demon sword.

And of course, if 500 people had been harmed within Potera alone, even if the victims were from the vulnerable class, the lord would have rolled up his sleeves and taken action, so it was said that these people were also doing things in other cities.

‘good.’

I pretended to have collapsed nearby. I also happened to dress in a slum style to make it easier to follow people from the slums, so I had no problem blending in with them.

“What is it? Who left the ingredients here?”

Modulated voice. A dull male voice, as if scraping metal, was heard. He tapped me with his foot, then quickly lifted my body and threw it among the kidnappers.

‘This bastard…’

Although I had prepared myself to some extent, being thrown at me so suddenly made me almost swear. I thought I should remember their voices and scold them later, but everyone in their group was talking in the same raspy, raspy voice.

“What’s the harvest today?”

“Seven from Angel, six from Magna, four from Red River, five from Potera.”

“A total of twenty-two… One, two, three… Twenty-three?”

“What is it? Who brought more and said less?”

“There are people who inflate their balls, but there are people who shrink them, right?”

“…….”

“…….”

“…….”

While they were talking among themselves, silence suddenly came. As I was eavesdropping on their conversation, I felt that something was going wrong.

” Among the things he had considered, there was also a situation like this.”

“No, calm down. Everyone, think slowly. Are you really twenty-two? It’s just too much to take a step back over something like this…”

“You idiot. Have we forgotten our purpose? There should not be even the slightest doubt. It’s definitely twenty-two. And the one lying here is twenty-three.”

“It’s not enough. Can there be more?”

“Yes. For example, there’s a guy lying here pretending to be kidnapped.”

“Then what should I do?”

“What should I do? Let’s kill everything lying around here with ‘that’ and leave this area. I will report to him separately and pass through Plane to the east.”

When he announced that he would kill all the kidnapped people, I had no choice but to stop pretending to be stunned and open my eyes.