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Ha Chae-kyung (9) ― Hanmaeum Salvation Church Daehan Branch Guwon Hall

Ha Chae-kyung asked back in a stern voice.

“Do you think that is the reason?”

“Oh my— oh my— I’m truly sorry—!”

“Now this is not Korea, but the Korean branch of Salvation Church. You can no longer judge by the standards of the past.”

Choi Mi-ja simply did what her accumulated past experiences told her to do.

Ha Chae-kyung spoke again to Choi Mi-ja, who was very intimidated by the solemn atmosphere.

“You must start anew like the white robe worn by Choi Mija. There is plenty of food and no one takes it away.”

“… … Ugh—!”

Mija Choi eventually looked down at her ceremonial uniform and began to shed heavy tears.

Drop – drop – tears falling down his white sleeves.

“Be sure to apologize to the young believer who made a mistake, Mija Choi. And you must share a meal with the young believer at least 5 times. Got it?”

“… … yes! Yes, hehehehehehe―!”

“Then, start eating with the young believer starting this evening. Of course, believer Mija Choi should feed the young believer until he eats it all, right? Of course, believer Mija Choi also ate everything.”

Ha Chae-kyung smiles warmly while looking at Choi Mi-ja, and Choi Mi-ja cries while looking at her.

I stuck my tongue out as the situation progressed more smoothly than I expected.

If I had to sum up the reason I created this position in the first place in one sentence, it would be this.

If you’re that good, you should give it a try.

And, somewhat annoyingly, Ha Chae-kyung continued to make judgments that were not judgments in a warm atmosphere.

I watched as Choi Mi-ja walked out of the hall, shedding tears, and another believer was grabbed.

Sarah!

Accordingly, she checks the following documents quite familiarly.

It was a happy expression, quite different from the one on his face when he heard me shouting earlier.

I smiled at her awkward smile as she glanced at me from time to time and leaned back in my chair.

After that, numerous believers sat down at the central table and then left again.

Assault on young believers, theft, sexual harassment, assault on both sides, etc. – Believers who are still unable to cast off the ghosts of Korea and its code of conduct come in with a variety of charges.

Ha Chae-kyung sometimes harshly scolded them and sometimes gently comforted them, creating a very heart-warming scene.

Although she is smiling more happily than ever, she wouldn’t know.

The only people who find this scene beautiful right now are Ha Chae-kyung and the impure elements.

The eyes of Korean believers watching Ha Chae-kyung’s warm trial were becoming increasingly cold.

Good!

Due to Ha Chae-kyung’s warm comfort, another impure member goes out and the next one comes in.

Sarah!

Ha Chae-kyung’s face, which was now automatically checking the next document, was becoming increasingly stiff.

“Ugh― Ugh―”

The sight of being dragged around and the sounds of suffering were quite familiar to the believers in the Daehan branch.

A male believer in his twenties who was forced to sit at the center table began to scan the table with anxious eyes.

“… … You.”

Ha Chae-kyung’s voice was shaking, unable to hide her embarrassment.

I couldn’t hold back my laughter as I looked at the impure molecule getting ready to be kicked again.

I hurriedly looked through the documents that had been half-neglected.

[Name: Park An-ui

… … Suspicion of theft from Salvation Department.]

“This… … .”

Ha Chae-kyung, who seemed speechless, just stared at the documents.

Park An-eui’s body falls as if he was stabbed by her low whisper.

“Park An’s followers.”

I called him on behalf of Ha Chae-kyung, who had not recovered from her complicated feelings.

“Why are you here?”

“… … .”

Park An-ui could not answer anything.

The expression on his face like a cat caught in the rain was no longer so disgusting.

“Hurry back home. It seems like the believers made a small mistake.”

“… … Yes?”

In response to the blank question, I tapped the document and continued talking.

“If it’s as written here, wasn’t it today’s prayer meeting that you were caught trying to steal the Salvation Book?”

“… … .”

“Was it not sexual harassment but an attempt to steal the female believer’s salvation? Or do you do both?”

“Oh, no—! No, cult leader—!”

“Yes. Of course I would say no. Still, I’m sure you know the whole story.”

The reason why he caused such a mess in just 3 hours.

The female believer’s salvation ministry was needed in order to advance her turn to enter paradise.

“What are you doing there like an idiot? Wasn’t today a time for reflection?”

“… … Yes, yes! Yes, yes!”

Park An-eui rushes out as if his butt is on fire.

I looked at him, then looked at the believers sitting quietly in the audience and nodded.

The members of the Daehan branch bowed their heads politely to my instructions and quietly followed me out of the courtroom.

I shouted as I looked around the makeshift court after making sure they were all out.

“Let’s rest for about 20 minutes and then resume! Rest in peace everyone!”

At the announcement of the adjournment, the audience members all stood up from their seats.

Believers moving out of the hall to do business, such as the bathroom, and believers approaching me cautiously.

The believers who approached me, looking at my face endlessly, opened their mouths with trembling voices.

“Church, teacher! This is really, really cheeky, but hey, can you just hold my hand just once!”

He smiled benevolently as he looked at the face of the believer, who could clearly see that he had shouted while strapping his gun.

“Why do you raise your voice and say that holding hands with family members is such a big deal?”

“… … Ah―”

Everyone’s eyes become watery as they look at my hand gently holding his hand.

“Well, me too—!”

“I’m the head teacher! I’m the leader of the school—!”

“It is an honor. It will be an honor for generations to come, Gyojuniim—!”

When the believers saw us like that, they started gathering like bees.

Even the believers who had only glanced at my face from the stands because they had no courage were running towards me in a huff.

Untimely liveliness in a courthouse that had continued to sink into silence.

Good!

There, I detected the sound of a chair being quietly pushed away.

Tap- tap- tap-

The back of Ha Chae-kyung coming out of the hall with the clear sound of shoes on.

I continued to look at her back and slowly stood up.

“Everyone, calm down. I have remembered the faces of all my sons and daughters here, and soon I will call you aside. No one should come out of the courtroom for a moment.”

“Aaaaa― I’m a teacher!”

“Yes, yes, leader—!”

“I love you, leader! I love you—!”

I turn away from the believers who are looking at me with something on their faces and follow Ha Chae-kyung.

Good!

Open the white door of the hall and walk down the pre-planned left corridor among the corridors leading in all directions.

The conversation is taking place in a hallway so secret that no footsteps can be heard, at a volume that only the awakened can hear.

“This is ridiculous, Sister Suyeon!”

“Just calm down, sister.”

“No, does that make sense? A strange prostitute is disturbing the religious leader’s words and laws!”

“… … .”

“Of course, Sister Suyeon thought that too, right? Who is the woman who took the seat next to our leader?”

“Please refrain from speaking. Who listens?”

Certainly, as they said, there were two people secretly listening to this conversation.

I smiled as I looked at Ha Chae-kyung, who was carefully hiding herself in a corner of the hallway.

“I heard that you are the branch president of the Republic of Korea branch of our Salvation Church. He is someone we cannot dare to do this or that to.”

“That’s ridiculous! The person who misunderstands and disturbs the leader’s words is an official of the Salvation Church! Do you know how many unbelievers he released today?!”

“… … .”

The female believer’s voice is getting louder and louder, and the female believer is silently listening to it.

Among them, the female believer who raised her voice spoke in an excited tone.

“I definitely learned that those who misunderstand the religious leader’s words are heretics! In that sense, the person who needs to go to the faith recovery room right now is—”

“Shhh! Sister! You’ve gone too far—!”

A relatively calm female student who consoles and comforts an excited female student.

“Calm down, sister. The religious leader has already arranged even this.”

“… … Ah, that’s right!”

“Yes, sister. The brothers have already moved the non-believers to the recovery room.”

“Ahh! Salvation-! Salvation—!”

“Salvation. All we have to do is to silently help them repent. Without shame, without selflessness.”

“Ah― I was so foolish, Sister Suyeon.”

“It’s okay. The religious leader is sure to know the sister’s dedication. Let’s go to the recovery room now.”

Tap- tap- tap-

After the conversation, the sound of footsteps getting further and further away.

Two female disciples were going further underground than the first floor where the hall was located.

And Ha Chae-kyung is watching them carefully.

I appeared behind her after making sure she had checked where all the female disciples had disappeared to.

“Chaekyung, please understand.”

“Ugh profit―!”

Ha Chae-kyung starts the game by looking at me who suddenly appeared.

She was trembling and pressed against the wall, looking at me as if she had stopped breathing.

“… … Puha! Gu, Mr. Guwon-”

“You were more surprised than I expected.”

“Well, more than that, Mr. Guwon- what they just said-”

“No.”

I interrupted Ha Chae-kyung and took a step closer to her.

“Chaekyung needs to understand those people.”

“Ah, no- that’s not it- they said strange things-”

“Chaekyung took away their rights.”

“… … Yes?”

“Chaekyung took it away.”

Ha Chae-kyung’s pupils gradually escape from confusion.

Ha Chae-kyung was mulling over the words of the female believers amidst the quiet tremors.

“… … What? The right to revenge or judge?”

“No. The right to hate someone.”

Unlike Ha Chae-kyung, who was called by the loving title of “mother,” and me, who was called “father” by the believers, Yeon-cheol Yeon was a tyrant.

An iron-blooded tyrant with no mercy.

Naturally, hardships that could not even be imagined in Paradise and Republic of Korea would have struck the citizens of Daehan.

Moreover, unlike the Republic of Korea, which had a fairly smooth integration process, the integration of Korea was sudden and violent.

This is the story of a revolution that was overthrown by believers in Daehan who were armed with the weapons of the Salvation Church.

Also, not all citizens of Daehan participated in the story of the revolution.

Among them, the citizens who had not yet escaped from Korea and were suffering also faced a sudden revolution.

And those citizens also became believers and were living in the Daehan branch.

“How good would it be if it ended with a revolution taking place, So Yeon-cheol died, and the citizens who treated him like that lived happily?”

But, it can’t be like that.

I continued speaking while quietly looking down at Ha Chae-kyung.

“The human mind is not that simple. There is no way that the intricately entangled core in my heart can be resolved so easily. … … Mr. Chaekyung.”

Ha Chae-kyung pays attention to my call.

I looked into her eyes and whispered.

“People are still angry. And they want a place to vent that anger. But Yeon-cheol was already dead, and most of the soldiers under him were also dead. I’m angry, but I have nowhere to vent my anger.”

In that sense, non-believers are very good prey.

Animals who dare to disobey the words of the religious leader who saved them.

These bastards are like a second fire.

“Chaekyung is a very unpleasant person to the Daehan branch believers. They make them realize that the non-believers they are supposed to hate are people who have suffered the same pain, and they forgive them.”

Their anger hasn’t even subsided yet.

As soon as I finished speaking, Ha Chae-kyung asked back in a sad tone.

“Even if it’s not right?”

“Even if it’s not right. It doesn’t really matter to them.”

“Even though it ends up hurting yourself?”

“Everyone is like that. I feel like I’m going to die, but I can’t afford to look at others.”

I gently stroked Ha Chae-kyung’s shoulder and whispered.

“That’s why people followed you. In a moment when it was too difficult to take care of yourself, you looked to the side.”

So, you must have been Minguk’s mother.