Chapter 238 – 232 Ouling, the Village on the Bridge
In this world, Nionebreth, it often happens that an individual’s armed force transcends a village or a small town, if not a state.
It is not something like force that is exercised by mobilizing power. Literally, it means the strength that an individual has physically and physically secured.
In fact, a 9th grade job that exists only in each capital city can destroy at least one small town alone with a little support, and even related documents remain.
Of course, it’s not about knocking and breaking through an all-out war, but mainly through surprise attacks and terrorism, but anyway.
If the population does not exceed 800 and the strongest job is a 4th grade village, a 7th grade job on the combat side can destroy it alone.
Level 7 jobs are relatively common. At the size of a city, at least one person exists.
Nevertheless, the reason why the town break does not occur is that only four different races are recognized as countries in Nionebreth, and a small-scale local war is going on with the enemy of mankind called Evil Faction, and high-level career criminals are the leaders of four countries. This is because it is shared and raised the bounty, and if the harm is serious, it is designated as a common enemy and a hunting party is organized.
“…… That is why high-ranking professionals do not want to commit crimes as much as possible.”
This is the information I got while receiving trap training from Gallot after hearing that the Wildcats Guild also does a kind of bounty hunter-like job.
=Once the chase begins, all sorts of spells and spells are used to find and track a specific criminal…….=
Hwanin, who was standing by the window and staring at the dark blue river reflecting the moonlight at the story Anne added, turned around and nodded to him.
“There is another reason. It is the existence of the soul.”
No matter how perfectly the crime is committed without being exposed, the stronger the crime, the greater the chance that the soul will remain at the crime scene.
And the soul left at the scene becomes the clearest evidence of a crime.
As there is a national custom that is implemented to suppress the occurrence of seunglyeongcheonje and mixed events that return every leap year, investigation and tracking will occur if there is an unreasonable number of souls.
Hwanin knows now. That the Spirit Society also serves as a deterrent to crime in this world.
From level 3, you can see the soul in a very blurry form, and from level 4, you can communicate weakly. Classes 3 and 4 are generally referred to as soul deaths.
When you reach level 5, you will be able to see and talk to spirits on a level similar to your own. You can also borrow some of the power of the soul.
From level 6, you can see some of the memories of the soul, and you can use your hands to make the soul visible to the general public.
So, even if a normal 3rd class soul sage comes to Owling, it means that the work will get bigger.
Even if you can’t talk, you can read the doctor who said he was murdered, and there are at least 70 of them.
Yurpa, who had only been listening to the story, asked with a short sigh.
=The fact that he said he had no crime, that man named Marte was abusing the law.=
“Yes.”
Hwanin recalled the conversation he had with the widowed woman’s soul.
“You were a spirit master……. Surprised. A spirit master who moves like a night guest.”
“I had no choice but to do this because there was something I needed to find out without the owner of this land.”
“…….」
“…….”
Hwanin intuited that there was an inside story that was never light in the fact that the woman’s soul did not bring out the lamentation even after revealing her identity.
The female spirit won’t say anything if she doesn’t speak to her.
“My name is Hwanin. We started our journey from the lakes of far central Olzot and passed Wayford and Farkhist to get here. What is the lady’s name?”
“… Whoops. To say that a dead person is a noble lady is an overstatement. Just call me Cedar.”
Cedar, a female soul whose back was slightly visible, smiled sadly.
An expression of deep sadness asking me not to ask more.
She didn’t even come looking for her if she was going to back out here. Hwanin stood by Cedar’s side, crossed her arms, and opened her mouth while looking at the cemetery across the river.
“Cedar. There are over 80 supposedly murdered souls in this village alone. And there is only one nobleman living in this luxurious mansion on the hill. Do you think that I, a soul signer, will just pass by in this strange situation?”
“The children living in the house above have nothing to do with it. Rather, they are victims.”
“…….”
“This has nothing to do with the Spirit Master. So she just wants it to pass. This advice is for the Spirit Master.”
“Is that so. I can’t help it.”
If you use coercive force to tell the truth, it will be easily solved, but since there is a dark spirit case, he is a hwanin who wants to use coercive force too much.
Examine Cedar’s outfit.
Although the color is unknown, it is not common to see clothes with a slightly oriental color in the costume.
Even compared to the other five souls, from her appearance, it is felt that she is a person related to Malvin = Lou V. Furthermore, he even made remarks that seemed to protect the people living in the mansion.
If Malvin and her relatives are her relatives, and if the attitude she shows now is as he guesses, there is no reason to search for other souls individually.
Hwanin, who put off using force for the last time, took three steps in front of Cedar and took out the platinum token of the Farghist castle lord from his chest.
Then he turned and stared at Cedar, showing what was in his hand.
“Do you know what this is?”
“… Ah? That’s the mark of a Farghist white bear……. Could it be that Spirit Master’s guardian was Fenri Justio-sama?」
“You know. Then you will know this too.”
This time, when he takes out Sidur’s ruby brooch and shows it, Sidur’s eyes widen and he puts his legs on the ground.
Seeing that change in attitude, Hwanin said with a slightly languid expression.
“I can use force on spirits. But I don’t want to do that to you, who are grieving, or to those who seem to be wandering through the nines with a grudge against the murdered. So, I’m going to put a chimney on the lord of Fenri. They say that there has been a suspicious murder on a large scale in this town, and that the Louvise family seems to be involved.”
“That, that can’t be… !”
Cedar threw herself as if flying and put her hand on the platinum token and ruby brooch that Hwanin was holding. He pleads with his tears, revealing an earnest look on his face.
“Really… So it can’t be……. The spirit master must be in danger too. That’s why I’m not talking…….」
Yourself ‘do’. Hwanin narrowed his eyes at this choice of words.
Cedar’s identity, the reason for such a large number of souls, the atmosphere of the village is ordinary, and Malvin’s attitude is also unusual.
Two hypotheses emerge.
One is a slaughter due to a power struggle, but it is unlikely to be this side. If such a thing happened in this snot-only society, the peaceful atmosphere of the village could never be formed.
‘The other is a game in which a higher status intervenes. In this case, it would be more accurate to call it play.’
The target would most likely be a human with a status comparable to that of the Farghist lord. If she had been of a lower status or more arrogant than that, she wouldn’t have said that she was dangerous.
And from the fact that Cedar was worried about herself, she realized that her character was on the good side, and thanks to her, her own imagination was getting closer to the truth.
Hwanin looked down at the translucent back of Cedar’s hand, which almost covered her own.
“Cedar. What is your relationship with Malvin Louvizou?”
Cedar, who was struggling as if she was short of breath while she was a soul who couldn’t breathe, looked down at her and said as if in a chant.
“That child… It’s my child…… 」
“What happened in town? Why are you and over 80 spirits roaming the village?”
“…….”
Hwanin muttered as he turned his head to see Siddha’s behavior of keeping his mouth shut and lowering his head, as if he had no intention of saying anything more.
“… From your reaction, I can guess roughly what happened.”
“Soul Master….”
“I am a senior soul master. If you answer one thing honestly, I’ll give you and Malvin a chance to talk again. I will promise you in the name of Soul History.”
Hwanin asked, looking at Cedar’s greatly agitated eyes.
“Have you ever heard of the name Marthe?”
“…… Hear it first.”
Was she also a pseudonym? Hwanin took out his notebook and showed him a montage of the appearance and physique of a fox man named Marthe, asking if he knew anyone.
No answer was needed.
Cedar’s expression said it all.
“After that, Cedar didn’t answer anything. The reason is probably because of fear of repercussions. If the incident gets bigger, it will damage the family.”
The guy who used the pseudonym Marthe must be a member of a noble family.
Hobbies would be things like torture, murder, and rape. Seeing that he acted alone in Carton Village, he is a 100% intelligent criminal, and that also applies to what he did in Ouling.
No, he was convinced that he was an intelligent criminal because of what he had done in Owling.
But what? I feel that something is not clear.
‘For simple fun, killing 80 people, including the old people, in a village ruled by the old people?’
Gilles = Bexle wouldn’t do such a thing.
Hwanin, who was lost in her thoughts for a moment, looked at Anne at the sound of her disgusting voice.
Anne growled with her face revealing her disgust, irritation, anger, disillusionment, and distraught.
= It’s the worst. Did you go all the way to Carton Village to enjoy the game?=
= Didn’t you go all the way to Carton Village while participating in the Farghist Festival? And she went all the way to Carton on purpose because the security is good enough to kill a woman she dated there. =
Is Isilite and Anne like that for Yurpa who made a plausible reasoning? Make a face
= If you couldn’t enter the labyrinth and committed such a thing, why did you go to the village? It’s not okay to work in the field.=
“It seems that he has a strange sexual desire. Sexual desire to get aroused by having someone else rape one’s woman. The libido that arouses by hacking and dismembering women.”
= Wow…….=
Anne, who covered her mouth and vomited, looked genuinely disgusted. Yurupa muttered, frowning her straight eyebrows that were turning black.
= Eh…… What kind of trick did that trash called Marte do to not turn it into an incident even after killing 80 people in the village?
“Cedar didn’t say it, but I have a guess. Among them, the most likely is that someone in the village made a small mistake against him, and he legally murdered him in front of everyone in front of everyone in front of him.”
=… It was guilt by association.=
“Yes.”
In this world, guilt by association exists. In such a yard, if a baron with enough money, power, and power decides to do it, he can easily kill about 1/10 of the population of an insignificant village.
Talk back to the barons? You death penalty
Show your anger at the Baron? You death penalty
Do you suspect the barons? You death penalty
Attack the barons? You death penalty
Execution. Execution. Execution. Execution. Execution.
The reason why all but one of Ouling’s high family died is probably because Cedar, or Cedar’s husband, asked for patience and was killed after being found guilty of a reprehensible crime.
Cedar would have been killed more brutally than the others.
She only talked briefly, but Cedar had a straight personality and her appearance was similar to that of Yu Lepa.
Hwanin analyzed that Marte is a human who is excited about dismantling a woman, excited about murder, and emotionally heightened when a woman is in pain and shedding tears.
Such human beings usually have outstanding abilities or have a beautiful appearance, the more they feel the pleasure in proportion.
Cedar must have been an appetizing prey to such a man.
Hwanin, she was thinking, stopped at the scene that suddenly came to her mind.
Female friends who couldn’t overcome the intense pleasure, trembled, shed tears and drool. She gets excited when she sees it.
She looked at the female friends who were staring at her, thinking that if she went any further, she would turn into something like that too.
“…….”
Hwanin recalled the scene of her dismantling them as a test, and felt a terrible displeasure that surprised even himself.
It still seems fine.
As she muttered to herself that she should be careful, Isilite asked cautiously.
= Master. So what are you going to do now?=
“First of all, I plan to meet Malvin again tomorrow and propose a memorial service for the souls of the slain.”
First, you need to sort out your soul. To be honest, it’s not strange when a mixture occurs. It is important to get them to Buddhahood as quickly as possible.
Before or after that, you have to go around the town and gather rumors to gather information and complete an uncertain sketch.
Souls with resentment are difficult to achieve, but I thought that some souls would be able to become Buddhas if I put out the words, “I want to be destroyed or I will become a Buddha,” And promised that I would one day take revenge on you.
If you persist in not being able to achieve Buddhahood, you will have no choice but to resort to other means.
Next day.
The merchants who were occupying the inn’s annex had left in the morning.
While the innkeeper mobilized his entire family to clean the annex, change the bed sheets, and tremble in Busan, Hwanin began to fill in the blanks in the sketch by visiting the villagers.
Through Cedar, he confirmed that the case was related to Marte Gnome. Now that you have checked the results, it’s time to fill out the course.
“There was a stuffy atmosphere in the village. The atmosphere is peaceful, but there seems to be anxiety in the eyes of the residents. Do you know anything……. Oh, this drink is what I buy.”
= Huh? Uh huh Anything like this~.=
= Why are you curious about that? You seem to be a foreigner, but don’t think about ruining the village. Just go.=
“Master. Could you bring me a bottle of wine here? Please also barbecue the pig.”
= What are you curious about? Oh, did I mention we’re a bit insecure? That’s not natural I mean, what happened? What a psychopath…….=
After wearing a black hooded cape, he collected information about the village by giving alcohol and snacks to the main party in the inn who drank in broad daylight.
“These are cute children. These are Farghist snacks, would you like to try them? …… Uncle is not a dangerous person. I just need to tell you a little story about what happened in the village.”
= When there was a big uproar in town? Ugh. I was very scared then. My mom is also scared and I hear a lot of screaming outside the house…….=
=Many adults died from bad people…….=
=We will also remove all floating houses.=
I heard the story of what happened in the village by sprinkling snacks that I had prepared for the children running around the village.
= Huh? You want to see the cemetery outside?=
=You are not like a black magician or a dark magician, are you?=
“It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a colony of lily flowers like that.”
= It’s not like that. But it didn’t bloom naturally, it was planted by us, so there shouldn’t be anything special.
Haha…….”
=…… In principle, it’s over when you leave the door, and you have to pay the toll again when you come in, but I’ll take care of it this time. Instead, stay out of our sight and watch nearby.=
“Thank you.”
With permission from the male and female guards, she pretended to look at the colony of Illail that covered the cemetery and looked for a soul with reason to talk with, but it was impossible to communicate properly as reason was worn out by the anger and fear of her death.
Without coercion, no matter how much I spoke, there was no response.
‘If you use the tranquility wave and force, you can talk, but…….’
There is no way to hear the story after awakening reason like that. The overall picture was completed with a simple preliminary investigation.
Thanks to this, he confirmed that his hypothesis was once again correct.
The assholes (village person remarks) who created so many souls and were not even as good as the hair (village person remarks) were high-ranking trash (village person remarks).
The reason why the massacre occurred in the village was that a poor child living in a floating house bumped into Marte.
While beating and kicking an impoverished child, the child’s mother ran to her and grabbed her by the hem of her pants and cried out for help.
The poor people, unable to understand the proper reason for the murder that took place on the road in the village in broad daylight, rushed with evil.
They brutally cut and killed such people, and the guards came when the situation was in a lull.
The scum, who identified themselves as the guards treating them as outlaws, demanded that Owling’s owner, the Rubiju Go clan, take responsibility and pay compensation to the owner, who had no background and no power, for taking on those who dared to attack them. .
Because the demand for compensation was excessive, the members of the Louvijou family, who resisted, were accused of what kind of crime, and the workers accompanying them were put in to subdue the Louvijou family, and they were brutally tortured and killed in the town square.
In this part, Hwan-in asked her girlfriends because there was something inconsistent with the storyheheard the other day.
“Is the authority and prestige of the baronial family so strong that this is openly enforced? Didn’t you say that citizens and residents are protected by the capital?”
=…… The Baron has the right to take immediate action on the common people, but that’s not something that can be done by killing and wandering around like this…… If it becomes known, even among the nobles, they will be treated as rude…….=
=The owner said that… Seonmin idea? You told me that I think many nobles and nobles have such a chosen people idea. I saw it a lot when I was active as a mercenary. It’s a baron who wants to be punished immediately as if it’s really a mortal sin.=
=I’m not saying this because I’m a Fleur, but the Lukerang are a bit extreme. In Radsea, good people and bad people mix like a melting pot, and order is maintained in chaos.=
The female friends’ comments, especially Anne’s, were explanations that resonated with Hwanin.
Order in chaos. If only evil people exist, the country cannot be maintained in the first place, so good and evil are properly mixed.
“What a mess.”
=…….=
=…….=
Anyway, there were several reasons why the village was able to be maintained despite the passing of a man who could be called a dead servant.
First of all, most of the victims were residents of wooden plank floating houses on the east side of the island, which can be said to be the lower classes of Gyosang Village, and all but one member of the Rubiju family, the owner of Owling, was killed in the name of ‘responsibility’. It was suffered
The latter was particularly important. In the eyes of the villagers, the act of the Louvise family was an aristocratic figure of sacrificing their lives to save the village.
Anyway, 1/10 of the town’s population evaporated in an instant, but there was no major disruption.
In modern times, losing 1/10 of the population is like removing a cog from a perfectly fine clock.
However, in the Middle Ages, the damage to Owling was not great because most of the workers were engaged in primary production.
The most serious is the level of disruption to the harvest during the harvest season due to the decrease in manpower.
It was also noteworthy that most of the residents of the murdered floating houses were simple laborers, not professional workers.
The biggest problem is that those who saw the scene of large-scale murder and torture suffered from PTSD in their hearts.
Hwanin, who moved into the detached building after cleaning, said while eating lunch prepared by Isilite.
She said, “I’m done collecting rumors, so I’ll go find Malvin after I finish eating and rest for a while.”
The rough sketch has been completed, but there are still some subtleties. This will be resolved if she reveals her identity to Malvin and then listens to additional stories.
Anne, who was dipping into a fruit and vegetable salad sprinkled with honey and nuts, spoke her impressions with a pleasant snort.
= Yes. As expected, Dew’s cooking is the best.=
= The skill of the inn chef wasn’t bad, but……. The comparison target was too bad.=
Quet!
Talking about Bisang with his girlfriends, Hwanin remembered what he ate for breakfast.
Sausage with very salty stews and salted meats or salty meats that numb the taste buds. Black bread that needs to be crushed and soaked in stew.
Wasn’t that bad?
She was a Hwanin who did not choose to eat or pick up food, but there are no words to describe the food as bad. I wonder if Isilite regretted stopping me from preparing her breakfast.
Stinky tofu is better.
After taking a break for a couple of hours, Hwan-in headed to her mansion with her girlfriends to meet Malvin = Lou V.
