I Became The Academy Necromancer

89. devil in the convent

Even the rattling movement of the wagon was now used to it, so there was no big problem in reading the book.

However, the chatter between Illuania and Findenai, who were chattering next to them, was annoying if it bothered them.

“Can you hear a voice if you put your ear to it?”

“Not quite yet.”

“yes? Looking forward to it. Have you decided on a name?”

“No, not yet. ah! Master, will you decide?”

“… … .”

Illuania spoke softly. I slowly close the book I was reading and keep my eyes on her abdomen for a moment.

It’s convex, so it hasn’t been called yet, but life is conceived in it.

The more I think about it, the more I feel a strange sense and a kind of obsession to do well.

Looking for something to answer, Finden Eye sneers.

“To the master? What a strange name I think. Just like the names of ghosts and demons.”

“no way… … .”

Illuania looking at me with really unbelievable eyes. No matter how much I do, I don’t name things like that.

“Do it in moderation.”

When I warn Finden Ai not to spread useless rumors, he clicks his tongue for no reason and turns to another story.

“By the way, is the convent originally built in a valley like this? It goes like this for several days.”

When Findenai, a foreigner, grumbled, Illuania smiled and began to explain.

“Elia Convent is a famous name. It is the place where most saints are born, and it is praised in the kingdom as the sanctuary closest to the gods.”

“A place close to God?”

“That’s why the location is not known to the general public, and it is said that only a few bishops know about it. To make it a place cut off from the temptations of the world.”

“Hmm.”

Like a mother reading fairy tales, Illuania kindly explained. I also knew about the Elia Convent.

“Then it will be peaceful.”

Finden I is sad and regretful. Illuania replied that it might be the same, but I was different.

“Originally, a convent is a clichéd place that often appears in places like horror novels and plays.”

In particular, asking St. Lucia directly for help at the convent implied that the situation was quite urgent.

“yes? Because I have lived so ignorantly.”

Finden Eye answers while scratching her head.

Just then, out of the carriage, I saw a small convent towering over a ridge in the distance.

[Um, that’s ominous.]

[…] … .]

The Dark Spirit, who has already noticed the ominousness, and the burnt woman attached to Illuania’s guardian spirit.

Not only the two dead people, but I too had a bad feeling that had already weighed heavily on my body.

I felt like it would be a more dangerous time than I thought.

* * *

“What are you!”

I thought it would be a difficult case from the moment I saw the convent, but I ran into difficulties in an unexpected place.

The abbess of the convent, Hamates, was a middle-aged woman who looked older.

She was just starting to noticeably wrinkled, and she was so nervous that it was hard to see her in the image of a nun we think of.

“This is not a place for men to enter! Are there ghosts? That’s funny! What can an evil warlock do!”

“her.”

Finden-Ai snorts at the words of Sister Hamates who poured out like a rapid-fire cannon. Seeing him fiddling with his hands made him want to pick up an axe.

“I came after receiving a letter from St. Lucia.”

When I hold out the letter, she grabs the letter with her forefinger, with an expression of disgust at even approaching me.

Putting on the glasses hanging around his neck and checking the contents, Hamates couldn’t contain his lamentation.

It was because there was a handwritten phrase written by Lucia, who wanted Hamates to be considerate of her.

It was a task that Lucia did because she already knew her personality well.

“You can see that she is gradually losing her qualifications as a saint. It’s the worst.”

“If you don’t need me, do so.”

I answered, looking up at the convent with cold eyes.

“The devil’s smell vibrates all the way here.”

As I spoke while covering my nose with my fingers, Hamates’ eyes widened. Her hands, trembling with shame, read Lucia’s letter and exhaled her reply.

“great. If you are the one sent on behalf of Lucia, I will believe you for now.”

It was a part that showed how urgent she was in the situation from the way she accepted sooner than expected.

She took one look at the convent, then came closer and whispered carefully to explain the situation.

I wondered why she was so cautious, but when I listened to the contents, I could understand.

Late in the morning, three nuns summoned the devil.

However, when the abbess came out in the morning, the three of them were burned to death on the demon summoning circle.

That’s why the nuns were called in to figure out the situation.

Three of the seven died, so there were five nuns who should have been four.

one more person

Since the summoned devil was cleverly hiding and disguised, the abbess summoned Saint Lucia to try to identify it.

Because the saintess is no different from the devil’s natural enemy.

“Hmm.”

When I heard the full story of the incident, I had no choice but to make a subtle sound.

If this is true, Saint Lucia was actually more suitable than me.

However, the saintess could not leave her seat in Greypond.

I needed to work it out.

“Wow, Mr. The owner is right. It’s a lot of fun.”

Finden I breaks the serious atmosphere right away. She takes an ax from the wagon and swings it around.

“Wouldn’t it be okay to just look at the existing years one by one? I have a knack for ignorant torture.”

When she asked with a grin, the abbess immediately responded.

“Nonsense! How dare you do that to my girls!”

Hamates spread his hands wide and spat out saying that it was absolutely impossible.

I also had no intention of torturing innocent people, so I raised my hand and stopped Finden Eye.

“I’ll check the body first.”

There was no need to wait too long. So I tried to check the body right away.

The abbess took us to the cemetery near the convent.

“I buried it here.”

Rachel and Mike are certain to be dead.

A tombstone with the names of two nuns written on it, and a tombstone with no names written next to it.

It looks like they were going to make it after finding the one remaining nun.

I frowned and asked.

“Did you bury it as it is?”

“Yeah, that has to be the case. In the end, three innocent nuns were murdered. Because in order to be in the arms of God, you have to have a funeral. You can’t just leave a dead body outside for a long time.”

“Dig it out.”

I was going to dig it up and check it right away, but the abbess was startled and exclaimed urgently.

“Oh no! These children have already gone to the arms of each god they serve! Do not insult their deaths!”

“Even though I summoned the devil?”

It’s really embarrassing.

I thought I should check the state of the body, but she was in a hurry and took the picture out of her bosom.

“This is a picture I took with my magic camera that I prepared separately. I recorded it just in case you need it.”

The abbess handed me a bunch of photos with an expression of humiliation.

It was evident that he had taken pictures of the corpses with great care.

A magic camera must be quite expensive.

The abbess had quite expensive items.

It would be much easier to see it with my own eyes, but I decided to stop doing that.

It was because I felt the will to protect the bodies of the nuns without fail.

In addition, the devil’s energy was clearly felt in the ground where the girls closed their eyes.

It was a land that was unpleasant, stuffy, and felt like thousands of bugs were crawling on it. The devil’s work seemed half-certain.

The bodies were all in the same condition. There was no special nun, and everyone looked like their entire body had been burned black.

“Tsk, I don’t know what to do with this.”

“Yes, I see.”

I agree with Finden Ai’s opinion and hand it to her to keep the picture.

“Next, go to the place where the demon summoning circle was. Wouldn’t you say that you erased that too?”

“… … Of course, we have preserved it.”

The abbess took us to the back of the convent. A tablecloth under the clothesline on which the laundry is hung.

When I removed the stone holding it so that it wouldn’t be blown away by the wind, a faded pentagram was drawn on it.

“… … .”

The energy is definitely not unusual.

When I slightly glanced at the Dark Spirit, she replied with a rather serious expression.

[Devil’s Pentacle. That’s right, it’s a summoning circle that calls on demons. And looking at the traces, I think it was summoned.]

It’s certain if the Dark Spirit approved it.

A demon was summoned by this summoning circle.

“Next, call all the nuns.”

“… … Please don’t do weird things to us girls. I am already in a state of shock.”

“It is to hunt out the devil.”

When I hinted that I would hurt her because I was calm, the abbess bit her lip and took out a small bell from her bosom and rang it.

with my daughter! with my daughter!

Then, the sound of urgent footsteps came from inside. Suddenly, these were reactions that reminded me of the days when I was in the military.

While there is a little time left, I look at the convent blankly.

It looks like a roughly four-story building, but a round window is placed alone on the top floor above the windows that are close to each other.

‘Is it the attic?’

As I was thinking that there would be no need for a window at that height unless it was an attic, the Dark Mage next to me cautiously expressed a question.

[But it’s strange.]

“… … .”

[Being a devil has a higher nose than I thought. Since you’ve dealt with Griffin’s demon, you know that, right?]

The guy who stopped being a demon without becoming a demon.

[There are beings that are much stronger than Griffin’s demons, and there are also beings that are infinitely weaker. But first of all, the race itself is very arrogant.]

The Dark Spirit calmly crosses his arms and looks down at the summoning circle as he continues his explanation.

[The hierarchy among themselves is thorough, but humans tend to openly look down on their opponents, even if they are kings.]

“… … What do you want to say?”

[What I want to say.]

The dark mage clears his throat and slowly circles around the summoning circle. Each of them pauses for a moment at the place where the corpse was.

[Did the devil come because you sacrificed only three humans?]

“The devil has definitely been summoned.”

This is the truth that the Dark Magician and I have also acknowledged.

Through this summoning circle, the devil surely came.

[Yes! That’s the problem. An inadequate offering. No, it wasn’t even a sacrifice. He was just an executor of the ritual.]

“… … .”

[You mean there were no offerings? Still, the devil was summoned.]

And all the nuns who summoned him were burned to death.

[There are many strange parts.]

“… … .”

And that wasn’t all.

In fact, the motive was also important in this case.

If you enter the basic question, why, the story falls into a more labyrinth.

why?

The nuns of Elia Convent, who are called candidates for sainthood.

And not just one, but three.

Did you summon a demon?

The more you think about it, the more your doubts grow.

There was no sign of solving the riddles coming back one after the other right away.

First, it was necessary to check the nuns. If you find the devil inside, the case will end easier than you think.

The nuns gathered one by one immediately lined up in a row in front of the abbess.

Glancing at me as a man, blushing, frowning in disgust.

I see different reactions.

anyway.

“My name is Deius Verdi, a memorial serviceman.”

When I declared that I was calm, they reluctantly bowed their heads.

The abbess said that she could ask them questions on the condition of not touching them, and I asked them several questions.

Indeed, these were obvious questions that could have come out of a mystery novel.

Starting with what they did at the time, what they did the night before, whether there was something strange about the victims, whether any nuns behaved strangely after the incident, and so on.

The incident happened at dawn, so everyone replied that they were asleep. The stereotypical answers that there are no suspicious nuns.

But rather than the feeling of trying to hide something from me, the atmosphere of really not knowing was stronger.

I didn’t feel the devil’s aura at all.

Starting with the bodies of the nuns, the demonic energy that enveloped the entire convent was completely invisible to the nuns.

[Really high-ranking demons can radiate, bury, or hide their aura as they please.]

The dark mage advised me by my side, but I was skeptical of that opinion.

‘Then, it would be a story that a high-ranking demon responded to the summons to receive a meager offering.’

It was strange.

There was a strong feeling that the front and back did not fit together.

‘I can’t be mistaken.’

I am not a detective.

It’s not even a cold-hearted detective who finds evidence in a detective story.

Of course, reasoning with clues is important, but the thought that it alone cannot solve the case hit my head.

darkening sky.

The moment I exhale to cool my complicated head a little.

“Didn’t everything come out?”

“I-I saw it too.”

Along with Finden Eye’s sarcastic voice, Illuania’s startled exclamation.

Both of them point their fingers at the same window at the same time.

The rooftop of the convent.

The tallest round window.

“There was a bitch over there.”

“that’s right. I saw it clearly.”

At the testimony of the two, I immediately glared at the abbess.

I thought maybe he was hiding something because he was so shameless.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t just the abbess whose expression was ruined.

All the nuns in the convent were glaring at us with ferocious expressions, as if they were showing a secret they would never want to be found out about.

“Who is it?”

However, when I asked without being pushed by such momentum, the abbess answered with her hand holding the rosary of the god she worships.

“Nobody.”

“Do you think I’ll believe it if I say it with that reaction?”

When I replied with a laugh at the absurdity, the abbess replied with the momentum to rush at it.

“There really is no one. Even if there is, it has nothing to do with this case.”

“It’s me who judges that.”

I moved toward the rooftop of the convent.