Kidnapping the Hero Party

Chapter 22

22. Last Companion. Saints like holy water (2)

22. Last mate. Saints like holy water (2)

Holy water made with Estiya’s peculiar constitution brings strong happiness.

Dopamine, which is responsible for pleasure, is released from nerves in the brain of the person who drinks it.

A drug-like ingredient is contained in Estiya’s divine power.

“Ahhh… Gee, I feel good… ”

My heart is beating hard as if on fire.

I am so happy that I forgot where I am.

I can hear my heart beating fast in my ears.

Estiya, rolling the floor with pleasure, was swimming in a whirlpool of joy.

There was no intention of escaping the vortex, rather it seemed to go deeper into the core of the vortex.

“Hey, hey… Joe, I’m sorry… I want to drink more… ”

I don’t have a cup…

straight into the mouth.

Estiya sucked the finger of the hand from which the holy water was coming out.

Concentrate as if not to miss a single drop.

The divine power had a fixed amount per day, so it had to be cherished.

gulp.

Holy water goes down my throat.

With a feeling of happiness that you can feel for a lifetime, all at once.

In Estiya’s eyes, the surrounding objects began to look strange.

It was a hallucination.

“Bed.. you have your mouth open..? The window… the iron bars… ”

It feels like a vision of the past.

There were a lot of friends inside the iron bars…

Now I’m the only one left… ?

It was a sad past, but Hestiya was smiling broadly.

In a situation where he drank holy water, he couldn’t help but laugh even if he wanted to cry.

“Friend… I want to see you… I envy you… ”

Since you believed in the Goddess, you must have gone to a good place, right?

Had I been alive, I would have told you of this happiness.

I’m so sorry.

Estiya’s friends who were taken away by the religious leader never returned.

A friend who had been injected in the basement vomited blood and died.

In fear of disappearing one by one, Estiya survived until the end.

However, even after being treated like that by the cult, Estiya had no intention of running away.

because.

“This is paradise… Paradise… ”

There’s no reason to run away.

If I’m happy and people are happy, that’s fine.

“Hehehe… ”

Estiya let out an unbearable laugh.

Even if there have been hard times in the past.

If there was God’s blessing, Estiya was always happy.

***

A saint who uses holy water like a drug.

This will be the last kidnapping of my life.

A church of the Goddess Church located in the center of the capital.

Its size was no different from that of a building in Korea.

‘I have to find a saint in a place like that… ‘

It won’t be easy.

Like the last time I was kidnapped by the Sicilian family, the invisibility magic won’t work either.

The church is a group of religious people who follow the goddesses.

Religious people who use divine power do not like theoretical wizards who use magical powers.

Therefore, a barrier to block magic has been installed throughout the church.

What does that mean?

“It sounds like you have to deal with it physically… ”

There must be a lot of stuff in the church.

is that possible?

Still, as long as Minerva was a problem, nothing would be impossible.

“If you try, you will know if it is possible or impossible.”

I took a white mask out of my subspace pocket and put it on.

It was the same mask as when I abducted Saten the last time.

Leaving the alley in that state, I confidently entered the church.

Then, a believer in a Shindo uniform came out.

“Welcome, our Goddess Church welcomes believers… Hey, if you go… ?”

“… ”

Faced with the masked me, the Shinto hardened his expression and blinked in embarrassment.

You’d be surprised.

Suddenly, some crazy guy came into the church wearing a mask.

Shindo restored his expression again and said.

“Ahaha, it is forbidden to wear a mask in our church for identification purposes. I’ll keep the mask, so will you take it off?”

“Why should I?”

“… yes?”

I said proudly.

As if there was no need to take off the mask, proudly.

The Shinto looked startled again, and I said to him as if nothing was wrong.

“I am a Grimore. I asked him why he had to take off his mask. Do you want to die?”

If you can hide your identity, hide it.

And, if you don’t get caught, blame someone else.

The knights who were chasing after me who abducted Saten.

To confuse them, they disguised themselves as Grimoires.

So that the scope of the investigation is not narrowed down to me.

I whispered into the frozen devotee’s ear.

“Goddesses are f*cking hard. I, the Grimore, rule this place.”

Hide me in confusion

So the last mate of the hero party.

The kidnapping of Saint Estiya began.

***

“What? Grimore’s intruder appeared… !?”

At that sound, the Paladin Eric jumped up from his seat.

According to the believers, they heard that they were fighting in the main hall of the church.

“Greemore. Where do you guys think this is… !!”

Enraged, Eric hurried to the main hall.

He is determined to punish the infidels without fail.

However, when Eric arrived at the main hall…

“Hey, what is this? Two paladins were hit… ?”

Two paladins were already lying on the floor.

He was a paladin who had been severely trained since childhood, but in front of the kidnapper, he was helpless.

“… damn it Where did that cultist go?”

“He headed over there!”

Eric pulled his heavy body to the sound and ran with the sound of his armor.

‘Today is. It’s the day of collection of donations, and it’s a big deal.’

Donation Collection Day.

It is a day when donations are collected from citizens and holy water is distributed according to their ranking.

Some citizens gave their entire month’s salary, while others made a donation by using private bonds.

Because it was an important money reduction for the denomination, today was an important day.

Meanwhile, Lee Jun-woo was hiding in the auditorium, unaware of the fact.

‘A lot of ordinary people are gathered, is it an afternoon service?’

At this point, you can sneak in to get away with the chase.

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Jun-woo Lee changed his mask and clothes for a while.

And then, sitting on a chair in the auditorium, he sat like a normal citizen.

“Hey, where did he go…?! Find it now!!”

“yes!!”

The Paladins seemed busy, but it had nothing to do with Lee Jun-woo.

At that moment, a person who appeared to be a ‘teacher’ appeared on the podium in the distance.

He looked quite overweight and had a greedy face.

He shouted at the citizens of the auditorium.

“Now- everyone who attended the service this afternoon- welcome-”

pair, pair, pair.

Regular applause echoed through the auditorium like a machine.

Lee Jun-woo couldn’t understand the bizarreness, but he had no choice but to clap his hands together.

‘It’s too rigid to be called a worship service, and people’s expressions are strange.’

An expressionless expression and an empty mind.

And all of them had their eyes fixed on the box behind him, not on the leader.

The true identity of that box is apparently ‘Holy Beast’.

That must be it.

‘Selling holy water to ordinary citizens and poisoning it like a drug?’

The person I saw in the future must have been poisoned by holy water and escorted the saintess.

I will give you holy water if you escort me.

Well, I guess it was like this.

Lee Jun-woo confirmed that the paladins around him were gone.

There was no reason for him to remain in the auditorium any longer.

‘My goal is a saint. Saving these people doesn’t really help.’

There is no way to save them in the first place, and even if you do, they will want the holy water again.

Structurally, to save them, the production and supply of holy water must be stopped.

That’s why, the only way to prevent this terrible situation is to kidnap the saintess who is the producer.

‘The justification came about by chance.’

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Justification for rationalization.

It’s a very good situation.

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Junwoo Lee looked around and stood up from his chair in the auditorium.

The location of the saintess was unknown, but it didn’t matter.

[Lee Jun-woo confirmed the depravity of the church! The Cult is very bad guys! Should I be upset? If so, where is the location of the saintess?]

[One. It is on the top floor.]

[2. It’s in the basement.]

It was because Minerva would tell them the location of the saintess anyway.

Result of checking 2 answers.

The saintess was on the top floor.

And, one more thing I found out.

‘This crazy church… ‘

It was the fact that inhumane experiments were taking place in the basement of the Goddess Church.

In the basement of the church, children without parents were imprisoned and experiments were conducted in the name of salvation.

the contents of the experiment.

It was something only those who had given up on being human could do it.

***

“Hey, stop that guy-!! Don’t let Estiya get closer to you-!!”

“… ”

Somehow, through the security of the paladins.

I finally got to the top floor of the church.

Paladins were running with holy power on their swords, but they weren’t really my opponents.

“You guys are less talented with swords than warriors.”

“What, what… !”

A move to sever the left arm.

For me, who was active in the frontline party of adventurers, the movement of the paladin was slow.

In the city that touches the land of demons, there are overflowing people who show this kind of movement, and 100% lose their lives if they do this kind of movement.

“If the demon king doesn’t attack, the capital is too relaxed. You won’t be able to protect the church with this skill.”

“Aww… !!”

dump-

No life was taken, but the paladin grabbed his arm and fell to the floor.

Perhaps he had lost his will to fight, and he did not attack any more.

“If you’re not going to fight, get out of the way.”

“Yes, yes… !”

Hodak-

The paladin quickly disappeared.

Behind him was a small door.

Perhaps, there is a saint there, as I expected.

I heard someone approaching from behind, so I quickly opened the Saint’s door.

Then what you see…

“what is this.”

“Hehehe… Go say… ? The mask speaks… !”

Estiya pointed at me and shouted.

Saint Estiya, drooling from her mouth and smiling happily.

Is that the girl I saw this morning?

Where did the benevolent figure go?

I don’t know if it’s okay to say this, but she was making a pretty vulgar expression.

‘… First, let’s close the door.’

The power of the strong is coming from far away.

To save some time, I closed the door.

bang-

Then, he asked the saint who seemed to have gone out of his mind.

“Are you making holy water yourself and taking it yourself?”

“Hey… ? He, I don’t know… ! Hi-Hi!”

“It sounds like you took holy water by your will.”

“Ah, this… ? Of course I eat it because I am… !”

Saint Estiya who can’t even pronounce it properly.

She made white holy water from her hands and reached out to me.

“The mask… I want this… ?”

“I have become You don’t even need to eat it.”

I saw it in the future, how do you eat that?

never eat it

Rather than that, it’s an urgent situation right now.

It was no longer time to talk to the saint.

‘Paladin Eric. If you deal with that guy, it gets a little annoying.’

Eric, who appears to be the leader of the Paladins.

At first glance, that guy is a guy with thick bones, and it seems like it would take too much time to win, so it was best to avoid it for now.

If we have more time here, the knights who received the report will also come here.

Specifically, the Black Crows.

Their swordsmanship was troublesome to deal with.

“Estiya. Stay still. No, you can’t even move anyway?”

“Uh, uh…? what are you doing… ? you… ? why are you tying me up… ?”

Estiya tilted her head and looked at me with hazy golden eyes.

Then, she pressed her nose to my clothes for a moment and then screamed in surprise.

“You, the daughter-in-law… ! That brother at that time… ? I wanted to have it, welcome! Hi-Hi!”

“… Did you want to have me?”

“Eh, he looks strong, and he seemed very strong because he was an apostle of the goddess… I could have been born anew by soaking myself in holy water for 10 days… It was a pity… ”

“… ”

It wasn’t the information I wanted to know.

Talking to Estiya any longer seems pointless.

I tied her around with a rope and tied her to my back.

to never fall off.

Let’s completely bond her and me, Quaang-! With a voice, Holy Knight Eric appeared.

“If you go, you bastard… !! Where does the cultist come from here… !!”

“Is there a law against praying for a grimoire?”

“Such a piece of trash. You’re playing with words.”

Eric was furious.

His eyes were only on Estiya, and he seemed worried about her.

Eyes worried about Estiya, who is in charge of the church’s money.

Eyes that seem to have an unusually ugly feeling of desire.

He seemed to have both at the same time.

“The paladin is so ugly. Do you like the basement too?”

“Did you even see that? If that’s the case, I can’t let you live. And, Estiya-sama and I are the revelations of Goddess. for our happiness. bless you I am just waiting for the time.”

dog sound.

It’s for your own happiness.

To make an oath to the goddess, to maintain divine power, to be a paladin who has to keep purity.

That guy named Eric was already dirty enough to be tainted.

Such an ugly paladin, Eric, stretched out his sword and shouted.

“Stop it now, stop interfering with us and let it go away. We will develop feelings for each other.”

“The age difference seems over 30 degrees, right? Are you serious?”

“There is no age difference in my love.”

“Crazy.”

That crazy criminal child.

The feelings he had for Estiya, who was still young, were disgusting and ugly.

Such a disgusting Eric gradually began to approach me with divine power.

“There is nowhere to run. pagan. Give up now.”

“You think I can’t escape?”

“Of course. This is a dead end. Even if you fight me and win, reinforcements will arrive and you won’t be able to survive. You’re just a rat trapped in a rat hole.”

“Hmm, okay? But one thing is wrong. This is not a dead end road.”

“what?”

“Here it is. The way out.”

Are you right behind me?

The height of the church is considerable.

Falling would result in instant death, and the corpse would be torn to pieces by gravity.

However, I made a choice.

I decided to use that window as my escape route.

“Ugh…? Hehe, trash Eric… ? Oh, bye bye~”

“Ji, what are you doing now… !! Go, don’t go, Estiya-!!”

With Estiya tied on his back.

I sprinted towards the window.