I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 216

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“…Now, you’re going to send me?”

To meet Joo Hyun-jin, my dead soul would have to go back to Earth.

But I haven’t even died yet, isn’t this too early?

Were you waiting for me to die?

“Where, where are you going.”

At my whisper, Lute’s eyes widened.

“Don’t die, you’re not going to die. So don’t go.”

Without even knowing where I was going, Lute pleaded desperately.

I do want to see Joo Hyun-jin, but I said I wanted to see her after living my full lifespan, I didn’t expect to see her in less than a year like this.

【User ‘Cha Siwon’ is facing mortal danger. Contract conditions have been met.】

【Executing the contract between ‘Traveler Guiding Souls’ and ‘Joo Hyun-jin’!】

“…?”

What is this about now.

A contract between the Annihilation God and Joo Hyun-jin?

【The two contracts made by ‘Traveler Guiding Souls’ are overlapping. The effects of both contracts are merging into one!】

【’Joo Hyun-jin’s’ soul fragment remaining in the diary is responding to the overlapped contract.】

Along with the System Message, the inventory opened on its own.

The diary I had carefully placed in the very first slot sparkled brightly.

The very diary that Ordel from my previous life had left behind.

【The diary is pulling the main body of the soul. Summoning the departed soul back to this world!】

“L-look there!”

“Black light in the air again!”

Then the people who had been fighting the demons pointed to the sky.

I, I need to see that too.

When I stirred, Lute noticed my small movement and carefully lifted my head.

Black energy was gathering in clumps in the air.

It’s different from the dirty power of ‘Evil’ that Feliks possessed.

Clear, calm, and serene.

It was a beautiful black light like the night sky.

“Th-the Annihilation God’s energy!”

Nashas, who had been treating people injured by demons, screamed out.

Yes, that was indeed the Annihilation God’s energy.

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ cries out to everyone to serve his Holy Maiden.】

I widened my eyes at the black message window that appeared before me.

Holy Maiden.

Could it be, could it be…

“Ahh!”

Nashas let out an exclamation.

She recognized it too.

The new Holy Maiden of the Annihilation God who would descend.

Crack, crackle!

Lightning struck through the black clouds.

“What a pointless act.”

Then Feliks clicked his tongue.

Seeing him try to attack the black clouds, I gritted my teeth and reached out my hand.

【Divine power exclusive skill ‘Judgment’ is strongly activated!】

Kwaaaaang!

Lightning incomparably more powerful than before struck Feliks.

“Kuk!”

The forcibly drawn power overwhelmed me.

“Ordel! Stop it!”

When I coughed up blood again, Lute screamed.

But Lute.

I have to protect that even if it costs me my life.

The person who will appear now is my friend, whom I thought I wouldn’t see again until I died.

“I’ll do it! I will! Airic!”

Lute shouted angrily while shedding tears.

“Lady Ordel!”

Airic, who had been blocking the demons attacking Bizra, belatedly discovered me and screamed.

“Heal her, quickly!”

Lute entrusted me to Airic and rushed at Feliks in my place to block him.

“O-Ordel, my lady…”

Airic cried while trying somehow to pull the black tentacles from my body.

Hissss.

However, like Lute, he too couldn’t pull out the tentacles.

“I’m, fine.”

Yes, it will be fine.

Because the one who left this world is returning to this world once again.

【The new Holy Maiden of ‘Traveler Guiding Souls’ manifests in this world!】

Flash!

The black clouds disappeared all at once.

The person I had so desperately wanted to see was standing in the air.

Fluttering black hair, black eyes that felt arrogant, my prettiest friend in the world.

“…Hyun-jin.”

Even though I was skewered, I couldn’t help but smile at the face I was seeing after so long.

Ah, my most reliable ally in the world has returned to my side.

* * *

Joo Hyun-jin made a contract with the Annihilation God when Cha Siwon’s soul was sent to another world.

[Are you truly confident you won’t regret this?]

Regret?

At the Annihilation God’s question as he took away the soul, Joo Hyun-jin just snorted.

When my friend could be revived, there’s no way I’d regret it.

Instead, I’d feel regretful.

Because I wouldn’t be able to meet again with the only friend throughout all her lives.

[Then if you were given a chance to ease that regret, what would you do?]

A chance to ease the regret?

[Become this god’s Holy Maiden. You are the only person who satisfies the conditions of a Holy Maiden. If you promise to become this god’s Holy Maiden, I will take you back to our world.]

The Annihilation God’s Holy Maiden.

Joo Hyun-jin satisfied the minimum condition of having to experience death.

Cha Siwon was the same, but she became the Sun God’s Holy Maiden, so she was an exception.

[However, this is a contract with death. To return to our world again, you must die once more.]

Death.

That wasn’t particularly frightening.

She had already experienced the pain of her entire body turning to powder while saving Lute Sieri in her previous life.

She had even lived 34 more years while remembering that pain intact.

To meet her friend again, dying once more was nothing at all.

Rather, it was satisfying.

“What are the contract conditions?”

[When Cha Siwon reaches death. When she feels pain equivalent to that. When her life reaches its limit. Then you will be able to descend to our world again as this god’s Holy Maiden.]

Cha Siwon’s death.

Joo Hyun-jin’s fingertips turned cold and stiff.

She didn’t care about dying twice herself, but Cha Siwon was different.

Just the mention of her death made her heart freeze solid.

“…A very satisfying condition indeed.”

It would be best if Cha Siwon didn’t die in that world either.

But if, though the thought was too horrible to imagine, but still if.

If there was someone who would lead her to death again…

That bastard, I would definitely kill with my own hands.

【A contract has been formed between the ‘Traveler Guiding Souls’ and ‘Joo Hyun-jin’.】

[The contract is sealed. I shall eagerly await the day this contract is fulfilled.]

After the contract ended, the Annihilation God departed with the soul of the deceased Cha Siwon.

All that remained was the trace of the contract carved into Joo Hyun-jin’s heart.

Thump thump.

Every time her heart beat, she could feel the life-or-death contract.

She wasn’t afraid. She wasn’t scared either.

As long as this contract remained, hope swelled that she would be able to meet Cha Siwon again someday.

“It would be best to meet when you’ve become a wrinkled old grandmother.”

Then they wouldn’t be able to spend more than a few days together, but at least it would be a natural death so Cha Siwon wouldn’t suffer.

That’s why Joo Hyun-jin had always hoped this contract wouldn’t be fulfilled for decades.

She never imagined the contract would be fulfilled less than a year after she had left.

* * *

“I didn’t send you here to see you in this state.”

Joo Hyun-jin’s entire body stiffened at the scene unfolding before her eyes.

Cha Siwon.

Her precious friend who had the exact same face as her past life self was pierced through her entire body like a skewer.

Rage boiled up.

Anger shot up to the top of her head.

Thud.

Joo Hyun-jin immediately stepped down in front of Cha Siwon.

“Stop! Don’t come any closer!”

She didn’t even notice Airic who was being wary of her.

“It’s, it’s okay. She’s my friend.”

Cha Siwon blocked Airic while smiling.

At that blood-soaked smile, Joo Hyun-jin’s heart dropped with a thud.

Right before Cha Siwon’s death.

She had smiled at her like that then too.

It was the most terrifying smile in the world.

Grip!

Joo Hyun-jin firmly grasped the black tentacles that had pierced through Cha Siwon with both hands.

The disgusting, filthy aura of ‘Evil’ that had once tormented her was transmitted through her palms.

This damn thing dared to hurt my friend, is that it?

【Activating skill ‘Nullification’.】

When she grabbed the tentacles and ripped them out, the black aura scattered like smoke.

Her poison-soaked palms bubbled and boiled, but it didn’t hurt at all.

“Ugh.”

Because Cha Siwon was the one in pain.

“Who was it?”

Joo Hyun-jin very carefully embraced her collapsing friend’s body and asked with a fierce expression.

“Which bastard dared to do this to you?”

“Hehe, ah, it feels good to be held like this after so long.”

Cha Siwon laughed.

At that pain-filled laughter, Joo Hyun-jin felt like her head would really explode.

“…Feliks.”

“What?”

“Crown Prince, that bastard is the source of everything.”

Crown Prince Feliks.

The real enemy that Joo Hyun-jin hadn’t been able to identify until her death in her past life.

She had figured out Lunata’s twins, but couldn’t tell at all whether the one above them was the Princess or the Crown Prince.

Right, it was the Crown Prince.

That son of a bitch Feliks was the real one.

“Airic.”

Joo Hyun-jin, who had somewhat nullified the poison that was eating away at Cha Siwon’s body with the Annihilation God’s divine power, turned to look at Airic.

When their eyes met, he flinched and trembled.

“Heal her. Save her. If she dies, you all die too.”

“Nice words.”

Even in this situation, Joo Hyun-jin frowned at her friend who was correcting her speech.

“…Keep her alive until I come back.”

She carefully handed Cha Siwon over to Airic and turned her head.

Lute Sieri.

He was fighting Feliks, destroying the banquet hall in the process.

He’s quite strong, but that’s not enough.

Joo Hyun-jin drew out the sacred weapon that the Annihilation God had gifted her to celebrate her Holy Maiden awakening.

Bang!

And immediately leaped toward Feliks.

What she swung with her eyes rolled back was none other than an axe larger than a human head.

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