The Life of a Wise Cult Leader - Chapter 224

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Side Story – Continuing Ordinary Daily Life with Nothing Special

Hanbul Park.

Characteristics: Asian, sword on the right, magical tools worn on both legs.

Personality….

“In this good world where we could get by just by trusting each other, you throw each other into pits of fire? You’re going to hell, you bastard.”

‘A little.’ Dirty.

“Aaaaaahhh!”

“Please take it easy, Hanbul.”

Cardil shook his head to stop him. However, Hanbul Park opened both eyes wide and pointed his sword tip at the fallen thug.

“But he was bullying a child.”

“Right. Hanbul is…. Hanbul after all! Hanbul is right.”

“That’s right, and it’s fine as long as I don’t kill them, isn’t it?”

“Right. Right.”

“…Sigh. How did I end up. More than that, Kalebrin, Hanbul isn’t always right. Although he was a god before, he’s just human now, so he doesn’t necessarily make the right decisions.”

“Even when he was a god, he rarely made the right decisions.”

“…And just because you crippled them doesn’t mean you didn’t kill them! Where does this mercy come from!”

“Dead*ool.”

“What is that supposed to be. If it’s something from another world, please stop it now. I can’t understand it.”

“But the hero there beats up criminals like this.”

Cardil severely furrowed his brow behind his glasses. His already bad-looking eyes became truly frightening when furrowed.

“Wow, scary.”

“This is all because of who….”

No! Our only healer is going to die!

“Cardil, I’ll be a little less…. show-offy.”

But sword energy goes swoosh swoosh, monsters die swoosh swoosh, and thugs fall down smack smack, so how refreshing it feels. In a world where the judicial system doesn’t reach, not South Korea, beating up thugs seems to provide vicarious satisfaction. No, is it okay to go around atoning with such impure thoughts?

I crouched down and approached the child who was trembling in the distance with black eyes and bruises.

“Hello, what’s your name?”

“…Azer.”

I brought out the ascetic’s ego for the first time in a while.

“Azer~ Nice to meet you. We’re traveling around the world helping people in difficult situations like Azer. You must be very hungry, right? Cold, and with nowhere to go.”

“….”

“There’s someone named Antonio in the Empire. He runs an orphanage. That orphanage is really good, so if possible, I’d like to take you there. Would that be okay?”

“Why should I trust you?”

I smiled and subtly manipulated ether. Then the wounds on the child’s body visibly disappeared.

“Miracles don’t activate unless we firmly believe in each other. I hope this will help you trust my heart that wishes for you to become healthy and better…. How about it?”

The child seemed convinced. Cardil gave the child spare clothes to wrap around himself. Kalebrin cast sorcery to warm the child.

“Since it’s been a while since we’ve seen Antonio, shall we take him there? Would that be okay?”

“Please do.”

“I’m fine with whatever Hanbul does.”

Unfortunately, there was no one who could deploy long-distance movement spell formulas.

It was quite a distance to Antonio’s orphanage, so it would take the child three days of crossing mountains and rivers to arrive.

The child’s stamina wouldn’t be enough for that. Wasn’t he the one who couldn’t even get porridge and was rolling around under thugs’ fists?

“May I carry you?”

The child slightly spread his small arms. Cardil was weak and frail, and I couldn’t make Kalebrin carry the child, so I carried him.

“How old are you~?”

“…Don’t know.”

He looks about seven at most, but since he probably grew up malnourished, he’s probably older than that.

Indeed, was it too greedy to want the world to become better with just one miracle manifested through mutual trust?

As I carried him and lightly crossed over a mountain, the child had long since fallen asleep.

A village came into view.

“Camping with a child would be a bit much, shall we get a room?”

“That would be better.”

While going down, I saw a monster, so Kalebrin caught it.

When we arrived at the village, the village was in ruins. No wonder I could see torches so well.

Cardil approached and asked a villager.

“What happened?”

Since miracles were being used, collapsed houses were being rebuilt with flashes of light.

“A monster that’s hard to defeat appeared here. Monsters come out periodically and….”

“By any chance, was that monster an insect-like creature with eight legs?”

“Yes, that thing came down to the village and took away children!”

From what I heard, it seems like the thing Kalebrin roughly beat up while going down.

“Don’t worry, villager. That monster was caught by our comrade.”

“Then that child too…!”

“Yes, this is a child we rescued.”

I omitted the subject. We didn’t rescue him from a monster but from some human trafficker, but anyway, we did rescue him.

“Oh! In this world. Such a miracle…!”

He came to me and looked at the child. His eyes truly showed relief that the child was safe. While modern people hide their sincerity, in this world sincerity is the most precious thing, so they reveal it.

I really, truly love this world so much.

“The monster won’t come out anymore, so please be at ease.”

“Yes, these heroes…. Thank you so much.”

“So, by any chance, is there a decent inn in this village? Since we have a child, we can’t sleep outdoors, so we stopped by….”

“Oh my, of course! What inn, we’ll give you a corner room in our house. I’m also serving as the village head, so it should be fine for staying one day.”

“Then we’ll gratefully stay cleanly for one day and disappear.”

“Hahaha…. Please stay comfortably as if it’s your own home. Then, may I ask what your name is?”

“Hanbul Park. It’s an unusual name, isn’t it?”

“Our village has even more unusual names, so it’s fine.”

I went chatting hahaha hohoho with the village head. Behind me, Cardil said ‘Is this how he charmed me?’ but I ignored it. I didn’t hear anything.

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【Sernuan Lumiere’s House】

Antonio, who named the orphanage Sernuan Lumiere.

He has no memory of me.

There are two conditions for awakening memories of the previous world. First, being truly believed in and connected to me from the previous world. Second, having a certain level of force.

In Antonio’s case, condition 1 was more than sufficiently met, but condition 2 was not met.

We just told Antonio the story and showed him records of the previous world recorded like a bible.

And after I roughly told him what would happen in the future, I invested heavily.

When the money I put in multiplied several times, he began to believe the story about me. Actually, he seemed to believe it better because he was investigating the identity of the strange man who healed his daughter.

Anyway, it was a bit sad that Antonio, who I thought of like a father, no longer remembers me….

That he’s not my Antonio, but it can’t be helped. Restoring memories involves risks, and even if he learned those memories, it couldn’t be said to be better for him.

In the orphanage he made after retirement, children were running around playing in the wide yard.

As if proving he was Antonio either way, he looked happy caring for children at the orphanage.

“Mr. Hanbul!”

“Antonio, it’s been a while.”

“Haha, it has been a while, hasn’t it? That child is….”

“A child we rescued from human traffickers, and since he has nowhere to go, we brought him. Please take good care of him.”

“Of course. Would you like to come in and have a cup of tea? Yelena happened to come to volunteer.”

When I signaled to Cardil and Kalebrin, they nodded and crossed the main gate. The child shook his small head this way and that, looking around various parts of the orphanage to adapt to the new environment.

When we entered the director’s office, I saw a simple table and purple tea steaming up.

“Yelena.”

“Huh? Asce- No. Mr. Hanbul Park.”

“Puhaha, is ‘ascetic’ still stuck on your tongue?”

“Uh… Well, it’s because I’ve been watching it all along. You know.”

“Hello, Yelena…!”

“Hello to you too, Kalebrin. Mr. Cardil came as well.”

“Yes. I’m tired, so can I take one of the beds upstairs and get some sleep?”

“Go ahead.”

Cardil didn’t refuse and headed upstairs with excited steps.

“What brings you here?”

“Just like always, I discovered seeds of a new era during my adventure…”

“…”

“To summarize, I just rescued a child who was caught by human traffickers and came to entrust her.”

“I see. What about the human trafficker?”

“I chopped him up and roughly threw him on the mountain.”

“…Is that really okay?”

“If he had lived well normally, someone would come looking for him even if he suddenly disappeared, and if he treated people around him badly, then no one would come looking. Isn’t that karma?”

Yelena’s expression didn’t look comfortable, but she seemed to understand my methods to some extent.

“Mr. Antonio, do you need any supplies this time?”

“The Empire provides support and the Demon Realm also provides support, so I’m living well without lacking anything.”

“That’s fortunate. This is a gift.”

I held out a wrapping cloth bundled with fabric.

“It’s said to be a specialty of some ethnic minority. It looked like tea leaves, and when you brew it in hot water it tastes as cool as ice, and when you brew it in cold water it tastes like hot chocolate. Interesting, right?”

“I’d like to take some too. To give to the Magic Tower.”

“Sure.”

Yelena packed tea leaves in her pouch and spoke.

“Oh, Celestia said she developed new magic this time. She contacted me to come see it… Would you like to go?”

“What kind is it?”

“Magic that moves between dimensions, I think… You know, since demons move between dimensions and consume possibilities, it’s natural that other dimensions exist. Even if our world trusts each other, if all possibilities are consumed the world will be destroyed, so she invented it to move to other dimensions where we can live before that happens… That’s just the theory though, she doesn’t know about practice. She hasn’t tried it yet.”

“Isn’t that dangerous?”

“That’s right. So that’s probably why she hasn’t tried it in practice yet. I’m thinking the kid has her reasons…”

Slurp.

“The tea is delicious. Where is it from?”

“That’s probably something I brought too.”

“Are you perhaps traveling the world collecting various teas?”

“Not really… I was just thinking of gifts to give to father-like figures and tea came to mind. I keep ending up preparing that.”

“Father-like figures…”

Kalebrin was already trying to take out sweet fruit that the village had prepared for her and cut it.

It looked like she might cut her finger, so I quietly took the fruit away and cut it with rustling sounds. Yelena brought out a bowl from the director’s office.

I prepared the fruit in the bowl, cutting it into bite-sized pieces.

“It’s delicious.”

“That’s good to hear.”

“Let’s save some for Cardil too.”

Kalebrin said that and carefully gathered the remaining fruit. Kalebrin really is kind.

“What do you want to eat for dinner?”

“We just ate fruit though…?”

“Fruit is fruit. A meal is a meal.”

The continuing ordinary daily life with nothing special (End)

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