ReLife Player Chapter 174

Relife Player 174

[Chapter 058]

[When the fox rain stops (7)]

Serena was absent.

He says he is not feeling well.

Even so, Eunha and other friends could not be taken lightly.

Because she had never been to school before.

Even if she was sick, she never missed attendance with the mindset that she would be sick at school.

I couldn’t help but worry.

“Have you not been to Seo-nane today? Did you know that Jin-seo-na doesn’t come to school?” “I got a phone call in the morning. Hearing your voice, he seemed to be in a lot of pain…”

Hayang and Eunhyuk talked in the back of the classroom as soon as the ordinance was over.

The classroom was quieter than usual.

Serena wasn’t the only one absent.

The children who were beaten by Eunha yesterday also did not come to school due to sickness.

Moreover, the children just kept their seats without opening their mouths.

Even though we were gathered in the space of the classroom, I felt as if we were building a wall against each other.

The two couldn’t shake off the stuffy emptiness.

“Minji has been like that since morning… and the captain is asleep as soon as he enters class…”

There was one more reason for the feeling of emptiness.

Minji has been at a low pressure ever since yesterday, when she saw her mother participating in Seo-na’s expulsion movement.

It was common for him to get nervous if he spoke even a little.

Eunha said she couldn’t sleep today and was sleeping on the desk.

Even if Lim Do-hun touched her, it was useless.

In the end, even the homeroom teacher raised his hand.

White is also somewhat strange.

It was the same with Hayang.

Eunhyuk pursed his lips when he saw Hayang get scolded for hitting a bruise during class.

At least she was on the good side, but she seemed lost in other thoughts all day.

So I couldn’t erase the feeling of playing separately today.

“Let’s go visit Seo or the sick!”

You need to lighten the mood.

Eunhyuk suggested it to his friends as soon as it was after school.

“…Yeah, I want to go see Seo-na too.”

Hayang cautiously agreed.

She, too, planned to go see Seo-na as soon as class was over.

“Sorry, I don’t think I can go.”

“What? Why? Let’s go together. There’s no business today.”

“…not today.”

Minji strongly refused.

Wearing a schoolbag, she pushed Eunhyuk, who was blocking the way with her arms outstretched, and left the classroom.

Eunhyuk muttered that he was sorry to see Seo-na and had no choice but to let her go.

“Captain! Captain, will you go with me?”

“…Sorry, you guys go alone today. I have something else to do.”

Even Eunha turned her back.

Except for a brief moment at lunchtime, he spread out and slept all day, leaving the two behind.

“…just the two of us?”

In the end, Eunhyuk and Hayang decided to go see Seona together.

☆

As soon as class was over, Lim Do-hun skipped cleaning the class and sent the children home.

It was because he had to deal with parents who were arguing that Seo-na should be expelled.

“…Seo-na is an excellent student. To the extent that it was even featured in the newspaper…”

“Sir. We saw that newspaper too.”

Lim Do-hoon brought up the story of Seo-na receiving the Brave Child Award to convince parents.

Then the parents who sneered at him cut off what he was saying.

“Do you know what we thought when we saw that newspaper?” “…”

“Why is Ain, who can use telepathy at such a young age, attending elementary school without entering the Player Academy?”

“That’s old…”

“What does age have to do with it? There is no age limit for seniors at the high school academy. Shouldn’t elementary school students be able to enter?”

Lim Do-hoon frowned.

The reason people, regardless of age, could transfer to the 3rd year of the high school academy was not to make the elementary school student Ain a player.

The hatred for monsters was there for those who desperately wanted to become a player.

“I received a telepathic message directly from teacher Ban Ain asking me to save it. At first, I reported it to the Mana Management Organization with the thought of saving the children, but do you know what I thought later?” “…”

“I thought telepathy might be able to control my mind.”

“Telepathy isn’t like that. It’s a special ability that appears only to subhumans and allows them to communicate even in areas with high mana…”

“I know. I know, but it’s not clear exactly what kind of effect Ain’s telepathy has on people.”

“Sir, do you know how alien the telepathic sense of hearing is? I’m scared. He might be able to spy on my kid’s mind and manipulate it.”

“Even if telepathy doesn’t have any effect on the human body, as you said, there’s a possibility that the child could abuse telepathy, right?”

“Didn’t you see the article that came out today? The article about Ain sending telepathic messages to a person for several days and driving him crazy.”

“…”

Ordinary people are ignorant of Ain.

At the end of being pointed at as monsters, they do not understand the fact that Ain, who has no choice but to soak in the player industry, is protecting them.

Lim Do-hun could do nothing but face the parents who vomited their own words.

☆

Among her friends, the only one who knew where Seo-na lived was White.

Her friends only knew that Serna lived in a church, but they didn’t know where the church she lived in was.

It was because Seo-na was reluctant to invite her friends to church.

He said it could hurt the children living in the church.

That’s why Hayang didn’t visit the church where Seona lived unless he had other things to do.

“…is that really it?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

The church was also located in an area adjacent to the slums in Seongbuk-dong.

Climbing up the hill where the asphalt was peeling off, Eunhyuk couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the cross above the vegetation.

The cross was partially broken.

It was an old building even from a distance.

“…was it like this?”

“…No, I didn’t do this.”

walked the road

The first sight that caught my eye before the peeling paint was the graffiti painted with lacquer on the stone wall at the entrance.

To call it graffiti was mild.

[Crucify the devil’s child immediately!]

[Ain lives here. ^^ Let’s put on a dog collar, please.]

[Where can I live because it’s noisy?]

[A dog barking is heard. Beat it.]

“”… … .””

The profanity was also on the floor.

The two of them were at a loss for words after seeing the unspeakable swear words.

“…Sister Maria! What happened? What are you doing here!?”

Then, Hayang found a nun scrubbing the stone wall with a floor brush.

Suddenly coming to her senses, she ran to the nun.

“…Is White here?”

The nun had a cigarette in her mouth.

It was Maria who almost always appeared whenever Serena brought up a story that happened at the church.

“Some rotten bastards did this last night. Bastards who won’t be satisfied even if you kill them twice…!”

Maria gnashed her teeth.

Putting out her cigarette with her shoe, she invited them both into the church.

Eunhyuk followed her guide and passed the entrance.

Women in nun’s uniforms were cleaning the lacquer that had invaded near the entrance, and small children were eagerly carrying buckets of water.

“Everyone has been suffering this way since morning. Pastor Yangban went to protest at the ward office and didn’t come back…”

“Are you the pastor?”

“Yeah, by the way? What’s wrong?”

Maria replied.

Looking around, Eunhyuk asked while looking up at her grumbling that the cigarette pack was empty.

“It’s not a problem… Why are the pastor and the nun together? And…”

Are nuns living in the original church?

It was only now that Eunhyuk found something strange about the story Seona had told him.

There can be no nuns in the church.

A nun was the law in a cathedral.

“Isn’t this a pure idiot?”

“yes?”

“Don’t you know this word?”

Maria laughed.

Throwing the pack of cigarettes at random, she brought her hands together in front of her chest.

As if spreading enlightenment to a foolish believer.

“God is dead.”

“yes?”

“What good is religion when the world is once destroyed?”

god is dead

Humanity realized that the day the world perishes, there is no salvation anywhere.

He said that if there was a God, he wouldn’t have brought down an ordeal that only led to despair.

Humanity cried out that they would rather kill God than be abandoned by God.

Ironically, people who fought a war that seemed to never end under the banner of a god they believed in each other were able to recognize each other only after the world was destroyed.

“Then why is there a church?”

“Even if God is dead, people must live.”

If God doesn’t save humans, then humans need to save humans.

A place that functioned as a religion in the past has changed to a place to relieve people who have nowhere to go.

People of different religions came together under one ideology with the single goal of saving people in despair.

“So forget all the religion you learned in school. Even if you learn it, it’s useless.

Well, it’s not that religion has completely disappeared… . Pseudo-religions like Manaism are the majority… .”

Maria clicked her tongue.

A god dies, but a new god is born in his place of death.

People in despair long for the supernatural existence of God even in a world where God is dead.

And they fanatically fall for the gods they created.

She asked Eun-hyeok not to fall for the tricks of a pseudo-religion while on the road.

“Sister, is Seo-na okay?”

“That’s for you to see and judge for yourself.”

Maria stands in front of the children’s room and speaks.

“Jinseo-na. Your friends are here. Stop faking it and come out.”

Maria knocked on the door.

No answer came from inside.

“Jinseo-na! Answer me if you hear me!”

“…I’m sick. Please tell your friends that you’re sorry you couldn’t go to school.”

“Tell it with your mouth.”

“I don’t like it. I’m sick.”

A sound coming from inside the door.

Seo-na was acting in groups uncharacteristically for her.

Maria sighed.

“Are you sick? I’m sick too. But Seona, you’re young because you’re sick.”

“If you’re sick, go to the hospital. I always have medicine, so why don’t you take it. Don’t say that music is the only drug allowed by the country.”

“This bitch doesn’t say anything about being sick. And what the country allows is not only music, but also religion, bitch!”

“I don’t know. I’m going to bed because I’m getting dizzy. And I’m not a bitch!”

Maria slammed the door, swearing at him.

There was no response from inside.

“If you lock the door and won’t come out, I have an idea. Even so, it’s in the Buddha’s palm, bitch.”

Maria pulled the key out of her sleeve. She was yellowed by cigarettes, baring her teeth, and she split the room.

“Guys! Go in and get Jinseo and this bitch out right away!”

“”yes!!””

Maria opened the door.

Hayang and Eunhyuk opened the door and jumped inside.

The room was dark.

Hayang pressed the light switch.

It wasn’t difficult to find Serena.

In a room full of bunk beds, there was a figure covered in a blanket.

“Seo Na, I’m White. Are you okay?”

“Hey, Jinseo-na, does it hurt a lot?”

The two asked about what had happened a little while ago.

The futon only wriggled, but did not show its face.

“…Sorry. Thanks for coming, but would you like to go back? I want to be alone.”

“Yeah, you can’t. Jeong Ha-yang, Choi Eun-hyuk! Jinseo or open the blanket!”

Maria pointed to the blanket with her finger.

Eunhyuk and Hayang faced each other.

They nodded almost simultaneously.

“I’m sorry, Seo Na!”

When I’m depressed, being alone makes me even more depressed.

The two of them strained to lift the blanket Seo-na was covered with.

“Don’t do this! Stop you guys!”

Seo-na rebels under the blanket.

Seo-na struggled to keep the blanket from being taken away.

Even though her bare feet and tail were sticking out, she wrapped herself in a blanket to protect her face.

“Oh, look at this? Are you a radio wave girl? Anyway, when you stick your head out, what comes out is not particles, but dandruff, bitch!”

“Leave this! The medicine is always where you put it, so please don’t go crazy!”

Maria pulled Serna’s blanket.

In the end, Seo-na had no choice but to expose her tousled hair outside the blanket.

“It’s too much… I didn’t even wash…”

“So who’s under the futon?”

Maria crossing her arms.

And Serena pulling the blanket with both hands.

“You have to pretend to be sick. The friends you used to sing to came to see you, will you look like this?”

“…”

Serena bit her lip.

Soon, tears fell from her red eyes.

“…I lied about being sick and didn’t even go to school, how should I look at my friends’ faces?”

“Why can’t you see. Are you guilty?”

Eunhyuk took a step forward.

Serena said while shedding tears.

“I’m so sorry that you’re playing with me like this… I ran away like an idiot! How are you asking me to look at your faces?”

“Why did you run away? And did we ever play with you? We played together!”

“That’s right. Don’t talk like that, Seona.”

Eunhyuk and Hayang answered.

Seo-na couldn’t hold it in any longer and cried out loud.

“…My classmates said I was a monster. People looked at me… and said I was a monster! I bet you guys didn’t see it either! What is written on the front of the church…!”

“Why are you a monster! When did we ever say you were a monster?”

“I know! I’m not a monster…! But…, but…, everyone says that to me. I’m going to school now…, I’m so scared. I won’t go to school.”

Serena cried out in tears.

Even when Eunhyuk and Hayang tried to persuade her, she shook her head and refused to give up.

“…I don’t go to school anymore….”

“”Sanaya!!””

“Jinseo!”

Seo-na had only shed tears since last night.

It was no wonder that she passed out after shedding tears for over a day without eating anything.

Maria rushed out of the room and called for an ambulance.

Eunhyuk shook the shoulders of Seo-na, who did not answer no matter how many times he called.

“…I… it’s because I don’t have the strength.”

Hayang just stared at this scene with tears in his eyes.

There was no strength.

The power to protect one friend.

“therefore….”

If you don’t have power, you can borrow it.

Alice’s position as a direct descendant had its own value.

I couldn’t be this frustrated