SPMB - Chapter 105

SPMB - Chapter 105

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Rachel felt like she would be crushed to death by those eyes. The look in his eyes is as if you are looking at something below, something lowly. 

Rachel felt angry as if her heart was burning at the gaze she had never witnessed in her life. She wasn't the type of person who could afford to be looked at like that.

'You dare me.'

Who is she? She is a Saintess. She is the savior of this town, how dare he!

"Bring the high priest here right now!"

Rachel shouted loudly.

Yes, High Priest Carleon would be able to put down that arrogant man!

However...

"Well, High Priest... I haven't seen him in days."

Rachel's head went blank at the servant's words.

The high priest is gone?

It was a common occurrence. The High Priestess, who shines a light, hangs out in the town's bar for days.

'Why now!' 

It was then.

"Uh, over there..."

Someone's shocked voice rang out. He pointed somewhere with a trembling hand.

"There's the high priest!"

Everyone's heads turned to one place.

***

The high priest saw God. 

"God, why didn't you give me holy powers?"

Then God answered.

"I have a plan."

What is the plan? Do you not know how miserable the life of a priest who was born without holy powers is?"

The high priest cried and confessed his old feelings of inferiority.

"I was born without sexual power and was no better than a defective product. Don't you know the poor treatment I received from the same priests at the main shrine?"

The high priest cried out in tears.

Then the God answered.

"I have a plan."

 "What on earth is that plan! What is it that makes me a defective product?"

It was a moment when God smiled.

"..."

His back cracked.

The feeling of his back being split in half was terrible, but strangely he didn't feel any pain.

“Ah!”

The High Priest looked back and, Oh my God. 

Wings sprouted from his back. He has wings!

The high priest was delighted and flew high into the sky.

"Ahhh!" 

In an instant, the world becomes Iower. He flew high, overlooking everything.

"Ha ha ha!" 

He sees God wanted to give him wings!

That's why God didn't give him holy power! 

Occasionally, priests without holy power were born in the great shrine.

However, the High Priest concealed this fact to preserve his dignity, and thanks to this, Carleon was able to act as a priest like any other person with holy powers.

But it can never be the same.

Even though Carleon was a priest, he lived without knowing what sacred power was. It was truly a harsh time for him.

"That's why you did it to give me wings!"

Pure white wings. Isn't this a symbol of God?

The high priest flew high into the sky.

Higher, higher!

"..."

The expression disappeared from Rachel's face.

It wasn't just her. The faces of everyone who witnessed the scene turned white.

“Ahahahahaha!”

Where have the old white robes gone?

The high priest, wearing only underwear, was running around flapping his chubby arms. 

"This... Unbelievable!"

"The high priest is mad!" 

The shock has arrived.

He is no one else, but a priest of the Great Temple, who is said to be closest to God. They can't believe he was consumed by the devil!

"Duchess Valentino!"

Rachel's eyes burned like fire.

"What are you all doing! We need to clean up Duchess Valentino! Only then..."

"Purify,"

Kanna laughed, interrupting Rachel.

"Well, is there really a need to purify it?"

Now that the high priest has arrived, the stage is ready. Kanna commanded.

"Sir Claude, please bring the high priest here."

Then, Kanna's guard knight appeared like a shadow from somewhere and nudged the high priest on the back. The high priest was made to flap his wings over the stage.

Kanna took out a bottle of medicine from her pocket.

When she came to Palen Island, she brought all kinds of medicines with her in preparation for any unexpected situation, and this medicine was one of them.

It was an antidote that destroyed harmful substances that had penetrated the body.

"What are you doing now?" 

As Kanna poured the drug into the high priest's mouth, Rachel quickly caught it.

No, she tried to catch it.

But it couldn't be done. Kalen's arm stretched out in an instant, blocking her view.

Kallen looked down at her and said coldly. 

"Just watch."

"Just watch! How can I administer an unknown medicine to the high priest?" 

"Young lady, you are mistaken."

He warned quietly.

"Do you think I'm suggesting this?" 

"...!"

It was a threat like a scammer.

A blatant warning that if she doesn't stay still, he will make her stay still.

Rachel couldn't go any further.

'Why is everyone just watching? Why!'

Villagers too. My father, the Lord. The Lord's knights too. Everyone is just watching this scene as if they are overwhelmed and entranced.

'Sir Jerome!'

Tears welled up. As expected, only Sir Jerome was on her side!

How long has it been since Kanna poured the drug into the High Priest's mouth?

"... Uh?"

The effect was surprisingly immediate. The high priest, who was flapping his wings like a bird, suddenly stopped struggling. And after a while.

"What... What?"

Carleon raised his red-hot face. He looked around with trembling eyes.

Everyone on the island was staring at him.

'What is this!'

Running around naked and flapping his wings!

The high priest was embarrassed. Even more so because he remembered everything.

'Bah, what did I just experience?'

At that time, Kanna approached.

The high priest was so confused that he completely forgot about yesterday's feud with Kanna.

"High Priest, are you okay?" 

"B-just now...!" 

"You experienced the kind of mania common to villagers."

Then the high priest's face crumpled horribly. 

"What a madness! Do you think the Black Apostle's tricks will work on me, a priest of God?"

"Sure. I think so too."

"What?"

"The proof is that you got better after canceling the medication."

"Cancellation of medication...?"

Kanna raised the bottle in her hand high.

At that moment, the glass bottles sparkled like a holy relic in the sunlight.

"Yes, this mania is canceled."

The impact of those words was great.

"Cancellation? Is it like an antidote?"

"No way!"

"then... You mean it's not mania, it's poisoning?"

A murmur spread among the people who were watching as if they were dead. There were cries of confusion, doubt, and disbelief mixed together.

Kanna left them talking for a while, and when they quieted down, she spoke again.

"The rye the villagers were eating was poisoned."

To be more precise, there were germs.

However, in this day and age, especially the common people in closed villages, it is unlikely that they are properly aware of the concept of germs, so she changed it to a familiar word to explain it.

"Do you mean poison?"

"Could it be that someone poisoned it on purpose?"

Kanna quietly shook her head at someone's shout.

"No, it happened naturally."

It really was.

"When the rainy season comes, the days become humid. This is especially serious because it is located on an island, in other words, next to the sea. It was so humid that the rye harvested at that time grew moldy."

"..."

"It was the poison released from the mold that caused the hallucinations."

If a certain amount of this bacteria, commonly called ergot fungus, is formed from a mold and is ingested by the opposite sex, poisoning occurs. 

"As a side effect, they developed hallucinations."

It also causes very serious hallucination symptoms.

The degree of hallucination was so extreme that in the world of Joo-hwa age, one of the ingredients of a particular drug was derived from this rye fungus ergot.

"It happened because of the combination of geographical and climatic characteristics."

Islands along the sea naturally have high humidity.

Meanwhile, when the rainy season overlaps, humidity reaches its peak and destroys the rye.

So, to put it simply, It was a skit caused by eating the wrong food.

"So it's not the work of the Black Apostle or anything like that. You are just pitiful and have been eating bad food all this time."

Then she smiled and shrugged her shoulders.

"In fact, no one has ever developed a mania since quitting rye. Isn't that right?"

"That... That's right!"

The high priest, who had to prove that he had not suffered from madness, also rushed to help.

"How could I, a high priest, suffer from madness? I also ate rye bread before hallucinating!"

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