SPMB - Chapter 106

SPMB - Chapter 106

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

The high priest's testimony was like a thunderstorm to the villagers.

That roar shattered all the beliefs that had supported the village until now.

And then a crack occurred.

"... Rye?"

"It's because of the rye? Because I ate ruined rye?"

"Okay, now that I think about it, I got crazy after eating rye bread!"

At first, it started with a small, muffled voice.

"So, what about the people who have died so far?"

"Were you burned at the stake for eating rye?" 

"For sins of being poor?"

It gradually heated up and started to become rough.

"The reason the Saintess didn't have madness is because she's never eaten rye?"

"Then you're not a Saintess?"

Finally, the truth was revealed. At the same time, sharp gazes rolled in like waves. It turned into an arrow and pierced Rachel. 

"But what? You said you could definitely feel demon energy, right?"

"You burned my brother at the stake! You said he was a black apostle!"

"Save my mom!" 

Finally, a huge roar erupted.

Rachel's legs were shaking from the intense hostility, murderous intent, betrayal, and pouring heat.

'No.'

It's a lie.

Rachel spoke through twitching lips.

"Well, that can't be possible! I am!"

"Then would you like to prove it?"

At Kanna's glance, Claude brought a basket full of bread. It was rye bread.

"My lord's daughter, please prove it here."

Then he smiled very sweetly.

"Are you not confident?"

Last night, Kanna repeated exactly what Rachel had said.

"If Miss Rachel is really a Saintess, and if the village people suffered from mania due to the Black Apostle, then there will be no harm in eating this rye bread."

Then the residents shouted.

"Is it so! Prove it!" 

"Eat the bread in front of us right now!"

"Prove it now!"

"Prove it! Prove it!" 

Rachel's face turned pale as the clamor struck her ears. Kanna watched her delicate figure with emotionless eyes. This is tantamount to a public execution.

Countless people were burned at the stake with a few flicks of the tongue from a delusional woman. No matter how much she is said to be a Lord's daughter, she will never be able to avoid punishment.

'I didn't intend to do it like this.'

At first, Kanna thought she was a kind-hearted woman.

It's just vanity, excessive self-consciousness, delusion, and false beliefs born of ignorance. It was definitely a sin, but Kanna still wanted to give it a chance. A chance for her to reflect on herself.

'But because you kicked it.'

They even tried to kill Kanna by labeling her as a black apostle.

If she had been an ordinary, helpless villager, she would have been hung upside down from a tree and burned at the stake.

Like so many innocent people who have died so far, Kanna must have died like that.

Therefore, there was no mercy to be shown to her.

"What are you doing if you're not eating?" 

Rachel's arms trembled like aspen trees. Her eyes rolled around.

'What should I do? How?'

Sir Jerome, wake up. Come to your senses.

What should she do now?

"The Young Lady is clearly a Saintess."

Sir Jerome was the first to call me a Saintess.

"You can definitely feel the magic energy. Feel it."

Sir Jerome was the first to tell her about her abilities.

"Thanks to the Saintess, the village is peaceful."

"Thanks to the Saintess."

Quack!

Rachel bit the flesh in her mouth.

The dizzying pain suddenly woke her up.

"Miss, please save the village through a purification ritual."

"Purification ritual?"

"Yes. This is something only a Young Lady can do."

Sir Jerome's voice.

Rachel's heart calmed as she remembered the firm voice of Jerome, who had reminded her of her abilities, who had started the purification ritual, and who had held her back whenever she faltered.

Okay. Rachel is a Saintess.

She has purified this village so far.

Kanna Valentino, that woman is an evil devil, a black apostle. They are inciting the foolish villagers!

"Great!"

Rachel confidently stretched out her hand.

"Let me prove it!"

She roughly picked up the rye bread. She stuffed it into her mouth.

'Ouch.'

It's tasteless.

In fact, it was so tasteless that she didn't even pay attention to it for the rest of her life. It was a piece of garbage bread that she spit out immediately after taking just one bite as a child.

But Rachel chewed and swallowed one, two, three, four until she was full and burst.

Everything was for the villagers!

To save that poor soul who was deceived by the Black Apostle!

“Heo-eok, heo-eok.”

She ate until she was full and out of breath.

"Oh my, you ate too much. Thanks to this, the effect will appear quickly, but side effects other than hallucinations will be severe..."

When Kanna mumbles something incomprehensible next to her,

Kukukuk! 

The sky split open.

 “... Ah!”

Rachel lifted her head in surprise. And she saw a miracle.

Brilliant brilliance in seven colors pours down. She thinks she'll be blinded by that brilliant brilliance!

"Ahhh!"

The next moment, huge tree roots came down from the sky.

The moment she landed on the ground, boom! 

The ground is shaking. The violent vibration caused Rachel to lose her balance and fall. She stared at the tree, her face turning pale.

A huge tree that came down from the sky - that was the World Tree! 

"The, world tree......!"

The World Tree split open, and fairies of light came out from within. It flew out and wrapped around her entire body.

“Saintess, Saintess.”

"Please join me with the World Tree, Saintess."

"Please become the next spirit."

"The World Tree is calling to the Saintess."

"Please purify the Western Continent."

The fairies whisper and pull Rachel up. Her body floated away. Her dizzying sense of floating made her burst into cheers. 

"Alright!"

It flew high in the sky and finally landed in the arms of the World Tree. The sacred branches of the World Tree wrapped around her body.

"This is it!"

This is the purification ritual performed by the spirits.

"Okay. I will save this world. I will purify the devil... !"

Rachel stretched out her arms and accepted the World Tree.

Unbearable joy burst out from within hrt heart. Tears streamed down her face. They were tears of joy.

Sir Jerome was right.

She was a Saintess.

She was destined to become a God...

"I am a spirit! I am a spirit!"

And everyone watched the scene in fascination.

"...!"

The sight of her falling down on the platform and rolling around, looking for a fairy with tears in her eyes, and looking up at the sky with his arms outstretched.

"I am a spirit! Ahahaha, I am a spirit!"

She looked like a crazy woman.

Like many villagers who suffered from mania.

"... Scam!" 

Then someone from the village shouted.

"Fraud! You're a fraud!"

"You tricked us!"

"You pretended to be a Saintess and killed my brother!"

The voices of anger that had been falling like raindrops gradually poured down like heavy rain. 

"Witch! That woman is a witch!"

"Burn the witch!"

Then someone started throwing stones. 

"Die, you murderer!"

"Die!" 

"You are a fraud!"

Dozens of rocks flew onto the platform.

Rachel was hit on the arm, leg, and head by the stone and was bleeding profusely, but she still smiled. She didn't feel any pain.

"Worship me, I am a spirit!"

All she does is spread their arms wide and let out a mad cry.

***

Rachel ate too much bread.

Even so, the rye bread was mixed with a drug that enhanced its toxicity, and she ate all the bread Kanna prepared.

'Not only hallucinations, but other side effects may also occur.'

But it was an inevitable choice. In order to show it to the villagers it needed to be immediately addicted.

People with very strong immune systems were not easily poisoned by eating rye bread contaminated with ergot bacteria, or the degree of poisoning was mild.

'The High Priestess ate only rye bread for days on end and was bound to become addicted, but Rachel was pressed for time.'

This was the only way to stop the mad killings that had continued for 15 years and inform the villagers of the truth.

The islanders became angry when they learned the truth.

Their anger did not go away even after Rachel was taken to prison by Kalen. 

'Of course. If we don't handle it properly, they'll revolt with pickaxes.'

It was natural that innocent villagers had been executed for 15 years.

It is said that the Lord declared that he would share his property as an apology.

Is he talking about opening the fish farms that he had monopolized as public facilities and distribution fishing rights equally to the villagers?

Is he just trying to control his ranger with something like that? Dead people never come back. 

'I don't think it will go that far, though.'

It remains to be seen whether the villagers' anger will be controlled.

'But it has nothing to do with me anymore.'

Everything she has to do is done.

She has resolved the Emperor's spiteful order to investigate whether there is a disease in the island village. 

Now all that remains is to go back and get a divorce.

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