378th Episode – Judgment of Nature
Another mass rises into the air.
It seemed to be flying freely through the sky.
Unfortunately for him, without wings, he could only fall back to the ground.
Due to the gravity of nature’s providence.
“Become a fish that defies the sky~.”
“Not the sky, but the river, you f*ing dog!”
– Thud!
So, another pedophile wannabe tries to fly to become a star in the sky.
Tragically, humans can’t become stars, and they ultimately crash back to the ground.
Of course, the fallen pedophiles were collected by Ayeon again.
“The judgment of nature has ended.”
“So what happens now?”
“You don’t know? The judgment begins anew.”
“F*.”
The judgment of nature isn’t over yet.
Meanwhile, a pedophile awaited his turn, grinding his teeth while glaring at me.
His eyes glazed with blood, barely showing the whites.
“When are you going to stop this!!!”
“They say nature will continue the judgment.”
“How the f* does nature even speak!!!”
But undeterred by that, he reaches out his hands toward the sky.
He prays reverently before the overwhelming presence of nature.
Whether nature will indeed be merciful or not…
“Oh, nature! Are you sleeping? If you won’t judge this person, allow me to fly!”
“You crazy b!”
And just before he could finish his sentence, I kicked the pedophile.
Predictably, he plummeted towards the ground.
Nature will continue to judge them, so until this judgment is complete, I’ll have no choice but to keep this up.
However, after a little time passes, their reactions start to change slightly.
Whether out of determination or perhaps finding it more manageable than expected.
Now, they started provoking me for real.
As if trying to prove that they are hunters, even if they rot.
[“Proving they’re ‘hunters’… Repeating words with the same meaning more than twice isn’t grammatically correct, you know.”]
‘Oh, right.’
Their nonchalance was a bonus.
“Ha! This is fun!”
“Go ahead and throw me! Just send me to the hospital!”
“I just need to roll a bit, and I’m fine!”
But their ease didn’t last long.
– Click.
“……Wait, why put on handcuffs?”
Because Caressy adorned their wrists with silver bracelets.
It was no particular reason, just for their safety while trying to fly.
As expected of a saintess, showing mercy even to sinners.
“It’s my style.”
“No, you fing b*! This will mess up my rolls!”
Before that remark could finish, another pedophile attempted to fly again.
Soon after, a dull landing sound follows.
Probably due to the added handcuffs, he would have landed face-first.
– Thud!!*
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
Unfortunately, unable to fly, he lets out a scream of frustration.
“……Saintess, that guy looks pretty hurt.”
“Not a chance.”
A pedo with an arm awkwardly bent the wrong way.
Seeing this, the police momentarily showed concern.
“Just a scratch. Look closely.”
“Oh, it’s just a scratch. Sorry, I misjudged.”
Following Caressy’s words, their worries vanish, and they smile in understanding.
“You’re fine. By the way, you look a bit worn out; go get some care.”
“Thank you!”
As I tucked the fat stack of cash handed over by Caressy into my pocket.
Then, Caressy suddenly looks my way.
Showing slight worry for the work ahead.
“Shinwoo, how long until we drop every single one? There’s just too many.”
“Don’t worry.”
Certainly, as Caressy said, the number of pedophiles was substantial.
Even working diligently, we hadn’t gone through the rotation completely.
But still, this was no problem.
“Why not?”
“Look over there.”
“Oh.”
There were people helping besides me.
“Could you take a look at my Elf Coin?”
“Why is it yours! I bought it with my money, you f*ing bastard!!!”
“I bought it with the money that randomly came into my account! So it’s mine!”
Right then, it was Elcia.
As always, Elcia gleefully smiled, presenting the coin graph right in front of a pedophile’s face.
“How many seconds until this Elf Coin will rise? Or will it drop?”
“Of course! You think that garbage coin won’t drop?”
Immediately, Elcia drops the pedophile from the rooftop.
“Then it has to fall too!”
“Ah, don’t do that!!!!”
As one pedophile falls due to gravity, Elcia begins showing the graph to the next pedophile in line.
“Now, will the Elf Coin rise? Or will it drop?”
The pedophile’s face visibly deteriorated as he heard Elcia’s words.
But just when he sees the graph slightly rising in red…
Hope gently appears on his face.
“Oh! It went up!”
“That’s right!”
“I’m alive!!!”
However, that hope faded quickly.
Immediately after hearing that, Elcia tossed the pedophile from the rooftop into the sky.
The pedophile, who didn’t register the sudden change, screamed in a panic.
“Why! Why! Why! Why are you throwing me!!!”
“Because it went up, it has to go up equally!”
“Even if it goes up, I’m falling!!!”
Elcia simply kept grinning widely.
“Nope! You’ll fall the same!!!”
“F* you.”
What followed was an even heavier landing sound than before.
And in synchronization, the blue graph began to plummet dramatically.
How coincidental, really.
“I told you so!”
“Ahhhhhh!!!”
The rest was simple.
As Caressy diligently put handcuffs on the pedophiles,
Ayeon and I constantly dropped those bastards again.
As mentioned earlier, the fallen pedophiles were collected by Ayeon.
“Get up already. If you stay outside too long, your mouth will get twisted, and your face will be ruined.”
“It’s your fault that my jaw is cracked…”
“Ah, looking at you now, you probably always looked like that. What a shame.”
“You fing b*!!!!!!”
While we worked diligently, Piece suddenly expressed a great deal of concern for me.
[What if someone dies? What will happen later?]
‘Don’t fuss. No one will die.’
It wasn’t really a problem.
These bastards were still pedophiles.
And even if they soon stop being hunters,
For now, they were indeed hunters.
They earn their living fighting monsters.
So, it’s improbable they’d get seriously hurt falling from a rooftop.
They’d at most get a few scratches.
– Snap!
“Ahhhhhh!!! My nose!!!”
Except for a few cases.
[Didn’t it just break and sit down…?]
‘That’s a flexible nose, so it’s fine. Think of it as a variable type.’
[……Ah, f*.]
Regardless, there were more reasons not to worry.
The police station building wasn’t very large, after all.
So the height of the building wasn’t much either.
At most, the height of a typical three-story building.
There’s no way a hunter could die from falling here, right?
Even regular people don’t die easily.
“Excuse me, Shinwoo Hunter? The person who fell isn’t moving!”
“Oh, crap.”
We’re screwed.
[They’re dead!!!]
‘F*.’
But at a time like this, panicking won’t help.
Of course, quick action is crucial not to miss the golden time,
But in a rush, irreversible outcomes may arise.
Thus, I needed to act calmly.
I quickly dragged the fallen pedophile inside the police station.
Looking around for a way to resolve the situation.
During this, Piece spoke in an odd tone.
[……But isn’t he still breathing?]
‘What are you talking about? It’s an illusion.’
[No! He’s breathing perfectly fine!]
For now, I decided to ignore them.
Because someone really might die.
Not breathing at all is a significant issue.
It typically occurs when there’s a problem with the heart.
In this case, it likely means he’s a cardiac arrest patient with no normal breath or response.
If so, the most effective method would be CPR.
Fortunately, tools for this were in my sight.
Namely, a defibrillator utilizing electricity.
The method was just a bit ‘primitive,’
But there was no time to say that.
Lives hang in the balance; would I delay for that reason?
“Just a moment, let me pull this out!”
“Y-You can’t do that!!!!”
I quickly yanked a cord from the outlet in front of me.
And handed chopsticks to the pedophile’s hands.
“Pikachu!!!!!!”
– Zap.
I activated the defibrillator by stabbing it into the outlet hole.
“Ughhhhhhh!!!”
“Please come back to life!!!”
Fortunately, the hunter who hadn’t been breathing started to twitch slightly.
Proving he was escaping from death, a smile began to break across his face.
That smile looked a bit unsettling with mixed pain.
“Hehehhehe!!!”
“Thank goodness you’re alive!”
Anyway, what matters is that he’s alive now.
‘I saved him!’
[I’m seriously going to die, you crazy bastard!!!]
Of course, someone faced unfortunate sacrifice during this process.
That person was a police officer using a computer inside the station.
He was now sitting on the ground, crying due to his computer suddenly shutting off.
“I was in the middle of a soul healing session; why did you unplug it…”
“I had no choice.”
Looks like pulling the plug caused his computer to shut down unexpectedly.
But it couldn’t be helped.
Wasn’t it all to save a life?
Surely a police officer would understand this much.
“Still, you must save lives.”
“The defibrillator is right next to you!!!!…I was in a ranked match…”
Of course, his crying ceased immediately upon the arrival of a higher-ranking police officer.
“What were you doing just now?”
“Oh, f*.”
In the end, the death and sorrow that had filled this place moments ago disappeared without a trace.
“Let’s duo together.”
“Yes! Sure!”
“Hehehehe…”
Only laughter remained in its place.
‘It’s nice to see everyone smiling.’
[Yeah, it’s so nice. F*.]
It was truly a relief.
