I'm the Only Totem in Another World - Chapter 116

Chapter 116: Saintess Scramble （2）

Should I ask Noah first?

[Malak-nim asked how things are going over there.]

[Petit Noah: Ah]

[Petit Noah: Everyone’s inside the church!]

[Nothing happened?]

[Petit Noah: No!]

[What’s Bangguseok Choseon doing?]

[Petit Noah: Lying down and sleeping!]

What a comfortable life for a possessed person.

[Search the body of the enemy captain that the Guardian-nim killed earlier.]

[They said there’s something like a gold badge.]

[Petit Noah: Σ（°△°） ]

[Petit Noah: …The corpse?]

That’s a strangely irritating emoticon. They’re all emoticons that aren’t used in Korea.

Even though we’re from the same Earth, I become aware of our different countries at times like this.

[It’s Malak-nim’s order.]

[Petit Noah: （;;;_） ]

[Petit Noah: Okay…]

I wanted to say, ‘If you send one more emoticon, Malak-nim will come and flick your forehead,’ but I held back.

Hoo, I have to be patient. Noah must be doing that because she doesn’t know how urgent the situation is right now.

After taking a short rest, I flew up again on Tteunteuni.

[Petit Noah: I checked~!]

[Petit Noah: A cowboy badge? Something similar? There is something, but the top part is broken!]

It must be a sheriff’s badge. Where would a cowboy get a badge?

[Okay]

Getting the team leader’s badge is a failure. The Pope told me that it’s a delicately made magic tool, so even a slight damage would make it unusable.

Well, I wasn’t too surprised.

Being impatient won’t change anything. It will only ruin things if I rush them.

━ He said the badge is damaged. Let’s wait for the enemies who will come in two days at the church.

It’s not like there’s no way at all.

“…I’m sorry. I was careless.”

Rake’s face turned red, thinking she had made a mistake. Her eyes are blinking rapidly too.

━ It’s okay. We can get it again.

She’s so cute at times like this. If she had done even half of what she does to me to other people, she wouldn’t have been eating alone.

…But imagining Rake blushing in front of other people, that’s not good either.

“They are horrible people. They said to capture the Saintess if she’s there, and if not, kill all the followers of the Goddess Religion and return…”

I set off with the grumbling Pope on Tteunteuni. He shuddered, as if the memories of the Reptilian team leader we saw in the recording were horrifying.

Kwee…eek…

Tteunteuni looks very tired after flying for hours with three people on board. His eyes are drooping.

Is it because an obese middle-aged Ajusshi is riding instead of a high school girl Paladin?

“Tteunteuni, you’re a good boy, right? Just a little more, please.”

Kwee…eek…!

Thanks to Tteunteuni, who was overworked without any compensation, we were able to safely arrive at the church.

“Ah, here it is. It had some blood on it, so I wiped it with a cloth.”

Just in case, I looked at the badge that Noah found earlier, and it was definitely damaged.

There’s no magician here who can repair this.

It was impossible to move to Totem No. 1 and explain this appearance or structure to Harry. How would I know the structure of a magic item?

I couldn’t even send it to the Tribal Federation because there was no altar.

“Shall we keep it for now? Maybe Grandpa Harry or Luna can gain new knowledge from it.”

So I left it to Paya for now. I’m sure she’ll deliver it well.

━ Let’s rest for today.

Everyone must have been busy fighting and flying. I told them to get a good night’s sleep as they need to conserve their strength.

Now, let’s organize my thoughts now that it’s quiet.

1. The Reptilian soldiers said that reinforcements would be coming here in two days.

We just need to deal with the team that will come in two days and get a clean badge. This is Plan 1.

It’s a bit of a bummer that it’s delayed for two days, but what can we do? I just hope it’s not too late.

2. The headquarters of the Evolutionist School is between Linea and Quinton.

Linea is the area where Siu and the Ashgrey Fog Tribe live, and Quinton is the area where the Dark Cloud Demon and Dina’s Special Forces fought.

The Saintess’ hiding place and the headquarters are quite far apart, so if there’s no flying means like Tteunteuni, it would take at least three days to walk there.

I’m assuming that the news of capturing the Saintess won’t spread within the School within two days. Reinforcements will come this way.

If the Reptilians don’t come after two days, we can go near their base and wait.

The Pope, who saw the Saintess’ recording, said that the Evolutionist School sent several teams to places where they suspected the Saintess might be.

If we’re lucky, we might be able to catch a team leader returning from a mission and get the badge.

This is Plan 2.

It would be great if it ends with Plan 1.

After relaying the information I’ve gathered so far to the Tribal Federation, I logged into the community. Let me take a break now.

[I Trusted the Monkey Man but: Real-time Seongbung…Teaching swordsmanship to a kid

He said he wants to be a cool person like the Paladin-nim, so I couldn’t help but start swordsmanship tutoring;;

But I need to know something to teach him.

The only martial arts I’ve learned is Eek Eek~! from a tiny neighborhood hapkido school…

I just said whatever came to mind.

A true warrior must hone his mind. To become strong, you have to awaken the Paladin’s ‘Mind of Emptiness’, I said kekeke

I was trying to gloss over it like that, but the kid asked, ‘How do you awaken the Mind of Emptiness?’ ;;

How would I know? I just said to do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and run for 30 minutes every day.

I said that’s the basic Paladin posture.

Then the kid said seriously, ‘I’ll do it starting today, so please watch me’ F*ck lol;; How can he do that in a cave where he can’t even eat three meals a day?

It’s perfect for breaking a child. And at a bad timing, his dad, mom, and daughter are watching too. （This is the first time I’ve seen the mom and daughter’s faces.）

When the dad was about to get serious, I just changed my words. I said I’d teach him swordsmanship for exactly 5 minutes a day if he did 10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups, and 10 squats.

I didn’t expect it, but the kid did it all and stood right in front of me.

So I just taught him the basic swordsmanship I just made for 5 minutes ㄹㅇ

（A picture of a boy holding a wooden sword with a serious expression and taking a deep breath.）

Seongbung’s original swordsmanship…It’s called ‘Paladin’s First Form, Breath of Wind’.

It’s a skill to control your breathing by quickly inhaling and exhaling while holding a sword.

I don’t know what will be good if you do this for a long time hahaa What should I do for the Second Form?]

He’s a funny guy. The next post with a lot of comments is…this one.

[Using the President’s Power: My mother’s name is Kim Sunhye.

This is my first time writing a long post, so please understand if it’s lacking.

Kim Sunhye-ssi is the one who took care of the bastard who stayed in his room watching anime, playing games all day long.

Yes, she’s a worn-out Ajumma with permed hair, wearing baggy pants and selling vegetables at the market.

I’ve never called her Mom. I didn’t want to call her Mom. I pretended not to know her even if I met her on the street.

I thought it was all her fault that we were poor, that we didn’t have a dad, and that I only got to wear shabby clothes.

I resented her a lot. No, I still resent her. If you can’t afford to raise a kid, you shouldn’t have given birth, if you were going to break up, you shouldn’t have gotten married…I hated her so much.

I’ve thought about Kim Sunhye-ssi a lot since I came here. I thought she cursed me, or that God, who couldn’t stand to see me like this, sent me here.

It might be both. Maybe they expelled me because I’m useless to Earth. From Earth’s perspective, they just threw away a piece of trash.

There hasn’t been a single day where I didn’t cry before going to sleep. When I close my eyes in this dark space, I keep having bad thoughts. When I try to think of something else, Kim Sunhye-ssi’s face keeps appearing.

Even though I hated her so much, she’s the one I think of at times like this. I really don’t know what it means to be human, what it means to be family.

Do you ever feel like giving up? Like you just want to throw everything away and be comfortable.

I want to give up now.

I’m tired. It’s not fun anymore to pretend to be okay and write comments on the community, keeping up my concept.

I don’t want to think about anything anymore. I hate thinking about Kim Sunhye-ssi, and I hate myself.

What would change even if I went back to Earth? I don’t have the courage to see Kim Sunhye-ssi’s face again.

I don’t think I can feel even a brief happiness by watching anime and playing games like I used to.

I have no reason to live, so this is the end here.

Why am I writing this? What am I trying to say? Well, I don’t really know.

Because Kim Sunhye-ssi might see it? Because I want people to know that I’m suffering and dying? Because I want to ask the people who read this if they have a reason to live?

I’m a pathetic person, right? I know that too.

I don’t think I’ll be able to read the comments you leave.

Goodbye then.]

…It feels like I was sucking on candy and then took a bite of a Carolina Reaper pepper.

A reason to live. He’s a person who nitpicks about everything. Do you really need a grand reason?

I fell asleep while browsing the community. It was a busy day.