69novels Chapter 13 The New Apostle of the Holy Spirit Cult, Gao Yu Shi Yan, Reports!
Chapter 13 The New Apostle of the Holy Spirit Cult, Gao Yu Shi Yan, Reports!
Upon hearing Itajō's words, Fushiguro Megumi was the first to speak up in rebuttal.
"It's just common cult brainwashing, preaching that all beings suffer and only by believing in their God can one be saved. There are too many of these tricks."
Fushiguro Megumi was an orphan from a young age and had seen all sorts of people. He had great disdain for these brainless apostles of the cult.
Do you think believing in a god will make your life better?
dream!
Joining a religious order is often the beginning of stepping into an abyss. Even Gojo Satoru couldn't save everyone, let alone a so-called Holy Spirit.
"I don't think it's brainwashing. If it were brainwashing, what would the Holy Spirit want? You heard it yourself, he didn't take a single penny from Shunping's family."
Kugizaki Nobara countered that, having come from a small town, she was more able to empathize with Junpei's experiences.
"They haven't had time to close the net yet. Maybe they saw that Shunping's family didn't have much money and planned to train him to be a thug for the cult. In any case, they definitely don't have any good intentions."
Fushiguro continued, saying that he always displayed extraordinary calmness and rationality when it didn't concern him.
"But didn't the Holy Spirit Cult only start operating in the last month? Shunping was among the first to join. If even he didn't pay any money, then most of the others probably didn't either."
Tiger Rod couldn't help but ask, "The Holy Spirit Cult is indeed different from conventional religious groups; every move it makes reveals a strange meaning."
"alright."
Finally, it was Nanami Kento who stopped their conversation, sat down in front of Shunping, and asked a few key questions.
"Have you truly awakened the spell?"
Shunpei nodded, then released his shikigami "Yodozuki," a giant jellyfish-like creature.
Nanami sensed that Shunpei's magical energy fluctuations were approaching the level of a third-level sorcerer, which showed that he had indeed worked very hard and devoted himself to increasing his magical energy output over the past month.
"You killed someone. Do you know that murder is illegal in Japan? Are you prepared to be tried?"
Nanami pushed up his goggles again, obscuring his true expression, and said calmly.
"The law? When I was being bullied, when they were about to beat me to death, why didn't the law protect me?"
Shunping scoffed with a disdainful look, then changed the subject and said calmly.
"However, I am also prepared to be judged."
"Rather than waiting for them to hurt the people I care about most and then regretting it, it's better to pay a certain price to eliminate all potential threats."
Shunping never cared much about himself; what he cared about most was his mother.
He doesn't care what happens to him as long as he can protect his mother.
Upon hearing Shunpei's reply, Nanami's brows furrowed even deeper, but she maintained her calm and composed demeanor and spoke in a low voice.
"As sorcerers, we possess certain law enforcement powers and immunity. If you cooperate with the investigation, we can clear your name and remove you from the suspicion."
"As long as you cooperate with us and go to the location of the mission you mentioned before, where you were supposed to 'rescue' others, I can exonerate you."
"Otherwise, we will tell your mother the truth about what you have done."
"Shunping, you don't want to disappoint your mother, do you?"
"you!"
Hearing Nanami's attitude of half negotiation and half threat, Junpei trembled with anger and said to Itadori.
"Itadori, you said it was just an investigation and you wouldn't harm the Holy Spirit, but the way you teachers act doesn't seem like you want to have a proper talk at all!"
Urajima felt a little guilty after Shunpei's words, and looked at Nanami beside him, whispering.
"Teacher, I don't think he's lying, so maybe we should..."
"The problem is even more serious precisely because he didn't lie."
Nanami took a deep breath, rubbed his aching temples, and had many things on his mind, but didn't know how to tell Itadori and the others.
Actually, he didn't want to talk too much about adult topics with these teenagers; those were things they, as adults, should bear.
After all, this incident involves far too many things.
An underground boxing ring secretly run by Representative Yamamoto.
The Mitsui zaibatsu owns an "onsen island" near the coast.
There's also the "ninja organization" trained by the Kujo family, the large number of servants enslaved by the Kitayama family, the casinos opened by the Sakaki family in various places, and so on.
Over the past month, the organizations under these families and forces have suffered heavy losses. It seems that the Holy Spirit Cult is specifically targeting these places, using the power of sorcerers to wreak havoc, which has already aroused the dissatisfaction of many people.
Some have even brought up the old issue again, arguing that sorcerers are unstable elements and should be subject to unified control, even demanding that they all wear electronic tracking devices to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
Faced with such doubts, there are two voices in the world of sorcery.
One group, led by Yoshinobu Rakuganji, the principal of the Kyoto Prefectural High School of Spellcasting, was radical. They believed that the strongest forces should be mobilized immediately to completely eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult, prevent the higher-ups from continuing to suspect them, and preserve the sorcerers' existing transcendent status.
Another group, led by the principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High School, "Night Moth Seido," is a conservative faction. They believe that pressure from lawmakers should not affect their judgment. They argue that the Holy Spirit Cult has not yet shown any signs of large-scale attacks on innocent people, and that what they are doing is more like "revenge" than "destruction." They suggest that the investigation should be the priority.
After weighing the options, Masamichi Yagami's proposal ultimately prevailed (mainly due to the influence of Satoru Gojo), and Yoshinobu Rakuganji reluctantly agreed to conduct the investigation first.
However, if the investigation still fails to find a "culprit" to appease public anger, then they will still have to use their top forces to completely wipe out the Holy Spirit Cult.
Before talking to Shunping, Nanami actually hoped that the Holy Spirit Cult was just a cult that cheated people out of money and used the power of sorcerers to do bad things behind the scenes. That way, he could report it without any psychological pressure and completely wipe it out.
It is precisely because it is so good, so good that it has affected the interests of high-level officials, that things have become so thorny.
He inquired about the location of Shunping's accident in order to find more clues, at least to catch a Holy Spirit Cult apostle with a "bad record" and complete his mission.
"In short, tell me the locations of those missions now. If you don't cooperate, you'll likely face the maximum penalty for murder."
Nanami's tone became more anxious. Those high-ranking officials with vested interests had been putting pressure on the sorcery world. The longer it dragged on, the more unpredictable things would become. He had to produce results as soon as possible.
"Yahoo!"
"I've been listening from the ceiling for ages! You despicable bunch, you've really gone too far!!!"
Just as Shunping clenched his fists, feeling immense pain and almost grinding his teeth to powder.
A voice, exaggerated like a manzai comedy routine, high-pitched and shrill, rang out from the ceiling.
"Yahoo!"
"When you see injustice, you should speak out!"
"I am Takayu Fumihiko, the newly appointed apostle of the Holy Spirit Cult!"
In an instant.
A man in a tight-fitting suit with a buzz cut struck an exaggerated Superman-like flying pose, freeing his hands and feet from the hanging chandelier, and with a loud shout, descended from the sky...
boom!
Then, he landed face down.