Surviving as a Cult Leader in Another World (Going up)

When I was young.

I had heard a shocking story.

The story was that my favorite strawberry milk actually contained bugs!

I thought it was a lie.

But it was real.

Strawberry milk contains coloring made from insects!

Is that still the case?

Anyway.

It was then that I learned about these 'cochineal bugs'.

It is also true that in the old days, these were used as luxurious dyes after quite careful processing.

Drumming─.

These bugs were floating on the well water, which was stained red like blood. It was mixed with water, but when I touched it with my hand, the bug itself was dry.

It is not simply dried, but dried through a complex process in a high temperature and dry environment.

"The technology is good."

He must be someone who knows a lot about bugs.

And he was smart enough to know the secret of dyeing that had been used since the ancient Inca times.

Also, it must be someone who approached the well.

"Didn't Miss Lucy disappear and say she had to draw water from the well?"

I looked around.

Lucy Emma was nowhere to be seen.

"It's a curse!"

"Oh, it's a witch's curse! It must be a terrible curse!"

"This convent is truly cursed! Everyone must leave here!"

"The well is polluted! "What do we drink to live now?"

The nuns' panic grew.

Everyone is making a fuss that we should abandon this convent.

Aha-.

I felt like I caught a clue here.

But before that, I felt like I had to calm down the nuns first.

"Everyone, calm down! This isn't real blood, it's just red water! There's nothing to be scared of!"

It's similar to strawberry milk.

The taste may be different, but you won't die if you eat it.

Of course, just in case, you should leave the well until it is purified.

"Shut up!"

"What do you know! Do you know more about blood than us women? That's blood! Heeeee!"

Fuck.

Women who were in a panic had a way of being this annoying.

Very annoying.

I want to take out the mask and make it quiet.

But that wasn't possible.

On this cramped island, where I am the only male, becoming Rust would be like openly promoting my true identity.

Of course, there were many ways to avoid being found out, but I didn't want to transform in front of Psyche.

"What, it's not real blood?"

Zek-.

At that time, Milione bravely stepped forward and touched the well water in the bowl with her hand.

Milione, who often had blood on his hands, seemed to realize that this was not real blood.

Do you feel reassured at times like this?

"Tch, it would have been better if it was real blood."

As expected, you are a crazy bitch.

Soon Psyche also took a sip of water.

"It looks like there is no poison or anything. It's just red water. Who on earth did this? From the looks of it, it looks like this bug or something is the problem─."

As expected, Psyche was quick-witted.

I spoke without hesitation because I had guessed the criminal and his intentions.

"Psyche, please call Miss Lucy Emma."

Few people approached the well this morning.

And I felt like I knew Lucy Emma's purpose.

Lucy Emma.

She was not possessed by a demon.

And as expected, it wasn't a tic or Tourette's.

He's just a liar.

I believed in Lucy Emma with all her heart.

You're trying to play a prank on me by taking advantage of my trust.

It's unacceptable.

Guilty!

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"Hehe."

Lucy Emma felt good.

It was because she harassed the bad girl Anemone.

Anemone was a bad woman.

She was a woman who secretly went to the beach every night and recited blasphemous prayers.

'Anemone was definitely a witch! But no one believed her!'

Lucy was called a liar by people.

No one believed Lucy.

Childhood─.

It was because Lucy, who wanted to get people's attention, told various lies and people started hating her.

Now Anemone greatly tormented and scolded Lucy for doubting herself. Lucy had to do daily chores, say boring prayers, be beaten, and be whipped.

'But Hyde believed me! She scolded Anemone! And she said she would get me off this island! 'This is the first person who believed in me!'

Since Lucy was born she had never been outside the island and the convent. The nuns either came to the island or left, but only Lucy could not leave the island.

She will probably be confined to the island until the day she dies.

'I also want to go to the mainland. At the very least, I want to go to another convent! Why do I have to stay in this convent? Director Midnar won't let me out either!'

Lucy studied the outside world only using books.

Great Evangelism.

High acidity.

Even the beautiful meadows and fields were just words, not experiences and scenery, to Lucy.

'I want to see it in person too! 'Not in words, but in real life!'

So Lucy made a plan.

A plan to leave this convent.

Lucy said she wanted to go to the mainland and see the cathedral and eat something called ice cream.

She wanted to see the dogs, and she wanted to see the sheep.

What particularly ignited a fire in her heart was a book she had accidentally picked up a while ago,

Although the stories of the people she wrote about were embarrassing, she made me feel that they were all living hard lives.

Everyone was living really hard.

Lucy thought her life was at a standstill, and she couldn't stand being sad.

'I'm going to leave this island too! And by now, everyone would have been shocked and turned upside down, right? You'll think it's a curse. The curse of Rust! 'You'll think so!'

A foreign book I once read.

There she found out how to use bugs to make water as red as her blood, which she thought was very fascinating.

They used it to decorate the well as if it had been 'cursed by blood.'

To someone who doesn't know you, it will really look like you've been cursed.

Then, the nuns would abandon this monastery, and it was clear that Lucy would also be able to escape this convent and the damn stone island.

'They say Rust is an omnipotent man. It would be easy to curse the wells on this island. I'm just borrowing Rust's name for a moment!'

"Puhuhuh."

As she was thinking that, she was smiling to herself.

Someone knocked on Lucy's door.

"Who?"

"Miss Lucy, it's Psyche!"

Psyche.

He was one of Lucy's favorite people. Psyche was kind, pure, and one of Lucy's friends who listened well.

"Psyche! What happened! "I was going to ask you to go have breakfast together, but it worked out!"

"Miss Lucy, I didn't come for breakfast. "Miss Lucy, did you lie to me?"

"Lie? No!"

Lucy was heartbroken, but shook her head.

Psyche looked at Lucy with her narrow eyes.

She was the kind of eyes that people who had doubted Lucy had shown in the past.

"I want to believe that too, but I do. Lucy, it's better for you to be honest from now on. Because there is someone in the world who can help Miss Lucy. You shouldn't even lie to people like that. It may not be what I want to say, but…"

Saying that, Psyche led Lucy somewhere.

Stone chapel.

There all the nuns sat solemnly, and the fearsome Mother Superior of Midnar held her whip in her hand.

'Hi!'

Lucy was a little surprised on the inside.

It was because the atmosphere was too strict and scary.

'Has it been discovered that you polluted the well water?

It felt like cold sweat was running down my back.

But there was no worry.

Because Lucy had a secret weapon.

'All you have to do is act mentally ill!'

Book.

According to what I read in the book that Director Midnar brought with him when he took office, there was research on mental illness that involves telling nonsense.

Director Midnar was a person who viewed 'possessed people' as 'mentally ill', and Lucy took advantage of that to gain sympathy and attention from people by acting as a mentally ill person.

'Even Hyde sympathized with me!'

When Director Midnar was about to whip Lucy.

Hyde stepped forward and protected Lucy.

Lucy was very moved because it was her first time doing something like that.

"Miss Lucy."

Hyde called out to Lucy in front of the chair placed in the center of the chapel's podium.

"Why did you lie to me?"

"Me? "I didn't lie!"

"Miss Lucy, I think you're the only one who would know anything about cochineal. And you were the one who wrote in blood last night, right?"

Lucy was surprised.

How could Hyde, a man from the mainland, immediately notice his crime?

From the looks of it, he thought Lucy was a liar.

'Now that things are like this, I have to use my secret weapon right away!'

Lucy closed her eyes tightly.

And his body trembled, and he acted like a sick person.

"Sex! Chase! Pussy! "Ahhhhh, chase!"

It was a very embarrassing word.

Is there anyone in their right mind who could say something like this?

Lucy was embarrassed, but she screamed wildly, feeling like she had to act like a real sick person.

"I-I don't want to say this! Sometimes I don't even know… A that I don't even know comes out! I have another personality! This is called dual personality!"

"Dual personality?"

Hyde seemed interested.

Lucy realized that Hyde was a kind person who listened to her story.

As Psyche said, Hyde was a perfect person!

"Dual personality! I have another personality inside me! So I just say and do things I don't want to say! There is nothing wrong with me, Lucy! The bad one is Emma!"

"Okay. Then I will chase away Miss Lucy's alter ego. "I know more about dissociative identity disorder than anyone else in the world."

Dissociative nature—what?

Lucy did not understand what Hyde said.

Soon, people started tying Lucy's hands and feet to the chair, and she was pinned down.

Zek-.

Hyde held out a coin tied to a string in front of Lucy.

"Do you know what hypnotherapy is? Miss Lucy, you will now go inside and face another personality."

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Tics and Tourettes were diseases that could not be cured even in the 21st century.

That means I can't fix it either.

However, fortunately or unfortunately, Lucy was a 'liar.'

There is no such thing as illness in the first place.

So there was something I could do.

"Okay, then you're going to go into a trance. Watch this coin shake."

Hypnotherapy.

It was a treatment that began to be recognized in earnest by Austrian doctors in the 18th century. In this barbaric world, hypnosis is the latest treatment – these were the words.

Of course, I didn't know how to do things like hypnotherapy.

All you have to do is pretend to do something roughly.

Is there anything better than a false cure to treat a false disease?

Under the pretext of giving hypnotherapy to this mean girl who gets in trouble with people with lies, I will give her a little honey and pinch her cheeks.

You should get scolded!

"Now, Miss Lucy, when I snap my fingers, you go deep inside yourself until I snap my fingers again. Three, two, one─."

Just-.

I snapped my fingers.

Then, Lucy Emma's gaze relaxed in an instant.

I asked Lucy that question.

"Come on, Lucy. Let's talk about when your other personality arises. Miss Lucy, how old were you, and where were you? What do you see?"

"Hyde."

"Are you saying you can see me? Who are you? "Is this another personality of Miss Lucy?"

"I am Emma. Emma was burned to death by the nuns in this monastery! I told you I would be back! "I'm coming back to kill you all!"

Emma.

Lucy Emma.

Is this a setup where one name is shared between two people?

When the nuns thought that, they were very surprised.

"Eh, Emma?"

"It must be some kind of joke."

"Jin… "Is it Emma?"

"I am Emma! Emma, ​​whom you killed by hanging me on a tree and burning me to death!"

"Don't lie!"

"Why are we hanging you and burning you to death?"

"You crazy bitch!"

The nuns shouted terrifyingly at Emma, ​​who was tied to her chair. Looking at them, Milione reacted by saying, "Everyone is angry."

Of course, the person who was most angry was Lucy tied to the chair, or rather, the woman who claimed to be Emma.

"The pain of that time! Still vivid! Even though I cried until my body melted, and my bones turned to ash, no one came to save me!!! "I will burn you all to death equally!!!"

Hwareuk-.

The candles and lanterns burning in the dark chapel suddenly blazed brightly. It was an amazing sight, and the intense fire soon spread to the chapel.

Grumble, rumble-!

Suddenly it catches fire.

This time, it's a fire I didn't even start?

When I felt puzzled by this situation, Midnar grabbed his face.

"Is this the real Emma? Same as Emma. Even having a talent for magic─."

Magic attribute.

I felt like my eyes were wide open at that story.

I knew that beings called 'witches' and 'wizards' existed in this world, but most of them were fake.

Holy power, auror, magic power.

Did you say that among these three miracles, magical power is an extremely rare and rare talent?

"Say, save me! Emma! I was sleeping at that time! "I didn't even know you were going to die!"

"It's anemone! Anemone told me to burn you to death! "I was against it!"

"Hey! It's a real witch's vengeful spirit! "The witch has taken over her daughter and is coming to kill us!"

"Help me! Help me! I only threw one firewood! I didn't know you would die from that! It's true!"

The nuns went wild.

They tried to escape this chapel, but the fire was so strong that they could not do anything.

Seeing this, Milione burst out laughing.

"The chapel is on fire, right? Good. I don't know what it is, but burn more! If the Grande Convent disappears, I won't have to stay here for a year!"

I'm going around.

The only one I can trust is Psyche.

"Psyche!"

"I know! If things continue like this, everyone will burn to death! Hyde, I'll take charge from now on, so don't worry! Lucy! Stop!"

Pot─.

Psyche jumped towards Lucy.

And she caught Lucy on a rampage.

"Lucy! Come to your senses!"

"We are Emma!"

Grrrr!

Lucy A spark lit up Emma's body. When it was a natural combustion and the heat was hot enough to melt even Psyche's clothes-.

I had a feeling that it might be real.

It might be a real devil or ghost.

Then, strength surged from my body.

Now is the time for me to step forward!

"Emma! You are the identity of the ghost that is eating Miss Lucy! I command you in the name of the Lord, Emma! "You go back to where you belong!!!!"

I shouted loudly.

Emma slowly turned her head towards me.

"Really? Hyde, have you ever heard the voice of God? Have you ever seen him? Do you truly believe in something you've never seen? It's a lie, right? Under. Under. Under! The only thing that exists in this world is the devil!"

My ghost, who is more godly and spiritual than anyone else, is of no use?

It's strange.

If there is a devil or a ghost, there is no way that I, the most faithful priest of all, cannot drive it out.

Isn't it the devil─.

Psyche felt pain when she thought that.

"Hyde! Don't listen to this woman! Because like Rust, demons have a tongue that can deceive humans! Ugh! Hot, hot!"

"I really am. Psyche, Hyde, what are you doing?"

Pot-.

Milione moved and punched Emma in the face.

It was a strong force and Emma was thrown straight into the wall.

But Emma stood up as if nothing had happened.

"Hyde, don't you want to hear about the secrets of the world? I wonder if there is a God in whom you believe so much! We know everything. Ask us anything. "I'll tell you the answer."

You tell me anything?

It was a tempting story.

I had more questions than anyone else.

After—I caught my breath in the scorching heat.

"Yes, Emma. Are you saying you are the one who knows all the secrets of the world? "Then what is my name?"

"Hyde."

"Is that the end?"

"…"

Lucy Emma couldn't answer me. She didn't seem to understand my question itself, and she didn't seem to know the intent of my question.

On the one hand, I felt relieved at that fact, but on the other hand, a feeling of disappointment that washed over me like water calmly soaked my heart.

It wasn't the devil either.

"You turned out to be a fake after all. You are not the devil or anything. "Dissociative identity disorder is a loss of defenses caused by extreme trauma experienced in infancy."

"What? We are the devil! It's a legion ghost!"

"No, you are just a trauma from the memory of the woman who burned to death, stuck like soot. So—."

Lucy.

She was just a sick person.

There was no devil like Emma anywhere.

"Go away. "Forever."

Just-.

I snapped my fingers again.