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By accidentally knocking over the Bride of the White Face and making her fall for me, the quest was completed.
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{Status Window}
[Quest Resolved!]
-You have succeeded in surviving.
-Rewards will be given.
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Along with a light notification, money and items scattered in all directions.
Money rained down from the ceiling like a shower.
‘Crazy. How much is all this.’
I haven’t counted it yet, so I don’t know the exact amount, but it has to be over a million won, right?
I remember in the original game, completing the first quest gave you about 50,000 won. Thanks to Easy Mode, I was able to earn a considerable amount of money even though it was the first quest.
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{Status Window}
[‘New Groom’ Achievement Unlocked!]
-Condition: Make the Bride of the White Face fall for you.
-Reward: Token of Pure Love
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At the same time the quest was completed, an achievement I had never seen before was also unlocked.
No, there was definitely no such achievement in the original game. There wasn’t even an achievement system itself.
“Uuu… Husband… I-I’m scared…”
No matter how many times I called, I didn’t answer, and the Bride of the White Face whimpered with a scared face as bundles of money and rewards rained down from the air.
Is this right? Things are going too well from the start.
‘Ah, this is the power of the Crybaby Mode pack for Utter Cowards.’
What if I hadn’t swallowed my pride and downloaded the Crybaby Mode pack?
Then my face would have been torn off and I would have become a meal for the Bride of the White Face.
The Crybaby Mode pack is the best.
Thanks to it, not only did I survive, but I also made a lot of money.
“Stop lying there and get up.”
“Ah… Yes…”
Since the Bride of the White Face supposedly likes manly things, I tried giving a somewhat forceful command. Did it work?
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{Status Window}
[Favorability: 90% → 91%]
[She adores you.]
[She is already serving you as her master.]
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Crazy, it only went up by 1 percent, but it did go up.
It seems like it’s hard to raise her favorability from 90 percent.
‘What happens when it reaches 100 percent?’
Don’t tell me I’ll get eaten, right?
The modpack description definitely said there would be a marriage ending.
Does that mean if I max out her favorability, I have no choice but to marry an anomaly?
Is this right?
“Husband… Um, there…”
As I was pondering how to control her favorability, the Bride of the White Face awkwardly approached me and tried to say something.
“What? What is it.”
“Uuu… Well… This…”
I deliberately answered bluntly to lower her favorability, but the Bride of the White Face hesitated for a long time before suddenly putting her hand between her cleavage and pulling out a warm, well-heated ring.
Wait, a ring?
Is she planning to hit 100 percent favorability right away and eat me? Was the blunt answer the wrong choice?
“Hey, what’s that.”
“Well, that… This is… a wedding ring… Please, I…”
The Bride of the White Face handed me the ring, looking extremely shy.
No, how long have we known each other for you to give me a wedding ring already? Crazy fast love.
I stared at it for a long time, wondering whether I should accept it or not. Then, information about the ring she was offering appeared.
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{Status Window}
[Name: Token of Pure Love]
[Description: A collection of the grudges held by the Bride of the White Face.]
[Effect 1: You can be with the Bride of the White Face for life.]
[Effect 2: You can put the Bride of the White Face inside the ring.]
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So this was the achievement reward.
A Token of Pure Love. It sounds just like that thing.
‘How rude, it’s pure love… no, that’s not it.’
I accepted the ring from the Bride of the White Face.
For now, it’s a reward, so it’s probably good to have it.
“You-you really accepted it? Huhu… Husband. My real husband…”
The Bride of the White Face was overjoyed when I took the ring. This time, she held my hand tightly and began to pledge something.
“Please… won’t you… make me yours…? I can give you my everything…”
The Bride of the White Face pleaded, her eyes wet with tears as if begging.
I had no idea how to react to her sincere pledge to devote her everything to me.
Then a new notification window popped up.
[Will you ‘possess’ the Bride of the White Face?]
-YES
-NO
A contract event.
Wasn’t this an Onmyoji-exclusive event?
‘No. This, the wording is strangely different.’
When playing as an Onmyoji, an event to contract with a low-level cursed spirit occurs.
I remember the phrase ‘Will you contract with the cursed spirit?’ popping up then.
‘This is completely…’
A question of possession.
It was a question of not just a contractual relationship, but of making the anomaly before me completely mine.
‘The Bride of the White Face is a catastrophe-level anomaly. Under normal circumstances, she would surely wield absolute power.’
Of course, with or without her, my stats are so high it doesn’t matter.
But isn’t it better to have more of everything?
I immediately pressed YES.
“You… accepted me… Thank you… You’re the first one… to accept me, husband.”
A woman wearing only a thin mourning dress shed tears of gratitude and threw herself into my arms.
The softness of her chest and the unique coldness of an anomaly felt strangely pleasant.
I think I made the right choice accepting this…
“Hey. You’re too close. Back off a bit.”
“Ah, yes… We haven’t even spent our first night together… I was too clingy…”
The Bride of the White Face shyly covered her face and twisted her body.
Looking at her like this, she’s no different from a woman in love, but she is definitely an anomaly.
Let’s not let my guard down too much. I might get eaten.
“For now, get inside the ring. I’m going outside.”
“I understand… If that is what you wish, husband…”
The Bride of the White Face was sucked into the Token of Pure Love.
I had somehow gotten my hands on an anomaly, but now I had no idea what to do.
[Return to the office.]
The next quest has appeared.
Seeing the faint glowing line on the floor, it seems to be showing the way to the office.
‘First, let’s pick up the money on the floor before leaving.’
I have to go, but I should take the rewards with me.
I rummaged around and picked up the bundles of money on the floor.
Daehan Buddhism, Baekyeon Order.
An exorcist from the ‘Yeonhwa Sect’ specializing in exorcism and spirit purification.
Monk Yeomam Hyeryeong.
Monk Hyeryeong, who became an exorcist at the young age of 23, had made full preparations to confront a ‘great evil’ today and headed to the long-abandoned motel.
“Avatamsaka Sutra. Avatamsaka Sutra. Om…!”
He had arrived in front of the abandoned motel.
Cold sweat trickled down his cleanly shaven head.
His hand, holding the prayer beads, trembled slightly from the thick miasma emanating from the entrance of the abandoned building.
“What a deep grudge this must be…”
He had come this far at the request of the Daehan Buddhist Association to exorcise the lingering spirit attached to the abandoned building, but he couldn’t muster the courage to enter.
To the eyes of Monk Hyeryeong, who had opened his spiritual vision, the inside of this building was nothing short of a demonic realm.
Step inside, and you die.
Probably, with my face peeled off, meeting a miserable end.
“Gah!!!”
Monk Hyeryeong’s eyes, which had been closed, shot open as he tried to boost his spirits.
He awakened his fading courage and thought.
As one who studies the Buddhist law and seeks enlightenment, how could I dare to be overwhelmed by the trivial energy of such spirits and ghouls?
“Om mani padme hum, Guan Yin Bodhisattva.”
He repeatedly chanted the mantra, pushing back the encroaching miasma.
He wondered how many had died in this building; the number of lingering spirits attached was over 108.
And at the center of those vengeful spirits, a demon sat with its mouth wide open, waiting for the monk to enter…
“No one can illuminate me. I myself shall be my own lamp.”
The monk steeled his heart and opened the entrance to the abandoned motel.
Without knowing what his future would hold.
Simply to drive out the evil spirit tormenting people from this land.
“Hmph…!!”
The moment he opened the entrance, the monk gritted his teeth against the gushing evil energy and focused his mind.
If his concentration wavered even for a moment, he would be crushed by the surging darkness and fall into oblivion.
‘Incredible energy…! This, I can’t do it alone!’
Finally realizing his own recklessness, Monk Hyeryeong tried to close the entrance to the abandoned motel again.
The grudge that had coiled itself inside this place was a problem he could never solve alone.
He had no choice but to lock the motel door, place a restraining rope, and call the abbot to handle it.
“Huh? Monk, what are you doing in a place like this?”
Just then, a young man who looked to be Monk Hyeryeong’s age walked down from the second floor of the abandoned motel.
For a moment, Monk Hyeryeong couldn’t even properly comprehend what he was seeing.
‘That person is…’
He had seen him once before, briefly, while performing a joint request with exorcists from a cathedral.
The sight of a priest from the Vatican summoning a Western guardian to stop the revival of a great demon.
“A halo…”
Behind the young man’s back, a saint’s halo, shining from the Pure Land, was spread out.
And in his shadow, an abyss of unknown identity writhed and squirmed.
Monk Hyeryeong couldn’t distinguish whether the man before him was ‘good’ or ‘evil’.
He was simply a single existence.
A prodigy of indescribable power.
“Um, Monk? Are you alright?”
“Huh!? Ah, my apologies. Forgive my rudeness. Ha.”
The halo and abyss that had been visible from the young man had suddenly vanished.
Monk Hyeryeong rubbed his eyes and tried to observe the young man for any peculiarities again, but the halo and abyss were no longer there.
Instead, something was glaring at Monk Hyeryeong from within the ring on his left ring finger.
‘Could it be, he took care of it.’
The moment he saw the ring, Monk Hyeryeong immediately understood.
Monk Hyeryeong also wondered how he could be perfectly fine while carrying such a great evil within him.
‘He sacrificed himself to save this land. Perhaps, if it’s him…’
He might be able to stop the [Reader of the Hell Sutra], one of the greatest challenges of the Daehan Buddhist Association.
Monk Hyeryeong thought so.
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