# 126. The Hero Party That Raised Me Is Restraining Me (3)
Estia's pure white holy water has the effect of purifying a Demon King's demonic energy.
That is the unique ability of holy water imbued with divine power.
Although side effects arose from the Church's various experiments, the effect itself remained unchanged, so Demon King Greed felt the agony of his skin burning away.
"Keu, keuugh... Shi, shibal...!!"
"Stop just cursing! Hurry up and tell me! Where is Oppa!"
"I, I... would never tell you that—"
"If you don't talk, it's only torture!"
Drip—
Estia poured the holy water she had collected once again over Greed's head.
He trembled in pain as the holy water flowed from his head down his body to the floor.
However, Greed absolutely refused to open his mouth.
*If, if I talk... I die... I absolutely... absolutely cannot die...*
He had acted to survive, but failed.
Greed absolutely refused to open his mouth in order to preserve his life.
Because his obsession with life and his greed were both immense, he could never reveal that purifying his mind would resolve the situation.
"Haa, that man is gone now... I, who possess this body... will become him for you... I'll let you obtain everything you desire..."
"Lies! Oppa isn't someone who'd die easily!"
"Keu, keuugh—!!!"
"Euhihi, if you don't want to die, hurry up and tell the truth!"
That crazy Saint.
She's going to kill me whether I talk or not...
*Things have gotten thoroughly twisted... from the moment I entered this bastard's body... twisted beyond repair...*
The grimoire that tells the future didn't mention my death.
Yet in the end, I'm going to die here.
Extinguished by the Saint's divine power, the existence known as the Demon King of Greed will be erased from the world.
Greed, soaked in holy water and losing sensation in his body, spoke his final greed as his control gradually faded.
"...Saint, I have one question."
"What! You shell of Oppa!"
"Why do you... no, why does the Hero Party want this bastard so intensely...? He's strong for a human, but he's not that attractive of a man, is he...? You'd be better off wanting a Demon King like me—"
"Don't insult Oppa! How attractive Oppa is! This is punishment!"
"Keuugh—!!"
Greed became like a Joseon-era criminal being branded with a hot iron.
Estia scrubbed the ahjussi's face like porcelain.
"Don't foam at the mouth with Oppa's face! If it were Oppa and not you, he'd easily endure this pain, right? Oppa's mind is su~uper strong!"
"Mental strength... is that mental strength the reason you're all drawn to this man...?"
"No? I like him for his looks? Oppa is handsome!"
"..."
Handsome, she says.
Greed, who once had greed for appearance as well, thought there was something wrong with the Saint's words.
"Dirty beard from not shaving properly. Sharp, sensitive eyes. No matter how you look at it, it's just an ordinary man's face, isn't it?"
"Ahjussi isn't ordinary! Apologize for saying ordinary right now!"
"Keu, keuuugh..."
How many times is this, damn it.
It increasingly feels like hell is calling for my soul.
Greed caught his breath and met Estia's golden eyes.
Judging by her gaze, she was clearly wearing rose-colored glasses.
*...As expected, the mind comes first.*
There's no opening.
No opening to wedge into with this man's body.
Not even 1 degree of it exists.
Greed had no choice but to resign himself to this desperate situation.
"...Kill me."
"No! If you die, Oppa dies! Uuum... how do I kill this guy?"
Can't kill the body.
Need to kill only the mind separately.
Is divine power the answer after all?
Estia filled a cup generously with pure white holy water and brought it to the ahjussi's mouth.
"Euhihi, I'll let Oppa taste my thick holy water!"
"..."
"Sseup, stay still! Obediently drink plenty of my holy water! Should I spray holy water again?"
"I, I'm not doing this. I'm not the one refusing."
The ahjussi's body shook his head side to side in resistance.
That wasn't Greed's will but Lee Jun-woo's will.
Because he laughs uncontrollably when heavily exposed to Estia's mana, Jun-woo desperately shook his head left and right to defend against the holy water.
"Uuum, this isn't it?"
Then what method should she use?
Just as Estia fell into thought again, the door to Estia's room opened and a girl with pink hair appeared.
Hare's expression wasn't very bright.
"...Estia."
"Huh? Hare! Long time no see! But, but why does your expression look so scary? Did I do something wrong...? Ahaha...?"
"..."
Thud— Thud—
Hare approached Estia while emanating a dangerous presence.
Estia instinctively felt threatened.
*Why, why is she so scary!?*
Something.
She's different from other people!
Hare stood before Estia with a piercing gaze.
She opened her tightly closed lips and spoke.
"...Estia."
"U, uh?"
"Why did you take Ahjussi's body?"
"Be, because it looked dangerous...?"
"...You didn't do anything to Ahjussi's body, did you? I heard strange sounds earlier..."
She, she came after hearing the screams.
Estia fidgeted with her hands nervously while playing dumb.
"I, I didn't do anything? I'm a benevolent Saint, so I probably didn't do anything bad?"
"...Why is that speculative?"
"I, I wonder? Why am I like this?"
Actually, Estia knew the answer.
*How can I say it's because you with those dead eyes are scary!*
But she couldn't voice it.
It was a matter of survival instinct.
Estia's body refused to speak.
"...I see."
"Th, that's right!"
"...Hmm."
Hare quietly looked around.
The ahjussi's body leaning against the wall, looking soaked.
The thoroughly wet floor.
And Estia's suspicious expression.
*She's always like that anyway.*
Only then did Hare realize nothing had happened and softened the atmosphere.
*Hooray! Long live! I survived!*
It was the moment Estia held a survival return festival in her heart.
Hare looked indifferently at the ahjussi tied with rope.
"More importantly, seeing that you sprayed holy water... you noticed too, didn't you? The thing inside that ahjussi's body..."
"Of course! Anyone who smelled it would know it's not Ahjussi's scent! It was a weird moldy smell!"
"Then this will be quick. Right now, chase that thing out of Ahjussi's body. You can do it since you're a Saint, right?"
"..."
Can I do it?
Estia rolled her eyes for a moment, then answered with overflowing confidence.
"Of, of course! Just trust me! I'll try chasing it out!"
"Do it quickly, I want to see Ahjussi... That ahjussi isn't Ahjussi, so I hate it... I want to see the real Ahjussi..."
Hare entrusted the task to Estia, then crouched in a corner of the room and buried her face in her knees.
She looked clearly exhausted, sleepy and tired.
*...But I feel like I'm forgetting something.*
I don't know...
Since I found Estia and decided to restore Ahjussi, my job is done, right?
Hare thought so and surrendered to her gradually closing eyes.
Her consciousness faded as her brain entered rest mode.
However.
"Estia!! Are you here!?"
CRASH—!!
Due to Luna appearing while smashing through the door, she couldn't head to dreamland.
Looking at the door broken in two, the owner of the room whose privacy had vanished muttered emptily.
"My, my room... the, the door is smashed..."
"As I thought, you were here! Estia! Quickly treat Saten! Sa, Saten's bleeding won't stop... she might die soon!"
"My, my privacy has disappeared—"
"Ahjussi will fix it later! More importantly, quickly check Saten's condition! You're a Saint! You have to save people!"
"!!"
Saint.
At those words, Estia erased thoughts about the door.
Estia asked in a serious tone with an atmosphere like a professional.
"Where's the patient? I'll treat her as a Saint. Where is she hurt?"
"Her wrist! The patient deeply cut her wrist!"
"Cutting her wrist to take her own life... the patient's mental state is bad!"
"No, she cut her wrist trying to kill us."
"...It's okay! Her mental state being bad is still true!"
Nod—
Luna also agreed with Estia's words.
"Anyway, it's excessive bleeding! Restoring Ahjussi is important too, but... look at Saten first!"
"Hmm..."
Let me take a look.
Estia touched Saten's arm.
It was cold and chilly.
"Don't tell me! She's not... dead. She's not."
Her heart is beating.
Saten's body temperature is originally low anyway.
Estia checked the injured area, the wrist.
Though they had stopped the bleeding with bandages, the bandages were stained red as blood continued to flow.
"...What should I do."
Uuum, thinking is bothersome.
What did that teacher say to do for treatment?
Estia recalled the lesson content she heard while the ahjussi was absent.
*To treat people, you need to use plenty of divine power... hey, stop drawing and listen to me?*
*Studying is boring! I'll draw! I need Oppa's praise! Bring Oppa! I don't need Unnie's praise!*
*...You're crazier than me.*
How to treat people!
Don't remember!
No other method came to mind, and she didn't even remember, so Estia decided to take the action that seemed most likely to work in this place.
"Holy water cures all diseases, right...!? Because it's the Goddess's power! It should be able to heal!"
"Is, is that right? Is that how you treat?"
"I don't know! But this is the only method! Here goes—!"
Whatever, I don't care.
Splash—
Estia poured the holy water from the cup directly onto Saten's wrist.
Since Saten always cut her wrist when using her ability, many traces of wounds remained on her wrist.
However, when Estia's holy water touched Saten's wounds, the blade and nail marks disappeared as if they had never been there.
Luna exclaimed in admiration at the sight.
"The, the bleeding stopped too! Surgery successful, Estia!"
"Of course! I'm Saint Estia!"
Proud—
Estia's confidence after the successful surgery pierced the sky toward space.
However, that joy was brief.
"Wait."
Tap—
Hare grabbed Estia's shoulder.
Hare muttered while coldly burning her red eyes.
"...Ahjussi's turn is next."
"Hi, hiiik...! I, I got it! I'll operate right away! Just don't hit me!"
Scurry—
Estia headed toward the ahjussi's body tied with rope.
Greed, sensing death, said nothing.
"..."
"I'll send the last patient off painfully!"
When you gain one, you want two.
When you gain two, you want three.
When you want three, you want four.
That was Greed's way of life, born from the emotion called greed.
*That should have been my life...*
Why am I feeling regret now?
Greed, who had obtained everything he wanted until meeting the Hero Party, tried to kill the Hero to obtain "eternal life," but from the moment that failed, his life began to twist.
Greed conveyed words mixed with regret through Jun-woo's mouth.
"The grimoire bastards who followed me abandoned me. Because I became weak. I coveted their talents and made them my vassals. However, when they no longer needed me, they abandoned me."
"Uuum, what would be good for separating the mind~"
"After I was defeated by you, everything I had coveted left to find its own place. It's a miserable end for a Demon King."
"Making him drink holy water was rejected by Oppa... since the Demon King's soul is inside..."
"I needed someone, but no one ever needed me. If I have a next life as a Demon King, I don't want to be born as greed—"
"As expected, burning from the inside is better! More importantly, be quiet, Demon King! No one's curious about your story, okay?! Don't speak like that with Ahjussi's mouth!"
What good is regret now?
After killing people to your heart's content, making them tremble in fear, and throwing the world into chaos.
"You enjoyed everything yourself, so what do you want from us! You greedy thing! If you're a Demon King, die quietly!"
Estia refilled the cup with holy water.
Having used much divine power, her breathing became rough and she felt dizzy.
However, Estia didn't stop and removed the ahjussi's upper garment.
"Heh... this is Ahjussi's body...!"
"...Eyes."
"I, I got it, Hare...! I'll close them quickly...! Is the heart this way...?"
Estia searched for where the heart was beating—thump thump—while touching the ahjussi's body.
"..."
Crunch—
Hare bit her nails at the sight.
"...Too slow. I'll do—"
"Waa! Found it! The heart is here! Now here..."
Spray holy water.
And massage.
The heart is the vessel that holds the soul.
Since impurities entered the water called the soul contained in the vessel, she had to filter it out.
"It's time to come out of Oppa's body now!"
"..."
As Estia sprayed holy water and began caressing the area where the heart was, Greed felt pain he had never experienced before.
It was pain so severe he couldn't even scream properly.
"Keu, keueu... eu...euuk..."
"Be quiet. Now, don't make sounds with Ahjussi's mouth anymore."
Hare calmly raised her hand and covered his mouth.
She couldn't bear to see the ahjussi's voice being used any longer.
Thus Greed felt the pain of thousands of thorns piercing his body and the pain of burning in fire simultaneously, but with his mouth covered, he couldn't say anything and gradually lost consciousness.
The extinction of a soul.
Estia massaging the ahjussi's heart with holy water.
Hare covering the ahjussi's mouth.
Watching that scene, Luna muttered to herself.
"Uugh, greed doesn't end well. As expected, fairness is best!"
Luna thus witnessed the extinction of the Demon King of Greed, Greed—the third Demon King—right before her eyes.
For a Demon King who stole Ahjussi's body, they sent him off too easily, but...
"Because we can have a sincere talk with Ahjussi! Think of it as repayment for that!"
Since rope was still tied around the ahjussi's body...
"I want to see Ahjussi quickly..."
Luna thought it was fine to send Greed off quickly.