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Chapter 57: The Hanged Man
“Is it... dead?”
Looking at the golden toad statue on the altar, now stripped of its luster and dull like a clay figure, the expectant group in the secret chamber was shocked.
“How is this possible?”
The middle-aged man with golden hair was the most agitated. Staring at the cracked toad statue, he exclaimed in disbelief:
“I did my research! Aside from his precise business acumen, old Char is just an ordinary person. How could he withstand the Sacred Spirit of the Scale of Gold? Something must have happened that we don’t know about.”
“There’s so much you don’t know.”
Heartbroken by the shattered statue on the altar, an elder with a rose emblem embroidered on his chest slammed the table and angrily shouted at the middle-aged man:
“Thomas. We had an agreement! If we helped you bring down the Char Department Store, Lion family would join forces with York’s family to expand our Marseille family's department store.”
“You got the shares of Rose Department Store. We invested in the Waterworks Company. We even sabotaged the Department of Public Works’s dam together. But instead of growing, the Rose Department Store is on the verge of collapse.”
Still not satisfied, the elder from the Marseille family pounded the table, losing all decorum as he berated the golden-haired middle-aged man: “You said old Char’s promotions were holding too many people hostage, and you had no better solution than to use unconventional means. Fine. So we used unconventional means. I even summoned the Sacred Spirit of the Scale of Gold for you. Isn’t that unconventional enough?”
“You bastard said that as long as the Sacred Spirit appeared and caused mass casualties, we could use it as an excuse to order the municipal side to shut down Char Department Store’s promotion on safety grounds, cutting off its last breath…”
“But what’s the result? Tell me the result! The Sacred Spirit is dead... How am I supposed to explain this to the Scale of Gold? You’re simply…”
“Enough.” Seeing the increasingly impolite words of the well-dressed elder, the golden-haired middle-aged man’s expression darkened, and he retorted with a grim look:
“I’m human, not an all-knowing god. How could I predict such a low-probability event? Moreover, I never intended for your Marseille family to get involved. You insisted on coming forward. Even summoning the Sacred Spirit of the Scale of Gold was your doing. And don’t forget, how many benefits did you demand from us to summon that toad? And it got killed without a sound. I think your so-called Scale of Gold is simply…”
“Gentlemen, stop.”
Just as the conflict was about to escalate, a cold, icy voice interjected, halting the impending explosion.
“Thomas.” After calling the name of the golden-haired middle-aged man, the black-robed figure at the head of the table turned around and gazed at him earnestly: “The Scale of Gold may not be a significant sect, but it does have a true god backing it. If you don’t want endless assassinations, you’d better watch your words. Also…”
Turning to the furious well-dressed elder, the black-robed figure continued in a chilling tone devoid of emotion: “The Sacred Spirit you summoned wasn’t killed by someone. It encountered something incomprehensible that made it doubt its long-held beliefs, leading to its destruction.”
After hearing the black-robed figure’s assessment, the representative from the York family, who had remained silent, couldn’t help but ask in astonishment: “It died just because it doubted…?”
“It’s not just doubt; it couldn’t convince itself anymore… But your understanding isn’t wrong. As spirits born from faith and concepts, their existence is the aggregation of belief and rules. When they start doubting what they believe, they lose their reason for existence and inevitably meet their demise uncontrollably.”
Shaking his head, the black-robed figure concluded indifferently: “Only extremes are remembered, only obsession dares to move forward, and only madness understands greatness.”
“For you humans, this extreme obsession with ideas might be hard to accept, but this obsession is precisely the root of the spirits’ power and also their fatal weakness. If you still can’t understand, imagine them as the Hanged Man who firmly believes the sky is below and the earth above, allowing them to walk freely in the sky.”
“Once they begin to doubt their long-held beliefs, they destroy their rationale for standing in the sky and can only fall, crashing to their deaths on the ground… Do you understand?”
“I roughly understand…” The representative from the York family furrowed his brow in thought before asking: “So… what exactly happened to that Sacred Spirit of the Scale of Gold? Can you guess?”
“I can roughly guess.” The black-robed figure narrowed his eyes and replied expressionlessly: “It might not be easy to guess elsewhere, but since it’s in the capital… The only one capable of utterly destroying a spirit’s beliefs is likely that person.”
…
“Achoo…”
Strange… Am I still capable of sneezing?
Rubbing her suddenly itchy nose in surprise, the red-haired chief in the office sat up straight and curiously opened the file in her hand.
[Incident Report on the Appearance of the Sacred Spirit of the Scale of Gold]
[Incident Rating: Disaster]
[Incident Status: Resolved]
[Case Handlers: Leon Lion]
[Anomalous Items Used: Demon Horns, Witch’s Broom]
[Casualties: 1 minor injury]
[…]
Meanwhile…
“I’m sorry. I’m really, truly sorry…”
Looking at Leon, wrapped in thick bandages on the hospital bed with a neck brace under his chin, the baby-faced girl in a professional skirt bowed deeply, tearfully apologizing:
“When I ordered that money box, if I had been more careful during the inspection and asked for the box to be reinforced, you wouldn’t have been injured by the gold coins falling out of the box… Waaah… It’s all my fault…”
Uh… This injury isn’t really your fault…
Looking at the sorrowfully crying baby-faced girl with swollen eyes, Leon, who had been injured in the neck and ribs by the gold coins, didn’t know what to say.
If I remember correctly, during the Red Brick Road Hospital incident, after the Brain of the Evil God altered it to a gas pipeline explosion, you were the one who took the blame for improper inspection and came to apologize in tears.
And this time, after the Sacred Spirit appearance incident was altered to an accident where gold coins in the money box collapsed and injured a passerby, you again took the blame and came to apologize in tears.
Examining the deeply crying baby-faced girl in front of him, Leon couldn’t help but sigh with a complicated expression.
Miss… You have really terrible luck.
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