Chapter 33: Vow revenge.

My perfect plan to send the Japanese Angel back to her country,
and then leisurely roll around in bed.

It turned into bubbles in an instant.
Naturally, the reason was the recently completed Angel Church.

Indeed, Park Kyutae, who could be considered the most normal person among my acquaintances.
He was instantly turned into someone like Lee Hyejin, so what a dangerous place it was.

It was clearly an ominous place that should not be left as it was.
Therefore, I looked up at the sky with a bitter expression and vowed.

‘Kyutae, I will definitely avenge you…. Now, rest in peace….’

…Ah, of course, this literally meant to really rest,
It didn’t have any other special meaning.

Things like, ‘Please just lie down and rest because it’s embarrassing to go around with you.’
Those were definitely not the case.

Anyway, as a result, Lee Hyejin and I headed to the Angel Church.
Since the distance wasn’t originally that far,
We quickly arrived nearby shortly after.

By the way, the reason I said ‘nearby’ instead of ‘Angel Church’ here was.

[No Vehicle Entry.]

Because such a sign was prominently displayed in the middle of the road.

“Hmm, Angel, it seems we have to walk from here.”
“Oh, really?”

Tap.

So, we reluctantly got out of the car.
After entrusting the car to the driver, we walked past the sign.

What came into view was.

‘Huh…?’

A wide boulevard, spacious enough for several cars to pass,
And an enormous crowd, as if a festival were taking place.

Finally, there were countless food stalls lined up along the street,
To the point where it felt like we had come to the wrong place.

‘Ah… if it’s like this, then definitely….’

Regardless of how wide the street was,
It was a sight that instantly made me understand why the sign had been put up.

The unexpectedly bustling crowd made me instinctively shrink back.
Because of that, I clung tightly to Lee Hyejin for the first time in a long while as we walked….

Gaze-Gaze.

As expected, the gazes of everyone within sight.
They all instantly focused on me.

“Oh…! Huh…!? A-Angel!”
“Angel…? Huh…!? R-really the Angel…!”
“What? The Angel…? Where!?”

Then, it naturally followed.
The murmurs of people instantly filling the wide street.

The murmuring was such that if one person shouted, the person next to them would shout.
If that person shouted, the person next to them would shout again.
It spread out, constantly rustling like an echo.

Thanks to this, no matter how much time passed, the sound did not diminish.
Instead, it even created a strange phenomenon where it grew louder.

“It’s the Angel….”
“Angel….”
“Angel, Angel….”

Furthermore, similar voices, mixed here and there, continued to be heard fragmentedly.
Listening to them was quite terrifying.

‘S-scary, everyone…!’
For a moment, I felt goosebumps all over my body.
I wasn’t sure why, but I suddenly remembered the goat from the zoo I had visited before.
‘Wh-why are there so many people here…? Wasn’t this where the church was…?’

Because of that, as I walked, feeling extremely flustered.
Fortunately, or rather, thankfully,
Everyone uniformly made way on both sides, so there was no major hindrance to our movement.

Thus, we reached the entrance of the Angel Church more smoothly than expected.

“Wh-what is this….”
And then I immediately gasped in shock, my mouth agape.

Indeed, there were 3-meter tall statues of me erected on both sides of the large main gate.
Banners and posters printed with my photo filled one side of the building, and so on.
It was entirely filled with terrible sights that made it impossible to believe we had come to a church.

“…Are, are other countries’ Angel Churches originally like this…?”
At the sight that made me feel dizzy,
I barely managed to squeeze out my voice and asked Lee Hyejin.

The Angel Church was supposedly also overseas.
With just a little comparison, it would be easy to know whether this was normal or not.

But Lee Hyejin was rubbing her chin, observing the statue intently.
Her concentration was so immense that she didn’t hear my words at all.

Therefore, at the moment I was about to call her again.
Lee Hyejin began to softly mutter something to herself.

“Oh… I did recommend having a statue, but I didn’t think they’d actually do it…? Hmm, the quality is… satisfactory. Good, it’s well made.”
Those were utterly unexpected and shocking words.
It was a confession that she was one of the masterminds behind this incident.

‘Th-this can’t be….’
I didn’t feel an overwhelming sense of betrayal for a moment….
Because I had never trusted her in the first place.

‘I knew it.’
No, in fact, if I were to be precise, I had actually expected it.
A heinous place that contaminates even Park Kyutae.
It made no sense for Lee Hyejin to have no involvement here at all.

Anyway, for that reason, I lost my words and simply stared blankly at the back of Lee Hyejin’s head.
Then, she suddenly squatted down on the ground.

‘……What is she doing?’
An action whose meaning I couldn’t guess at all.
Thinking she might have dropped something on the floor, I looked without much thought.

“Then, how did they make the bottom…”
“Wh-what are you doing!!!”
At her muttering, which suddenly made me alert,
Naturally, I was startled and hurriedly pulled on her sleeve.

“Whoa!”

Thud.

Lee Hyejin lost her balance and landed on her butt on the ground.
She looked at me with surprised eyes and asked.

“Huh? A-Angel, why are you suddenly like this…?”
“It’s not ‘suddenly’…! Wh-where, where are you trying to look…!”
“Where, you ask… Naturally, under the skirt…?”
Lee Hyejin’s utterly brazen reply, as if she had not a speck of shame.
That, in turn, flustered me.

“…….”
No… what’s wrong with this person…?
Why is she so brazen, anyway?
Could it be, am I the strange one right now?

Lee Hyejin’s shameless behavior was not something I was seeing for the first or second time.
But every time it happened, I became so flustered that my words got stuck in my throat.

Because of that, as I just stood there agape today,
She got up again and spoke.

“Oh, by any chance, are you embarrassed that I’m looking?”
“…….”
A remark that hit the nail on the head.
Asking it so directly made me very embarrassed, but I blushed and nodded slightly for now.

Lee Hyejin, who was looking at me,
Also nodded several times and then continued speaking.

“Hmm, I fully understand that feeling, Angel. But there’s one important fact.”
“An important fact…?”
“As long as this statue is here, many people will eventually see it anyway.”
“…….”
“If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better for me to check beforehand whether there are any issues? This is absolutely necessary for you, Angel.”
Lee Hyejin’s words and expression were more serious than ever.
If the content hadn’t been about the statue’s underwear,
I would surely have been impressed, saying I had seen a new side of her.

Anyway, her words weren’t particularly wrong.
For that reason, as I nodded in bewilderment.

“Yes, then I’ll check. Hmm, hmph… hehehe….”
With a serious expression,
A strange sound was heard from Lee Hyejin as she turned back towards the statue.

……Excuse me, what was that ‘hehehe’ just now? Explain yourself.
You’re really seriously checking for me, right…?

As a very ominous aura crept in, Lee Hyejin finally squatted down as before.
Then, she brazenly put her head inside.

‘…Ugh, ah….’
It was clearly just a simple statue, but it was a scene that made me feel incredibly strange.
As I involuntarily trembled and drew my legs in.

“Wh-what are they doing…?”
The gazes of the people who were watching me from around,
Instantly focused on Lee Hyejin, and murmurs were heard.

Those who didn’t understand the situation were, without exception, appalled by Lee Hyejin’s bizarre….
No, her vulgar act.

‘In some ways, she might really be an amazing person….’
Thanks to that, I suddenly realized one fact.
That Lee Hyejin was, indeed, a much more amazing person than I thought.

After all, with so many people watching, she brazenly put her head inside the statue’s dress.
Realistically, there couldn’t be many people who could do this.

As if she had not an ounce of shame.
Her immense drive and brazenness to stick to her convictions until the end.

In a way, she was a true role model,
Someone with low self-esteem like me should observe and learn from.

Because of that, as I pondered whether to view her focused behavior as admirable.
Or simply as perverted, like the people around her.

“Oh! Oh! Angel, have you arrived!!!”
A middle-aged man with a receding hairline.
Hwang Gilsu, the head pastor of the Angel Church, rushed down the stairs with wide eyes, panting.

His movements looked so precarious that it seemed he might fall.
I could feel his eagerness to rush to me.
Nevertheless, I naturally couldn’t see him in a good light.

‘The culprit behind all this…!’
Because I had to avenge Park Kyutae,
who was now unable to be seen….

…No, he didn’t exactly die, but.
Anyway, the Park Kyutae of the past was as good as gone….

‘Hmm… if you put it that way, isn’t he dead?’
I inadvertently and arbitrarily treated Park Kyutae as deceased.
Just then, Lee Hyejin called Hwang Gilsu,
who had practically flown down the stairs and was heavily panting.

“Gilsu! Come here for a moment!”
“Gasp… Yes? Gasp… Ah! It’s Hyejin. Underst… Gasp… ood! A-Angel, just a moment then… Gasp… I’ll be right back.”
“…Yes? …Ah, yes….”
Hwang Gilsu, who specifically reported to me.
As I inadvertently nodded in response, he then diligently ran towards Lee Hyejin.

And so, the two of them, amicably.

‘……No… what on earth are they doing…?’
Began to converse with their heads inside the skirt of my statue.