An infinite journey starting from paradise

"Father Lin Shangren is still unconscious, and he probably doesn't know what happened. As long as I clean up this place and pretend nothing happened... I can just get away with it. Even if I can't, I can give him hush money... or even..."

Kaori Saeki looked at the letter opener on the desk.

"Even... I can kill him... and then... and then quietly dispose of his body. If the police come to investigate... and I have friends in the political and business circles who can help me... I... kill him... kill him..."

Kaori Saeki walked towards the desk tremblingly. Just as she was about to pick up the letter opener, she saw the cross hanging on the wall. The Jesus on the cross seemed to be looking at her.

"What am I doing? I...my Lord...Lord...please, please forgive your believers...forgive me, a lost lamb...forgive my sins..."

Kaori Saeki's humanity finally prevailed. Instead of picking up the letter opener, she picked up the rag on the table and began to wipe the things she had spilled on the floor.

She should really be thankful for this. A letter opener alone wouldn't be enough to easily kill Lin Shangren, who possessed the "Little Bird Healer" ability. The pain from the outside world would only make him wake up faster, and then he could shoot the beautiful widow who was trying to kill him.

Praying to God for forgiveness and hoping Hayashi Naoto wouldn't wake up suddenly, Saeki Kaori tremblingly wiped the floor clean. She also wiped the handle of Hayashi Naoto's whisk and put it back into her pants.

After doing all this, Saeki Kaori finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then she realized she needed to get rid of the strong smell in the room.

So she opened the window.

Just at this moment, a cool breeze blew in and brushed Lin Shangren's cheek. He shivered and suddenly opened his eyes.

"what?!"

Looking at the normal scene in front of him, Lin Shangren was a little puzzled for a moment: "Am I dreaming?"

However, the faint pain in his crotch and the sweet scent of heather in the air reminded him that something must have happened just now.

"Ah...Mr. Lin, are you awake?!"

Saeki Kaori pretended to be calm and walked to Hayashi Naoro's side: "You really scared me just now. You suddenly fainted... It might be because of the charcoal burning in the house. My head hurts a little too. Look... I just opened the window..."

"Ms. Saeki..."

Hayashi Naoto interrupted Saeki Kaori's lame lie.

"What exactly happened just now? Or to be more specific, what happened between us just now?"

"This...we..."

Saeki Kaori wanted to argue, but she heard Hayashi Naoto continue, "Your shirt is buttoned wrong."

Kaori Saeki lowered her head and realized that she had buttoned her shirt in the wrong place in her panic.

"This……"

"That's not the point. The point is... ugh."

Lin Shangren spit out a button from his mouth: "How did it get into my mouth?

More importantly, what's that white stuff on your mouth and skirt? What's that smell in this room? And..."

As he spoke, Lin Shangren opened his hands, holding a pair of wet white lace panties.

"Why is this thing in my hand?!"

Chapter 65: Fellow Christian, You Don’t Want to…

Faced with Hayashi Naoto's series of questions, Saeki Kaori was speechless. Given the current situation, she simply couldn't come up with a plausible lie to conceal what had just happened. She could only remain silent and ponder a solution.

Lin Shangren was also analyzing the current situation at this time.

What was certain was that he and the charming principal must have had some deep-seated import and export trade relationship. The question was, what was going on with that strange pink space and that female demon?

If this was an ordinary materialistic world without supernatural powers, Lin Shangren would probably think that he had been drugged and had wild sex with the female principal in a hallucination.

But, it's impossible.

Under the protection of the Little Bird Doctor, any drug that acts on the nervous system and thus affects the consciousness level is ineffective against Lin Shangren. Only things like the Paradise System that directly act on the consciousness level can affect Lin Shangren.

So, there are two possibilities now:

First, a certain existence used some method that directly acted on the consciousness level, such as magic, to make Lin Shangren hallucinate, and made him mistake Saeki Kaori as a female devil in the hallucination, and then attacked her crazily.

Second, he really entered a strange space and fought a fierce battle with the female demon inside.

Both could be true - although Hayashi Naoto remembered the details of the battle with the female demon very clearly, and Saeki Kaori could not have withstood the various skills used by Hayashi Naoto. However, if he was in an illusion, how could he be sure that he had really used those abilities?

"It's really troublesome without Xiao Ai to protect my consciousness..."

"Classmate Xiao Ai, are you awake?" Lin Shangren asked in his heart.

The system girl did not respond.

"You really are a sleepyhead."

Lin Shangren shook his head and returned his gaze to Saeki Kaori. He was sure that no matter what the situation was, it must be related to the embarrassed beauty in front of him.

This is not analyzed from her abnormal behavior of actively covering up what just happened - Saeki Kaori may have actively covered up the facts to protect her own reputation and the reputation of the school.

What really made Lin Shangren feel uncomfortable was the change in her temperament: the seductive charm that had once made men fantasize about her was gone. Although her face was now blushing, her clothes were disheveled, her flesh was exposed, and her skirt was bare, it was not enough to make a gentleman like Lin Shangren lose control.

"Is the problem with her? It's not just that, there's also this."

Lin Shangren turned his attention to the two incense burners. Because his attention was completely attracted by the charming temperament of Saeki Kaori, he ignored the source of the pink smoke.

【Name：Gilded Aromatherapy Burner】

【Quality: Excellent manufacturing, artistic creation, fine craftsmanship】

[Status: Contents burned]

【Producer: Mamiya Shinji】

[Note: There may still be some left inside]

"Is there anything else in there?"

Lin Shangren walked to the aromatherapy burner, opened the lid, and found that there were still some unburned white residues inside.

"Appraisal."

【Name：Corpse Wax Aromatherapy】

[Quality: Excellent manufacturing, magical creation, exquisite craftsmanship]

【Status: Waiting to burn】

[Producer: Protected by magic, temporarily unavailable for viewing]

[Note: Incense made with corpse oil through evil means, when ignited, can temporarily allow the consciousness of a demon from the Warp to enter the material world, and can also maintain the stability of those possessed by the demonic consciousness.]

"Demon? In other words, Saeki Kaori was probably possessed by a demon just now? Hiss... So, I was just dragged into the subspace by a demon?"

Just as Lin Shangren was about to ask about the source of the incense, Saeki Kaori knelt down in front of him, making the sign of the cross repeatedly: "Father, I repent, I am guilty!"

Lin Shangren: “?”

I could only hear Saeki Kaori confessing, half sobbing, "I have failed the Lord's salvation... I have broken the Ten Commandments... I beg for the Lord's forgiveness... Father Hayashi Shangren, I want to confess to you!"

Saeki Kaori's fanatical behavior really caught Lin Shangren off guard. And this woman also had her own considerations for doing this:

As a devout Christian, she should have confessed her crime to a priest. More importantly, to protect her own reputation and that of the school, she had to ensure that Lin Shangren would not tell anyone about what had just happened.

In Saeki Kaori's memory, Hayashi Naoto was a devout priest. According to Christian regulations, clergymen must never disclose the contents of believers' confessions.

Lin Shangren quickly thought of this as well.

He secretly found this funny. Not to mention that he was a fake priest, even if he was a real priest, how many people would really be bound by such a thing from the bottom of their hearts?

Lin Shangren could now say to Saeki Kaori, "Fellow church member, you don't want others to know that you have violated the Ten Commandments, right?" to threaten her into submission.

But Lin Shangren didn't intend to do so.

There are many ways to exploit others, but blackmail is the lowest form and the one most likely to backfire. The situation is still unclear, and Hayashi Naoto doesn't want to push Saeki Kaori too hard.

"You are a devout believer, right? Then I will treat you the same way I treat a believer."

Lin Shangren wiped his hand across his forehead, put on the [Bruce Hearn's Mask], then coughed lightly, revealing a compassionate expression.

He made the sign of the cross on his chest and then said solemnly: "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, you lost lambs, reflect and repent, Amen."

Seeing Hayashi Naoto recite the prayer that the priest had read to her, Saeki Kaori finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then she lowered her head and began to explain to Hayashi Naoto the sins she had committed since her last confession, just as she usually did:

"My God, you see me, a filthy and lowly sinner, coming before your throne, relying on your infinite mercy..."

At the same time, in the basement of Sakuraba Girls' Academy, an evil and blasphemous mass was taking place.

"Die scum, die scum, Nastana Road, die scum!"

Women in black robes held candles and chanted this blasphemous scripture around the inverted pentagram.

In the center of the pentagram magic circle, a slender girl was suspended in mid-air, slowly spinning like a porcelain doll on a music box.

Her slender, firm and petite body was wrapped in snow-white elastic fabric, her limbs floated softly in the air, and the pink slit between her legs was faintly visible, exuding a strange beauty that blended holiness and lewdness.

The black-robed woman in the lead walked up to the girl, holding a sword.

"Thorn."

With a soft ripping sound, the girl's white dress burst open from the high collar, slicing all the way to her waist, revealing her delicate navel. Her chest, freed from restraint, slumped over, her plump breasts spilling outward, her cleavage stretched into a soft, snow-white expanse of flesh. Her soft breasts, pressed by their own weight into slightly drooping melon shapes, were now slumped.

The sharp sword took her life and turned her into a lewd and decadent corpse.

Seeing this scene, the woman in black robe also lifted up her robe, revealing her naked body: plump breasts, slender waist, thick hair, and purple-red lower lips.

"Great Mother Goddess, your followers pray to you and offer tributes. In the holy name of Odix, Ikkudolon, and Yatanados... In the secret name of Yakla... Amen..."

The other black-robed women devoutly awaited the "miracle." All they had to do next was offer sacrifices to the Mother Goddess, and their patriarch would receive her blessing. His already large stem would grow into a sturdy branch capable of bringing infinite joy. The patriarch would then implant the roots of these branches into their bodies, bringing them unparalleled bliss.

However, this time, the evil god they worshipped did not respond to their prayers.

The leading woman wailed in near despair: "Where's the oregano?! Where's my oregano? Why isn't it growing?! Oh my God...isn't our contribution enough? Why?! Why!"

The other believers were silent and dared not say a word.

At this time, the leading woman looked at the offering still floating in the air and asked, "Is it a problem with the offering?"

She spread the victim's legs apart, and then she seemed to discover the problem: "She's not pure! Why? Why? The school rules are so strict, how could a student lose her virginity so early?! Who is behind this?! Who?!"

The woman in the lead would not know that her god did not respond to her not because she used virginity to sacrifice to it, but because her god had offended someone he shouldn't have offended - it had been squeezed to the point of being on the verge of death by Lin Shangren.

Lin Shangren didn't know at this time that he had almost destroyed the target of the mission on a physical level.

Now he is still "fighting wits and courage with the air."

Through Kaori Saeki's confession, Naoto Hayashi roughly understood some basic information.

Two years ago, Kaori Saeki developed sleepwalking, occasionally losing consciousness for unknown reasons and engaging in acts of self-abuse and other blasphemous acts that blasphemed Christian doctrines while in a coma.

In recent weeks, she has been blacking out more and more frequently, with periods of unconsciousness becoming longer and longer. She has even been unconscious for days at a time, completely unaware of what she's been doing. The last time she woke up, she found herself with a cross stabbed into her vagina.

"Father... I really don't know what's wrong with me. I've seen a doctor and sought help from other priests. But, it's no use... God bless me, I must have angered the Almighty..."

"Ms. Saeki, the Almighty God will forgive all your sins. The prerequisite is that you have to tell me where the incense in this incense burner comes from?" Lin Shangren asked.

"Aromatherapy? I...I don't know..."

"Fellow Saeki," Lin Shangren's voice rose two octaves, "you'd better not hide it. I tell you responsibly, the reason you committed such a series of lustful acts is because you are possessed by a demon. The medium through which it possessed you is the incense in this incense burner. Your soul can still be saved, so do not hide it for the enemy of the Lord."

"demon!"

Kaori Saeki was obviously frightened.

"I...but, but I really don't remember! I...my head hurts."

Kaori Saeki covered her head with her hands, her expression ferocious and painful.

"what happened to you?"

Hayashi Naoto placed his hand on top of Saeki Kaori's head and began to soothe her emotions with his eagle fingers.

Soon, Kaori Saeki regained her composure, but she ultimately couldn't remember where the aroma came from.

Lin Shangren asked her if anyone could know her whereabouts these days, but she replied that she had always lived a Puritan-like life, living alone since her husband's death, without even hiring a servant. She didn't seem to be socializing with her friends in the political and business circles lately.

"Is the clue lost? This world is more complicated than I thought. It's only the first morning and so many things have happened." Lin Shangren thought.

Chapter 66: Preparing to Freeze Hands

"Murder and dismemberment, right-wing counter-revolution, evil cults, demons—it's such a mess..."

Lin Shangren, strolling in the central church of Yingyu Girls' College, was organizing the known information in his mind.

According to the tradition of Yingyu Girls' College, after passing the interview with the priest teacher, the principal should have personally accompanied him to tour the campus to familiarize him with the environment as a sign of respect.

However, it was clear that Saeki Kaori was in no condition to accompany Hayashi Naoto. After receiving Hayashi Naoto's comfort, she fell into a weak state.

The results of the Eye of Innocence showed that Saeki Kaori's weak condition was a sequelae of demonic possession and could not be cured by [Dr. Kotori]. She could only wait for natural recovery.