newbobooks Chapter 417 The Blind Girl and Her New Target
Chapter 417 The Blind Girl and Her New Target
Chapter 417 The Blind Girl and Her New Target
"Don't miss it! Tonight at 8 PM, the Scorpio Church will hold a large-scale mass at Yoyogi National Gymnasium."
All those who join the church can enter the Yoyogi National Gymnasium free of charge to attend Mass and receive the blessing of the Scorpion God, based on their status as believers.
Additionally, the Tokyo Holy Emperor will also attend this Mass ceremony and witness the first large-scale ceremony held by the Scorpion Church. Those who have not yet joined the church and do not wish to miss this opportunity can come and join now.
A friendly reminder: joining the church is currently free, and you can also receive daily necessities such as rice, flour, cooking oil, and eggs.
Scorpio Cult has established business relationships with major supermarket chains in Tokyo, and all free gifts are guaranteed to be of high quality.
Three days have passed since the Scorpion Cult was established. From the beginning when Broly and others personally distributed leaflets on the streets, to now, through the connections of the Holy Emperor and Sima Weizhi, they have formed business partnerships with major supermarket chains in Tokyo.
Promotional posters have been put up in major supermarkets, and city residents who are willing to join the Scorpio Cult can receive induction benefits from the Scorpio Cult at these supermarkets.
Of course, the distribution of flyers on the streets did not stop either, with Sima Weizhi investing a whopping 2 million yuan in advertising.
Meanwhile, the unemployed Chishou Natsuyo is currently wearing a vest and clothes prepared by Sima Heavy Industries for the Scorpion Cult, and handing out cult leaflets on the street.
After the death of the facilitator, Ikuma Shōken, Chizu Natsuyo became an outsider in the Mishima Royal Security Company. If it weren't for the invitation she received from the Seiki a few days ago to attend the Emperor's private banquet at the council building, she might have already been sent to the outer city.
However, things are much better now, because she was transferred from Mishima Security Company to Tendo Agency the day before yesterday.
Although no new facilitator has been assigned to her yet, Tendo Agency has given her a new job: distributing flyers for the Scorpio Cult.
Along with her handing out flyers were other Initiator girls, children who had received a healing spell personally cast by Aqua, thus achieving perfect Gastrea transformation.
However, compared to ordinary people handing out flyers, the location where a group of red-eyed girls with mutated limbs were handing out flyers made many passersby keep their distance.
Although the Gastrea method is being implemented, public acceptance of the cursed child is still low, and girls feel somewhat frustrated.
"Lady Aqua took us in, but we are unable to help her with anything."
"How about we change into mascot costumes? As long as they can't see our eyes or the mutated parts of our bodies, no one will be afraid of us."
"No, if even we lack confidence and dare not show ourselves, wouldn't the Scorpion Cult's doctrine of not discriminating against the Cursed Children be nothing more than a charade?"
"Then tell me, what should we do?"
"Xia Shi, you're the smartest one, what do you suggest we do?"
As Chisato Natsuyo pondered, trying to think of a good way to improve his failed flyer distribution, he suddenly heard a nervous apology.
"Sorry, my board accidentally bumped into you."
"Ha, what's the point of an apology? You've gotten my clothes all dirty."
Not far away, on a pedestrian overpass, a scruffy-looking young man with blond hair stood in front of a girl, loudly berating her.
"Tell me, how are you going to take responsibility?"
"I can wash your clothes for you."
"Wash them clean, are you going to use your filthy hands?"
The young man mocked, then spoke loudly again.
"However, I'm not one to make things difficult for children. Here's what I'll do: give me the money you have, and consider it payment for the dry cleaning of my dirty clothes."
"Ah, this..."
The girl, wearing only a dirty, patched-up dress, looked troubled.
"What, is that not allowed?"
Some passersby who saw what was happening were disgusted that the blond-haired young man was trying to take money from the begging girl, but no one came to stop him.
"Could you leave me some? If I don't beg for money to go home today, my sister and I won't have anything to eat."
"Okay, I'll give you some change."
As the blond-haired youth spoke, he broke off the pull tab from the beverage can in his hand and casually tossed it into the bowl the girl was begging in front of him. The pull tab made a crisp sound in the bowl, and he reached out to take the thousand-yuan bill that the girl was clutching.
"stop!"
Just then, someone stopped him.
"A bunch of little monsters, I advise you to mind your own business!"
The blond-haired youth was startled, but when he turned around and saw that it was just a group of girls with red eyes, he immediately started scolding them.
"Let go and give me the money."
Then he urged the girl in front of him.
"Don't give it to him. He didn't give you change. What he dropped in your bowl was just the pull tab from a soda can."
"So what? It's her fault for getting my clothes dirty!"
"The cardboard sign she was wearing was lying horizontally in front of her, how could it have hit you? You clearly bumped into it on purpose!"
Chishou Natsuyo pointed out that they had already seen the girl singing on the overpass when they were handing out flyers in this place yesterday.
He simply didn't talk to the other person; when he saw her being harassed by street thugs, he came over to help.
"Damn it!"
The commotion grew louder, drawing the attention of passersby crossing the overpass.
The blond-haired youth was somewhat embarrassed and angry.
He raised his hand, ready to slap the blind girl in front of him who was clutching the money tightly in her hand.
But, the next moment...
*Smack!*
The man was slapped in the face first; the one who did it was a girl who was an Initiator with mutated organs.
"You dare to hit me?"
Covering his swollen face, the blond-haired youth was somewhat incredulous, as if he couldn't believe that a stray dog on the street would dare to attack a human.
"You want to rob me? So what if I hit you?"
"You red-eyed monsters, believe me or not, I'll call the police right now and have them come and arrest you?!"
"We're so scared, but sorry, we have our certificates."
Chishou Natsuyo presented his Initiator ID and the Scorpion Cult's propaganda license.
Yesterday, when we were handing out flyers, some passersby called the police, but the officers who came were eventually persuaded to leave.
It was just a weak threat from a street thug; it wouldn't scare them at all.
With the implementation of the Gastrea Method and the emergence of the Scorpion Cult, the future era is destined to be different, a fact that Senju Natsuyo has already realized.
"Do you want to get beaten up again?"
The girl who had made the move raised her hand, and the blond-haired man was terrified. The danger of the Cursed Children was not only the Gastrea virus they carried, but also their superhuman physical abilities.
"Remember this!"
But backing down would be too embarrassing, so after making those threats, he slunk away.
Are you alright?
Chisuke Natsuyo looked at the girl.
"It's nothing, thank you very much."
The girl bowed and thanked her.
"Are you blind?"
The girls who were the initiators noticed the bandages on each other's faces, and one of them asked a question.
"Yes, my mom didn't like the color of my eyes, so I had some lead injected into them."
The girl removed the bandages from her face, revealing a pair of somewhat grayish-white pupils.
"Are you... also a child of the curse?"
"I'm sorry, did my eyes frighten you?"
The blind girl quickly apologized.
"No, it's just that you're not from the outer district, are you?"
Senju Natsuyo asked the question.
"No, but I do live near the outer city."
Compared to other cursed children who have no idea who their parents are, the blind girl is undoubtedly luckier because she was not abandoned by her own mother.
But she was also somewhat unfortunate because her mother blamed all the misfortunes she had experienced on this girl, so she wasn't very kind to her.
"Although my mother is usually a bit harsh on my sister and me, she will be nicer to us as long as I can beg for money outside."
The blind girl recounted her story, expressing her deep gratitude for the help she received from Chizu Natsuyo and others that day.
Her family's situation is just a microcosm of the slums near the outer city of Tokyo's safety zone.
People living in those places don't usually pay much attention to such things. It's not uncommon for pregnant women to accidentally eat food or drink water that carries Enterovirus and then give birth to cursed children.
Even worse, some people deliberately eat food carrying gastroenteritis simply because they want to justify abandoning their newborn babies.
Most of these people are people in certain professions who sell their bodies to make a living and make this choice in order to save money on contraception.
Of course, there are also some families in that area who are unwilling to give up their children, although the number is not large, but there are indeed some.
However, most of them did not live a good life, and the blind girl's mother was the woman who was unwilling to give up on her child at first.
But the pressures of time and environment have changed a lot.
"Would you like me to sing you a song?"
The blind girl asked, "Is this the only thing I can give back?"
"If possible, I would like to recommend the Scorpio Cult to you."
"What is that?"
"A religion does not discriminate against the religion of the cursed child."
Senju Natsuyo emphasized this point.
"Sorry, I don't really know what religion is."
The blind girl looked bewildered.
"Okay, to put it simply, as long as you're willing to join the Scorpio Cult, you can get some eggs, rice, or other food from us."
"Well, I've already received your help, I can't ask for anything more."
"This is not demanding, it's a transaction. You only need to offer your faith, or rather, gratitude, to the Scorpion God to receive these things. And these things don't belong to us; they belong to the Scorpion Cult. We are merely preaching for the Scorpion God."
"Is gratitude enough?"
"right."
"Would it be of help to you too?"
"That's right."
"Okay, then I'm willing to join."
The blind girl touched the form of joining the church that Chizu Natsuyo handed her and signed her name on it. Before she had lead poured into her eyes, her mother had taught her to write.
Although it can't be seen now, the handwriting is still very neat.
"These are eggs."
"This is rice."
"This is candy."
"We'll get you a bag to pack it in."
The girls who started the business were very enthusiastic, and their business had finally opened.
"Oh, thank you, but there are too many things, I might not be able to carry them all."
The blind girl thanked him, somewhat flattered.
"It's okay. Where do you live? We'll take you home and deliver these things to you while we're at it."
The girls who started the project escorted the blind girl home, but her mother happened to be taking a job at home.
The creaking and panting sounds coming from the dilapidated house made the girls who had come here and heard the noise blush.
"Does your mother do this?"
"My mother works very hard; she has to support herself, as well as my sister and me."
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When the guests came out, they were startled to see a group of red-eyed girls with disfigured limbs outside the door.
"Damn it!"
The guest cursed, and the woman inside came out after hearing the noise, and was also startled.
"We are here to offer converts to Christianity."
Before the woman could even yell at her daughter, Chishou Natsuyo spoke first.
"Welfare?"
The woman was somewhat puzzled.
"Rice, noodles, cooking oil, and eggs—these are the perks your daughter received after joining the Scorpio Cult. But I wonder if you'd be willing to learn more about our sect?"
"I've never heard of the Scorpion Cult. My family doesn't welcome cult members."
The woman, whose complexion wasn't great but who was undeniably attractive, said this.
"We are not a cult; we are a legitimate religious sect recognized by the authorities."
Chizu Natsuyo produced a copy of the religious approval document and showed it to the woman.
"If you're willing to join, you can also get an extra serving of rice, noodles, cooking oil, and eggs."
She added.
The woman, who was destitute and now barely survived by selling her body, lit a cigarette and said, "My family has no money."
"It's free; as long as you're willing to join, you'll get something."
"I also have a daughter. If she joins us, you'll get something too, right?"
The woman pointed to her youngest daughter and asked.
"certainly."
Qianju Natsuyo nodded.
After the blind girl's mother joined them with her other daughter, she told them about the Scorpion Church Mass that night at Yoyogi Gymnasium.
"It's not some kind of cult ritual, like killing someone by bleeding them to death?"
Women should be wary of such questions.
"As I said, our Scorpio Cult is not an evil cult."
The girls who started the game immediately retorted, but they were still somewhat naive and overestimated Aqua's bottom line as a goddess.
Aqua has prepared a whole box full of gastrovirus injections.
"Are there any benefits to attending that Mass?"
"have."
The woman hesitated for a moment before asking, "If I help you recruit people, will your sect pay me?"
"I'll have to ask about that."
Chisato Natsuyo took out her phone and made a call.
A reply was received very quickly.
"We pay them, 1,000 yen per person, and if they can get someone to attend Mass, we'll give them an extra 500 yen per person."
Religion spreads more easily in areas suffering from hardship, and if there are benefits to joining a religion or money to recruit others, the speed of its spread can become terrifying.
. . . .
Saint House, Council, Hotline Customer Service Staff.
"Sigh, most of these calls either can't be connected or the number isn't actually belonging to the person who made them."
The man held the list of new converts and began to complain.
"Who can argue with that? They're all just taking advantage of people."
The person on the other side also sighed.
"I wonder if we'll be punished since fewer than two hundred people went tonight."
"Probably not, after all, this wasn't our responsibility in the first place."
"Not necessarily. I've heard that the Scorpion Cult is actually a ploy by His Majesty the Holy Emperor. If things don't go smoothly, he might hold us accountable."
"So, that night, shall we bring our families over to support the Scorpion Cult for His Majesty the Holy Emperor?"
"That's all we can do."
"Are you guys going to exaggerate like this?"
The young man in the seat to the right said with some surprise.
"For important people, they may not know who went to show their support, but if it is discovered that someone didn't go to show their support, they will be in trouble."
Just as the hotline customer service staff were discussing going to support the event, several calls suddenly came in.
"What? The mass at Yoyogi Gymnasium tonight is real? Ah, yes, it's real. That's right, the sect's name is Scorpion Cult."
"Is there anything we can take? Uh, there should be, but we don't know exactly what it is. This is Scorpio's own arrangement."
"What's going on? Why are so many people suddenly calling to inquire about Mass?"
"Uh, the areas where the calls came from are all residential areas near the outer city."
"Got it, this is where the Scorpio Cult has spread its influence to the places most eager to take advantage and fleece people."
Upon hearing this, the group of hotline operators looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Report it up; if the number of participants exceeds the expected number..."
Large-scale religious ceremonies require advance planning and arrangements. Aqua made the decision to perform a miracle on a whim, but behind the scenes, many people need to take action to support her decision.
"Your Majesty, the number of people willing to attend Mass has exceeded two thousand. For your personal safety, wouldn't it be better if we canceled this audience?"
Now, Tendo Kisara, who is a personal guard by the Holy Emperor's side, asked the question. Just the day before yesterday, they had received information from the Osaka area.
President Saito Sogen of the Osaka region proposed a visit to the Tokyo Safety Zone, but his intentions seemed to be hostile.
"The rumor that someone wants to assassinate me is baseless. Even if it were true, with Broly and Lady Aqua there, do you think they would let anything happen to me?"
After thinking about it for a moment, Tendo Kisara nodded in agreement.
Tonight, the Emperor's schedule remains the same; he will visit Yoyogi National Gymnasium to pay his respects.
. . . .
"I've arrived in Tokyo, where should I look for you?"
In the afternoon, Tina arrived in Tokyo carrying a bag of event funds and sent a message via her mobile phone.
"Come to Yoyogi National Gymnasium, I'm over here."
"Yoyogi National Gymnasium?"
Tina quickly hailed a taxi and told them her destination.
"Let's go to Yoyogi National Gymnasium."
"Are you also going to Mass?"
"What mass?"
"The Scorpion Cult's Mass. This religion has suddenly appeared in the last few days, and there are propaganda about this sect everywhere in the city."
"Wow, is the Scorpio Cult really that famous?"
"It's famous, but not in a good way. I've heard that this religion is promoting the idea that Gastrea is harmless."
"Detoxification of gastritis?"
Tina was a little stunned, not understanding how the words Gastorvirus and harmless treatment were put together.
"Yes, there are many rumors circulating among the people that this is a religious organization specially promoted by His Majesty the Holy Emperor in order to promote the Yuanchang New Method."
"Eh, Your Majesty, the New Method of the Original Intestine?"
"What's wrong, young guest? Don't you know about the Gastrea method?"
"I've heard of it, but I don't know much about it."
"Let me tell you, the Gastan method is..."
The driver was quite talkative and recounted how, more than half a year ago, the Holy Emperor proposed the Yuanchang New Method.
"Previously it was just small-scale stuff, but this time it's a big deal. I heard they're planning to take advantage of the influence of Scorpio's defeat to fully implement the Gastrea method, and the Scorpio Cult is the first step in pioneering this path..."
Tina got out of the car, her feelings mixed. She hadn't expected that the person she was supposed to assassinate was actually working to fight for the human rights of the Cursed Children.
Shaking her head, Tina decided to put the mission aside. She took out her phone and typed another message: "I'm at the entrance of Yoyogi Gymnasium. Where are you?"
"I'm here. You're the Nightingale?"
The sudden sound behind her startled Tina.
Turning her head, Tina saw the boy approaching.
"Little Kid?"
"I'm not a kid, my name is Broly."
"Nightingale is just my online name, I am..."
"Tina Sprout, right?"
How did you know?
Tina's eyes widened.
"Crystal Palace told me."
Broly had come to welcome netizens, but Crystal Palace popped up a notification message after he saw the girl at the stadium entrance.
[New target discovered: Tina Sprantt, current happiness level 35]
(End of this chapter)