Please Stop The Pope-Chapter 53

She glanced at her masked leader and then turned her attention back to the man lying at her feet.

“Right, mister? It’s your fault. You’re bad, so you’re being punished like this. By the way, since you work for the government, do you know where Kang Chaea is? She’s been missing for a month…”

Sehee Lee snatched the ID badge hanging around the man’s neck and examined it.

“Kim Dongsik? Is that your name? Shouldn’t someone from the Special Investigation Bureau be in the main office, not the second building?”

“There’s some business here in the second building.”

“Anyway, that’s fine. The Special Investigation Bureau is the core of the Ability Management Department, right? So you must know where Kang Chaea is.”

Kang Chaea.

One of the few remaining S-class hunters in the government and her long-time rival.

Sehee Lee persistently asked Kim Dongsik about Kang Chaea’s whereabouts, but the answer was always the same.

“I don’t know. A lowly civil servant like me wouldn’t know the location of such an esteemed person.”

“Hmm. That’s a problem. If you don’t answer, I’ll kill you. Do you know why I kept you alive? There aren’t many people who can keep their heads up in front of me.”

Fwoosh!

Blue flames ignited in her hand.

She could summon flames with just a slight movement of her magic.

Though it was a small flame like a candle, anything it touched would turn to ashes.

This destructive flame was the source of her infamous reputation.

“You know, burning is considered the most painful form of suffering a living being can experience. I’ve tested it repeatedly, and it seems accurate. They all scream until their vocal cords melt.”

Her eyes gleamed with sadistic excitement.

“If you tell me where Kang Chaea is, I’ll kill you quickly and painlessly.”

“Sorry, but our Special Investigation Bureau only deals with returnees. And civil servants don’t know anything outside their work.”

“That’s funny.”

Crackle!

“Gah!”

As the flame touched Kim Dongsik’s right arm, a small scream escaped his lips.

“What’s this?”

It wasn’t the result Sehee Lee wanted.

She had intended to turn his arm to ashes, but her flame only left a burn on his skin.

Kim Dongsik, who appeared to be no more than an A-class hunter, had somehow blocked her flame.

It wasn’t magic that blocked it, but something else.

Sehee Lee licked her upper lip and smiled, like a child given a new toy.

“What’s that power? How did a bug like you block my flame?”

“Sehee, we don’t have time.”

One of her companions urged her.

“The mission comes first. Save your hobbies for later.”

“I want to take this guy and study him. I haven’t felt this motivated in a long time! Since we’ve already attacked the Ability Management Department, a little kidnapping won’t hurt, right?”

“...Do as you wish.”

The leader complied to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Sehee Lee was a ticking time bomb, even to her allies.

If it weren’t for the influence of the one they served, controlling her would have been impossible.

He signaled his subordinates to take Kim Dongsik, who was then knocked out and carried away.

“We have a problem.”

Sehee Lee’s eyes widened at the leader’s words.

“A problem? What problem? Is it Kang Chaea?”

“Kim Siwoo. He’s around the second building. We need to finish before he arrives.”

“Oh! The irregular who stopped the monster wave alone? Isn’t this a good thing? We can take this chance to...”

It was then.

Crash! Boom!

The sound of something crashing echoed, and moments later, the big guy carrying Kim Dongsik collapsed to the ground.

His skull was smashed beyond recognition.

And then, a playful voice reached their ears.

“Oh dear. The Pope said to kill if they resisted... Let’s just say you resisted. Alright? Our Pope is quite the nagger.”

“Sir Leventon, it’s proper to offer surrender first.”

“Then let’s say they attacked first. Leo, didn’t you break someone who tried to surrender earlier?”

“I didn’t hear them declare surrender.”

Standing there were a man in priestly robes and a woman in white armor.

Sehee Lee looked at them with interest.

“What’s this? Didn’t we have people stationed below? Did you get past them?”

“Sehee, this is bad. Those two are combatants from the Liemen Order. Especially that woman...”

The leader’s voice grew serious, but Sehee Lee waved her hand dismissively.

“It’s getting interesting. You mean they’re lackeys of that cult leader, Kim Siwoo? You think I’ll lose to a henchman of that con artist? This is a chance to test the power he gave me.”

Fwoosh!

Blue flames engulfed her body in an instant, turning her into a fiery avatar.

But it didn’t stop there.

Black flames began to spread from her chest, enveloping the blue flames until she was covered in black fire.

‘Ahh!’

Sehee Lee couldn’t hide her excitement as she felt the power coursing through her body.

The pleasure brought by this overwhelming power was incomparable to an orgasm.

These flames could melt steel. She had tested them in a remote village, vaporizing a house and the family inside it.

This black flame was the blessing bestowed upon her by their benefactor.

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She looked at her opponents with half-closed eyes and spoke in a sticky voice.

“I love the screams of people burning alive. I hope your screams satisfy me.”

She snapped her fingers.

Black flaming snakes emerged from the ground where the strangers stood, wrapping around the man and the woman in an instant.

Sehee Lee smiled at the sight of the coiled snakes.

“Not even a scream? Disappointing. I expected more...”

It was then.

The black snakes burst from within, and something clad in white barriers rushed towards her.

In less than a second.

Sehee Lee quickly raised ten layers of flame walls.

Boom!

But the walls did nothing, and the white comet collided with her.

“Ah!”

The force flung her back, but she didn’t get far.

“I’m the one who’s disappointed, bitch.”

The white knight grabbed her by the collar. The black flames licking at her did nothing to the knight.

“A mage should always keep their distance from a knight. You lack even that basic sense.”

She was drunk on power.

She hadn’t expected her opponent to breach the black flames so easily.

Sehee Lee tried to summon her magic to escape.

But her attempts were thwarted by an unfamiliar energy within her.

“If you hadn’t embraced demonic energy, you might have stood a chance. Didn’t your benefactor warn you about holy power?”

“Holy... power?”

“We do share something in common, you and I.”

Fwoosh!

White flames erupted from Sehee Lee’s feet.

And in that moment.

“Aaaah!”

Agonizing pain consumed her entire body.

A mocking voice whispered in her ear amidst the soul-searing agony.

“I like screams too. Especially from bitches like you.”

6.

‘This is the worst.’

The man bit his lip as he raced up the stairs.

The mission was already a failure.

His entire force was down on the 32nd floor, including one of their hidden assets, Sehee Lee.

She was his greatest asset.

Initially an S-class hunter, she had become even more formidable after receiving a blessing from their benefactor.

She could burn down a small town alone.

Yet she was taken down so easily.

By a single unknown woman.

And that wasn’t all.

‘If I stop, I die.’

Even disregarding the white-armored woman, the man in priestly robes was a monster.

He had effortlessly torn through the man’s subordinates like paper, chasing him relentlessly.

His subordinates were buying time by sacrificing themselves, but it was only a delay.

‘I must retrieve the vessel.’

At this point, achieving their initial goal was paramount.

He clutched the portal scroll hidden in his robes and continued to ascend.

After a while,

「38th Floor – Special Confinement Zone / Authorized Personnel Only」

He reached his target floor.

The special confinement zone.

A place where the Ability Management Department held awakened individuals before transferring them to a dedicated prison.

Seeing the thick special door, the man slashed it with his sword.

Crash!

The door, meant to prevent escapes, was cleanly cut, and the man rushed inside.

Waiting inside were his subordinates, who bowed at his arrival.

“You’re here, Branch Chief!”

“You idiots! You should’ve extracted the target and escaped immediately!”

“Sorry! The emergency lockdown system activated.”

“The target?”

“This guy. He tried to kill us as soon as we freed him, so we had to knock him out. Two of our men died in the process.”

The man frowned and looked at the young boy his subordinate was holding.

The boy, who looked to be in his mid-teens at best, had someone's blood on his hands.

The man quickly recognized that the boy was a vessel.

There was a great demonic spirit in the boy.

"Governor. Is there anything wrong underneath? Lee Se-hee, that crazy came with you."

"I don't have time to explain. You should head to the magic circle on the roof right now. I'm going to scroll through the portal and get out with the target."

"Yes! Got it!"

The number of men in the detention zone was fifteen.

They will buy you some time from the monster that is chasing you from below.

Hearing the order, his men rushed to the stairs in unison, and the man frowned as he looked behind them.

'Three minutes, three minutes.'

The magic circle on the roof wasn't a teleportation circle in the first place.

A kind of self-destruct magic circle.

The moment they reach the rooftop, their bodies will be used as a medium to cast a massive explosion spell.

Unbeknownst to them, except for Lee Se-hee, they were the ones who were brought in as expendables in the first place. If you can buy yourself three minutes of time for the Portal Scroll to be used, you've done it a good job.

Buu

The man immediately tore the portal scroll open. Soon, a magic circle began to form for escape.

"As soon as you return, you must immediately gather the other branch leaders and destroy the Remen Church."

Even Kim Si Woo's subordinates were too much to handle.

If left unchecked, it would likely eventually grow into the biggest threat to their plans.

Aa

A roar echoed from the staircase, and it seemed that the monster was chasing his minions.

'Okay, let's get away with it.......

"Use your men as bait to escape...... No matter how bad the villain is, isn't the operation too cliché?"

He just blinked once. Just as he had done so, a slender man in a black priest's robe appeared in front of him.

It was a face he knew.

"Kim ...... Siu."

An irregular, who suddenly appeared in South Korea.

A returnee who single-handedly blocked a monster wave.

Kim Si Woo looked at the man and the boy alternately with a strange expression. Then he said with interest.

"Now I understand. That bastard, the demon king's embodiment? I have a rough idea of what you're here for. By the way...... Shouldn't you be careful?"

"What the hell is that...... Aa

Chopping!

The boy, who had been lying down just a moment ago, bit the man's scruff of the neck.

In his fading mind, Kim Si Woo's voice echoed quietly.

"The demon king's incarnations basically replenish their power through fratricide. Isn't that basic common sense? That's why knowledge is power."

It took only three seconds for the boy to devour the man.

The boy ravenously devoured the human and looked at Kim Si Woo with yo-yo red eyes.

Kim Si Woo also raised the corners of his mouth as he met the boy's eyes.

"Now I see that we weren't unlucky. I'm rather lucky."

After a while.

Kiyaa

The roar of the beast shook the entire building.