Chapter 94: The Sin of Sloth Part 2

“Sonia is my daughter.”

Schworr.

Orange juice flowed from Amon’s mouth like a waterfall, without any resistance.

“Who is someone’s daughter?”

Amon glanced back and forth between the director and Sonia.

The only thing the director and Sonia had in common was that they were both women and both had large breasts.

As Amon alternately looked at them, something felt off.

‘Hmm?’

Thinking back, the director also had a large chest and, for her age, a notably good figure.

If Amon thought back further, he recalled a time when the director had picked him up and then Sonia had joined the orphanage.

The director’s body had rapidly lost weight at that time.

‘Not exactly sure, but that’s the feeling I have.’

At least when he first saw the director, she had more body fat than she did now.

‘How could he have not noticed her belly? But if she wore a loose nun’s habit, it could have easily hidden it.’

‘The director never really goes out much anyway.’

‘If she had decided to hide it for a few months, she could have easily done so.’

However, there were gaps in her past that needed explaining.

“You said you were a healer, but what about your divine power? I don’t feel any of it.”

There wasn’t even a silver bracelet to hide her divine power.

In response to Amon’s question, the priest with narrow eyes answered.

“To seal the demon, it is necessary to extract divine power.”

The demon inhabits the soul’s core and controls the body.

Because of this, it’s harder to exorcise than other possessions.

The problem was that this divine power is created and stored in the soul’s core.

Therefore, to separate the demon, the divine power must also be separated from the core.

“Her divine power is sealed here along with the demon.”

The priest pointed to her left arm.

Only then did Amon understand and accept the director’s words.

“Ah… So, that’s what happened.”

Surprisingly quickly, Amon accepted the situation.

It made sense, because he had no grounds to argue about the fact that the director was Sonia’s biological mother.

Sonia also struggled to accept that the director was her biological mother.

“Please… give me some time…”

The mental shock seemed greater than expected, so it appeared that more time would be needed to fully accept it.

However, with enough time, she seemed like she would eventually accept it.

Seeing their reaction, the director was relieved of one worry.

She had feared they might reject her, but there was no need for concern.

However, there was something they had forgotten.

“So, is this why you are apologizing to us?”

At Amon’s question, the director and the priest with narrow eyes trembled slightly.

That’s right.

They hadn’t called Amon and Sonia here to reveal the secret of their birth.

Of course, that was part of the reason, but the real reason was to beg forgiveness for the sins tied to this secret.

The director’s fingertips trembled.

The priest looked at her with concern and spoke.

“Should I explain?”

But the director shook her head.

This was a sin she had to bear.

The atmosphere grew much heavier than before, and Amon and Sonia swallowed dryly.

And when the director confessed her sins, both Amon and Sonia lost their words.

“I… I thought divine power was a curse. So, I hide your divine power.”

The director had hidden their divine power, fearing the misfortune it would bring.

But in this world, no secret remains forever.

The director’s abilities weren’t enough to hide their talents and divine power.

Various factions had gradually caught onto their divine power and began to approach them.

The director gave up on hiding their divine power and changed her strategy.

“I saved you. I said I wanted you to live freely, but I made sure you couldn’t leave the orphanage.”

The Vatican, corporations, the government, and more.

She justified her actions, claiming she was giving the children the freedom to choose, while she pushed away all the factions that tried to approach them.

In reality, it was nothing more than an ugly obsession.

Her true intention was that she didn’t want the children to go into a dangerous world.

But even this, compared to the sins she would commit later, was nothing.

“I… I…”

Unable to continue her explanation, the director fell silent.

As if anticipating this, the priest with narrow eyes took over.

***

The story shifted to when the priest visited her after a long time.

Amon knew the day well.

The day after Amon exorcised the ghost that had possessed Jimmy with the scriptures, the priest came to the orphanage for the first time to exorcise.

That day, a conversation about Amon and Sonia took place between the director and the priest.

The priest started talking about Amon and then mentioned Sonia’s divine power.

‘Two people who possess divine power…’

It was unusual for two people to be born in the same region, but it was even more dangerous that they both ended up in the same orphanage.

The corporations wouldn’t just sit back, and demons might target them.

For this reason, the priest expressed his intention to take them to the Vatican.

Naturally, the director refused, but the priest calmly pressed her, persuading her that they had to be sent to the Vatican.

Logically, the priest’s reasoning seemed entirely valid.

Although the Vatican had become corrupt, at least by using the priest’s connections and power, the children could grow up safely.

But the simple fact of sending her daughter to the Vatican triggered the director’s trauma.

Eventually, the director exploded with the emotions she had been holding back.

“At least let the children choose their future!”

As soon as she spoke those words, a wave of nausea surged up in the director.

‘How could she say such a thing?’

She was the one who had been suppressing the children’s freedom.

Yet, too afraid to make a choice herself, she had passed the responsibility onto the children.

It was disgusting.

Nothing had changed since then.

The director was disillusioned with her contradictory and lazy self.

The priest, knowing the director’s situation, looked at her with meaningful eyes, then sighed deeply, as if the ground had swallowed him up.

He raised both hands, declaring his withdrawal and decided not to interfere with the children any longer.

The priest had never had the right to interfere with the children’s upbringing in the first place.

Because of his wandering nature, he had been busy exorcising demons all over the world.

After seven years, he finally returned, and now, pretending to care about the children, it was meaningless.

Both the priest and the director were the worst kinds of parents.

Later, the priest left a silver bracelet for the children and said to the director:

“I understand your intentions. But you will regret this.”

It was both a message to the director and a self-deprecating comment from the priest.

With that, the priest compromised and decided to leave the children at the orphanage, stepping back to observe them from a distance.

As expected, the claws of the Hexen Group were slowly getting closer, and the priest continued to block their approach from unknown places.

Although he claimed it was to prevent the Hexen Group’s plot in the name of the Vatican, at least the priest’s true intention was for a deeply personal reason.

In the process, the priest warned the director that the Hexen Group was getting closer.

It would be best to send the children to the Vatican at this point.

But the director stood firm.

“Leave the children alone! Just leave them alone!”

As the situation reached this point, the priest also felt a sense of unease.

The director’s condition was strange.

Following that unease, the priest delved into the director’s intentions and soon discovered her repulsive plan.

“Are you insane?! You’re going to offer that child as a sacrifice?!”

The reason the director had continued to refuse to send the children to the Vatican.

It was because, at least, she could protect Sonia.

Amon would conceal Sonia’s divine power with his overwhelming divine power.

And if the Hexen Group took Amon, Sonia would be safe.

With this method, there was no need to send her to the Vatican, and she could protect her daughter from the Hexen Group.

Upon realizing this, the priest shouted at the director for the first time.

“Even if it’s a painful sacrifice, you should know when to stop! What’s the difference between you and those disgusting old men?!”

The priest, who had always been cautious with his words due to knowing the director’s past, had now gone too far.

This incident marked the priest’s departure from neutrality.

Breaking the neutrality he had promised the director, he decided to actively protect Amon and Sonia.

This was why he took them to the resort.

On the surface, he had deceived them into believing the Vatican was trying to win their hearts, but in reality, it was just an excuse to have holy knights dispatched from the Vatican.

However, as soon as the priest took them to the resort, the situation rapidly escalated.

The Hexen Group attacked them.

This attack completely shattered the director’s mental state.

She had already been mentally unstable, and now, the one person she thought was her only ally, her husband, shouted at her for the first time.

The Hexen Group attacked not only the priest but also the orphanage.

In this entire process, the director had done nothing right.

She only provided the cause and was powerless to act.

Even now, she didn’t know what to do.

Ultimately, her forgotten trauma from the past resurfaced, and she couldn’t bear it any longer.

“I have to choose. I have to choose… What do I have to choose… Mother… Please answer me…”

Returning from the resort trip, the priest paused when he heard the agonizing sobs coming from the director’s room, his hand frozen just before knocking.

Instead, he gathered the children and took them to the church for safety in place of the director.

‘Now that I think about it, I didn’t see the director.’

Amon suddenly recalled something that had seemed natural at the time.

Looking back, on the day they returned from the resort, the director hadn’t greeted Amon and Sonia.

At that time, the priest had acted as the director’s representative, handling the people and caring for the children.

Even when Amon was planning to confront the Hexen Group, the director tried to avoid showing her face.

Back then, it was easy to dismiss her behavior as a reaction to the shock of the attack, but the truth was much darker.

The priest, having explained everything, took off his glasses with a bitter expression.

He rubbed the clean lenses, speaking with a hint of emotion in his voice.

“Still, luckily… thanks to the miracle of Amon, we were able to reach this happy conclusion.”

Fortunately, reality had offered a third option, one that neither the priest nor the director had considered.

Amon had destroyed the Hexen Group in a way no one had expected, and everyone was able to reach a happy ending.

It was, in a way, a stroke of luck.

Contrary to the director’s misunderstanding, the Hexen Group had been targeting Sonia, not Amon, from the beginning.

If they had followed either the director’s or the priest’s methods…

It would likely have led to a disastrous outcome that no one would want to imagine.

The priest bowed his head to Amon.

“Thank you, Amon. You are the angel sent to us by the Lord, no matter what anyone says.”