Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 9 Trough and Fire

Wait three days...will it still be in time?

Unexpectedly, the friendly bandage girl would refuse to help. Worried about the situation at the hospital, Leon gritted his teeth, lowered his head and tried to plead again:

"If you are willing to help, I can..."

"Sorry, it's not about the cost."

After interrupting Leon, the bandaged woman shook her head and said with regret:

"The reason I was able to stay safely in the Cleanup Bureau for six years was that I never took action when I was not sure.

Although I sympathize with your situation, I have reasons why I will never take risks lightly. I hope you can understand my decision. "

"..."

I understand, of course I understand. After all, if I don't understand, what else can I do? Should I force you to go over there?

After hearing the other party's irrefutable refusal, Leon couldn't help but loosen his hand helplessly.

Although it sounded a bit cold, the other party was actually right. She had no obligation to take risks for her own sake, but...what about Anna?
Although he could still choose to go back to the hospital and take Anna out in advance before that "out-of-control infected person" made a big noise.

But if what the nurse said was true, if Anna was taken away now and the medication was stopped, she would basically have to lie in bed for the rest of her life, and she might not even be able to do housework like washing clothes and cooking.

Anna has suffered a lot over the years because of her lung disease. Given her seemingly gentle and well-behaved but actually stubborn personality, if she finds out that she has become a complete burden, I'm afraid...

"Boy, you can't deny your debt!"

Just as Leon was weighing the two options and hesitating whether to bring Anna out, the black goat in his arms twisted his neck uncomfortably and reminded him with some concern:

"We agreed before that if I help you find someone, you will buy cigarettes for us! Now we have found the person for you. If she doesn't want to help, that's her problem. You must owe us every cigarette!"

"..."

Oh, and this stuff too!

As if he had caught a glimpse of a life-saving straw floating in front of him, Leon's eyes suddenly lit up, and he grabbed the sheep's head and said anxiously:

"What about you? Can you handle this? If you can, I'll buy you a pack of 'Golte' every week as long as I work at the Cleanup Bureau!"

Tsk...you're trying the same trick on me again...did I give you face?
After hearing the conditions proposed by Leon, a hint of annoyance appeared on Black Goat's face.

Boy! You don't really think that I'm helping you find someone just for the sake of cigarettes, do you? How could a great devil like me be short of a pack of cheap cigarettes that only cost three silver wheels?

Let me tell you! If that red-haired woman didn't admire you, let alone a pack of rotten cigarettes, even if you kneeled down and begged me to take your soul, I wouldn't even want it, you know?

'At least three packs!'

"make a deal!"

Fuck! It's too little!
After curling his lips in annoyance, the black goat cursed himself for being useless, then he leaned hard into Leon's arms with a sigh.

Alas...it's just my taste.

Besides, we are in such a weak and timid state now that we are not even qualified to rob. If we are not careful, not only will we not be able to steal any money, but we may even be tricked and left with no money to buy a pack of cigarettes.

Damn it! I feel upset when I think about this! Although that red-haired woman is not poor, she drinks all her weekly salary on horse urine as soon as it is paid. She is not willing to spend even half a copper wheel on us!

After I smoke a few more cigarettes and gather enough strength to turn the tables, I will smash all the taverns in the capital! Even the perfume factories containing alcohol! I will leave you, a stinky bitch, with nothing to drink!
The Black Goat secretly made a ruthless move in his heart, while gathering up the little remaining strength, and made a mark of the devil on Leon's chest, giving him the right to "use" himself. At the same time, the familiar noise sounded in Leon's ears again.

"Zizi"

[Obtained a usable abnormal object for the first time, the hidden feature of the colored badge "Materialistic Soul (Red)" is activated]

[Materialistic Soul (different color, red, cannot be upgraded): ...]

【Wearing effect: ……】

[Advanced route: ...]

[Hidden Features: Badge Slots +1, Current Number of Slots: 4, Total Number of Anomalies Required to Open the Next Slot: 2]

Along with a mechanical prompt sound, the virtual panel that originally had only three slots scrolled, and the fourth slot quietly appeared. A green badge with a sheep's head and a sheep's brain had been embedded in it in advance.

[You have obtained the right to use the abnormal object "Devil's Horn". You have successfully activated the bronze badge "Devil's Follower"]

[Devil's Follower (Bronze): After completing a dirty and despicable deal and agreeing to perform an extremely evil sacrifice every week in the future, you successfully gained the favor of a high-ranking demon.]

[Effect of wearing: Increases affinity with abnormal objects with the "Fallen" mark, while slightly reducing the cost of use and greatly enhancing the effect of use]

[Advanced route: Complete ten agreed evil sacrifices in private without being discovered by Olivia, the former owner of "Devil's Opponent", and this badge will automatically be promoted to the silver badge "Friend of the Devil". The current progress is 1/10]

[Hidden feature (no need to wear): Your soul is tainted with a trace of demonic aura, making you more likely to attract the attention of certain evil beings]

[Your Infiltration Value Increased]

[Current infection value: 0.1]

……

"Shh...you kid...actually you are quite compatible with me!"

Lying in Leon's slightly uncomfortable embrace, feeling the harmonious feeling of "like a fish in water", the black goat couldn't help but look up and complained in surprise:

'In the previous situation, you were able to control yourself and didn't stab the fat man from the Road Administration Department. I thought you were a person with strong moral values ​​and felt that we couldn't get along with each other.

But judging from how compatible we are, you are obviously not a good person! Although you are not a wicked person, you are definitely not a good person. You must have done a lot of cheating and deceiving people, right?'

"..."

The high degree of compatibility with you is the effect of the badge. I have been a law-abiding citizen in both of my lives, okay?

Although his excellent character was unreasonably criticized, Leon's mind was still normal and he would naturally not confess his cheating to a demon.

After holding the chattering sheep's head and feeling it for a while, Leon was extremely surprised to find that he seemed to have temporarily gained the ability to peek into souls.

With the sheep's head in his hand as the center, within a radius of about two kilometers, thousands of faint, flickering "flames" suddenly lit up.

Hatred, betrayal, deception, jealousy, rage... countless evil thoughts that were cold and dark, but burned the human soul like flames, appeared before Leon's eyes like the faint blue phosphorescence floating in the cemetery late at night.

As long as he focused his attention there, he would be able to see through the layers of cement and bricks and directly see the burning malice contained in those "flames".

Leon even had a strange premonition, as if as long as he stretched out his "hand" and gently poked it, he could make these cold poisonous fires surge instantly, burn all the host's sanity to ashes, and smoke those souls that were originally only light gray into an inky black color that was ten times darker than charcoal!

(End of this chapter)