Chapter 174 - Part Time Exorcist

It had been a hot topic within Ouranos Citadel after the appearance of the Lautus Tunguska's disciples started to roam around the place with their existence burning in both mind and body while maintaining their sanity that just so happened to be at the end of their strings—well, not all. It didn't bother Jojo and Jaro as much as it bothered Carla and the rest.

Screams and disgruntled wailing echoed in the plain morning. Elon and Carla contributed to this kind of event. However, the loudest of them all would come from the living territory of the famous Ragoni.

Rumor circulated even more, some even said that Ragoni Cruten was possessed.

And at the weirdest timing ever, the citizens began to search for some sort of an exorcist and they managed to stumble upon a rarely visited shrine that they didn't know existed in the southwest.

Guda, who was mistaken as a priest, was called and now she was in front of the gate of the well known prominent-figure of Ouranos Citadel.

"Nyahaa… Why am I here again?"

Still glowing brightly even under the sunlight, Guda had casted numerous enchantments on herself although concealment wasn't really on the list. The crowd didn't question anything about why the shrine priest was glowing due to how nonchalant Jojo and Jaro were.

Guda then told the crowd to not come inside. As she walked suspiciously to the big house of Ragoni Cruten, she followed the creepy dead-inside voice as her lead.

Right when she stumbled upon an open door to a room, she glanced at Ragoni on top of a chair as the ferrakhian painstakingly tried to tie a noose.

"Oy! What the hell are you doing!?"

"PAAAAIIINNNN!!"

Guda rushed and grabbed the petite so-called prominent figure by the waist, keeping the ferrakhian away from the noose as the wailing became louder.

"I WANT TO DIEE!!"

"Don't just kon-clude your life effort by just one pain!" Guda took a talisman from her spatial storage and placed it on Ragoni's forehead. "Breathe in! Listen to me like your kon-sultant!"

The hellish pain mildly disappeared and Ragoni felt like she was bathing in a sauna with all of the steam. Just like a robot trying to reboot itself, it took a few seconds before Ragoni could function normally as a living being.

"It's you!" Ragoni exclaimed.

"Yay! It's me!" the fox sarcastically said.

Guda put the ferrakhian on the ground, both of them then stared at each other in a non-friendly way. The tension between them was high and it immediately dropped down after Guda furrowed her eyebrows as she sneered.

"What do you want!?"

The fox shrugged as her fluffy tail swayed, showing a rather annoying smugness. "What do you think I'm here for?"

"If I knew it, I wouldn't ask you in the first place."

"Well, basically I'm here because the whole Citadel wanted me to shut your mouth."

"How about I shut your annoying smug face with something hard?"

"The only hard thing you had is probably a skull."

"Oh you wanna fight!?" Ragoni immediately got into her boxer stance with two hands in front of her face, guarding herself because she knew that she would be the one on the receiving end. "I might be a non-cultivator but my punch has been cultivated with hours of dough kneading and trust me it brings pain!"

'... Then why are you guarding!?'

While Ragoni closed her eyes, Guda casually walked forward and slipped her delicate hand through the guard and took the talisman on her head.

"AAAAAARRRGGGGGGGG!!!!"

"Now you know why the whole Citadel wanted me to be here."

After some more hostile conversation, Guda managed to calm the ferrakhian down. With a pained face, Ragoni ended up taking four more pain-tolerant talismans that came with a voice-key activation. Guda made it right on the spot and gave it to Ragoni in exchange for repaying back the deeds when the time comes.

With a cheery expression, the fox casually walked out of the house and met with the curious crowd that was waiting the whole time.

Showing some glowy talismans that were tucked onto her fingers like a fan, the fox smiled. "The evil spirit has kon-exorcised~!"

""HURRAH!""

Thanks to this event, the shrine might be getting busy in the future. After some honorary applause and reward from the community, the fox took off from the Citadel to get a breath of fresh air on the nearby forest. She also got permission from the Forest Caretaker.

To ensure her safety and to assure the Forest Caretaker of her action, Guda fed one of the Cannon Yelper and tamed one to follow her into the forest. That way the Authority won't be suspicious of her and if something happened, the Cannon Yelper could blast a Calamity or two.

The fox waved with a squinty smile at the Forest Caretaker as she embarked to the forest on the west side of the Ouranos Citadel.

Kuromaki Guda tend to prefer nature above all else. Deep inside her mind, it reminded her of the nostalgic experience of her childhood.

Many had been saying that she always acted shady and suspicious even though her heart was righteous. The fox of course, had accepted her natural habit of showcasing her fake donkey liver when doing her good deeds.

Many might not accept her advice and help fully but she found it rather fun in some way. As a one-tailed kitsune, her manipulative nature was embraced and she would definitely use it to her fullest.

Guda sat on top of a boulder, matching the height of the Cannon Yelper's head as she fed the tamed Calamity with more of her food.

"A serpent that lives within a human vessel. Her voice made me shiver in excitement that night, her singing broke a chime on my ears like a precious dandelion on that night."

Guda still felt the intense feeling she had when the Ouroboros' voice reached her.. Finding out that she was invited to the secretive new sect of Lautus Tunguska, the fox did roll on the ground while hugging the invitation scroll back on her shrine.