“…….”
“So….”
Yoo Seongwoon made a request of Priest Kang Seodam, who sat in the chair across from him.
“If possible, I’d like your side to treat ‘Black Cloak’ and ‘Seo Gio’ as separate individuals too.”
“Separate individuals?”
“We need to separate their ‘stories’ somehow. That should cause fewer problems when it comes to coexistence.”
“I understand what you mean.”
Kang Seodam nodded.
“The Hunter I saw in the ‘Temple of the Deep Sea’ must have been this ‘Seo Gio.’”
“That’s right. And as far as you’re concerned, the man in the pitch-black cloak whom the Association Hunters witnessed this time is a completely unknown being. You probably know they’re the same person, but….”
“If that is the god’s will, I will accept it. The Goddess also expressed a desire for fellowship with him, so merely keeping my mouth shut will present no difficulty.”
He readily accepted Yoo Seongwoon’s request. It was not simply because this was the will of the Goddess he served.
“I had no intention of announcing that I saw a god in the ‘Temple of the Deep Sea,’ either. He did not seem to want his identity revealed, and if I said a god appeared during an initiation ceremony I presided over, I would be hounded for quite some time. For my own sake as well, I will not disclose it.”
Though considerable time had passed since their haphazard escape from the ‘Temple of the Deep Sea,’ Kang Seodam had not given his order a proper report about ‘Seo Gio.’
As a priest of the order, he would never have acted alone without the Goddess’s will, but it was also a decision he could not have made without some flexibility of his own. Yoo Seongwoon had recognized that and initiated this contact.
Yoo Seongwoon…