Ever since the world really started
ending, my Sparrows and I have been gathering survivors and bringing them to La
Santa Verde since it’s the safest town or rather the safest place to be at in
general. Our attempts to gather people have been good so far, but there have been
times when we were too late, or it was a demonic trap. Regardless if it’s a trap
or not, if there’s someone life at risk, we go out to try to get them. We also
go out on supply runs to find food since nothing can grow from the earth and
everything that does is poisonous. It’s a good thing we stockpiled so much
before the end started or else, we’d be in trouble with how many people we have
already.
I’m off with a small search party
to look for more survivors in the towns we haven’t checked. The town is relatively
quiet, which usually means we’re about to walk into a trap. Fortunately for us,
nothing happens, and we walk away with a crowd of ten people and supplies. As
we’re going over our findings, we hear a commotion happening outside. Five
people have been killed in the town and no one knows who did it. We must have infiltrators
among the people we picked up. The exorcists and priests are away on an
important mission, so we don’t have an easy and effective way of flushing out
the demon. We gather everyone together in the main church and have everyone start
praying.
The church and praying should help
irritate the demons to make it stick out from the crowd, but everyone looks nervous.
We then hear banging at the door and the walls of the church. I investigate the
noise with a couple other Sparrows then come back to see that three people are
dead. It appears that they killed themselves with their daggers they were keeping
for protection. No one around them says they noticed them taking their own
lives, which even stranger, but I think we’re closer to finding the infiltrators.
We further question the people who were
around the people who were killed while still having everyone pray. We then ask
them to recite their Baptismal Vows. At first, they don’t respond. When we ask
them again, they start shaking. Asking them again results in them in confessing
that they’re ex-devil worshippers. Apparently, they are possessed and have been
seeking help because the demons were trying to get them from converting. This
is why people have been dying. The people here weren’t in danger. The outsiders
were.
I tell the ex-devil worshippers
that, “We’ll help save you from these demons. Just hold on a bit longer. The priests
should be back any second now.”
“What about my friends?”
“They wanted to convert, right?”
“Yes, but the demons possessed
their bodies and killed them for it.”
“Then we should hope they were
saved because they wanted to be Baptized. It’s called the Baptism of Desire,
and since they died wanting to convert, they might’ve obtained Baptism by
blood. We’ll pray for their souls.”
“We don’t know how to pray.”
“We’ll show you.”
After showing them how to pray,
they calmed down. The priests come back and give the coverts the sacraments. We
throw a celebration for the born again souls. The only thing that concerns me
is if the others were saved. I hope they were.
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