Chapter 81: Lucky Relief (7)
When Everly first heard about the students’ plan, she found it absurd.
Based on the information she had gathered, “Teacher Berlin” was most likely a ghost—or perhaps something like a servant of a demon. How could such an existence possibly be killed by modern firearms crafted by ordinary humans? Compared to bullets, exorcism items might stand a slightly better chance—but only if they were genuine articles with real ritual significance. Crosses mass-produced in modern factories, along with random bits of silver and garlic from who-knows-where? As if those would actually work.
But the students were out of options.
They had tried cornering Wester to seek his help. The exorcist told them plainly: if they wanted to escape plastering, they had to break the curse; and to break the curse, they had to wait until the night of the new moon. These students simply couldn’t afford to wait that long.
As for “Teacher Berlin,” Wester had long intended to deal with him. Unfortunately, Berlin seemed to have anticipated how troublesome Wester would be. He never showed himself voluntarily in front of the exorcist. To avoid facing him head-on, he would even abandon already “hatched” plaster figurines rather than retrieve them. If he couldn’t be found, there was nothing Wester could do.
So while the rest of the school had begun to glimpse a ray of hope for survival, these dozen or so students were staring at what felt like a certain death sentence.
At the brink of life and death, people have to fight for themselves—even if the assassination failed, at least they could vent some of the hatred in their hearts.
Berlin’s location wasn’t hard to determine. Wherever a newly transformed plaster statue appeared, he would be there.
After seeing a post on the forum about another student turning into plaster, the fourteen students grabbed their weapons and rushed to the classroom where it had happened. Seeing the situation, the other students and the teacher inside screamed and fled in panic.