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178 – Paradise Lost #6

Milione was now crying profusely.

In this situation where I am stuck with strange girls with both hands and feet and there is nothing I can do…

All Milione could do now was to cry out in tears.

“Hyde! If you go, you will disappear! What are you guys doing! We have to stop Hyde! Not me! We have to stop Hyde!”

“… … .”

“Hyde! You said you would stay by my side now! You liar! You said you would marry me! Hyde you liar! You bastard! trash! You devil! You fucking bastard! Fucking bastard!!!”

Milione used to think that everyone wore masks and lived a lie.

That was actually the case.

A world where everyone hides their true feelings.

Nevertheless, Milione still believed in Hyde.

“… … .”

Instead of answering, Hyde looked at the distant canyon.

It was a crack that seemed as if the depths of hell on this earth had been extinguished.

The depth of the floor was dark and deep, unfathomable, and just daring to look at it was enough to send a shiver down a person’s spine.

Hyde.

He wanted to go down here.

As he slowly headed towards the canyon, people finally got out of the way and some followed after Hyde.

Sze-.

Hyde finally reaches the end of the cliff.

As he took a step into the air, Hans quickly fell down in front of him.

At the same time, people in red robes held each other’s arms and legs to create ladders and stairs.

A staircase made of 100,000 numbers.

The man slowly walked down what was like human history itself.

Until you can no longer even see yourself.

# # #

widely-.

I walked on people’s backs for a while and eventually reached the deep, deep bottom.

The feeling of walking on hard stone floor was quite unfamiliar.

It was a space where there wasn’t even sunlight.

How far is this place from the ground?

It was a place where people’s shouting and fighting noisily felt as if it had happened a long time ago.

Even the fact that Psyche and Milione had blushed and violently bumped into each other felt good, as if it had happened in a dream, now that they had reached this place.

It was a completely disconnected space.

Tap, tap, tap-.

All I could hear was my footsteps.

Even the people who had built the stairs for me had disappeared somewhere when I came to my senses.

This place probably seemed like a space that transcended humanity.

It would be good to express that a certain ‘concept’ exists in the form of space.

“Even though I walk through the dark valley of death, I do not fear, for the Lord is with me─.”

The famous Psalm 23.

The valley of death seemed to protrude from there.

okay.

This seemed like that kind of place.

I walked endlessly through those places.

With faith and confidence that something will come out.

And, there was nothing else to do other than walk.

After walking for a while, I saw a faint light in the darkness.

“… … .”

At this moment, I came to understand the minds of the fire moths.

When a ray of light appears in a pitch-black life, you feel like you want to run into it and jump into it, even if you don’t know what it is.

If you can see a light burning like hope in a life of eternal darkness…

That’s why you want to jump in.

That’s who I am now.

I walked hard.

And I was able to figure out that the identity of the light leaking out was a strange ‘door’.

Sze-.

I grabbed the doorknob with force and pushed it, and I saw a familiar sight.

cubbyhole.

slipper.

The refrigerator is spinning making a noise.

The blankets that were made up and the air conditioner that I can’t even remember when I last turned it on.

A hanger that I assembled alone.

Sze-.

I slowly walked inside and sat down on an old, worn chair.

The only expensive thing in this place is a computer.

“This is my living room. It’s fascinating.”

It was a place that reminded me of many things I had forgotten for a long time.

The same was true for the files and manuscripts beyond the blue-lit monitor.

Squeeze-. Massaging my eyes with the large part of my palm, I read aloud the sentences written on the blue monitor screen.

“I will rape every woman in the world.”

… Are there any other words in the world so terrible?

If it were me, I wouldn’t even want to deal with someone who says things like this. Of course, there was no way in this world that someone who would say something like this with sincerity actually existed.

This shameless sentence is, after all, a line from a character that appears in the novel.

“I will rape every woman in the world! Men are slaves! I will sacrifice the old people and the children!”

The character who said this line was the protagonist of the novel I wrote and was a terrible villain.

A villain so vicious that there is no room for sympathy.

Rust of the devil.

Hyde, a human wearing such a mask.

“There was no such thing as Rust in the first place. It was all Hyde’s doing. From beginning to end. There was only one villain, Hyde. That’s how I planned it.”

The fact that I was struck by lightning while sitting here felt like a long-ago dream.

It made me wonder if I had just had a long dream.

That was after I wrote a terrible novel.

It wasn’t strange that when I fell asleep briefly, I had a long nightmare.

I looked at the manuscript I had written for a long time.

In terms of the number of serial episodes, it was about 180 episodes long.

The story of a man who dreamed of becoming a priest, who falls into a strange world and plays a villain to survive.

Getting engaged─.

Write a book─.

A story about becoming a heretic.

The title of the manuscript is “Another World Demon Cult.”

The original title was “To me, dirty talk is murder,” but I changed it because it seemed less intuitive.

I stared at the screens on the monitor as I felt one or two things come to mind.

“Was it all a dream?”

Pot-.

I opened the door of the room and went out.

The scenery of the city and streets is very familiar.

Buses and cars passing by.

As I was shaking it around, someone grabbed me by the back of my neck.

“Mr. Ido! If you get away with it like this, it will be really, really difficult!”

“Transfer! transfer! hurry! Before I go on a rampage again!”

They put me in a white car and took me to a hospital that was as square as a cookie box and had white walls.

They tied me up without any time to resist and gave me stinging injections.

Slur-.

When the strength left my body, I sat on a chair on wheels and was dragged somewhere.

There was a fairly gray-haired man sitting there, and his face looked oddly familiar.

“Mr. Lee Do. I’m glad you came back safely. You went back home, right? A single room located in Daehakro.”

“… … .”

“Why did you go back there? Rather, I will free my hands and feet first. Since I was given a strong sedative, I think I will be a little out of my wits.”

Sze-.

Men dressed in blue and wearing masks released my hands.

I looked at the red crosses placed here and there.

「Paradise Mental Health Welfare Center」.

In many ways, I feel dizzy before my eyes.

“Where is it?”

“Mr. Lee Do. Don’t you remember? I can’t remember from where to where… . Ahhh?”

“… … .”

“Then let’s talk about Hyde and Rust. About the two friends in Mr. Lee Do. Do they still whisper stories in your head? Do you remember them?”

I figured out how things worked.

This is a mental hospital.

Am I a patient in a mental hospital?

That can’t be possible.

“I’m not crazy.”

“I agree. It’s just that Mr. Ido is a little more special than others. However, if there is memory loss like this, you will have to go back to the beginning again. Let’s see. Hmm.”

Palak-.

The man lifted the bundle of A4 paper lying in front of him.

“Do you remember the characters that appear in this book? Psychena personifies the faith that Mr. Ido pursues, and Milione symbolizes freedom. Lucy depicts innocence─.”

“I understand. This is all fake. A shallow number. Gregory. I know your move. This is your ruse, right? It’s useless.”

“Gregory? What the name symbolizes─.”

“I am not crazy! You hid it! ‘Truth’! yes? Don’t let it reach you!”

Pot-.

I got up from my seat.

And shouted.

“My name is Hyde! He is a more godly man and more faithful than anyone else in the world! And he is a man who will become a pastor of simple people!”

Pajijit, pajijijit-.

At that moment, the environment in front of my eyes cracked like a glass window.

The world, which had been emitting light like stained glass, eventually shattered with a loud noise.

When I came to, I was standing in front of a very large door.

It was a very black door.

When I pushed it with all my might, I saw a dazzling light coming out.

Gooo-.

A pillar created between earth and sky.

It was the Earth’s rotation axis.

“Why doesn’t my power work on you? Hyde, you would have had to lose your memory and not be able to reach the hidden truth.”

There was a man sitting in front of him.

His pink hair had turned white, and there were deep dark circles around his eyes.

He was a weak man who looked like he was going to die at any moment.

I asked him.

“Did you try to use your last remaining strength to hide the truth? It was a futile effort!”

Gregory.

I shouted at him.

“I am truly a prophet chosen by God. Gregory. Isn’t it time for you to realize that your remaining talents will never be of use to me? I am Hyde!”

I wasn’t crazy and I didn’t have a dual personality.

He was a real person who existed solely in this place.

Soon Gregory laughed haha.

“Now I understand. Hyde. The identity of this guy you are. You are already carrying countless stigmas. Endless self-brainwashing toward oneself. He used his power on himself. Since it has already overlapped several times, my power is bound to not work─.”

“You’re cornered, so you’re talking all the time. No matter what you realize or notice, it is already too late. Because I plan to kill an incredible number of people!”

Sze-.

I stood in front of the axis of rotation.

Gregory just stared at this scene in vain, as if he no longer had the strength to move his fingers.

He shouted as if he was squeezing his strength out of me.

“Children born will most likely be unhappy. like me. As you! Is it bad to give those children the right not to be born? The deaths of those children, the misfortunes, and all the misfortunes that will happen in the world in the future are all caused by you… !”

In the future, an incredible number of people will be born.

It was like a huge number of people dying.

No one is born because they want to be born.

The lives of most humans are unhappy—it is always just a series of pain.

I am-.

In the future, it will bring death and pain to many people.

“The woman of Midvar will give birth to a murderer, so watch yourselves there, everyone! From now on, I will shake the axis! World, reveal all the truth that Gregory hid!”

“Hyde Ugh, you son of a bitch… ! This orphan without a mother or father!!! A guy like Sook-maek who can’t even get over his own wife’s legs—!!! I should have twisted your neck when you were a baby—!!!”

Pot-.

At that time, Gregory lunged at me.

He was an old man who couldn’t even lift a spoon, so he didn’t have much strength.

But instead of jumping at me, he lunged towards the halo of light on the axis of rotation.

“Destroy! Hide my failure-!”

Gregory shouted, squeezing all his strength and disappearing into the light.

Soon, a lot of things started shaking.

The axis of rotation was twisted.

The pillar of light was tilted horizontally and the world was literally falling apart.

Not peaceful euthanasia, but the end of an era itself.

“God only gives trials that humans can handle. Then, isn’t it proof that I am a superior human being, going through bigger and more difficult trials than anyone else?”

Pot-!

I raised my hands high.

At that moment, I felt like a white light was seeping into my head.

It was as if the reason I was born was because of a calling for this moment.