Ch.57Ep.57 It Was Bound to Break

Beep beep beep beep beep.

“Ughhhh…”

The woman tossed and turned in bed, stretching her hand out from under the blanket.

Her goal was to turn off that noisy alarm and go back to sleep, but.

“Ah! No! I need to get up!”

The woman, who knew what day it was, shot up in bed as if suddenly wide awake.

That’s right. Today was the final interview day for new employees at Sasung Group!

“I’m not late, am I? I definitely shouldn’t be…”

With trembling hands, she turned on her phone and immediately checked the time.

Fortunately, she had just enough time left to attempt a full makeup routine.

Feeling relieved, she rushed to the bathroom to wash her hair, and.

There was someone watching this entire scene.

“What… is this all about?”

His name was Radios Magnum.

He remembered using the Subduing Dead skill and feeling pain like his body was being torn apart, but.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a ghost-like state, watching a woman’s daily life.

He could even hear the thoughts that crossed her mind.

Radios instinctively realized that the woman before him was Namgung Ihyun.

More specifically, this was Namgung Ihyun living in another world before meeting the Boundary Dweller.

“Why the hell do I have to watch this?”

Time was of the essence. He had used the Divine Bullet on Serena, and she would disappear soon.

It wasn’t about extracting anything—he needed to properly take his revenge and kill her.

“Damn it!”

But he didn’t know how to escape this cursed space.

He had heard warnings about Subduing Dead from Rin, but he had ignored those cautions.

“Or maybe the remaining stroke is some kind of safety mechanism.”

Even a slight change in the spell formation for Subduing Dead could trigger a completely different spell.

While it appeared to be controlling the dead from the outside, without being able to see inside…

Radios admitted that he had made a mistake due to his impatience.

So let’s just say watching this strange daily life was his karmic punishment.

If there was one good thing, it was learning that the mysterious world where the isekai people came from was called “Earth.”

Additionally, Earth was a society that ran on science with extremely advanced engineering rather than using magical power.

‘How interesting. That thing called a car… must be convenient.’

Although teleportation would suffice, the idea of a power device that consumed resources rather than magical power was intriguing.

Radios had many thoughts crossing his mind in that brief moment.

That there might be much to learn from Earth.

‘The Divine Bullet was also a skill created by imagining a gun made on Earth.’

It seems he couldn’t help but feel excited about what might happen.

As Radios was focusing on the world Namgung Ihyun lived in rather than on her,

He watched as she finished her makeup and happily got into a taxi.

Then he felt something strange.

The personality of the Namgung Ihyun he was watching was completely different from the one he knew.

“Is this also a side effect of the contract with the Outer God?”

Looking at Namgung Ihyun reminded him of Brina, who was now gone.

How could a woman with such a personality transform into the face of a vicious murderer?

After gaining some understanding of Earth, Radios began to focus on Namgung Ihyun’s actions.

And before long, he encountered the situation that would inevitably change her personality.

“Kyaaaah! I passed! I actually passed!!”

After the final interview at Sasung Group headquarters, Namgung Ihyun jumped around her home in excitement.

It had been five years since she came up to Seoul from the provinces to find employment.

She had finally succeeded in getting a job at Sasung Group, Korea’s top company.

To savor her success, she went down to her hometown of Busan.

She decorated herself with gifts to create a big event announcing her employment success to her parents and entered through the front gate.

Though not born with a silver spoon, she had lived a life without financial struggles since childhood.

So she lived in a detached house with a yard rather than an apartment.

“Ta-da!! It’s been a while, Mom, Dad! Look what I’ve brought…”

Namgung Ihyun threw open the front door with a bright face.

Before she could finish what she was saying, she encountered a horrific scene.

Dark red liquid with viscous spatter all over the house.

Added to that was the faint scent of blood tickling her nose, and familiar faces lying on the floor.

Finally, a man holding a knife with dark red liquid dripping from it.

Namgung Ihyun was so terrified that her legs trembled, and she couldn’t make a sound.

“Hmm? You’re quite pretty, aren’t you?”

Perhaps because of that.

The man looked her up and down, then licked his lips as he approached her.

People tend to have their reason paralyzed when they feel fear, and Namgung Ihyun was no exception.

Or more precisely,

Her brain couldn’t fully comprehend the current situation.

“Since I’m going to die anyway… might as well take a woman before I go, right?”

“P-please spare me–“

She barely managed to move her frozen vocal cords to beg for her life.

But the man covered her mouth firmly and slammed the door shut.

What followed was violence and cruel acts too horrible to describe.

Radios couldn’t hide his devastation as he watched the scene.

“That beast of a bastard…!”

Even though it was Namgung Ihyun’s past, Radios was so enraged by what the man did that he tried to launch multiple Twilight Swords.

But he was merely an observer in this place.

Naturally, it was impossible to intervene in the past while merely reading it.

And at the same time, he realized.

The past that Namgung Ihyun had talked about before her death.

It was all a lie.

“So this is it? This is what made Namgung Ihyun… become that crazy woman…”

The happiest day of her life had turned into the most horrific one.

She lost her purity by force in the presence of her family’s corpses.

Looking at the cold bodies, she could only helplessly endure and experience terrible emotions.

At first, she resisted.

“Ugh! Nngh… please, stop…”

“Shut up, you bitch!”

“Hic… hic…”

Next, she resigned herself.

No matter what the murderer did to her body, Namgung Ihyun’s eyes had completely died.

The man then lost interest in her.

“I’ve had enough fun…”

Thunk.

The man stabbed not Namgung Ihyun but his own heart, committing suicide.

He had already lost his mind with the intention of dying anyway.

Namgung Ihyun, who had already lost all emotion, could only stare blankly at the man who had killed himself.

Time passed, and when police rushed in after neighbors reported a strange smell,

Naturally, Namgung Ihyun, who survived that horrific scene, was arrested as a murder suspect for killing her family and a man she had never seen before.

Of course, she was released due to insufficient evidence.

But throughout that entire process, not once did emotion appear in Namgung Ihyun’s eyes.

“…Namgung Ihyun.”

Even the great Radios couldn’t help but feel bitter watching those scenes.

No matter what, no matter that she had massacred Kadinant.

In front of her parents’ corpses.

At a time when the blood hadn’t even dried yet.

Could anyone understand how she felt being raped by a murderer?

“…”

He couldn’t say anything.

The massacre committed by Namgung Ihyun was something that should never be understood, but.

Having seen her past, Radios came to understand her fall.

Not just her, but any human in that situation.

Would naturally go mad with hatred for the world.

Time passed again, and Namgung Ihyun, who was found not guilty and released,

Completely hid herself from the world.

Wherever she went, stares followed her, and she reached a point where she couldn’t live comfortably.

“Should I… kill myself too?”

That’s when she had a thought she shouldn’t have had.

That vicious criminal who raped her and drove her family to death.

That bastard had fulfilled all his vile desires before committing suicide.

Then, was there any reason why she couldn’t do the same?

“What does it mean to kill?”

Namgung Ihyun took a kitchen knife and brought it down on her finger.

Thud!

“Ugh…”

It hurt. Blood flowed freely, and all the nerves in her body focused on her finger.

But why?

“Haa… haaaa…”

The emotions she thought had been closed off since that day, specifically the emotion of “pleasure,” were felt in this act of self-harm.

“Even I can feel this much…”

Then, if she killed someone else with her own hands, what emotions would she feel then?

“Maybe it will come back. The me from back then, the happy me…”

Maybe those days of emotional ups and downs would return.

If she killed someone, butchered them… maybe she could regain her emotions.

“Kyahahahaha!!”

Once that thought occurred to her, Namgung Ihyun finally burst into a witch-like laughter and headed out to the streets.

Slash! Stab! Crack!

A seemingly powerless woman began massacring people with a knife.

“Kyaaaah!! Run awaaay!!”

“There’s a crazy murderer with a knife!!”

“Run! Aaaaaahhh!!”

The citizens scattered in panic, each trying to escape, but.

In that moment, Namgung Ihyun seemed to become superhuman, stabbing to death everyone who turned their backs to flee.

Less than five minutes after she began her rampage, police arrived due to citizens’ reports, but they too were killed.

“More! Moooore!! I’ll kill more! Moooore!!!!!”

“I’ll kill you all!! Kyahahahaha!”

Her eyes were already red with madness.

Dark red blood spilled wherever she walked.

After numerous casualties, the police force finally tried to subdue her using firearms.

“This is your final warning! Put your weapon down on the ground and raise your hands!”

“Kihihihihi!”

“If you don’t comply, we will open fire. Quickly put down the weap–“

“..?”

Namgung Ihyun, who had been laughing with the intention of being shot to death,

Suddenly realized that time had stopped and looked around.

[You’re an interesting human.]

Something shrouded in mist appeared before her eyes.

“Who are you?”

[I am the Boundary Dweller, or… Yog-Sothoth.]

That’s right.

That was the identity of the one who changed her life.

The Boundary Dweller, Yog-Sothoth.