episode_0085

In life, there are often people who say things you don’t understand.

In such cases, it is usually assumed that the other person also knows what one knows, or

Or just guys who are anxious to show off something. They are often idiots who are excited that they know something that others don’t.

But that’s it.

Basic conversation is communication between people. If you’re just talking about things you know, it’s no different from talking to a wall.

And that was the situation that Han Se-jun was experiencing right now.

“What… What the hell is bullshit.”

Han Se-jun clenched his fist when he saw the being made of black lines who was saying something incomprehensible to him as if it was boring.

Seeing that, the being tilts its head and speaks.

[As one of the cogs of the world, you had to conceive someone who would become the center. Why are you avoiding it?]

“… .”

[This place you think is the world is not the world. It’s just someone’s dream.]

“… What?”

[A story must flow as a story. No matter how hard the character struggles, it is nothing more than a deviation from the main actor.]

When Sejun tilted his head with a questioning face and was puzzled by Inyoung’s words made up of black lines, Inyoung nodded once.

He begins to speak once again.

[Actually, you didn’t need to know. What was important was not you, but the girl who was going to conceive the child who would become the center of the world. But that child can’t do it anymore.]

This time the black being leaned down and looked down at Sejun, who was lying down.

Like the black egg ghost, it had no face, but it felt like it was smiling somewhere.

Addramalek began to speak in a somewhat regretful tone.

[Listen, you cog that was destined to become the best of the world. This world was not the world you thought of, but a place made of nothingness.]

[For a long time, the bored Great Will fell into a long sleep and had a dream. As eons passed, his dreams flowed outward and formed the foundation of this dimension.]

[For we, who were the guardians of the Great Will, perished and lost strength as He fell into a long sleep. ha ha ha.]

Suddenly, he erased his smile. No, it wasn’t that he erased his smile, but the color difference was completely different, and if his facial features existed, his mood changed to something that would have made you think he was angry somewhere.

[As guardians, we withered away, some died and were caught up in this great cycle, while others died and endured their lives in servitude. Meanwhile, someone began to shape his dream.]

[It was nothing more than entertainment at first. It was a form of entertainment in a life where people were only waiting for the day to die and return to the cycle. Some of the materialized content has been passed down through writing, some through music and songs, and some through knowledge.]

[The person who wrote it down was Wittgen, the guardian’s secretary. With her power, she saw the future of the great being’s dream and gave shape to its contents.]

[And she, too, could not overcome the passage of time and entered into a great cycle, and only her other half, Alexstras, remained to relive her memories.]

A long story continued. Sejun was mostly unable to concentrate due to the random talk, and instead looked in the other direction, waiting for an opportunity to escape.

Even though he knows that, Adramalek doesn’t care, or maybe he’s filled with remorse and doesn’t understand Sejun’s condition, but he just keeps talking.

‘What should I do? ‘Can I escape?’

Yue’s voice, almost like a scream, continued in my head. Sejun was desperately trying to stop anyone from coming this way and was looking for an escape route.

This guy doesn’t seem to have any intention of harming himself for the duration of the story.

I don’t know why a guy who destroys buildings and destroys everything in the first place would suddenly react like this, but anyway, this is an opportunity.

[At first, we also waited for his dream to end. But it is an eternal sleep that will never end. Alexstras had a plan.]

To summarize what he said, it was as follows.

Alexstras, who was Wittgen’s companion, used the power of future vision bestowed by her to see the dream future of the one they called “Great Being”.

And to end that dream, a plan was made.

The characters who entered the cycle and were reincarnated as part of the dream lost most of their powers, but retained a small portion of power, which was inherited through blood and blood.

That is why they have been artificially combining the reincarnations of the Guardians for a very long time, since the time when humanity was not a human race.

Alexstras’ plan has continued as long as it follows the content of the great being’s dream and does not break its scope.

An act close to eugenics that combines dominance with dominance and continues to develop it. And the power of the guardian gradually grew stronger due to thousands of years of artificial intercourse.

yet.

[You, called Han Sejun, were almost at the final stage of inoculation. A girl who will be born to you and a child named Jang A-hyeon. That girl and another boy would have become the center of the world.]

“… .”

[Was it the plan for Alexstras to take over the body of the final body and consume the dream of the great being, bringing to an end a dream that will never end?]

The story that came out of that dark being was so vast and profound that Han Sejun bit his lip.

This guy is not a monster. Among monsters, there is no being that can talk like this.

He is presumed to be one of the beings that the circular religion that deals with monsters is trying to summon.

Also, he is connected to Jang Ah-hyun? This is an even more absurd story.

Of course, she was a beautiful and confident woman that everyone looked up to, but she was something I had never thought of as a romantic partner.

Well, of course, I can’t say that my heart never wavered for a moment, but basically, she wasn’t Sejun’s taste.

And if that was true, it was even more miserable. Isn’t it said that Han Se-jun’s talent was ultimately due to the fact that he was an artificially created being?

[We cannot continue to live in this dream. Many guardians who did not enter the proper cycle lost their sense of reason, became what were called monsters, and died.]

[And just when the plan was nearing its end, someone appeared. That’s right, you are beings from another dimension called Elm Northmund.]

[That damned disruptor brought the plan that had been going on for eons to the brink of collapse.]

[I don’t know how he knows the flow of this world, but I think he probably read the lines left by Wittgen.]

[There is only one conclusion in this world. Following the Great One’s dream form and putting Alexstras’ plan into action. Or, before the plan is put into action, the shape of the dream falls apart and the entire dimension you call the world breaks apart. Those two are the only options.]

Suddenly, the black being let out a puff of wind. Just when you wonder how the wind came out of that face with no facial features, his face starts to change.

His appearance, which was like a drawn black line, changes, his shoulders droop and his face grows.

The dark egg ghost’s facial features are revealed, and soon it turns into someone else.

And that person.

“Oh, father?”

“Okay, Sejun. Inseok left my side for a while and was running wild.”

A scraggly middle-aged man with unkempt, shaggy hair who always wears gray-brown sweats.

It was Han Se-jun’s father.

“Guy, why do you keep trying to break the plan at the end? I raised this kid, but he keeps going astray, huh? How worried must your dead mother be? You poor woman who died just thinking about you.”

“… .”

no. Absolutely not.

I felt like I was there just now. The being in front of one’s eyes is absolutely not one’s father.

It’s just that this guy called Adramalek has changed.

Although he is playing his own father, he is absolutely not his own father.

In the first place

‘My father never once talked about my mother.’

Han Sejun tightly clenched his fist again and looked into space.

He could see his father looking down at him in the air, but that familiar face only made his anger boil even more.

It’s such a mad and absurd story, but

If what he says is right.

“Now, let’s go, Sejun, we can still turn back. You are at the final stage, a soccer game, but it is the semi-final line. If the plan succeeds, you’ll probably be able to return to being a Guardian since you’re already rich in blood, right? Oh, it’s not a lie. Well, of course, I wouldn’t be aware of it since I’m a guardian and all, but hurry.”

“… .”

“Actually, the original plan was for the child to come from the little boy that Northmund was accompanying, but that seems to have been wrong. Well, there is a spare in Geoje for situations like this.”

… then.

The reason you were born.

The reason why his father lived like a wreck.

And if it stays the same, you too… .

“… Just one question, Adramalek.”

“No, I don’t even know my father’s name.”

Han Sejun groans and slowly lifts his body.

He lightly shakes off his clothes that have turned white from stone dust, reveals his clenched teeth, and slowly makes eye contact.

“If I cooperate with you, Dean. What happens to Elm Northmund?”

“Oh, you mean that?”

Adramalek, disguised as his father, touches his chin.

A black, grimy fingernail scratched his rough beard, and a splashing sound was heard.

“There’s nothing you can do about it, Sejun. Well, I know that you have become somewhat friendly with that guy.”

“… .”

“But anyway, isn’t he someone who poses a threat to stop Alexstras? Of course I have to deal with it. If there is a problem with the posterior sulcus, of course you have to have surgery or it will develop into a fistula─”

“─That’s it.”

Sejun suddenly interrupts Adramalek.

In his mind, reason and emotion were at odds. Neither side seemed to want to be pushed out, standing face to face and asserting their legitimacy, and it was a long debate that was almost mind-numbing.

But no matter what the outcome of the argument was, what he would say was decided from the beginning.

“Then you are my enemy.”

Quagwagwang!!

An explosion occurred and the sound of hitting something soft was heard.

Sejun kicked the floor with his leg, creating smoke to block his vision, then quickly folded his fist and struck the chest of Adramalek, who had turned into his father, with his elbow.

Gagging from the mouth of my father who was hit in the solar plexus! A moaning sound was heard.

Sejun, who heard the sound of everyone gasping for breath, leaped up into the air and struck his father in the face with a sharp kick.

Whoa!

Sejun raised his longsword at the same time he felt a dull sensation in his toes, as if he had been hit with a bag of rice.

And the moment when he was about to swing it and cut Adramalek into pieces.

“The movements are honest, but it seems to have improved a bit.”

Pakak!

“Uh, uh, uhhh!”

Sejun’s lungs let out a strange scream. Was it retaliation for having his solar plexus hit? His father struck back by swinging his fist at his solar plexus.

His diaphragm screamed, he couldn’t breathe for a moment, and he glared at his father, forcing back tears.

“Don’t make that face, Sejun.”

In contrast to Han Se-jun, who is groaning, Addramalek is letting out a high-pitched laugh as if the tension is gradually increasing.

When Sejun gritted his teeth when he saw Adramalek making such an expression as his father.

“That kind of expression is like that. It’s something you do when you are stronger than your opponent and can see it from above. And no matter how strong you are, you still think you, a human, can defeat me.”

“Shut up!!”

Once again, Sejun kicked the floor. As he dodged the black flash flying towards him, he heard the sound of a long sword with red flames cutting through the dark air.

*

“Everything you said is ready, Chairman.”

In a luxurious room, an old man in a suit is politely received by a man dressed as a secretary.

A glass full of wine was placed on the table, and the old man was listening to the man’s story with a complicated face.

“If you give me the order, I will execute the plan right away, Chairman.”

“This decision is difficult for me and Jang Tae-san, hehe. I don’t know if this is becoming a traitor.”

Taesan Jang, the old man and chairman of Taesung Group, raised his wine glass with a bitter smile.

Contrary to the content of his words that it was difficult, his tone was full of playfulness, which seemed somewhat paradoxical.

“Most of the military in this country is following your orders. Just give us an order and we can advance to the Blue House and turn this country upside down.”

What they are plotting is a coup d’état.

If an ordinary person heard it, it would sound like a thunderbolt. However, if you knew the details, you might have nodded your head reluctantly.

In most countries, administration was already not functioning properly.

Due to the influence of the Corruptor, the military was unable to properly protect the monsters, all administrative power was paralyzed, and the world was going crazy.

And the time I had been waiting for has come.

“Isn’t there a possibility that the Red Dragon might intervene?”

“Now Northmund is on the other side of the world. All of Ellada’s psykers are currently dispatched to the world. So, as the Chairman said, now is the right time.”

“I see.”

There is also a reason for it.

President Hwang Gyu-sik suddenly spread a strange story about Northmund. There is also a reasonable justification for protecting the honor of the world’s heroes against it.

“After Hwang Gyu-sik’s revelations, some forces in the organization also broke away and expressed their intention to follow the chairman.”

“Hmm.”

Jang Taesan stared at the photo on the wall for a moment. A photo of yourself when you were younger.

A spring day full of black hair, not white hair like now.

The time of a young man full of confidence that he could accomplish anything was embedded in it.

And next to him is a woman. His wife passed away five years ago.

Every time he saw his wife, Jang Tae-san’s heart grew cold.

One day, the devil appeared and chose a partner for her, calling her his companion. And the truth I heard from the devil.

The days of living in an incubator for the sole purpose of creating demonic bodies.

Therefore, Jang Taesan had no affection for his own blood relatives. Artificial relationship, artificial manipulation.

Because before, he was just a chicken in a chicken farm making eggs.

That is why Jang Taesan was obsessed with what he had achieved.

He was obsessed with Taesung Group, which was his everything, and put all his effort into growing the group.

But even so, in the end, I didn’t have enough strength. I had no choice but to follow them.

But one day, something he had never expected appeared. Elm Northmund.

He says it’s a dragon, but no matter how you look at it, it’s a red lizard that looks nothing more than a lizard.

‘What he said must be a lie.’

Northmund’s story is false. Demons have never invaded Grandis or anything like that.

No, if you follow the origin of the devil in the first place, you wouldn’t even call them devils. They are God’s servants whose very existence is unknown. Because they were demons.

So most of what Northmund says is probably a lie.

But that’s not important. Because Northmund was the one who would destroy the future that Taesan Jang had been trying so hard to ignore.

I was willing to be deceived if he lied.

“All soldiers were issued goggles with cognitive interference filters. Even if you come face to face with an infected person, we have confirmed that you can survive for about 5 minutes without getting infected.”

” Did you say that when you look at an infected person, it looks like some kind of cake? Hehe, technology these days is so cool.”

… And furthermore, to create a future in which Taesung, who is everything to him, rules this world.

Not the devil, but yourself.

It is not the devil who holds the future in his hands.

Not even that unfamiliar god Naburaeng.

It is yourself.

And that opportunity has been given now.

“Run it.”

“Yes. Congratulations in advance. Mr. President.”

His secretary bows politely and walks out the door.

Chairman Jang Tae-san, left alone in the room, quietly looked at the photo once again.

What you see in that photo is my granddaughter, Jang A-hyeon, who was still young.

According to the devil, she was in the pre-final stage.

But that fate no longer exists. You will change yourself.

Thinking about that, Jang Taesan lightly nodded.