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Only I will make you bloom (2) – One Mind Salvation Church Paradise

‘Time flows like running water.’

I’ve always hated that word.

Days spent waiting for the next shift to arrive, looking at barcodes and beeping.

Days spent in the gaming chair, turning on the computer without any thought or plan.

The fact that it piles up one after another and flows past me in a channel I can’t handle.

I hated that sentence so much that it made me realize that the water I had let go like that could never be traced back.

However, no matter how much you ignore it, it will eventually come up out of nowhere.

Even when I discover memories of the past on a familiar path.

Even when I inadvertently noticed gray dust settling on the computer body.

Without fail, he smiled and whispered with a somewhat blank look in his eyes.

‘So much time has passed before I knew it.’

It was no different in paradise.

It’s not just one of those random thoughts that came to mind absent-mindedly on a chair at a convenience store like in the past.

The Book of Salvation naturally held in the hands of believers traveling to and from paradise,

I whispered as I looked at the vigilantes filling the vast training ground.

‘Again, so much time has passed.’

Elites selected from among thousands of believers.

Hot steam rose from the bodies of the vigilantes, who could only enter with fanatical faith and loyalty.

Their faces were covered with thick beads of sweat as they strengthened their bodies before receiving my grace.

The ones who trained them were the four awakeners at the forefront who looked up at me in an angled posture.

He nodded with a happy face in the training room, breathing heavily before he could swallow it.

“You who have the sword of faith that is more brilliant than anyone else.”

This place burns brighter than ever as a proof of faith.

I made eye contact with each and every one of them and looked around the entire training ground.

“My knights who stood up with faith even after seeing the flood of evil.”

Videos of zombies eating humans were constantly being played on monitors mounted on white pillars erected at regular intervals in the training hall.

Pictures drawn by believers were also played during each video.

A picture of an awakened person outside the shield whipping good people.

The bizarre laughter of the awakened people who kill people using skills to kill time was brought to life with a brush.

A photo showing the devastation of a large room with a lot of heads rolling around that had been forcibly torn off by someone.

There was an explanation attached to the bottom of the gruesome photo that would make anyone feel indignant and sad upon seeing it.

[Behavior of unsaved unbelievers outside of paradise]

To the vigilantes, the outside of paradise was a cage for animals.

“The glorious day of evangelism is not far away.”

It was a land of unbelievers who should lead repentance and evangelism.

Every single one of the vigilantes returned my gaze with passionate gaze.

I looked up at the ceiling for a moment and nodded.

tomorrow.

The protection period for latecomers is finally coming to an end.

“You are living witnesses who watched the sprout containing the only truth grow.”

The development of paradise so quickly that no human being could dare to achieve it.

“You are true believers who personally went to hell and delivered my words.”

In Bucheon, which recently became a real-life training ground for vigilantes, we were able to secure an unexpected number of prospective believers.

Moreover, the citizens of Guro-gu are rescued during the daily missions of the awakened people.

“So you all know it well.”

As paradise develops and the number of awakened people increases.

The number of faithful believers was also rapidly increasing.

Tung-!

The fist that hit the podium wakes everyone up once again.

“Paradise is too narrow for good people to live in!”

For the One Mind Salvation Church, the small piece of land in Seoul was too small.

“So what should we do?”

I asked them.

The vigilante clenched his fists and waited for his next words.

“This problem can be solved by making paradise wider!”

Beyond paradise and sanctuary, the land occupied by unbelievers will be colored with the light of salvation.

“Tomorrow!”

I held up one finger and showed it to everyone.

Just one.

Only you.

“Only you will perform this holy and glorious duty!”

I continued to add white fire to the boiling heat in their eyes.

“Only you will stand next to me with more devotion than anyone else!”

Kiiing!

“Do not be afraid!”

A divine radiance heated up the training hall.

Despite the blinding light, not a single person averted their eyes.

“The undying light will be with you forever!”

Their God will protect them from the front.

“I will respond to your faith and I will respond to your devotion!”

“Are you ready to answer my faith!”

Seo Taesan raised his mace and shouted at the vigilantes.

“God wants it!”

All of the vigilantes responded to my belief by raising their silent rifles.

God wants it!

Waaa!

I listened to their cheers until the end with unwavering eyes.

“God wants it!”

The long preparation and waiting are over.

***

“What’s going on here at night? Who needs to be in the flower field in full swing?”

The spacious vice principal’s office.

Seong Ga-eul looked at me sitting by the window and asked with surprised eyes.

She opened the door with an armful of documents, probably because there was something she needed to check urgently, and put them down on her desk.

thud-!

“Hey, are you going to pretend you don’t know? Today is that day.”

“What day?”

This woman pretends not to know until the end.

I sat down on the chair again and snapped my fingers as I watched her pretend to be busy flipping through documents.

Jang-!

A resonant sound made when two wine glasses taken from inventory clash.

She raised her head at the clear sound spreading through the office.

“Stop acting pretentious and come quickly. You can definitely give it to another vigilante.”

“… … Give it or not.”

Togak- Togak-

She came over with a grunt, handed me a wine glass, and sat down on the window sill.

The wine bottle floating in the air clinked and spilled red wine into the wine glass.

She asked while shaking her glass as she looked at me who immediately drank a glass of wine.

“… … Is that right?”

“Kuh- I don’t know.”

I let out an exclamation automatically, but perhaps because I was awake, I didn’t even get a message, let alone get drunk.

I’m not sure if this is good or bad, but I had no intention of drinking enough to get drunk anyway.

“Why? Can’t you just take one shot of wine?”

I asked her as I poured the wine again.

Seong Ga-eul sipped from her glass and smiled slightly at me.

“I don’t know either.”

“Huh, is there something you don’t know much about?”

“Then there won’t be any? It’s full of things I don’t even know.”

She turned her head out the window.

“I look smart by only saying what I know in front of you, you idiot.”

The night wind blows in a low whisper.

Hwii-ing-

The strong night air tickled her hair.

I stared at her face, which was tormented by her flowing hair.

The face of a young female college student without a single wrinkle.

After staring at that pure white face for a long time, I also smiled slightly and looked out the window.

It was the same reason why I mistakenly thought she was an awakened person.

When I see her living as a pontoon pontoon so naturally, just like water flowing, I forget about it without realizing it.

Just as I was just an ordinary convenience store part-timer, she was also an ordinary female college student.

‘Does my appearance stand out too much to be ordinary?’

I looked at Seong Ga-eul’s face again and let out a small smile.

She was staring blankly at the night view, not paying attention to my gaze.

Lights shining brightly in her pupils.

“It was long.”

“… It was long.”

Where she followed her gaze, there was a night in Seoul that had regained its light.

The laughter of believers walking through the night streets of paradise.

Streetlights cast a warm glow and headlights from cars rushing by.

All of these were parts of our daily lives that we seemed to have forgotten for a really long time.

First night at Incheon Central Library.

A sight that contrasts sharply with Incheon, which was immersed in darkness and silence.

“Han Gu-won, this is the sight you brought back.”

“… … Suddenly?”

“Yes. Suddenly.”

Her tone was strangely lower than usual, and she answered my jokes seriously.

‘Is it because of the wine?’

I looked at the wine still glistening in her hand and then admired the night view of paradise again.

My city built solely on faith.

A paradise of infinite power that makes everything possible with just faith.

ha ha ha-!

lol-! Mom, go together!

From there, you can hear the laughter of humans, not the howling of zombies.

Thanks to you, I realize once again that a lot of time has passed.

“I think that way these days, Seong Ga-eul.”

I couldn’t help but feel the soft emotions.

I felt her eyes on me as she turned her head, but this time I didn’t make eye contact.

He continued to say this while looking at the buildings that continued to emit bright light.

“I had to awaken, I had chosen the library as my destination, and I had to meet you there.”

I slowly turned my head and faced her.

First encounter with Seong Ga-eul.

She was looking at me with her arms crossed and a very wary expression on her face.

The now much softer eyes and facial features slowly overlap.

“Is it really just an incredible coincidence?”

She answered my question with a small smile on her face.

“Isn’t this what the great god of paradise and the only leader of the One Mind Salvation Church would say?”

“… … I guess so.”

So, it was something I could only say to you.

This is the first and last time that I could not dye it completely white even though I picked it.

“What do you want to say? Is it fate that you and I met?”

“Well, there are things like that.”

I sipped my wine and smiled comfortably.

As I looked at the night view again, the night breeze of paradise blew.

Every night, as I was stuck in front of the computer, a wind that had never before blown blew.

“You told me a lot.”

The words she had been screaming at her ever since she revealed her telekinetic powers.

A cry that if you have that kind of power, you can make people happy.

A subtle yet explicit request to create a religion that makes people happy.

Although I had agreed to a deal that put myself as collateral, the words I had said to Seong Ga-eul remained in a corner of my heart.

I was not the superhuman on a white horse that Seong Ga-eul had hoped for, nor was I the iron man of Kant.

He was just a loser who only wanted people’s blind worship.

I like it when they kiss my feet.

It was thrilling to go beyond pretending to die and actually risk my life for the words I was throwing.

That desire for domination and conquest was the driving force that drove me.

Still, I feel strange every time the believers laugh.

For some reason, my heart was pounding and vibrating at the sight of their genuinely happy faces.

Before I knew it, I found myself worrying about the happiness of the believers.

“It’s not bad. A religion that makes people happy.”

“… … .”

She didn’t talk to me for quite some time.

I also didn’t look at her for no reason.

I felt a little embarrassed and embarrassed to face her now.

“… Who are you?”

“Hahaha―”

I couldn’t stop laughing at such a serious question.

“Is it really Han Gu-won?”

“… … I’m starting to feel strangely worse.”