episode_0148

The collector smiled, feeling like he had answered my question well.

There was no answer right away, but this time, looking at him like that, I didn’t say anything and quietly waited for an answer.

In fact, it was such a shocking fact that I felt like my head was going to explode.

Perhaps because he was aware of that fact, or perhaps because he had caught the slight trembling of my reptile’s pupils, the Collector smiled slightly and continued.

“I didn’t bring it here. Of course, it is true that I was involved in it.”

“Now you just say whatever you want. I am not a being of this world.”

“That’s right. But you just think that way.”

Without saying a word, I lifted my finger.

At that moment, the table that had fallen and was rolling around burned up and immediately carbonized, and the marble on the floor melted. At the same time, I thought something was shining from my fingertips, and the beam of light turned into a bullet and shot into the guy’s chest.

Kwagwagwagwagwang!

A terrifying explosion sound was heard. My magic exploded as it crashed into what looked like a protective shield that the guy had put up in a hurry.

And everything around it collapses with a loud noise.

In front of him, the floor opened up, exposing the steel bars, showing the entire lower floor of the building, and the ceiling was also shattered, showing part of the upper floor.

It gets noisy outside the room. They seemed to be confused as my order not to come in was combined with the current situation.

And once the impact sound of the explosion subsided.

Inside the ruined space, amid clouds of dust that resembled lime dust from a cement factory.

I saw an old man crying and coughing up blood.

It seemed like he was trying desperately to stop it, but the damage seemed to be considerable. His upper body was scorched by high heat, his skin was burning, and all of his muscle layers were visible.

As I was staring with a stern face at the sight, which looked like a burnt out anatomical model in a science lab, I heard the guy’s voice urgently.

“It’s not a lie. You are that “great being”.”

“Bullshit! I am a being from another dimension!”

“To be precise, it is a being created by removing some of his power. The ability itself is like that. You are a dragon, and the use of magic is proof of that.”

At my questioning, the Collector vomited blood and turned towards me with his eyes wide open.

I sneered as I received that gaze.

“Are you telling lies just to save your life? And that ends with this. You stupid bug!”

“Think about it! Northmund, how do you know the Book of Wittgen! How do you know that’s what the novel is about! I have this book. You’ve never read it before!”

The Collector’s body is rapidly regenerating. I slowly stand up, wiping the blood from the corner of my mouth.

“Your predictions were all wrong. It was the content of a novel called Kiss: Sense. I only read this novel in my own dimension and was summoned to this world one day, you fool.”

“Ah, was that the setting? You remember it by that title. Then, let me slowly point you in a different direction. That’s because I don’t know the details of the memory settings themselves.”

It was confusing. I couldn’t understand.

I wanted to tell him not to listen to what he said anymore and just end it, but I lost my mind somewhere.

Yes, my thoughts went into it. I was clearly in a state of despair and my hand holding the guy’s neck no longer had any strength.

It had to end here. I should have just twisted and crushed his neck, which was helplessly caught in my huge grip.

But, that wasn’t the case.

And then, I poured my eyes of explanation towards the guy caught in my hands.

“If you remember this world as a novel, let’s approach it from a different angle. Northmund claims to have come from across dimensions. How much memory do you have from that previous world?”

“I remember everything. This is the world in which I was born and became the basis of my life. It is a world similar to this dimension, but still has clear differences.”

“Is that so? Do you remember your real name? Ah, is Elm Northmund your real name? Then I’ll ask the other way… .”

Inhaling, I instantly took a breath and opened my eyes wide.

Looking at that, the Collector nodded with a happy expression.

“Uh huh… Fortunately, it worked from the first move.”

“No. I remembered it at first. There’s no way you don’t know the name, right? It’s just that after coming to this world, I became immersed in Elm’s role and faded away.”

“Hmm. It’s been about 5 years since Northmund came here. It’s not an impossible story, but it’s still unnatural for you to forget my name after only five years.”

“No! I definitely lived there… .”

“Do you remember your parents’ faces? What about your colleagues? No, it’s not just a simple story like whether it was there or not, it’s about exactly how much you remember. What are your parents’ names? If you have a job, what is the name of that job? Which department were you in?”

“No!”

“What about the Kiss novel that you remember? How popular was this piece? When did you read it?”

I was finally able to understand this situation.

People, or any living thing, feel embarrassed when they do not detect the signs of an attack.

Although it is considered unethical and taboo, shock therapy is one of the reasons why it is so effective.

And the place where the attack was launched was right in front of my nose.

It’s just that a weak being that I can destroy with just a flick of a finger has opened its mouth. That’s all.

If we were to discuss its destructive power alone, it was to the point where one would have wondered if it was a truly special move, containing enough destructive power to wipe out anyone in the world at once.

‘no. Probably not.’

I denied it.

Of course, he remembered it clearly when he first came to this world.

Isn’t that right? After waking up in a shabby studio room, I looked at the date on the screen of the old 2G feature phone in my pocket and remembered that it was the release date of the iPhone in the previous world.

The reason was because my older sister bought a phone and boasted about it. Of course, I don’t remember my sister’s name, but isn’t it too obvious?

‘But why did I so naturally and immediately accept that I was possessed by the novel?’

That’s right, I didn’t experience the confusion of a novel possessor, but was having fun wondering which novel I was possessed by and finding out that the names of companies in this world and the previous world were different after turning on the computer.

Now that I think about it, doesn’t it seem too unnatural? It wasn’t to the point where I could just say it was because I had read too many novels that focused on regression, possession, and reincarnation.

Speaking of novels… .

‘Kiss Sense.’

It was definitely a popular work.

Although it is not a major novel, I think it is a mid-level romance novel that has some popularity.

‘But why?’

Now that I think about it, I’ve never seen the story of that novel come up on the Internet, right? Just because it was a work from the paper book era?

No, why do I know that novel? When I think about it, I don’t remember reading it properly. But I knew the contents of the book before I knew it.

At first, I thought that if the memory of reading was from a long time ago, it was natural for the memory to fade, so isn’t this very unnatural?

I don’t remember reading it, but I clearly remember every detail of it?

“It seems like you have figured it out to some extent. Let me also tell you who I am. I am also one of the beings that Northmund calls a devil. He is a guardian who took away one of the bodies of an unknown human reserve. The name is Dimostra. Northmund, you may have heard that Alexstras has prepared quite a few spare bodies in case of an emergency.”

“… .”

“The final chain is Han Si-woo or Jang Su-ri. They weren’t looking for it that desperately since they weren’t the ones to conceive. It looks like even the desire for revenge has already faded.”

I distorted my face.

I don’t believe what he says. I didn’t think it was solid evidence.

Why did this devil encroach on the reserve body that was not even complete?

He seems to have guessed something from my expression and nods his head as he answers.

“The first thing I did after consuming the body of one of these spare bodies was to tear off part of the body of the “Great Being”. It was probably as small as a fingernail, or even smaller. But that’s as much as Northmund. If Alexstras had properly started absorbing the gods, Northmund wouldn’t have been able to fight him. Ah, now that you know the truth, would it be better to call him a great being? haha… I’m quitting. Stop staring.”

“Did his plan go awry when I protected Yoon Shia, Jang Ah-hyeon, and Han Se-jun?”

“Yes, Alexstras is almost in a desperate situation now. Originally, he would have been Yun Shia’s husband… Haha, don’t be angry. It is also impossible to encroach on that body. Because that is this body.”

“What?”

So the guy laughed.

It seems that this guy has twisted the very foundation of the devils’ plan than I thought.

That absurd and outrageous being was the devil named Dimostra before my eyes.

And does this mean that this guy’s body is the one that conceived Han Si-woo in relation to the original Yoon Sia?

“Ah, I apologize for tampering with your memory. But to some extent, it was an indispensable reason. You shouldn’t have been born with your emotions worn out. In the first place, the cause of this division is that the god itself has weathered over time.”

Of course, it was an incident that never happened in this world, but when I narrowed my eyes in displeasure at the fact that the person in front of me was a body that would have defiled Sia, Dimostra, who must have misunderstood the meaning, offered a completely different apology.

“Why don’t you follow Alexstras? Why did you disrupt his plan like this? Are you not his subordinate?”

“Huh… Until now, whenever I met Northmund, I mentioned him and gave him a hint.”

In the first place, Dimostra added with a sneer.

“I just wanted to bet on a more promising and visionary plan. From the beginning, when they still recognized the “Great Being” as the “master” they had served, they were still just losers. Even though there is a more promising plan, and I have been advocating for it, it is already over just by making a timid plan like a mosquito, thinking that you can’t seriously harm God’s body. So I made my own plan and now I can’t change it anymore.”

As if to say that now was the opportunity, now is the only time, and if you miss that now, there will be no more opportunities.

The devil with the body of an old man chuckled, smiling sinisterly like the devil incarnate.

“So, in order to properly absorb the god, the god itself is the easiest. Yes, so only Northmund can do this.”

“Alexstras has been stabbed in the back. I had a really good subordinate.”

“Hehehe, of course, that idiot lost it too. Because he blew his entire hand. Alexstras’s face must have been crumpled when I devoured this reserve’s body and fled. Well, since it is an etheric body, it has no facial expressions.”

He added with a smile.

“But that doesn’t mean my loss is small. From the moment I fell in love with his plan in the first place, I suffered enormous losses. Nevertheless, the reason I played this game was because I was confident that I would win. And also… .”

I laughed while listening to his speech.

Still, the guy didn’t really react. Of course, when I see him like that, I just laugh at him and don’t say anything special.

The guy paused for a moment, took a breath, and spoke lowly in a twisted, murderous tone.

“… A coward is bound to get stabbed in the back at any time. Since ancient times, a leader shouldn’t be like that. Isn’t that right, Mr. Northmund?”

is it.

Alexstras may be very angry at this moment.

Even though he is a demon whose emotions have faded, he still cannot help but react if he sees this scene.

But what can you do?

Because that will not change the fact that it is the position of the loser.