episode_0206

Not an Awakened Person (4) – One Mind Salvation Church Paradise

[‘surrender’]

[One. Han Gu-won doubts Lee Hye-seong’s surrender!]

[2. Lee Hye-seong tries to prove the true intention of surrender to Han Gu-won!]

[3. Both awakeners recognize that the story is not complete through simple violence!]

[4. Prove yourself with your own story!]

‘Surrender, true intention, story.’

And proof.

I continued to peruse the event window, thinking about the conversation I had with Seong Ga-eul.

Seong Ga-eul would be in charge of the meetings that were going back and forth anyway, so there was no need to worry at all.

This is especially true since he is so busy thinking about the true meaning of the system that he can’t even play a prank that would upset her.

I just kept worrying about it.

Two cancers that came down from the system and the world.

A divine act that will quickly resolve all of those issues.

‘Fuck… … If that were the case, wouldn’t I have been a jerk in the corner?’

However, the more I thought about it, the more bitter self-deprecation came out.

A head that rolls loudly from a position as stiff as a stone.

And the more I thought about it, the more complicated the knot became.

Potentially dangerous molecule.

Hyeseong Lee, San Kang.

Moreover, they are both men, not women.

Those little-looking bastards too.

Guys like gisaeng brothers.

then… … All you have to do is kill him like Seo Joo-won, just like you have done so far.

but-

‘Do your politics on a grand level, Excellency!’

‘I am not your enemy, cult leader.’

‘I planted a bomb on the cult leader’s head.’

pop-!

Purple pupils glowing subtly in an unpleasant way and arms spread out wide as if exaggerated.

Lee Hye-seong’s face is scrunched up as she rewinds the words that have become so deeply irritating.

‘You never know if those blood drops overlap. Even if you know it, it will return to the pattern of instant fraud that cannot be avoided in the future.’

Instant death.

Die.

who?

‘… … ‘You don’t have to be perfect at everything.’

Holy autumn.

Yoon Ah-young, Ju-hye Joo, So-young Shim, Chae-kyung Ha.

My own treasures that I couldn’t even imagine in the past.

‘… … Die.’

As soon as I repeat those words, those damn pictures are automatically drawn in my head.

I gritted my teeth and ignored the vivid thoughts that were spreading.

It may be excessive worry or delusion.

A divinity that builds up step by step by integrating other cities and creating stories.

My ability is growing stronger in proportion to it, and it is already difficult to find an opponent.

But – if it goes all over the world like he said.

‘Tower of Babel, invisible foreigner.’

If those were the updates that the system was sending out –

Even then, will I be able to fight and protect my people?

‘… … ‘Maybe, maybe not.’

The important thing is that you can’t be sure.

Fuck-

These days, it’s a swear word that often stays in my mouth again.

I clicked my tongue, feeling the dryness of my mouth.

The more I continue to worry, the more one thing becomes clear.

I am afraid.

No, I’m scared.

I’m so scared of losing my precious people that I’m so anxious that I’m stomping my feet.

Well then – of course you just have to remove the cause.

An awakened person who saw the potential to touch my people at Lotte Mart.

Just like I did to the awakened man who desperately begged me to save him.

Like Seo Joo-won, who was an awakened person with a much-coveted ability, but was unsure of how to control it.

Competent enough to be assigned to Expo No. 3. Moreover, even the ruler, Yeon-cheol, seemed like he could be very useful if he was immersed in religion.

‘… … If Yeon-cheol was a woman, would you have killed her?’

I smiled bitterly at the question whose answer was so obvious.

Of course not.

I, who told Shim So-young that it is very difficult to have half the world as your enemy-

I, too, had unconsciously regarded half the world as my enemy.

I was constantly killing potential competitors who had even a 1% chance of taking away my brilliant treasures.

On the outside, it is disguised as a very plausible justification.

However, I recognized that there was a possibility that that action could lead to the worst situation.

So, as I was no longer able to deal with Seongju like I had been doing up to now, I started being dragged around by him.

Because there was no more plausible reason to kill him.

‘The difference between you and me is that I was honest and you were pretentious!’

The shouts of Yeon-cheol, who was spitting and spitting in anger, hit my ears.

‘It’s just that you had powers that didn’t fit the theme.’

strength.

I lost the power to continue my growth by sweeping up the initial rewards from the beginning –

Just like me, who felt that something had changed while looking at the paradise with the bright sunlight rising –

Has it truly changed?

Am I no longer the idiot in the corner of the room who sincerely wished for destruction?

As I said to Ha Chae-kyung, am I really becoming the person I should be?

‘… … it’s hard?’

A voice suddenly heard in the midst of endless agony.

I smiled slightly and shook my head.

‘no.’

‘… … There’s no need to be perfect. ‘You know, right?’

I had one thing to say to the woman who comforted me.

As it was then, as it is now.

‘It’s not perfect enough already.’

Enough already-

I was already acting like a fool who wanted destruction.

“… … Leader?”

A cautious question comes from right next to you.

When I quietly turned my head, Seong Ga-eul met my gaze and spoke.

“Thanks to Kang San, is it okay if I continue with the unfinished question?”

In response to her polite question, Yoon Ah-young’s face was seen swallowing saliva.

I gave her a small smile and shook my head to tell her not to worry.

“No. I will not listen to questions about the branch manager of Daehan. This is a reasonable reward for the dedication, patience, and effort that the saint of Salvation Church has shown so far, so please do not mention it any further.”

I remember Yoon A-young, who lived buried in the ‘Book of Salvation’ and religious books, wanting to be of help to me in some way.

The girl who was shaking despite the attention and suspicion of the library people spared no effort to stand as a saint in front of tens of thousands of people.

“There is no need to worry about the safety of the saint that the vice-priest is concerned about, as we will also make sufficient preparations.”

I will protect her until she becomes the head of the Korean branch.

It wasn’t a bad idea to be alone with Yoon Ah-young for the first time in a while.

I pretended not to, but Yoon Ah-young, who was listening to me with her ears pricked up, smiled brightly.

A face full of joy, like a puppy that had a premonition of going out for a walk.

As I looked at Yoon Ah-young’s face and responded with a smile, my eyebrows lifted slightly.

Yoon Ah-young’s brightly smiling face gradually becomes more foreign.

In the end, Yoon Ah-young, who had an almost expressionless expression, was staring at me with inorganic eyes.

“Master.”

Paaa!

An enormous light suddenly falls on Yoon Ah-young.

“Mr. Ayoung—!”

He stopped Ha Chae-kyung, who stood up and shouted urgently from the left.

Ha Chae-kyung, who was immediately reaching out for Yoon Ah-young, stopped at my gesture.

I stopped Ha Chae-kyung and stared at the bright beam of light engulfing Yoon A-young’s body.

A skill I had forgotten for a long time and had never even thought about.

“I worship you as the guide of bright light and the beginning of salvation.”

It was a prophecy.

[The saint (candidate) of One Mind Salvation Church begins to prophesy!]

[Yoon Ah-young’s qualifications as a saint are insufficient! It is not easy to guess the content of the prophecy!]

[Maximum fanaticism has a positive effect on prophecy! The prophecy includes accurate place names!]

Yoon Ah-young, floating in the center of the conference room without any telekinesis, whispered with half-hearted eyes.

“The darkness that preceded the light recognized the light. Suddenly, it turns its head and prepares to swallow up the light.”

The song continues with a sacred tone no different from that day.

“An irresistible wave is coming that covers ‘Seoul’. A wave called circulation is coming.”

“You must prepare. A cycle comes. Infinite cycle… … .”

I saw Yoon Ah-young’s eyes slowly close as she sang about the future.

While I was waiting, I stretched out my hand and caught Yoon Ah-young as she fell to the floor.

[No action can be taken for 24 hours due to the reaction of the prophecy containing the exact location!]

Guided by my telekinetic powers, the soon-to-be saintess landed on the floor.

All the executives in the conference room fell silent when they saw her like that.

“What is this…? … .”

Ha Chae-kyung’s trembling sigh.

I quietly closed my eyes and thought back to her prophecy.

Darkness before light, irresistible waves covering Seoul-

Does this refer to a wave larger than a city-level colony?

So what is circulation?

What is the infinite cycle that Ayoung talked about?

However, the fact that is more shocking than that is-

It is said that Yoon Ah-young made a prophecy.

This means that there was a threat to the current Salvation Church that must be made known.

The current Salvation Church, the Salvation Church where I am, the Salvation Church that bowed down to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places at the fair—

It meant that something that could collapse was coming.

‘Nonsense.’

It is a prophecy that naturally cannot be denied.

Is there something that threatens the divinity I have built, the Holy Knights I have raised, and the heavenly shield that protects me?

Is there a competitor ahead of me?

Unless there is Expo No. 0, that will never happen.

In the first place, a force that had grown to that size in Seoul would not have been able to hide from the search network of our Church of Salvation… … .

However, the prophecy had already come down and this was a future that could not be changed.

What I need to do now is not to deny reality, but to eliminate the cause.

Just like when they destroyed all the eggs of the white scourge, ‘Sound Stalker’, at Lotte Cinema.

“Vice-leader.”

“Yes, leader.”

A name that breaks the somewhat chaotic atmosphere.

He ordered Kim Hae-il, who responded immediately outside the door.

“Bring Seongju and Kangsan.”

“Yes, leader!”

The sound of footsteps moving quickly away from the door.

I thought about the prophecy that suddenly befell us and the two beings that had been haunting my mind until now.

The prophecy that did not even respond to those two beings continued immediately the moment a wave of something like a cycle came.

That alone was reason enough.

“I will give the head of the Republic of Korea branch the right to organize any Holy Knights. Holy Mana and armor, which will soon be researched, will be distributed without a hitch, so quickly fortify the Republic without worrying about cost or manpower.”

After giving instructions to Ha Chae-kyung, he looks at Seong Ga-eul.

“As soon as the saint wakes up, immediately send her to Daehan and order her to carry out the same fortification. Assign as many senior knights as possible to the saint, including the vice-captain, Inari, and Lee Jeong-wook.”

“… … Yes, leader.”

Seong Ga-eul quietly bows her head and Ha Chae-kyung carefully calls me out.

“Um, leader… … If you are worried about Ayoung’s prophecy, wouldn’t it be better to gather together in paradise rather than spread out like that? … .”

“On the contrary, shrinking like that may be the trigger for the prophecy to come true, Branch Manager Minguk. The saint’s prophecy was not about the Republic of Korea or Korea, but ‘Seoul’.”

The clear tone of the vice president’s voice refutes Ha Chae-kyung’s alternative before me.

As Bugyoju said, Nakwon was also a city that was eventually included in Seoul.

As Ha Chae-kyung said, it is true that paradise is absolutely safe, but-

I had a strong intuition that this would ultimately only prolong the time until defeat.

“A vice-principal and a knight commander reside in paradise and respond to any unexpected variables that may arise. While I am absent, the auxiliary pontiff’s orders are my orders, and anyone who violates them shall be dealt with at the auxiliary pontiff’s discretion.”

Similar to when I heard the first prophecy—

In the end, a kind of time attack begins from the moment you hear the prophecy.

Will the prophecy come true soon, or will the ‘white disaster’ mentioned in the previous prophecy and the ‘cycle’ disappear quickly?

Destroying the White Disaster was a battle, but perhaps that cycle was definitely a war.

Rather than shrinking my body, I had to use everything I could to increase my weight class.

But what’s even more important than that is-

Good!

“Good morning, everyone! The breakfast here is really killer!”

Seongju opens the door and enters with a lively tone.

The guy smiled brightly and swung around the conference room.

A thin face walks behind Seongju.

Seongju noticed that Kang San came in behind him and started fluttering again.

“Sir, did you have a good night? I slept well, woke up well, ate well, and waited well on my own so that the leader would not worry!”

His purple pupils look up at me as he kneels in the center of the conference room as if to bow.

After catching a glimpse of Kang San taking a bow behind Seongju, he gazed at Seongju again.

“Wow! But by any chance, I haven’t come to heaven, right? This is so dazzling that I’m going blind, hahaha! I was at a cosplay party full of angels-”

“Seongju.”

“Yes, I am Kyojuni!”

Seongju awaits an answer with a loyal face.

I asked in a casual tone.

“How many people can fight in the world?”

“Hmm? I’m a little embarrassed because you asked so suddenly, but I’ll tell you in as much detail as possible – everything.”

Seongju continued speaking with a confident smile.

“Ah – Of course, I’m exaggerating a bit – and unfortunately, adventurers who can’t adapt to the world are leaving the world. Compared to the beautiful Salvation Bridge, our world is extremely rigid.”

So, to sum up his long babble, most of the people are capable of combat… … .

I nodded to show that I understood and asked the next question.

“Then how strong does Seongju think of himself?”

“… … hmm? You’re suddenly asking something extremely practical. Well, let me tell you clearly-”

The guy who was talking subtly looked at me and smiled strangely.

“What- enough to know that a beautiful bodyguard guarded me all night?”

“That much I understand for sure.”

If they are aware of the surveillance, Sim So-young should also be reassigned to the saint’s guard.

“We, the Church of Salvation, sincerely welcome the world’s surrender.”

Perhaps this action could have been the starting point for triggering the prophecy.

However, if you keep biting your tail like that, you have to doubt everything, just like all heroes who heard the prophecy in the past.

In order to overcome the prophecy, you needed to have your own firmly established standards.

“Do you finally understand our world’s sincere feelings, leader?”

“So, Seongju and Gangsan move with me.”

Those two guys who didn’t make the prophecy happen are not enemies, they’re swords.

A knife that changes a lot depending on how I use it.

With that sword he will pierce the enemy of whom the prophecy warned.

“… … Where do you mean it is moving?”

Seongju asks while tilting his head.

At the very least, I will use the sword you are hiding from me to the enemy.

Whether you’re loyal to me or betraying me, you can’t hide that in war.

I looked out the window and whispered.

In Minguk, there are brothers Yoon Kang, Yoon Hyeon, and Ha Chae-kyung.

In paradise, Seong Ga-eul and Seotaesan Mountain. And awakened people without combat ability.

In Daehan, Yoon Ah-young and most of the Holy Knights’ strength.

While they guard our land—

Before the waves hit them-

“The beginning.”

I find the circulation first and kill it.