episode_0511

“But why is Isabel outside the castle?”

Hermann glances back at me.

“What do you mean? This is the castle.”

Take a moment to think back on Hermann’s incomprehensible words.

He stops and looks around.

He looked as if he had lost his mind.

“Ha.”

Harman burst out laughing and turned to me.

This is different from Alex’s explanation.

Alex said that anyone who has been brainwashed can resist brainwashing.

“I’m sorry. He was receiving training from Dantalian’s agent to resist brainwashing… but it seems he wasted precious time with his son.”

Hermann answered like that and looked around with a blank expression again.

He couldn’t see me.

“······I feel like I’m possessed by a ghost.”

Because Isabelle was standing next to me.

We greeted Herman with our eyes as he left, looking around.

How much time has passed?

“Did something happen?”

“Former agent.”

It was an unfamiliar name.

Dantalian, wearing Isabelle, looks at me with a seductive smile.

“Why don’t you walk?”

“······Let’s do that.”

I walked through the forest with Dantalian.

“What’s going on?”

“I’d like to ask you something from my former agent, so I’m coming to you.”

‘Please.’

No matter when I heard it, it was an un-God-like sound.

“What is it?”

“You made a contract with hell.”

hell?

Hell must be sleeping inside Isabelle’s body.

“Although I went through hell for a while, I am the one who signed the contract.”

“So what are you saying?”

“Hell wants to return to you. Now I want you to accept it again.”

The black brand of hell is revealed on the back of Isabel’s hand.

Soon, what looked like black oil seeping out from the brand began to approach me.

“······.”

Honestly, I’m reluctant.

I took a step back from hell.

“I have no intention of killing the servant anymore.”

“Hell will help you on your journey.”

Help me?

Dozens of eyes emerge from the black thing.

The random eyes of hell were slanted like a crescent moon.

“Pluto is the servant of absoluteness that strictly separates life and death.”

“His agent will also not grant your request.”

“But hell is different.”

Before I knew it, the hell I had crawled into slowly began to burn.

“What’s the difference? Hell would be Pluto’s sword anyway.”

“It is Pluto’s sword, but it is originally Maal’s sacred weapon.”

“······Maal’s miracle?”

“Yes. Pluto was just given hell by Maal.”

I looked down at the black, amorphous creature that was wandering.

‘This dirty oil thing is amazing?’

Hell seeps into my body.

All I know is that Maal and Dantalian are gods from Earth.

I have never been interested in God my entire life.

Therefore, there is no way to know the god who handles these divine powers.

“What kind of person does the contractor think Maal is?”

The hell that climbed up my leg and landed on my arm is sucked into the brand.

[Nice to meet you. long time no see.]

Hell wants to kill its servant.

All I know is that Hell has the power of a murderer and is trying to kill its servant.

‘They want to kill God.’

“···What kind of Satan are you?”

However, I didn’t say it without thinking.

The symbol for the temple and maal is like an X on a cross.

Didn’t it end up as an arrow holder all the way from Hindire to there?

‘Dantalian said he was a snake.’

Snakes cannot be accurately identified.

This is because all cultures abhor snakes.

“Satan is one of my many names.”

“······.”

This means that I have been a devil follower until now.

It was so absurd that I snorted.

“If Satan is here, what kind of hell is this?”

“That may be true. Isn’t there a saying that it is raw?”

I don’t know Maal’s identity, and I have no interest in it.

I’m just interested in what I have to do.

“The other servants are telling me to persuade Maal. What on earth do they mean?”

“There is no need to think deeply. Just have a casual conversation.”

If Dantalian said so, it would be so.

We walked quietly through the forest.

“Do you have any other questions?”

There is nothing in particular.

‘no.’

If you think about it, there was something that only Dantalian could answer.

“···What happened to my friends and family?”

“First of all, my sister got married.”

“Are you living well?”

“Yes. My parents urged my sister to get married, but she felt lonely with the empty space and started raising a pet.”

“Are you lonely? I have one too, right?”

“I disapprove of you for playing and eating instead of working. They get angry by telling me to do some work or get married.”

Just by hearing it, the sight is pleasing to the eye.

Thanks to you, I burst out laughing.

“Am I still not married?”

“Yes. My older sister is ignoring me, saying she will take over, but I am feeling a sense of crisis as my parents age.”

You bastard.

In the end, it seems like I ended up living as a mother-in-law for the rest of my life.

“How is your parents’ health?”

“You are healthy. However, my father suffers from pneumonia due to frequent smoking.”

“······.”

You must be over seventy now.

At that age, pneumonia is a scary disease.

I may not be able to see it again alive, but how great would it be if I could?

I want to see you again, even from afar.

“Do you want to see your family again?”

My heart was numb.

Family, friends, and my daily life pass through my mind.

Moreover, Dantalian’s eyes smile meaningfully.

I know I can’t go back.

‘But what if you could?’

─I want to meet you.

Dantalian’s words brought out my true feelings.

“···Yes.”

“Please ask Maal. Then you can go back.”

“······Yes?”

Satan smiled at me.

“You can go back home.”

─You can return home.

I felt like my heart was sinking.

If I ask Maal, I can go home?

But something was suspicious.

There are a lot of things that are inconsistent with the information I have received throughout my life.

“What did the other ‘heads’ choose?”

“I have never made this suggestion to them.”

It’s clear there’s something up there.

Nevertheless, I am drawn to the sweet smell.

One thing I know is that it is to Dantalian’s advantage if I return to Earth.

We walked endlessly.

How far did it go that way?

“···Vision.”

“Yes.”

“Do you want to go home?”

Isabel turns around and looks directly into my eyes.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to go back.

“Yes.”

“···I see.”

Isabel sighed and smiled.

[Run away.]

Something happened with a sound that hell couldn’t understand.

It was only a moment later that I clearly realized what had happened.

“···What are you doing?”

Isabelle is holding my hand.

That was it. Soon Isabel withdrew her hand from me.

But I vaguely knew what this volatile liquid I could feel on my skin was.

‘The power of Ceres.’

Immediately my hands became numb.

Isabelle seemed to be waiting for me to collapse, but I held onto her hand.

His white, small hand was shaking harder than mine.

“···I’m sorry.”

“It is natural for people to want to see their parents and friends and return to their hometown.”

Slowly, I felt dizzy.

“······I can’t send it.”

I leaned against Isabelle.

Isabelle was holding me to prevent me from falling.

It was a natural reaction.

‘They probably didn’t even send me.’

Who ruined my life for 16 years, who made me do something I didn’t want to do?

If it were me, I would chase him to the end of hell and catch him.

These are the people who will come to see you even if you went to Earth in the first place.

I once again became afraid.

‘Will I be able to handle it if I get married?’

There are six monster-like women like this.

If you’re building a house, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to put a sign on the front door that says it’s a nuclear weapons silo.

Anyway, I have to make an excuse before the anesthesia kicks in.

“Humans have something called brain plasticity.”

Isabelle looks up at me with a blank expression.

He suddenly looked like he couldn’t understand what was going on.

“You can understand it as the adaptability to adapt to a given situation.”

“For example, if you tie your index and middle fingers, your brain will recognize them as one finger in less than an hour.”

“Or even if your arm is cut off, it still feels like the arm is there. It is commonly called phantom pain.”

People are not omnipotent.

Therefore, if you do not reflect on what you have learned, it becomes rusty.

Also, if you don’t let go, you can’t move on.

“Dantalian’s power is not omnipotent.”

“It only penetrates emotions, not reason.”

“I saw other people’s emotions, and my brain became unable to read other people’s facial expressions that showed reason or emotion.”

“So, I had trouble communicating and was only confident in relying on God’s power.”

It’s natural for anyone to want to go back.

It is an instinct to want to see separated parents and friends.

So you should have asked the right question.

“Isabel, come to your senses. You have now been consumed by Dantalian’s power.”

That guy is Satan.

However, he is a very kind Satan.

“Looking at you leaning on him, it looks like you were busy with work while I was away.”

Isabelle trembled and buried her face in my chest.

The poison was neutralized and strength began to return to the body.

Please take a moment to console Isabel.

“Now ask the question again. It’s not whether you want to go, but whether you’re going to go home.”

“···I’m really sorry. I just thought it was a convenient power. But like this──”

“I plan to go home, right?”

Isabelle looked up at me with wide eyes.

He looked surprised, but he didn’t want to receive an apology.

“I decided to cook with Rohan.”

* * * * * *

According to Dantalian, Alfred cannot help us.

Then there was no need to wait.

We moved straight towards Heindeer.

‘Hell help me.’

I didn’t hear how to help.

[okay. In the end, we are the only ones you can trust.]

I heard the words of hell in my head.

‘What kind of person is Maal?’

[I don’t know.]

‘They say it’s Maal’s miracle.’

[Our consciousness is made of people who died with resentment.]

‘What do the ‘we’ you speak of have in common?’

[Hating servants.]

Yes.

Hell purifies the soul, but it is anxious to kill its servant.

[When are you going to kill the servant?]

‘I’m not crazy. There’s no need to kill, but kill—’

chin!

My body was shaken by the sudden shock.

Lexi shook my shoulder.

“Sihyeon?”

“···Yes?”

“Why are you doing that? You’ve been mesmerized since a while ago.”

“Why?”

“You have to tell me how to bring the dead back to life.”

Lexi was looking at me with her head tilted.

Hermann, who was leading the way, was looking at me with his eyes wide open.

“I guess I’ll have to go there to find out.”

“What?”

“You’ll know what it looks like once you see it.”

Quite a number of immigrants have already come to Heindeer.

Although it still seems difficult to regain its former glory, it still feels like a place where people live.

“Don’t lose your mind while riding a horse. What are you going to do if you fall off your horse?”

“I’m sorry.”

After leaving the horses at the stables, we leisurely walked through Heindeer’s underground water pipes.

“Why on earth are we so vigilant that there are so many traps?”

“He just seemed to dislike customers.”

I proceeded without realizing it, activating several traps.

It is the minimum sincerity for the person who created it.

How far did we go while avoiding traps and all kinds of tripwires?

“Stop.”

The corners of my mouth rose at the happy sight.

Of course, the other party was concealed and was aiming a crossbow at us.

“Rita! It’s me!”

“Huh? How… Lian? I heard you died?!”

Rita approached me with wide eyes.

Thanks to this, the colleague next to me also noticed and took the crossbow.

“I died, but I came back to life.”

“How?!”

─Noisy.

A voice full of nerves rang out.

Rita kept her mouth shut like a mute.

Shake!

It was Alex who opened the hidden door and came out.

Her narrowed eyes glanced at Hermann in the back, but only for a moment.

For some reason, Alex turned around and glared at me.

“Come in.”