episode_0549

I borrowed a bunch of books from the library and headed to Edeline’s room.

I know of several Dantalian agents.

Gusteau, James, Denis, Jules, the Grand Duchess, Elysia, and me.

Among them, only Jules and I can contact each other, and Gusteau and James are the only ones who clearly know about their existence.

I lightly approached Edeline.

Edeline looks up at me as if she is happy to see me.

“Is work going well?”

“Yes. Is something wrong?”

“I’m trying to read a book, but it’s not suitable for reading alone.”

I pulled a chair next to Edeline.

Edeline looks up and down the title of the book I brought.

“Are you interested in the Laobian Empire?”

“It’s not that I’m interested, I’m just curious.”

Now it’s time to read.

Edeline also takes her gaze away from me. Soon silence came.

I read the book quietly like that. We continued our work in silence.

but.

Churrr

Because I turned the uninteresting pages without looking, the only sound I heard was the sound of turning the page.

Just for a moment.

The events that were ‘just before’ the fall of the Laobian Empire have finally begun.

‘James saw the future and persuaded people.’

Pangea began to rot due to the tyranny of the empire.

James, who knew that the Laobian Empire would burn with the anger of its servants, traveled throughout the Romanian Empire to persuade people, ten years before its fall.

In the end, only a few people accepted his persuasion and followed James to the Romaria Empire.

‘It doesn’t make sense from here.’

If you don’t have evidence, you can’t convince people.

Even if there is evidence, if there is no power, people will not move.

─That’s why I became a devil.

“Is there anything you don’t understand?”

Edeline’s voice broke my concentration.

After that, I thought that maybe it was a good thing.

‘This person is over five hundred years old.’

Edeline was a living history book.

Maybe you know something about James.

I smiled and opened the book and placed my finger on the paragraph.

“···I don’t understand this part.”

Edeline’s eyes turn to the part pointed by her finger.

Just for a moment.

“This is impossible.”

“Why?”

“At that time, the emperor of the Laobian Empire was the representative of Prometheus.”

“He was a very cruel person, and with the power of his servant, he eliminated all those who would become his enemies or criminals in the future.”

Now that I think about it, it was really funny.

Why did the king of the Laobian Empire watch his country fall even though he could see the future?

“But why couldn’t the people’s uprising be prevented?”

“When someone intervenes in the future, the future changes.”

I laughed when I saw him staring at me.

I looked at the book again.

The power of a servant makes a person perfect.

However, the essence of human beings is ultimately a hunger that cries out to fill what is lacking.

When that hunger is satisfied, man can stand alone, and he does not need others.

Therefore, it does not constitute a human being.

‘Venus is rational. Dantalian understands others. The future…’

─The future takes away the past.

Therefore, purging the enemy without considering the past led to the worst possible outcome.

I thought that life would be very difficult even if you became a superhuman.

Eventually, the Laobian Empire collapsed due to a popular uprising.

People got angry and cut down the sacred tree.

“Why didn’t the Magic Tower stop the people at this time?”

“We warned you of the danger. But the people ignored our warning and insulted Prometheus.”

[that’s right. That woman and the magic tower were trying to save us.]

I hear noise in my head.

Before I knew it, Hell was looking at me with its eyes peeking out from above the brand.

“The servants did not tolerate insults.”

[But we needed firewood to burn off our anger.]

“The servant gave a warning through the temple.”

[that’s right. The priests warned that they would punish him severely.]

Because in the end, they are also human.

However, we cannot blame human selfishness.

Because we are just ‘animals’ who constantly learn about the world to gain an advantage in survival.

‘Why on earth is Ain so important to take care of?’

I looked down into hell.

Because I was curious why I couldn’t look straight at the person I was angry with.

[That’s not easy.]

Of course it’s not easy. Still, it had to be done.

Hell looked up at me with sullen eyes. Poor thing.

[The reason we understood you was because you were a person worth understanding.]

Unfortunately, I am the devil.

You should never understand.

“Here, the paragraph that says it has been persuading people for decades is a lie, right?”

“Rather than saying it was a lie, these people who met only once a dozen years ago agreed with the will of the founding king.”

In other words, it means that it was written by looking at the results and inferring them.

It is said that Dantalian’s powers were fully developed dozens of years before the incident.

He knew that from then on many people would die.

Also, coincidentally, that was when Jules was born.

This means that Dantalian’s position as agent had already passed.

‘Why?’

[Founding King. He wasn’t bad, but he had a knack for it.]

[I evaluated people and divided into those I would keep by my side and those I would not.]

[He doesn’t even speak to people who go against his definition.]

Dantalian is the embodiment of humanity.

Some reasons for disqualification will be overlooked leniently.

However, James committed something that even a Dantalian could not forgive.

Nevertheless, the ‘angel’ came to visit James.

[Again, he wasn’t a bad person.]

‘What are you saying?’

[He was a good person.]

It’s survivor bias.

If you had that kind of power in the first place, there would be no way you would be hated by others.

‘Why did James stand by and allow the Prophet’s Tree to be cut down in the first place?’

[You keep saying it, right? You’re strange.]

Damn snout.

I stared straight into hell.

Surprisingly, the guy looks dumbfounded even with one eye.

[Dantalian’s representative is good and generous? Do you really think so?]

‘What do you mean?’

[Even if we think about it. It’s strange that we bother to fight against it.]

I know it’s strange.

But Dantalian’s agents are all crazy.

[no? Look at the white wolf. In the end, he didn’t come forward until the knife was at his throat.]

I took my gaze away from hell.

Edeline seemed to be upset with me.

“Since he is Dantalian’s agent, it is correct to say that he rescued people through brainwashing.”

“Not everyone was rescued.”

I took out the next book.

It was an epic poem covering the life of the founding king.

“I don’t think that was realistically possible.”

“Why?”

“If many people had been brainwashed, it would have inevitably attracted the attention of the Laobian Empire.”

Edeline’s suspicions were valid.

“Dantalian’s agents are ordinary humans. Sihyeon died in the first battle.”

It was like that.

If Edeline hadn’t helped me and treated me when I almost died, I would have definitely died.

“I was really thankful at that time.”

“······.”

Edeline was shocked and stopped speaking.

Then, after looking at my eyes a few times, he opens his lips.

“···Sihyeon said that I saved her life, but that is not true.”

“Yes?”

“Saving Sihyeon alive is hell.”

─Hell?

I looked at the back of my hand.

Hell smiled meaningfully. Like a dark place.

If it were like before, I would have been nervous, but now I don’t even think about it.

“Can you see hell?”

“No. I can only vaguely sense its existence.”

Edeline said that and looked at the brand on the back of my hand.

“Why does hell save me?”

“Sihyeon paid tribute to the dead. Therefore, even the dead are only for vision.”

“···Is that possible?”

I only realized it after asking.

Doesn’t Juul also have the ‘ancestor god’s protection’?

“Yes. Pluto planted hell in Sihyeon’s body before she met me.”

I remembered my first meeting with Pluto.

‘···Sorshei Digg.’

I still remember him.

Did he find peace in me?

Edeline looked at me and hesitated before continuing.

“What I’m trying to say is that then most people will die.”

That was right.

‘···If you think about it, he’s really crazy.’

Dying to save Elysia.

Dying to save Shir.

He died like the Grand Duke Widow for Jules’ future.

My death was always committed to save others.

‘But why were you Dantalian’s agent?’

Except for Jules and me, everyone else did it once.

The forms of death are all different.

─But it is the same death.

However, I have lived as an agent a total of three times.

If something happens three times, it is statistically very likely that there was artificial intervention.

In other words, it is not a natural phenomenon.

“I will be careful in the future.”

I smiled and opened the book.

The content written in the next book was quite interesting.

James is good at crafts and is full of inspiration in that field.

It is said that he also wrote a book.

and.

─It is said that the person who read that book was hanged by the devil of the Laobian Empire.

The villagers informed the security guard who came out to inspect that James was suspicious.

At this time, James’ parents were found guilty and executed.

The crime was ‘spreading evil ideas’.

‘I understand why you have a knack for people.’

If you have awakened your abilities, this is most likely the time.

─16 years before the fall of Laobia.

From this point on, James searched for people worth saving.

Judging from the period, James was no longer Dantalian’s agent from this time on.

Hypocrisy is good, and hypocrisy is also evil.

‘Why on earth did you give up?’

There was no need to look at the back page, so I covered it.

The second book I opened was Gusteau’s life. However, the Horus language I read for the first time in a long time is like an earthworm.

In the end, I couldn’t read even ten lines and closed it.

And then he finally looks at Edeline.

“···What kind of person was Gusteau?”

“He devoted his life to explosives.”

“And what?”

“That’s it. Thanks to his blasting explosives, Pangea’s mining technology has advanced significantly.”

I looked at Edeline.

It is clear that Gusteau was still active during his lifetime.

“Have you seen it in person?”

“Yes. I learned about explosives from him.”

“What kind of person was he?”

“He was a kind person. But I was always anxious.”

‘You crazy bastard.’

A guy who is so afraid of artillery shells makes blasting explosives?

Isabelle, who caught my gaze, also rolled her eyes for a moment as if she realized it.

“···Once, the subhumans analyzed Gusteau’s gunpowder components and made a bomb to kill people and enemies.”

“I heard bombs are banned weapons?”

Edeline shakes her head.

“It wasn’t like that at first. It was because the subhumans did not accept it.”

“In Pangea, misfires continued to occur due to minor mistakes.”

“Soon, people became afraid of gunpowder itself, and the Magic Tower began to regulate bombs for killing people and enemies.”

It’s Gusteau’s doing.

This guy brainwashed people and used them as ‘avengers’.

‘You crazy bastard.’

I understand.

For those who have experienced a horror of a different order, the definition of revenge or revenge becomes distorted.

That’s because I’m not that scared of anyone else.

In some ways, PTSD can be called ‘madness of fear.’

“What were you like in your later years?”

“He committed suicide.”

“Yes? Why?”

“The explosives he made for teaching purposes accidentally exploded, killing numerous people. He couldn’t overcome the guilt at that time.”

“···It’s a shame.”

Edeline’s words were plausible, but they didn’t make sense to me.

‘That can’t be possible.’

Gusteau was a soldier who suffered from PTSD.

A person like that is watching over the misdetonation of a teaching bomb?

‘If he was that great, he wouldn’t have been famous.’

In other words, there is an angel behind it.

There were three things I definitely learned from this.

Dantalian also gives up his agency.

The angel seeks to destroy Dantalian’s agent.

─I am ‘Irregular’.

So much so that Dantalian insisted on living three lives.

If I hadn’t handed over the position of agent to Isabel, it would still be me.

‘Even if I ask you to explain, you won’t.’

I remember the greeting he gave me.

Dantalian said he enjoyed being with me.

You called me a stupid devil.

‘What on earth are you hiding?’

I don’t know.

“Are you okay?”

“It’s okay. It’s just… these angels are giving me a headache.”

“Certainly the angels and demons in my vision were very strange.”

Edeline’s words caught my attention.

She seemed surprised by my reaction.

“What is it?”

“Isn’t the devil’s job to warn the wicked, and isn’t the angel’s job to encourage people to do good things?”

“So?”

“But they know there is no heaven and hell.”

It’s a puzzling sound.

The sound that followed was even more meaningless.

“It is a kind of governance structure.”

“The soul is attracted to similar things. The souls of those who believe in God will be drawn to God.”

“Then the devil cannot exist. Because no one likes the devil and no one wants to go to hell.”

“In other words, if the devil competes with the angels, he must tempt people by making hell more attractive than heaven.”

My head can’t keep up.

‘Hell is more attractive than heaven?’

I even laughed because it seemed like a play on words.

Edeline looked at me like that and swallowed back what she had said.

I hope so for a while.

“But that’s not the case. This means no competition.”

“So, what’s the point?”

Edeline looks at me.

It seemed like something difficult to say.

I waited, and Edeline reluctantly opened the door.

“···There is a high possibility that angels and devils are partners.”