Episode 169.
Baek Seon-pyeong’s wide-open eyes did not settle easily.
Wrinkled eyes.
There was a distinct feeling of surprise in it.
But that was only for a moment.
“…It is impossible.”
Baek Seon-pyeong quickly calmed down from his surprise.
After a while, he rebuked me with a cold look.
“If you intend to shake me up, I will not forgive you, no matter what. I will not tolerate any more nonsense.”
Kwaaaa …
A terrible aura exploded through Baek Seon-pyeong’s entire body.
The will that only longs for the death of existence.
An obvious murderous intent has taken hold of Baek Seon-je.
In the face of this murderous intent, even the blood ties between family members had no meaning.
Baek Seon-je resisted the murderous intent that was being directed at him and spoke.
“This is reliable information obtained from a senior member of the Pandemonium Cult.”
“Even if he is a Pandemonium executive, he is banned. Even so, if he leaked that information, it would not be banned information. So how can you say we can trust it?”
“This is information obtained by lifting the ban.”
“The ban has been lifted… .”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s wrinkled eyes suddenly lit up.
“I warned you that I wouldn’t take any more of your nonsense.”
Kwakwakwakwakwakwa─!!
A feeling of oppression, as if a mountain was pressing down on Baek Seon-je, weighed him down.
“Ugh…!”
Baek Seon-je staggered.
He resisted the oppressive force that was coming at him by raising his momentum.
But it didn’t make any sense.
Consciousness flickers and vision becomes blurred.
Baek Seon-je clenched his teeth and held onto his departing spirit.
“The red shadow…! It’s… headed… to… Korea!”
The words just came out.
“……!”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s eyes opened wide.
It was something completely different from the previous feelings.
The first emotion is surprise.
But the emotion he was seeing now was one of clear shock.
Is that why?
The oppressive momentum has eased a little.
“Ugh…! Ugh…!”
Only then was Baek Seon-je able to calm his ragged breathing.
“At the UN….”
Ugh…! Ugh…!
Still, breathing does not calm down easily.
Baek Seon-je took a few deep breaths and continued speaking.
“This is information that was delivered directly from the UN to the inspecting country…!”
Sway.
Baek Seon-je barely managed to hold on to his tilting body.
And then he slowly raised his head and looked at Baekseonpyeong.
The place I looked at.
“……!!”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s wrinkled eyes were bigger than before.
He was expressing an even greater sense of shock.
“As my father said….”
Baek Seon-je opened his mouth again.
“The fact that Pandemonium is trying to resurrect demons… may be false. However, the movements of the Red Shadow are something that can never be ignored.”
“……”
Baek Seon-pyeong didn’t give any answer.
It was hard to believe that Pandemonium was trying to resurrect demons.
No, I couldn’t believe it.
But the red shadow moved.
The reason didn’t matter.
Just the fact that a red shadow moved.
That fact alone told me that this was no ordinary event.
It was something that should never be ignored.
Baek Seon-pyeong remained silent.
The explosive energy had also calmed down.
The silence continued for a long time.
It’s been such a long time.
“Go back.”
Baek Seon-pyeong once again issued an evacuation order.
“father!”
“Even if Red Shadow steps forward, nothing will change. The flow of the world is not something that can be changed by one person. If things were to change because Red Shadow or I stepped forward, that would be the way the flow was originally.”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s firm will.
“Go back.”
After saying those words, Baek Seon-pyeong did not open his mouth any further.
and.
“still….”
Baekseonje was so heartbreaking.
“Are you still trapped in your own definition and unable to break free?”
My father, Baek Seon-pyeong, whom I respected more than anyone else in the world.
“Didn’t you once fight for the world, standing ahead of everyone else? Didn’t you personally change the fate of humanity, which everyone in the world thought would never change, with your own hands? Firmly upholding your own justice and beliefs─.”
“It was arrogance.”
Baek Seon-pyeong, who was answering, was not looking at Baek Seon-je.
“I was truly arrogant, thinking that everything I did was justice.”
“How can that be arrogance?”
Baek Seon-je said.
In the past, the invasion of the demon world pushed humanity to the brink of destruction.
No one talked about the future of humanity.
Only 13 people.
Out of a population of billions, only 13 people fought for the future of humanity.
That’s why no one believed him.
No one in the world thought it was possible.
Still, the 13 people did not give up.
Even in despair, they maintained their own justice and beliefs.
They eventually cut off the Demon King’s head.
In the end, he saved humanity from the apocalypse.
“If a father like that is not justice, then what is justice?”
Baek Seon-je was proud of his father.
One day, I vowed to become a hero like Baek Seon-pyeong.
That was also the reason why I became a guard at the inspection station.
The Hunter’s Path, which leads to greater wealth and fame.
I could give up that path without hesitation.
Because I wanted to do something that could protect people.
So how proud I was when I was appointed to the position of Director of the Inspection Bureau.
But father, Baek Seon-pyeong.
Baek Seon-pyeong was displeased with Baek Seon-je, who had become the director of the inspection bureau.
“Seonje, do you still think that you can be justice yourself?”
“I don’t think we can be just, but I think we can pursue justice.”
Only then did Baek Seon-pyeong look at Baek Seon-je.
But the wrinkled eyes were still indifferent.
“Seonje, what kind of justice are you pursuing?”
“It is the work of protecting good and innocent people, and thus maintaining the peace of the world that the Father has protected.
“Are you saying that you are protecting people while killing them without mercy?”
“The people I kill are not people, but vicious criminals. Evil that should not exist in this society. If you are going to fight in the mud, you can’t avoid getting dirty.”
“He is not a human being, but a vicious criminal….”
Baek Seon-pyeong said with a sharp look in his eyes.
“What are you talking about as a vicious criminal?”
“Committing a heinous crime that is too much for a human being to bear─.”
“In the past, human life was truly miserable.”
Baek Seon-pyeong interrupted Baek Seon-je’s words and said:
“It was a world where survival was threatened every single day.”
I’m relieved to have survived today.
I’m afraid of how I’ll survive tomorrow.
“One day, I saw two parents swapping their children. Each parent took the other’s child and killed it to make cannibalism. They couldn’t bring themselves to kill and eat their own child.”
“……”
“The parents fed the flesh to their other children. That way the children could survive. One child’s sacrifice saved the other children from starvation.”
It was something that was difficult to describe in words, even as a disaster.
But at that time, it was a natural thing.
It was a terrible time when one could not survive otherwise.
Maybe that’s why.
“In the justice you speak of, were the actions of both parents good or evil?”
Baek Seon-je couldn’t bring himself to answer that question.
“In the category of sin you speak of, the actions of both parents are clearly sinful. But is that the evil you speak of?”
“……”
“The parents exchanged and buried the bones of the dead child in the ground. The cold ground was frozen and did not dig. The fingernails were broken and broken, and blood flowed, and before the blood could soak the ground, the tears of the parents who sat down and flowed filled the ground.”
“…..”
“You are saying that these people should be beheaded immediately. You are saying that everything in the world should be done according to your standards, citing your petty beliefs and justice.”
“that….”
“The justice you think is right now can change at any time. Let me ask you something. Before the invasion of the Demon World, children of the past took labor for granted.”
Instead of going to kindergarten, I went to work at a factory.
Instead of going to the playground, I went to work.
Children learn about the world and grow up through working.
Parents who don’t make their children work are strange.
“But what about now?”
Parents who send their children to factories instead of kindergartens.
Parents who send their children to work instead of the playground.
“They point their fingers at you and say it’s child abuse. They say you’re not even a parent and they don’t even treat you like a human being.”
In modern times, it was truly a great sin.
Even though nothing has changed.
“Everything in the world flows and changes.”
It’s just changed.
Moral concepts.
The values of the times.
and.
“The same goes for the justice you speak of. Right now, your actions may seem good, and Pandemonium’s actions may seem evil. However, can we really say that they are truly good and evil?”
In the midst of the great flow that changes countless times as time passes.
It was just a passing moment.
“There is no perfect good or evil in this world.”
“……”
Baek Seon-je couldn’t say anything.
Sword Immortal, Baek Seon-pyeong.
He was simply crushed by the weight of the years he had lived and the realizations he had felt during them.
“I am dull-witted and cannot fully understand what you have said.”
However.
“Still, I want to do what I think is right.”
“How arrogant.”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s momentum became sharp again.
“Do you still think that your modest justice is good?”
“That’s not what I meant. I just want to create a world where people can live in peace, just like my father did. However, criminals are clearly evil in a peaceful world.”
“What is the standard for a criminal that you are talking about?”
Baek Seon-pyeong spoke with a rebuke.
“Murder is killing a person. Murder is probably the most heinous sin for you. How are you in that standard?”
The momentum is growing stronger.
Baek Seon-pyeong’s voice, which could be heard, contained an unknown emotion.
“You rationalize yourself by saying you killed a heinous criminal, but what you did was clearly murder.”
“……”
“Who in this country has committed more murders than you? Of all the vicious criminals you speak of, no one has committed more murders than you. There must have been some good people among your murders.”
“……”
Baek Seon-je couldn’t answer.
Because that was the truth.
Baek Seon-je’s killings were limited to heinous criminals.
However, Baek Seon-je is not a perfect human being.
I was an imperfect being who made mistakes.
Baek Seon-je’s sword was not only stained with the blood of heinous criminals.
It was something that couldn’t be helped.
It was inevitable.
People comforted Baek Seon-je by saying so.
But that guilt still weighed heavily on Baek Seon-je’s heart.
“By your definition of justice, you are a truly vicious criminal and a vicious murderer. And so now.”
Kwaaaa …
An indescribable momentum spread in all directions.
I feel oppressed, as if I am being crushed by a huge mountain.
“If I were to bring up that sin and strike your head, would you be able to hand it over to me willingly? Would you be able to realize your own justice?”
Baek Seon-pyeong rebuked him.
“……”
Baek Seon-je couldn’t give any answer.
A long silence fell.
Baekseonje and Baekseonpyeong.
No one opened their mouth.
“at last….”
Baek Seon-je opened his mouth first.
Baek Seon-je looked up and looked at his father, Baek Seon-pyeong.
Baek Seon-je said with a sad look in his eyes.
“Is it impossible for me to do something with my father?”
Baek Seon-pyeong had no answer.
So that could be a sufficient answer.
“The justice of my father, whom I respected so much. The words that he said he would sacrifice himself for the world and willingly walk the path of hell for people. Is that belief… no longer able to shine?”
“I don’t risk my life for beliefs.”
A brief answer from Baek Seon-pyeong.
Baek Seon-je couldn’t bring himself to open his mouth any longer.
The silence continued again.
Baek Seon-je slowly lowered his body.
Looking at Baek Seon-pyeong sitting on the veranda.
I gave a deep bow that could be my last.
“I’m glad I got to meet you while you were still alive.”
He didn’t say he would come back again.
The day I reunite with Baek Seon-pyeong is the day I retrieve Baek Seon-pyeong’s body.
“Please, stay safe.”
Baek Seon-pyeong calmly closed his eyes.
Baek Seon-je got up and left the place.
The sight of Baekseonje slowly fading away.
Baek Seon-pyeong did not open his closed eyes.
Until Baekseonje’s appearance is completely out of sight.
Until Baekseonje’s presence completely disappears and cannot be felt.
“……”
Baek Seon-pyeong did not open his closed eyes.
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