< Episode 232 Possibility (2) >
Unknown held his breath for a long time, waiting for his chance.
If it's Kang Seo-yool, he'll definitely create an opening.
With that kind of faith, I waited and waited again.
I swallowed my boiling insides with all my might and held back.
And now.
The long-awaited opportunity has arrived.
The gap that appeared immediately after using the power of fate became even bigger as I was surprised by something.
Unknown didn't miss that timing.
“You······where did you come from······.”
Masin turned his head towards Unknown, who was holding his head.
A creaking, turning head, like a rusty robot turning its head.
Masin succeeded in confirming Unknown's face.
And at that moment.
The demon's eyes, which were already big, grew even bigger.
You must be surprised that you can't check the information of the unknown through Ma-an.
Flick, flick, flick!
“Ugh!”
The red light from Unknown's grasp grew stronger.
Accordingly, Masin's groans became a little louder.
“What are you doing… Kyaak!”
The groans of the drinker soon turned into screams.
“I cannot acknowledge your existence.”
Looking at that drink, Unknown ground his teeth.
“Is this the truth? Is this the reason I was born? The truth I’ve been searching for so long is this······!”
Unknown's two pupils were shining with a mysterious light.
Looking at the back of Masin's head, the light became even more intense.
“What······ nonsense······.”
Masin's body trembled.
I don't know what's going on right now, but my body isn't listening to me.
Unknown's condition didn't look good either.
[Predation] seemed to have a limit, as it was unable to properly digest the enormous amount of energy.
Blood vessels burst all over his body, and blood vessels burst in his eyes.
There was an overload of predation.
Even though blood was flowing out of his entire body, Unknown roared.
“I’m just your accessory… your toy?”
The roar of a man who has been denied everything about himself.
It was a desperate cry.
“A joke. A farce. A clown’s play! The truth of my life that I was searching for was something so trivial! This······!”
Blood flowed from Unknown's eyes. Blood that had burst from the blood vessels throughout his body flowed down his eyelids.
“I hate this world!”
Pfft pfft pfft pfft!
“Since just now······ What nonsense······!”
Masin raised his magic power to counter the unknown's [Predation].
“Ugh!”
Unknown's expression became even more distorted. The overload became even stronger.
“What a pity! My… past life…!”
The blood vessels all over my body were throbbing.
It shook as if it was going to spurt out all the blood at any moment.
“I······ just wanted to be me······!”
The right hand holding the back of Masin's head trembled.
I felt so weak that I felt like I might fall at any moment.
“I just wanted to······ imprint my existence on this world!”
He put his left hand on his right hand.
Force was applied while covering it.
I held on and held on with only one thought in mind: to somehow never take my hands off Masin's head.
“I can’t accept it······. This is my fate······! I absolutely can’t accept it!”
A bestial roar burst out of Unknown's mouth.
If I don't do that, I feel like I'm going to lose my mind at any moment.
Because I feel like it will disappear right away if I don't scream.
Unknown had no choice but to shout desperately.
“I······see. You are my······.”
The eyes of the drinker shone.
The look in his eyes like a hungry lion discovering a wounded deer.
“Ha ha. So that’s how it happened.”
The drinker laughed.
What was so exciting, the sky was falling and they were laughing so hard.
“You. You’re a Lone Courier.”
Now, he smiled contentedly, as if he was enjoying the sparks emitted by the Unknown's [Predation], as if he no longer felt any pain.
“Then you······.”
He turns his gaze to Kang Seo-yool while smiling.
Kang Seo-yool is standing there blankly with an expression on his face as if he doesn't know what's going on.
Masin continues to smile while looking at him.
“I see. Then it makes sense that my fate was canceled out.”
He smiles refreshingly like a child who has solved a riddle.
“By the way······. It’s starting to get annoying.”
Masin suddenly became serious.
A blank expression, like a child whose interest in a puzzle has already been solved.
He glares at Unknown with that expression.
“Lone Courier. I’m not interested in you.”
“Don’t call me by that name!”
Unknown's already ominous expression became even more ominous.
“Hmm. Then should I just call you an observer?”
Lone Courier.
The lonely delivery man.
An observer born with the mission of observing and collecting changes in the world during the ten thousand years when the main system was absent.
That was the identity of the unknown.
“You’re trying to use the ability that’s supposed to be used for gathering information on me? How ridiculous.”
And the unknown's abilities.
The original name of [Predation] is [Collecting]
It is the ability to organize changes in a system by absorbing the target's system.
“Well, it’s good that you still have spirit. It’s only natural, then, since you were created by taking my soul away from me.”
And a small amount of the spirit of the demon was invested into the birth of such an unknown being.
“Looking at the status, it seems like you’ve been working hard on your mission. The number of systems you’re holding is… 208. You should be able to obtain some pretty good information.”
It is an arrangement for the demon who will wake up after ten thousand years.
To shorten the time to adapt to a changing world and to instantly grasp information about the changing world.
“Good work, Observer.”
A spark that is slowly fading away.
Leaving behind the static-like sparks that had no emotion, Mashin grabbed Unknown's two hands.
“I will use the information you collected for my own benefit.”
“Ugh······ugh.”
The eyes of the drinker shone.
The magic shook violently as if trying to absorb the unknown right in front of them.
“Well then, let’s take a look at what Adam did in the future······.”
It was at that moment that the magic of the drinker was trying to surround the unknown.
[warning!]
[warning!]
[The appearance of the divine being has been confirmed.]
A strange hologram appears before Mashin's eyes.
“Hey, you’re still greedy.”
A man's voice rang out.
Attractive low and mid-range tones that are tactile yet strangely powerful.
"······Adam."
“How many years has it been since I last saw you in person? It’s been so long that my memory is hazy.”
Adam, the creator god.
He was wearing a plain slacks and a plain rider jacket, his hands in his pockets and he was strutting around.
“Seven years may not seem like such a long time, for you or for me.”
“Oh. Really? It’s only been seven years? I thought it was ten thousand years.”
At Adam's side was the body of an unknown man who was about to die.
“Anyway. It’s been a while since I’ve seen you······.”
Adam.
no.
“This is fucking fucked up. Right?”
Kim Shin's eyes shone with a cold light.
* * *
"ruler."
As if I had teleported,
Suddenly, a god appeared in front of me and handed me the unknown.
“That was a close call. You should have been more careful. If this guy had been eaten by the demon, it would have been the end. Understood, huh?”
He half-turns his head and smiles mischievously.
As soon as I saw that face, I felt a strange sense of relief mixed with annoyance.
“What is it? You’re looking at me so sadly. Did you miss me that much?”
A deep anger that makes me clench my fist without me knowing.
There could not have been anyone else who could use such language.
“······Brother. Let’s just hit one first.”
“Whoa, whoa. You know now isn’t the time for that.”
Shin-hyung stopped me with a frightened expression.
I desperately suppressed the fist I had raised.
“I can’t even joke around. My little brother has become so serious. I’m so sad. Sob sob.”
“······Are you really going to kill me?”
I just smiled and raised my fist.
“Okay. I’ll keep my mouth shut.”
My brother pretended to put a jack in his mouth.
“Anyway······It’s been a really long time.”
God, my brother laughed heartily.
“I want to relieve some stress······. The situation isn’t favorable.”
Then, he immediately becomes serious and glares at the terrifying demon in front of him.
“First of all······ I’m asking just in case, but hyung······.”
I was thinking of asking if it was 'Kim Shin' who interacted with me in modern times, rather than 'Adam', the creator god of this era······.
"fizzle."
Suddenly, Brother Shin cut me off.
Then he winked at Masin.
"ah."
It must mean that he is telling Masin not to give him information about the future by bringing up strange words for no reason.
'Mashin doesn't know that Shin Hyung is the creator god from the future.'
I immediately shut my mouth.
Shin-hyung smiled with satisfaction. He seemed satisfied with my quick wit.
“Hey. But I didn’t know you’d come all the way to a place like this and fight a demon.”
A place like this.
It means something that has flown into the past.
Brother Shin quickly ran his hands over my body.
“What is this? It’s like skipping all the intermediate stages and fighting the final boss. What the······.”
It's a mysterious expression.
“No. Rather, it seems like it might have been a good thing······.”
He tilted his head as if his thoughts were complicated, then nodded, and then chaos broke out.
“······I don’t know. What’s the point of thinking about that now? It’s already happened. Right?”
Then he laughs loudly.
Anyone who sees me would think I'm crazy.
He was just an ordinary god.
“By the way, that guy. Why is he just sitting there? It wouldn’t have been strange if he had rushed in a while ago.”
Masin looks at his brother like that and is unable to do anything.
I would say that we are in a state of extreme alertness.
“Well, it’s nice that we have time to talk like this.”
Shin-hyung shrugged.
“First of all······You came to help, right?”
And then all of a sudden you're not going to say, 'No, I got caught too,' right?
“Huh? Then. You came to help. You came to cheer me on?”
Hey.
You speak really beautifully.
How pretty you are, I want to fold your face into clay.
“I originally thought it would happen much later.”
“A little longer?”
“Yeah. Much later. Something like ‘Save the World.’ Nearby?”
Save the world.
These are the chapter names for chapters 780 to 785 of the original [S-Class Status Window].
He must have said it indirectly so as not to give information to Masin.
“······That far back?”
But at that point, the original protagonist would have been over 26 years old.
“I thought that by then, the arrangement I had set would be able to take effect.”
“Arrangements······?”
Does that mean that this incident happened because of some reason?
Like when you sent me an email in the past, sent me an encyclopedia of traits, and when you appeared in my dreams to warn me.
“Yeah. Don’t you have any idea? There must have been some changes in your body.”
Changes in my body?
That kind of thing······.
"ah."
“I see you remembered.”
Clearly, the stigmata had shone before Shin Hyeok appeared.
It wasn't just a plain glow, but it felt like it resonated with the fate of the demon.
'Is that the trigger? When the fate of the machine is countered… or when a resonating phenomenon occurs?'
That was when I organized my thoughts.
“You are right.”
He said so, as if he had read my thoughts from my expression.
“Now you know why I’m so dumbfounded?”
"······roughly."
It's amazing.
The country would be surprised too.
The power of fate is a special concept that does not appear in the original work.
I can't help but be surprised when I'm faced with something like that at this point.
“The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it becomes. Who would really call him a crooked master? Oh my. He just skipped step 10.”
Shin-i-hyung shook his head.
“Anyway, the results don’t seem to be bad, so that’s fortunate.”
Shin took his hands out of his pockets and waved them in the air.
Then, something amazing-looking sword popped out.
An iron sword that doesn't look particularly unusual, but somehow leaves a sense of awe.
“······!”
As if I knew what that sword was.
The level of the drinker's boundaries has risen even higher.
“Seoyul-ah. Go back to where you were right now.”
Where I originally came from.
hyundai.
This was also said indirectly to avoid being caught by the devil.
“There’s nothing you can do here. Spilled water can’t be gathered back.”
If I were to explain God's words directly, it would be like this.
The past cannot be changed.
“Pour new water into a new glass slowly. That’s what you have to do.”
But the future can be changed.
“Why did you spill the water? Why did the glass break? Who broke it? Don’t forget to chew over all the regrets you realized from spilling the water and change them.”
Here, use everything you have learned and come to know from the past to change the future for the better.
“Try changing the material of the water glass. Try changing the place where you store it. Do you know what I mean?”
You can do it.
I'm not sure what that means, but that's probably what it means.
That's a good point.
That's a good point······.
“Hyung. It’s all really good, I get it······.”
“Don’t worry. We’ll have some time to talk after I get back. If you have any questions······.”
“No. That’s not it.”
The really important element is missing.
“There’s no way back?”
The artifact of Kronos that will return to the present has not yet been completed.
< Episode 232 Possibility (2) > End
