Episode 193
I stared blankly into Platy’s eyes.
Every word he said seemed to be filled with anger, and only when I saw it up close could I tell.
Platy wasn’t angry. Right now, he was very happy.
What the heck, you bastard.
What should I say?
Should I say that it looks abnormal?
“There is an order to everything. So, I’m saying, do you know what my true name is?”
“I think I know what it is, but I don’t want to ask.”
“Why? Ask me. I’ll answer honestly.”
Ignored it.
He spread out his other hand. The lotus flower clusters together.
[White Lotus Sect’s Sevenfold Law.]
[Chapter 5… … .]
Paaaaang-!
A whirlwind of white lotus energy swept between me and Platy. It exploded before the technique could be deployed.
The reason was simple.
Platy grabbed the white lotus I had created with his hand. That was it.
“I think you’re also ‘Jin Shi-hou’. You really have a crazy personality.”
It was at that time that I was quietly trying to raise my spirits.
“No one is watching here anyway.”
I paused.
“Revised? An editor? What, the other ascendants? No one can see it. Even the Heavenly Horse must have sent it. Only you and I know what happens here.”
“so?”
“So then, why is that?”
Platy, who was holding my hand, relaxed his grip and slowly stepped back. He spoke with a leisurely gesture.
“Let’s have a conversation, okay?”
“Conversation? Isn’t that enough?”
“What are you doing? Are you talking about the line you said to Goeuroon back then?”
“I guess so.”
“Hey. Hey, isn’t that exactly a notification, not a conversation? You notified me back then, and I’m asking for a conversation now.”
I didn’t really want to listen, but Platy seemed to have a lot to say. He slowly lowered the Heavenly Sword down.
It’s a position that can be moved at any time.
Let’s listen first.
“Now I can understand a little bit. Now, listen. People aren’t the only ones living in this world. Sometimes, there are people who meet non-human beings. Like you and me.”
“… … .”
“It’s not appropriate to simply dismiss it as a doppelganger. These countless universes, these countless stars, these definite histories of what must happen. Earth, Central Plains, Varga, and other things that had no chance of recovery, such as Hankum, Pasun, Cario, Europa, Proterra, etc. These are not simply the names of ‘stars.’”
Platy waved his hand.
The surrounding scenery changes in an instant.
Slowly, a strange white tree began to bloom between me and Platy.
“I think it would be more accurate to understand it as a word meaning ‘type of star’ rather than the name of the star? In the case of Star #12, it is called Earth-12, but there is room for misunderstanding here too. Earth-12 does not mean it is the 12th Earth. It is called Earth-12 for convenience. In the case of Jungwon, where Joo Sung-cheol was born and raised, it is called Jungwon-1692.”
“… … .”
“Just in case, I’m telling you this. Earth-type stars have appeared a total of 444 times so far. Star #2403 was the 444th Earth-type star. Wasn’t there a single ‘same being’ among all those stars? Wasn’t there a same being in all these places, Earth-type, Varga-type, and Central-type? As you can see, there were. But you seem to be taking it too lightly, but you should never think that way.”
The white tree that had bloomed between me and Platy grew huge in an instant.
It was enough to cover the entire Gyeongbokgung Palace. It was getting bigger.
“I’ll just tell you the gist. ‘I’ am ‘you.’”
“……what?”
“I am your future, and you are my past.”
“… … .”
“I am the primordial Qin Shihou, and the beginning of all of you Qin Shihou.”
Wow, it’s crumpled.
Between the eyebrows.
“We are different beings because we have lived in different environments, but are we the same? No. We are the same beings. We are the same beings. If we are the same beings, then of course our goals would be the same, right? That’s why I know what your goals are.”
“You know that?”
“I know. Because we’re the same being. Isn’t it stranger not to know?”
It was a little interesting.
“What is it? My purpose.”
“salvation.”
“……salvation?”
“Jin Shi-hoo of Star #12 was a man driven by greed. His great inferiority complex toward Jin Song-yi was blocking his greater purpose. His direction was wrong. If only his inferiority complex had been resolved, Jin Shi-hoo of Star #12 would have become Jin Song-yi’s helper. That has already happened several times in history. The desire to save others, the desire to correct what is wrong, that is the ‘true intention’ of Jin Shi-hoo. He just seems like a strange being because he was so easily swept away by his environment.”
I stared blankly at the platy.
“Let me ask you a fundamental question: Why am I here?”
“Why are you doing that?”
“To save.”
“What?”
“The world.”
“He’s crazy.”
“He’s crazy. You have to be crazy to survive in this world. The things I’m trying to do are also possible only if you’re crazy. The editor ‘Jin Shi-hoo’, me, and the other Jin Shi-hoos are all struggling to break the history of destruction. You’re the same.”
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Let me be honest.
I don’t agree with you at all.
“As I said before, there are more than just people living in this world. And there are those who meet non-human beings. There are those who introduce such beings to the world. Jin Shihou of Star #2403. I have an offer for you. You, become my person.”
I ended up bursting out in laughter.
I was listening to some grandiose words, but all they’re saying is recruiting One Piece-style colleagues.
There was nothing more to hear.
“Is that the end?”
“what?”
“Is that all you have to say?”
“Okay. I’m done talking. Now you can talk.”
He fixed his grip on the sword.
“Can I make a will out of that? You won’t regret it, right?”
“… … I forgot to mention that. All the ‘Jin Shihous’ of the stars are equally shameless. Just like you now.”
Snickers, laughter bursts out.
He took my laughter a little differently. That’s why.
“… … What does that smile mean?”
This is the question that arises.
Well, if you think about all the stories you’ve heard so far, and break them down one by one, you can’t help but laugh.
“Did you say we are the same being?”
“Yeah. That’s what I said.”
“Because they are all the same being, their true intentions are all the same, and things like change are meaningless? Since they are mass-produced products that come out like a factory, they are all the same in the end. Is that what you are saying?”
“right.”
“You pathetic little punk.”
“……what?”
“I’ve seen a lot of people like you, but I never dreamed that someone like you would say something like that. Hey, people change. Those who don’t reject their predetermined fate but accept it and adapt to it, are noble at best, or, to put it badly, pathetic creatures who have no will to change. And.”
This is the most important part.
“You’re struggling to prevent certain destruction? But people never change? This guy is just a regular idiot.”
“… … .”
“Hey, you punk. You think I’m the same as you? That’s ridiculous.”
“… … .”
“There’s a limit to how much you can say. Ha… … . I just wasted my time.”
He placed the Cheonha Sword on his shoulder and turned around.
Should I say it is the burrow itself?
You shouldn’t get along with kids who play with words.
“Hey. What are you doing now?”
I heard a voice from behind me, but I just ignored it.
To be honest, it was also meant as a provocation.
I didn’t come here to listen to some bullshit.
The warnings were sufficient, and the situation was such that they had to kill each other.
Well then, what else do you need?
“… … How dare you-!”
I turned my head at the loud voice coming from behind me. Platy came up to me in an instant and grabbed me by the neck.
I was pushed back like that, and only then did I stop after crashing into the wall.
Platy’s face, distorted like a monster’s head, appears right in front of your nose.
“It’s too close.”
“You cheeky brat, who do you think I am?”
“You little shepherd boy, he lies about everything you say.”
He swung his fist at my face without saying a word.
He raised his left arm to block it.
Kwaaaaang-!
The shockwave causes a building in the corner to collapse and the ground behind it to cave in.
“… … You really are a hopeless bastard. I will fix that habit for you today.”
It is said that people wear many masks.
This Platy in front of me was like that.
The way he spoke just now was quite different from the way he spoke before, but strangely enough, it suited him very well.
I blurted out a word.
“The thing about habits is that they won’t be fixed unless you realize it and try to fix it yourself.”
“I will make you realize it yourself. I will do it myself.”
“You won’t be able to do it.”
The laughter continues to leak out.
“I guess the trigger button was pressed correctly. Your temperature is 99 degrees Celsius right now, Inma. If it gets any higher, you’ll boil, damn it.”
There was a very small space between me and Platy.
This space is the space that Platy and I occupy together.
Attacks coming through here are spaces where both sides must react.
however.
Pfft! Pfft!
I couldn’t stop Platy’s fist from reaching out into that space.
The body is bent.
Blood was coming up from my throat. I didn’t spit it out. I swallowed it.
He immediately extended his right fist.
Ugh, I don’t know why that sound is so loud. Platy grabbed my arm with an emotionless face and twisted it.
There is a squeak, a creepy sound. Pain stabs through my mind. Then the bastard’s hand tightens.
Kwaaaaak.
“There is one big difference between you and me. Do you know what it is?”
He stretched out his right arm, which had regenerated in an instant. He grabbed Platy’s neck. He applied strength.
however.
“I asked. What is the difference between you and me?”
Platy didn’t take any hits at all.
My eyebrows are furrowed. They’re not furrowed in pain.
I’m clearly putting strength into my hand, but it’s not pressing down.
The self-defense energy contained within the outer shell has become thicker than before. It is so strong that the structure itself is incomprehensible.
I was a little surprised inside.
No, I was really surprised.
Is this it?
“The biggest difference between you and me is whether you have ‘ascended’ or not.”
“……what?”
“The fruit has ascended, and you are crawling on the floor. That is the biggest difference, and it is all that can explain this situation and what will happen next.”
