#Episode 90
Let’s be honest.
It’s to the point where I can’t adapt.
Still crying and snotting, he was smiling. His body was shaking, and although he couldn’t see clearly because of the rubble of the building, the rubble near his groin was soaking wet. He must have peed himself. The older sister next to him let out a sigh and spoke in a small voice.
“… … This is completely crazy. Was it always like this?”
“No way. He was holding so much weight earlier. I thought I was looking at an emperor.”
I could say for sure.
Right now, Ra’s mind is broken. Right now, he would answer everything I ask him properly. Of course, there are parts that I have to filter out here and there, but what can I do?
You’re a weak-minded beggar, it’s not my fault. Probably.
I asked a really good question.
This is something I was most curious about, and I had to find an answer to it somehow.
“Tell me everything you know about this part, the suit and the key. If you don’t tell me, I’ll send you down there for four hours.”
Eek, the thing made a strange noise and spoke urgently.
“I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you everything I know. So please don’t send me, you little punk who’s not even a convert, back there. Please.”
“It’s really annoying that you keep swearing here and there, but just say it anyway.”
“The fittest person means the fittest person for the key, and the key means the only means that can open the door of truth.”
“The voice suddenly became clear. Keep going.”
“He who opens the door to truth will gain power commensurate with it, and with that power, he can destroy the system.”
“How can you be sure of that?”
“There is a record that in the distant past, someone called ‘Heavenly Lord’ became the owner of the key and destroyed the system.”
A familiar word popped out, but I let it be.
“The one who obtains the key and opens the door to truth will become the strongest sword that can destroy the system. Using that sword to destroy the system is the ultimate goal of the Six Paths Sage.”
“Then what about the 200 people sent to Titan?”
“The 200 people we sent to Titan would be a major obstacle to our future occupation of Earth. That’s why our apostles took their place, and many of us have already joined the system.”
“Is the system more flawed than I thought? Doesn’t the system know that you are replacing those 200 people?”
“I know. But I still ignore it. That’s how the system was set up.”
I kind of understand it.
The system registered the apostles as ‘players’ even though it knew about it, and they also entered as players even though they thought of the system as their enemy.
in other words.
“Is it like a Trojan horse?”
“That ignorant guy knows quite a bit.”
I was about to slap him in the face but stopped myself.
“Go on. Just recite everything you know.”
“No one thought anyone would return from Titan. It was 100% certain that everyone would die there. No matter how extraordinary your talents are, you need a background to display them. Titan is the home of the Sage, and the basic principle there is that the strong eat all and the weak are eliminated. The basic principle is that insects who have not been given a chance like you will be trampled to death as soon as they arrive there. I don’t know how you came back, but it will only be for a short time. Anyway, when the Sage descends, you will die on the spot. You f*cking son of a bitch.”
He gestured as if telling me to try more.
“Out of the six elders, there were five who thought of Jin Song as a suitable candidate. If you include my opinion, six out of the seven apostles thought of Jin Song as a suitable candidate.”
Honestly, I was really curious about this.
“why?”
I wasn’t really curious about anything else, but I was really curious about this.
“Why is it my sister?” he answered.
“Because there is no one who sticks to their beliefs as well as Jinsong.”
“faith?”
“The magician Jin Song-i is beautiful. She is smart and has a lot of money. She knows how to put others before herself, and she has the audacity to boldly throw away small things for the sake of something bigger. She has great concentration, a wide field of vision, and excellent foresight. When I see her occasionally showing signs of genius, I think the word hero was definitely created for this woman.”
My sister blinked at the sudden, long compliment, and I got goosebumps all over my body.
“She doesn’t even show off her man. With that kind of appearance, any man or woman of her taste would be attracted to her like flies, but Jinsong didn’t even glance at her. She didn’t react at all when a man, woman, or man who was too attractive to her passed by her. Her mind is extraordinary. In terms of fighting, and in her ability to accumulate wealth by using her position, all of it is extraordinary. And yet, with such a being, she pushes herself and tries to become a victim, so if this woman isn’t the right one, then who is?”
It was a little ambiguous.
“You said something about belief. What is that?”
“Jinsongi wants a world without gates. To be exact, she wants peace. Yes, that peace. That peace she wants to create even if it means sacrificing herself. Jinsongi donates every penny she earns to achieve peace, rebuilds the ruined land, and holds funerals for the dead. In order to achieve that peace, Jinsongi clears gates that are not up to her standards to save those isolated in the gates. There are many people who say they want a world without gates, but none of them show as much willpower as Jinsongi. The only difference between them and Jinsongi is this. If you were told that your life is needed for peace right now, would you be able to throw away your own life on the spot without a moment’s hesitation? Jinsongi is definitely the right person, and as soon as you find the key, you must use it to put Jinsongi into the Gate of Truth. If that happens.”
“What if that happens?”
“The system will reveal its true nature. On that day, the system will perish with the fittest.”
“I’m pretty sure of that. Will they really perish? The system might win, right?”
“Can’t win.”
“why?”
“Because the system came from the gate of truth. When the system disappears, that is when the real role of our apostles begins.”
I ended up laughing a little.
This is a story I didn’t know. The real role of the apostles? Wasn’t it to find suitable candidates and find keys?
“What is it, your real role?”
“When the system collapses, the ascendants who were hiding behind the system will emerge. We will immediately drag the ascendants to the ground, dismember their limbs, slake their blood, skewer their throats, and shout for victory.”
A word I’ve heard before pops out.
Ascendant.
What on earth is an ascendant?
Than that.
“What exactly is the Gate of Truth?”
“The gate of truth is the gate of truth. You damn fool.”
“There’s a comic about an alchemist. Is this door similar to the one in there?”
“It’s different. The Gate of Truth isn’t like that. It couldn’t possibly be like a cartoon in the first place. Your imagination is too poor. As expected, humans, such lowly bastards, having a conversation with a bastard like you… … .”
Crack-!
I just hit the bastard in the face.
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“Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee.”
The strange laughter begins again.
I turned my head and looked at my older sister.
My sister, who was deep in thought with her arms crossed, turned her head to look at me. Our eyes met. I asked her.
“What do you think about this story?”
“… … It’s not bad. And it makes sense.”
“what?”
“That I am a good fit. I didn’t know why I was a good fit, but now that I hear the story, I think I know.”
He looked at his older sister with strange eyes.
“Everything he said was true. I want a world without gates. I would even give up my life for that. I lived with that thought for 10 years.”
“… … .”
“I have no hesitation in sacrificing small things for the greater good. It’s the same now. You destroyed a building and many people died. And I didn’t say anything about it. I didn’t stop it.”
“That’s right.”
“If you could have taken him to the nearby gate, he might have hidden himself in the process. I won’t create a situation where there’s even a 0.1% chance of him getting lost. If the Six Paths Sage is the Emperor of the Apostles, then this guy is the King of the Apostles.”
“Isn’t that too cold-hearted?”
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t my sister who devastated the city center, but my sister was looking further ahead than I thought.
I was just so happy to meet him that I just stood there and cheered, but my sister calculated the possibility of him escaping beyond just moving the stage.
“I told you. There’s no choice. If we let this guy go, 100 people could die, 1,000 people could die. We can’t save everyone in the world anyway. That’s the way the world is now. If possible, it’s right to choose the path that minimizes sacrifices.”
“You’re so cool.”
My older sister gently brushed her hair back.
To that older sister, I brought up the question that I absolutely had to ask at this very moment.
“Is that really you? You’re the one who fits the bill.”
“… …Why? Don’t you think so?”
“Well, what should I say, I think the criteria are too focused on ‘power’.”
“strength?”
“If you look at the list of candidates they’ve selected, they’re all either unique Awakeners like my older sister or people who have reached a certain level like Yuhana or Helena from the Underworld. What if they’re not like that?”
My sister’s expression became a little serious.
“Isn’t there anyone else who sticks to their convictions like you do now? It’s dark under the lamp. It hasn’t been long since I came to Earth, but I can think of two people who want a world without gates as much as you do, and who are willing to sacrifice everything they have to create that world.”
My sister didn’t ask who it was, because the question was meaningless.
My sister knows who I’m talking about. I know that too.
“Yoon Young-soo, Hong Hyeon.”
Strictly speaking, the apostles did not select the ‘suitable ones’. They selected the ‘candidates’.
“And I told Jeongbin before, but I think people here have too much blind faith in the system.”
“Blindly?”
“Once the system assigns a grade, you believe it is absolute.”
There was no need to speak at length.
“Jungbin said he was a B-class Awakened person, but in my opinion, Jungbin’s potential wasn’t B-class, but rather S-class or SS-class. With a little help from me, I think he’s now at the SSS-class level, sis.”
“why?”
“Don’t trust the system too much.”
