Episode 101
“Do you miss me?”
“yes?”
“I asked if you wanted to see me.”
“Wh, what are you talking about?”
Yuria’s question swirled around inside me and bounced off. Her question sounded a little different, and I answered it straight away.
“If you open your eyes, will you look at me with them?”
“Do not mock me, Your Holiness.”
I was offended. I didn’t like the attitude of the woman who didn’t believe in my abilities and qualifications.
“You might fail. No, you probably will. Failure is fine, but you might die. The path to your eyes is cut off, but I have a way to reconnect it. I’ve tried it in other areas, but not the eyes.”
“Th, that word… … ?”
I opened the tricycle and looked around. I found a wild animal wandering nearby, and together with Syang, I caught it.
It was a black cat. Its yellow eyes on its black body shook in fear. I injected magic into its head, and it soon screamed and blinked.
“I blinded this guy.”
Yuria reached out in surprise. Not to check, but to hug the frightened black cat. The black cat’s claws cut the back of Yuria’s hand.
I didn’t stop him even though I was staring at him. Instead, I put an aura into the black cat’s head. I forcibly connected the severed aura rod.
When Yuria put down the struggling black cat, the fur on its entire body stood on end and it ran. It seemed to have regained its sight, but it collapsed and died before it could run even a hundred meters.
Tears welled up in Yuria’s eyes. She could not see, but there were things she could sense, to a limited extent. That was the power granted to the priests of Brecha.
“You can be like that too.”
“Who are you saying there is a way to open my eyes?”
“Yes, there is a way. And there is a possibility of death.”
The black lynx was not a human. I was more accustomed to people than lynxes. This was because I had practiced medicine for a long time.
It felt like my mind was wide open thanks to Brecha’s blessing. I felt like I could do anything now. I was full of confidence, but I was still anxious. That’s how difficult it seemed to treat Yuria’s eyes.
I am not God. I am not a genius of theory now. As I thought about this, my anxiety grew even stronger.
It soon turned into fear and tried to consume me.
‘I am not God, but I am the Pope who serves Brezza.’
When I thought about it, I almost laughed. It was because I found my antics funny. I didn’t even trust Brecha, but I believed in his abilities. No, I, a human, decided to use God.
‘Brecha, is this your will? Do you want me to cure that child? What will you give me if I decide to do so? I am not a fool who sows seeds in the wilderness. I am someone who thinks it is better to leave the wilderness until the waterways are connected.’
I begged Brecha in my heart.
It was my heartfelt prayer.
Paaaaaaaah!
Brecha answered me once more. The power of God was fixed on my forehead. The three-wheeled eye opened against my will and I saw through it the truth behind it.
“It seems Brecha likes you quite a bit.”
There was no way Yuria could not sense the power of Brecha that had been bestowed upon me. She fell flat on her face and shouted.
“B, Brechasi!”
“Raise your head. Stand up and face me. It might hurt. No, it will hurt. But don’t lose your mind. I might need your help.”
He took a handful of herbs from the pouch on Syang’s saddle. If he took too much, he might vomit, but he would rather vomit now.
“Chew this. It will ease the pain.”
Yuria frowned as she put the herb in her mouth. She gagged, perhaps because it was so strong, but Yuria kept her mouth shut and chewed the herb.
‘That’s enough willpower.’
Now it was my turn.
I looked into Yuria’s eyes. I saw the world beyond her empty eyes. It was truly a world. It was a pure world where no one lived, but at the same time, a land of death where nothing could live.
‘Is this a good thing?’
I was worried until the last moment. With the power of Brecha, the three-wheeled eye opened, and at the same time, the brain function was activated. My imagination also doubled. I was able to consider countless cases, but my worries also increased.
There was definitely a chance of failure. The unknown territory I didn’t understand was expanding, and the result could have been worse than failure.
Suddenly, I felt warm. I thought that I had overheated because I had used my head too much, but the temperature of my head did not rise above a certain level. It was just warm.
‘Is Brecha showing me the way?’
Only a few paths were clearly visible. Virtual aura roads that had not yet been connected appeared as hallucinations. All that was needed was to connect them.
But I could guess the end of this road. I also figured out Brezza’s purpose.
He wanted Yuria’s eyes. No, he wanted Yuria.
‘Brecha, it wasn’t me you wanted. You were after Yuria from the beginning.’
I saw more than Brecha could have ever expected, thanks to him opening my eyes to the three-wheeled vehicle.
‘I will take one more path. This will not completely restore Yuria’s eyesight, but at least it will give her the freedom to make her own life.’
She concentrated her mind and breathed in her aura. The moment the aura road that had never been connected before connected, Yuria’s eyelids fluttered. The tiny flesh that had been questionable in its existence came to life.
‘It continued.’
The miracle happened in an instant. But the process was never smooth. Just as her life was shaken by upheaval, I too had to experience moments that felt like eons.
But I won’t say anything about it. The important thing is that Yuria opened her eyes.
“… … I can see it.”
Yuria’s eyes were tearful. Clear tears were streaming down her face, but she tried not to close her eyes. She looked around with bloodshot eyes and exclaimed in admiration. It was the first time in her life that she had seen something.
Looking at the delighted Yuria, I spoke in a firm tone.
“no.”
“I, I am watching.”
“What you see is not ordinary.”
Brecha tried to open Yuria’s eyes. But more than that, she tried to add the power of the gods to her eyes.
I used up all of Brecha’s power to heal Yuria’s eyes. No, I used up his power to the point where I could do something I normally couldn’t do: I planted the magic eye in Yuria’s eyes.
It was something I did unilaterally without even consulting Yuria. But I thought my choice was right. It was better than having Brecha’s eyes engraved into her eyes. If Brecha’s eyes were engraved, it would have been a lifelong chain, taking away Yuria’s free will.
“Does this mean that only I can see this beauty?”
For the first time in her life, Yuria saw something. It was not a form that could be seen with the naked eye, but a flow of magical power. Since all things were made of magical power, Yuria could see the form of everything.
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However, the colors and textures looked different to ordinary people, and there were many things that others could not see.
“No, I can see it too. It seems that only you and I can see it. Some call that eye the Demon Eye. I could have given you normal eyes, but I chose the Demon Eye instead.”
“I don’t know what you are talking about.”
“You have gained the ability to see the flow of magical power. That eye is one that does not belong to Brecha and has nothing to do with the Three-Round Eye.”
Yuria looked up at me and smiled. Her expression seemed to be slightly rebuking me. Yuria spoke in a tolerant tone, as if she was soothing a child.
“Nothing is outside the providence of Brezza. The Pope and this eye are ultimately Brezza’s will.”
“Is that your belief?”
“Yes, Your Holiness.”
There was no priest in the world who preached the faith to the Pope. That was a very blasphemous thing.
But even though such things happened frequently, I had no intention of reprimanding my priest. Rather, I thought it was a healthy phenomenon.
‘For an organization to operate healthily, stories must flow naturally from the bottom up. That’s how flow and circulation occur.’
This was something that could not have happened in Zeno’s kingdom, where the royal system was solidified. The king gave absolute orders to the nobles, and the nobles gave absolute orders to the commoners, and these orders had to be carried out without fail.
‘That is why Zeno will perish one day. If the worst monarch ascends to the throne in the current situation where royal power is strengthened, there will be no means to check him.’
That was the conclusion. If not immediately, then after several centuries or even a dozen centuries, Zeno’s kingdom would be destroyed. It was because of the imperfect system that humans had set up.
‘So was that why he advocated
He shook his head.
There was no perfect system. Even Luis de Breyot, the genius of theory, could not establish it. Since humans are imperfect, the systems they established were bound to collapse at some point.
‘The best we can do is to create a check and balance system. And we need talent to support the world and education to nurture them.’
It felt like a dozen centuries had passed in my head. Brecha’s power had disappeared, and the three-wheeled eye had closed.
My head, which had been spinning, felt like it had hardened, but for a split second, I was satisfied with the method I had discovered on my own.
‘The path has been set, so now we must go.’
With an ordinary mind, we had to move towards the future that the genius had foreseen. To do this, we had to add the help of countless talented people and human effort.
I looked back at Yuria. She was also my talent. She was an essential part of my plans.
“Even if I tell you that your claim that everything is Brecha’s will is wrong, you won’t give up on your stubbornness.”
“It’s not stubbornness, it’s faith, Your Holiness.”
“Then see with your own eyes. See with your own eyes that I am right and you are wrong.”
“Yes, until when.”
I looked into Yuria’s eyes. The pupils that had not been there before appeared clear. They were a deep brown, like her hair.
Although the focus was still not clear, it gave the impression that it was piercing right into my inner self.
“There is no one more devout than you in the Brecha Church. Yuria, I will make you the leader of the Brecha Church.”
“I will follow the Pope’s will.”
It was common practice in large and medium-sized churches to have a pope as their leader. This was to solidify the position of the pope. Outside the church, only one pope was recognized by King Zeno, but it was absolutely necessary for internal unity.
“I will leave the final decision-making authority regarding the Brecha Bridge to you.”
“Yes, Your Holiness.”
Yuria had no hesitation. All she had learned by heart was a few doctrines that had been passed down to her by word of mouth from the elders of the Brecha Church, and she readily accepted a task that even a professional priest would not have been able to handle.
Yuria’s gaze turned to me. She touched my lips with her eyes.
“I will appoint Dre and Anso, followers of the Brecha Church, as holy knights and teach them the art of the holy sword. Until their education is complete, Reverend Yuria will visit Councilor Raphael. You will be able to recognize him immediately. You will consider him your teacher and learn the doctrines of the Haryan Church. And you will learn the doctrines of the Brecha Church from me. At the very least, you should grow to a level where you will not lose in a verbal argument with the leaders of other churches when they come up against each other over doctrines.”
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Yuria was very nervous when she visited Raphael’s house. This was because she had seen the green energy flowing out of the house even before she opened the door and went in.
