Episode 169 < Between the owner and friends. (2) >
Master.
“…….”
I glanced at the other person.
You could tell just by looking at the smiling face that the Heretic Questioner did not use the word “master” as a simple metaphor or symbol. This man, sometimes a boy, sometimes a young man, did not know how to tell jokes.
Still, I couldn’t help but ask.
“I’m just asking, just in case. Mr. Heretic Questioner, you say you will serve me as your master… .”
“I will obey your orders.”
The Heretic Questioner answered immediately.
“I will kill the enemy you tell me to kill. Save the enemy you asked to save! As I said, I will match my judgment with your judgment and my actions with yours.”
The Heretic Questioner raised his right hand and placed it on his chest. With a disciplined attitude, as if imitating a butler.
“I am quite a useful tool!”
“…….”
“The beauty of a good tool is that [performance remains consistent]. I’m not bragging, but there’s probably no tool more useful than me to purge warlords, crack down on the inside, and keep the group together! Death King. “You can always rely on my performance!”
In other words.
The Heretic Questioner says this.
[I will never change].
“Please write me!”
The Heretic Questioner smiled broadly.
Seeing him confident in his own immutability made my heart tingle for some reason.
“Now that I have feelings, I’m becoming a bit of a naughty person!”
Because I know how the Heretic Questioner has changed.
“I am addicted to feeling emotions.”
“Do you always live in this mood?”
Just me alone.
I alone remember a side of myself that even the Heretic Questioner himself could not experience.
Under the white magnolia tree, the Heretic Questioner muttered.
“If only I had done that back then. If only I had done this at this time. “Am I drifting and wandering in those thoughts and still living like that?”
“That is why you are so beautiful, and I am sure you are also lovely.”
“If I were like you… … .」
The Heretic Questioner never forgot what he said.
I was able to guess the end of the sentence he swallowed down his throat.
[If only I could feel emotions like you. Could I have lived a slightly different life?]
I know this because I have met many psychopaths.
The dividing line between whether a person is a psychopath or not is connected by three pieces of language.
‘If I were like you.’
From the moment I uttered those words.
To me, the Heretic Questioner was not just a psycho, but a man who somehow ended up living the life he has today.
“… … name.”
I opened my mouth.
“yes?”
“Your name. Real name, not a second name. The name of the old sword saint is Marcus Callenberg, and the poisonous snake’s name is Liao Fan.”
And the count’s real name is ‘Nisha’. Unknowingly, the Holy Knight had called the Count by his real name. However, since the Count had never told me directly about her, I pretended not to know her name.
The only colleagues who have yet to reveal their real names to me are Sword Saint and Viper. There are only two people.
“Mr. Heretic Questioner. “I want to know your name.”
“Aha.”
The Heretic Questioner blinked.
“Is that an order?”
“If this is a request and not an order, can you tell me your name?”
“yes!”
“why?”
“I, no. We made a promise with the Black Dragon Master a long time ago. [We have abandoned the outside world. Strangers who lost their nationality, wealth, relationships, everything to the Dead Sea. Therefore, let us also erase the labels that the outside world has placed on us. When calling each other, let’s only use the names we got from the tower.]”
indeed.
‘There was such a promise.’
It occurred to me once again that I was not an original member of TOP.
“The Black Dragon Master has mixed feelings about the outside world! Although they hate and despise them, they crave the approval of the outside world. Ah haha. “He is probably the most emotional person among us!”
The Heretic Questioner narrowed his left eye.
“Anyway, Geomseong has withdrawn from our organization. No need to be tied down by promises! Also, the Viper is not the type of person to be tied down by such promises in the first place. However, I value promises. Death King. If you really want to know the name I had in the outside world… .”
The Heretic Questioner narrowed his eyes.
“Please order me.”
“…….”
“I will follow.”
Able to know.
This is not just a question of whether to say the name or not.
This means that the [orders] I gave will take priority over the [promises] shared among the original members.
It is an oath to swear loyalty to me.
‘… … ‘Can you take responsibility?’
I was worried.
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‘Can I give this person a different life? Can we take responsibility for psychopaths and those who live as psychopaths? There is will. There is also greed. But, do I have that ability?’
I quietly looked down at the Heretic Questioner.
Without saying a word, the Heretic Questioner waited for me to open my mouth.
‘In [The Story of Sormwin Academy], there was an opportunity to reform the Heretic Questioner. But I failed. I missed my chance. ‘I was doing my best to help Raviel, so I didn’t even have time to take care of this child.’
If I were given one more chance.
At that time, I thought about whether I could provide another life for the Heretic Questioner.
‘can do.’
I gave an answer.
‘I want to do it.’
I nodded.
“yes.”
The second chance hasn’t come yet.
Until they come, let’s take responsibility for the child in front of us, at least for the time being.
“Please tell me your name.”
The Heretic Questioner smiled.
“My real name is Bambolina.”
Laughter flowed beneath golden hair.
“Strictly speaking, it’s hard to say because it’s your real name. Let’s call it a nickname!”
nickname.
“I was raised by the mafia as a child. The mafia often called me ‘Baby Doll’ and that stuck with me as a name. ah. Bambolina means doll! It was also called Kukra (KyKna).”
The Heretic Questioner said brightly.
“The organization that imprisoned me was headquartered in Bulgaria. It was an organization that extended its tentacles in many different directions. “I was trained to work for such an organization.”
“There was, the reason why I used the past tense…” … .”
“Because it doesn’t exist on earth now!”
The Heretic Questioner smiled brightly and took out a lock from his chest. Swish. Swish. As if a ballpoint pen was rolling, the lock was moving around on the Heretic Questioner’s left hand.
“I was incarcerated for 11 years. After training as usual, I lay down on bed, but a question suddenly occurred to me. [I can open the lock on that door. Is there any reason not to open it?]”
Click.
The lock opened with a metallic sound in the Heretic Questioner’s hand.
“Now that I think about it again, it wasn’t there!”
So I escaped.
“There seemed no reason not to kill my dedicated watcher. “There was no reason not to kill the boss!”
There are people who do not do something without a reason, and there are people who do it without fail, and the Inquisitor was definitely the latter.
“It caused discord between two major cadres and four minor cadres. The scene was moderately manipulated to raise suspicion. Indeed, as half a year passed, I began to suspect that it was my fault, but alas. “At that time, half of the organization had already been destroyed!”
The mafia’s baby doll entered the tower leisurely.
The tower gained a terrifyingly capable beast.
“…Why do you want to treat me as your master?”
“The first reason is, of course, because Death King is more capable than me.”
The Heretic Questioner trailed off slowly.
“The second reason is… … “Because I hesitated.”
“Are you hesitant?”
“Uhm. Yes… what should I say to make you understand?”
Unusually, the Heretic Questioner narrowed his eyebrows as if he was quite troubled.
“After clearing [Sormwin Academy Story], I feel somewhat… It got weird. Even if we tried to punish terrorists as usual, we couldn’t do it as quickly as before. To others, the difference may only have been about 1 second, but to me, that 1 second was strange… .”
The Heretic Questioner was deep in thought.
“For that one second, I remembered the scenery I spent at Sormwin Academy with the Death King.”
“…….”
“Isn’t it strange?”
no.
It’s not strange at all.
Rather, I am surprised in my heart.
‘It left an impact.’
The route where the Heretic Questioner became completely immersed in the Golden Silk has disappeared. It was lost. However, even in my newly embarked history, the Heretic Questioner must have felt the emotions of the Golden Silk, even if only slightly.
Even if the immersion rate is less than 10%.
No, even if it was only 1%.
The little doll definitely experienced ‘emotions’.
“Death King. “You are my hesitation.”
The Heretic Questioner said.
“You took up one second of my life. That was my first time experiencing it. Maybe, if it were you, one second in my life could connect to another and one day become one minute and one hour!”
The Heretic Questioner smiled brightly.
“You can tell now. Perhaps this is what we call hope for humanity. People may always be waiting for someone else to take up their time. In that sense, you are my hope!”
“Just because you take up my time doesn’t make me smaller. yes. Somehow. “I can assure you.”
The Heretic Questioner handed me a lock.
The old lock was rusty.
“Your rhythm will simply be added to my melody. My monoseonyul (單旋律). “I can barely imagine, at least figuratively, that your lyrics might add to my monotonous humming.”
I took over the lock.
“Because of you, I may become music. Death King. Even people like me.”
The Heretic Questioner smiled.
“Can I make you my hope?”
“…….”
heavy.
Those are scary words.
There was a slight difference between heaviness and fear, so I might end up being afraid of carrying the Heretic Questioner.
I thought about the weight of the monkfish. I thought about the heaviness of the church members and the weight of Sylvia Evanail. I thought about the weight of the Constellation Killer. I came to think about the weight of the designated tribe, and at that point, I thought I could add another burden to it.
“yes.”
The Heretic Questioner is my colleague.
“I will be your hope.”
It doesn’t matter if the Heretic Questioner is like a beast.
Originally, humans were just beasts that longed for humans.
The child in front of me and I are on the path to becoming human.
“Without my permission,”
I ordered.
“Don’t kill anyone.”
“yes!”
“Do not torture anyone without my permission.”
“yes.”
“Please do not detain anyone without my permission.”
“All right!”
“Please tell me when you are worried. Instead, I will listen to your story and not despise it. I won’t even look at you strangely. I’ll put myself in your shoes, Bambolina. Please think of me as someone like you.”
“…….”
The Heretic Questioner put his hands together on his chest.
For the first time, I felt that he was [praying].
“yes. You are more capable than me. When you are my hope, I will strive for you.”
Ranked 4th. Lord of all gods.
The little doll swore allegiance to me.
“I was eliminated at this stage. We cannot go to the 32nd floor together. This moment is nothing more than a temporary arrangement made at the request of the [Princess Walking in a Mirage]. It will be over soon. “I will pay close attention to the Death King’s orders in Babylon!”
“yes.”
I stroked the Heretic Questioner’s head.
“Please remain calm and guard the house. Mr. cult leader.”
“Ahaha-.”
The Heretic Questioner laughed.
“I will follow your orders! Confucius!”
The Heretic Questioner’s new form melted.
[The Heretic Questioner fails to complete the quest.]
[The Heretic Questioner is eliminated from the stage!]
And the next moment, other colleagues appeared around me.
Sword Saint. Black Dragon Lord. count. venomous snake. Paladin.
The strategy group of 6 people, including me, looked at each other in confusion.
“… … “For some reason, I ended up waiting a bit even after declaring clear this time?”
The Black Dragon Master said.
“Death King. You were the first to announce clear. “Where have you been?”
I smiled.
“Just like that. “I said goodbye to the Heretic Questioner.”
The path we have walked is never meaningless.
Even if we don’t say it or see it, someone, somewhere, is being influenced by us.
I said, gripping the lock tightly.
“Thank you all for your hard work. Let’s move on to the next stage.”
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