Episode 228 < Hatred. (1) >
One.
[I am.
I slowly looked around.
-homer! homer!
-It’s a home run! Ah, the ball goes over the fence!
Yoo Soo-ha Guild.
On the second floor terrace of the building occupying the yolk of Babylon, the sound of Korean baseball being broadcast played calmly. The voices of the broadcasters, like cicadas chirping in the summer, were closer to the background flowing in the distance than to human conversation.
“ah.”
Yoo Soo-ha was sitting on the sofa.
While scratching and smoothing my head.
This was the part where Yoo Soo-ha had pierced his head a little while ago.
“Baseball is so f*cking boring.”
“…….”
“Guys. “I’m coming after a quick drink.”
Suha Yoo yawned and stood up from the sofa.
“I feel like drinking alone, so don’t follow me. I’m going to stay out all night, so don’t contact me. Even if you call them, they will chew you up, so just know that.”
“Don’t drink too much. Mr. Yoo Soo-ha.”
Crack, crack.
Amethyst was typing on her laptop typewriter across from me.
The early summer wind in the Babylon Square shook Amethyst’s hair.
“Unless you want Soin to make a pilgrimage to all of Babylon to find Yoo Su-ha again.”
“OK.”
Yoo Soo-ha didn’t even give us a glance.
He just turns his back and shakes his right hand.
Soon, Yoo Soo-ha’s back disappeared down the stairs.
“…….”
I gritted my teeth.
“Manager Amethyst.”
“yes. Gongja Kim.”
“Viscount Amethyst.”
“yes. Advisor.”
“Tapju.”
“yes. “Death King.”
Three names were exchanged and three understandings were exchanged.
“Is this a possibility you are showing me?”
“That’s right.”
The square beyond the terrace was crowded with passers-by.
[Future] 11 years from the present of my world.
Or, [past] 11 years ago from my present.
A world established under the assumption [If there were amethyst].
“… … “Better than this world.”
I glared at Amethyst.
“The world I created is much more peaceful than this world!”
“…….”
“What is this! It’s a mess! The Black Dragon Master, Anastasia, is still alone and lonely! The Heretic Questioner… … Nothing has changed in Bambolina! “They live broken lives without even realizing that they are broken!”
but.
“[I] put the guild leaders’ relationships back on track!”
In my world.
Geomsung abandoned pride and prejudice.
The Black Dragon Master came to regard the Holy Knight as a friend again.
The Paladin suspended disbelief due to past purges.
The Heretic Questioner acknowledged his shortcomings and bowed his head to me.
We started talking to each other and recognized each other.
“Nothing has changed in this world! The guild leaders are still locked in their seats, and the tower is still a mess. I’m just swayed by the outside world. This… … .”
“but.”
Amethyst raised her head.
Purple eyes met me in a straight line.
“You killed Suha Yoo.”
The wind blew.
“You couldn’t change Mr. Yoo Su-ha.”
rattle.
A wind chime rang on the terrace window.
“that,”
“It was because Yoo Soo-ha was a wicked person who could not possibly be reformed?”
The background sound broadcasting the baseball game swayed in the wind.
“Suha Yoo was a villain among villains and a psychopath among psychopaths, so I had no choice but to kill him. “He had no choice but to kill me, so it was not my fault or my incompetence.”
“…….”
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“But look. Mr. Confucius.”
The early summer wind made the scenery dry and the background stagnant.
“In this world, Suha Yoo is working for others.”
Salt Emperor.
When Amethyst died and I died, I performed [Return] on my own.
In exchange for killing his day, he got 24 hours back.
And then he just made the excuse of “going for a drink” and disappeared somewhere.
“The culprit who caused the bombing. A traitor who has infiltrated the Pantheon. The assassin who stabbed the Black Dragon Master in the back. Above all, the saint who attacked him. “Suha Yoo is now moving to get rid of them.”
Amethyst looked at the square in the distance with an expressionless face.
“I am worse than you, less active than you, less responsible than you, less willing to change the world than you, and have less influence on the world than you. “He is a much worse person than Gongja Kim.”
Plaza.
In the middle of a street crowded with passers-by.
The back of a hunter’s black hair was flowing.
“But I became a person who moved because of someone else.”
“I could have been that person. Mr. Suha Yoo.”
iced coffee.
“When you killed Suha Yoo. According to Kim Gong-ja’s phraseology, when he [hunted] Yoo Su-ha. That Yoo Soo-ha was not the same person as the Emperor who killed Gongja Kim. He was just Yoo Su-ha, a young F-class hunter from the past of the Flame Emperor who might become the Flame Emperor. “He was a famous person who might have become like the salt emperor of this world.”
I closed my eyes tightly.
“… … I am.”
A sound came out.
“I also gave him a chance.”
In order not to kill that guy, I
“I did plays. I didn’t just kill them all, I gave them a chance. I wonder if he can feel compassion for the injured person, and whether he will demand payment for his help but not try to harm the injured person… … .”
“It’s like God playing with humans, such a [difficult] test.”
Topju spoke calmly.
I am,
“How difficult! If only they would quietly treat me and not try to kill me… … .”
“Is that really that [special]?”
The top owner looked at me.
“Is [a money-strapped person killing an injured person and taking their property in the absence of witnesses] really something that only an [unforgivable and unrepentant special evildoer] can do?”
“If it’s a person… … .”
“Anyone can pass through?”
silence.
“Suha Yoo’s death disappeared without any news. [Disappearance of low-level hunters] is a [common occurrence]. Doesn’t Gongja Kim know what this implies? “As much as he was a low-level hunter?”
“…….”
“How many people would actually be able to pass Mr. Confucius’ test?”
The scent of early summer was strong.
The air was thick and the wind was humid. The air itself floating around was not like air before a person had yet breathed, but like the breath that someone else had already breathed before exhaling. The oxygen entering my lungs was already left over from the summer.
“is it so.”
Among them, there was also a breathing sound colored purple.
“Suha Yoo didn’t help you. He didn’t save you when you fell in the hunting field, but instead tried to harm you. He tried to kill you.”
“But what about Agui?”
Amethyst muttered.
“Who is the Demon King of Autumn Rain? Mr. Agui also tried to kill you. He actually killed it. He was killed by the sword wielded by Mr. Agui dozens or hundreds of times. The continent was once destroyed by the blood scattered by the Demon King of Autumn Rain. Nevertheless, Gongja Kim allowed the Demon King one more life.”
He gave life to the hungry ghost.
“What about the Lady of the Golden Silk? What about Mr. Constellation Killer? How about the Heretic Questioner? How about the Black Dragon Lord? How is Geomseong? “Is there even one person among them who is not a [murderer], and is there even one person who killed fewer people than young Yoo Su-ha?”
“…….”
“Death King changed all those people.”
but.
“Except for Mr. Suha Yoo.”
Just that guy.
“Because, Death King. “You have no choice but to remain unaware forever.”
Just that bastard.
“When you were killed by the Demon King, you got a glimpse into the Demon King’s past. How did a doppelganger become a saint? How did a saint come to be accused of being a witch? Why did she have to become a witch? “I saw all the reasons why that person became evil.”
Some dark alley.
“When you were killed by the Constellation Killer, you saw Kim Yul’s past. The sunset on the rooftop. The sunset on the playground. “I saw broken cell phones and forgotten text messages.”
Long time ago, not very long ago.
I admired the number one hunter.
The hunter was seen killing someone in an alley.
“You heard the story of the Sword Saint. I heard the story of the Black Dragon Master. I found out the people who killed you, the people around you, and [why] they did that. So you can’t abandon them.”
That hunter killed me.
“Only Yoo Soo-ha’s past remains blind to you.”
You son of a bitch.
“You will never be able to glimpse Yoo Soo-ha’s trauma.”
There was no need to kill me.
“And I didn’t try to peep.”
why.
You could have explained it.
You could have told me the situation.
“He didn’t want to know.”
I admired you so much.
Why on earth are you a bastard?
“Mr. Confucius.”
How could you treat me like that… … .
“You felt betrayed by Yoo Soo-ha.”
I close my eyes and my vision darkens.
Amethyst’s voice came quietly.
“That’s why I hate Suha Yoo.”
There was silence.
The Korean baseball broadcast stopped.
The wind stopped.
The scenery hanging by the window stopped.
Time passed.
The sunset was setting among the crowds in the square.
The sunset had no nationality, and the people receiving it had no nationality.
“no.”
I muttered.
“I said no.”
I shook my head. Stirred several times.
“That guy would have turned into a monster. He would have become a monster anyway.”
My voice leaked out as if I had a fever.
“No matter where he was born, how he grew up, or what he experienced, he would have become a monster. I have no choice but to kill. I have to kill it. You have to kill it. It’s not for me. It’s not about how I feel. It’s not because I can’t tolerate it. For the top. For the world. Because I can’t allow its existence. So, I-”
I am.
“I saw that bastard…” … .”
I was longing for you
“I was weak.”
“Confucius at that time was weak.”
My heart rang.
“It would have been different if there had been a predisposition.”
My heart rang loudly.
“Kim Gong-ja couldn’t possibly forgive Yoo Su-ha. He couldn’t tolerate it. He said that Suha Yoo must have a past and circumstances, but he did not have the ability to find out and could not afford to find out. simply. “At that time, Gongja Kim was very weak.”
The owner of the tower said.
“You were angry because I was weak, right?”
“A feeling of inferiority and betrayal towards Mr. Yoo Soo-ha. Anger over his own murder. A feeling of helplessness that no one can change. He is anxious that no matter how much he cherishes and admires, he will never be the object of consideration for the other person. A sense of one’s absolute worthlessness.”
I never know when I might be abandoned.
“So you have to be a meaningful person to the other person.”
okay.
“I am not powerless. I am different from Yoo Soo-ha. It has to be different. The people I save, my subordinates and colleagues are by no means evil people like Yoo Su-ha. “It shouldn’t be.”
no.
“For saving the children from the burning mansion.”
no.
“Contrary to Yu Su-ha’s decision to kill the Sword Saint, Confucius, you decided not to kill the Sword Saint. Choosing to save people rather than abandon them. “He accepted the Heretic Questioner as a subordinate and the Black Dragon Master as a friend.”
I am—
“Mr. Kim Yul’s pain, Mr. Director’s regret, no, not even his devotion to Mr. Cheonma and his love for Duke Ivansia, the things that Mr. Kim Gong-ja has done since his return are all because I don’t want to be abandoned. Because I don’t want to be weak again. To prove that you are different from Suha Yoo and that other people are also different from Suha Yoo—”
“no!!”
no.
it is not so.
I glared at Amethyst.
“…….”
dare.
I don’t dare express it that way.
“Why?”
Topju spread his arms.
The hem of the dress fluttered like a butterfly’s wings.
I am,
“Yoo Soo-ha, that guy, can’t be the meaning of my life.”
I was weak.
I was weak.
He said that one should not become a psychopath, and that no matter how successful one is, one should not turn a blind eye to the children burning in the mansion. There were definitely days where I thought to myself, “I shouldn’t be like Yoo Soo-ha.”
“I have already overcome Suha Yoo.”
But not anymore.
“The importance of Yoo Soo-ha in my life is now so trivial that I would rather look down on him and laugh about it!”
I met Bae Hu-ryeong.
I met my teacher.
I met Raviel.
I met the director.
“In my life,”
Such beautiful people.
“Who will be the meaning,”
The ones I choose to be by my side.
“I decide!”
“I, and only I, decide the people who become the reason for my life.”
I become strong only for them.
It’s not because of Yoo Soo-ha or anything like that.
I no longer live with an inferiority complex toward Yoo Soo-ha, a sense of betrayal toward someone, or anxiety toward others.
I will no longer let them be my reason for living.
I am stronger than yesterday.
“…….”
Amethyst looked at me.
“Are you saying that Yoo Soo-ha is no longer your reason?”
“yes.”
I said with confidence.
“I don’t even think about that bastard every day. “f*ck off.”
“But you still hate Suha Yoo.”
“f*ck.”
“It still holds so much meaning in Gongja Kim’s life. So much so that he could never forgive. No, as much as he shouldn’t forgive. “You should never forgive, so you treat Suha Yoo as the most vicious psychopath in the world.”
“great.”
I asked this.
“Thank you so much, for proving that Yoo Soo-ha was a bastard who could change.”
“…….”
“Now I’ll prove to you that that bastard means nothing to me.”
You son of a bitch.
“Viscount Amethyst.”
I glared at her.
“You said you changed Yoo Soo-ha, that only you could change it, and you were showing off in front of me, right?”
“yes.”
“I will forever hate Yoo Soo-ha, and I cannot change this, so I am that weak. So, admit that I am weaker than you, and admit that you are the one who can change all the misfortunes in this world, right?”
“yes.”
“Tell them to turn off.”
I stood up.
“I will no longer show hatred or even contempt for someone like Yoo Soo-ha.”
I looked down at Amethyst sitting with her back to the setting sun.
“He has no meaning in my life anymore.”
no.
I won’t let you have it.
I’m so sick of hating that bastard anymore!
“I have become stronger.”
I took out the card.
The first skill I received.
My starting point.
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[I want to be like you]
Rank: S+
Effect: Activates automatically when killed by an enemy. Copy one of the skills of the enemy that killed you and make it yours. You cannot copy a partner that has already been copied once. Which skills to copy is randomly determined.
※But, you die!
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“I will change Yoo Soo-ha.”
I glared at the master of Mansaeng.
“I changed the hungry ghost that destroyed the continent. The Elder Sword Saint, the Black Dragon Master, and the Heretic Questioner have all changed. Yoo Soo-ha… … Do you think I can’t change that f*cking idiot? I am?”
“yes.”
“I don’t need your IF world.”
My voice was hot as if I had swallowed fire.
“I changed Agwi, Elder Kalenberry, Anastasia, Bambolina, and Raviel. I will make you the happiest. There is no need for IF assuming your existence. “The reality with me is their best-case scenario.”
“…….”
“You can’t make Master as happy as I can.”
I don’t need your salvation.
“You can’t make Raviel as happy as I do.”
There is no reason to tinker with your weaknesses.
Because I am no longer weak.
We don’t need gold.
“and you.”
I declared.
“You won’t be able to change that bastard Yoo Soo-ha like I can.”
“…….”
“In this world, Yoo Soo-ha, who drinks soju and drinks lazily, won’t take it even if you give it to her. The bastard I will replace will be a much better and happier bastard than the bastard you replaced. Because I’m more capable than you. “Because I’m strong.”
“aha.”
Hear my declaration of war.
Amethyst laughed. She laughed again for a long time.
I asked while laughing.
“Can you prove it? “Anyone can build heaven with words alone.”
“Because I’m a bastard who has never spoken out loud.”
“Yes. It was like that. So, can I take this as a challenge to me? Mr. Confucius?”
“It’s a duel.”
“A small man always welcomes a duel.”
The god with the face of an eighteen-year-old hummed happily.
“He who duels is a warrior. Only a warrior is a man who carries his life on his shoulders. Little people love all humans, praise all blood as beautiful, and take pleasure in frustrating all challengers. “So people are strong.”
“I am strong too.”
“A small man is the strongest man in all of heaven.”
The expressionless girl is having fun.
“The boy melted the heart of His Highness the Sun King, who had been imprisoned for sixty years. Soin consoled the heart of His Excellency the Duke of Inaction, which had been rotten for a thousand years. Soin thawed the Dragon Emperor’s time that had been stopped for seven thousand years. Moreover, all of that is just a prelude.”
Topju tilted his head.
“The boy built a tower. In this way, the unlucky people, the unfortunate, the weak, the evil, the massacres, the murderers, the cannibals, all the weak and evil people in all the world, and the small people are embraced and allowed to live again. The heart of a small person is infinite, and the life of a small person is eternal, so it can soothe the wounds of all children torn by the world. “Even Confucius Kim can finally breathe after setting foot on the tower built by a small man. How dare he challenge him to a duel?”
“then.”
I said.
“Try to make Raviel happier than me.”
As your life proves your strength.
My life also proves my strength.
“Try to make Master smile brighter than me.”
The people who are with me prove me.
“Try it.”
“Ahaha.”
Amethyst laughed.
“It’s good.”
Laughter spread across the sunset.
“Very good.”
The purple eyes brightened.
A purple scent mingled with the early summer air.
“so? how?”
It had a strong scent of rotten poisonous weeds.
“By what means?”
The scent came to me.
“How on earth can you change Yoo Soo-ha more than So-in? yes? Do you have the means? Is there a way?”
Purple scent caressed my cheek.
“A small person has a lifetime. A small person, risking a small person’s talent and a small person’s life, gained the ability to live forever. He built. I completed it. Do you have the means—the method? Gongja Kim?”
The kingdom’s courtesan whispered in my ear.
With a voice that captivated countless nobles, royals, and dragon emperors.
Sweetly.
“You already killed Suha Yoo.”
“…….”
“Ah, would you like to go back to the past before you killed Yoo Soo-ha? You’ve already done it over 4000 times. There is nothing impossible about hundreds of days. However, the relationships that Confucius has built with the Black Dragon Lord, the Sword Saint, the Heavenly Demon, the Constellation Killer, and many others will all be lost, right?”
“…….”
“I am giving up other relationships to change Yoo Soo-ha. Iknow, right. It really seems like [being a person called Yoosoo means nothing to Gongja Kim]. Isn’t it? How meaningless would it be greater than the meaning of the past hundreds of days?”
doggish.
My head felt hot.
Heat radiated from my heart.
Instead of suppressing the heat, I spit it out.
“compensation.”
“Hmm?”
Amethyst tilted her head.
“What do you mean compensation?”
“Please provide compensation.”
I didn’t take out the card for nothing.
“You still have something left to give me.
I turned the back of the card over.
There was a skill description written there.
+
Activates automatically when killed by an enemy.
Copy one of the skills of the enemy that killed you and make it yours
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“The rules you made.
The tower you built.
“The means I have rightfully earned.”
A dagger that I kept in my care at the tower.
“Based on this, I demand that you be compensated.”
“Hey.”
Amethyst smiled.
“You want to take away skills from small people and become stronger than them?”
“yes.”
“Are you planning on taking away [mansaeng (萬生)]? It’s a pity. It is a skill that requires a combination of several skills to be meaningful. If you have [Golden Dragon’s Eyes] and [Ice Dragon’s Breath], you can perform tricks like a dwarf… … . “What should I do with this?”
Amethyst hummed.
“Mr. Confucius, you can only have one skill, right?”
Her pleasure was intensifying.
“If you take one of Soin’s skills, let alone become stronger than Soin, will you be able to change Yoo Soo-ha? There are many, many, many preparations needed to become a munchkin like a small person. Mr. Confucius.”
“Are you scared?”
We cannot leave God alone to see joy.
“aha?”
“Not if you can’t give it to me. You’re scared, right? If you’re scared, do you admit defeat? I had to take a skill penalty and see your entire life, but they only give you a penalty and no reward? “It’s also worth knowing the details of tower operations.”
“That’s a cute provocation. really.”
Amethyst smiled deeply.
“And it is a provocation that cannot be ignored.”
Her fingers played in the air.
“great. Death King. “Try to take anything away.”
Top’s voice rang out.
[Skill conditions are met.]
[Randomly copies the skills of ‘Master of Life’!]
widely!
Amethyst snapped her fingers.
“Take away a piece of a small person’s life and prove what you said. Death King. Advisor. Gongja Kim.”
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Golden cards were lined up in the air.
[Form a skill card!]
The sunset has set and night has already fallen on the terrace.
dark night sky.
The gold on the tower pillars sparkled like the North Star.
[Mania for madness]
[The three evils of the royal road]
[The one loved by dice]
[Wangsa (王師)]
[Guardian of Ajin]
[Golden Dragon’s Gaze]
[Skull of the phalanx dragon]
[Breath of the Ice Dragon]
[Late life]
Stars shining one by one.
They are connected to embroider a constellation named Tapju.
That is the life of the tower owner, and this is the tower itself.
“…….”
I stretched out my hand towards the stars in the night sky.
and.
I held the golden light in my hand.
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