Chapter 63 – Whom to trust?
“Is everything you’ve ever told me true?”
To be honest, I was wondering if I was possessed by an evil spirit.
Otherwise, can you believe that what the evil spirit says is really true?
However, the evil god made an oath by risking his existence.
An oath was a kind of promise that had to be kept unconditionally.
Generally, the widely known promise to people was the contract.
If a promise was exchanged between the person ‘Ga’ and the person ‘I’ and it was written to keep it, that was a contract.
In these contracts, there were several clauses that each other had to abide by, and those who did not abide by them had to pay the price.
In this way, if a promise is not kept, both the person who broke the promise and the person the other party broke the promise suffer.
The binding force of a promise becomes stronger in the following order: Covenant, Oral Contract, Written Contract, Magical Contract, Divine Contract, Mana Oath, and Existence Oath.
A covenant is a contract between two people through language, and is the most basic promise.
If this is violated, sanctions will be imposed to the extent that the parties to the covenant can apply.
An oral contract is an evolved form of a covenant, and a third party who can guarantee it is intervened.
Usually, this third party role will be played by a judge who uses the law to tell people what’s right or wrong.
Oral contracts evolved from covenants, but the difference from covenants was that failure to keep them resulted in legal punishment.
The next step is a document contract, in which a bilateral or multilateral document is prepared and divided, and one is kept in the court to prevent evidence and unauthorized modification.
If this is violated, the level of punishment is determined according to the standards set by the parties.
Magical contracts and sacred contracts were to directly impose restrictions on the other party in order to keep the promise between the parties.
If it is a really important promise and you must keep it, you will make a magic contract and a sacred contract, and those who do not keep it will be fulfilled as they say.
For example, if you say your heart will burst and you die, your heart will burst and you will die, and if you say you will lose everything, you will literally lose everything.
The oath of mana is even more terrifying. If a person swears by mana, if he or she swears by it, he/she will be forever cursed by mana and will never be able to use mana again.
Lastly, there is an oath of beings who must risk their all.
This oath was not to be taken carelessly, nor was it to be forced upon others.
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If the person who made this oath breaks his/her own oath, the person to whom the oath was made will retain everything belonging to the person who made the oath.
For this reason, those who enforce the oath of existence were sentenced to death unconditionally, regardless of gender or age.
If the imperial family is caught making a slave swear an oath of existence, even the crown prince will be sentenced to death.
The oath of existence was so dangerous that even the imperial family was sentenced to death.
And then, the evil spirit made me an oath of existence.
Because everything he said about himself when he swore to me was at stake, even his own existence.
If I think about that, then I have no choice but to consider the words of the evil god to be the truth.
My head is dizzy. What if the evil spirits were really telling the truth like they were?
“Does the Oath of Existence apply to beings with the same divinity as you?”
[Of course. Even if it is a godhead, in the end it is an existence that is limited by the laws of the world.]
The evil god’s voice gave the impression that he was asking why he was asking about such obvious things.
Really, is everything the evil spirit says the truth?
“Tell me honestly what I think. I cannot believe that everything you said was true.”
[That reaction, I fully understand. If I were you, I would have reacted like that. However, I swore an oath of existence. You are free to believe or not. I’m just telling the truth that I can tell.]
The evil spirit was telling me that he was telling the truth and that he wanted me to believe him.
At this point, I wonder if the evil spirit is really telling me the truth.
At that time, this thought suddenly passed through my mind.
‘What if the evil spirit is lying? And, what if he says it while believing it to be true?’
But I soon realized that the idea was really funny.
Does a lie become the truth if you believe it as well as the truth?
The Oath of Existence was a contract that did not work even with tricks that firmly believed lies were true.
I looked at the evil spirit and said.
“Then why are your followers doing so much harm to the world?”
[The guys who are now active in the name of following me are all just selling my name to fill their own interests. Ever since my true apostle lost his life trying to save me, I have never recognized anyone as my follower.]
“Then, shouldn’t you be blocking it?”
I asked the evil spirit what I was curious about.
If those who are now active are not his accredited followers, shouldn’t he intervene in some way to stop them?
But now he wasn’t doing anything.
All he does is show up in front of me and talk.
[…] … I’m sorry. Now, I am not a perfect me, so it is possible to speak to someone only by borrowing a medium like this.]
“You’re using that pendant as a medium to talk to me?”
[Yes. In order to escape from those damn whores, I had to split my body into several pieces. Otherwise, I don’t know when those b*tches will find me and take me away.]
When the evil god spoke of the goddess of light and justice, he showed his anger without hesitation.
Is that enough to dislike the two goddesses?
“By the way, why are the two goddesses obsessed with you?”
[In the first place, I was a human being, not a god. I can talk at length, but I’ll cut it short. Two prostitutes showed signs of obsession with me, and as a result, I was forcibly endowed with divinity and became a god. So, for my eternal rest, I asked my former subordinates to find someone qualified to kill me.]
“… ….”
I’m listening to the story of the evil spirit, but I don’t know why I sympathize with his situation.
Perhaps, there is a possibility that that story is also a lie.
[However, the two goddesses wanted to make me a complete divine being by using the sorcery empire. You know that my subordinate went mad while trying to stop it.]
I know very well what the evil spirits are talking about.
That’s because it was a story related to my ancestors.
[As you know, your ancestors, who were called heroes, gave rest to my apostles. Thanks to them, it was fortunate that my apostle was put to rest. No matter what, the person I care about has been put to rest.]
What the hell is the evil spirit trying to say?
As well as his lamentations about his own situation, as well as stories about the past.
There were only things that were difficult for me to understand.
[There is not much time left for me to communicate through this pendant. So, let’s talk quickly. Don’t be bound by common sense, go beyond common sense. Then, you will be able to reach the level you desire. And, be careful. It seems that the two whores did something.]
“What? What are you talking about?”
The evil spirit just finished talking and disappeared.
The suspended pendant fell to the ground and completely crumbled to ashes.
After the conversation with the evil spirit, my mind became dizzy like a playroom where children played with toys.
I never knew what was true and what was false.
I was able to figure out what the evil spirit was trying to do with me.
The evil spirit was aiming for my body.
To be precise, in order for the evil spirit to rest, he must rob my body.
Then, when I die while the evil spirit has robbed my body, he will find rest.
And when I come back to my body, I will come back to life.
However, this plan requires that the evil spirit be trusted.
What if he takes my body and harms the people I care about?
If it wasn’t for him, I might do stupid things with my body and hurt my reputation or hurt Nina.
For this reason, I couldn’t believe the words of the evil spirit.
However, why?
In my head, I’m sure the evil god’s words are lies, and I have nothing to believe.
My heart was telling me that what the evil god said was the truth.
How the hell did that happen?
It was the first time I had experienced this bizarre case where the heart and head had different opinions.
In the end, I had to wrestle with unresolved issues until I left this place and met Professor Julia.
Who should I trust?