59. Identity (2)
Raffy went ahead, as if he hadn’t heard the voice, and moved first. After confirming that I wasn’t following him, he turned his head.
But in Raffy’s direction, Maria’s expression didn’t catch my eye.
It was Maria who acted first in a situation where she did not know what kind of threat there was.
“Philippe, can you leave first? I think I need to talk a little more with the person in charge of the church.”
I felt as if I had seen those eyes that were split vertically, shining at the same time, as if they were projecting gold.
So obviously at the power plant…
“…Yes… I see.”
There was no doubt that Philip was dazed with his eyes wide open.
The eyes of the time when Anyatoli, the deputy director of the power plant, shut down various facilities and finally pressed the emergency stop button and blew up the power plant.
As if he had no intention of hiding it, he was openly spreading it in front of him.
Something that dazzles the target’s mind.
I don’t know if it was a tool, magic, or an individual’s ability, but it was a dangerous ability.
“…Rafi, please stay out for a while.”
“What happened…. No.”
My words paused for a moment. Without asking her why she was saying that, she just nodded her head and walked out.
However, she turned around and slowly closed the door, leaving only her eyes asking for a call at any time.
Kung.
In a room where the warm sunlight came in, but ironically, too cold air passed by my cheeks.
I sat down again in the same place I stood up, and Maria followed suit and sat across from me.
After a moment of silence, it was Maria who spoke first.
“I didn’t expect to be caught so quickly, is it because the power plant exploded too late?”
“The thing behind Louis Devierne is as expected-.”
“Yes, it is me. Louis Deviène is just a greedy nobleman. Well, he doesn’t have a lot of knowledge, but it’s still unreasonable for him to conduct research up to the power plant.”
The recognition I said with my mouth was what I had already expected, so my heart wasn’t too wild.
“Honestly, I thought the power plant would explode before arriving, but it must have been a mistake. If you know what AZ-5 is. Normally, by the time you visit the reactor core, it will explode properly, and you will see a bewildered face without knowing anything.”
The way he spoke was very regretful, and the look in his eyes contained such a wish that the accident would happen a little faster.
“Did I miscalculate the accumulation of Xenon inside? Or did you miscalculate the inrush pressure of the fuel rod and the neutron threshold of the moderator… Well, it doesn’t really matter either way, because it comes to the same conclusion that it will explode in the end.”
“However, the people who should enter the facility in the first place…”
“Oh, the Western Church?”
Maria pointed her finger at her floor.
“Hmm, I wonder if they are abandoned in the forest somewhere by now. You couldn’t get into the power plant if they went as scheduled, right?”
She said that for her, she was already a planned scenario.
“…Why did you do that?”
The research conducted by Louis Devierne, no, Maria Salomea, was a result that could change the very structure of the world if used well.
A research result that transcended the times, but that knowledge was somehow used with the worst results.
”If you ask why, um… To be honest, it was just insurance. The explosion at the power plant was insurance against an irresistible catastrophe.”
“Insurance?”
“Yes, You must die In case something goes wrong with me.”
I got goosebumps as the thinly opened, torn vertical pupil passed through my entire body.
“Jan Esttoria.”
The name suddenly came out of Maria’s mouth.
Why did Jan’s name come out all of a sudden? Maria shook her head as she frowned.
“I thought it was okay even when I entered the pawn shop… But when I actually fought, it was actually very different.”
“Did you challenge Yan to a fight?”
“I underestimated the value of the name witch.”
It may seem flimsy, but Yan is a witch among witches who took down Legarete in one blow.
“I somehow managed to kill him once… But a head-on fight was definitely impossible.”
“What?”
As Maria recalled, she stroked her chin and cheeks.
“Dealing with witches is certainly not easy. I thought I killed her, but then I realized that she came back to life and cut off all her limbs. Oh, this must be avoided. It is a disaster that should never be stepped on again.”
She chose to kill me as a means to turn back her time if she were to be defeated by Yan.
“It was an insurance set up for that purpose. Because it is certain that you will turn back time through death, whether you will or not, the disaster you can never avoid.”
“Why the hell…?”
“Do you remember the armor of the rock dragon kept in the pawn shop?”
I couldn’t forget the 4800 gold coin thing.
“The armor was not intended by the creators, but it is a very good shield, and the ring bond with tungsten has such a great effect that even if you play with enriched uranium right in front of your nose, it won’t break through at all. Its shielding ability is incomparable to that of lead.”
Then the space distorted next to Maria and a box popped out.
What was lifted out of the box was a completely unpolished stick-like sword that was too ridiculous to be called a sword.
But the explanatory window that popped up in front of me wasn’t funny at all.
[Plutonium Greatsword]
-A great sword made of plutonium extracted from waste uranium through a reprocessing process. Significant alpha rays (α) are emitted from itself, but they cannot be ionized even a few centimeters in the air and are blocked by even a piece of paper, so only close it doesn’t matter if you don’t But if you put something extra into the strange hole in the handle of the sword, you might get a huge reaction…
“Plutonium…”
I fell slightly from the sword that was so vicious that it should be called high-level radioactive waste rather than a weapon.
At that appearance, Maria smiled incomprehensibly.
“Do you know what this is? Usually people in ‘this world’ don’t even know what this is.”
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There was a blade hidden in her words and her smile.
“For this knowledge, I made a contract with the foreign media, the creeping chaos. Of course, it wasn’t smooth from the beginning. There was also a lot of useless knowledge mixed in. I’ve spent over 100 years just picking out and organizing the things I need. If I had been an ordinary human being rather than a long-lived species, I would have died of old age without being able to finish tidying up.”
Maria obediently talks about her contract with foreign media.
“I accepted such knowledge casually and recognized what it was at once…”
I ended up acting like an idiot.
“You are not from this world, are you?”
“…..”
I was caught, and I had no choice but to answer in silence.
I’m not saying that not answering is right, but in this case it must be an overwhelming affirmation.
An ironic situation where not answering expresses affirmation.
“Well, good. Regardless of whether that’s right or not, it’s enough that you won’t fall short in understanding what I’m saying.”
I am saying this because I am not a person of this world.
“I plan to spread radioactivity to this continent, no, to the entire world. It’s a moment I’ve been dreaming of for a long time.”
“…?”
I couldn’t understand.
“I saw three obstacles in the plan.”
First, Maria’s index finger was lifted.
“First, the witch. With this sword, I intended to kill the witch. They’re one of the factors that can get in the way of my plans. Witches with powers and abilities that transcend cognition, and witches’ bizarreness and magic, may be able to cope with radiation.”
And I challenged Yan in the previous episode, and I blew up the power plant to turn back the rest of the time I failed.
“It was a failure at the time, but it seems to have been solved. After all, the witch didn’t figure out her gamma rays until the end, so no matter how many times she revives, there will always be a way to kill her.”
It was a meaningful laugh.
For the second time, the middle finger was lifted and a V was drawn.
“Second is the saintess who is the center of the church and the apostle of the Goddess. Not only will she obstruct everything through her foreknowledge of the future, but if she starts leading as the center, it will be a huge hindrance to my plans. I’ve been working happily.”
A scarecrow named Louis Deviène.
“The product was gradually spread under the name of universal radium. Let the aristocrats descend slowly. And in exchange for its interests, they attracted cardinals and weakened the central church’s internal influence so that the saintess could not interfere.”
Finally, the ring finger was lifted.
“Lastly, regressor, you are my biggest enemy. You, at any time, can undo what I have done. In particular, the variable among the variables that dismisses everything as nonexistent and changes the future at will. It was a much more dangerous and difficult element to deal with than the previous two. But seeing you now, I was relieved.”
What is the point of spreading radiation while excluding witches, saints, and regressors?
For greater interest? Or world domination?
I couldn’t figure out what Yongin wanted to do.
“Radioactivity. Nothing happens with the amount you’re exposed to naturally. The immune system isn’t that simple, the mutated cells are eliminated and normal structures take their place. The reality is that even this sword can’t even pierce the skin right now…”
He stuck out his tongue and took action to eat and drink.
“If you go inside, the story is different. It damages and transforms organs, and it takes a lot of time to get absorbed and come out.”
“What do you gain by doing that?”
“It is nothing by itself. It’s just that there are only a few symptoms of radiation exposure. Hair loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, if you go a little further, infertility, deformities, cancer… but you add one more thing to that.”
I took something out of my robe and threw it this way.
It was a necklace with a small cross on it.
“Divine power.”
And with those words, the memory of the previous car stabbed strongly in my brain.
What happened to a person who was exposed to a high dose by graphite, the moderator in the reactor core, and received Rusalka’s divine power.
My expression hardened when I remembered how my whole body swelled up in an instant and exploded with yellow bodily fluid.
“Did you see it? Saw? Did you see it?”
Maria’s expression when she saw that was perfect.
“…Did you know what happens when a person who has been exposed to radiation receives divine power?”
“Organizations that cannot fulfill their role overgrow and make people no longer human.”
A strange phenomenon that becomes a curse that kills people in order to become a divine power that saves people.
“At first, it will be just a small incident. After receiving the divine power treatment, I felt rather sick to my stomach. ‘Strange’ Things like rashes on the skin or even tumors would happen.”
“Do you believe in the radium you distribute? People aren’t stupid either, and if they noticed something strange, it wouldn’t be sold anymore.”
“Yes, but that’s just the beginning. Radium was just a small experiment. The real thing is on the other side, right?”
She then opened her mouth without making a sound, but she could tell what Maria was talking about.
[Power Plant. Plant]
The second Chernobyl disaster.
The worst disaster that cannot be prevented by the power of this world even if only one explosion occurs.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t eat radium. Radiation that is hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of times more than radium will pour down on the clouds in the sky, on the pouring rain and flowing river water, and on the wind that brushes by.”
But it could be prevented.
I came back knowing why it happened and why the power plant exploded, so I was able to prevent the worst.
“…Do you think I will be watching that scene?”
“It doesn’t matter if you’re not watching. Let’s see… Do you think we have about 8 hours left at this time? If we ride the three-headed wagon like before, we should be able to arrive at our leisure.”
But for some reason, seeing my actions like that, Maria stretched her body.
“I ran fast and arrived 7 hours later! And he went straight into the power plant and succeeded in stopping the deputy director and stably shutting down the core! Clap clap clap!”
There was madness in her appearance as she burst into laughter and clapped her hands at no one around her.
“Now then, shall we go to the next place?”
“…Next…Where?”
Her brain, not understanding her words, paused her thoughts for a moment.
“One underground in the archipelago, one in the northern fortress, six near the kingdom’s capital and hub distribution cities, Oh, congratulations. You’ve successfully stopped one out of nine.”
“Hana…Wasn’t it?”
“Yes, there are nine in total. It is a gift that I have prepared and prepared for nearly a hundred years all over the continent.”
An incredible story.
To dismiss it as a lie, the madness in the vertically slit eyes indirectly indicated that it was true.
“The melted core will penetrate the ground and into the aquifer, contaminating drinking water sources and causing massive steam explosions. And the smoke rising from the blazing heat will cover the entire continent, and the fallout will fall everywhere in the monsoon winds. “
The worst, and the worst.
“And where do those who feel abnormal in their bodies go?”
“Doctors…And temples.”
The future is drawn one by one in my head.
A terrible picture drawn by this Yongin, Maria Salomea, is slowly beginning to reveal its outline.
“In the name of God, the priests and nuns will kill all the believers who seek mercy from God, pray for forgiveness, and find a ray of hope. A future where the divine power that is directly scattered, the consecrated holy object, and the pure and pure essence of the holy water are reversed and become a poison that drives all those who believe in God to death.”
The omnipotent god turns into an object of resentment in an instant.
The higher you are, the greater the impact when you fall.
“You won’t be able to find God’s name for at least 500 years. The name Nemesis will pass through as a curse, and people will get ahead and destroy the record itself.”
Can a god whose name is no longer known exist as a god?
“Erasing the fact that God existed…No, no…”
“…Why are you doing this?”
Maria came closer and smiled as if she had no intention of hiding the overflowing madness any longer, and she grabbed my cheek.
A distance close enough that you could feel the rough breath exhaled on your lips.
“I will kill the god who took everything from me.”
It was a terrible declaration and a terrible cry.
“And if there was even the slightest chance that you could stop this plan, I wouldn’t have told you. You can never stop going back to the past. I was certain of this plan that I had been preparing for a hundred years ago, starting from this regression now. You, your regression ability is-“
A voice that seemed to boil from the depths of her lungs, a fact more terrible than before spewed out of Maria’s mouth.
“You can’t go back to this point, can you?”
Hype, a proper villain