Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint chapter 359

A king who kills others, a god who kills himself – 13

I wonder if my words were anything but that. Golden Kyung took her eyes off the bell and slowly looked up at me.

The demon who created alchemy. A great giant who changed the world. He is a human, but a demon who irreversibly changed this world.

But even if he reached the Demon God, no matter how great of an achievement he left.

Humans are still human. No matter how golden he is.

A face from childhood that I saw outside. Wouldn’t this face appear if twenty years of time were poured on it and terrible pain was applied on both sides of the material and mind? The tired and distressed young man’s face was too ordinary to be called a demon.

Probably because he is also human.

“No one knew. Until you did that crazy thing, no one knew that gold was so worthless! All the more what happens to a country and its economy when, in just one year, more gold is produced than ever existed! Even the Seonghwangcheong’s prophets who see the future! They only know how to ‘see’, because they can’t ‘know’!”

Even prophecy requires cognition. If you don’t see it and don’t understand it, if you don’t interpret what the scene means, there’s no way to know it. Because the saintess is also human.

That’s why even the saintess of the Seonghwangcheong couldn’t see through the demon that didn’t exist until now. At best, it was all about follow-up.

If Seonghwangcheong, who reaps the sins of all people, is like that, what about other people?

“Ignorance is not a sin.”

The golden sutra did not understand the meaning of the words. Taking my words as consolation, he shook his head as if to decline. You don’t think I’m that kind.

“You think it’s not a sin? No, it’s different! You have to exist to know that the act is a sin! You’ve found an act that might be sinful! You don’t even know it exists until you do it. To find out, you have to find it first. You have to walk through the veil of ignorance and find out. Like primitive humans in the distant past, if you want to know what gold is, you have to dig it up first!”

“Even if millions of human beings die as a result, terrible tragedies occur and the country plunges into grief.”

“Kick! You found alchemy and ruined the country?”

Even a Demon God can’t help being arrogant. No, on the contrary, are you so arrogant because you drank?

I wouldn’t even say anything if it was real. I held my belly button and laughed.

“You are so arrogant! The king of men is not as arrogant as you! Are you saying you drank? Drink all the sins that happened in the golden country and become the king of sins? No. Were you already trying to be? That’s why you’re wandering all over the world with the name of the Golden Scenic!”

Is everything self-responsible? Are you going to run for King of Men? He was the one who made the gold, but he would take responsibility for all the sins that happened in the gold country. Regardless of whether that is right or wrong, is it possible?

After laughing for a long time, I desperately suppressed my voice. Not to be considerate of the golden mirror, but to speak next.

“What sin? Did you overturn the field to make a gold workshop? Then, when you ran out of food, did you kill the colleague who suggested making a gold workshop? Did you eat your own blood because you couldn’t stand the hunger? When the curse of gold became known, instead of telling everyone about it, did you suddenly monopolize the spot and hide it tightly to maximize your own gain? Did you make iron weapons and start a coup to seize power in the midst of chaos? Did you incite the maddened people to kill the alchemists and deprive them of the chance to turn them back?”

If this is the case even if you only read what is in his image, more terrible things must have happened in the real world. A real hell of public interest would have been born.

Who can imagine? It wasn’t because of another country’s invasion, nor was it a terrible disaster. To think that the country was tilted to the point of destruction due to the curse of gold.

By the way.

“Is it all your fault? Do you think that you are a real omnipotent god? Do you think you have become an absolute being who coordinates life and death and even adjusts human beings according to your will?”

All the sins that have appeared cannot be the sins of the Golden Sutra.

“I speak as the king of men. You don’t need They are human too.”

Whoever my opponent is, to me, they are just human beings whose thoughts can be read, so I am ordinary.

No, anyone… Ordinary for me.

“Because the gold country is a country with a lot of merchants, so it is bright and the head is running well. It’s the result of doing your best to get your own benefit at that time. When the golden blessing came, he jumped on the bandwagon to the fullest, but abandoned it the moment it turned into a curse. That, too, is everyone’s decision. If there are sins of ignorance, they have them too.”

Ah, in case you misunderstand, I hastily added a word.

“Of course, I don’t really like the concept of sin created by Seonghwangcheong! Isn’t sin too extravagant for animals?”

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Perhaps he finally understood ‘me’, the golden mirror reacted slowly to my words.

“… That.”

“Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying this to comfort you. For the tens of thousands of people who have been ignored by you. You saw the people of this land as scarecrows who couldn’t even have their own will. Destiny or whatever, to those who will die without being able to resist the great flow. Kut. So the world you created is like this.”

I sighed and spread my arms. You can’t see it now because it’s an image space, but the outside must be a golden palace. The image of the ideal gold country he imagines.

Every rice field is full of grain, and the magnificent city has beauty and practicality at the same time. The wall built to block enemies seems to cut off the world.

But.

There are no people in it.

You can see it there.

“It looks perfect. The gold country you made. There is only a homunculus. Even that, only the homunculus of the lords who can communicate with you and have a similar image have a piece of reason, and the rest are scarecrows who can only do given commands. So, that’s rather funny. Looking at all the people of gold as scarecrows with no will of their own! What gold country is precious, what!”

“… No!”

“Prove it!”

When I shouted out loud, Hwang Keum-gyeong looked up at me as if she was a bit intimidated. However, he reached out and made something, as if he had some pride left.

That figure… It was Elric’s. In particular, the delicately portrayed Elric in his imagination with the beauty of the body and face highlighted.

I snorted.

“Do you have a conscience? Where do you see that person? It’s a pillow that you hug and sleep with when you sleep.”

“No, I never did!”

“Well, I understand your desire to brag. Well done. But, that’s just the appearance, right? Did that ‘His Majesty’ show a keen insight? Did you understand all the technology in the world as soon as you saw it? Or, a little awe towards you and… Did he give you a jealous look?”

Golden Kyung kept his mouth shut.

He knows. So he knows better. That the Elric outside, who always has a kind smile on his face, is a fake.

I dug into the sore spot and said.

“Well, if you only need a body, that would be enough. Can you call that thing Your Majesty?”

“I know! I know! No matter how much I try to make it, it’s not real!”

The golden mirror jumped up. The knife hanging from his neck rattled, and the iron ball rolled around. Hwang Kwang-gyeong raised his voice and made excuses even in the restraints that seemed difficult to move.

“But, it is different! The reason I can’t make humans is not because I ignore them. I, I just, didn’t understand.”

“You confessed yourself. I can’t understand other humans. I don’t even understand, how do you know human sins? You don’t even know what sin is.”

No one has the right to ask for guilt in the first place. Not to mention, in the case of the golden mirror, it is not even an example. Because no one can do anything similar. You can retaliate by venting your anger, but that’s another story.

The golden mirror sat down powerlessly. He glared pitifully at the golden bell again. Unlike before, it wasn’t because he wasn’t interested in me, it was because he couldn’t even stand my gaze.

“One, I don’t know. If you made gold, you cheered. Everyone called me a hero. Those who received the gold bowed their heads and expressed their gratitude over and over again. But how did it come to this?”

“You don’t even understand human beings, and the thought that you are responsible for those unknown actions is really nasty. It’s like watching a self-appointed expert evaluating things he doesn’t know. Why are you blaming yourself when you don’t know anything?”

“However, everyone said it was my sin. I have caused all this tragedy! Not to mention His Majesty… !”

Hwang Hwang Kyeong-gyeong, who stopped talking for a moment as if he had been beaten up there, immediately gave up his anger and shouted.

“His Majesty Elric, who taught and supported me when I had nothing! He even ordered me to die! Since I have committed a mortal sin, it is only natural that I pay with death!”

You want to believe that. Otherwise, he would have to doubt not only himself, but also King Elric, whom he held up like heaven.

However, that is not the case. Sin is only a name given to later evaluation. Human actions are done for more instinctive and primitive reasons.

I said calmly.

“No. She simply needed someone to die with all her responsibilities.”