Demons and Taboos
I’ve never thought of Tyr as fast. It looked no different from a tortoise, always walking leisurely on the road carrying a coffin to lie on. In fact, outside the abyss, he showed a sluggish appearance.
However, Tyr was surprisingly fast in the Mist Principality. It is not a lie to say that he divided his own darkness to create fog, but he manipulated the fog around him and moved as if swimming. I was still, but it felt like the world was moving.
Then, when I came to my senses, Tyr and I had moved to a secluded ranch. After confirming that no one was around, Tyr took a deep breath.
“Whew. What just happened?”
“No big deal. I just used the power of the demon god.”
“I don’t know what the hell you mean.”
Because I was calm, Tyr also found some stability. As I sat down on a suitable rock, Tyr followed suit and sat down next to me to clear his confused mind.
‘It was Hugh’s power that revived the heart. Recalling my long-lost memories, I rekindled the fire. At that time, I was filled with joy, but after that, I didn’t ask because I wanted to be with them…. May I ask Hugh? Could it be that he inquires about the human king and then disappears like a fairy?’
You can ask now. The fact that I am the king of humans is a fact I wanted to hide as much as possible, but there is no reason to hide it once it has been discovered.
Everyone’s hands are being exposed out of control. Perhaps it was a situation caused by the presence of a regressor after seeing the future once, but thanks to that, the secret became meaningless and everyone ran with all their might in a race that was pushed to the limit.
In that case, it’s better to participate in the race in full disclosure than to hide this hand tightly.
I spoke before Tyr asked.
“Tir. The demon I met in Claudia had a unique power. As Tyr saw, it is the power to handle lightning.”
“You mean the power that Peru used at the end?”
“Yes. The writing style is completely different.”
As he spoke, he opened his palm and showed it to Tyr. An electric current flows in the empty air. It’s not as powerful as a Peruvian or a thunderstorm, but it’s big enough for one person to handle.
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Having witnessed the mystery before his eyes, Tyr finally decided what to ask.
“Whew. The human king… Can you use the power of a demon god?”
I’ve said it once before, but it wasn’t too over the top at the time. Shall I tell you properly?
Even if you use them as allies, you’ll have to put them on the same starting line.
“No. All humans can use demonic powers. The demon god is the law of the world.”
Tyr answered after thinking for a long time.
“The logic of the world… It’s similar to what wizards used to say.”
“Will it be the same? The magic that wizards use is also a fragment given by the Demon God. It is a matter of how it is used.”
People who truly don’t know don’t know what they don’t know. Tyr’s mind was filled with such directionless questions. He will be the most difficult student to deal with from the teacher’s point of view.
But who am I? I am the human king. I read all of Tyr’s ambiguous questions and chose an answer that penetrated them all.
“The world existed before humans existed. In the flow of the great reason, the beast just lived. But some beasts read the flow of the world and process it to their advantage.”
“Are you talking about humans?”
“It is not necessarily limited to humans. Birds flapping their wings, spiders building nests, and otters building dams. All the beasts that came along with the world understand and use it in their own way.”
When he flicks his fingers, the two cards flap their wings like birds. I built it up on a rock to make a house of cards. After knocking it down once, it was made like a dam by sticking it together without leaking.
“Understanding and processing the world is not the exclusive property of humans. All animals do something similar. But humans are just a little more skilled. Humans, who turned their proficiency into curiosity, tried to understand the world in order to use tools better… After numerous attempts, I finally reached the fundamental reason.”
“To the world?”
“Yes. It was not meant to be used as a tool, but to the principle of the world itself. As an analogy, it’s like learning how to make a fire instead of picking it up and using it. A gift and power left to humans by a pioneer who realized this world, who drank what smelted reason into law.”
I gently pressed the rock with my palm. It’s difficult to move with my strength or weight, but it’s been hollowed out since I used earth magic. Beneath my handprints was a rock that had turned to dirt. When you stir your fingers in a circle, a dandelion blooms from a handful of soil. Hiding in the crevices of rocks, dried seeds are forcibly sprouted.
“The power to change the world. It is only magic to use this demon god in a standardized way, and it is essentially a power permitted to all beasts.”
“… Vampires couldn’t use it.”
“That is unavoidable due to the nature of vampires. The line between outside and inside is blurry. If you want to change the world, you have to hold the center, but vampires didn’t have a clear distinction between themselves. Ah, it might be possible for Tyr now who has his heart back.”
The first thing to do is to control the enormous power that lingers inside the body, but anyway. Tyr nodded and moved on to the next question.
“If demons are the power granted to humans, what is the reason Seonghwangcheong sealed the demons?”
“Oh, you managed to figure it out.”
“Isn’t it obvious? In the bottomless pit and in Cloud Village, there was a party of the Seonghwangcheong.”
The smell of Seonghwangcheong is amazing. I nodded and said.
“It is not that Seonghwangcheong sealed the demon. I don’t even have the ability to do that. If you look at the Golden Sutra or the Earth Mother, you will know, but they were openly revealed to the world, right?”
“It was. Their teachings also spread throughout the world. If so, what was Seonghwangcheong doing with that?”
“It’s simple. One of the knowledge of the Demon God was sealed to prevent humans from committing taboos.”
Tyr reacted to the word taboo. A being closer to taboos than anyone else in the world, a gluttonous vampire who drinks the blood of others knows about taboos. Tyr mentioned the taboo with a displeased face.
“Are you referring to the four taboos that the Seonghwangcheong has arbitrarily set?”
“Yes. You know all the four taboos, right?”
“Everyone knows. I can name all four of them right now, how many times I’ve heard the most disgusting things.”
“Please do it once.”
If it’s something we both know, there’s no need for me to explain. Tyr readily accepted my explanation.
“Type 1 taboo, gluttony. The act of filling my body by eating evil and terrible things. The scavengers saw the vampire, accused him of being the seed of gluttony, and then attacked. We do not take life, we only take blood.”
I didn’t mention it, but it’s usually the same human beings who are evil and terrible. Tyr frowned at her and skipped the words.
“Two types of contraindications, grafting. The act of discarding the body created by the Creator and replacing it with another. A creature of dark magic with animal horns or wings attached to its body is the result of grafting.”
“In many countries, the body has been turned into a mechanical device.”
“Yes. It could also be called grafting. Even though it was designated as a taboo, I couldn’t stop it properly. No matter what. The following three taboos are….”
Tyr, who had been speaking softly, stopped talking and bit her mouth shut. She blurted out her words before mentioning the next three taboos.
“… All right, next. Class 3 taboo.”
“What is it? Do not you know?”
“I know! That….”
‘Three taboos are intercourse…. I know it’s taboo, but how can you say menacing words in front of a man!’
Really. He seems to be saying that, even though his face is blushing. How old is Spring and Autumn, but do you act like an adolescent girl? If it’s hard to say that, I’ll tell you instead.
“Let me tell you. Class 3 taboo is copulation. It is a taboo to graft a human to something and conceive something other than a human. There are various means such as bestiality and orgy. Empress Agartha is most famous for mating with all kinds of beasts and sleeping with all the men in one city….”
“Aren’t you ashamed! I am well aware of this fact, so move on to the next one quickly!”
He slaps me with a face that gradually turns red. I tried to make fun of it more, but it hurt more than I thought, so I quickly moved on to the next taboo.
“Lastly, the 4 taboos are heresy. It’s a taboo that dazzles people with their nefarious knowledge and makes them lose their faith. I want to condemn and amend the unclean spirit and false beliefs.”
“If you put it on your nose, it’s a nose ring, and if you put it on your ears, it’s an earring. If they don’t like me, they treat it as heresy and attack me.”
“I think the same way. Come on Tyr. Here are four taboos. Do you know what these four things have in common?”
It’s taboo, but it’s actually not that great. There are many cases that are easy to see in the surroundings. Not everyone will brag about it proudly, but if you are in an extreme situation, everyone will choose to survive by committing taboos.
Vampires did it, nations did it, and Agartha did it. Taboos openly exist in reality.
However, there is a reason why the Seonghwangcheong designated all of these realities as taboo.
“Taboos are things that cause changes in people.”
To protect humans.
“Gluttony turns humans into prey. Grafting makes humans tools. Copulation obscures human innocence. Heresy destroys human spirituality. Seonghwangcheong made a taboo to protect humans as individuals and as species.”
“… Are you protecting humans?”
How do you know that? Tyr looked up at me with a question in his eyes. Whoops, I had nothing to say about that.
I am the king of men. There are no memories of the previous human king. All I’ve been given is a promise from long ago.
That promise… The promise that the first saintess entangled the human king is still handed down. All I know is that promise. There is no memory of the original year. So there is nothing I can say.
“Okay, let’s go back to normal. A demon who has reached the world’s logic has the power to change the world. Even if the artifacts of the demons do not use force, just the spread of their knowledge changes the way you view the world and changes your life.”
Instead, he conveyed what he knew for sure.
“By the way, Tyr. Humans are part of the world too.”
Seonghwangcheong tried to hide the demon. As soon as Tyr confirmed that she had mastered the Bloodblood, she tried to kill her, rejecting the vampire’s existence. Everyone decided that the act they were reluctant to do was taboo.
It’s all for one purpose.
To protect ‘humans’.
“The power of demons can change ‘humans’. Not a way of life or behavior, but the very concept of ‘human being’.”