10. Saint. And Cheonma (3)
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-Country Siu: Guys. I’m just asking because I’m curious.
-Country Siwoo: Isn’t there a need for skill in something like Blood Blood Magic?
– Seonhyeop Siwoo: It’s a martial art that was originally created to be used once and then later, so of course there’s no need for it.
– Seonhyeop Siwoo: I limited all the functions of what I used and only did a virtual rotation of the blood vessel. If I use it properly, I die.
-Seonhyeop Siwoo: But why? Are you really going to fight?
-Country Siwoo: No, what…
-Rural Siu: I don’t know.
-Seonhyeop Siwoo: … ?
-Akashiu: It came again. That familiar pattern
-Akashiu: ‘I’ who tries to sacrifice is always like that.
-Nut Pan Siu: I guess so. Because sacrifice is not something you can do with a sober mind.
-Nut Pan Siu: Until I face the situation directly, I’m half out of my mind and can’t even think about what I’m trying to do, so I unconsciously deny it.
-Akashiu: But if he continues like that, he’ll end up recklessly running away. Shouldn’t we teach him something?
-Akashiu: We need to discuss how to combine various things well so that we can run away well. I was curious about what would happen if each of these abilities were combined together.
-Black Demon Siu: … Are you a devil?
-Akashiu: That’s the baby race that made a contract with you.
-Black Demon Siu: No, even the f*cking devil isn’t that vicious.
-Black Demon Siu: I will overlap several suicide techniques where spiritual death is certain even if just one is used… ? Do you want to see your soul shattered as soon as you cast it?
-Jusul Siwoo: Oh, I can solve that problem. There is a magic trick that makes the soul indestructible for just 5 minutes. But this is also a suicide story
-Akashiu: It’s okay, it’s okay, just hit all the suicide flags.
-Akashiu: It’s a f*cking mess.
-Heuk Masiwoo: So why are you making this decision…? …
-Black Magic Siu: I don’t know, there are some suicide techniques in black magic, but I’ll tell you.
-Black Demon Siu: Instead, don’t expect that you will be able to leave behind even a fragment of your soul after the end.
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After the farewell ceremony, Shena was led by the paladin’s hand and on her way back, she glanced around her. I was wondering if Siwoo might be there. I thought she might be watching me from somewhere.
But Siwoo was nowhere to be found. As if she was intentionally avoiding her, she hadn’t even seen her Si-woo’s shadow for several days.
Shena was quick-witted and sharp-witted, so she had a vague idea of the reason.
This is the scene she saw when she was younger than now, when she secretly went to look for Si-woo after killing her. She had seen Siwoo wield the same abilities as wizards and knights in fairy tales.
Although she was very young, her memories were so clear that she was not confused by the results of her dreams. From then on, she thought Siwoo was an amazing and cool kid.
And now that the real Holy Knight had arrived, she thought that Si-woo might avoid her, even though she didn’t know the details of her situation.
Because Siwoo is special, unlike her.
I understand it with my head. But his heart is filled with resentment.
‘… Siwoo. I miss you.’
At first she vaguely thought she was a saint or something like a princess. I was excited to see the city and looked forward to going and meeting new people. She thought she could become special like Si-woo.
But not anymore.
The attitude of the Holy Knight and Cardinal was never that of treating a princess. In fact, it is closer to the attitude towards livestock. Although she was extremely gentle on the outside, he constantly monitored and tried to control her every move, and because she was a country girl, he belittled her, ignored her, and treated her as an insignificant being.
He tried to teach her helplessness, make her realize that she was ignorant, make her think that she was always wrong, and make her his only puppet.
Typical gaslighting.
Shena didn’t know her details, but she could tell that something was off.
She also had a premonition that her life in the city and church, which felt like her dream, might in fact be a life bound by iron bars and chains among unfamiliar and hostile people.
Since I was still a child, I thought to myself, “Maybe I should just work harder.” She thought that everything would be different if she completed her duties as a saint, but the worry in her heart did not go away.
As long as that terrible curse remains in her mind, she will not smile like she used to.
She couldn’t smile like she used to.
So before she left this small town, she wanted to smile like she used to at least once.
She wanted to hold onto the warm and cozy memories, and whenever something difficult happened, she took them out a little and cried.
‘Siwoo… ‘Come and hug me just once.’
Will you share the warmth of your arms just once?
Then I think I can last 10 years.
Shena stared at the tree she and Siwoo had shared for a long time.
I turned her head as tears threatened to fall from her eyes.
*
In a cave a little far from the village.
Siwoo spent the whole night debating with other Siwoos to achieve the best results.
Seeing his desperate appearance, many Siwoo rolled up their sleeves and joined the discussion. As so many people expressed their opinions, many uses and combinations emerged that Siwoo himself had not even thought of. These were contents that will help many Siwoo in the future.
And in the process, there was help from people I never thought of.
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-Rural Siu: … Good. I understood everything
-Country Siwoo: But can you tell me this? You really like spirits.
-Jeongryeong Siwoo: Yes. I really like it. That’s why I’m telling you.
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The words of Spirit Siwoo, who always loved and cherished spirits. Although I didn’t understand it at first.
For some reason, I was able to understand his feelings after reading the next sentence, which was full of long sadness.
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-Spirit Siwoo: Sometimes, it is crueler not to even give someone a chance to sacrifice.
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“Okay. Yes… “There is nothing more cruel than that.”
When I think about it, I don’t think that I would rather die instead because I am the same ‘me’, but it was sad and difficult to just watch Siwoo from another world die. ＜Br＞
Moreover, they didn’t just die one by one.
The speed of time is different in each world, and in this world, the flow of time is slow, so 7 years have passed since Siwoo was possessed, but the story is different in other worlds. If we calculate the median of all the world’s time flows, the time that has passed since the possession was about a year and a half.
Meanwhile, more than 500 people have died.
… This means that on average, one person died every day.
That’s why Si-Woo started talking about death as if it were everyday life, and became numb to his own death.
Those days must have felt like hell to those who were not dull.
And in that hell, Siwoo himself tries to place a small stone on top of the stone tower piled up with the wills, screams, and signatures of other Siwoos.
“… “It’s finally tomorrow.”
The Pope is coming tomorrow.
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And when they were about to leave with Shena.
That will be your only chance.
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Next day. Holy men and priests, including the Pope, came to the village. Needless to say, the eyes of the country people widened.
It was even more shocking because until yesterday, they had thought nothing of Shena’s departure to the city, with a mixture of envy and self-consolation. It has now been revealed that Shena was more important than anyone imagined.
But now it was too late to talk to Shena. The priests who only wanted to transport Shena safely had no interest in the village, and the spiritual pressure exerted by dozens of priests united in one faith made it impossible for a single villager to even dare to speak to them.
On the other hand, such pressure was also a test for Shena. How much pressure can a young girl without even faith endure, pressure that is strong enough to overwhelm the body of a strong adult man?
Surprisingly, Shena didn’t even feel the presence of pressure beyond what she could endure. It was a demonstration that the saint’s talent was at its peak. The Pope grinned, baring her teeth, and Shena felt a flash of horror.
Shena used what little remorse she still had to turn her head. Even at this moment, Siwoo was not visible.
Shena’s eyes became slightly moist as she felt sad that she would not be seen until the very end. She also wondered if she was that important of a person to Siwoo.
In the end, after confirming that she was not there until the end, she put down her heart and followed the Pope into the largest and most luxurious carriage. She felt like she was a cow being led to the slaughterhouse.
The other Holy Knights also got into their own carriages and began moving in formation. The villagers, who had been overwhelmed the whole time, began to shout only after the carriage was out of sight. Then, they began to make a fuss while confirming with each other what they had witnessed.
It was a natural reaction since it would have been an incredibly special event in a rural village.
But today’s incident does not end here.
The man Shena was looking for. Siwoo, who was hiding in the bushes, closed his eyes after hearing the shouts of the villagers.
According to preliminary reconnaissance, there were 34 priests, including priests and paladins.
If you also consider the Pope, the chances of winning are extremely low.
But it doesn’t mean you can never win.
And Siwoo knew it from the beginning.
‘Okay. It was strange from the beginning.’
Even though her temperament changed a little when Siwoo possessed her, and she became more attached to Shena, that doesn’t mean her nature changed.
He was not a person who would commit suicide in a situation where he had no chance of winning, and he was not a person who could not turn away from something that was inevitable.
Still, there was only one reason why he suffered.
In his mind, he was predicting the odds of victory.
He just couldn’t run away from something he had enough to do.
Jeez. Jeez.
The sound of the carriage clattering closer, and the sound of Siwoo’s feet stepping on grass and flowers rang out. It was counting down to the two meeting each other.
Is he doing the right thing? Although Siwoo wasn’t sure of that yet.
I could definitely say that it is not right to give up and wait for the protagonist’s ‘salvation’.
That’s what salvation is like. He has already put the character through hell once and is belatedly reaching out.
And then he says. The heroine fell in love with the protagonist. Because the main character saved me.
This is extremely convenient. A vicious device that imposes mental debt for dependent love. A development for those who need a reason for love.
However. But that’s it.
Isn’t it the happiest thing to never have to be saved in the first place?
So I will not let you be saved.
Always remain a happy country girl.
To become an extra who will never encounter the main character.
“Hey. Kid. “Get out of the way.”
When Siwoo blocked the procession of carriages, the priest acting as a coachman at the front gave an overbearing order.
Siwoo refuses to comply.
He broke six taboos simultaneously.
“No, you can’t get out of the way.”
Time remaining until the soul disappears. 5 minutes.