11. Pink Saint (2)
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-Chaebol Siwoo: @SF Siwoo First of all, all the technologies sent were successfully commercialized.
-Chaebol Siwoo: Now send me the next technology. If possible, it could be something like a room temperature and pressure superconductor.
-SF Siwoo: ㅇㅋ I’ll organize it properly and send it to you.
-SF Siwoo: The faster your world develops, the more data you get, so try a little harder.
– Chaebol Siwoo: Hmm…
-Chaebol Siwoo: Oh, and I have a personal question. No matter how much help I received from you, the pace of technological development is going crazy right now.
-Chaebol Siwoo: At this rate, isn’t it possible to see the end in at least 10,000 years? Is it possible for your civilization to continue to develop for hundreds of millions of years and still have room for development?
-Chaebol Siwoo: If super artificial intelligence appears right away, isn’t the game over?
-SF Siwoo: You can stay
-SF Siwoo: Technological development is not linear like a game’s tech tree, so technology that was thought to be far away may be close, and technology that was thought to be close may be far away.
-SF Siwoo: If you go down the wrong path and develop in the wrong direction for tens of thousands of years, you may not be able to achieve decisive development and go round and round at a dead end.
-SF Siwoo: Sometimes, turning back from that dead end is itself a process of development.
-SF Siwoo: In addition, there are cases where you can only take one step by combining all the dead ends, wrong paths, and all the steps you have taken so far, so it is not uncommon for development to be stagnant for millions of years.
-SF Siwoo: And super artificial intelligence is of little use for technological development.
-Chaebol Siwoo: Why?
-SF Siwoo: That’s right. I don’t understand why, but I need it.
-SF Siwoo: Soul and possibility
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“Uhm…”
Siwoo let out a small groan and turned over. My body felt strangely refreshed and my mind was drowsy but extremely clear. I felt a little uncomfortable, but I didn’t really care.
He wonders what happened to him and why he is lying in bed now. He did not dwell on questions that had been pushed aside by the unconscious.
He just wanted to rest. He wanted to sleep. A natural reaction as a human being who had been under extreme fear not long ago.
A comfortable voice covered the memory and gently lifted his mind.
“Siwoo. “Are you awake?”
Siwoo raised his eyelids at the sound of that voice, and his gaze went up his silver hair and landed on the owner of the voice.
Elia. And Yooyoung and Cheolsu next to him, and even the furniture and ceiling of the house.
Because his body was already in a healthier state than before due to the power of divine power, Siwoo raised his body and lowered his head.
“… Elia. Thank you for treating me. “Thank you, Jo Yoo-young, and the teacher.”
“Well, not really.”
“…”
Yooyoung had a sallow expression on her face, as if she wasn’t that used to being thanked, and Cheolsu remained silent as if he was thinking about something.
So all that remains is Elia. Elia pursed her lips for a moment, then slowly drew out her words.
“But Siwoo. I have a question.”
“…”
“How did you know?”
The tension in the room makes the air cool. Looking into Elia’s stern gray eyes, Siu gulped.
Should she be considered the next saint? If we were to name the 10 most influential people in the world in the future, it makes no sense that a key figure in history who would definitely be included is so soft.
Her judgment is as stern as her mercy is like the great sea.
Yooyoung looked quite surprised, as if it was her first time seeing Elia like this, but Siwoo calmly asked back.
“How?”
“You know. “The strangeness of this situation.”
As Elia said, this situation was so strange.
During her first semester, Elia displayed only her usual Edenist level of divine power. At best, she had a light divine power that was limited to erasing minor scratches, and it was rare for anyone among her disciples to not have this level of divine power.
However, right before he passed out, Si-woo went to Elia instead of calling 119 at the door of death. It’s like someone who gets into a car accident, instead of going to a big hospital, calls a friend who knows a little bit of first aid.
That doesn’t make sense unless you know his true abilities.
It was even more strange that Cheol-su and Yoo-young did not question Si-woo’s decision during this process, even though he had asked her directly to do so.
In other words, at least three people here know Elia’s identity. That too for sure.
Following that vain questioning, a request was made using her aura as a saint.
“I trust Siwoo. So please let me know what Siwoo knows.”
The three people stopped at the same time as the voice of the saint who loved and was loved by all things penetrated.
The appeal is even stronger because it is not a magical realm. Siwoo looked at Yooyoung and Cheolsu. Yooyoung didn’t know what to do, and Cheolsu was still silent.
How should I interpret this? Siwoo thought about it for a moment, but that didn’t mean he was going to hide it and move on.
He slowly parted his lips.
“Okay. “It was something I had to say someday.”
“Hey. Cheon Si-woo, you…”
Yooyoung grabbed Siwoo’s sleeve. But the meaning was not clear, and she let go of her hand helplessly, as if she had lost her way.
Siwoo remembered something from his past. She remembers the time when she was ‘Cho Yu-jin’ and told her not to deceive her family. He told me to honestly confess the fact of possession and ask for forgiveness.
The current situation will be no different from that.
“Me and Jo Yoo-young are actually…”
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“… “I understand what you mean.”
This is what Elia says after calmly listening to the explanation for about 30 minutes. Siwoo took a long sigh inwardly.
Everything related to possession has been said. The story of the novel ‘I Became an Academy Manager’, the story of the game ‘A Saint Who Goes to School’, the clash of values between Siwoo and Eugene, and the process by which Eugene became Yooyoung.
Perhaps Elia also had issues that he had doubts about. Siwoo’s special circle, Yooyoung’s change in attitude, etc. Siu’s statement broadly covered it all, and now they had nothing to hide from Elia.
The only problem was how Elia would accept this.
＜Br＞ “It’s definitely something that’s difficult to digest. This… “I have a lot to think about.”
Elia pursed her lips and remained silent for a long time. She is deep in thought. The possibility that she and her world might be creations written at the fingertips of a single human being was enough to lengthen her contemplation.
Siwoo, Eugene, and Cheolsu did not worry much even after learning of the fact of possession, but the thinking of a person who will be the highest authority in the future theological world and a prominent figure in the world of philosophy cannot be the same. As Elia remained silent, the others naturally fell into new contemplation.
In particular, the thoughts of Yooyoung, who was both a game possessor and the main character of the novel, were the most profound. When thinking about Si-woo in light of his own case, there was a high possibility that Si-woo was also a character of something else.
A creature that possesses a creature. An infinite cycle of works. A frame-style composition that goes on endlessly. Infinite fractal structure.
The infinite and vast possibilities of that cosmic branch. The origin that extends upward and reaches the end. A scale that overwhelms the human mind with just imagination.
The one who broke that bond was Cheolsu, who thought that since he had once lived as a part of the nation, he would just live without thinking about it in the future.
“It’s nice to think about it, but I have something more important to say right now.”
“Yes?”
Elia reflexively answers, thinking that she is speaking to herself. However, her gaze was focused on Si-woo, not her.
Si-woo, who noticed him late, trembled slightly.
Why? It felt like something like this had happened before.
“The poisonous gas contained in the mail sent to you. That was something that could never be found on the market. “It is clear that a criminal group was involved behind the terrorist attack.”
“Is that so…”
Siwoo, who was forcibly brought back to reality, answered blankly.
What is the intention behind this? Siwoo couldn’t quite guess what Cheolsu meant.
“Okay. However, it makes no sense for an organization of that size to send mail to a single student. “If you are a student who only works in sunny areas.”
A subtle hint. Siwoo realized this and his face hardened.
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There was something that was clear.
But how should I explain it? No, is it correct to explain it? Cheolsu continued the next sentence without giving himself time to think.
“Generally, when it comes to criminal organizations, people only remember those that cause trouble in Yangji, but in fact, the more serious the organization is, the more reluctant it is to get involved with Yangji, which is the nature of the gang. However, by chance, an organization with the ability to obtain such a toxic gas carried out a mail attack on a student…”
There is one cause that can be inferred from there.
“That means he was a student who was in the dark from the beginning.”
“… !”
Siwoo broke into a cold sweat.
Cheolsu’s reasoning was correct. Siwoo has not simply found all kinds of magic in the world through books and the Internet and shared them in chat rooms.
Magic in this world requires learning math and science to do magic. This means that even if you only know about magic, it is useless if you do not know the detailed principles of it. That’s why things like military magic, espionage magic, and industrial magic were circulating even on the ordinary Internet.
To find out, Siwoo had to go deeper into the Internet, buy and exchange various information, and put the puzzle together. SafetyAs a person possessed in one world, it was an effort and support that I could do for Siwoo in another world.
However, while Siwoo, a beginner, was walking in the depths, he was not aware of it and stepped on the web of an organization.
“It’s strange. You obviously don’t have any motivation to step into the shadows. “If everything I’ve said so far is all.”
The logic of withdrawal tightens. Siwoo thought slowly.
Can you explain why a student who hides the existence of the chat room and has a circle that only allows magic missiles is looking for magic that is not generally known?
It was impossible.
“So, I have one thought. There is a secret I haven’t told you about possession yet. As a person of this world, I can’t even guess what it is…”
If you want to force it off, you can do it. If you want to hide it, you can hide it. However, the other person is clearly an agent of the National Intelligence Service, so you don’t know what will happen if you hide it like that.
Isn’t Si-woo’s phone in Si-woo’s hands right now? He thought he had taken all the security precautions that a normal person could, but he had no idea what could be in the realm of spy magic that Siu didn’t know about.
But what would happen if the chat room was made public?
If each piece of information inside were a new technology that would transform civilization, an ability that would shake the world view, and a treasure trove of the world that was a collection of possibilities that transcended time and space, it would be revealed.
“You’d better talk. Right Now.”
After Cheolsu’s words left no room for thought.
A heavy silence pressed down on Siwoo only.