## Chapter 174 – The Reason I Could Be Born and Raised
“It means you’ll gain the same power as us, and be reborn as the 12th Creator.”
“…Me? The 12th?”
Amidst the rush of information, I heard the secret I had so desperately wanted to know.
But maybe it didn’t feel real, because I was surprised at my own lack of surprise at such an extraordinary revelation.
Me, a ‘Creator’? The 12th? Consciousness? Unfathomable stories swirled in my head.
“…Well, I guess it’s hard to understand when I tell you so suddenly like this.
It’s something that happened over centuries, so it would be strange to understand it right away.”
Perhaps Iria was bothered by my lackluster reaction, even after learning the secret I had longed for.
She gave a sheepish smile, stood up from beside me, and sat on the stump on the opposite side, looking at me.
Iria, having noticed that I didn’t understand the story, gave a gentle smile.
“I’ll explain it as many times as you need until you understand. As long as we’re here, we have plenty of time.”
“…What does it mean that I’m the 12th Creator? How did I become a Creator in the first place?”
“That? It literally means you’re the 12th Creator to appear in centuries.
Besides Virgil and Lapis, whom you’ve met, there’s also the coward ‘Perres,’ the stoic woman ‘Idel,’
the strict ‘Gorzeun,’ and even ‘Hir,’ the King of Roots, whom you’ve heard so much about—that’s six.
Those six cherished humans, and then there were four who waged war using humans and flowers, making ten.
And then there’s me, who was human but received the first petal and gained the same power as them, making eleven.”
The names of the ancients flowed from Iria’s lips.
I had heard explanations from Sister Iran about Lapis, but this was the first time hearing their names.
So, Iria, who was human, became the 11th Creator, and in modern times, after centuries, I was born as…
“…In modern times, you were born with an unstable, incomplete petal and the King’s blessing to support it,
making you closer to a Creator, but also closer to a human… such an ambiguous existence, the 12th Creator.
You’re becoming the same kind of being as Bill, Lapis, and me, whom you’ve met.”
Unlike the ‘first flower’ that bloomed to give humans power and wisdom,
the ‘incomplete petal’ instead eats the human brain, takes over the body, and obeys the Creator who made it.
That flower, which was supposed to have gone extinct in ancient times, bloomed again through Iria’s body for some reason,
and I gained the power of that ‘incomplete petal.’ Chaeyoon had taught me that if an ordinary human, a woman, received it, her body would be taken over,
and if it was a man, he would die in a gruesome state.
But what if the being she called an ‘ancient’ was a human who had received the Root King’s blessing in the past?
I, who received that blessing, didn’t die and gained the power of the petal. Yuri, a woman with similar powers to me,
also took the petal into her body but didn’t have her personality stolen; instead, she gained extraordinary power.
“…Looks like you understand now.”
In modern times, there exists an ‘ancient’ who realized the ‘blessing’ within themselves through the unstable petal.
But that power doesn’t reach the level of a ‘Creator.’ But what if they also gained the power of the ‘fruit’?
“A being who obtains all three powers stands on the boundary between human and Creator,
and in modern times, those beings are Yuri, who ate the purple fruit, and you, who ate two fruits.”
“That’s right.”
As I summarized the ‘method of becoming a Creator’ based on the information about flowers and blessings that Iria taught me,
she winked one eye and made an ‘O’ shape with both hands, as if to say I was correct.
“Humans who were saved by Hir, the King of Roots, and received the ‘blessing’ are now scattered all over the world.
The blessing that Hir bestowed, even at the cost of his own life, is passed down to the descendants of those who received it.
But most of them just live thinking, ‘My body is strong,’ unaware of the existence of the blessing.
Then, the moment they come into contact with a petal, the weakened blessing instantly regains its power,
giving that human tremendous strength. Like lifting a car, or having heightened senses.”
“And from there, humans who eat the fruit like me become closer to Creators.
But then that means the woman named Yuri that I met is also close to being a Creator…
But then wouldn’t Seohee and Sua have followed Yuri?”
They are incomplete flowers, beings who steal human bodies and serve the Creators with those bodies.
If what Iria said was true, then Yuri was also close to being a Creator,
so why didn’t they realize that? Why were they able to attack Yuri?
It wasn’t the question I originally wanted to ask, but I suddenly became curious.
Iria, upon receiving my question, wore a blank expression for a moment, then,
“…Ahaha, that’s because Seohee and Sua are ‘chosen creations’ of Oppa.”
“…’Chosen creations’?”
“Ah, I’ll tell you about that later.”
Iria, who suddenly switched back to Chaeyoon’s seductive tone and was about to say something, changed the subject.
…I thought her pupils flashed red just now, but did I see wrong?
Something felt off, but for now, let’s ask about my body, which is turning into a Creator.
“…Okay. I’ll hear about that later. I understand that I’m becoming the 12th Creator.
But why do I lose my reason and get so… ‘excited’…?”
The fact that Iria was the petal that had entered Chaeyoon, and that she was the Chaeyoon I knew, suddenly flashed through my mind.
I remembered roughly violating Chaeyoon in an excited state.
Overcome with shame, I lowered my head and asked her in an increasingly small voice.
“There are two reasons why Oppa was in that state.
The first is because Oppa hasn’t adapted to the changes in his body.
The blood flowing through your body is that of a Creator, but Oppa unconsciously still mistakes himself for a human.
You’re overflowing with power, but with a human mind, there’s no way to know the reason.”
…Was it because I was unknowingly mistaking myself for a human?
Was I simply thinking it was ‘strange’ without understanding the source of the overflowing power…?
“…But even so, why specifically… in such a vulgar form…”
Overflowing with power is actually a good thing. It’s better to have too much than too little.
But I lowered my head again at the thought of the crude form of rampage that was too shabby for the power of a Creator.
It’s not like the power is an aphrodisiac or stamina booster, so there’s no way it’s normal to get so hard…
“…Ehehe♡ Why? I like that side of you…”
“…No, it’s… a bit much, isn’t it?”
Iria, who was engrossed in teasing me, kept giggling seductively and poking me.
…Is this human originally like this, or is it because she’s influenced by Chaeyoon?
“…That’s the second reason. Actually, Oppa’s rampage has been like that for quite some time.”
“Huh?”
“I guess you didn’t know. Of course, I didn’t know either… It’s because of the ‘King’s blessing.’
More precisely, it’s because the incomplete ‘incomplete petal’ and the blessing trying to fix the abnormality are clashing.”
“…What are you talking about?”
“As you know, a woman parasitized by a petal becomes devoted to one desire.
Sexual desire, a desire stemming from the obsession with reproduction for the prosperity of the species.
Petals have that effect, but for blessed humans, it manifests in a slightly different form.
It ‘greatly amplifies the desires that human already has.’ Can you guess what I’m getting at?”
Petals originally have the effect of stimulating sexual desire, which I know best.
But for blessed humans, it has the effect of ‘amplifying the desires that human already has’…
“…Lee Yuri?”
Lee Yuri, who looked at the world with twisted eyes and said she would fix such a world.
She certainly seemed crazy, but could it be that she also…
“Yes, that woman also became twisted by her excessive desire for her dream.
But the blessing judges even that to be an ‘abnormality’ in the body and fixes it.
So the rampage of desire and normalization are constantly repeated. That’s why Oppa became like that.”
“…Hmm, I see… No, wait a minute. If that’s the case, then my biggest desire becomes… ‘that kind of thing’?!”
It amplifies the greatest desire of a human.
That’s why Yuri, whose dreams were trampled by the injustices of the world, became obsessed with changing the world.
Then what about me? Overpowering women, planting petals in them, and turning them into obedient slaves…
This is just saying I was a pervert…
“No, no, no! That’s not what I’m like!”
“Kya haha! Flustered Oppa is so cute♡”
“…You’re lying, right? Please tell me that’s the case.”
My mouth was making empty laughter, and my mind couldn’t accept the fact that I was such a pervert.
My feet were tangled, my tongue was loose, and my pronunciation was slurred… In any case, it was a mess.
I’m embarrassed. Im Chanwoo, you son of a bitch… I want to die. It’s shameful.
“Unfortunately, it’s not a lie. It’s a rampage of desire. But…”
But? Iria approached me as I writhed in shame and buried my face in the stump.
She gently embraced my head that was buried…
“…It’s also ‘our’ fault. Actually, Oppa had no purpose or desire.”
“…What do you mean?”
“It’s exactly what it sounds like. Oppa had no clear goals in life, nothing he wanted to do.
It was me who first gave such an Oppa a purpose, asking him to help with reproduction.”
…Certainly, I was living without any thoughts back then.
I had no clear dreams and was just going to school meaninglessly, saying I had to fill my attendance days.
I met Chaeyoon when those aimless days were constantly repeating.
‘You can violate me and the future members of my species as you please.’
‘Help us with our reproduction.’ I fell for her sweet whispers that day.
I was engrossed in and rampaging with the desire that was born for the first time that day.
“…Even so, it doesn’t change the fact that I was that kind of guy.”
“Hehe♡ I just said, I like that Oppa.”
With those words, Iria’s neatly closed lips approached me.
A soft, familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar sensation was felt on my lips.
“…Chu, um…”
It didn’t take long for the light kiss to turn into a vulgar exchange of saliva.
“Puhah… Hehe…♡”
“…You.”
After the deep kiss, Iria’s pupils, which had parted from me, were dyed red.
Whether she knew it or not, she still wore a seductive smile as she caressed my cheek.
“…Come to think of it, there was something I couldn’t explain earlier, wasn’t there? About the ‘chosen creations’…”
She seductively touched her glistening lips with her finger,
and I swallowed once as I looked at Chaeyoon, Iria, who continued the explanation.
“My soul was constantly bound to this mountain, but for some reason,
the soul left in my finely divided body, the ‘petal,’ obtained the body of ‘Lee Chaeyoon’ and met you.
While being violated by you and spending days filled with your seed, I became dyed…♡
I am a ‘creation born chosen’ by you, and a being who has earned the right to be your partner.”
Iria, Chaeyoon, began to loosen her tied hair and take off her clothes.
“…Ah, really… I didn’t think it would affect even ‘my true will’…
Just ‘my small divided will’ has made me like this…♡ Hehe…♡”
“Hey, wait…!”
While straddling my lap sitting on the stump, she wrapped her arms around me, no, Iria…?
“I’ve been dyed in your colors… and I hope to be your partner…♡
To fall in love with another man when I’m already engaged… you’re really a sinful man…♡”
As she said that, I was pushed back by Iria, who once again overlapped her lips with mine,
and overlapped with her on the soft bed made of grass that had been created before I knew it.
