Chapter 133 – #29_Cleanup(3)
#131
One.
“Let’s divide the things Siwoo will experience when he goes to this world into three main categories and explain them.”
“Yes.”
Do you have three?
Siu secretly expressed concern while listening to the Count.
“First, any witch will be curious about a man who bears the stigma. Unprecedented cases so far can lead to unprecedented academic progress.”
“If I had only been able to use magic without the stigma, I would have been in a similar situation, but now that I have the stigma, I will draw attention so much that it is difficult to compare.”
“Can’t I just hide the fact that I have a stigma?”
Is this something we should be talking about?
I knew that without even explaining it.
“It’s difficult if you’re lighthearted like you are now.”
“Currently, Siu became a citizen of Gehenna as his slavery was revoked. Even if it’s known that Siwoo knows how to use magic, I can’t harm you carelessly.
If we see that someone is trying to harm you, the Gemanai family, as well as Baron Marigold, will confiscate the witch’s citizenship and property through strong sanctions.”
“Even if you get some tiring attention, your life won’t be in danger.”
Albireo took a deep breath before continuing.
“But exiles are different. Didn’t you feel the same when I met you? How cruel was the outcast named Ea Sadalmelik.”
“I know. But it was something everyone was prepared for.”
Deneb’s tone was nuanced as if to stop a child crawling to the well.
However, there is also the music box given by Odile, and it also means that it doesn’t matter as long as you don’t get caught.
It wasn’t enough to suppress Siwoo’s homing instinct.
“Among the outcasts, there are only a handful of people who can truly be called evil, but be careful though. There is no guarantee of citizenship for deportees. I mean, on the spur of the moment, it might do harm.”
Siu understood what the Count was saying.
I don’t know if this description is correct, but now Siwoo is a beautiful woman with a borderline color that any man can turn his eyes to.
Anyone might think of attacking on the urge of the moment.
“This is about all we can do about this.”
Albireo rummaged through his clothes and took out a ring from him and put it on the table in front of Siu.
“This ring proves that you are a guest in our family. Touching the person wearing this ring is a sign that you must be prepared to have a crush on Jemona.”
There, Siu understood.
Jemonai really had no intention of stopping Siwoo from going to the present world.
What’s more, it provides such convenience and safety.
For a moment, she felt like an idiot for worrying about what would happen to them if they were witches who were different from the outside.
“Thank you very much.”
“How effective the ring will be outside… I honestly can’t say for sure. You always have to be careful.”
“Yes, I will keep that in mind. What next?”
She seemed to have heard enough attention, so she moved on to the next subject.
“The second is the homunculus.”
It was an unexpected answer, so I was dazed for a moment.
Homunculus? What about that?
“The current homunculus is in a situation where the number of active individuals is rapidly increasing. Compared to 100 years ago, it has increased almost 10 times.”
“That… What does it have to do with me?”
“A homunculus basically aims for a stigma. It means that Siwoo-kun, who has a new stigma, has not escaped from that target.”
“Of course, you seem to have received the music box from the twins, so if you carry it well, there will be no big problem. You can think of this part as a cautionary note.”
“Music box… You knew it.”
“First of all, I am a guardian.”
It seems that Count Gemanai even noticed that Odile gave the music box to Siu.
I wondered what if I looked like a cocksnake who seduces ignorant twins and rips off precious artifacts.
It was fortunate that he seemed to condone it and move on.
“This is the most important issue.”
Albireo sips his beer and asks.
“Do you know how Gehenna brings in slaves?”
“No.”
“I thought so. Few of the witches know her, and she doesn’t need to tell the slaves.”
“There are two main types of people in this world who are called into Gehenna.”
Deneb stretched out two of his fingers.
Fold one of them and say
“One, a death row inmate.”
“Yes?”
“We have secret dealings with witches and high-ranking officials in many countries. There are many details, but among them, I only talk about the slavery treaty.”
“Death row inmates who have been sentenced to death or are waiting for execution that will not come are often taken as slaves.”
“It’s good that Gehenna is supplied with manpower, and she can handle death row inmates even if the country doesn’t needlessly collect taxes, so it’s a mutually beneficial contract.”
Siwoo, who was unaware of such a fact, opened his mouth in a daze.
If so, does that mean that all slaves in Border Town who were captured and tortured in experiments or who were thought to waste their lives through vain labor by the stubbornness of the witches were all condemned prisoners?
“Then what am I?”
“Two, missing persons.”
Deneb folded his other finger.
“As a result of a little research, Shin Si-woo was in an airplane accident, right?”
The plane stumbled into turbulence.
Oxygen masks came down in clusters and the broadcasting sound of the busily urgent captain.
When I woke up later, it was the port of Border Town.
“That’s right.”
“Every human being moves according to ‘fate’. Its destiny is foretold in the ‘prophecy organ’ of the Tree of the Sephiroth. And according to fate, among the humans who will die soon, we select ‘humans who are likely to be useful’ to Gehenna.”
“Now, now, wait a minute. So you’re saying I’m already dead?”
A great confusion came.
Siwoo always thought he was the victim of a reckless witch.
But was he actually rescued from the dead?
Does that mean that the life of slavery in the past was not lifelong labor without pay?
“No, I told you. They say they bring a human who is about to die.”
The things I believed in are broken again.
However, Siwoo quickly made up his mind.
Let’s stay calm.
If you leave anyway, it doesn’t matter at all.
And when I thought about it there.
Siu found a contradiction in the count’s words.
“Uh?”
That’s what it says.
It doesn’t matter at this point in what way Siu was captured by Gehenna.
Isn’t Siu the one who will leave Gehenna soon?
An incomprehensible chill cuts his spine.
Her agitated heart sensed something ominous quicker than ever.
“Why… Are you saying this?”
“Fate, among them, the easiest to identify is ‘the fate of death’. When it comes to the cause of death, a soldier, a traffic accident, involvement in a murder case… Well, there are various reasons that can’t be put into words, but ‘fate of death’ has one strong quality.”
“What is it?”
Albireo looked at Siu with a serious expression and said.
“It is a necessity.”
“The fate of death, once determined, is ‘certainly’ and enforced no matter what.”
“Even if the person who should have died in the original car accident survived with a very, very rare chance. The force of fate works.”
“Either die of a heart attack the next day, or die in a gas explosion. The reason is different, but it means that he will die in the near future.”
Siu kept his mouth shut for a moment.
“So… Are you saying that if I go out, I will be affected by ‘necessity’?”
If so, Siwoo’s promise to leave this place is meaningless.
He struggled for five years for his death.
Deneb pointed out the error just as he was about to lose his strength in futility.
“No, the missing persons selected as slaves are corrected immediately after crossing the ‘door’ of Border Town. If you bring it as it is, you will die sooner or later anyway.”
She held up two of her fingers and pretended to be making her scissors and cutting something with her snips.
“It is to cut your fate in this world.”
Albireo and Deneb kept their mouths shut at the same time, even though Shiu didn’t say anything.
Is it an illusion that it looks like a doctor giving a countdown to a terminally ill cancer patient?
It was as if he was told to prepare his mind firmly.
“However, it is not possible to select and cut only the ‘fate of death’. Because of this, I cut off all ‘ties’ connected with the present world. Like homunculus often do when they eat humans.”
“That… What does that mean?”
“In this world, all the ties, achievements, achievements, memories, and destiny that Siwoo built up, everything became ‘nothing happened’ and the existence itself disappeared.”
“Ah…..”
To be honest, I don’t really feel anything when I hear it.
Did you cut the kite?
To say that ties, achievements, accomplishments, memories, and fates all became non-existent.
Witches have a corner that makes it difficult to talk.
Who can understand when you say it so hard?
Thoughts of escapism run wild indiscriminately.
Her fingertips are numb.
“Not only that.”
“Wait a minute, could you wait?”
“You’re listening to this and thinking about it…”
“Sorry. It only takes a moment.”
As Siwoo sat down, Albireo handed him a bottle of beer.
Siwoo drenches his burning throat with beer before he even has time to express his gratitude.
I am dumbfounded.
To be honest, I don’t even know how to feel.
“It is done now.”
“Are you okay? If you’re having a hard time, I can give you a little more time.”
“No, I will listen now.”
Anyway, according to Count Gemonai, it is a body that has been resurrected from the fate of death.
If he had died in a plane crash then, wouldn’t he have felt this agony and deprivation?
It is important that you are still alive.
In front of Siwoo, who had a determined expression on his face, Deneb hesitated for a long time before opening his mouth.
“The kite that was cut off in one ‘world’… There is currently no way to restore it. Simply cutting ties and completely rewriting fate are completely different levels of difficulty.”
“What does that mean?”
“Even if Siwoo returns. ‘Initialization’ will take place every week at the longest and every three days at the shortest.”
“I’ll ask for an easy explanation.”
“It means that even if Siwoo-kun goes back to the present world and does something, it will quickly go back to ‘things that never happened’. The ‘yeon’ that is now connected to Siu is the other side world completely separated from the present world, that is, Gehenna.”
Let’s tidy up.
Can not be done.
My head just won’t turn
Siu couldn’t help but mutter what he felt.
“You become a ghost.”
No action remains in the memory of others, nor does it leave a trace.
It ends up being a being that just wanders and floats.
Even in Siu’s summary, which clearly pointed out the key points, Count Jemonai didn’t say anything.
Deneb just added it as if he felt sorry for him.
“Sufficient support will be given to Mr. Siu as the power of the Gemanai family works well even in this world.
There is no meaning even if it is in Siwoo’s name, so we will provide a residence and a car in our name, and compensation of about 10 billion won in Korean currency is scheduled every 5 years. Apart from this, if you say you will stay in Gehenna, you have the option of serving them respectfully as our family’s diners.”
Siwoo was immersed in thought for a while with his pods on.
His wish to return to the present world was almost the goal of his life.
He ran to death chasing the end of the rainbow, but in the end the place he reached was actually a cliff.
“…Does Amelia-sama know about this too?”
“If it’s a baron, maybe.”
Why didn’t you talk?
Could it be that she was so clumsy that she couldn’t bear to convey it?
Did he block his escape out of fear that he would be heartbroken when he learned the cruel truth?
Siu shook his head, finding himself reflexively interpreting it in a good way for Amelia.
Does it make sense to come here and ask about this?
It doesn’t matter what happened.
“I will give you time to think about it.”
“Deneb.”
“Yes?”
“Can you go back first? I still have something to say.”
Deneb looked at Albireo with his eyes wide open as if he was saying something, then nodded to him.
“Okay, you have to tell me what happened later.”
Deneb leaves first and Siu is left alone with Albireo.
After waiting for a while, Albireo looked up and met Shiu’s eyes.
“It may be confusing, but I still have something to tell you.”
“Something…”
Si-woo, with her droopy shoulders, looked miserable at first glance, but she was always busy with her work and magic research.
Albireo didn’t have much time.
“I want you to go back to this world.”
Therefore.
I didn’t waste time and put the main point straight into my mouth.
