Chapter 453 – 453. The Possibility of Another Bifurcation (1)
[Make that stop right now!]
[It can’t be.]
At Belldandi’s harsh request, Juno calmly shook her head and refused.
[My child is being ruined! What the hell are the gods of Dodecateon trying to do to my child!]
Her blushing and high voice with firm anger is, in a sense, a very rude attitude.
As a member of the divine realm, such as Belldandy or Juno, it is impossible to determine who is superior or inferior, such as who is higher in the hierarchy.
Juno is the wife of Jupiter, the king of the Dodecatheon, and has the status of a queen within that group, and she is currently one of the seven goddesses who led the rebirth of the underworld.
Even if she doesn’t hold it up, she’s not a goddess who can raise her voice with disrespect.
But Belldandi couldn’t afford to worry about that.
Because I knew what he was experiencing while already connected to Eun-hyeon through the resonance of his soul, I wanted to stop the madness of that ordeal right away before Eun-hyeon’s mind was further damaged.
[I’ve said it many times, but the ordeal can’t stop.]
[Why!]
[We definitely opened the way. If you want to give up, Belldandi at any time. To ask for your help.]
That was definitely a fact that he conveyed to Eun-hyeon.
Jupiter imposed an ordeal on Eun-hyeon, telling him that if he wanted to give up, he asked his goddess for help to stop this ordeal.
From Eun-hyeon’s point of view, he suggested a way that was no different from running away.
[Did your apostle ask you for help?]
[… Nice.]
Belldandy clenched his fists as if indignant at not being able to come up with anything to refute.
Eun-hyeon died nearly 200 times, and even while his reason was broken, he never asked for help.
Even now, his mind is filled with strategies for the ordeal, “How can I clear this ordeal?”
[That… Yes. The child to me… I am not asking for help.]
Juno continued talking to Belldandi.
[The fact that you came alone, rather than with the same sister goddesses, must mean that you acted on your own.]
[… Eww.]
As if he had hit the spot, Belldandi shivered slightly.
In fact, Urud and Skuld, her sister goddesses, had come to an agreement to suspend the trial.
Although Urud still showed a bystander attitude, Skuld came to a conclusion after contemplating, worrying that Eunhyeon’s spirit was gradually getting ruined.
Eun-hyeon gave up on her own and did not ask for help, but it was judged that stopping the ordeal was too hasty as well as justification.
[But the child is suffering like that…]
Unlike the two goddesses who withheld the end of the trial, the reason why Belldandy came alone and strongly requested Juno to stop the trial was purely based on personal feelings.
The figure of Eun-hyeon, who endures the pain of the whole body and the screams that come out of her mouth every time she faces her death, and continues to fulfill the ordeal.
It is the ‘hell’ itself that borrows the name ‘trial’.
Belldandi couldn’t bear to be of no help and he had to stare at Eunhyeon.
She herself admitted that this was purely her own, very private and arbitrary act.
[At least, I have to modify it again so that I can use my authority in this ordeal…]
The reason why Eunhyeon was struggling so much in this ordeal was that she couldn’t use the powers that Belldandi had bestowed, ‘Time Acceleration’ and ‘Thought Acceleration’.
In battle, Belldandy also knew that his powers were giving Eunhyeon a lot of advantage.
The reason why Belldandi judged this ordeal to be very unreasonable for Eunhyeon was that Jupiter had limited his power bestowed upon Eunhyeon.
It’s like taking away a very good weapon, and it’s serving as a huge penalty.
[That is also disallowed.]
Juno asked Belldandi, who had been making a nervous expression earlier.
[Is this human an infant who can do nothing without your help?]
[…]
[I know very well that you have special feelings for that human.]
[That, it is…]
When Juno mentioned the relationship between him and Eunhyeon, Verdandi reacted by flinching.
[But just because it’s so pampered, cheap, and money doesn’t mean it’s good.]
Juno continues her words while staring at Eun-hyeon, who is struggling with Shiete’s shadow in the midst of the ordeal.
[If that person is truly precious, wait quietly.]
[… Do you think my child can succeed?]
[Do you not believe it?]
As if hearing an unexpected question, Juno raised her eyes and looked at Belldandy.
[It’s not like that. I am… This is the chosen child.]
Belldandy never thought that Eunhyeon would fail because he could not pass the ordeal.
The trust she had in Eun-Hyeon was strong, and it was not only the relationship between the goddess and the apostle, but also the trust made through the love affair between a man and a woman.
Still, she couldn’t let go of her confused expression.
[I believe that it will definitely succeed. Only…]
Is there a need to grow while suffering so much?
Belldandi was only skeptical.
Even if you don’t use such a reckless method, even if you don’t walk the hard road, there will definitely be a way to grow.
From the point of view of Belldandi, who wanted Eun-hyeon to live a happy life without suffering any more, she was not at all happy with the growth accumulated by repeating hundreds of deaths.
He did not want to walk on such a difficult path because he wanted to grow up step by step by caring for his body and mind more and receiving his help to repay his expectations.
[Hey…]
Belldandy stared at Eun-hyeon, who was facing the ordeal, and held her hands tightly with a nervous expression.
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Why did he come up with this idea and why he had the idea to implement it, Eun-Hyeon herself could not explain well.
The teacher’s advice, which suddenly flashed into his mind, suggested a possibility in Eun-hyeon’s head.
-If you want to grow, your goal should be to break the limits you have, not follow me.
‘What on earth is there to break my limits?’
Normally, it was a frustrating conundrum that no matter how much he pondered, the answer would not have come out, but Eun-hyeon is a ‘half-god’ with a slightly special ability different from the others.
Besides, really fortunately, the only authority he was limited to was the authority bestowed by Belldandi.
The ‘key’ he had created still existed.
Eunhyeon activated her power without hesitation.
The history he was attempting to recreate this time was a bit special.
[God’s key to reproduce history]
[Summoning, Sword Saint Eunhyeon]
Not the history of the past, but the history of the future.
And the target is Eunhyeon, himself.
Originally, history is the process of change, rise and fall, and events that occurred in human society that are recorded by later generations.
All of the weapons that Eunhyeon has reproduced so far are relics of the past when clear ‘concepts’ or ‘keywords’ were handed down.
However, what he is trying to reproduce now is a little different.
The history of the future, which neither exists nor is clearly determined, nor is known.
It is his own future that exists at a certain turning point in the future of ‘Sword Saint Eunhyeon’.
Through her own consciousness, Eunhyeon brought her memories that would exist in the future into her consciousness.
“Nice… Eww!”
A future that terribly dies at some turning point.
A future that seeks the end of the sword and ends up in despair.
A future that continues with his wives and a happy daily life.
Innumerable jumbled memories flow into his head, confusing his consciousness.
There were terrible memories that I didn’t want to experience again, and there were sweet memories that I wanted to enjoy the happiness of getting drunk in the future.
However, what Eun-hyeon needs right now is neither the terrible memories nor the happy memories of continuing a happy life with his wives.
Memories of the swordsman who continued to pursue the path of the sword and reached its limit at the end of it, inheriting Shiete’s teachings and tenacity.
What you need right now is that memory.
‘Head…’
It hurts like breaking.
The task of descending, erasing, and repeating the descending of new memories, which contain enormous amounts of time and emotion, cannot be easy.
In particular, currently Eun-Hyeon is unable to use ‘Thought Acceleration’, so his ability to process information in his head is significantly reduced.
It is said that she has been trained through her usual habits, but Eun-hyeon, who cannot use the power of the goddess, has no choice but to be slower than before.
In the meantime, Eun-hyeon kept an eye on a memory that had been injected into her head.
‘This… ?’
The reason Eunhyeon kept an eye on that memory was because her memory was not a memory created based on her own ‘present’.
The future is unique.
Iliana, Eleanor, Lilina, Erin, and even Belldandi didn’t connect, and it was a future where I wandered alone for a long time.
Obviously not a future based on her own present, but a future created through some branching point in her own past.
This is also another possibility.
In this way, Eun-hyeon read the memory of the future, wondering if fate could be split at a turning point.
The memory of growing up as a swordsman comparable to Siete, inheriting the will of her teacher and realizing the extremes of the sword, is the future with the potential that Eunhyeon was looking for.
‘Found.’
Eun-hyeon immediately melted her memories into his own consciousness and harmonized them.
“Cool… Ruck!”
Eunhyeon, who was about to die with his body split in two due to the blade wielded by Siete’s shadow, was busy accepting her future memories as a swordsman.
‘The amount of information is too much.’
The emotions that those memories have, the training, and the weight of time are too heavy.
100 years, no 200 years, maybe even 400 years.
The other self achieved that state by working hard and trying again with her own body without talent.
Eun-hyeon picked out only the memories of battle and training in the time of several hundred years and settled them in her consciousness, and felt another self who had held the title of swordsman flowing in.
‘Okay. You are my target.’
Eunhyeon definitely realized.
Siete, the teacher, was right.
His own target was not Siete.
His own future that broke his limits and won the title of Sword Saint.
Hope begins to bloom in the feelings of despair that began to be filled with lamentation over his talent, which was close to incompetence.
It was a very thin hope, like a thread, but the fact that there was a possibility for himself, and his reason that had been broken was restored little by little.
Finally, after 5 seconds, Eun-hyeon’s body, which had been split in two, was restored to its original state.
Eunhyun slowly raised herself up, supporting the floor with the sword she was holding.
“Is this just the 199th…”
Eun-hyeon raised her staggering body and gazed at Siete’s shadow, smiling.
There was a subtle change in the eyes and even the slightest movement of posture, full of a sense of incongruity, but Siete’s shadow pointed the sword at Eun-hyeon and took the same posture for the 199th time.
“I can’t fill number 200.”
Kaaang!
The master’s remnants collided with the student’s sword, which touched a part of the future hundreds of years later.
Although imperfect, the collision between the sword of the past and the sword of the future became a turning point in this ordeal to face a new phase.
