Chapter 732 – 732. Another Shinsoo (7)
Love.
It is a terrible feeling that a nine-tailed fox once had, but now he does not want to recall.
At one time, driven by that feeling, she gave her heart to a man, but was betrayed in the end.
It’s not just about dying.
It can be said that the neat and clean magic that has been gathered in the fox beads through training for a long time of several hundred years is everything in the life of a nine-tailed fox.
The fox marbles and magic power of the divine beast were taken away, and after his death, only his shell remained, and his remains were buried in the ground and used as a stepping stone for the descendants of the kingdom to grow for the rest of their lives.
The miserable end and the vicious ending in which even the remains were used resulted in only nurturing the spirit of revenge in the gumiho, and the gumiho was able to relieve the core.
By massacring not only the kingdom of Pernias, which was founded by the man who betrayed him, but also the humans on that continent.
For Gumiho, the feeling of love is the only mistake she has made in her life, and it is a terrible feeling that reminds her of her foolish self.
“Stupid… Year… !”
Fragments of Erin’s memories and emotions flowed into her own psyche along with Erin’s magic through her energy drain.
Feeling that, the nine-tailed fox showed a fierce displeasure that was incomparable to any insult he had ever felt.
“Love? Is it just a feeling called love?”
“Ugh… Eww… !”
Erin, on the other hand, could not afford to answer the nine-tailed fox’s words as she was defending her own spirit from the thoughts of the dead that accompanied her as she absorbed the magic of the nine-tailed fox.
Whether Erin was like that or not, the gumiho continued to express her own anger.
“How can you be so stupid? To struggle like this over just one useless emotion.”
Why are you so resistant?
Why are you struggling so much?
How can you be so desperate?
There is only one source of strength that exposes teeth in order to maintain such a strong mentality and win.
“A useless feeling… It’s nothing like that!”
Erin looked straight into the eyes of the nine-tailed fox, resisting the thoughts of the dead that entangled her mind.
“It’s a world that the person I love is trying to protect! What’s wrong with wanting to help that person!?”
It’s not just Eunhyun.
There are a lot of people who care for you and love you.
Other wives like Iliana, Eleanor, Lily, Ayra and many others.
Erin had plenty of reasons to struggle to follow her grace and keep this place.
“Just because you put so much effort into it, who the hell knows!”
Stupid.
Even if you are stupid, you are too stupid.
“Should I tell you the ending of the end that you will experience? Even though you tried to protect someone while being hurt and hurt like that, in the end, you will not be rewarded for your efforts and will be betrayed!”
Gumiho’s words are not completely unfounded.
Because she is none other than herself, she has experienced it herself.
Even after her death, she couldn’t ascend to heaven because of her resentment, and it wasn’t enough that her strength and fox beads were taken away, so she couldn’t resist having her remains trampled on as she wished.
The nine-tailed fox no longer believes in the human race.
So she was sure.
No matter how much Erin struggles and tries to save the things that are human, the ending she faces is ruin.
However, Erin did not give up her will even after hearing the experience of the nine-tailed fox, which was close to such a prophecy.
“… I am not asking for a reward.”
The reason Erin struggles to save and protect her people is not because she wants something.
Because I know the mission that Eun-hyeon was given by the goddess and shouldered.
Because she shared the burden even a little, and she had a desire to be of help to him.
Of course, if Eun-hyeon knows about her hard work and she compliments her, it would be the greatest joy for Erin. Different.
Not only Erin, but Illyana, Eleanor, and Lily all hoped to share the burden he was carrying by bonding with her Eun Hyun.
“Under. Is it that human man?”
The nine-tailed fox saw Eun-hyeon in Erin’s emotions.
That’s it.
Perhaps that human male named Eunhyun was the source of this situation.
A variable that did not exist in its own dimension and exists in this dimension.
He is also a man who is doing these crazy things to have a witch who is nothing short of a disaster who has drawn him in.
“Surely great.”
The man named Eunhyeon in Erin’s memory is amazing.
It is said that he received divine protection from the goddess, but an existence that created the status of a half-god with a human body.
It is not an area that even the Shinsoo himself dares to cross.
Even if the other gods helped, the achievement that accomplished it deserves praise.
‘In the first place, the gods who don’t interfere in the underworld can’t exist as human beings who want to help even while twisting the rules like that.’
In many ways, a man named Eunhyeon was a greater being than Ortas.
But whether or not you can trust him is a completely different matter.
“Even for that human male, if it becomes useless, I will simply throw you away.”
“It is not so! Hyun-i doesn’t!”
Erin’s faith in Eun-hyeon is not light, to the point where she barely falls for the mouth of a nine-tailed fox.
Rather, Erin launched a counterattack against the gumiho.
“Joy! If you fall for just one man… !”
“You are! It’s just that you didn’t have eyes for men!”
“… What?”
At Erin’s unexpected counterattack, the gumiho trembled and asked back.
They were so shaken that the situation in which each other’s energy drains were colliding in a close tug of war gradually gave way to Erin.
“Right! You’re just venting your anger! You’re unleashing the resentment and sadness that arose from being betrayed into the world itself!”
“…”
That’s the answer.
In the midst of stealing Erin’s body and taking revenge on Pernias Kingdom, the nine-tailed fox realized that Ortas was still alive.
He continued his life by implanting his soul in the bodies of his kingdom’s descendants.
Even though she took revenge by killing Ortas herself for betraying her, the resentment and anger accumulated in her heart could not be relieved.
After Ortas, her opponents whom she showed hatred for were all the humans of the continent.
As Erin pointed out, it may have been just childish venting of anger.
However, acknowledging it would scratch the pride of Shinsoo, who was a noble being, so he could not admit it.
“You’re being cheeky and making fun of your mouth.”
The nine-tailed fox gnashed his teeth with an annoyed expression and glared at Erin.
She tried to concentrate her mind to absorb all of her Erin’s magical power at once, but the nine-tailed fox did not allow it.
Something is strange.
Erinn’s mana, which had been endangered as if it were going to be pulled at any moment, was no longer drawn.
The difference between her sorcery and her abilities is obvious, and the size of her power and she herself should grow many times bigger. Stay poised and resist.
‘Why?’
The gumiho belatedly found the cause.
Erin didn’t get stronger.
The cause of her was the nine-tailed fox herself.
‘I… Was he agitated?’
Was it too shocking for Erin to point out that ‘I don’t have eyes for men’?
For Erin, she just said that Ortas and Eun-hyeon, who betrayed the nine-tailed fox, were completely different, but she was an unexpected provocation to the nine-tailed fox.
‘No. That’s not all.’
Erin never changed anything.
Erin wrestling her strength with herself has something of her seasoned.
It feels like you are dealing with two rather than one.
‘No way…’
Eventually, another existence was found in Erin’s emotions flowing into the body of the nine-tailed fox.
[It’s a very strange feeling to see myself. Immature! I will purify the evil spirits and turbid magic. You focus on absorbing all the power of ‘I’.]
“Okay!”
The thought of the nine-tailed fox, which had been dwelling in her body for the first time in a long time, was an unexpected help to Erin.
It had been a long time since she left Erin’s body using the new fox marbles Eunhyeon and Illyana had made for her, but the thought of the nine-tailed fox that suddenly appeared was unexpectedly welcome.
As soon as she appears, the nine-tailed fox gives Erin an order, or Erin understands it right away and puts it into action.
However, in a situation like now facing a common enemy, the killing was quite good.
“You… !”
Aware of the presence of a gumiho nestled in Erin’s psyche, another gumiho gnashed her teeth, revealing her anger.
“Why… ! Why are you helping humans!”
[Joy. That’s my heart.]
“You… ! You must have had the same experience as me… ! Why!”
Another nine-tailed fox was enraged.
The nine-tailed fox of this dimension, who thought that he would burn resentment and revenge against humans and this world like himself, was very cooperative with Erin.
She felt betrayed just as intensely as when she was betrayed by her trusted counterpart, Ortas, and maybe even more so.
[Because I can’t help but look at you.]
“What… ?”
[Whether I harbor resentment, vengeance, or affection toward humans and the world, it is none of my business. Because I’ve been like that too. But… Even if the process was bad, it was too bad.]
This nine-tailed fox lamented.
Another nine-tailed fox in front of her was her own future.
Perhaps she has a disastrous future she may have reached.
[The turbid power that was built up by slaughtering countless humans, abandoning the state he had achieved through long-term training. Did you really accept that? I would never have made that choice.]
“…”
[Where in your current appearance can you find the appearance of a noble divine beast? You are not a god now. A beast that just ate humans and developed unclean powers. It’s just a handshake.]
Haha.”
The other nine-tailed fox made an expression of absurdity at the words of the other himself lamenting his own foolishness.
“I wouldn’t have thought it was me. I couldn’t help it. I mean, it couldn’t be helped! Ortas! To destroy the country that I developed using my strength and remains!”
What another nine-tailed fox needed to destroy a country was an overwhelmingly powerful force and time to get it quickly.
The method that suited it the most was to take the power while slaughtering humans.
It was a method suggested by a witch who was collaborating with them.
It’s not that she didn’t hesitate to make her foolish choice to deny the very essence of herself, which was noble.
Rather than taking care of his pride and nobility, he just said that his hatred for Ortas was greater.
[Okay. In the end, you succumbed to it.]
Certainly, if you were in the same situation as another nine-tailed fox and at the crossroads of a choice, you might have made that foolish choice out of vengeance.
If you think so, the existence of Eun-hyeon, who appeared at the right timing to block and persuade her, was special as expected.
[That’s why you don’t fit in here. This is not a world where you can do whatever you want. So… Disappear.]
Things have changed.
She was just Erin, who was at an infinite disadvantage because she was in danger, but due to the intervention of the nine-tailed fox, she would never yield in a battle of abilities between gods and beasts.
Rather, Erin had the upper hand.
The skill of witchcraft that handles the power of the divine beast was equalized by the intervention of the nine-tailed fox, and unlike Erin, who was enduring with a rather strong mentality, another nine-tailed fox began to break down little by little due to intense emotional agitation.
It is to the point of overshadowing the superiority of the overwhelming difference in power.
Another nine-tailed fox, unable to control her intense emotions due to her resentment and vengeance, gradually began to lose her magic power to Erin.
“Nice… Ugh!”
The nine-tailed fox, who continued to lose its strength, eventually realized it.
Can’t win.
Strangely, however, I did not feel the feelings of anger and deprivation stemming from the defeat.
If the other person was a young human woman who had just lived 20 years, why?
‘I see. I am…’
I was exhausted.
He achieved his revenge, killing all humans and continuing his slaughter, helping to destroy a dimension.
Even though there was nothing left at the end, the emotions accumulated in my heart ran out of control because there was no way to resolve them.
Having achieved her all, she was feeling empty.
She realized that in her heart she was hoping that the end would come to an end.
And at that moment, Erin appeared, a human woman who uses the same power as herself.
Her eyes are straight and pure, revealing strong enthusiasm and desire.
A woman who does her best for the man she loves.
In her appearance, another gumiho discovered her old self.
The self of those days when I had a human being in my heart.
“… I’ll watch from the sky to see how far that ridiculous ideal can last.”
With those words, the nine-tailed fox released the energy drain that was absorbing Erin’s power.
As the balance of her power gradually collapsed, the balance itself was not established, and the unclean magic of another nine-tailed fox, several times as large, flowed into Erin’s body.
Another nine-tailed fox chose to disappear on its own.
