Resurrected Immortal 910

Chapter 910 – 910. The Beginning of the Nightmare (6)

“The biggest reason is that the divine protection that you and other goddesses used to block that guy’s mind from growing.”

Mental growth.
The protection bestowed by the three goddesses of fate, including Belldandi, bestowed various benefits on Eunhyeon.
Not only did it accelerate the flow of one’s thoughts and the ability of the body to transcend the limit, but it also helped overcome the limit of lifespan, and there were various other things such as protecting from external mental interference.
The tools and effects that were too convenient also had the disadvantage of hindering individual growth and limiting their limitations.

“Stagnation of technology, blocked growth. Limits that limit themselves. This and that are all serious. His current condition is a frog in a bottle. If you keep going like this, you won’t be able to jump any higher.”

A frog trapped in a bottle can only jump up to the ceiling of the bottle where it spends a long time.
For Eunhyeon, the blessing of the goddess was like that.

“But…”

Belldandi could not sympathize at all.
Since the goddess couldn’t understand what Eunhyeon meant by ‘martial arts’, no matter how important his growth was, what he was most concerned about was Eunhyeon’s spirit.

“If you continue like this, the child’s spirit will collapse first. The child now is too dangerous.”

“The most serious thing is that spirit.”

“… What?”

“The blessings of the Goddess that the four years have put on are definitely great and outstanding. I won’t deny that But didn’t you think that blessing rather softened that guy’s spirit?”

“That…”

She never thought about it.
Since Eunhyeon’s mind is strongly protected by the protection of the goddess, he did not expect that he would continue to receive mental attacks like brainwashing.

“Actually, that fox must have been pierced once, even for a short time?”

“…”

Belldandi trembled.
In fact, the nine-tailed fox, who successfully resurrected by establishing his soul in a new fox bead, once tried to charm Eun-hyeon by breaking through the protection of the goddess.
Even though it was done as a joke, it was something that Verdandy, who wanted to protect Eunhyeon and hope for his safety, was hurting his pride.

“But it can’t happen again…”

“Why do you think I am dead?”

“New year… Mind?”

Only then did Belldandi guess the meaning of another Eunhyeon’s words.

“Even the blessing of that proud goddess couldn’t stop the brainwashing of a high-ranking demon.”

“I will… Riga…”

“It can’t be? On what basis did you say that? Is it absolute confidence in your goddess power?”

Confidence that is certain that there is no way to break through.
He couldn’t have imagined that there would be so many beings possessing the brainwashing ability of a nine-tailed fox.
However, it is foolish to assume that this will never happen.
Belldandy looked shocked and couldn’t say anything.
Another Eunhyeon looked at the goddess’ expression and continued to speak calmly.

“My mind was completely twisted then. The goddess’ protection has forced me into the battlefield, and if necessary, she is made to kill even my fellow human beings without hesitation.”

“…”

I didn’t want to kill him, but I had to.
Because Gaho forced her to do that.
I had to do whatever was necessary to protect the lower world.
In the process, he turned away, neglected, and even killed people who had died.
Another Eunhyeon’s doctor was not included.
Such actions were repeated over and over again, and as time passed, rumors about him began to spread among people.
Killer.
Traitor of mankind.
Devil, devil.
Psycho Pass.
All the adjectives that could insult him stuck, and everyone cursed at him.
Someone hated and despised the other Eun-hyeon, and ran away as if they were offended just by breathing the same air up close.
Wouldn’t that be a natural result?
A psycho who doesn’t hesitate to kill even the same person if necessary in killing demons and monsters.
No one would want to be that scapegoat, and no one would want to be close to him.
Another Eun-hyeon who entered later felt skeptical.

‘Why am I here?’

‘Why do I exist?’

‘What on earth are all the things I’ve been doing up until now?’

He achieved his goal of perfecting his swordsmanship following the will of Siete, who taught him swordsmanship.
However, this damn situation where he had to kill the same human he didn’t want to kill with the swordsmanship of the master he admired so much, cursed his fate.

“I thought I had stained Master’s sword and was devastated. And… It was then. The devil came to me.”

[How long are you going to live as a puppet of the goddesses?]

Of course, at first, the goddess’ protection perfectly defended against the devil’s brainwashing.
However, if that is repeated over and over again, perfection will gradually wear off.

[Aren’t you resentful? The goddess who made you like that?]

[Will you help me get revenge?]

The devil relentlessly followed.
The constant interference of the mind made another Eun-hyeon impoverished in another meaning and did not stop.
As if knocking on a tightly closed wall door again and again.
And through the gap created when a part of the wall door that reached its limit was broken, the whispers of the devil that had been constantly harassing it could be heard.

“They knew it too. That I, who was made with the sword of the goddess, is the most threatening being in the underworld. So they used me.”

“Like that… Have you been brainwashed by the devil… ?”

“Under.”

Another Eunhyeon laughed at Belldandy as if he was dumbfounded.

“Wrong.”

“What?”

“I killed myself.”

“What, what… ?”

“Did you not hear? I committed suicide. The moment when the protection of the goddess is broken by the brainwashing of the devil. I stabbed myself in the neck with my own sword.”

“…”

Belldandy was momentarily at a loss for words.
He couldn’t understand his choice.

“You… To me, no. Didn’t you want to get revenge on us?”

Did you know you would ask that?
Another Eunhyeon smiled and asked.

“Why me?”

“Yeah… Because you said you hated our goddesses to the point of cursing them. I thought so.”

“Anyway, even if I hadn’t completely accepted the brainwashing and turned into their tool, the underworld was over.”

“…”

“Because the human race was already perishing.”

This was the result of not considering human survival at all and focusing only on killing demons and monsters.

“It means being human. They are also a race that strengthens their solidarity and becomes stronger as they face crisis, but if the number falls below a certain level, they cannot do anything.”

That’s what society is.
What individual human beings can do is limited, and the fundamental reason why people with intelligence live in groups is that the majority overcome and overcome the limited part as a group and grow.

“Your choice was a pre-determined ending with no other way than destruction.”

“…”

“So I killed myself. Because it was meaningless for me to avenge you. I don’t even want to kill people anymore. Master’s swordsmanship… Anything more dirty was unacceptable to me.”

So, another Eun-hyeon committed suicide by slitting her own throat right before the devil’s brainwashing intervened at the same time as her goddess’ protection was lifted.
It was futile to take revenge on the goddesses who made him like this in the first place, but it was also not worth living as someone else’s tool by falling for the demons again.
The biggest cause for her was one single conviction that she could no longer tarnish Siete’s name and her swordsmanship that she had left behind.
Another Eunhyeon was a great being in a sense.
He resisted the devil’s brainwashing himself, and hated having his master’s sword and name stained by them more than dying.
So I chose death.
His determination was worthy of praise as a swordsman.

“I was happy. At least I feel grateful to the devil. Because you set me free.”

It would have been regrettable not being able to brainwash another Eunhyeon into one of his subordinates, but from the devils point of view, another Eunhyeon, who was the most powerful nemesis, disappeared anyway, so there was no damage.
If it were the other gods who heard this story, they would have been furious, but Belldandi couldn’t do that.
Because the very thing he went through made him feel remorse for the choice of the gods.

“The child…”

Belldandy paused and pondered, then continued to speak.

“Does the child know about this?”

There was a time when Eun-hyeon forcibly implanted some of the other Eun-hyeon’s memories and experiences into her own soul and briefly reproduced her martial arts.
Wouldn’t they have been disappointed if they had felt and known their actions?
Another Eun-hyeon, who knew what Belldandi was worried about, laughed at the goddess.

“Are you worried?”

“…”

Belldandi couldn’t say anything.
It was a straight line.

“I do not know. If I had known, I wouldn’t have mingled with something vulgar like you.”

He would have given up his apostleship right away and distanced himself from the goddesses including Belldandi.
It was only natural that he would have doubts about Belldandy, suspecting that there might be a device that manipulates the mind again in his protective protection.
It was too harsh a future and truth for Eunhyeon to know.

“So this is a necessary course for him.”

I didn’t tell Eunhyun, but the real purpose of this training wasn’t to develop skills.
To make his mind fall more and more into the abyss and become impoverished.
It was a necessary process in order to further forge his heart and mind.
To make a hard and sharp sword, like putting steel into a hot furnace and quenching it.
This is the ascetic path that must be walked in order to move forward.

“You would also know. That guy, what kind of path ‘we’ have to walk.”

It’s not just a thorny road.
It could be on top of a hot fire like a volcano, or it could be in the middle of a glacier with ice caps.
The road in front of Eunhyeon was like that.
Another Eunhyeon chose to destroy herself after walking that path.

“In order to fight them, that guy’s heart needs to become stronger. Even that won’t be easy.”

There are those who attain enlightenment in just one step in order to walk the stage toward the goal.
Another person has already obtained that enlightenment without realizing it, even before he or she goes through the hardships.
But Eun-hyeon is different.
Not even one step, not even two or three steps.
Walking the path with a talent that can only be reached by taking ten or twenty steps can make even the onlookers weary.

“So you are poison. It can be a sweet consolation and a resting place for that guy.”

“…”

Belldandi, who had been telling me to quit that ascetic path, that it was okay to quit, that I should give up, couldn’t say anything anymore.
I couldn’t help but stare blankly at Eun-hyeon, who was struggling to the death with the monster.
Soon after, Eun-hyeon finally flew over the sky and defeated the monster that had been attacking indiscriminately.
After checking the monster that had fallen to the floor and being certain that the fight was over, Eunhyeon sat down on the floor.

“Kid… !”

He tried to run to him right away, but he couldn’t get to Eun-hyeon, probably because he was blocked by something like a wall.

“Maybe we can start soon.”

Belldandy turned his head and looked at another Eunhyeon.

“What else are you going to do…”

“I told you. I’m going to destroy that guy’s mind once and for all.”

To be stronger, break it once.
It was a coercive method, and if it goes wrong, the broken spirit may not come back at all.

“Then it must have been there.”

If she can’t endure this, Eun-hyeon might not be very different from the ending she faced.
No. He couldn’t even guarantee the future where he was brainwashed by the devil and turned into a monster who kills humans.
Another Eunhyeon ignored Belldandi’s suspicious gaze and created the appearance of the devil who had brainwashed her.
High level demon.
Asmodeus
The worst demon who has been able to trick and confuse many humans with special skills in brainwashing and mind manipulation has appeared.

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“Ugh…”

Eunhyun frowned and opened her eyes.
He remembered the last time he fought a monster flying through the sky and won, but he couldn’t remember what happened after that.
When he came to his senses, he found that the place he was in had changed.

“Here…”

I looked around him and hardened his face.

“This is our house… ?”

When he lived on Earth, he was the home of his home where he lived.

“What? Why are you here all of a sudden?”

He was confused, unable to understand why he had been moved to this place.
My brain was dizzy.
His exhausted mind kept telling himself to stop resting, but the priority was to grasp the situation.
Eunhyun slowly raised her tired body.

“Son.”

“… !”

Someone called him
Eunhyun startled and shuddered.
A very familiar voice.
Nostalgic speech.
Name to call yourself.
Because everything was so familiar and missed.
Because I was scared at the same time.
His body trembled involuntarily.

“Son.”

Eunhyun cautiously turned her head.
As he turned his head in the direction the voice came from, he wore an expression of disbelief.

“Son.”

“… No.”

“Son.”

“It won’t be…”

“Son.”

“No, just do it.”

“Son.”

“Please…”

“Son.”

“Ah…”

“Son. Son. Son. Son. Son. Son.”

The nightmare revived in the ravaged mind.