Chapter 387 – Mythology Academy
Yudi’s sincerity felt through 『Emotion』. Seong-il hears her words and puts down her torture tool and asks her a question.
“Please explain in detail.”
“…”
At Seong-il’s words, Yoo-di starts to think about something about her for a long time with a teary expression on her face. After a while, she answers him with a half resigned expression.
“…When I die, my soul will move to the dimension where Tala is, and it will be returned to that place.”
“!!!”
“If I betray him, I will be tortured endlessly for eons in his world for betraying me.”
‘…Was it like that?’
Seong-il realizes that Yudi’s words are true through 『Emotion』. Seong-il feels that her heart is heavy at her confession.
“F… Actually… Already, Tala-sama could have been angry with me for just saying this much.”
“Hmm…”
“Well… But since we didn’t talk about the really important things, maybe we can be tortured and forgiven for about 10 years after we die.”
‘…10 years just talking about this?’
Seong-il’s face is rotting under Tala’s cruel rules. He questions her in her bewildered tone.
“How do you know you’ll be tortured for 10 years?”
“I can’t explain the details. One thing is for sure, if I say more than this, I’ll suffer really close to eternity. Until the time when my soul completely disappears.”
“…”
“So… If you’re really merciful, I just want you to end my life. I’ve cooperated as best I could.”
“Hmm…”
When Seong-il realizes that she has her own reasons, her heart feels very heavy.
‘Well, in this life, it would take several years at most to be tortured, but if you can’t stand it and spit out secrets, you’ll suffer even more for dozens or hundreds of years after death…’
‘So, no matter how weak a human being is, is he holding on to death? And that’s probably why he attempted suicide without hesitation.’
The holy day when I realized why the apostles of evil spirits resisted so desperately. He puts his instruments of torture on the desk and asks Yudi in a relaxed voice.
“Good.”
“!!”
Yoo-di’s face widens as if he heard Seong-il’s words that he would stop the torture and kill himself. Seeing that, Seong-il feels that her heart is getting confused.
“I don’t mean to kill you.”
“…Are you kidding me?”
“Wait, wait. I’m not kidding.”
“…”
Yudi looks at Seongil blankly with a questioning expression on her face. Seeing her expression, Seong-il puts a chair in front of her and asks her while looking at her face to face.
“I won’t ask the core questions. Just satisfy my personal curiosity.”
“…Curiosity?”
“Yes. If you feel that you are betraying the god you believe in, or if it is a question that will anger him, you do not have to answer.”
“Hmm…”
“I’ll give you all the options. You don’t have to answer as much. If you please me enough, I’ll kill you really clean. I swear.”
“…”
She begins to worry about Seongil’s words. Seeing such Yudi in her, Seongil presses her with her quick talk.
“If you’re handed over to a professor-level archmage and subjected to insane torture, you won’t be able to stand it. I assure you.”
“…”
“If you’re having such a hard time even for someone who’s only me, you really can’t stand it. So let’s cleanly answer each other and finish.”
“Ha…”
Yudi’s composure was eventually shattered by Seongil’s words. She nods her head with a half-disenchanted expression.
“…Swear to me.”
“I swear by the power of my magic. I will ask you questions, but I will leave the choice of answer entirely to you. However, you must cooperate with me as long as it does not violate your convictions.”
“Good…”
Yudi nodded her head as if she liked Seongil’s sharp oath. For her, her holy day opens her question.
“Why did you become a follower of Tala? Could it be that you coveted the power of your talent?”
“Everyone… Shut up! I… I… I… I’m not like those two assholes!!”
Yudy is enraged at the word “Power of talent”. Seong-il shows a slightly surprised expression at that intense attitude.
“I… I… Went… Forced. Against my will.”
“Forced?! How is that possible?”
“…”
Yudi keeps an eye on Holy Day with cold eyes. He feels that this question crosses the line.
“Well… Let’s move on. You didn’t become a believer because you were particularly inspired?”
“What!? Ah… No!! I… I!! Ta… I was eventually inspired by Tala and now I have become a very faithful servant!!”
Saying that, Yudi looked everywhere with a frightened expression. She shudders and puts on a terrified expression.
‘Hmm… You seem to be putting pressure on the followers by sending ‘eyes’ to them? He’s such a trash god This bastard…’
She starts to feel a little sorry for her on the day of her seong-il, who finds out that Yudi has been forced to become her watcher by her will.
“Ha…”
While thinking about it, Seong-il unconsciously begins to sweep and touch the table. However, he starts spitting out answers to him with a slightly uneasy expression, as if his appearance came under pressure from Yudi.
“I understand!! I understand!! Even Tala won’t be very angry if I tell you how I joined… Because it’s already widely known. I’ll explain.”
“…?”
He was just contemplating whether to let Yudi go without pain or not, but when she unexpectedly said she would give an answer, Seong-il nodded her head in agreement with a slightly puzzled expression.
“What… Yes.”
“Instead… Instead, can’t we just listen to how to sign up and finish the questions? Actually, it might have taken a lot…”
“…Good.”
Seong-il nods, perhaps because he feels sorry for Yudi, who is desperately clinging to him. When she realized that she, too, had been her victim, her holy days were a situation where her coercive attitude towards her became very emotionally taxing.
“The method of forcibly creating followers is surprisingly simple…”
Yudi’s explanation follows. Upon hearing the contents, Seong-il’s face begins to stain with astonishment.
– First, order the fanatics to kidnap an innocent woman.
– Then torture, harass and abuse the victim endlessly.
-Repeatedly heal her woman with all kinds of secret arts and blessings (power of Tala).
– Brainwashing a woman whose mind has half collapsed by educating her to believe in Tala.
– Victims whose minds are worn out by pain and fear are brainwashed and forced to become believers.
– However, in the case of a believer who was forcibly created in this way, the soul does not belong to the god.
– Therefore, in order to increase the number of believers with a true binding force, they start a full-fledged ‘work’ from here.
– That’s forced pregnancy.
– Since the child in the belly is treated as ‘one body’ with the parents until birth, it is possible to transfer the contract by expedient method. In this case, unlike their parents, they can use evil spells to brand their souls.
– Therefore, in this case, as soon as it is born, it is said that the child naturally becomes a ‘mother’s’ believer without knowing anything. They call it ‘Tala’s Children’.
– In addition, fanatics make mothers extremely dependent on the mental part to prevent them from abandoning their children in extreme situations.
-Then, when the child is about a year old, Tala, with her blessing, erases all memories of her abduction period.
– The victim really has no memory of the period of abuse, and only vaguely remembers that she conceived a child due to something. And how precious the child is.
-Pretending to sympathize with such a victim, Tala’s followers give her her generous patronage. With that, the victim goes on with his life.
– Of course, children who do not know anything become ‘ordinary’, and they have a different ideology from fanatics. Because of this, these children melt into ‘society’ very naturally.
– Then, when the time comes, at the age of 16, Tala uses the ‘stigma’ to burrow into their dreams and whisper the truth. Threatening that your souls are already bound to you by contract.
– And resocialize them by subjecting them to endless torture in their dreams. Blackmailing them into making them her true self ‘believers’.
– Since it is impossible to evade even by death, most of them eventually get scared and swear obedience to him. During the process, Tala thoroughly tried to renew the contract, and in the end, it was said that he completely robbed the victim’s soul.
– That’s how Tala got them with ‘normal’ social skills compared to real fanatics. The guy dispatches them to the ‘group’ he wants to play with. Used as spies.
Seong-il, who heard all the explanations, starts to rage with a disgusted expression.
“This is a nuclear power plant net scammer and a bastard god. No, it’s a waste to call him a god. He’s just a devil bastard.”
“…”
Because her soul is at stake, Yudi calmly responds with silence. When Seong-il hears her whole situation, she decides to stop bullying or questioning her and put an end to her suffering with her Yudi.
‘I can’t solve it. If we let it go, she’ll live a life of suffering anyway, listening to Tala’s unwanted orders. Let’s just finish it with my own hands.’
Instead, Seongil swears that he will definitely carry out the ‘Destroy Tala’s Divinity’ event, which can be done through the good ending route, and bring him down from the position of god.
Through gameplay, I know that once the event is cleared, all souls bound to Tala will be freed.
Sereung.
Seong-il takes out a knife and raises the air without a word out of pity. That’s when he decides to end her life by wielding a knife at her throat.
“!!”
A strange power that vibrates within his chest. Seong-il frowned, put down the sword for a moment, and put his hand into his chest.
“…This?”
The ‘Devil’s Diary’ is spurting out fierce power. Seong-il, puzzled by his outbursts, calmly takes out his diary and opens it.
“Why don’t you write your last wish?”
“…What kind of bullshit is this?”
Seong-il frowns and annoys at the unexpected wish. To him, the devil’s diary writes bloody letters and replies to him.
『I know how to break that ‘unfair’ contract.』
“…What?!”
Seong-il is frozen on the spot by the bombshell thrown by the diary. When he shows agitation, the diary persuades him by writing quickly.
“Really. That compulsory contract is actually half a trick, so if you know the mechanism well, you can break it. It does cost a bit, though.”
“!!!”
The words of the diary that make you tempt. At the same time, Seong-il hears Yudi’s circumstances and has sympathy for her, so she falls into her troubles even more.
However, there is one concern that separates it from that. Seong-il asks her diary as if throwing her stone fastball.
“…It’s true that I had sympathy for that woman after hearing her circumstances, but is that enough to make a wish? Also, I don’t trust you.”
『Why can’t you believe it?』
“Are you asking because you really don’t know? Didn’t you secretly fuck me while making me write a wish?”
“So the result was bad? As a result, I know that you benefited enough.”
“It’s not a matter of profit. You devil!
“So?”
“So what’s the point of freezing to death?! Once the constraint of my last wish is gone, there’s no way I can stop you? What if you don’t grant my wish properly? Or what if you retaliate against me? Doesn’t exist!!!”
Seong-il, who half vented his dissatisfaction with the devil, and half made a winning decision to get the guy to guarantee his safety. To his words, the devil replies to him in a tired handwriting.
“Good good. I’ll admit that I’ve never had a frivolous side. But that’s it. If you’d been trapped here for thousands of years and had the chance to finally find your freedom, you’d have acted like me. You can get freedom only when your wishes come true!!!”
The devil expresses strong emotions when he uses the word ‘freedom’. Seong-il felt how strong his will was in that word, to the point where he had to temporarily withdraw his 『Emotion』 And avoid the stimulus.
『What is this!! I will swear by my true name.”
“…True name?”
“Yes!! My true name. If I swear on this, I will never break my promise.”
“Hmm…”
Through 『Emotion』, Seong-il feels that the man’s words are true. Because of this, he realizes that he has room to compromise with him, and Seong-il asks him questions.
“Okay. Then there’s room for negotiation.”
“What do you want? Safety?”
“…That’s basic, tell me why I have to set Yudi free.”
“!!!”
Yudi, who had been looking at Seongil muttering incredulously for a while while holding a book floating in the air that was suddenly giving off bizarre powers. In the meantime, when the word ‘freedom’ came out of his mouth, her eyes naturally widened.
‘…Freedom?!’
Yudi’s body freezes on the spot. Then she was speechless for a moment in her shock. The devil’s diary tells Seong-il about her use.
“How can I help you? Simple. You can easily acquire the ‘Claudia’ you are aiming for through that woman. It suits your taste too!!』
“…Claudia?”
“Okay. It must be something I accurately grasped by reading the law of causality.”
“Her huh… But, I’m confident enough to put her in her hands even without help…”
At the end of such a holy day, the devil urgently writes additional benefits and tries to persuade him.
『You see too shortsightedly!! So what about this? You can use that woman to reveal the identity of the ‘Prophet’. Also, you can use that woman to forcibly cancel similar cases of ‘unfair contracts’ in the future!』
“Oh…!!”
Seong-il finally feels that he can communicate with the devil. When he’s tempted, the devil starts giving him an ultimatum.
“Make a wish for me! Then, I swear by my true name that I will not harm you in any way. In addition, I will leave you a present as a commemoration of your freedom!!!”
“…Gift?”
“Okay! Gift!!”
“…What?”
『Let me tell you how to read the ‘law of cause and effect’, albeit weakly. Well… It’s literally ‘weak’, but you should be able to use your ability more delicately than before.』
“!!”
『Of course… Even if you don’t have to learn this ability from me, you who can read the law of cause and effect, albeit in a rudimentary way, are the ability to learn naturally after some time. However, if I shorten that time, it won’t be a loss to you either!!』
“…I have no choice but to admit it.”
