Chapter 389 – Mythology Academy
How to read causality. Seong-il freezes at the moment when he realizes that there is a present he had forgotten because of his nervousness.
‘This… The knowledge that this great guy gave me must be amazing…?’
Seong-il looks at the snake with a nervous expression. The snake, which glanced at him with a drowsy expression, began to emit a strange green light in front of his eyes.
“…This?”
“Don’t deny it.”
“What…? Huh?!”
While questioning the devil, Seong-il is horrified when the green light he summons penetrates his head. However, no matter what he did, the green light lightly ignored Sungil’s resistance and penetrated completely.
“Kuh!! What are you doing…!!”
“Because it bothers me. I roughly implanted the knowledge in your brain unconsciously.”
“…Unconscious?”
“Okay. When a critical ‘choice’ crossroads approaches in the future, if you use your abilities strongly now, you will be able to roughly feel whether the choice will be ‘positive’ or ‘negative’.
“Every time…?”
“No? That’s because the foundation you have is crude… Now, at most, it’s all about using it once or twice a month. However, if you continue to use it and get used to the ability, the number of days you will use it will gradually decrease.”
“Um…”
I thought it was giving me something really special, but it just seems to have slightly strengthened my 『Emotion』. When Seong-il feels slightly disappointed inside, the devil reprimands him with a bewildered expression.
『Certainly, did you want a tremendous improvement in your abilities right away? I also have a lot of greed. Use it consistently!! If you get used to it, someday you’ll be able to use it every day!! Don’t you see how great it is to be able to tell you the ‘right’ choice, albeit in a limited way? Really?”
“Oh, it’s not like that…”
『After a long time passes and you master the ability, if the choice you want to make is unreasonable, even though you did not use the ability, your senses will “Stop” You. If you gradually increase the steps like that, ultimately it becomes possible not only to prophesy, but also to peek into the future through dreams.
“Oh…”
『Of course, in order to do that, you will have to become much stronger than you are now. There is no jaw with the current level of magic power.”
“…”
Seong-il lost interest for a while at the devil’s words of pouring cold water on him. However, for a while, Seong-il feels that this ability can be of great help, just as he said.
‘Well… Just as he said, even this much would be a great benefit to me.’
Sungil felt how important it was to be able to check the feasibility of the plan he had established while playing the game.
That’s right, if he had this ability the day before, he might not have had the unexpected event of facing the Lord of the Abyss.
‘Yes… Well, let’s be satisfied with this much.’
『Okay…Then goodbye.』
After saying that, the demon penetrates a huge crack in the Inner Plane and begins pushing his body into it.
Seeing the majestic scene, Seong-il opens his mouth involuntarily and stares at the scene for a long time in a daze.
“I’m gone…”
After the demon left, Seong-il sighed in relief and lowered his head for a moment. When he turned his back with a tired expression on his face, he saw Yudi kneeling reverently and bowing to him.
“…What are you doing?”
“I am paying the respect due to my god. You are my master.”
After finishing her words, Yudi thumps her forehead lightly on the floor.
“…Do I really have to do that?”
“I have always shown this kind of respect to the worm-like Tala. I would like to show the courtesy I deserve to the owner of my changed soul. You are my master.”
“…”
Seong-il puts on a puzzled look at Yu-di, who treats him as if he were a god. It was as if he had become a cult leader, and he felt uncomfortable.
Seeing that expression, Yudi apologizes by banging her head on the floor as if expressing regret.
Thump thump!!
“If you’re offended by my attitude, I’ll punish you…!!”
“Keuk… Stop doing that for now.”
“Yes.”
“Ha…”
Why did the woman in front of me want to do that? He tries to calmly question her.
“What the hell did Tala do to you?”
“Ah… He usually sets up a lot of rules to make sure that he does that because he teaches respect to a forced follower like me…”
“…For example?”
At Seongil’s question, Yudi looks resigned and begins to recite the things he did to Tala.
“First of all… Usually, I had to go to a secret room every night and go to the hidden statue of Tala.”
“Hmm…”
“Then I had to take off all my clothes and express myself as his livestock by crawling and howling like a beast.”
“…”
“Then they kissed the feet of the god and knelt down and worshiped him, oh…”
“…Why would you do that?”
“Tala… Took great delight in seeing his followers submit to him in the humblest form. Every follower had to prove their allegiance to him every day.”
“…”
Seong-il is speechless at Tala’s sadistic taste. No matter how forcibly he was a believer, he couldn’t understand someone who dared to abuse a believer to such an extent.
“…Also, in the name of confession, I had to come up with a new reason why I was such a scumbag and obey God, and I had to recite it every day.”
“You’re crazy, really…”
“And when all those actions were over, I had to end it by cutting myself with a whip…”
“Under…”
Seong-il stroked his forehead with an expression that his head hurt because he couldn’t understand it at the moment, and Yu-di continued with a bitter expression.
“It’s… Years, even decades. If you do it endlessly from a young age, you naturally develop fear and awe that you didn’t have before.”
“What if I refuse?”
“The divine punishment will fall immediately.”
“…Sacred Punishment?”
“Yes. In the simplest case, the body suffers from high fever. It can even rot and pus. But the most terrible is another.”
“…What?”
“It’s a nightmare. In one night’s dream, you’re taken to Tala’s spirit realm, where you’re captured and tortured unceasingly by the demon that serves you.”
“…”
“Even, that day is not one night. To a believer, it’s close to a year. Tala loves to hear the pain and horror of an unbeliever being tortured like that.”
“…”
“It’s not even crazy. If the victim’s mind is broken, it will restore it with a ‘blessing’ of its own.”
“Under…”
Seong-il realizes why Tala’s followers never betrayed him at Yudi’s words. If you do something like betrayal, your soul will be dragged away and tortured endlessly…
“Is that why you said life is short and death is long?”
“Yes.”
“…All of his followers must be living a terrible life.”
“Not necessarily…”
“…What?”
Despite the fact that the believers are being treated so horribly, when Yu-di says the opposite, Seong-il puts on a look of incomprehension.
“It… Instead, whenever a follower does something he or she likes… To be precise, it aligns with one’s own values, he gives a rich sense of pleasure as a reward.”
“…Values?”
“Yes. Typically, acts such as deceit, fraud, betrayal, and murder. In particular, I love to separate people from each other and cause them to fight or destroy each other…”
“…”
“Also, he loves to see followers do such atrocities to non-believers, just as he treated followers like slaves…”
“Under…”
“…That’s why a really evil guy, or a follower who is tainted by his ideology, gets drunk with the pleasure and lives happily.”
“…”
At Yudi’s words, Seong-il feels his head dizzy from shock. He has traveled around the world and seen all sorts of evil deeds, but as Tala he encountered this time is a rookie in his own way, his scale is different, making Seong-il a big shock.
“After…”
Seong-il felt that his energy was draining from irritation. He mentally creates an alter ego to bring him a chair.
When the chair is placed, I naturally sit on it, lean back, and begin to ponder.
“…?”
In the meantime, the little pressure you feel on your feet. Seong-il, puzzled by that feeling, opens his eyes and looks down.
“!?”
Then, the figure of Yudi kissing his feet. Her holy day dissuades her and asks her absurd mind.
“What are you doing?”
“…I’m doing what I always do.”
“Am I not Tala?”
“But, my soul is still bound by a contract. The current contract says to do the same to the master as Tala did, but…”
“What?! There’s such a thing?”
“Yes. The contract was forcibly embedded in my head…”
“Keep… That’s it. Don’t do it.”
“Yes. You are my master.”
Yudi politely bows her head and agrees with Seongil’s words. She knelt down in front of Seongil and put her head on the floor, then stayed where she was without moving a bit.
‘Looks like he’s been bullied quite a bit too.’
Even if I couldn’t do it, I would have been tortured and brainwashed repeatedly for 5-7 years, so I think it’s possible. She asks Yudi about her holy day, which she didn’t fall for.
“…Will you give me freedom?”
“!!!”
As Seong-il utters the word ‘freedom’, Yu-di raises her head and looks at him with trembling eyes. At that intense expression, Seong-il smiled bitterly at her and continued her words to her.
“…Of course, it’s not free.”
“What… What do you want?! Whatever you say…”
“Hmm…”
Seong-il falls into trouble while looking at Yudi. In fact, to achieve her own ends, it would be the fastest way to enlist her as her follower, but she is hesitant to welcome Yudi as her follower, as she extremely hopes for her freedom.
‘First of all… She’s not the main heroine, so even if you make her a follower, you won’t be able to clear the quest… It’s no use enlisting a girl who yearns for freedom like that as a follower…’
Seong-il, who had been thinking about it for a long time. He looks at her Yudi and answers her.
“Um… I’m actually half a ‘prophet’ myself.”
“…Yes?”
“Take my hand.”
“…?”
Yudi makes a puzzled expression at Seongil’s sudden words. However, she quietly obeys his orders without much resistance.
“Innerplane!!”
Holding her own hand, as her Seongil lightly shouts something of hers, Yudi feels herself space-shifting somewhere.
“!!”
The interior scene of the ward, which has returned before I knew it. At that time, Yudi was embarrassed by that appearance.
“Innerplane again!!”
“!?!?!?”
The two of them flashed and moved again. Yudi realizes in an instant that she has arrived in that strange white space.
“Uh… What the hell is this?!”
Yudi, who had assumed that she had been dragged into a magical space somewhere while she fainted after being caught by her Seongil. However, when she realizes that she has arrived here thanks to the strange power possessed by Seong-il, her expression is tinged with astonishment.
“Ah, this is the world made up of the sacred within the Inner Plane.”
“Poetry… Divinity?”
“Yeah. A little bit, but I have the blood of a god running through me.”
It’s a blatant lie, but Seong-il explains her inner plane in an easy-to-understand way.
“Stop… No way!?”
Yudi seems to think of Seongil as an apostle of a new foreign press. As soon as she is freed from Tala at best, she begins to fear that she is bound by a new god.
“…Don’t worry. I’m not trying to do something like Tala.”
“…”
“I’m here to do something close to the opposite.”
“…Are you against it?”
“Yes. The main purpose is to prevent foreign media from setting up here and to leave this place forever.”
“Hmm…”
Having said that, Seong-il pulls out her own smartphone to her Yudi and shows her contents.
“!!”
A strange artifact that I have never seen before. Seeing the contents written inside, Yudi puts on a puzzled expression.
“…Training three or more heroines? What is a heroine?”
“Oh, I’m talking about the next three most talented women at Mythology Academy.”
“Joe… What is an assistant teacher?”
“…”
Yudy is confused. Instead of answering her, Seong-il extracts images from her memories with her nano-machines and shows her the appearance of Ophelia.
“Hee!!”
She is a familiar “Perverted mask” Figure. When she realizes that the holy day in front of her is that pervert, Yudi’s expression begins to be colored with astonishment.
“Seo… I can’t believe Seongil-nim is that…?!”
“Yeah. I was the one who fucked Tala while perverting.”
“…”
Yudi looks at him with a strange expression. Looking at her like that, her Seongil shrugged her shoulders and replied.
“So? Complaints?”
“Hee… Hee?! No!! No!!!”
The words of her holy day reminded her of her own situation. Yudi immediately came to Seongil and knelt down before her, bowing her head and apologizing.
“Hey, hey… Is it burdensome?”
“Hey!! I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”
Yudy goes back and forth because the owner’s taste has not yet adapted. While reading her, her holy day continues her words.
“Well… As it should be, making you my ‘follower’ is the easiest way to explain the situation.”
“…”
“The problem is, after hearing about your past life, I don’t want to.”
“Ah…”
“I want to give you freedom.”
“Thank you…!!”
Yudi is truly grateful, probably because he felt Seongil’s sincerity.
“So I’d like to make this suggestion to you…”
So Seong-il starts explaining in detail about the future of the world of Mythology Academy and quests turned on on his smartphone.
