Chapter 66 – Allegory
Fu-wook!
I felt excruciating pain in my chest. The sight of blood spurting out was the last sight. Before long, the pain subsided and a feeling of comfortable elasticity gradually came. Like the curtains on the stage come down. The world goes dark.
With a plop!
Suddenly, I felt the feeling of being submerged in the sea with the illusion of bubbling bubbles rising up. It was damp and full of moisture. But it wasn’t cold. It was not a material place. It was a spiritual sea. It was also a warm and comfortable sea like a mother’s amniotic fluid. Violetta slowly sank into the deep sea without knowing why.
Slowly……. Very slowly….
More time passed. Now even the subtle noises that were whispering in my ears have completely stopped. Darkness all around. But there was no anxiety. There was only peace in the blessed silence.
Every time I sink further, my thoughts get further away. Her presence was getting more and more blurred, and now she had a hard time remembering even her own name her properly.
Then, suddenly, the bottom of the sea became bright. It is a place without a proper light source, but it shines colorfully and colorfully. Stars were densely studded in the depths of the sea, shining with cosmic colors. Violetta saw some truths in it.
Material goes away hot things cool down What is ordered becomes disordered. She was talking about the beginning and end of the universe.
The wisdom of the universe naturally flowed into my head as if it were originally possessed.
It was a process in which the wretched body died and the mind dispersed into the world.
Violetta was becoming the universe. She scattered into space and became one with it. Death was so fleeting and beautiful. In the end, when you completely become one with the universe and become a member, when even the world and the self become indistinguishable, the boundary between self and non-self disappears and even thinking becomes blurred so that you can face complete death. It will be.
But at that moment, the voice he heard completely dissipated all the joy.
“…… Get on.”
Violetta was appalled. A moment before her, she would have been in total silence. She was deafened by just that one syllable. Her noise made her head hum.
Suddenly, she felt the sensation of being pulled up by force. Violetta’s spirit her, which had been submerged in her deep sea, began to float towards her surface.
‘No. No…….’
She struggled desperately, but it was impossible to refuse.
“…… Leta.”
The feeling of being forcibly drawn out of the amniotic fluid. The boundary between the world and the self became clear again, and the truth that flowed in with the members began to slowly escape. The scattered mind also begins to take shape again. The motes came together to form and reactivated her thoughts.
Retrograde process of death. Rise. Violetta realized that someone was trying to save her. She had to stop. But she couldn’t stop it. Her coercion was too strong.
“…… Oletta.”
It was the man’s voice. From that point on, the stillness disappeared and the usual noises began to return one by one. My ears hurt and I felt like my head was going to explode.
‘Please leave me alone.’
He was now trying to take away the last remaining comfort. Violetta screamed, but there was no way to resist the situation. Even in the situation where he was going back to this world, he couldn’t help but feel extremely helpless.
And when she finally opened her closed eyes. She was lying in her bedroom, quite comfortable. The first thing she saw was the man’s face her.
“Violetta.”
He called his name her softly. Violetta blankly opened her lips and made no reply. The eyes looking up at the ceiling were empty.
After a while, Violetta moved his lips her in a daze.
“What…… Did you do something?”
“He brought it back to life. You said Even the dead can be resurrected. There is a way.”
“Ah…”
“It must have felt like a fleeting moment to you, but it has already been about a week. It’s good to see you moving like this again. I brought your brother back to life, so go check it out later.”
Violetta couldn’t answer easily.
It was because the unfamiliar man felt even more unfamiliar.
You mean it wasn’t a lie? Really…… Can you even bring the dead back to life?
‘Is that a lie?’
That…… Doesn’t it make sense? Kill and save people at will. Isn’t that like a god? If that kind of thing is God, why are people living?
Violetta shook her head pitifully. He denied reality. He barely speaks with trembling eyes.
“Boo, please. Kill me again just take me back to that sea please. I don’t like this anymore…….”
“No. That doesn’t make sense.”
“Why why…”
The man looked at Violetta, who was confused, and calmly brushed her hair. He explained in a caring voice as if telling a fairy tale.
“It’s not like you can save someone’s life without paying anything. You need another life to save one. It’s a kind of equivalence principle.”
I woke up.
“Wait, that means…….”
“Of course, resurrection and death do not have the same value. It takes more lives than that to save one person. The longer a person has been dead, the more lives they need. Fortunately, you started the ritual as soon as you died, so it didn’t take too many lives. Well, by normal standards, a huge number went out. Still, the Empire is a country with a lot of human resources, so it’s an insignificant number.”
It was not difficult to understand what the man was saying. They said they sacrificed others to save me…… ? Violetta’s eyes widened greatly. The man seems to have misunderstood it as another question. He quietly began to explain things he hadn’t even asked.
“Of course, I have the ability to manipulate people, but there is no such thing as the ability to revive people. However, as much as I can look into other people’s minds at will, I know many secret arts that exist in the world. Sorcerers, mystical societies, and societies working secretly in the world. Most of them don’t do much, but among them there are groups with secret arts that are close to miraculous. Miracle of resurrection. This is one of the secret arts that the Church keeps tightly hidden. Since it costs a lot to resurrect, they do not use it among themselves, and they are hiding it thoroughly in preparation for the danger that will arise when it is known to high-ranking officials.”
That wasn’t what Violetta was really curious about. She opened her mouth in a trembling voice.
“How many….”
“Yes?”
“To save me…… How many people have you killed…… ?”
“Well. You’d better not listen.”
“…….”
How many tens? How many hundred? How many thousands? Perhaps tens of thousands of people have disappeared. The man is right. This was information I’d rather not hear.
Violetta felt his throat choke. She only said that she would save her one of her, but in a situation where others on the site were sacrificed.
“So from now on, value your life a little more. You don’t want other people to be sacrificed because of you, do you?”
The man whispered like a snake.
Even her death her he did not give her her freedom her. Neither her life her nor her death her were her own her. Not only life, but even death was subordinated to that man. He could no longer die arbitrarily unless he knew that other people would be sacrificed. This life of hers was not meant to be hers alone. A terrible sense of bondage pressed against her heart.
She couldn’t answer anything. Violetta said she felt like crying.
She had never been so desperate for the world.
Her eyes were dangerous like a dying light.
“I…… What was it? I wasn’t born to be fooled by someone like you, I……. My life…….”
“Why do you have such pessimistic thoughts? You are you violetta A real person with only two worlds with me.”
“Really… Person?”
“Okay. Look at those teeth If you die, you die; if you live, you live. Does it really look like a person? A person should be able to think for himself.”
“It is, but…….”
Violetta was about to spit out some retort of hers.
But she couldn’t answer easily.
Because somehow she was in the mood to believe him. The things she sacrificed for her are not real people. She seemed to be able to hold on only if she believed that.
“Come on. I will hug you.”
The man wrapped his arms around her shoulders as if to comfort her. Violetta reflexively tried to pull her back her, but the man’s hand her was quicker. A man who was so repulsive. Ironically, the warmth was warm.
“I know you’re confused because you just came back to life. But being alive is a joy in itself. I’ll let you know. You need human warmth.”
The man’s hand began to move more and more strangely.
Violetta blankly opened her lips and she offered no resistance. She just hangs limp like a plucked flower.
“Ah…”
A small moan leaked out.
