Chapter 153 – Special Part 3. Arcana (7)
Special Episode 3. Arcana (7)
In front of me as I opened the roof door of the building and stepped onto the roof bathing in sunlight, the man sat on a chair I don’t know where he had brought and was looking this way. Teacher Taro, hypnotist. A mean and ugly bastard who hypnotizes women and manipulates people. That bastard was right in front of my eyes. He was looking at me with a very relaxed posture and an expression of amusement. I took off my gas mask and glared at the bastard.
“You didn’t run away?”
I’m really glad I didn’t run away. My efforts and people’s sacrifices will never be in vain. It got to the point where I honestly thought it would be okay to die if I could end it here.
“Amazing! It was great!”
The bastard responded by clapping his hands in a very arrogant manner. Like a villain in a movie, like a very mean and filthy black man, he flattered me.
“Really, Junhyung Lee, I can only admire you. For stupidity at first, for your bad luck in the middle. And now, in an act so good that you can’t even think of a kid! It is just astonishing!”
“Release all hypnosis right now! Otherwise, with this…”
“What with it? What is geology? This is won Now what do you think it would be if you tortured me and knocked me out? No, I thought it would make my compliments fade in 4 seconds. If you don’t want to be tasered by saying that you’ve been working until this point, should you release the hypnosis?”
“Stop talking bullshit and let go!”
“Ugh…”
He sighed deeply and got up from his seat. Then he turned and stood with his back to me, his arms wide open and shouted.
“Grizzle! Just fuck off, you bastard. Stupid guy You want me to release hypnosis? Do you know what will happen if you solve it?”
“What…”
“Didn’t you hear what Junhee said? I told you to speak properly. That everyone accepted hypnosis themselves.”
I screamed and screamed
“Stop talking bullshit! It can’t be! Where… Where is that nonsense!”
“Haa… Lee Junhyung. I’ll be very honest. On the day you ran away and disappeared, the hypnosis was all solved once. Then do you know what happened? Yoon-jung and Ga-hye again made them servants and begged for sex, while your mother and Chae-kyung were about to commit suicide. Suicide.”
“…What?”
“That’s what it says. The situation has already reached an irreversible point, and the women’s bodies and minds can’t return to their intact state. Everyone is ruined as they are ruined, because of your self-indulgence.”
My legs were trembling. It’s a lie. That’s a lie. You lie to break my will.
“If you break the hypnosis and accept reality. At least your family and Chae-kyung will be ruined. That it will break Do you think you can hold on? I begged for sex while being hugged by a man I didn’t know on my own. Can you accept the fact that you were happy to abandon your human dignity and be treated like a beast or a sex slave? The day you came to my house, everything was over. As you know, there is no going back now.”
He sat back in his chair and looked at me.
“Arcana. Secret, destiny, flow. Speaking of Tarot, it is the act of reading, interpreting, and accepting the destiny that lies in front of you through this Arcana. The day you first flipped the cards in my house, fate was set and the tide was irreversible. I just peeked at it and went with the flow. Now, even if you try to go against your destiny with this shit, will you be able to retrieve the water that has already flowed into the sea of destiny?”
It is sophistry. It’s a sophistry and a lie. Mom, Chae-kyung, and Jun-hee would all be fine if they were hypnotized. When you wake up and regain consciousness, everything can go back to how it was before…
“Junhyung Lee. I bet you know. You already came to your senses and despaired, so you must have run away. I don’t know if you committed suicide or didn’t give in because you were really strong-willed or because you were stupid.”
Can I go back Will Chae-kyung be able to endure the helplessness and despair I felt? I was humiliated and humiliated under hypnosis, but I did not do anything myself, just indulgence as that bastard said. However, Chae-gyeong, her mother and Jun-hee went out on their own… Had sex with that bastard and did things like pervert. Ga-hye even drank her urine, and there is no way to know what else the others might have done.
“You are the only one who wants the hypnosis to break. Except for you, no one wants to be hypnotized. To fully accept the memory, the pain and shame? Isn’t that a cruel wish, Lee Junhyung?”
“This… You… You bastard…”
My whole body trembled with anger and despair. I was barely holding on to my body, which looked like it would collapse at any moment. What should I do with that baby who drives me while sophistication?
“But I am very surprised by you. To be honest, I didn’t think it was a big deal… I never thought he would try to get revenge on me while causing such a big stir. I knew roughly what they were preparing for, but I didn’t expect it to be this much.”
“Okay…?”
“Did you think I would just play after telling you the place and time? Most of the staff were under my hypnosis long before you sneaked here. It was a lot of fun to see you hiding in the bathroom with your weird medicines all over the place. I mean, honestly, I thought there was no way something like that would ever work. That’s why I ordered Junhee to catch you… I got hit very well.”
I thought it might be. I don’t think this bastard who told me the place didn’t just sit around and watch. But I tried my best to ignore that fact. Because at that time there was nothing more I could do. If I thought this would not work anyway, I really didn’t want to live anymore.
“Now~ Anyway, I think you have proven your skills enough. No matter what you say, it’s impossible to free women from hypnosis, no, it’s possible, but you’re going to see even more terrible things than you are now, so you can say it’s virtually impossible. You don’t want to see your girlfriend end up in a mental hospital.”
“…”
“So, how about you come under me?”
“What?”
I asked back in surprise at his bullshit that was really, really fresh that I hadn’t even dreamed of.
“Down?”
“Be my disciple. Tarot, hypnosis, I’ll teach you all. The will and ability to take revenge without collapsing even after suffering like that. Hypnosis is when the stronger will devour the weaker will. If you are, you can take these cards and shake people to become a greater being.”
Hypnosis… I…?
“You can’t break the hypnosis on women anyway. If that’s the case, I’d rather be hypnotized. When time passes and you’re good enough, I’ll give them all to you. No, if your skills surpass me, why don’t you hypnotize me and take them all away?”
He picked up a card, held it between his index fingers, and twirled it.
“With this one card, you can sleep the world to your heart’s content. Money, women, power, honor. You can get anything. Well, I’m only interested in women and money these days. You could be bigger Wouldn’t you like to have a cheat that can change the world’s laws to your liking?”
His words made me go crazy. However, if you think about it rationally, this is a story that will benefit me, but there is nothing to gain from that bastard. There is no reason to make a proposal that only harms you.
“Why? If I become your disciple, what benefit are you talking about! It must be a lie again anyway… I don’t trust bastards like you.”
“Yes, it could be. I may be hiding some scheme behind it, and all of this could be a trap. But are there other options you could do with that? To be honest, I just wanted to play with you a little more. There are no other traps.”
“That…”
“Are you going to break the hypnosis and send all the women to an insane asylum or commit suicide? Or would you like to be a terrorist at this wedding and go to jail? Or are you going to turn me over to the police and testify that all of this happened because of my hypnosis? If you do, you’ll be the first to end up in a mental hospital.”
When I didn’t answer and stayed still, he took something out of his bosom.
“It’s a whole new tarot deck. Nothing is painted on it, and nobody owns it. Come here, sign and make your own Tarot. It’s about taking ownership of a new tarot and learning hypnosis. Then one day you too will be able to use your slaves as you please.”
“…”
I slowly approached the chair he was sitting on. Really, all the options given to me were hopeless, and only the power of tarot and hypnosis were shining. The light was by no means divine or warm, but the temptation was too strong. If I could put the power of hypnosis in my hands and create and manipulate others, family, and lovers at will… If I could really control the world at will…!
“If you are going to sign it, do it quickly. It’s not even a fuss underneath, but it’s going to be pretty hard to rectify. You will have to scatter cards all over the place.”
He holds out a deck of cards. As he said, the inside of the card was a blank sheet with nothing but the border. If I write my name and signature here, this card becomes mine.
“Ruler.”
As I accept the deck, he hands me a pen. An ordinary cheap ballpoint pen. It was a very humble item for a great first step, but it didn’t really matter.
“Yeah, well done. From now on, I will treat you properly as my disciple. Let’s go. I have a lot to teach you.”
He stood up with my signed tarot card. The confident steps of the victor pass me by and go ahead. The greatness felt from the back. Will I be able to reach that greatness someday?
But there is no such thing as one day. To me there is only today, and to me there is only the present. Arcana? Fate? Flow? I’m bored to look at that unknown far away, it’s like this.
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“Aaaaagh!”
I quickly pulled out the stun gun and slammed his back. It arched its back like a bow, then fell forward like a shrimp, stabbing and stabbing the entire body of the fallen calf.
“Ah! Ugh! Aww! Why, what the hell!”
“…”
Without answering, I continued to energize him. When one runs out of power, take out another and stab it again. When I used it up, I threw it away and hit him with a new stunner. At first, he struggled with his whole body and struggled in pain, but later he couldn’t even moan properly. While thinking of restraining this bastard, I remembered what I had picked up in the hall and put my hand in my bosom.
‘You know it’s not something that can be solved!’
Okay. It’s not something that can be solved with electric shocks or restraints. What I held in my hand was a knife and fork that are commonly found at lighthouses or buffets. I approached him, who was knocked down and unable to move, grabbed his hair and met his eyes.
“…Uh…Uh…”
“But I have nothing to learn from you.”
Then, he stabbed the fork deep into his throat first. Hooked The feel of the iron penetrating his flesh travels through his hands and into his brain. I tried to stab it deeply, as deeply as possible, but the fork wasn’t structured to go in that deep in the first place.
He picks up the knife he had put down beside him and stabs the place where the fork went. Actually, this isn’t for cutting or piercing, but for cutting bread or pork cutlet, so it didn’t go in well, but when I aimed for the part that had already been torn with a fork, it went in enough to pierce the entire blade. Red blood spurted out all the time and splashed on my face and body before spreading slowly to the floor. He couldn’t even make a sound, and the life in his eyes was fading.
Before the blood drenched him, I rummaged through his pockets and pulled out his tarot deck and the blank deck I had just signed. I looked at the two alternately, then looked at his face as he slowly died and threw a deck of cards with my signature on his blood pooling on the floor. Watching the white card begin to stain with red blood, I quietly said to him one last time.
“Take it. It is the last gift given by a disciple. From now on, I will be your teacher.”
I’m not sure if he stopped breathing properly. It was difficult to tell whether it was the sound of air escaping from the throat or blood leaking out of it, but I need to know something.
Arcana, Fate, Flow. I don’t know. You see your destiny through the tarot? Dog noises should also work. After all, isn’t that up to interpretation? It is people and myself who give meaning to fate. And now, I have to go downstairs to save my people and take care of the aftermath. I don’t know if it will go well, but at least I have one card in my hand.
