Chapter 255 – The Underworld and the Vessel of the Soul
We moved away from the area where black soup was infested.
At the same time, the screams of immortal spirits also became weaker.
“The afterlife is a world where one’s accomplishments during one’s lifetime are accumulated and judged.”
Listening to the words of the self-proclaimed messenger, it seemed similar to the underworld I expected.
Each sin accumulates, and you are punished by death.
“I don’t want to be punished.”
“If you don’t want to be reborn, all you have to do is stay in the afterlife.”
“Oh, really?”
“My mother, who the spirit body here misses, must have found life in this world quite difficult, so she chose to live in the afterlife. She is settling down in the underworld village where spirit bodies gather.”
“It’s interesting that some people are never reborn.”
The afterlife was also a world where someone lived.
Even though it was full of dead spirit bodies.
“But I think we decided to find the soul vessel first… The place we’re going to is the village where Margaret’s mother is?”
“Ah. That’s because my mother and the bowl are together in that village. Hehe.”
“Aren’t these vessels stuck on the floor the vessels of the soul?”
I asked, looking closely at the bronze bowl spinning on my finger.
“How could it be possible to obtain it so easily? What we are looking for is not just a vessel, but a vessel of the soul. It is not easy to find!”
“Hmm. It looks suspicious.”
Judging by the loud reaction, it seemed likely that what he had just said was a lie.
So she decided to ask Aphrodite just in case.
“Aphrodite. Is this the vessel of the soul?”
“After checking, there is spiritual energy that is trapping something. It may be what we are looking for. Let’s take care of it.”
After listening to Aphrodite’s words, I looked at the spirit guide, and he was whistling and looking at a distant mountain.
Did he really fall into that black bath because he suffered something unfair? I was a little suspicious.
In my opinion, I thought that I ended up falling into the black bath because of the accumulation of strange actions like just now.
“Oh! I see it over there! Furthermore, I can sense your spirit missing from that village.”
The spirit leading the way suddenly made a fuss and walked forward.
I felt like I was being scammed, but since I was still feeling the blue energy, I decided to trust him a little more for now.
-Hwiiing.
After passing through a road full of sharp stones, the spirits finally gathered and arrived in the village.
“It’s a strange town.”
One house is a huge building. Next to it is a small-thatched house and a wooden house. And next to it, a space station half the size of the village was blocking the sky.
“The spirits gathered in the afterlife have experienced different lives and faced death. Therefore, the houses they stay in are all different.”
“Then.”
“Yes, your mother must have that mansion.”
The place the guide spirit pointed to was a mansion where a certain noble lived.
When Margaret looked at the mansion, she slowly raised her hand and grasped it, as if it reminded her of the past.
“My mother… Didn’t she forget her family even after she died?”
“You will only know it when you meet it. The vessel of the soul happens to be here.”
The self-proclaimed messenger explained to Margaret, and she showed me a bronze bowl.
“That bowl is the same as the one I picked up earlier.”
“It looks similar, but it’s different. This one can hold more spiritual bodies. If you look here, doesn’t the blue look a little darker? This is truly a vessel for the soul that only appears in the tragic afterlife!”
“…”
Just as he said, it was a vessel with a darker bronze color.
Even the same bowl had different grades.
It seemed like a fraudster who said something true but mixed it with lies.
It’s a shame that I’m only saying things that are vaguely correct, but it’s true that I was able to reach this village with his help.
So, as the goal was achieved, the spirit body’s mission was completed. So I decided to send it quickly.
I felt like I would get scammed again if we continued to be together.
“I have completed these two tasks.”
It was a spirit body that said it had finished its work.
After hearing his words, I decided to let him go right away.
“Good. Now go.”
“There is still one wish left.”
“Well, I don’t need it right now.”
“Is that so? Then… If we meet next time, we will make it happen then.”
With those words, the guide spirit jumped up into the sky and faded away.
“Somehow… I feel like I’ve met Kiyeon, but I feel uncomfortable…”
“This is the afterlife. You will never meet that spirit again. You don’t have to worry too much.”
“Well. Okay. Let’s go to the mansion right away.”
Margaret nodded her head.
Her dead eyes seemed to come back to life.
I headed to the mansion.
“It’s clear that the mansion is just an illusion, but I feel strange seeing it again after 50 years.”
“Is this the house where Margaret lived when she was young? She had a good life.”
“My father, the head of the family, was a count. So he never went hungry.”
As I entered the mansion’s garden, I saw that it was filled with numerous spiritual bodies.
“I was betrayed by the comrade I trusted the most on the ship. Clap.”
“I see. I returned from my last mission with an assassination organization… And was buried alive when the building collapsed on the spot.”
“That’s all? The captain’s plan turned the space station itself into a testing ground. I had no choice but to fire the rail gun at my beloved lover who had changed.”
It wasn’t a place to show off stories, but everyone was talking about their own bad endings.
“Everyone must have had an terrifying experience. Compared to that, I was nothing. As soon as I was born, my thatched roof caught fire and I burned to death. I think my dad started the fire because I probably inherited my mom’s blood. .”
“Keuhum.”
“Such a tragedy!”
“Oh my. Oh my god.”
“You must be reborn quickly.”
It felt really affectionate to see everyone comparing their last moments and looking at each other.
They may have lived in different worlds and spaces, but they all felt the same thing in their hearts.
“Hmm? This is my first time seeing a spirit body. What happened to you?”
“Me?”
A pirate cosplay spirit with both normal eyes but wearing an eyepatch looked at me.
“Yes. You.”
“I. I mean.”
Have I ever been the worst?
As I thought about it, I remembered myself right before I got the summoning app.
“It was a world where men were born as sex criminals… So I couldn’t meet a single woman and only had daughters…”
“Ugh. I was born as a man and died without knowing who I was as a woman!”
“It’s a world where people are forced to leave no descendants. It’s a tragedy.”
“Before I was experimented on… I did a lot with Polly… But I couldn’t do that good thing and ended up starving to death. Tsk.”
There didn’t seem to be any bad guys among the spirits gathered here.
Everyone comforted me and seemed to understand my feelings.
Of course, only Margaret was glaring at me, but I cleared my throat and rushed into the mansion.
Margaret followed me.
“I didn’t know there was such a thing. There must have been a reason why he desired Yera’s body.”
“Hmm. Well. Of course.”
I thought she was Margaret, but now I saw that she looked at me pitifully, just like the other spirits.
“If I go back to my body, I will let you feel it with my body.”
“Good!”
I answered right away and made an appointment for sex.
“Did I say something wrong.”
“Tsk tsk tsk! There’s no softness!”
I made an
“Margaret.”
“…”
As we entered the entrance of the mansion, we saw a spirit that met us.
Margaret looked at the spirit body silently without saying anything.
“My daughter.”
“Is it mom?”
Margaret asked, looking at her mother as if evaluating her.
“Okay. But. Margaret. Why are you here.”
“I came to meet you… Because the man called your father made you die…”
“Margaret.”
“… I missed you, Mom.”
Margaret and her mother became closer and embraced each other.
In the meantime, I quietly moved away.
“How. How. Did you come to the afterlife.”
“I learned necromancy and came to the underworld.”
“You can’t believe you did that. You’re just the same as when you were young.”
The two seemed to have a lot to talk about.
Her stubborn daughter worked hard for decades to meet her mother, and her mother also seemed to be waiting in this underworld, missing her daughter.
“It’s a touching reunion.”
“When did you come?”
“That is now.”
A spirit that had left a while ago, calling itself a messenger, suddenly appeared next to me.
Perhaps because it was the afterlife, it was difficult to feel who was approaching or where something was disappearing or something appearing.
“Seeing things like this makes me want to continue being the Grim Reaper.”
“You can do it.”
“Hehe. Since I’m doing something so opposite, I threw away the lion’s name plate.”
“At first, they said I ended up in the bath because of something unfair. I don’t know about anything else, but I don’t think you should buy it.”
“I think so too.”
Quick recognition.
As expected, there seemed to be a lot of unique spirit bodies in the afterlife.
I stayed at Margaret’s mansion for a while.
The two were able to hear about the past and even why their mother was executed.
“Wasn’t he unfairly put on death row.”
“I loved the Count. I wanted him to live and raise my daughters well… Now seeing Margaret come to me like this. I guess it was right that I died in his stead.”
“To protect the count… I came here without even knowing it was happening…”
“I’m sorry, Margaret… No matter what the Count did, he couldn’t explain why the family’s secret magic fell to the kingdom. So I had no choice but to become the witch who controlled the Count.”
“No matter what happened to the Count… It’s too much for him to hide the truth from me.”
“I’m sorry, Margaret.”
The two talked the truth and unraveled the things they had in mind one by one.
“After listening to that spirit’s words, the Count’s sins will become even greater.”
“Are you gone yet?”
“When I thought about it after leaving… I had no time to go anymore, so I came back to this tragic underworld.”
It seemed like I saved this spirit for no reason.
It seemed like something was sticking next to me and had no intention of falling.
“Would you ever think of going back to where you originally lived?”
“Where to go back?”
“Yes, haha. This is the lions’ main base, so if you stay there for too long, you will be caught. It would be better to go back soon.”
It seemed like this spirit was planning to escape from the underworld with me.
‘Has the time to stop loss arrived?’
Although I was emitting a blue energy, it seemed like dangerous things would happen if I went out into this world together.
“I have one last request.”
“Oh. What is your last request?”
“Please go back into the black bath that you left out earlier.”
“Yes.?”
“That is my last request~ Lion.”
When the spirit heard my last request, it rolled its eyes suspiciously.
