"…."
In the pouring rain, Kang Yuhyeon carefully touched the cheeks of the two girls.
But what he felt was only a chill. Nothing else was felt.
Neither the chattering voice loud enough to be annoying, nor the grumbling voice pretending not to but wanting to agree.
-Whooosh….
When the thought ended there, Kang Yuhyeon withdrew his extended hand and turned his steps.
…No, to be precise.
"Step aside."
He tried to turn.
If it weren't for the two women blocking him, unable to control indescribable emotions and revealing them plainly on their faces.
"Where, are you going?"
"The sixth scenario hasn't ended yet."
People died.
Of course, in a perished world, people dying is all too natural and frequent, but these were not strangers met for the first time, but companions who had been together all this time.
Therefore, the two women couldn't understand the man in front of them acting calmly as if nothing happened.
How incomprehensible it was….
"Right now, in this situation, can you say such things!?"
Even to the point where Jung Heewon almost drew her sword and Yoo Sangah didn't stop her action.
"…Such things, you say. Then in this situation, what words, what actions should I take?"
"Of course—"
"Of course, grieve, mourn, and wail for their deaths?"
Kang Yuhyeon, cutting off Jung Heewon's words, continued speaking without a single disturbance of emotion.
As if he wasn't strange at all, as if she making him say such things was naturally strange.
"I am not a person relaxed enough to waste time on such things. If you want to build graves for those kids and hold memorial services or pray, do it amongst yourselves."
"…."
"So step aside. Don't bother me anymore."
[Constellations of the Absolute Good alignment despise your behavior.]
[Constellations of the Absolute Evil alignment smile at your behavior.]
[The Constellation, 'Secretive Plotter', looks at you with a meaningful expression.]
[The Constellation, 'Demonic Judge of Fire', looks at you and remains silent.]
[The Constellation, 'Maritime War God', groans at your indifference to death.]
[The Constellation, 'Bald General of Justice'….]
.
.
.
Standing at the center of countless rampant messages from Constellations, he neither expressed displeasure nor anger as usual.
Just consistent with the same calmness and emotionlessness as the beginning.
-Boom! Kwa-a-a-ang—!!
At that moment, ear-splitting lightning echoed around.
The balance of Probability was distorted for the first time with the appearance of Nirvana Moebius, and returned with Uriel's conditional descent.
Then, this noisy and merciless lightning, echoing loudly as if reminding of a storm of Probability, why on earth is it happening?
-Gogogo…!!
-Zzzzt…!!
"…Haa, haaaa…!! Kugh…."
Clutching his heart as if in pain at the sparks flickering multiple times, he wailed in pain for a while, but regained calmness along with the refreshing message sound echoing in his head.
Breathing heavily and exhaling repeatedly, he wiped his sweat and looked back on his past to figure out what he gained and what he lost.
"…As expected, did I push too hard."
In Star Stream, existence means story.
Losing the past means losing the story.
Therefore, losing the story also meant losing a part of himself.
But Nirvana Moebius.
From the day his face was ground by Kang Yuhyeon until today, for these two days, he continued to use one of his Stigmas, [Transmission], and contribute his stories to the Constellations without hesitation.
Even showing the momentum as if he would die any moment, even violating Probability, the reason for pushing this was because of two certain men.
"The two…, are like a ray of light to me."
'Do not cling to the past, nor resent the future. The past has already disappeared, and the future has not yet come.'
A man fitting the doctrine of the Church of Salvation even more than himself who founded it.
'If reincarnation continues because there is a world, then erase this world.'
And a man who will cut off his tedious eternal life.
Therefore, these two were targets he absolutely had to recruit or absorb.
"One…, more time…."
Recalling his goal again, he slowly closed his eyes and began to operate the skill again.
-Kwa-a-ang—!!
"B, big trouble. Cult Leader-nim!"
If it weren't for a believer rushing in urgently.
"Th, that King of Curses. He appeared again!"
Stuttering repeatedly while explaining about a certain man, the believer's condition was not normal.
Too great a fear was embedded like a wedge, so his mind had fainted, and his body was precarious like a flame about to go out.
Of course, if treated carefully or allowed to rest, the believer could resume activities again.
"…Tch. Kang Yuhyeon, used your head."
Already noticing that the believer coming to him was Kang Yuhyeon's plan itself, Nirvana crumpled his expression.
"Young child. Do you know what you have done just now."
"…Yes?"
"You should have died there. At least you shouldn't have come here."
"What does that, mean…."
"Kang Yuhyeon. Do you think that man would make a mistake of missing his prey? Did you think surviving there was solely due to your strength?"
Kang Yuhyeon, he is capable of detecting an individual's unique Cursed Energy.
But scattering his Cursed Energy throughout the city to find one person's location is clearly difficult and overwhelming in the early scenario, maybe possible in the mid-to-late scenarios.
Therefore, he planned.
Not to kill all the believers of the Church of Salvation, but to leave some alive to find out his location.
"Ah, aaah…."
Like that, the believer fell for it nicely, and his plan was successfully achieved.
Of course, there is a choice for him to abandon the base here and run away…, but Kang Yuhyeon has already captured his Cursed Energy.
"Palm of the Buddha (Tathagata's Palm). Even if I fly, I didn't expect to be within the Buddha's palm…."
Sighing faintly with those words, Nirvana got up from his seat and swept his hair up.
Even though he confirmed his location, the fact that he didn't come here immediately is definitely to lure him in.
If that is the case…, I will gladly follow his plan. I will act as he thinks, and speak as he intends.
But the one smiling at the end will be me, not him.
"Ah, aaaaaah…. Sorry, I'm sorr…."
"…No need to be so sad. Young child. There is no need for you to fear death, nor apologize to me."
"…Ah?"
Nirvana's hand touches the forehead of a believer in panic.
At that moment, short sparks spread throughout that believer's body. And that believer's body slumped like a dead corpse.
"If you become one with me, your sin is my sin. The punishment you will receive will also become the punishment I will receive, and your misfortune and karma will eventually all disappear."
-Swaaaaa—!!
Like that, the corpse turns into golden Ether and is sucked into the huge Mandala behind Nirvana.
That was one of the meanings of 'become one' that Nirvana spoke of.
"Become one with me and let's see through the end of this eternal life."
-Pajik, pajijik….
At that moment, along with short sparks, all the memories and experiences of the believer who had been kneeling and apologizing until just now began to be sucked into Nirvana.
Although they were shabby and meaningless compared to the lives he had built up.
[The status of your Fable has risen slightly.]
He smiled and moved his steps at the fact that the void of the story he discarded was filled even a little.
-Swaaaaaah—!!
Opening the door of the temple and heading outside, the sky poured down heavy rain as if it had collapsed, and the ground was full of a field of corpses receiving the raindrops intact.
Truly a scene of chaos (Avici Hell).
Even Nirvana, who lived through countless lives and whose emotions were rarely shaken, crumpled his face and covered his nose at the disastrous sight.
How many people did he kill, and how terribly did he kill them.
Even though rain was pouring down to the point where vision was obscured, the smell of blood and stench emitted by the corpses spread all over the city didn't go away.
-Thump….
Amidst the gruesome scene, while Nirvana's eyes moved busily to find Kang Yuhyeon who would be looking for an opportunity to kill him by now.
Along with a dull and rough footstep sound, his thought missed the mark conspicuously.
-Thump. Thump…!!
Hiding oneself to look for an opportunity is an act done when skills are equal or disadvantageous.
If confident and certain in one's own skills, such an act is merely something that arouses shame or a cowardly method.
Some express a person with such thoughts as arrogant beyond measure. Crazy with vanity. But…, at least for him, those words didn't apply.
-Thump—!!
Every time he took a step towards him, his shadow spat out several corpses of terrible forms and splashed bloodstains mixed with vengeful spirits and screams.
At that moment, Nirvana felt his body trembling.
Is it because he felt a chill due to the continuous rain? Is he feeling euphoria at the start of the battle soon?
…No. This was fear.
Just as a prey trembles in front of a predator, this is the instinct the whole body expresses when feeling a threat to life.
It was strange.
For one who is far from death because of repeating too many lives to feel the fear of death.
"…Truly Hyakki Yagyo (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons)."
At his appearance finally fully revealed, Nirvana couldn't help but admire.
Right. That was the King of Curses he remembered, and the seed of Great Evil.
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