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Episode 146. Transcendence (2)
A pleasant breeze blew.
Where am I?
When I opened my eyes, I saw a line of pure white clouds against the blue sky.
Just looking at it made me feel at ease.
I slowly raised my upper body and soon realized that I was in an unreal space.
No wonder, because I was in the middle of an emerald sea, and I was sitting on the sea like a god.
I looked around, but there was nothing.
There are only small ripples that occur every time you touch the sea with your hand.
I got up and walked.
I walked endlessly toward the horizon.
When I walk without a purpose, there are times when I forget why I am there.
Still, I walked.
Following the path of the clouds, in an empty state where I felt neither hunger nor thirst.
I thought I was dead.
I thought this was hell, and my soul was now wandering without belonging anywhere.
Thinking that way made me feel at ease.
Death, it is comfort.
After walking for a while, I heard a voice.
“Earth in the year 120,491.”
I looked in the direction where the voice was coming from.
There stood a man who looked exactly like me.
The face was the same, but the man's hair was long enough to reach his ankles.
Beautiful brown hair like a lion's fork.
The man said to me.
“This is what the Earth looked like 120,000 years ago.”
The man was taller than me.
“All the land is submerged in water, and only a few living things survive.”
The man came near me and said.
“How is it? Isn’t it beautiful?”
The man seemed to be asking me for my impressions.
But I asked a question.
I asked him, looking at the horizon where the wind was blowing.
“Who are you?”
“I am you. You are me.”
“… … .”
“I am a transcendent being who won the league. If I were to calculate from your universe… … . It would be around 10-1,919,729,428-79,123,539,071?”
“What does that mean?”
“Roughly, the one who separated from the original Kang Zion on the 1,919,729,428th month of the 10th year, on the 79,123,539,071st day.”
The moment the man said those words, I naturally realized how the world flows.
Multiverse.
The expansion of the universe is the result of the endless choices of individuals, and the concept that somewhere else another person is living who has made another choice.
Accordingly, I should see the man next to me now as someone who has the same soul as me, but lives in another world.
I quickly lost interest.
I walked forward again.
The man followed me and continued speaking.
“Aren’t you curious about how this world came to be, and why it became like this?”
“… … .”
“What is the transcendent being, and who are you? Why are you here?”
I didn't answer, but the man followed two steps behind and continued talking.
“This place can be introduced as the realm of the unconscious, the other side of the universe. If you win the league and meet certain ‘conditions’, you can come here. As you may have noticed, I won the league. Now, I am just waiting for you to come.”
The man pointed back and forth between me and himself.
“Anyway, the reason you ended up here was because some idiot manager tried to take away your ego. It left your body, and that’s how you ended up here.”
The man walked towards me but then stood behind me again.
“The important thing is that you are the most notable being in the universe right now.”
At the man's words, I turned around and looked at him.
The man was laughing heartily.
“Why?”
“Well, that’s because he was the one who got the key.”
“What key?”
“The key to everything. The one that can free everything.”
The man took a step closer.
“Is this the universe’s answer?”
“I don’t understand. I don’t want the universe’s answers. I just want to go back to my normal days.”
“I also don’t understand. I don’t understand how you came here because of a person called Kang Jun-ho. Why is the entire universe focused on you with such a trite purpose? Why? Why? Who are you?”
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
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“Do you want a little brother that much?”
After asking that question, the man's voice became low.
“Then take it.”
He clapped his hands.
match-!
And then, around the two of us, a lot of people started to appear.
They were all Kang Jun-ho.
From Kang Jun-ho as a newborn to Kang Jun-ho as an old man with white hair.
“The little brother you wanted. I’ll give it to you until you die.”
Kang Jun-ho and the others stood there and just looked at me quietly.
I felt a sense of alienation.
I don't know why, but I also felt disgusted.
Clearly, those surrounding me were my younger siblings, the ones I had desperately wanted and longed for.
But something was different.
“These aren’t real? Fake Kang Jun-hos? No, these are. ‘Real’ Kang Jun-hos.”
The real Kang Jun-ho.
“Your younger brother, Kang Jun-ho, whom you have been hoping for so long.”
What I really hoped and hoped for… … .
“Do you think that the Kang Jun-ho in the multiverse isn’t your brother? Okay. Then I’ll show you the Kang Jun-ho in your universe.”
The man clapped his hands again.
Then, tens of thousands of Kang Jun-hos disappeared, and only about thirty Kang Jun-hos remained.
“From the age of one. Up to the Kang Jun-ho you can face now.”
Among those Kang Jun-hos, there was one Kang Jun-ho that particularly caught my eye.
Kang Jun-ho, thirteen years old.
The little boy who looked exactly like that when we broke up was looking at me.
The younger sibling I chased and chased in the past was exactly that little boy.
For a moment, my emotions wavered.
The little boy in front of me was definitely the one I had been holding dear in my long-held memories.
But that's fake.
It's just a mirage created by a 'me' from another dimension.
“You still think it’s fake? If you really think it’s fake, then you can kill that kid, right?”
The man's fingernails grew long like sword blades.
And then slowly approached Junho, who was thirteen years old.
I stayed still until then.
Because that's just a mirage anyway.
Because once a mirage disappears, that's it.
“Come here. You fake.”
The man approached the mirage, giggling.
But if that mirage had the appearance and voice of my brother, I couldn't help but move instinctively.
“Brother… … .”
* * *
Bam! Bam!
Kang Shi-on grabbed the man's hand tightly and pulled him back.
“Huh? Oh?!”
The man hesitated and stepped back.
The air in the area became heavy.
Darkness fell on the once blue sky, and waves crashed.
Heavy rain began to pour down in this area.
Whaaaa …
Even just getting hit by the falling raindrops was painful, they were strong and sad raindrops.
The man who fell backwards was hit by the raindrops.
Then he muttered, laughing as if he had lost his mind.
'… … The planet. His feelings… … are being expressed. Ahaha… … As expected… … You are as expected… … . Finally.'
Kang Shi-on stood silently in the pouring rain.
His curly hair was spread out neatly and stuck to his face like seaweed stalks.
Kang Jun-ho, thirteen years old, was sobbing a little.
Kang Si-on raised his hand and placed it on Kang Jun-ho's forehead.
chin-.
While the rain was pouring down heavily.
Kang Shi-on greeted his younger brother by placing his hand on his forehead without saying a word.
It means that we will definitely meet someday.
And I wanted to say I'm sorry.
The man who had fallen shouted without thinking.
“Awesome!!! Wahahahahahaha! As expected. The moment you touched my emotions, you were able to face a transcendent being. Now. Now. This is not the time. Our wish can finally come true!!! You are the final puzzle. In fact, if I tell you that this league was started to find you. Would you believe me? Ahahahaha!”
The man got up from his seat and approached Kang Shi-on.
“Stay away from Jin Jae-hee. She is no help to you. And from now on, just do as I say. Then, you will easily win this league. Now, I will be your guide.”
Kang Shi-on did not answer.
The man poured out what he wanted to say without paying any attention.
“The odds of winning the League are extremely slim. But you just now showed your power and dramatically increased those odds. This is the space where the four beings from the multiverse who won the League gather. So if you don’t listen to me.”
match-!
The man clapped again.
At that moment.
Kukugugugugugugu, choaaaaaaah-!
The sea was divided in two.
Kang Jun-ho, who was under Kang Si-on's hands, was also sucked into the sea.
Only Kang Shi-on and the man were floating in the air.
If you were to witness Moses' miracles with your own eyes, would this be the scene you would see?
The vast ocean was revealing its abyss, sucking everything in.
The enormous amount of steam spewing out from the two waterfalls covered the area in mist.
Kang Si-on looked at Kang Jun-ho, who had escaped from his grasp once again, until the end.
The abyss revealed when the sea parted.
There is… … .
There were hundreds of millions of Kang Shion from different dimensions, all entangled and dead.
“You are all the ones who were eliminated from the League. You and my brothers who died without reaching the higher dimensions.”
The man looked down at the pile of corpses like Kang Shi-on and spoke.
“You don’t want to be stuck in there, do you? Zion. I am you. You are me. We share emotions. And we have the same goal. But the end might be a little different. I think we should become higher-dimensional beings. But your emotions right now are leaning toward wanting to turn everything back. That must be because of that woman next to you. Because she is next to you, your values are gradually wavering. The dream she has is a simple human dream. The dream you have is also a human dream. Let’s not remain mere humans, us. We have abilities that make us incapable of being human. The world is unreasonable, unfair, and has rejected us. Now, it’s our turn. We will destroy the world and become the sole god of the human race. All the rest of the puzzle has been put together. All we need is you. You are our last puzzle piece.”
The man extended his hand to Zion.
It meant to tell him to quickly take my hand.
But Zion did not take his hand.
Even if what you are talking to yourself about now is another 'me'.
Even if what another 'me' suggests is the way of the world.
Kang Shi-on decided not to follow him.
There was one reason.
“… … It’s too simple.”
The man's goal was simple enough.
The common idea of winning the league and becoming the only god.
Kang Shi-on thought of something higher than the man's words of becoming the only god.
In that brief moment.
“Is that all you can do?”
"……what?"
Kang Shi-on began to speak to the man who asked with a stern expression.
The waves that had been pounding like a storm gradually calmed down, and the pouring rain gradually decreased.
Now only the voice of Zion began to resonate here.
“I will disrupt the order.”
* * *
When I finished telling my story, the man's face lit up with joy and he burst into laughter.
“Wahahahahahahahahaha-!!!”
The man laughed out loud and burst into laughter again.
The man laughed so much that I wondered if he was from another dimension.
“Ah-. Good, so good. Ah, why am I thinking like this? No, no. To be honest, we’ve been here for thousands of years, and that kind of talk has come up. But when you say it, it’s strangely convincing. Ah-. Good. Good, this is it.”
The man put his hand on my shoulder and grumbled.
Then he patted my shoulder.
“Okay. We’ll follow your wishes. You’re special. But words alone won’t do. You’ll have to prove it. So is there anything I can do to help you? I think I can help you to the extent possible.”
“What you’re holding on to is what’s helping.”
“Phehhehheh-. Confidence is good. Let me say it again, we will follow your will. Show us once. But I don’t think we have time to babble on here any longer.”
I couldn't understand what the man was saying, so I asked him back.
“What does that mean?”
“Well, that means go back quickly before you kill what’s precious to you.”
“My precious… … ?”
The man approached me.
And Cook, he pushed my body with his finger and I fell backwards naturally.
All the space surrounding my body began to distort.
The man was laughing.
The man said to me.
“Oh, arrogant one. May your end never be arrogance.”
May the end never end in arrogance.
I pondered the meaning of that sentence.
But before that, I opened my eyes again and was already caught up in this space.
Her neck was in my grasp.
Jin Jae-hee, dying and stained with blood.
Even though I came to my senses, I couldn't move a single finger.
Someone was controlling my body and trying to kill her.
(Continued in the next episode)