193 – Between Names (5)
‘That’s all karma.’
It was the teacher’s speaking habit.
He strongly insisted that if he had done a good deed, he should be rewarded accordingly, and if he had done an evil deed, he should be punished accordingly.
It’s something I once forgot, but I remember it well now.
**
The moment I stepped on the scorpion and killed it, what I felt was the wind.
It was just like today. It was a cold, dry day in the morning when the sunlight was obscured, and the gray, cool wind brushed against my arms.
“Master…?”
Great despair awaited them as they set out on a long journey to exterminate the monster.
Her teacher betrayed her. No, there is ambiguity in the word betrayal.
The expression that she lost her ego and went on a rampage is more accurate.
Fortunately, the damage was not significant. The child who was unable to evacuate had a slight tear on his forehead.
I thought I could stop it. Since this happened while the monster was being exterminated, most of the people fled.
There were few casualties and most of it was damage to property such as buildings.
However, what awaited them was rejection and hatred.
Not knowing how much the teacher had contributed to peace, people treated him like a monster and threw stones at him. He swore and shouted to kill him.
“What are you doing now!”
And even after seeing her stop her from doing that, her people did not stop swearing at her. Rather, he bit her, saying he was on her same side.
“I can explain everything! Just stop! Please! Please…!”
No one listened to this plea. They continued to hate their teacher.
Not knowing anything, not knowing anything about how much effort has been put in behind the scenes.
All my friends died and my colleagues were scattered. The enemy is strong and the people are exhausted. In the midst of not having a single moment to spare, even everyone he thought were allies turned their backs on him.
The people who always gave words of support to themselves suddenly changed and started calling them devils.
She is insulting herself, calling her a traitor and a prostitute.
It was absurd. Who is the real traitor? Aren’t they the ones who accepted it when they received it and now curse themselves?
They looked like animals. I felt no different from the monsters I had faced so far.
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Rather, aren’t they better because there is no back and forth?
Aren’t those who are honest about their desires better than those things?
When I came to my senses, I saw myself slaughtering them like monsters. Next to it, there was a large army of monsters.
There was no one. They turned him into a monster or had the monster kill him.
When he felt that there was no one left to disappear, Botis stopped rampaging.
Then he turned his eyes and checked the body he had passed by.
But what caught my eye was the child’s corpse. It was the face of a miserable boy who had died in fear in his mother’s arms.
I didn’t know it at the time, but I realize it now.
He ended up doing the same thing.
He thought that all monsters were enemies of humans and attacked his teacher, and he branded all humans as one-sided haters and massacred them. What is the difference between these two?
In the end, it was the same.
No one knew the situation. The teacher’s life was not known. She, too, did not know about their lives.
They were always trembling at the existence of monsters and did not know anything about the lives of those people whose family and friends died, and who had no choice but to stigmatize monsters as beings who could not communicate and one-sidedly massacred people.
Originally, he was one of them.
Those who threw stones at their teacher, or those who covered their lives with dirt. There was no difference between the two.
Both were ignorant, and they responded to hatred with even greater hatred.
This too is peace because there is no one left to hate.
This was not the peace she hoped for.
It wasn’t like this. I didn’t want to do this.
I just hoped that there would be peace and no one would fight.
I wanted everyone to be happy, regardless of birth or being influenced by innate factors.
What the scorpion gave her were the emotions of when she was a person and the memories of an enemy who would give up on that person.
Botis regretted regaining her loss.
She herself was not a leader of peace.
She was nothing more than an unforgivable murderer.
He said that sometimes it is better not to know, and he was truly offended.
**
“Human memory is so scary.”
Running towards her scorpion, Botis opened her mouth. The Watcher didn’t answer, wondering if she was talking to herself.
“Memories have memories, and memories have soft emotions. When I remembered that time, I became emotional again. It’s been so long. “The spirit of sacrifice.”
If I think about it now, it seems so meaningless. Did I just give up on people because I couldn’t stand something like that?
People naturally get screwed over by trivial things, so I thought it wasn’t a particularly strange thing.
Even now, because of this trivial memory, everything I have built up so far is twisted.
In the end, I also could not escape from being a person.
“I am Green Arcturus.”
She slowly retold her own life.
“Her best friend in Sky Polaris, her sentinel by her side, and her disciple of Amundsen.”
Amundsen? When Han Jaejoong heard an unfamiliar name, he had doubts. But he didn’t think he would dare break that monologue, so he kept quiet.
“The dream was peace, but the path was devoid of love and ultimately led to destruction. “I wanted to be understood, but I never reached out to understand first.”
When he got close to the scorpion, Botis stuck the stick he had been carrying so dearly into the ground.
“This is his responsibility.”
Kugugugugugung!!! Bushes and vines sprouted from the spot where the stick was inserted. The bushes rising like waves wrapped around the ice-covered scorpion.
The trees were surrounded by starlight, so they looked like stems of light rather than plants.
Han Jaejoong was astonished. All that starlight must have come from Vortis, so what on earth were they thinking to use that much starlight at once? It was an ignorant operation that even a watcher with a light of about 40 stars would not dare attempt.
“What are you thinking?”
“I told you earlier. “I plan to take it down.”
“If I keep this up, I’ll be exhausted before I take it down.”
“Oh my.”
Botis grinned.
“You never said a word about me being the one to take down?”
As the growing bushes wrapped themselves around the scorpion’s body, a clanking sound was heard, like a key unlocking a lock.
This action was just a signal for the next time.
From drugs that turn people into monsters to drugs that can treat both monsters and humans. Bottis was an expert in drugs. In other words, a poison expert.
Poisons fed to the scorpion’s alter ego. Her starlight is in it. The moment the scorpion digests the poison, it settles into the starlight that makes up part of its body.
The moment the poison gets close to the starlight of Botis, it resonates and causes a specific phenomenon. The efficacy is simple. As always, making plants grow.
A bush came out between the gaps between the combined scorpions. The lush trees came out of the world by breaking through the joint where the scorpions had joined together.
“What’s happening?!”
Blue Sirius, who had been suppressing the scorpion just a moment ago, rushed here. The Watcher greeted her by waving his hand affectionately and then admired the miracle of her appearance.
“It seems like they are trying to cancel the merger.”
As expected, parts of the scorpion that had formed a perfect unity just now were breaking apart. As if leaving a bond mark, the bush took up space and spread the joint.
“…If you didn’t do it… Botis?! “Why is that guy…”
The bush eventually stretched toward the sun, breaking even the ice created by Blue Sirius. The monster’s struggles could not break the ice, but the mystery of nature made it possible.
“Now, wait a minute, that guy is the one protecting the scorpion! Now, there’s a possibility that it’s all fake…”
Blue Sirius’s point was correct. But Han Jaejoong didn’t think so. Jason’s retirement, which was one of the reasons why Botis wanted to protect Scorpion, was a success.
In the first place, I didn’t think she was truly the one protecting Scorpio. From her actions up to now, she was also close to wanting to develop her strength and skills by dealing with scorpions, as if contradicting herself.
‘…Did you do that on purpose for training, knowing that you wouldn’t be able to stop Contradiction’s plan? No, as the story says, there is a possibility that all of those images are fake…’
Han Jaejoong looked at her clothes. No matter how I thought about it, it was really confusing to make sense. But now was not the time to discuss such things.
The scorpion’s union is being released. There was no denying that this was the most effective attack ever made.
Blah blah blah!! The plants grew completely, and the scorpions also decomposed into 18 branches.
As they looked at the scorpions scattering in the air, the Watcher and Blue Sirius were also suspicious but had no choice but to take action.
Now was the only chance.
Blue Sirius created an ice tower and trapped the disassembled scorpion parts inside. They were kept as individuals to prevent them from combining again.
The Watcher jumped into the air and headed towards the contradiction in the center. The joints of the scorpion, which was shaped like a fighter jet, were completely opened, and the contradictions inside were ejected and flew into the sky.
Starlight gathered at my feet. The body struck by lightning struck down immediately.
“Contradiction!!!”
“hahahaha, I got caught.”
Quaaang!!! The kick successfully hit Contradiction, and he fell straight to the ground. It was a special move that put all his heart and soul into it.
“What is a fair game? “Did you intend to do this from the beginning?”
“Yes. I had planned to do this from the beginning. But isn’t it fair? “It is a standard practice to not be a strong enemy from the beginning, but to gradually advance through the stages to become stronger and challenge the final boss…”
Puck! The Watcher’s fist hit his cheek.
“Shut up. Do you think that excuse will work? Where has the respect that we always talked about gone? Huh?!”
“hahahaha, I’m a monster too. The thing that should be respected the most is my own will. But don’t be too sad. “It was a fair game for everyone.”
Contradiction raised his hand and pointed behind him.
“Even to Scorpio, who was our reward.”
A sinister energy rose from the parts of the scorpion frozen in the ice. Something with the texture of a dark cloud passed through the ice blocking it as if mocking it. It was starlight and poison. The poison of loss.
The poisons connected each other and created a kind of path. It was more like a string to connect them to each other again.
“Okay, congratulations. “Scorpion has just regained his sense of self.”
A new color of starlight filled the line made of ugly smoke. Red, blue, yellow, green, purple, pink. Numerous colors intertwined with each other, becoming something darker and stickier.
It’s like a bucket in an art room. The various paints mixed together and eventually became a cloudy, dark abyss that could not be expressed in any other color.
It wasn’t even a form anymore.
That was a color.
Something indescribable and bizarre. I couldn’t even call it a living thing anymore.
A spark arose in that abyss-like color. There was thunder and lightning, and it rained. The storm came and then came Guy. It emitted rays of dozens of colors. There were hundreds of mouthless screams, thousands of roars, and tens of thousands of screams. It was chaos. It destroyed and ate everything in the abyss.
The ice that trapped the Scorpion’s parts disappeared. It’s not melted. It literally disappeared. It was a loss.
The bushes also disappeared. It is not burned to ashes or torn. Has disappeared. It was a loss.
As soon as it disappeared, the abyss spit out the same ice and brush from within. At that moment, Jaejoong Han discovered the identity of the chaos raging in the abyss.
These are the things that the scorpion lost.
It was as if he was wielding what he had stolen. There were so many of them that it was impossible to count them and it was chaos.
It seemed as if the secrets of the vast universe were unfolding within me. The abyss, swallowing infinite chaos, began to spread out towards the world.
That’s the beast of the galaxy.
“hahahaha, no matter what, I can’t stop that. I can’t even tell them apart from enemies anymore. Can you define earthquakes or typhoons as enemies?”
Mosun gave a businesslike smile and lifted himself up from the Watcher.
“That is the true identity of the scorpion. Like the assassin who lost a loved one to God, the essence is loss. Nothing more, nothing less. Living loss, that’s what I see. “I can’t have something like that as my enemy.”
How can you defeat something like that? That thought occurred to me, but Han Jaejoong quickly brushed it away.
He covered his entire body with lightning again and ran towards the scene where the scorpion was. There were still many people to protect.
“…But you still want to make an enemy of me.”
Mosun laughed, shaking off his dusty body.
“Besides you, I mean.”
The spear was thrown towards the sky. At first glance, the spear looks like an arrow. In fact, it wasn’t even a window. Wooden stick. It was nothing more than a long, thin, insignificant wooden stick that a shepherd might carry.
However, the starlight condensed within it contained one person’s life and identity as a monster. The mystery was so great that it created a paradox that seemed insignificant to the naked eye.
The truth is, the simpler it is.
The first thing Green Arcturus learned from his teacher was how to throw a spear. So that they, who have always been forced to fight only in close combat, are the only ones who can reach their opponents from afar.
Since she did not have her spear, she chose to throw her baton instead. Although it did not have a sharp spear blade, the star-covered baton was more effective than a javelin. One-sided attack without worrying about getting hurt.
Protect your own life and protect the lives of others.
This was the first teaching, the life of man.
Botis lived to create and protect monsters. Therefore, her ability is a solution to increase her own people. A miracle that turns people into monsters without any consequences.
The miracle was contained within a small wooden stick.
This was her identity, the life of a monster.
That small wooden stick contains blood that would surpass even the Eurasian continent. As a human, he killed countless monsters, and as a monster, he killed countless people.
This irreversible genocide, this bloodshed, was her work.
At any time, she was a slayer, which was life itself.
Karma.
It was time to receive the reward I had accumulated so far.
The stick flew high and pierced the center of the scorpion, which had become an abyss. Then the smoke cleared and the abyss regained its shape.
A strange person. A person with a strange appearance. It is the most vicious beast, with at least a little bit of human appearance remaining.
The evil starlight condensed to the center, but it could not eliminate all the chaos it had spread. The chaos trapped in the abyss. Storms, rays, flames, ice, lightning, thunder, and bushes spread around.
A huge explosion, like an atomic bomb, that devastates a 1km radius in an instant.
Watcher managed to evacuate Blue Sirius from the center, but did not see another monster.
**
The place where I found her was a bit far away from the site where her scorpion had become a giant combined robot again. It must have been a school, so the blackboards and desks in the classroom were a mess.
It was an accidental discovery. As she was about to return to battle, she found what looked like a person in a collapsed building. She heads there to see if she is a survivor.
“hahahaha….”
Botis was seen with his lower body missing and his entire body intact.
“I thought you were a person?”
“Yes.”
“Aren’t monsters’ physical abilities truly amazing…? “At least like this, I’m still alive.”
“It doesn’t look like it’s alive.”
Botis laughed bitterly.
“That’s right, I’m dying….”
Now she was cooling down. The medicine she boasted about was useless, as empty bottles were randomly rolling around her.
“All the starlight has been consumed….”
Botis, in his most hideous form, had no horns, goat legs, four arms, or any other human-like parts, and paradoxically was the most human-like.
“I’m sorry… That monster ended up becoming a burden to you all…”
“That was my original intention. Never mind.”
If I had known the mechanism, it would have run riot as soon as the contradiction was separated. I would not have even released it in the first place. Botis smiled bitterly.
Han Jaejoong responded to that laughter with silence.
“…You don’t plan on being sad that I’m dead, do you?”
“That can’t be possible.”
“That’s right, that’s how it is… Don’t even dream of glorifying that a murderer like me did something good in the end.”
“I wasn’t planning on doing that anyway. “Don’t worry.”
“Yeah, I thought it would be you. I’m glad.”
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Evil deeds are evil deeds and good deeds are good deeds. Basically, life is multifaceted.
Han Jaejoong will remember her as a victim who sacrificed her life at the end to prevent the worst, as a magical girl who sacrificed her life to protect her, and as a massacre who committed the worst massacre in the history of the Eurasian continent. You will remember it as
“They say that when it’s time to die, you can know everything about life… I guess I’m not a monster or anything like that. I almost forgot everything. I only vaguely remember my childhood, my name… My time as a human being. But I remember very well what I did….”
It was an evil life.
At the same time, it was a weak life.
“Teaching….”
As I said, I received karma. I fought with the skills you taught me. Peace has been made according to your will. This didn’t work out well.
“Child… Won’t you tell my teacher your name… My poor teacher who has become a bigger child than me… Please tell me your name…”
The Watcher nodded his head. This made Botis smile as if he was relieved. As if she didn’t even have time to say thank you, she quickly opened her mouth.
“Amundsen….”
“What is its origin?”
“It’s a match of great people… Isn’t it cute…?”
She whispered her name and slowly began to close her eyes.
“I’d like to ask you for a name with the spirit of adventure…”
Recalling the memories of reading the great man’s story to his teacher, the monster died in human form.
A cold wind blew in spring.
**
“I will slaughter all these f*cking bastards….”
The archer’s vision flickered as he threatened to swing his arrow.
It wasn’t just the sight. The space of the Goldilocks Zone itself was shaking.
The grasslands in the mountains gradually disappeared, and the landscape of a ruined city appeared.
“What the f*ck.”
The archer was embarrassed. Why is Goldilocks Zone gone now?
“No… It’s a good thing.”
When the prison that imprisoned him disappeared, the archer moved his body as if he was excited.
“Wait, you little fallen ones!”
The archer went forward to deal with the unqualified people.
Forgetting the condition for forced release of the Goldilocks Zone, the condition of the user being fatally injured.
