No Dark Secrets In This Book

Episode 45

“What? You found it? Crazy, share it with me too!”

“No, that’s not it, no, fuck, not me. You bastards, open Everytime!”

Far away from the student who almost got crushed to death by the crowd that rushed in due to the sin of shouting a word, the one who was frantically tapping on his phone suddenly stopped and muttered blankly.

“How to download and extract a compressed file……?”

“Look at the file name below that!”

As the students were acting out of their minds, Logan hurriedly snatched the phone from the student standing next to him. You’re a bad guy for not using your own when you could.

But it’s good. Because these words will appear in Logan’s view now.

「♡With just the 1st year 1st semester midterm answer key★ even you can be 1st place♡」

“What the hell is this?”

No matter who hears it, it will sound like nonsense.

Some might even say it’s a lie to spread a hacking virus, but the situation was true. Testimonial posts from students who turned on a disposable phone and downloaded the file were popping up one after another.

Those who had no connections at the Academy and didn’t belong to a famous family, noble family, or sect, and never thought they could have an answer key. They were all very grateful that it was uploaded on the internet like this, and people who saw the Everytime post all downloaded and extracted the file one after another.

Some said it would be a lie. Some asked why they were reacting so much to what was just dummy information. However, when verification began and it was revealed through the testimonies of actual answer key holders that this was a genuine answer key.

Chaos arrived.

“What, what bullshit is this! Fuck! Who just spread the answer key on the internet?!”

“Which crazy bastard did this kind of thing……!”

Students who had formed an answer key cartel and students who had formed an answer key search expedition and achieved results were all experiencing their sanity running away.

But someone who was suffering thinking they wouldn’t be able to get an answer key due to their innate conditions would be happy now.

‘Haha.’

Doing a good deed and eating shit at the same time, I’m really a genius after all. Today’s ice cream life is also very satisfying.

‘Well, shall we go find the shaman now.’

I did a good deed, right? Then you’ll save me now, right?

And Shin Myohan said this.

“It’s impossible―.”

I just lied that I read all the books and dragged the shaman to the library, but I was sentenced to death in my miserable life.

To be honest, I almost got down on my knees and begged her to save me, asking why it’s not possible. However, this body was damn Cassice Demillang. There was no ‘moderation’ in Demillang’s face.

“What’s the reason?”

“I can’t find a fundamental solution. You asked me to help you, but in fact, a ghost attack is useless for you anyway.”

“Excuse me?”

“You may have a hard time because of ghosts, but rather than recklessly messing with it, maintaining the status quo is fortunate, that’s the feeling? Still, fortunately you won’t be possessed, right?”

……F, fuck? I’m already possessed, but why are you mentioning possession? I hope there’s no separate intention in specifically pointing out the word possession. No matter how much the word possession was first used in the occult rather than book possession, there’s still a nuance that words give, you know.

Will I be exorcised like this? I was sweating cold sweat from being so damn anxious.

But she was talking about something else.

“You seem fine with it? Even though I said I can’t help you.”

I was just pretending to be calm for the sake of keeping up appearances, but I was relieved that it seemed to be nothing. I guess I’m really an awesome acting genius. But her words weren’t something I could just let slide. Even if his life was on the line, Cassice Demillang couldn’t bear to see his authority being undermined.

“……Did you think I would tolerate your petty wordplay?”

“That’s not it.”

Shin Myohan, who answered with surprising cheerfulness, brushed past me.

From that moment, I felt a strange sensation.

The mocha-colored loafers she wore were folded at the heel. The navy blue long skirt scattered over her legs with a rustling sound. Just a little while ago, she crossed the brown bookshelves with a free body and soul. But the walls of the bookshelves were tightly blocked on all four sides of her, and the only way out was behind my back.

So she seemed to be trapped by me.

She couldn’t get out even if she wanted to until she gave the answer I wanted.

‘As intended.’

But even so, Myohan looked as free as if she was standing in an open field.

How could she do that……?

‘Because she knows I’m possessed?!’

When I was frozen stiff, an unnaturally innocent face smiled brightly.

“I don’t play around, Demillang.”

“Do you remember what I asked?”

“If I don’t remember that, I’m an idiot. You said you had a nightmare and asked for help. Either an exorcism or a talisman, anything is fine.”

“And you said it’s not possible. And then asking if I’m okay with it sounds like mockery to me. Maybe you don’t know because your social skills are terribly lacking.”

“That might be true.”

As I approached her as if threatening her as she obediently nodded her head, I felt a strange sensation strangling my heart.

I couldn’t figure out the reason, but her eyes seemed to pierce through my body, and it was an unexpectedly unpleasant sensation.

Come to think of it, I don’t see the general god? Fuck. I don’t know where he’s targeting me from. I instinctively felt that I had to turn on Cheon Seogong. I exhaled a breath and turned on Cheon Seogong.

Then, as my breath stopped, no, as it flowed slowly as if it had stopped,

‘It feels like I’m falling.’

1 second was torn into hundreds of pieces.

We call those who can perceive and move according to the moment by breaking down all those moments that others casually let pass and waste into hundreds, rankers, transcendents.

And at this moment, the sensation of all life that couldn’t transcend slowly pulsating swept over me.

In the time I perceived, both Myohan and I were frozen like mannequins.

However, Shin Myohan’s general god standing behind her was different. Like a transcendent, he freely moved in the finely divided time.

He was holding a huge sword and had his grip hanging near the handle as if he could strike at any moment. If he had been holding the handle and looking tense, I would have laughed at him, but his posture of languidly shaking his legs was just detached and peaceful. He had a pleasant relaxedness as if he could do whatever he wanted whenever he made up his mind to kill.

‘-Cheok Jun-gyeong.’

The Goryeo swordmaster who I have no doubt would have been the number one in the Korean rankings if he had been born in modern times.

The god Shin Myohan served was such a being.

And I realized that the land he was standing on had a different landscape from the earth we stepped on.

He seemed to be standing on an abyss-like cliff, and something was moving hazily behind it. Without knowing, I narrowed my eyes and focused there. When I thought lightning struck my eyes for a moment, my pupils started to see clearly as if I had put on a magnifying glass, with a tingling sensation as if they had been injected.

It was the celestial bodies and threads. The threads were hanging from the stars, and some were red, some were black, and some were white. The thickness and length varied. It was a mysterious scene as if a well bucket was stretching down from the stars.

I suddenly realized the identity of all those things.

‘F, fuck. This is that, you know.’

The thin thread belongs to a healthy young person.

The thread that is as thick as a chain, twisted in several layers, and strong belongs to an old man who will soon die.

All of those are the roots of the World Tree and the chains of the well bucket that sends down and reaps life. The more solid the thread that collects life becomes, the closer a person gets to death.

So, this place is……

‘The roots of the World Tree.’

I finally remembered the original setting. The creator god of this novel is the World Tree. Her roots are human lives, and each strand is the constellation of the celestial bodies. So what I’m looking at is……

At the same time as the realization, my breath got stuck in my throat.

This wasn’t a level that I should be seeing.

It was too magnificent. A level that could crush my existence too easily. The level of the world. The great divinity. The root of mystery……

I finally realized that the reason I could reach this place was Shin Myohan.

‘Gap.’

In this world, martial arts, magic, and shamanism apply a common moral code.

‘If you try to kill your opponent, you must also enter within a gap where your opponent can kill you.’

In other words, Shin Myohan guided me. She spiritually observed me and tested whether I could invade the gap she intentionally presented.

She experimented to see if this Cassice Demillang could grasp a thread-like opportunity.

“–Ha.”

When I thought my lungs would tear, I felt Cheon Seogong automatically deactivate. When I came to my senses, we were being hit all over our bodies by the scent of crumbling old books. As if all those celestial bodies were false.

“What did you do?”

When I asked, Myohan smiled.

“Would you believe me if I said I didn’t do anything?”

But I had no energy to smile. Because everything felt hazy.

“……What is that place? How did I see it?”

“Normally, you can’t see it even if you live your whole life. I also properly saw it only once, and that place is beautiful and captivates the body and soul, but it was terrible. It feels like you’ll explode and die at any moment. That weight. But maybe you can see the thread of just one person.”

“Then, how can I see that?”

Shin Myohan strangely frowned her eyebrows.

“Do you even know what you’re saying?”

She looked at me as if she couldn’t understand me at all and said with her eyebrows still furrowed.

“Demillang, seeing the thread of just one person means you’re going to touch that person’s fate.”

“……”

“So we only see that thread at exactly one moment.”

When dealing a fatal blow.

The shaman added fiercely.

“When cutting a person’s lifeline.”

……Hey, look. I know what the setting is. I know, but.

‘Enough, just tell me the point! What do you know?’

Why are you only saying this to me?!

Was it revealed that I’m possessed?!