Surviving Among the Entities

“……”

Reclining on the sofa, I recalled the information I had just heard over the call.

[The Lucifer Company is a group that tries to corrupt humans and take their souls. Although our fundamentals differ, they are still one of the major forces presiding over the afterlife.]

The Eastern Hell recognizes the Lucifer Company.

[They have consistently made efforts to corrupt humans for a long time. Occasionally, when major shifts in the flow of karma in the living world are observed, upon investigation, they were always found to be the Lucifer Company’s doing.]

The Lucifer Company constantly strives to corrupt humans.

[They truly began making headway in the 13th century? They instigated a great war in Mongolia, driving countless humans to their deaths. In that process, it was only natural for laws and morals to crumble, leading to the emergence of corrupted humans.]

Some of the major events in human history involved the Lucifer Company’s schemes.

[The Black Death in medieval times, the Irish Potato Famine, China’s Great Leap Forward, they were all the results of the Lucifer Company’s instigation as well. And I mentioned the recent increase in wicked people falling into hell? So I checked the flow of karma in the living world through the Karma Mirror, just in case. And sure enough, I found a massive concentration of negative karma!]

Evidence is left behind when the Lucifer Company instigates an event.

[In the areas where negative karma was concentrated, the faint symbols of the Lucifer Company, the Reversed Pentagram and Reversed Cross, were observed. They don’t show themselves each time, but they always leave traces.]

Most recently, their schemes were observed unfolding in Australia.

[Please stop their schemes. Based on the level of concentrated negative karma, the amount far exceeded all their previous incidents! If this continues, who knows what might happen in the living world! Hell should not intervene in the living world, but we can no longer tolerate this! This goes far beyond our initial contract! Since they broke the contract first, we will break it too!]

She requested that I personally step in and thwart their schemes.

[If you help, we will delete all your negative karma! We can just add positive karma equal to the accumulated negative karma, right?]
[Wasn’t positive karma from a transcendent being’s intervention rendered void?]
[……This time will be an exception!]

Whether hung on the ears or nose,
the legal interpretations that changed like rubber bands were no different in the Eastern Underworld.

“Is it a kind rubber band for the sake of the world?”

I briefly summarized the contents of this incident in ‘My Mental Notebook.’

[1. The Lucifer Company of the Western Underworld corrupts humans.]
[2. They take the souls of corrupted humans and bring them to hell.]
[3. If the Eastern Hell is the concept of a courthouse and prison overseeing judgement, the Western Hell is the concept of a cursed land where the corrupted reside.]
[4. Demons indirectly intervene in the human world, causing calamities to undermine laws and morals.]
[5. Social chaos easily corrupts humans, which the demons then harvest.]
[6. The Lucifer Company has consistently caused such calamities over the past few centuries.]
[7. The calamities they caused leave behind traces of the Reversed Cross and Reversed Pentagram symbols.]
[8. The calamity that will occur this time is no ordinary calamity.]
[9. The Eastern and Western Hells made a contract with each other. They did not answer what about, but based on the circumstances, it is presumed to involve the treatment of sinners or intervention in the living world.]

“Summary complete.”

After reading it through, I carefully pondered it for some time and read it again.
Then I wrote down the doubts that surfaced below.

[1. The Lucifer Company left this world after Jesus’ death, only recently returning.]
[2. Therefore, the Eastern Hell’s story was likely based on a misunderstanding.]
[3. The Reversed Cross and Reversed Pentagram are symbols of demons. However, anyone can use symbols.]
[4. Then were the past calamities caused by those impersonating demons?]
[5. If caused by beings other than demons, how did they avoid detection by both the Eastern and Western Hells?]

This was not an easily solvable problem.

“Hmm.”

And simultaneously, it was an easily solvable problem.

“Oh my, it’s been so long since you’ve called, I must say……”

If I only knew the demons’ number.

“I’ve never heard such absurd words since the universe began.”

“One more cola please. After hearing such an outrageous story, my throat is parched.”

Baal, visiting the office after a long time, kept gulping down cola.

“I have potato fries too, prepared various kinds, so please help yourself.”
“Oh, wow! Crinkle cut, tater tots, wedges! Truly fantastic!”

As we ate, I asked Baal about this incident.

“So it truly wasn’t the Lucifer Company’s doing?”
“I swear on my true name. The Lucifer Company did not cause any calamities in the world throughout 2025.”
“If it was 2025, then that’s it, right?”
“Yes, the year the Nazarene carpenter was born.”

His eyes narrowed as he ate the potato fries.

“You have no idea how shocking his actions were. To willingly embrace all the original sins of the world and disappear, do you know how much effort we put into creating those? Especially the Chairman, he was bedridden for over a thousand years after learning the original sin had vanished.”

Like an elderly man, Baal reminisced about those times.

“You can’t imagine how good it was back then. With original sin, all humans belonged to us. Over time, it decreased according to our contract with the Eastern Hell, but still, many belonged to us.”
“What kind of contract was it?”
“Company secrets. I’ll tell you if you join.”
“I refuse.”
“Anyway, it was all ruined because of that carpenter.”

Like a failed business leaving behind its building, they left our dimension and lived in others, making miscellaneous objects and casually corrupting humans across various dimensions.

“We only came to resolve Seung-hoon’s complaint recently, so we didn’t have time for such antics.”
“What about the symbols?”
“Symbols are symbols. Anyone can use them, not just us. Especially humans who follow us, don’t modern humans frequently use them for aesthetic purposes too?”
“That’s persuasive.”

In the end, all I could discern was that the Lucifer Company was not the culprit.
I could not identify the real culprit.

“Ah! Maybe it was those guys.”
“Who are they?”
“Before we left the dimension, we gave various objects to the groups that followed us. Impure holy relics, symbols of corrupted other religions, objects the Chairman made for demonstrations, you know. Maybe they’re using those.”

Baal told me one point that stood out after listening to my story.

“The Eastern Hell is a latecomer compared to us. Yet for them to have become a major force in the afterlife is proof of their exceptional abilities, which we acknowledge. But for them to be unable to discern those guys’ identities and mistake them for us? That means they’re either using an extremely powerful entity, or truly using objects that would make them mistaken for us.”

He raised two fingers.

“For objects related to us that are still being produced now, all have built-in functions to track their coordinates after we left this dimension. If they were using those, there’s no way we wouldn’t know their identities, but there’s no sign of that, so that’s ruled out.”

He folded down one finger.

“Next, for it to be mistaken as us means an immense amount of our power is concentrated within. We carefully manage and track such extremely powerful objects all the more. Unless……”
“Objects created before you left the dimension.”
“Back then, we didn’t do quality control or customer management. The prevailing mindset was ‘As long as it’s overwhelmingly strong, it’s fine!’ without considering the user’s level.”
“Did the organizations that followed you back then have a name?”
“They didn’t have a specific name, but they were called this.”

Their name was one well-known even in modern times.

“Anti-Christs.”

Anti-Christs.

[Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the anti-christ is coming, even now many anti-christs have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. – 1 John 2:18]

I searched for information about them online.

[Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is the deceiver and the anti-christ. – 2 John 1:7]

Anti-Christs.
A group opposing Jesus and going against his teachings.

[This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.]

An existence that deceives people through many miracles, falsely claiming to be the Savior.
The second beast appearing at the end times, bearing the symbol of 666 as a false prophet.

“It is said to be a metaphorical story referring to deceivers who deceive and defraud others for personal gain when the end times arrive.”

But unfortunately, the adversary I would face had a high likelihood of being real.

“In some interpretations, the anti-christ is considered the first beast from the Book of Revelation, the blasphemous being that rises from the sea.”

Regardless of which side, there was little definitive information currently known.

[1. They possess entities given to them when the Lucifer Company was just getting started.]
[2. The entity is powerful enough to evade detection by the Eastern Hell and make them mistaken for the Lucifer Company.]
[3. There is a high chance they did not go to either the Western or Eastern Hell after death. Otherwise, it would be impossible for both sides to be unaware of their existence.]
[4. Perhaps they have lived from that time until now.]
[5. They are true Anti-Christs certified by real demons, not metaphorical Anti-Christs.]

After completing the summary, I booked a flight to Australia online.

‘But what is the exact location?’

The Karma Call Center also did not know the precise location.
With negative karma overflowing to such an extent, pinpointing the location was impossible.

“Is it the same principle as being unable to find the source when the stench pervades from all directions?”

It seems I may have to play a game of hide-and-seek for a while after arriving.

[Hello.]

At that moment, the TV turned on.

[The announcer for the TV made for you, the Announcer.]

It had been a while since the Wall-Mounted TV activated.

[Before the news, our biggest sponsor, Mr. Lee (26) from Bucheon, is going on an overseas trip to Australia. As a special feature, we will be reporting news from Australia!]

So that’s why he’s sponsoring.

“Perhaps they’ll report on an incident related to this case?”

I opened a can of 355ml Zero Pepsi and sat on the sofa.

“I wonder what news they’ll deliver this time?”
[Then the first piece of news! One month from now, in the barren desert of southern Australia, at Uluru, known as the navel of the Earth……]

The announcer lost his words.

[Oh, my……]

Displaying his professionalism,
he overcame the shock and resumed the broadcast.

[One of the ‘Primordial Beings’ is set to appear in this world.]