The Nature of Possession

394 – EP.14 The World That Has Passed (★)-2

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The 40th sky. Red and spicy.

Kang In-ho lost consciousness for the first time since his seizure.

Short arms, heavy legs. An alien body.

Heavy chin, narrow field of vision.

“Koooh (F*ck!)”

Kang In-ho, who had become a Tyrannosaurus, cried out.

He couldn’t remember whether he was bitten to death by a persistent female or whether he was struck by a meteorite that flew in from somewhere.

***

53rd sky. Cloudy.

“Red, become my subordinate!!!”

The opponent with spread wings had the appearance of a typical devil.

“”””Gather everyone’s courage. Rolling Vulcan!””””

Blue, Black, Yellow, and Pink join forces to successfully defeat the Demon King.

I thought I had achieved peace. For a little while.

“Me? Yellow? Choose!”

Pink speaks, holding a dagger to her neck.

Kang In-ho raised both hands in surprise attack while he was sleeping.

“Neither.”

My neck was pierced by a dagger that was swung down without hesitation. That was my last memory.

As always, receiving love was unfamiliar to him.

***

The 66th heaven. Not visible.

“I told you I like you. But why!”

A woman wearing a fancy dress throws things at him.

Suit, watch, sunglasses, tie.

Even if you only calculate the used price, each item was worth hundreds to thousands of dollars.

He didn’t even blink at the brand symbols flying before his eyes.

“I’m just giving you things you can’t get even if you work your whole life. Why don’t you like it?”

“Just come to me with your body… Why! Why!!”

If you were to put a value on your heart, how much would it be?

***

69th Heaven. I don’t care.

“With me… forever….”

The opponent is a lich who has lived for 391 years.

He holds out his trembling hand and promises eternity.

Kang In-ho succeeded in clumsily imitating the Yan Lun Gong using mana.

Just like that day in the mountains when he burned the life force of his body, he burned his own body and destroyed the life vessel of the lich.

Because eternal life and eternal possession did not seem to be very different.

***

The 77th Heaven. I didn’t want to remember it, but I had no choice but to remember it.

When he opened his eyes, he was in a forest. Judging by the small axe he was holding, he seemed to be a lumberjack.

I opened the backpack on his waist and found some grass and mushrooms. Did he also work as a herbalist?

It seemed he had misstepped and fallen. He retraced his steps and returned to the cabin.

And then he meets.

“You smell like oppa!”

The girl who ran into his arms as soon as he opened the door.

The ears on top of the girl’s head perk up.

“You came early today? Did you miss Lily?”

It was the first meeting between Kang In-ho and Lily.

As always, his situational awareness, honed through years of experience, was able to fool Lily.

Here, he was the eldest boy. His younger brother was a cat named Suin, who was not related to him by blood. He was the child that his father brought with him when he remarried Lili’s mother.

Sadly and inexplicably, both his and her parents passed away, leaving behind two young boys and a girl.

He said he was robbed while traveling.

“Hehehe… Oppa, your hands are soft.”

Lili, who had been telling an old story, rubbed her face against his hand. He instinctively stroked her hair.

After what happened with Surin, he tried to avoid creating any possible connections.

It was because the sense of loss that came when that relationship was distorted, broken, or changed was so painful.

But it wasn’t easy for him to push Lily away.

It was because he was not so cruel as to cast out a girl who was blind.

Maybe it was Surin who overlapped with Lily who was smiling harmlessly.

He opened his heart and decided to live here.

It had already been half a year since he had started living with Lili. He truly wanted this kind of life to continue.

It didn’t matter if I was obsessed with someone and died, but Lily definitely got hurt in the process.

Kang In-ho tried hard not to deviate from the work that the owner of his body had been doing.

The more you try to do something, the more it gets tangled up. If Kang In-ho puts in even a little bit of will, the clockwork of destruction begins to turn.

It was an enlightenment gained through long reflection.

Gradually kill the ego called ‘Kang In-ho’.

I just try and try to live like the owner of a body whose name I don’t know.

So that your fate is not twisted, and so that your surroundings are not swayed.

***

The more you avoid destiny, the tighter it tightens around your neck.

An incident occurred where a water creature unable to control its wildness harmed a villager.

Of course, it wasn’t Lily. It would have been some wandering water man who did something like that.

The scars carved into the corpse were much larger and deeper than Lily’s fingernails.

It was a wound that a blind child could not heal, but the villagers were relentless.

“””Unclean beast!”””

“””Burn it! Kill it!”””

Is it because of the stupidity of medieval people?

Villagers carrying torches came rushing in and surrounded the hut.

“””Burn it!”””

Someone throws a torch, and the cabin burns down.

Kang In-ho, who was returning from chopping wood, runs into the cabin, out of breath.

“Catch me!”

A girl shouted.

Kang In-ho, who was running to the cabin, saw the face of a girl telling him to catch her through the crowd of people.

“ah….”

There was just one time when I saved someone in the village. It was a woman who fell from the railing while hanging laundry on the second floor.

Because it kept sticking to me, I thought I had done a good job of tackling it and getting it off… but I was wrong.

An ecstatic face looking at herself, eyes sparkling with greed.

Kang In-ho seemed to know who was inciting the townspeople.

The cabin is burning.

Kang In-ho kicks open the door of the hut and enters, knocking over the village elders who are grabbing his arms.

One day, like when he jumped into a burning house, he didn’t hesitate an inch.

“Brother, it’s so hard to breathe!”

She curled up in a ball in the bedroom and cried out in a fading voice.

“Lily!”

The hut was collapsing, and all he could do was to cover himself with Lily’s body to keep out the heat.

“Please… please… someone save me.”

A situation where acrid smoke obscures the eyes and a collapsed house blocks the escape route.

He hugged the trembling Lily to his chest and prayed to someone.

Please, I don’t mind dying, just spare this child.

Please spare this poor child.

Then, I heard a sound I had forgotten about.

– Tiring

A window appeared before my eyes with a refreshing notification sound.

[Guide to Dimensional Travel – Last]

[If you sincerely shout “I, an ignorant mortal, beg forgiveness from the great Dimensional Manager,” the dimensional shift will end.]

[3rd Grade Dimensional Manager Lanael]

The 77th world.

The last thing I saw was a notice board full of ridicule.

He made a promise in his fading consciousness.

From now on, I will never act like Kang In-ho, no matter what the situation is.

***

The 99th sky. Night, stars shine.

“Captain. Are you okay?”

At Anna Irwena’s question, he looked around.

“I’m fine. …I need an explanation of what happened.”

He answered, killing his ego as much as possible.