Chapter 105
Chapter 105
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Father
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“President 1? We have to give up.”
The first to react was Baal.
“Yes, the Blue Moon appeared out of nowhere. Haha, you're right. Yes, then let's grab a drink later. Got it, yes.”
Sulfur flames erupted from the cracked ground, taking Baal and all the demons away.
“Good heavens, I never thought I'd see two primordial beings in one day!”
“Doctor? Why are you suddenly giving me sunglasses?”
“To protect the assistant's neurons! Oh no! Can't hold out for long after all? Let's retreat!”
The space containing Dr. Janus, his assistant, and the Franken corps warped and vanished entirely.
“Ugh! The mental barrier is collapsing! It's crumbling too fast! At this rate, it'll be destroyed in 10 seconds!”
“Retreat immediately!”
“Retreat!”
The Foundation's ship barely managed to escape into an independent dimension.
『Impolite wretches, you who summon and then flee, children who ring the bell and run, violent offenders who shred others' hearts, creatures with hearts colder than ice—why do you not answer my question?』
“I'm not.”
Adam spoke.
The only one left, he gazed up at the Blue Moon, raising his wariness to an unprecedented maximum.
“I only wanted to protect this place. I don't know who you are, and I don't know who called you.”
Miraculously, despite the chaos, Uluru remained intact.
Adam had protected it from the start, no matter what.
“So withdraw now. The one you're looking for isn't here.”
He was sorry to the children, but if a fight broke out like this, he might not be able to protect the grave any longer.
As he gathered his strength with that thought, someone entered Adam's view.
“Long time no see.”
The one who bore the aura of the serpent he'd flung away at first.
Whether corrupted by the serpent, allied with it, or the serpent itself—he couldn't clearly distinguish, so he'd dealt with it first. Now that guy was greeting the Blue Moon.
“I'm the one who called you.”
『You.』
It was impossible.
『Monster shell who couldn't abandon the dream of art, omnivore without restraint, one-eyed among one-eyed, beloved by machines, you whose sense of good and evil is blurred—long time no see. So why did you call?』
“I missed you, Blue Moon, so I called. It's been months since New Year's, and I realized I hadn't greeted you.”
『What a polite one!』
It was an aura even he struggled against.
Every moment facing it felt like his mind was burning, and deep in his soul, a serpent instinctively coiled, trying to separate from his flesh.
“Have you been well, Blue Moon?”
『I've been well. I've met and saved humans across countless dimensions. Since my existence is singular, alas, I have no time to rest if I am to save more.』
“Glad to hear you've been well.”
How was that even possible?
Even if it were the serpent, speaking so calmly like that should be impossible.
‘So it wasn't the serpent after all.’
Adam observed Lee Seung-hoon closely.
The serpent's scent clung thickly to his body, but it wasn't his own.
Yet he wasn't human either, nor one of the other transcendent beings.
“Who are you?”
“Lee Seung-hoon.”
“Are you human?”
“I am human.”
“With that scent?”
“If I consider myself human and strive to live as one, wouldn't that make me human?”
At that moment, the Blue Moon spoke.
『You, nuclear bomb on the highway, entity of driving, coveted by demons, specially recruited from hell, lush one spared from baldness, I've seen your past.』
“What do you mean?”
『In your memories, I saw the affair of the woman who sold her soul to a demon.』
With a voice full of compassion, it declared.
『I am a busy being.』
『I am a singular being.』
『I am not many.』
『Humans across countless dimensions await me.』
『Yet the humans here desire a guardian.』
『I cannot turn away from that plea.』
All enemies had vanished, but a new one appeared.
『I shall be your guardian!』
“First off, Blue Moon, how exactly do you plan to protect us?”
『I'll make you all two-eyed!』
The Blue Moon's two-eyed state meant succumbing to madness.
In short, if left like this, everyone in the world would go insane and die.
‘I’ll have to use the last resort.’
The insurance he'd prepared when making the Blue Moon ticket, in case he couldn't control it.
Honestly, he wasn't even sure if this would work.
[Reward: A meeting with the girl who closed her eyes.]
[Mission: None.]
[Duration: I wanted you to come in person, but I'll forgive you anyway.]
He used the ticket.
Knowledge flowed into his mind.
[Yeah, the one human I'm watching? I know your dilemma. You want the Blue Moon gone, right? Sure, I'll help. Just say this to it.]
“Blue Moon.”
『If everyone becomes two-eyed, you won't have to fear anymore!』
“The human you were attached to in the past is still alive. On the planet where the yellow moon and red moon intersect, in the dimension where death no longer holds power, on the land where six suns rise and set repeatedly, enjoying a vacation.”
『......It's not a lie!』
The Blue Moon began to fade.
『You, one missed by rubber ducks, dormant volcano of lust, lucky one never hit by norovirus, premium stock never constipated, owner of a massive pancreas untouched by blood sugar spikes—I'll repay you next time!』
Once it had completely vanished, Adam grabbed my shoulder.
“An interesting descendant. Human yet not, serpent yet not.”
He bowed his head first and apologized to me.
“Sorry. I apologize for attacking you when things got urgent.”
“No, it's fine. That can happen.”
“A lot happened while I slept. To think a descendant like you would appear. Are you perhaps a hybrid of serpent and human?”
“Pure human.”
“Fascinating. Well, thanks to you, the world is at peace now.”
He smiled and swept his hand over the devastated world.
Like a painter redoing the background, the ruined environment vanished in an instant, returning to its original state.
“There's not much I can do, but I'll handle this at least.”
Then he dusted off my shoulder.
“I'm curious if there are more descendants like you, and I'd love to see how they're handling disasters without me, but alas, no time.”
A chilling aura rose from a crack that had appeared in Uluru at some point.
“Is that the death you mentioned?”
“Yes, the most horrific death Father unleashed in hatred toward me and humans.”
“What kind of death?”
It wasn't a secret, so Adam smiled and answered.
“A death that returns to eternal nothingness, where nothing exists.”
In a world with afterlives and various post-death experiences for souls, eternal death was the most terrifying of all.
“Wasn't that thing dead?”
“You're mistaken. It doesn't die. But I can offer myself as a sacrifice to keep it from moving.”
“How?”
“I possess an immortal body. Even Father's power, which good and evil can't block, revives me even if I die. By offering that body to the most horrific death, I prevent it from reaching other humans.”
“So you die repeatedly the moment you revive.”
“Exactly. Smart kid. Unless someone forces a massive surge of power all at once like this time, I'll be killed eternally by the most horrific death under this rock.”
“Doesn't it hurt?”
Before it got too late, Adam's body slowly sank into Uluru.
The aura of death enveloped him, and his vibrant flesh rotted away in an instant, exposing his bones.
“It hurts, but it must be done.”
Soon, Adam's form vanished completely.
“Because he's my father.”
The Uluru incident was over.
He'd expected to return to his daily life labeled the world's top troublemaker and treated as an entity, but everything resolved smoothly.
-Seung-hoon! Are you okay?
“They're not treating me like an entity anymore.”
-......Haha, who would treat you like an entity? It was just a temporary perception alteration.
Somehow, everything had returned to normal.
‘Probably when Adam dusted my shoulder.’
He'd received a huge gift.
Thanks to it, he didn't have to run around dealing with annoyances.
“By the way, did you recover the entity the false messiah had?”
-No, we looked, but it seems it was destroyed in the battle you mentioned. Or maybe Adam smashed it beforehand.
“Too bad. The Holy Grail and cross would have been useful in many ways.”
-Really unfortunate. This incident made the Foundation realize we need to bolster our forces even more, and those would have helped...
Back to Korea.
Returning to his beloved home, he soaked in the tub, melting away the fatigue of body and mind.
『Quack!』
While washing his hair, the rubber duck floating on the water quacked.
After finishing the bath and taking a nap, he headed to the computer.
[Name: Adam]
[Creator: God]
[Wife: Eve]
[Children: 1st son Cain, 2nd son Abel, 3rd son Seth (only named children listed)]
[Occupation: Hunter]
[Religion: Yahwism]
Since he'd learned about Adam from this incident, he wanted to edit his Namuwiki page.
‘Someone already touched it?’
The recent edit history showed tons of revisions.
Looking closely, it was still being edited, sparking heated debates with other wiki users.
‘Let's see what they're saying.’
[Sources outside the Bible]
[According to unrecorded ancient documents, Adam had a very bad temper. Extremely hasty and impatient, he often attacked people without checking, and his hideous, evil appearance led to him being mistaken for a demon.]
└[Care to cite which ancient document?]
└[Writer: No name. I saw it with my own two eyes.]
└[No evidence means hard to approve edits.]
[Adam was said to be a short, scrawny man. After being expelled from Eden, he lived lazily and gluttonously, ballooning in weight, with bipolar mood swings that made him quick to anger, and such gluttony that his family starved. In fact, Christianity's seven deadly sins were invented by Adam!]
└[Excuse me, this isn't a novel board......]
└[Writer: Not a novel, it's fact.]
“Hey, darling?”
『You called?』
“This wasn't you, right?”
『I swear on my battery, no.』
The heated debater vanished immediately.
‘My turn now.’
[Adam]
[Sealing beneath Uluru rock the most horrific death—eternal nothingness return to void, created by the Creator in hatred of humans. Adam is an immortal who doesn't die or age even after eating the fruit of good and evil, using this to keep dying repeatedly so the death can't escape. He possesses powers of creation and destruction; when he appears, even lowly beasts wield legendary divine beast strength. The power's might let a snake swallow a gravity bullet, a koala tear demons apart, and a kangaroo shatter steel.]
He wrote up to there and saved.
Before writing more, he grabbed a drink...
[Please put novels in notebooks.]
[Don't write stuff like this. What is this, elementary school fantasy?]
Unfortunately, blocked.
“Sometimes truth is worse than lies.”
A single tear of sorrow.
He snapped a photo of the Namuwiki block log with the enhanced Polaroid camera.
[End of Truth]
Then, the bell rang.
Not Darling, but a call from the Karma Call Center.
-Ah! Customer! Hello!
“Yes, long time no see, Super Ultra Great King.”
-You handled the job perfectly! I watched it all! I only caught the later part, so not sure of the full situation, but I saw you stop an enormous war single-handedly!
“No, I just used other transcendents.”
-Psh, so humble! Well, merits from using transcendents still count as merits, but you know this one's an exception, right? Anyway, how do you know the Blue Moon... Ah! Better not talk about it! Speak of the tiger and it appears, right?
The Super Ultra Great King informed him that all his bad karma had been reset.
-But! Bad karma accumulates easily—keep that in mind!
“Yes, I will.”
-Especially in modern society, bad karma from the internet piles up fast! This worries me so much I can't sleep. Ah, that's it!
And an unexpected proposal.
-Want to try a hell experience?
“Hell?”
-Precisely the hell for people like you, Seung-hoon, who sin online.
A completely unanticipated hell experience.
-It's internet hell!