“Well, I understand your desire to brag. Well done. But, that’s just the appearance, right? Did that ‘His Majesty’ show keen insight? Did you understand all the technology in the world as soon as you saw it? Or did they cast a little awe and… jealousy at you?”
Golden Kyeong kept her mouth shut.
he knows so you know better That the Elric outside, who always has a kind smile on his face, is a fake.
I said digging into the painful part.
“If you only need a body, that would be enough. Can you call that thing Your Majesty?”
“know! I know! No matter how hard you try, it’s not real!”
The golden mirror suddenly rose. The knife hanging from his neck rattled and the iron ball rolled around. Hwang Kwang-gyeong raised his voice and made excuses even in the restraints that seemed difficult to move.
“It’s different though! The reason I can’t make humans is not because I ignore them. I just didn’t understand.”
“You confessed to yourself. I can’t understand other humans. I don’t even understand, how do you know human sins? You don’t even know what sin is.”
No one has the right to ask for guilt in the first place. Not to mention, in the case of the golden mirror, it is not even an example. Because no one can do anything similar. You can retaliate by venting your anger, but that’s another story.
The golden mirror sat down powerlessly. He glared pitifully at the golden bell again. Unlike before, it wasn’t because he wasn’t interested in me, but because he couldn’t even stand my gaze.
“I mean, I don’t know. If you made gold, you cheered. Everyone called me a hero. Those who received the gold bowed their heads and expressed their gratitude over and over again. But how did it come to this?”
“It is very nasty to think that even though you do not understand humans, you are responsible for the unknown actions. It’s like watching a self-appointed expert evaluating things he doesn’t know. Why are you blaming yourself when you don’t know anything?”
“But everyone said it was my sin. I have caused all this tragedy! Not to mention His Majesty…!”
Hwang Geum-gyeong, who stopped talking for a moment as if being beaten up there, immediately shouted out in anger.
“His Majesty Elric, who taught and supported me when I had nothing! Even He ordered me to die! Because I have committed a mortal sin, it is only natural that I pay with death!”
I would like to believe that Otherwise, he would have to doubt not only himself, but also King Elric, whom he held up like heaven.
But that’s not it. Sin is only a name given to later evaluation. Human actions are done for more instinctive and primitive reasons.
I said calmly.
“No. She simply needed someone to die with all the responsibility.”
The golden mirror is not stupid. Sometimes smart people are more gullible, but that’s not the case. All the memories and emotions I read were read in this image space.
Why did Elric abandon him and through what process did the gold country perish? The golden mirror already knew. to the bone.
He spoke softly to Hwang Geum-gyeong, who lowered his head. The words that already existed in his heart, but he had been trying to ignore.
“Geumguk is not beautiful at all. No, it’s worse than anywhere else. A country of craftsmen and technology. A country that makes money through business. It’s full of people who are brighter than anyone else, selfish, and sell their pride for money. Each of them pursued their own profit, and when the country was in danger of ruin, they hunted you as a devil. Did you really want to recreate that country?”
There was no answer. Does not matter. My words are enough to destroy his paradise.
“I don’t think so. You can tell by looking at the paradise you created. A golden palace where the homunculus work on their own without a word, and there are only alchemists who can communicate with you. The Iron King praises you in a loving voice, and everything in the world takes the ideal form you desire.”
I wanted to make a gold country. So, I went around ‘pension’ all the things around me. Village tools and even rice fields. Idyllic rural landscape Thriving city Magnificent castle. The ideal sight he wanted became a reality right in front of his eyes.
But the ideal is unrealistic. The sight that was considered ideal does not actually exist. He pointed out the contradiction of the golden mirror.
“The golden country you miss does not exist. Because this golden palace, which I made by ignoring the outside world and attaching only the parts I liked, doesn’t even resemble the Golden Kingdom.”
What I say is his inner voice. No man can resist himself. It forcibly awakens and stimulates the golden sutra, which has no body and only thoughts.
“Stop pushing yourself. Your wish cannot come true. Not because you lack ability, but because you don’t know what you really want. That’s why your last work, ‘Golden Sutra’, has been wandering the land vainly for hundreds of years, holding only meaningless wishes. Foolishly looking for the next prey even while the wildcats are eating them.”
golden mirror. A memento of the demon who rebuilt the golden country, and the first alchemist’s legacy to remember the golden country.
However, Hwanggeumgyeong failed to rebuild the Geumguk. For a wish that cannot be fulfilled, he goes around alchemy around everything around him, but the traces of the golden kingdom he created only become food for wild animals and are eaten.
Golden Kyung gritted his teeth and said.
“What do you want.”
I will remove the golden mirror.
It’s not because the golden mirror interferes with me, nor is it because it will cause a war with the military. The golden mirror is a delusion. As long as it exists, the wish of the golden mirror can never come true.
I will shake off all his arrangements, destroy the golden sutras, and contain him within me.
“I want your wish. If repeating this fantasy forever is your wish, this would be your own answer, but isn’t that your wish? Why does the golden mirror exist? Why does the last period you hit last forever without ending the story?”
It’s not just the Golden Goblet. everyone who died. The dream of those who left the world, dreaming of heaven and hell in their hearts. All those delusions are all from ‘her’.
In place of the missing heaven, I became an ossuary. Now it’s the turn of the Golden Goblet to enter here.
“What is holding the golden mirror in its bridle? What is your real wish?”
A living human might not respond. Because the wind can change at any time, and even if you don’t have to say it out loud, you can achieve it with your own strength.
However, those who are nearing death cannot afford that. He spits remorse in order to leave behind his wish that will soon disappear from the world.
If so, those who are already dead.
“…I will make a beautiful gold country.”
I can’t get out without saying it.
I asked earnestly.
“Even though the forbidden country is an obscene country that accused you of crimes and killed you?”
“It’s such a country, but I loved it.”
“Did Elric, whom you loved, betray you at the most difficult moment?”
“Anyone like that, I admired him.”
The more he speaks, the clearer his mind becomes.
I liked the country. Not because of patriotism, but because of nostalgia for being home.
I love Elric. Not because of her loyalty, but because she admired her looks and abilities.
It’s a sin or a responsibility He justified his death with all kinds of reasons, but in fact, he died as an example to vent his anger. If you really ask for malice, you had to kill thousands of people who took care of themselves even in the middle of the chaos, not the golden sutra. Unlike Hwang Geum-gyeong, who couldn’t bear to leave the country, they abandoned the country without hesitation.
He couldn’t do that, so he killed the golden mirror.
Even in the midst of this, Hwang Geum-gyeong loved the country and the king.
Even if you attach all kinds of reasons, wrap it up, and decorate it, it eventually comes down to the human mind. There is no need to attach detailed circumstances to it.
“Is there any reason to recreate that country? Judging by the appearance, if someone other than you had discovered alchemy, it would have been ruined on its own.”
There must have been no sense of duty, but Hwang Geum-gyeong found the reason very easily.
He was an irresponsible king in an ugly country, but Hwang Hwang-gyeong loved everything. I wanted to go back to the happy times in it. so.
“Because I want to.”
I made up my mind.
Click. The shackles that bound his feet were released. This is because the sense of guilt that binds the golden glasses has disappeared. Keumgyeong stood up slowly with wobbly legs.
I asked to confirm.
“Even though it is different from the gold country you lived in?”
“When things are fixed, they are bound to be different from the first time. We’ll fill in what’s missing, undo what’s broken, and fix what’s bad. It’s alchemy for that, and it’s a golden mirror for that.”
rattle. The chains that bind your arms break. Keumgyeong-gyeong stretched out his free arm and held the golden bell in his hand. A clear, clear sound filled the room.
I asked one more time.
“But is it possible? The gold soup made by the golden mirror has no staying power. No matter how well you make it, it will disappear sooner or later if there is no human to take care of it. Even if there is a manager, the wildcats will eat them all. You don’t want a country that disappears soon, do you?”
This time the answer took a while. But it wasn’t long. Because there was nothing to stop him from taking control of his heart.
“…will ‘make’ even that if it doesn’t have staying power.”
make?
thud. The sword that had been gripping his throat split and fell to the ground. Nothing binds him now. Hwang Geum-gyeong, who found complete freedom, declared with her head held high.
“If the homunculus is not perfect, you can improve it to be more perfect. If the seungnyang destroys the gold country, you can exclude them from breaking it. Fortunately, both goals can be achieved in one way. It’s a win-win.”
come on wait for a sec.
The conclusion is very strange.
“-I will collect them so that they do not harm anything in the gold country I made… I will use them as materials for the homunculus. As a homunculus that will move longer and lead this country.”
Maybe I’ve unleashed a monster.
Until now, the objects made by Hwang Keum-gyeong were frighteningly sophisticated and practical, but only humans were lacking somewhere. It was probably because, as the Golden Jing said, he did not understand humans well. Maybe there was some reluctance to make humans.
But now that all shackles and chains have been thrown away. Nothing can stop the golden mirror.
grunt what about this
“The dead have no influence on the world. Of course, your wish cannot come true. I don’t really like people who die so easily with such a precious wish in their arms.”
However, the Golden Sutra is slightly different. He did not die with the wind on me. Instead, even before his death, he created something to fulfill his wish.
The thoughts left here are his true wishes. His pure desire, unbound or commanded by anyone. If so, I must affirm this too.
“Even when you die, you left something to make your wish come true. I will cheer for you.”
In fact, there is nothing I can do other than cheer for you.
I’m a magician You can bring out his hidden wishes, but you cannot calm them down with a headwind. Magic looks great at first glance, but in reality, it’s all about pretending to be great by deceiving what’s possible.
If I think I’m going to interfere, I’ll kill you immediately. Because the golden mirror has cast off all its bridle. Without power, I can’t change my mind.
“…my teacher is only one. You teach me a lot too.”
Fortunately, I was not among the targets of his enmity. Showing more respect than hostility, Golden Kyung passed me with the bell and headed out of the room.
“I will achieve what I have not been able to achieve before.”
The world shook. When the story ends, I feel the sense that my very existence is rejected. As I felt my body being sucked into something, I left him one last word.
“Try it. You won’t know until you try.”
After that, the world became dark and I was exiled in his image.
The bell ringing with my daughter rings in my hand.
Bells have been used to wake people from sleep since ancient times. The same is true of the keepsake of the golden mirror, and the clear sound pulled me into reality from being immersed in his image. Deeply submerged consciousness emerges. When I came to my senses, I was back at the moment I waved the bell of the Golden Sutra.
No matter how long time passes in the image, it is only a moment in reality. I chatted with Hwang Geum-gyeong for a while inside, but to others, it would look like I was playing a game of ringing the bell.
It’s my consciousness. Anyway, the body stopped for a while to accept what had been done in that short time. Have you read too much I need to come to my senses soon.
“demo!”
It was then. Elric pushed me away with the momentum he was running towards. I couldn’t read my mind and couldn’t deal with it, so I was roughly knocked out. I feel a heavy pain in my back and lower back.
After all, pain is proof that you are alive. I’m feeling a little better now because I’m sick. I didn’t want that much, but I mean.
“What did you do to Demo…!”
Elric, who was glaring at me with angry eyes, stopped abruptly. With her eyes wide open, she turned her trembling head and looked at the golden mirror. With astonishment, fear and fear of the unknown. Elric called the name of the golden mirror.
“demo?”
Even the king’s call does not return an answer. Instead, the golden mirror moved with a clearer will. As the little boy took a step, there was a roar like a giant leveling the ground.
There is a road, so we don’t go there. Where he goes, there is a road. Instead of following the world that already exists, he cuts and fixes it to create the world he wants, and he is truly a demon.
Cheer la la rock. The world will change before the golden mirror. He takes a step, and the soil is compacted and leveled, and the rock is cut into squares and covers it. A moment of creation is like turning time backwards. Hwang Keum-gyeong, who made the main road, proudly walked ahead. Following him, the homunculus soldiers and his weapons also began to march. As for Elric, the Golden Lord who oversaw the Golden Palace.
A keepsake of the Demon God Demo, the golden mirror. It was created just before the death of the Demon God who wished to rebuild the Golden Kingdom.
