EP.73 Homunculus’ Dilemma – Sok
Tantalus Training room on the 4th floor. There, the regressor was preparing to revive the Undead.
Even if you are an immortal who does not die even if you die, the curse that eats the body in this place where the connection with the earth mother is severed is fatal. Perhaps the immortal corpse golem that ate dozens of villages in the past could reappear.
It’s still a mystery as to where that amount of corpses came from, but that doesn’t mean we can’t leave the Undead unattended to solve the mystery.
Therefore, the regressor decided to rob the recovery item he had and restore the body by casting a curse on the arm of the Undead.
‘If I intervene and the Undead open their eyes now, it’s like getting away from the original history… but it’s already been twisted enough. It’s enough to know how the Undead were cursed.’
Finding out that undead and vampires are intertwined in this way is itself a great harvest.
If you want to dig more, you can dig it, but… In the current situation, the regressor was preoccupied with other questions.
‘What the hell is it?’
Even while making a valuable recovery medicine with the leaves of the world tree in reference to the recipe learned from Eui-seon in the last episode, the question did not go away in the head of the regressor.
‘He’s obviously hiding something. Deflecting the cherry blossoms, seeing through my camouflage, and dodging Finlay’s attack like a feat. Not all skills are normal. but.’
Her intuition told her there was something about him. Something that even she, who had seen everything during the thirteen recurrences, did not know.
but.
‘What can I say… Why can’t I feel any pressure? At first glance, he just looks like a weakling!’
wait time.
It’s a weak bone. even if it’s true Are you saying that?
‘The pace of the run is also slow. The reaction is so fast that sometimes even I am frightened, but even with that, the motion is so dull that it makes me yawn! I don’t think it’s that strong. I never showed swordsmanship. I’ve only tapped the Undead’s right arm like a rapier, but I’ve never wielded it properly!’
uh huh When Finlay hit me at the end, I really hit it with all my might. One of the Finlay teeth came out too?
You saw the best swing of your life and didn’t swing it right?
‘Ughhhh. I’m so curious that I’m going crazy I think you’ll know if you do it just once! Or even if it’s just a chance to look at your naked body!’
what the hell are you thinking
I couldn’t help but run down the hallway and opened the door before falling into more strange thoughts.
“Shay trainee. Are you ready?”
“uh? Yeah roughly.”
The regressor answered insincerely and looked me up and down. It was as if he thought that the narrowing of his eyes meant that he could see through clothes if he looked like that.
‘A low-cost shirt…. Mmm. After all, you can’t see your body at all from the top of your shirt… Damn the military. The clothing packet is useless and well made.’
Really consider yourself fortunate that people in the world can’t use mind reading. If not, you were the first to get stuck somewhere. Because I am merciful, I just read it and get over it
. I have no choice but to peek with my own eyes…’
Cancellation. I can’t get over it either.
I can’t. Before this Voyeur Regressor’s thoughts fly to space, we need to do some shock therapy.
I screamed loudly at the regressor who was still staring at me.
“Shay trainee!”
“uh? why? suddenly.”
After calling the regressor, I immediately crossed my arms in the shape of an X and shyly avoided looking away.
“just. Since it’s embarrassing, could you please refrain from looking at me with that gaze? It feels dirty just by looking at it.”
The regressor’s head creaked. This is because reason is momentarily paralyzed due to the momentary excessive amount of information.
‘…what bullshit is that? why are you blushing? What’s with that creepy posture? what? I’m embarrassed? Are you defiled by my gaze? I’m simply trying to get a glimpse of the flesh. uh? wait for a sec. Could it be that my gaze was too blatant…’
I put together the fragmented information and connected my situation with my words and actions.
The regressor who finally realized the true meaning of my words shouted in a fit of rage.
“What kind of absurd nonsense!!”
“You just saw my body! From head to toe, with lascivious eyes wanting to strip it off if I could!”
“I didn’t look at it with lustful eyes!”
“Are you sure you want to take it off? people! Look here! Trainee Shay is trying to undress me!”
“hey!”
As I ran away and shouted, the regressor instinctively followed me like a cat hunting mice, even though it didn’t even grasp the situation well.
“for a moment! stop!”
“no, I do not want! don’t come! help!”
“Stop making misleading noises!”
“Whoaaaaagh!”
When I didn’t stop screaming, the biting regressor followed closely and grabbed the angel.
‘I can’t! Let’s cut the air first so that the sound doesn’t leak out, then use our hands!’
no coward! To think that he was trying to use force in a despicable way while agitating public opinion in a fair way.
If I take a knife, won’t I lose? While running away, it stopped and turned half a turn on the spot. The regressor, who was about to slash the air and almost hit me in the chest, abruptly stopped.
“no way. Don’t react too loudly to pranks, Trainee Shay. I know you’re serious.”
“…what? suddenly?”
“You’re not really trying to steal a look at my ungainly body, are you? Shey trainees are also people with the minimum morals.”
“That’s right.”
“No matter how much you say you like men.”
“That’s not right!!”
A screaming regressor. I tilted my head and asked again.
“uh? Didn’t you say you like men the other day? And then you washed it.”
The regressor, who had been unknowingly caught on to the strange concept, could not bear to deny it.
“No, it is not! I’m not liking you! For me you are…! okay! It’s like a toilet bowl!”
“…No, that’s a bit sensational in many ways.”
“I don’t mean that! That means it’s dirty! What should I say, mistress?!”
‘Anyone passing by? You seem to care more! A stone by the roadside? There are no stones in the bottomless pit!’
“It doesn’t matter at all what you liken me to.”
“Something insignificant anyway!”
“Yes, yes. Let’s go back to the training room first, right? Shouldn’t we be reviving Mr. Rash, whom we owed for borrowing an arm?”
“Are we? You must have written it!”
I read the fussing regressor and went back to the training room.
Only then did the regressor, who was crazy about the potion bubbling in a large pot, finally remember what he was trying to do.
“Oh right! What about the Undead’s right arm?”
“Here you go.”
He handed over the flesh he had gathered in a box. The regressor checked the contents and frowned.
“Ugh. It’s terrible. This person must be the first Undead in the world to have suffered something like this.”
“Can you play it?”
“Is it possible. As long as you curse it, the rest will take care of itself even if you supply the essence of the earth… I don’t know how long that will take.”
The regressor who packed the box and set it down next to the cauldron suddenly looked around.
“What about Tyrkanjaka? Didn’t you say you would pick this up?”
“Tirkanjaka trainees are now returning to the underground armory.”
“okay? Are you tired? Well, maybe.”
“And I have a request for Shay trainees.”
At the word request, the regressor showed a puzzled reaction.
“you? What?”
“Some of this.”
I handed the prepared note to the regressor.
“I’m going to go somewhere for a while and come back, so please read it while I’m gone.”
When he finished speaking like that, the regressor had already opened the note and was reading the first sentence. The regressor, who was looking at the letter with me a little apologetically, said in a smirk.
“Your words are too slow. I should have warned you before I read it.”
“Maybe your personality is too impatient? Well, there’s not much content, so read it while you open it.”
‘what. I thought it was very important to give a note again.’
The regressor glared at me curtly and started reading the remaining half.
‘Prepare three meals for Aji. Regenerate the Undead. And never open the door to the underground armory until someone comes out from inside…?’
The content of the note is over. The regressor waved the note and asked me.
“What does the last sentence mean?”
“iced coffee. Literally. A very important ceremony will be held in there, so you must not open the door or disturb the ceremony.”
“…I hear Tyrkanjaka is now there.”
“yes.”
“What kind of ceremony is it?”
“The ritual of resuscitation of the heart.”
“Who is doing that?”
“It is me.”
Mum. The regressor who gave a small nod immediately sharpened his blade and questioned me.
“What are you trying to do?”
It just doesn’t go over either. expected
Anyway, the intervention of the regressor was expected. The regressor won’t sit still to see me and the vampire alone in an isolated place.
Aside from that, you also need someone to keep you from approaching others as you must not be disturbed during the ceremony.
Persuading the regressor is indispensable.
Having no choice, I lowered my voice and started talking.
“Shay trainee. What would you do if I told you that I would make Tyrkanjaka’s trainee’s heart beat again?”
“I’m going to declare that you’re a cheater, you cheater.”
As expected, the regressor immediately pointed out.
“Because of that dilemma?”
“…You know, why ask? you don’t even know All vampires are homunculus. The most famous type of homunculus in the world that rolls its body far and wide after receiving the blood of the progenitor instead of a stopped heart even after death.”
“So they are bound by a number of constraints. Like you can’t go against blood wine or you can’t use magic other than blood magic.”
The answer came out of my mouth. The regressor questioned me with a puzzled face.
“Did you make such an offer to Tyrkanjaka despite knowing that? Are you serious or are you joking? I’m not sure what you’re really after now.”
“I sincerely hope for the revival of Tirkanjaka trainees.”
“I don’t know what your attitude is. You must be able to believe it.”
‘…But I haven’t done anything to periodically touch Tyrkanjaka’s heart. On the contrary, he warned of the danger and even protected him from Finlay… Probably not with bad intentions. If there was, it would have moved before Finlay.’
Perhaps it was his nature, he was still sharpening his blade, but even in the midst of that, his vigilance toward me was light. Fighting with Finlay seems to have had a positive effect.
The hostile regressor told me what he knew.
With an ambiguous attitude, not knowing if it was persuasion or information.
“The moment you overcome death with magic… that’s it. that can never be undone The moment the mystery that connects life ends, the body will face a delayed death… It will disappear as dust without a chance to heal and revive. Because you can never save yourself with someone else’s magic…”
“Yes. That’s it.”
I said that to emphasize the impossible, but a regressor. Good point.
Because the clue is right there.
“The dilemma of the homunculus contains the truth that you can never save yourself with the magic of others.”
“…? Why do you know everything?”
“As the old saying goes, advice hides in warnings.”
“Aren’t you telling me to be careful with magic?”
“haha. no. What good are dilemmas and proverbs when everyone else in the world thinks as simply as Trainee Shay?”
“…Are you going to fight now?”
Of course not. i will lose
I raised my finger for emphasis.
“You cannot save yourself with the magic of others. In other words, the only person who can save you is yourself.”
“That’s normal.”
“Now I will tell you one more thing.”
I raised another finger and gave a relaxed smile.
“Among many, many vampires, there is only one that is not a homunculus. There is a being who revived a dying body with his own power, not with someone else’s power. Who will it be?”
It may not know everything, but a regressor knows how to dissolve even unfamiliar knowledge.
During the 13 regressions, the regressors who encountered unimaginable information developed the character of accepting and seeing information no matter how unbelievable it was.
“Tirkanjaka, the first vampire founder?”
The correct answer is the reward. A round of applause was given to the regressor who gave an excellent answer.
“good job. That is correct.”
“Since you moved your body when death came, it is possible to revive again…? It’s certainly not impossible. Even if one’s power is returned, it is one’s own…”
However, the regressor’s murmur was short-lived. After calculating for a long time with a dark expression, the regressor finally closed his eyes and shook his head.
“But it’s not impossible, but it’s so difficult that it’s close to impossible. Even if you return the power, the goal to return to was gone 1200 years ago. Besides, Tyrkanjaka’s power is Blood Spell. With it, I have obtained, ruled, and ruled countless things. Tirkanjaka has blurred the boundary between himself and the world to such an extent that even if he takes his heart out, there is no problem…”
Death is the thinning of the boundary between oneself and the world.
Progenitor Tirkanjaka is the closest thing to death among those who are not yet dead.
The Queen of Blood, who spreads her blood all over the world to increase her family and controls everything she touches. Perhaps no life has come closer to conceptual death than she.
That’s why the progenitor has to go back to recover his life… farther than any other being in the world.
“It won’t work.”
Even if you are not a regressor who has come back after seeing the end, you are likely to become a pessimist. Virtually Impossible That is the prospect of this plan that everyone sees.
But what about me?
“I’m going to try it. So please keep the door open in the meantime. so no one can come in.”
“…Did you try it?”
The regressor, who was trying to agree, suddenly asked with a question.
“How did you know about this anyway?”
‘It’s something I didn’t think of either, but this is a mere military instructor who isn’t even a wizard…?’
No, why is he the center of the world? Just because you don’t know doesn’t mean you don’t know everything.
Like a soul trapped in the valley of foolishness. do not correct
Recalling the old days, choose one facial expression that is as unlucky as possible and follow it. Then he threw a mocking laugh and scratched his temple.
“Only the first rank in the entire middle school military school can know that. Even if you die in elementary school, you won’t know even if you wake up and beat yourself to death.”
“hey!”
As expected, the regressor suddenly got angry and ran away in a hurry. The regressor who was holding onto the cauldron only growled and did not follow.
That should have been enough. I waved as I left the training room through the back door.
“It will take a day or two. In the meantime, thank you. Oh, don’t look too hard at the note!”
“Chit. Get it done quickly!”
After closing the door of the training room, I headed to the underground armory where the vampire was waiting.
*****
‘If Finlay had come last round, would he have succeeded or failed? From here on, it’s completely uncharted territory… But Finlay and the instructor were at odds with each other. Seeing that the war eventually broke out, it seems that the instructor failed. Heung, I’m not trusting for some reason.’
‘Then, is the attempt to revive Tirkanjaka a solution that he came up with because he felt a sense of crisis after the appearance of Finlay? It’s probably impossible… but it’s definitely not 0%. There is a possibility.’
‘If that’s not possible, but just in case…. If that’s possible, you’ll be able to pacify Tyrkanjaka a little faster from the next round. Let’s trust and watch.’
‘…what do you mean don’t stare too hard at the note anyway? Say something else that doesn’t make any sense. uh? Squeezed?’
‘…You can’t believe this bastard!’
‘Eyes that see depth. Looking at the marks pressed with this reminds me of hidden letters. Why are you putting so much effort into something useless…? Eight. Let’s read it.’
‘Don’t go to the restaurant, don’t touch me even if my condition gets weird after it’s over, and if the supplies arrive, I’ll use them on myself…?’
‘What is it? What the hell are you up to?’
