Episode 443:
The possessed person who was staring at Lee Jae-heon’s face muttered softly.
“You’re less surprised than I thought.”
“I’m surprised.”
“Even considering the captain’s poker face, there seems to be little surprise.”
“I find that surprising, too.”
“Did you actually know all of this?”
“You might know, just not now.”
“Maybe so.”
The possessed person nodded and continued speaking.
“…I wanted to at least see the captain’s body. So I searched hard, and as it is a ruined world, if you search, you will find something. In the process, I also found traces of my wife.”
“That’s amazing.”
“You know the Information Management Department, right? This is a group where the best at hiding are gathered. I looked around there, and I guess that’s where my wife’s information came from? Moreover, my wife was caught stealing God’s power. “I’ve known you since you took over, but you’re really not an ordinary person.”
“There’s something about that person that just calmly stabs people in the back.”
“Whether God is really just a writer or something, to us he is like an omnipotent God. But the ability to write was taken away from that god. “This is another world and novel that was created with the abilities that were stolen…”
Lee Jae-heon continued.
“This 19-year-old impoverished survivor that we are in?”
“That’s it.”
The possessed person shrugged his shoulders.
“As soon as the story ended, I was in a mental state because God had abandoned us. There are a lot of people who want to do something if they die before I can finish taking care of my mental head. Some of them went on an adventure to end their lives with the ‘death’ created by the rebels, some took advantage of this opportunity to build a new government, and others…” “Who?
”
“I went out to meet old friends. In my case, it was the captain, and even if it wasn’t me, there were several people who went looking for the captain. “Now that the ‘role’ is over and the ‘story’ is over, I was hoping that my precious person would suddenly appear behind the curtain of the finished play.”
“Huh…”
“I only found out that the dead people were really dead, but I was lucky. Captain, you were reborn in this world through your wife’s arrangement. In this case, I don’t know whether to call it possession or reincarnation.”
“I’m confused about that too.”
“That’s sly.”
The possessed person smiled lazily.
“The captain was a villain. A villain whose character breaks down and even kills his wife. The story of a son who is disappointed by his father and scatters away, turning this damn world upside down… To be honest, it wasn’t that interesting. “I would say it’s too inefficient.”
“I agree.”
“In the end, was it your destiny to fall at the hands of your son? My wife realized this while stealing God’s power, and she was very displeased with it. “You must have felt a sense of betrayal when you realized that this world was a fiction?”
“I felt betrayed…”
“So I created a world where my family could live happily, but unfortunately, I was caught by God in the middle of the theft. The alternative my wife chose was to make the world she created before her death more cruel and complicated. “So that the god or administrator who later came after him to regain his stolen abilities dies in the world he created…”
Lee Jae-heon tilted his head towards the possessed person’s intoxicated face.
“You describe a fairly explicit emotional state, considering what you found out through simple research.”
“I met my wife on my way to this world.”
The pitch-black pebble-like eyes are bent.
“What was it? I remember being underwater somewhere. “He still hates me.”
“I hate you too…”
“Ma’am, you don’t have the ability in this world to possess someone from the original world like me in this novel. If there is, there will only be one captain. So, all the possessed people you have met so far are the work of the manager. “To kill the captain and disturb his wife.”
“Is our perverted bastard also a possessor like the previous ones?”
“Yes, me too. Unlike the previous guys, I only met my wife once. “I am different from the guys you met.”
The possessed person smiled brightly.
“I love you, Captain.”
“….”
“My love was so great that I had to forget your name just to see you, and I would rather die loved by you than take on new power in a destroyed world. That’s the difference between those idiots and me. “My wife knew that too, so she met me instead of other flies.”
After completing his explicit confession of love, the possessed person continued.
“The captain looked so lonely when he died.”
“Because it was fate.”
“Punished as a villain and discharged according to his life span and role. In the end, the captain’s last death was when he returned to his old home, where no one was around, to erase the traces of his family, and to die regretting the past. “God did not decide the ‘family traces’.”
“yes.”
“Ma’am hoped that when you escaped your destiny, everything would end and you would come to the world she created. “I think that’s probably what happened.”
“….”
“I failed.”
“failure?”
“That was the result, right? “The captain who was actually brought in was not as perfect as my wife thought, the manager’s interference was stronger than expected, and the captain only gave affection to the typewriter… There were several reasons.”
The possessed person snorted and said.
“Thanks to you, I had a chance to meet you, Captain. “Who should I thank for this?”
“…Do you know exactly why it failed?”
Jaeheon Lee thought of a police officer who resembled a snake. A prototype that must have been rolled out before me. The guy who was already speechless recently became so incoherent and couldn’t see well that I couldn’t get any information from him. I knew how that guy died in the past, but I didn’t know what the real circumstances were.
Fortunately, the possessed person seemed to know the situation.
“I know, your wife is so angry. We chatted a lot behind each other’s backs. And it’s a burden for me to tell you about this situation.”
“Did you become possessed as a subordinate of the manager?”
“It was a possession that did not reflect my wishes, but I am still at the mercy of the manager. I’m able to tell this openly thanks to my wife stopping me, but it’s difficult to say the least. Nevertheless, with all my love, let me tell you the situation…”
She rolled her eyes.
“I guess it’s largely due to the Captain’s affection for the printing press of this world, right? “If you ask why the first captain failed.”
“Is it because of affection?”
“I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was the decisive cause, but I heard that the fact that the first captain began to harbor feelings for people around him or the young and weak had a big impact on the failure. “I guess you have become soft as you live in a soft world and live with soft people.”
“….”
“To explain the overall context, first of all… with the authority of my wife, who is the god of this world, the manager possessed the body of some human trash.”
The possessed person continued speaking step by step.
“I couldn’t have survived for long with that body. By the standards of this world, the manager is crazy, so you never know when he might get eaten by the underworld and be killed by his wife. Oh, you know what? In the underworld, the power of the wife is very strong. So, if a manager enters the secret world, he or she dies.”
“….”
“Besides, I felt like a loser in life. How desperate it must have become to possess a body that was socially marginalized. “I came to get my abilities back from my wife, but I was demoted from being the main character to not even a third-rate extra. My abilities are sorely lacking compared to what I originally had, and my possessed body is so miserable that I can’t get help from anyone…”
“….”
“In the meantime, if you look closely, you see that the first captain has given affection to the printing press of this world? He also brought in a cute junior, and he must have been thinking of his children, so even the children passing by said they were just as pretty. “They say it has become softer than what it originally looked like in the world.”
The possessed person stared at Lee Jae-heon and continued speaking.
“Compared to the original world, the first captain’s physical abilities were not far behind. “A manager possessed with an insignificant body can’t attack the captain directly, right?”
“So…”
“They say he went around killing children who were not related to him or around him.”
“aha.”
Lee Jae-heon let out an exclamation with a calm expression on his face, and the possessed person laughed.
“I lured the captain.”
“…No matter how weak your power is, you will be able to use your power as an administrator if you contact him directly….” “Because the
first captain still had a connection with God in the first place. Through that part, the manager tried to regain his strength and, if possible, even took the captain’s body. Fortunately, the latter failed, but the former achieved some success. “That was the beginning of the problem.”
“It’s a pain in the ass.”
“Even if he hadn’t given affection to the printers, the manager wouldn’t have targeted them, and the captain wouldn’t have had to commit murder to stop the manager.”
Even if you are possessed by a miserable body, your career as a manager will not go anywhere. It wouldn’t have been difficult to kill dozens or hundreds of the inhabitants of this soft world while avoiding the attention of the police. Both the manager and the snake police knew it.
The prototype quickly tried to kill the manager to prevent it. Because we don’t know how many people will die during the delay.
“…If I go out to kill him myself, he will willingly show himself, and then it will become easier to kill the manager… As a prototype, I guess I couldn’t not go out. “I also want to protect the cute prints.”
“That’s it.”
“I guess this is what a total crisis means.”
As a result, the snake police were not robbed of their bodies, but that did not prevent the Administrator from regaining his strength. No matter how much things around them had changed, managers were managers and poisonous snakes were poisonous snakes. Attacking the manager, who was clearly a higher-ranking being than the viper, would not have had much effect.
The possessed person blinked a couple of times as he watched Lee Jae-heon organizing his thoughts. A woman with short hair who was rolling her black eyes as if checking something continued.
“So, please be careful of the people around you, Captain.”
“hmm?”
“The previous captain failed because he was too devoted to the inhabitants of this world. “It would have been better if you didn’t care whether such typefaces die or not.”
“….”
“That’s not the only problem.”
The possessed person said, tucking his hair behind his ear.
“Have you ever felt like you were not complete? What can I say, I think that compared to the first captain, it is empty here and there and is very poorly composed.”
Why not? Immediately after recalling my past life, I have been constantly worrying about my self-identity when it comes to forgetting it. It may be funny because it is a problem similar to that of teenagers and adolescents, but the big challenge was that it was not funny at all.
Looking at Lee Jae-heon, who nodded in approval, the possessed person continued.
“…Madam only noticed the problem right after the first captain was brought in. “Unlike him, who gained authority beyond common sense by stealing the powers of God and many powerful figures, even after becoming the police of this world, the Captain was still treated as a resident of the original world.”
“What does it mean to be treated as a resident of the original world? “Is there a visible impact?”
“You were given a destiny by God. This means that you belonged to that god even when you came to this world. I think the manager was trying to do something to you by digging into the connection between the captain and God. “I don’t know the details either.”
“….”
Jaeheon Lee sighed.
“It’s getting bigger and bigger….”
“Right.”
“So what’s next?”
“When my wife realized that the first captain she brought in was a ‘failure,’ she created a new captain.”
“That would be ‘Lee Jae-heon.’”
“It is a new body that is not tied to the fate of the original world. I heard that the first one, the captain, was also preparing to move there. However, in the process, the first captain I mentioned just now failed.”
“…To sum it up, the very existence of the prototype was a failure, so we created ‘Lee Jae-heon’, but in the meantime, he couldn’t stand it anymore and got into an argument with the manager, causing a new failure?”
“I guess you could say so.”
Jaeheon Lee thought for a moment and asked.
“Is it the same problem that my memories are empty or distorted here and there?”
“Originally, the first captain should have been completely transferred to ‘Lee Jae-heon,’ but as I mentioned earlier, the manager had a hand in it and caused the problem. Things were messed up to the point where the memories of the previous life were not completely transferred and the first captain’s personality was completely excluded. Moreover….”
“Since the personality of the ‘old man manager’ still remained in the body, the personality of the past life that had awakened was also mixed in here and there.”
“It seems that because of that, the first captain was not accepted and was wandering around in the form of a ghost.”
“Do you admit that I am not guilty at this level?”
“I guess…?”
“I’m going to be amazed.”
The possessed person who was examining Lee Jae-heon blinked and said.
“Captain, do you remember what the novel in this world was about?”
“…I can barely fly, but why?”
“Think carefully about whether that is true. “My wife said that she went through several revisions and that a lot of things changed while she was in this world… and that there may have been some confusion while she was mixing swords with the administrator.”
“….”
Those words reminded me of the first time I went to the other side of the world.
‘Was it when Ha Seong-yoon got his eyes?’
A sculpture of a snake climbing a tree. The part that the author testified about was clearly said to symbolize a small lake without any function. What should have been no power at all turned Ha Seong-yoon’s eyes into a transparent glass color.
It was said to see a person’s ‘death’. At the time, I felt strangely disappointed as I thought about whether Mana had lied to me or made fun of me about my work, but…
“…that’s how things have changed.”
In any case, if the setting of this world has been changed for practicality, then what is Ha Seong-yoon? After thinking for a while, Jaeheon Lee was able to quickly figure out the answer. Ha Seong-yoon was truly a type created by God. The setting created on the statue that had no function proved it.
Jaeheon Lee covered his eyes with his hands.
“….”
“Captain?”
“Wait a minute, I’m dizzy right now, so please be quiet.”
“Why are you saying this?”
“Fuck, really…”
What would happen if a man who was already blaming God found out about this?
He was Lee Jae-heon’s colleague and to God, he was my mana.
“It’s hard to make a living.”
What a gem of a life.
(Continued in the next part)
