Chapter 574

Episode 574. It’s getting blurry (4)

Magic Tower.

Looking through the Magic Tool, [Old Eagle’s Monocle], I can see a thousand miles.

Bensch’s golden hair flutters in the wind.

“No matter how you look at it, it’s the same as then, Vangrit.”

Seeing the black magic enveloping the Seongseon Middle School.

Bensch said that.

I didn’t have to ask what was the same.

“Do you think Chief Lee is suffering from runaway......?”

Bensch and Vangrit.

The two had met on Jeju Island, where Paimon had appeared.

They were facing Grandfell.

His cold gaze was clearly different from his usual behavior.

Bensch couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but he spoke calmly.

“There is no human being in the world who does not suffer.”

“Well, since you say so, Senior Vangrit, I must confess, I once thought so myself. If there’s a man in the world who doesn’t suffer, I wonder if it’s not you, Senior.”

He was chatty as always.

Vangrit turned and looked.

The corners of Bensch’s mouth turned up with effort as he spoke.

“Why, it’s inevitable, isn’t it? From the moment he set foot in the Magic Tower, Chief Lee, he hasn’t paused for a single moment to look back, solving without hesitation the problems that mere mortals like us wouldn’t dare to tackle.”

A genius among geniuses.

“Because to me, it seemed as if he already knew the answer.”

Statements that would make even the most senior members of the Magic Tower held their tongues.

So this was neither humility nor sternness.

Vangrit laughed bitterly at Bensch.

“If that’s the case, I don’t think I’m qualified to speak, after all, I’m not the first senior mage to go missing during a regular conference, and not only that, I was tricked by the elders into becoming a demon worshipper.......”

Even with the benefit of hindsight.

They were all incidents that they couldn’t easily think of a solution to.

But you were different.

You.

Chief Lee.

Bensch shrugged his shoulders and continued.

“You handled all of those incidents as if they were no big deal, never once bending over, always standing upright. Sometimes I wondered if you were somehow beyond time and space.”

“......Heh.”

I see you’re making your usual nonsensical jokes.

You must have gotten your emotions under control.

As Vangrit had expected, Bensch was looking at the situation rationally.

“Which is why I’m both puzzled and concerned, Vangrit. What could possibly be driving Chief Lee to such extremes?”

“I don’t know.”

“With even Barbatos dead, what is keeping Chief Lee from letting go. Could it be because of those insignificant demons? I, a mere mortal, cannot fathom it, Vangrit.”

No, if you dispose of it.

Exploration of the Anomaly.

Vangrit had not neglected to learn about the world of adventurers.

So he had some idea of the role the school played.

Vangrit opened his mouth cautiously.

“ ... Perhaps middle school is a place that means a great deal to Chief Lee. If Barbatos found out about it, and chose that place to provoke him in the first place.”

Certainly a demon could do that.

It was a story with high potential.

Bensch nodded.

“Then perhaps Barbatos knew he was going to meet a miserable end, and he invited Chief Lee to join him. Perhaps this has all been Barbatos’ plan all along.”

“ ......! ”

Bensch added added to Vangrit, who was making a fuss.

“But even his plans are coming to an end, Vangrit. All of the world will be watching to see what our chief will do with those lumps of flesh.”

Vangrit replied impatiently.

“Uh, whatever he decides to do with them, I don’t think anyone can question Chief Lee choice, right? Senior Bensch knows that, right? That unlike possession, there is no solution to corruption!”

Bensch nodded.

“I know, and that’s why I’m furious.”

“....Yes?”

“Because no matter what choice he makes, Chief Lee will have no choice but to suffer again.”

That’s right, Barbatos.

He’d thrown a question with no right answer and damned him to hell.

Bensch clenched his fists.

His pupils seemed to burn like fire.

When I look inside myself, I realize.

If I were alone.

I realize that I couldn’t have gotten through any of the trials.

In that sense, it would have been you, Grandfell, not me, who would have been complaining, right?

‘I would have been nothing but a shackle to you.’

Maybe I was just a nagging evil spirit, nagging you to stop worrying about your tea bag green tea, but you don’t have to worry anymore, Grandfell.

I told you, right?

My specialty is understanding topics.

From now on.

‘From now on, you can do whatever you want, Grandfell.’

Whether you drink tea bag green tea all the time, or grow green leaves in Elegant Flower Gardens, I will no longer have the right to tell you what to do, Grandfell, because I’ve come to realize how insignificant I, Lee Hoyeol, am.

‘It was impossible. To me and to you.’

I know that, but please do me one last favor, Grandfell.

I, Lee Hoyeol, do not have the power to reverse the corruption of the people.

But maybe you can, right?

‘So I’m begging you.’

If it’s possible.

Forever and ever.

Because I can wait in this Infinitely Deep Darkness.

Grandfell stared at the lump of flesh.

Something that was neither human nor demon.

To Grandfell, it was nothing more and nothing less.

If he wanted to kill it.

Just with that gaze.

No, he could have killed it without even looking at it.

But Grandfell didn’t.

Because Grandfell could see a use for this lump of flesh.

Grandfell shifted his gaze to the sky.

Power, Objective Eye.

The power he had gained by slaying Barbatos.

Grandfell looked at himself in the Objective Eye.

Yes, it was fading from within.

Because it was the only way to bring back the ‘light’.

The effects of the Objective Eye pulsed through his body.

To me

.....

The power of the Ten Thrones, itself.

I don’t resist it in the slightest.

Rather, it feels like it has regained its true master.

It exerts its power with pleasure.

To the light that is firmly mistaken for something else.

It illuminates an objective truth that cannot be denied.

It was then.

My vision flickered.

[Status Abnormality, ‘Blackening’ is lifted].

It was then.

“Hoyeol.”

The lump of flesh began to ooze liquid and open its mouth.

With a slurred voice.

It began to speak with difficulty.

“Please understand.”

It was then.

The voice that echoed in Light’s head began to fade.

《Someone dies》

It was then.

“Yourself.”

‘A ray of Light’ came to realize that he was a ‘Light’.

[You had acquired the title, ‘Light’].

It was the only light.

”......”

As always, it started to shine on someone.

“!”

[Class Quest: To the One Who Will Not Yield to Malice].