In the Name of God - Chapter 53.2
“Masteeeer—!”
“Master, Master…. Shut up already….”
That’s not a title a monster like that is allowed to use.
I ground my teeth.
To completely liberate a contaminated monster from its dark energy, I had to find its central axis and destroy it in one go.
However, if I looked at its complete form, I would be unknowingly bewitched, so I had to use something else as a guide….
“Look at me while you find the central axis. You can do it, right?”
Slash— Slash—!
Lee Sunho’s blade ruthlessly hacked away at the figure mimicking that child. Every time he did, limbs were severed and reattached; the head and neck were separated and merged repeatedly.
Had I looked at it directly, my mind would have crumbled instantly. But with Lee Sunho’s body serving as a shield, the black masses flying off were merely fragments of the hallucination. That amount of visual information wasn’t enough to devour my sanity.
Finally, among the fragments Lee Sunho had sliced away, I spotted the central axis I had been searching for.
“Duck!”
I fired the moment the shout left my lips.
Lee Sunho ducked his body low as soon as my words dropped, and because of that, the black figure was fully revealed.
The black figure turned to look at me.
‘Eh…?’
Clearly, when I had lost my mind earlier, it was the shape of a child.
But now… it had the body of an adult man. Pitch black and familiar….
‘Familiar?’
But there was no time for further thought.
The revolver’s bullet pierced through the child’s—no, the man’s—left wrist.
Pop—!
A rupturing sound, like a balloon bursting, echoed out, and the black figure’s left wrist exploded. Subsequently, the connected arm and shoulder burst, followed by the chest and torso.
The black figure’s right hand, which hadn’t yet burst, reached out toward me.
“Master…. It’s so hard to wait….”
The black figure’s legs burst, and even the right arm exploded completely.
“Just… please wait a little longer….”
A desperate, mournful aura emanated from it.
In that instant, my heart felt so heavy it was suffocating.
Had I unknowingly synchronized with that hallucination for just a moment?
A voice filled with static began to flood into my head.
-Master, it’s all over now. It took seven years.
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-You’ll keep the promise you made me, right?
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-I’ll be waiting. I’ll wait quietly, just like always.
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-There’s so much I want to say. Hmm, I wonder where I should start….
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-I’ve thought about it, and I think it would be best to tell you everything step-by-step from when we first met. It will take a long time to tell you everything, but… you’ll listen, right, Master?
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-You’re later than usual. But that’s okay. You’re an amazing person, Master, so you must have a lot of things to do. I can wait.
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…-How much longer do I have to wait? I miss you…. I miss you, Master.
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-Master…? You haven’t forgotten me, have you…? Right…?
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-It’s so hard to wait…. You promised me…. Why aren’t you coming….
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-I was wrong. Whatever it was, I was wrong. So please come back. Please come back…. Please….
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-I feel like I’m going crazy…. It’s so hard to open my eyes every day….
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-I’m sorry. I miss you. I’m sorry. I miss you. I’m sorry. I miss you. I’m sorry. I miss you. I’m sorry. I miss you. I’m sorry. I miss you. I’m sorry. I miss you. I’m sorry. I miss you.
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-Master…. Please…….
…….
It was a voice riddled with noise and difficult to understand, but I think I knew who the owner of that voice was.
‘It’s him.’
The one I had no choice but to leave alone in this world—my Apostle.
I clutched my head and looked up.
The black mass, of which only the head remained, seemed to grin with its indistinguishable face.
Inside my head, the hazy voice full of static and the voice of the black figure with only a head left spoke together.
-…If you won’t come… I will come and get you.
“…If you won’t come… I will come and get you.”
-I love you.
“I love you.”
-I love you enough… to destroy this world that you wanted to be so peaceful.
“I love you enough… to destroy this world that you wanted to be so peaceful.”
With those words, the black head completely exploded and vanished.
As if it had remained until now just to deliver those words.
At that moment, I realized.
The one who called me to this world… was him.
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