The World’s Best Childhood Friend Episode 987 (987/1020)
The fruit of God?
He shook his head in confusion after hearing the turtle’s words. He had heard of sacred trees, but he had never heard of a god.
‘Just from what I’ve heard, it seems like it’s just a fruit from a sacred tree.’
That means.
‘Was that tree also a sacred tree?’
I think the tree I saw back then was also a sacred tree.
‘what?’
It was a strange thing.
‘It was too small?’
It was too small to be called a sacred tree. Even if it wasn’t.
‘… … Where is the sacred tree from?’
Which of the five sacred trees that Noya described is this?
‘The distance wasn’t that far.’
The location was relatively close to Yawol. Of course, it is possible that Yarang carried me far away, but I decided that it was unlikely.
The reason is.
‘Time is ambiguous.’
When I was carried and moved, and when I opened my eyes, it was in its original position.
If you consider how much time has passed during that process, it probably wasn’t that long.
What this means is.
‘If that tree is a sacred tree, it will not be far from the night sky.’
If it weren’t for that.
‘There is another way for Yarang.’
The idea was that there was an easy way to move around without having to walk or run.
‘… … That’s not what’s important.’
What we need to look at now is not Yarang’s ability, but the current situation.
“Are you saying that the tree I saw was a sacred tree?”
“I heard you saw it in person. Didn’t you feel it?”
“… … Should I have felt something?”
What should I have felt? I felt a sense of alienation at the time, but that was all.
‘I didn’t feel anything special or anything like that.’
It’s just an unusual tree.
The atmosphere around me was strange. That was all I could feel.
‘Are you saying that I should have felt something more?’
He sensed something strange in the turtle’s reaction. Then he turned his head and looked into the distance.
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It was directed towards the sacred tree within the volcano.
Let’s look at it with that kind of question in mind, wondering if we can feel something.
Thump-!
“… … !”
My eyes grew wide involuntarily.
‘what?’
It felt different. Something was drastically different from what I had originally seen. The moment I looked at the sacred tree, I could feel the difference.
“Why? Can you feel it?”
The turtle asked, watching my reaction.
“… … Yes. I can feel it.”
Why didn’t I know this?
Ugh.
Phew.
The difference was clearly felt during the process of inhaling and exhaling air.
From the moment I looked up at the sacred tree, things had changed.
‘It’s clever.’
Clever and also noble.
Just looking at the sacred tree made me feel an inexplicable sense of appreciation and emotion.
It’s like witnessing a great being.
It was such a strange feeling.
‘Is that so?’
I often see people paying homage to the sacred tree of the volcano from a distance.
Not only the unmanned members of the Volcano faction, but most of the people living here were like that.
‘Does this mean that everyone else feels this way except me?’
If you were feeling that way, I understand. I understand.
‘Why me?’
Why am I only feeling this now in this situation?
I was feeling things I hadn’t felt before.
In fact, there was only one reason for this.
‘It’s that guy again.’
Eating a fruit called Shin-gwa.
The changes in my body and my current situation were the same.
“What on earth is a god?”
“Hmm.”
The turtle stroked its chin as if pondering what I said. Since it had practically no fingers, the action seemed a little funny.
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“You didn’t feel it until now… … So that too is something that happened after eating the god’s fruit and changing?”
“Yes. So, please explain to me what God is.”
What the heck is that?
“Why did your body change so strangely and why did things turn out like this?”
Wouldn’t you become a member of the Wolya tribe right away? Wouldn’t something strange happen when you look at the sacred tree?
I don’t quite understand the current process.
So I asked the turtle what to say.
“Wrong.”
He has been spitting out negativity.
“Long story. He must have said it too. This is not a change.”
“… … What is that.”
“To be exact, I guess it would be correct to call it a return.”
I was momentarily silent at the turtle’s words. A return?
He thought about it carefully and said it again.
“… … What do you mean, came back?”
If it is not a change but a return, then what has returned? When asked that, the turtle looks at Shin Noya with slightly hardened eyes.
Noya nodded slightly at that gaze.
Could it be a sign of permission? The turtle who saw it immediately tells me.
“Hey kid.”
“……yes.”
“How much do you know about the soul?”
“Are you sure you’re single?”
If it’s the soul. When you say soul, are you talking about the soul?
“well?”
There was nothing to really answer the question of how much I knew.
Because I neither know it well nor do I not know it.
If not completely, then it was ambiguous.
It’s also wrong to say you don’t know.
As your martial arts skills increase, your realm becomes higher, and you reach the realm of the mind, you will come to know it naturally.
‘Whether it’s martial arts or anything else, in the end it all has to do with the soul.’
I don’t know if they are close, but they are not unrelated. Knowing that, the answer is ambiguous.
The turtle, hearing that, nods his head again and speaks.
“God is something that corrects distortions.”
“Distortion?”
“The fact that it is a sacred tree is directly connected to the will of this world. The fruit from there will only correct the abnormality of the soul that was in your body. Do you understand?”
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“No. I don’t understand at all… … ?”
How could that be possible? I couldn’t eat it at all.
“… … .”
The turtle frowns after hearing the answer. How ridiculous.
How can you expect me to understand when you explained it so poorly?
at that time.
“therefore.”
Noya spoke to me as if he was frustrated.
“Is the meaning of the divine elixir that cleanses the soul of the dirt it has accumulated throughout its life and restores it to its original, beautiful form?”
“hmm…….”
The turtle thought for a moment at Noya’s words.
“… … Yeah. I guess you could say something like that.”
He said it with a resigned expression. It seemed like he wanted to explain something more, but he just gave up.
“ah.”
I clapped my hands at Noya’s words.
A potion for the soul. That’s what it said.
As he gained enlightenment, the turtle continued to speak.
“However, eating it doesn’t cause any changes, such as your soul becoming stronger or your power increasing. It literally just returns you to your original form.”
“No. It’s changed a lot for something like that.”
Even just looking at my body now, you can see that.
It’s also about the sudden appearance of the Moonlight Tribe and the sacred tree.
How can this not be a change?
To that question, the turtle spoke with somewhat serious eyes.
“I repeat, with God, there is nothing we can do but return things to their original state.”
“So… … For something like that… … .”
“If there has been a change in you, it is not a change. It means that your soul has become what it should have been.”
“… … !”
I opened my eyes to the turtle’s words.
Is this how it should have been originally?
That’s what I mean.
“… … I should have originally become a member of the Moonlight Tribe. Is that what you mean?”
It seemed like that. I had heard this before. It was also what Shin Noya had said to me just now.
When I mentioned that, the turtle spoke to me with a blank expression.
“It’s not like there’s anything particularly strange about it.”
“Why? Because of my mother?”
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“Yeah. That too.”
Glance. The turtle looks at Noya once more. Why does it keep looking at Noya?
I was about to spit out a word to ask about this.
“If we go by your standards, I guess I’ll have to bring back a lost soul.”
The turtle speaks.
Lost soul?
“Are you losing your soul?”
What does that mean?
Are you saying that my soul has gone somewhere?
“Why my soul.”
What’s wrong with my soul? Surprisingly, the answer to this question came not from the turtle, but from Noya.
“Yangcheon-ah.”
“……yes.”
I narrowed my eyes at Noya’s call.
The title is the problem. Whenever Noya calls me Yangcheon, it’s always related to something serious.
That’s why I’m so nervous.
“Do you remember when I said I had something to say?”
“… … I remember.”
That’s what I said when I came. I said I’d go with you since I have something to say here.
That’s why I came.
‘Is that what you were going to say now?’
It seemed like he was trying to say what he wanted to say.
So I perked up my ears and concentrated.
Okay then.
“This is a story about your mother and your existence.”
Noya speaks to me with very serious eyes.
“Do you know that your mother was a disaster to the Central Plains?”
“… … .”
He nodded with a stern expression after hearing that. I know what you’re talking about.
The blood horse was the first disaster.
My mother was the second disaster.
But.
“Does that have anything to do with work right now?”
Why is Noya saying that in this situation?
Was it really necessary to bring this up now?
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When such questions arise.
“Yangcheon-ah.”
“yes.”
“This fucking world doesn’t repeat the same mistakes.”
“He knows that too.”
He knew that he had sent his mother because the Blood Demon had failed to do so by sending a disaster to destroy the other Central Plains.
but.
“That’s right. I sent your mother because the Blood Horse failed. But there’s a problem with that too.”
“what…….”
“Don’t repeat the same mistakes. The same goes for disasters. The world probably didn’t want your mother to make the same mistakes.”
“… … But, it didn’t succeed.”
Even if you don’t repeat the same mistakes.
If it doesn’t work out anyway, isn’t it the same?
Mother did not become a disaster to the Central Plains.
He met my father and gave birth to me and Gu-ryeong-hwa.
And the central plains were maintained. That was the situation.
What on earth is Noya trying to say?
I blurted out the words with that thought in mind.
“Yes. Your mother gave birth to you. You, to be exact.”
Noya said that as if it were a problem.
“No. What’s the problem with that-.”
I had to froze as I thought of something while speaking.
And then he looks at Shin Noya with a blank face.
“… … No, right?”
Just say no.
Tell me not to hurry. I say it to persuade you.
“I guess.”
Noya ignored my wishes.
“It seems like you are destined to become the disaster of the Central Plains.”
He brought up the words I hate to hear the most.
