<Episode 332>Apostle. (2)
My apostle.
At what the World Tree said to me, I couldn’t help but frown.
apostle?’
What does that mean? An apostle.
Are you sure what you’re saying to me is right?
“What does that mean?”
[It’s nice to meet you here.]
A ray of hope is contained in the empty and hollow voice.
The World Tree spoke to me as if it was having fun.
‘Why everyone.’
Even when I hear that, my expression doesn’t change.
Everyone did it.
Everyone who met me had a voice that seemed to express joy.
As if it were interesting, or.
The country seems to welcome the changes brought about by its existence.
‘Fuck.’
None of those things were pleasant stories to me.
That I am greeted by beings I don’t know.
After all, it was telling me that there was something for me.
I erased that kind of feeling.
I asked the world tree.
“Do you know who I am?”
Judging by the way the bastard reacted, I wondered if he knew I had regressed.
The World Tree, having heard my words, remains silent.
Puddle-
The branches move slowly and show their reactions.
[Apostle.]
“Why do you keep calling me an apostle? What is that?”
[I don’t know you, but you know me.]
I question what the guy is saying.
The three coefficients don’t know me.
I know the world tree.
The latter makes sense though.
I’m not sure what you mean by the former.
Even though I know that I know the world tree.
… .
… .
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You really don’t know me?
“What does that mean?”
[You must have gone back in time, Apostle.]
“•••!”
I swallowed my breath at the words of the World Tree.
How did you notice?
‘Was it a lie that you didn’t remember?’
It’s something that is said so casually.
The pupils are shaking.
I wondered if it might remember. Really, does this tree even remember?
[Are you curious about how I know?] “ ”
[Don’t be so surprised, I don’t know how you lived in the past.]
“Then how do you know?”
Splash.
A tree root poking out from the ground points sharply.
To be exact, it was pointing towards my chest.
[Because I can feel the traces I left on you.]
After hearing what the World Tree said.
I vaguely thought I knew how the tree noticed me.
‘Is this a trace of a past life?’
I think about it, gently sweeping my chest.
I’m talking about the traces that tree left on me.
[I don’t remember giving it to you, but it’s definitely the stigmata I gave you.]
Memories come back to me.
At the time, I accepted it in order to survive somehow.
and.
-You’re carrying around a lot of stuff.
Later, the Cheonma I met looked at me and mentioned it.
I also thought that Cheonma had erased it.
Is it something that couldn’t be erased?
[As if trying to erase, everything that has been written on the soul cannot be erased.]
“•••Are you reading my mind?”
[No way. How could I, a mere giant tree, do such a thing?]
For something like that, I felt like I could read his inner thoughts.
I feel quite uneasy.
It was put on the soul.
That’s really beggarly.
Even if it means going back in time.
Because the soul is said to be helpless.
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“•••I came here because I have something to ask.”
After putting that behind me, I had to ask.
There were so many things I wanted to ask.
There was also so much to know.
That is also the reason why I had to come to this world.
Because there were so many things that had to be done to this tree.
Indeed, can this old tree tell me a story about him?
[Question, what is it that makes you come to me?]
The voice echoes.
It was the same when we first met.
It was a resonance that I never got used to.
I tried to endure it and asked the guy what to say.
“Are you the one who made me return?”
It’s a miracle that we’ve gone back in time.
I know that such a miracle will not come to me easily.
Aside from what Yeonilcheon said, there was definitely a reason for the regression I experienced.
If someone were to intervene in this matter.
The first thing that came to mind was this tree.
“You… saved me and sent me back to the past?”
Turning back time is, in common sense, almost impossible.
If someone were to use that power on me.
It had to be something that was absolutely out of the ordinary.
When you think about it that way.
The tree in front was definitely not an ordinary thing.
He was the first being I had to suspect.
one.
[Apostle. It wasn’t me who did it.]
The world tree was not created by me, but was evaluated.
[To turn back time is to accumulate unimaginable karma in one’s soul.
It is beyond the power of a mere tree like me.]
“A single tree cannot speak. It cannot grow to be as big as you.”
[Whatever it may be, the miracle you experienced is a mini-measure that it was not done by me.]
I was about to blurt out, “How can you believe that?”
I kept my mouth shut, knowing that it would be a pointless argument.
“The one who brought me back… wasn’t you.”
[Unfortunately, I don’t have that kind of strength left. It’s impossible.]
It’s impossible because there’s nothing left.
Are you saying that it was possible because it was original?
[Apostle.]
A gust of wind blew for a moment.
[I don’t know what happened to you.]
A voice full of sadness is grating on the ears. A voice that seems to be sadly looking at me.
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I didn’t like it at all.
“Why do you keep calling me an apostle? What on earth is an apostle?”
[You have received my stigmata, which means that the past and future me have chosen you. Then you are my apostle.]
“How do I know that meeting you is the future?”
[Didn’t you come now to meet me a little earlier?]
“ ”
[I am glad. After enduring for so long, I have finally found someone who will give me the stigmata.]
It’s been a long time.
I said the same thing back then.
“You… what on earth are you?”
[Didn’t I tell you?]
I didn’t hear much about how to return to the original world.
How this world is different from the outside.
That’s all I heard.
‘He just rotted away on his own a short while after speaking, so what more could I have heard?’
The World Tree said a few words to me, just like Jang Seonyeon’s body did earlier.
It turned to dust and disappeared.
The sight of that huge tree slowly swaying in the wind and disappearing.
It will never be forgotten for the rest of my life.
[I say I am selfless.]
“I already know that.”
[The fifth world tree that came down to the world.] [The master of this world.] “Master… .”
No matter how you look at it, the world is already ruined and rotten.
“Are you saying that you are the god of this world?”
[There was a time when you were called that. Judging from the fact that you asked that, I guess I didn’t say anything to you.]
“I wouldn’t have had time to do it. It disappeared right away.”
[•••It disappeared… . Yeah.]
The World Tree’s answer to my words was gloomy.
It was a voice that made the listener feel ice cold inside.
[It looks like I don’t have much time left.]
“•••If you look at the criteria, it shouldn’t be that short, right?”
A few years here.
When I think back on a day in the outside world.
I fell here in my previous life when I was about to pass my term.
Let’s look at the calculation method.
The World Tree would still have countless hours left.
but.
[The time that humans experience is but a moment. So, even if it seems long to you, it is not that long to me.]
The three coefficients do not seem to be a very welcome story.
[So it would be even better if the apostle came to find me himself.]
“That damn apostle, apostle. It’s so noisy, why am I your apostle?”
I don’t even believe in God.
The time to believe such things has passed.
“You did that to me.”
It is a flame that will burn away the karma accumulated in the world.
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I don’t know about this world.
I knew that where I lived there was a lot of tangled stuff.
“There’s a lot I don’t know.”
It’s ridiculous that there are more truths that we don’t know even after going back.
I’m just going to lie down and sleep, pretending not to know anything.
I feel dirty because I feel like I’m somehow connected to those fucking truths.
Even if I wasn’t involved.
I felt uneasy because it seemed like people who shouldn’t be unhappy were involved.
“So tell me where to start. What do you know?”
[…]
The World Tree, after hearing my words, did not say anything.
It’s a truly uncomfortable silence.
After a while,
Puddle-
A root pops out of the ground and bends behind me.
It was as if he was telling me to sit down.
[Sit down.]
After hearing that, I sat down carefully.
[Apostle. Do you know about the master?]
“master?”
This is a story from one of the words spoken by the world’s top leaders.
He says that he is the master of this world.
[Yes, master. The master is the essence of the world. He is himself.]
“Speak in simple terms.”
[It has its own meaning. Because there is a world, there is a master. Because there is a master, the world can exist.]
“What….”
[If there is one thing that is a little different, it would be that when the world disappears, the owner also disappears, but the world does not collapse just because the owner disappears.]
I couldn’t understand the story the World Tree was telling.
Regardless of what it means.
Because I couldn’t figure out why I was telling this story now.
“•••Why are you talking about that now?”
About regression. Blood horse and Heavenly horse.
and.
Along with the disaster that Yeonilcheon spoke of.
It was in the realm of the hidden dwarfs deep in the front lines.
Even the identity of the red sphere called a seed.
I have a ton of questions to ask.
I don’t know why I’m suddenly talking about this out of the blue.
[This is what it means to be the master of the world. To be exact, it does not mean to be the master of the world.]
“Then. Does it mean something else?”
[To be exact… the master of life.]
“life?”
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[Yes, I see the master of all life that resides on this earth. He is called the master of the world. It is the meaning that life can live and breathe because the world exists and there is a master there.]
“So. What does that have to do with the current story?”
[What would happen if the master disappeared from the world?]
In the words of the World Tree.
I had the illusion that something that had been blurry was becoming clear for a moment.
[The disappearance of the owner is the same as the death of all living things.]
“what…?”
I swallowed my breath at the words of the World Tree.
“What do you mean, all life will disappear?”
The world and the master.
Regardless of whether it is a predetermined fate.
It’s an incomprehensible story.
Clearly, the World Tree in front of me now had given me a stigmata or something in my previous life, and then disappeared after leaving a few words behind.
However, the monsters in this world did not disappear.
If life had disappeared as the World Tree said, then it would already be a contradictory story.
Plus.
‘•••In the first place, there was no such thing as a master in this world…!’
As I change my mind, something comes to mind.
I looked at the three counties with somewhat surprised eyes.
As if in response, the World Tree speaks.
[When the owner dies, the living things on the land do not suddenly disappear. Normally, no new life would be born. The living things will gradually reach destruction.]
“Life cannot be born?”
[If it were normal, it would be like that.]
master.
Master of the world.
That’s a strange thing to say.
If a living thing needs a master of the world to be born and survive.
“•••Our world has no master. How is that possible?”
In the world I live in, I have never once heard of a being called a master.
If the owner doesn’t exist.
In the first place, it means that life cannot be born or exist.
The world was going well these days.
Is there an owner I don’t know about?
When such a question crosses your mind.
[We see that and call it a crack.]
The world tree speaks to me.
“Crack?,,
[It is something that deviates from the established principles of the world, so it would be correct to call it a crack.]
In a world where there is no master.
A living being is breathing and being born.
Does that mean that the world I live in now is going against the rules of the world?
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“Is that a problem?”
[If there is no master in the world, then it is an unreasonable situation, so we must create a master to fit in.]
“They make the master.”
[That is why I call it the fifth world tree.]
Because he is the fifth master to come to this land.
This means that he himself is calling himself the fifth coefficient.
“•••Then does that mean there won’t be any problems if we just wait for the owner to be born?”
The owner will show up anyway.
If you wait until then, there won’t be a big problem, right?
While I was giving that answer.
[Apostle, as I said, all life born on earth belongs to the Master.]
The world tree tells a different story as it corrects itself.
‘so.
[If there is life living in an ownerless land, and you want to create a new life on that land, do you know what you must do first?]
“What do I need to do to establish a new owner?”
The moment I frown and express my doubts.
The world tree speaks.
[That is.] [First, we must erase all life that breathes on that land. Only then can we plant a new owner.]
It was a truly terrible story.
