308 – Curse (2)

What is the most dangerous disease in the world? This varies from person to person and expert to expert.

In particular, ‘cancer’ can be said to be the ultimate disease in terms of risk alone. A disease that can be said to be humanity’s greatest enemy.

But if you were to name the worst of the worst, many people would choose one.

Dementia is best described as dying while alive.

The expression so-called senility is often used, and it causes tremendous pain and sadness not only to the person involved but also to those around them.

In particular, the disappearance of ‘memory’, which is the most important and most important thing for humans, is nothing short of a curse.

Humans are social animals, and we gain precious memories one by one, but this means that all of them will be lost.

Especially if that person is someone close to you, the mental pain is enormous. But I can’t blame you either.

A curse remains in the form of a demon that has gone beyond its worst. I don’t even want to imagine that the person I love doesn’t remember me.

“Mr. Rod. Do you remember what you did yesterday?”

“Yesterday…Nothing happened? Oh, right. I heard that a dispatch from the Gaia Church was coming. They said they were coming to inspect Sivar.”

“Then what about Brother Sivar flying through the sky with strange boots?”

“What do you mean? Did Sivar have an accident again?”

At first, I thought it was some kind of aftereffect. Aftereffects that occur as the brain recovers.

However, I was able to accept the situation through consultation with Rize the next day. A reality that I don’t want to accept.

“Do you really have dementia? You’re the president?”

“That’s right. If you reach the level of sodomy, you won’t even catch a cold…”

Other people also expressed their disbelief. First of all, given the situation, I only called close acquaintances.

As they say, those who reach the level of sodomy do not suffer from any serious disease.

Not only is there no waste in the body, but the magic power of indigo is protecting the body.

Moreover, Rod went through a transformation when he was young and grew older. The age difference between me and Rize is probably not that much.

Right now, I couldn’t help but think that the purple curse had a severe negative effect on Rod.

“You remember everyone else, right?”

“Of course. By the way, is it really true that I’m really senile? I can vividly remember what happened yesterday.”

“Do you know what day today is?”

“Isn’t it October 23rd?”

And Rod doesn’t even know that he has dementia. Even if you tell them, they immediately forget.

Dementia is severe enough to be unrecognized. No, the symptoms were slightly different to call it severe.

Rize also seemed to know this as she looked at every part of Rod’s body with a serious expression.

Them, the thing I looked at the most deeply Among the part on the side where the curse was engraved.

“Is there some problem?”

“Is it possible to circulate magical power? Please let me know if there are any problems in the middle.”

“There’s no problem…”

“I see. Brother Sivar? Let’s go out for a moment.”

“Yes…”

I followed Rize’s instructions and went outside. Rod is still lying on the bed, looking confused.

Still, he seems to be aware that something is wrong with him. Even that won’t last long, though.

“What are the results? Is it really dementia?”

“It’s not dementia.”

Rize answered Grace’s cautious question.

Just when everyone’s expressions were about to become relieved, Rize expressed an extremely negative opinion.

“But it is a curse more terrible than dementia. If we continue like this, there will be irreversible consequences.”

“Yes?”

“It’s worse than dementia?”

“Currently, Mr. Rhodes has a curse engraved not on his body, but on his soul. It is also a purple curse.”

The curse was engraved on the soul, not the body. That’s what I expected.

Originally, purple attacks often inflicted damage on the soul, not the body.

No matter how strong your body is, even if you can manipulate space, if your soul disappears, you are just a corpse.

In Soul World, this was implemented in an instant death format. Even though I got hit by something else, I dodged the purple attack.

“Brother Sivar.”

“Yes.”

“Is there anything Lie said about putting purple in the window?”

Rise asked me. I listened to that question and thought about it carefully.

The color purple once tempted me when it briefly slowed down time.

Since you can’t go back to a warm home anyway, why not go back to the past where you can’t remember anything?

I couldn’t understand it at the time, and I still can’t understand it now. So I said it without any exaggeration.

“It was such a curse to go back to the past.”

Rize looked at Rod’s room with a confused face. Rod is probably lying in the bedroom beyond the door.

With his hearing, he must be hearing our entire conversation. The problem is that after a day, you will forget it again.

“Everyone. Have you ever heard the saying that the soul and memory are one?”

“Yes. My teacher once said something like that.”

The answer came from Luna. Luna’s teacher would probably say something like that.

Rize nodded and explained in detail what situation Rod was currently in.

“Also, the body and soul are in harmony with each other. As the body grows, the soul also grows. And when the soul grows dramatically, the body also grows accordingly. In the East, this is called a complete transformation.”＜ Br﹥

As experiences accumulate, your soul grows. Therefore, it means that memory and soul are one.

In some ways, it is a philosophy close to Buddhism. It is actually true, so it is a very important truth.

In addition, there are cases where people experience so-called ‘reverse aging’, in which the body becomes younger even after going through a bone transformation.

A person’s physical prime is in the 20s to early to mid 30s. Just in time with that, your body becomes younger.

“However, the curse that Mr. Lord carries returns the soul to the past. The body is forced to return accordingly. Since the brain is also included in the body, memories gradually disappear.”

“Well, then, if we go back to the end… What happens?”

Ellie asked with a trembling voice. Everyone else, including me, looked nervous.

Dementia as a disease causes a person to die. In fact, it is a disease that destroys the brain, so death is certain.

So what is the end of forced regression that returns the soul to the past? Wouldn’t it be beyond imagination?

Rize pondered whether to say this or not, and then he sighed. The nuance is that she doesn’t want to talk about it either.

“It won’t lead to death. But… It’s actually like experiencing death. The body, including the soul, will return to its original state.”

“If it was the state in the beginning…”

“You can go back to being a fetus.”

“··· ···”

I felt dizzy and closed my eyes tightly. It is a life with limited time.

Even if I were to return to the fetus, the Lord I knew would not exist in this world.

Then there is only one hope left. It is a treatment method.

If there is a treatment method, I plan to pursue it by any means necessary.

“How to treat it?”

“The purple curse can only be healed directly by a being of purple color. Again, it must be cured ‘directly.'”

Rize especially emphasized the word ‘directly.’ Kara didn’t try to say anything, but instead she closed her mouth.

Direct healing means that the ‘descend’ of God directly coming down to this world is essential.

Moreover, Gaia is currently absent, and Gulag is not a god suitable for healing.

Worst of all, Kara may have to risk her life to make it happen in person. It has no meaning.

“······In this world, the only colors that are purple are the gods, including the devil, right?”

“No. There is a being living in the east… But it would be better for the gods not to go. The other one wanders around like a ronin, so it’s hard to find him.”

Purple is a color determined at birth. Or, by the standards of the world, it is a very foreign entity.

The purple color of the East belongs to the former, and the ronin belongs to the latter. In any case, both of them are far beyond the category of humans.

“It would be best not to give personal opinions or ‘favors’ to purple beings. You shouldn’t expect them to be human.”

“Do all purple things resemble the devil?”

“Yes. Humanity does not exist at all, and we are just beings doing our own thing.”

Simply put, all purple people are sociopaths. The type of person who doesn’t care about other people’s feelings and only cares about their own business.

It would be great if it aroused interest, but arousing interest in the monsters of the East would be suicidal.

‘Because I’m following you from beginning to end.’

You can also use this in reverse to have it face off against the purple side of the devil. However, this is a last resort.

Therefore, it is best not to have anything to do with the purple color of the East. Even Rize cannot be defeated by force.

“So you’re saying there’s no way?”

“Right now…There is no obvious solution.”

“··· ···”

“As time goes by, the condition will get worse… I’m sorry.”

Rize is not something to be sorry about. Rather, I am in a situation where I have to commit the grave sin.

Guilt weighed on my heart and my head felt dizzy. Because of me, Rod was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Even under the worst curse in history. As time passes, Rod will not remember me.

In a way, it’s like being punished. It wouldn’t be so bad to live like a sinner for the rest of my life.

‘There is a way… We have to find a way…’

Still, I don’t like it. The very assumption that Rod would leave was terrible.

Originally, he was just a person with maximum power, but now he is someone who cares about me more than anyone else.

Even though the affection became deeper, it became too deep. Every time I had an accident, they warmly embraced me like a parent.

Occasionally, if I had a serious accident, I would give him firm advice. I absolutely don’t want it to end like this.

“You said it was a blow to your soul, right?”

In a gloomy situation, Luna cautiously opened her mouth. I lifted her head and looked at her.

Luna immediately caught her gaze and rolled her eyes. It looks like he was confused for a moment.

“What else are you going to say?

“If you say something strange, I will break off your relationship.”

Everyone knows how destructive Luna’s snout is. That’s why I warned you in advance.

Fortunately, Luna seemed to have no intention of doing so and she shook her head vigorously. Still, she couldn’t help but be cautious.

“I think…If the soul has been hit, I wonder if there are any elixirs or herbs that affect the soul…”

“Herbs or elixirs?”

“Yes. Cursing contaminates the soul, right? So… What if it makes it clean like a little washing?”

“··· ···”

Everyone made similar facial expressions at Luna’s opinion

That’s right if you do that. For some reason, he said he didn’t say anything strange.

Still, it didn’t seem like nonsense, so I didn’t criticize it. As for Luna, she expressed her best opinion.

‘······Wait for a sec. Laundry?’

I felt the same way, but it didn’t take long before I felt like lightning had passed through my mind.

As Luna said, if the soul is tainted by a curse, shouldn’t she clean it?

To be more precise, it is a similar concept to booting a computer. If a problem occurs, it feels like re-initializing.

“Eh, Ellie! Book! Book!”

“Uh, huh? W-what book?”

“Herb book! Do you have a herb book?!”

Ellie ignored my urgent request but brought me a book. Meanwhile, people looked at me with puzzled faces.

The herb I want is one that exists in Soul World at least in a setting. Literally a herb worthy of a ‘legend’.

Eventually, Ellie brought her herbal dictionary and she quickly turned the pages. I clearly remembered the name of the herb in my mind.

-Palak. Palak.

Herbal dictionaries mostly consist of text only. Even if there is a picture, it is inaccurate because it was drawn by hand.

It can only be a limitation of the times. But I know the name of the herb.

Among the books Ellie gave me when I first came to the academy was a herbal dictionary.

So there can be no suspicion. Even if you get suspicious, it doesn’t matter.

Because I could have done anything to save Rod. There is only one heart.

“Woah, here! This! This!”

“Hey, calm down first…What is this?”

Ellie looked closely at the tips of my fingers with a puzzled expression.

The person who knows herbs best here is Ellie. Everyone waited for Ellie to open her mouth.

“Sehon····· Bing····· Cho? Sehon Bingcho (洗魂氷草)?”

“What does this mean? I guess it’s an Eastern language?”

“It is an herb that purifies the soul.”

“Well, then this?”

Everyone seems to have realized what I want. Just by looking at the description of the herb, you would have understood it right away.

However, when everyone was filled with anticipation, saying that things in the world would not be resolved easily, only Ellie was serious.

Ellie looked intently at the description of the herb and spoke in a somewhat ambiguous manner.

“But this herb. They say it’s an herb that only appears in legends? They say it’s discovered once every 100 years…”

“Yeah, really?”

“Yes. Besides, I don’t know where the herb is found. All I can say is that it is the world’s highest perpetual snow mountain.”

“If it were the highest perpetual snow mountain in the world…”

There is only one place where the world’s highest perpetual snow mountain is located.

“Frozen Olympus.”

“Olympus?”

“The highest mountain in the world.”

The higher the altitude, the extremely cold the temperature. Therefore, the expression ‘perennial snow mountain’ is also correct.

The top of Mount Everest on Earth is always covered with snow. Most mountains, unless they are volcanoes, are perennial snow mountains.

So there is a very high chance that Olympus will have the herb I want. Although it is a legendary herb, I feel like grasping at straws.

However, opposing opinions emerged from unexpected places.

“No.”

“Saint?”

It was Rize. She declared her disapproval with an unprecedentedly stern expression.

Everyone looked at her with a puzzled expression, and I also had an expression that I couldn’t understand.

Why is Rize not allowing it? Eventually, the reason came out of Rize’s mouth

“Absolutely not. This is a place where even I cannot guarantee survival.”

“Even the saint?”

“Yes. The height of the mountain breaks through the clouds, and the cold is the coldest place in the world. There are almost no monsters, but if there were monsters living there, it would be a disaster.”

What Rize said is right. Unless you have equipment on the Perennial Snow Mountain, your survival rate will converge to 0.

Moreover, the skill of the monsters that survived there goes without saying.

“So?”

“Yes?”

So what should I do?

“I can live.”

I survived hell.

“You just have to adapt.”

Even if it’s another hell, you just have to adapt.