Chapter 412 – [What Do You Do in the Rapture? Are You Busy? Can You Help Me?]

In the distance, someone said, kicking him in the leg.

“Wake up, Sasha.”

“Keep it off?!”

The man woke up screaming. But I didn’t feel the pain as much as I thought. No, there was no pain itself, it felt like being in a dream.

There was a feeling of being beaten, but no pain. It was a strange feeling.

The man finally came to his senses and looked around. It seems to be somewhere in the mountains, but it is a place that I do not remember even though I feel a sense of déjà vu.

“Who are you again? No, is it a person?”

The man saw the one who woke him up by kicking him. Outwardly, he was no different from a human, but if there was one feature that made him not human, it was the five horns on his head.

The five horns sprouting like a crown were neither fake nor anything, but the real thing. It can be seen sprouting on the skin visible through his hair.

“I called because I had something to say. Let’s talk slowly over a drink.”

“Ah, alcohol is good. You know something.”

I don’t know who the other person is, but I liked him when he suggested that we talk while offering him a drink.

I don’t know where it came from, but the five-horned man handed him a glass and poured a drink into it.

“For now, do you know what your situation is?”

“Me?”

The man pondered. What was he doing just a moment ago……?

“I participated in the invasion of the enemy base in China. I remember that the alter ego of the gar-something guy died while floating in the middle of the day?”

Man, Hibiki, he remembered what he did last time.

Gar-Rekal’s avatar was knocked down with a final blow, and with its outrage, the temple collapsed and lay under the rubble.

To be honest, it’s a tough situation to survive. Even if he survives in that state, he will not have a healthy body. I’ll have to do well, I’ll be half-strength.

“Looking at the dead, it seems that this is the afterlife. So, are you a Shinigami?”

“The afterlife is gone if you make a mistake here. I’m still breathing, dude”

“Then who are you?”

“Your Past Life”

“…….”

If it was another time, it would have been bullshit, but Hibiki had already heard about Yong Ha-yeon.

She even changed her name, which was Yonghwajeong, and left Earth as Yonghayeon, which is hard to imagine as her master user, Hibiki.

The original master user not only has ability and talent, but also the personality to protect mankind to the end, so becoming a master user means that he himself has the conviction to shoulder the responsibility of being the protector of mankind.

But since Yong Ha-yeon left it and left… That’s how she could be seen as a completely different person.

“I never dreamed that my previous life wasn’t human.”

“I didn’t even know that my next life would be a human.”

“What, are you dissatisfied?”

“It’s not like that, it’s because I wasn’t a virtuous person in my previous life to be reincarnated as a human.”

Hibiki took a sip of her drink. Despite the fact that it was a place where no pain was felt, the taste of alcohol was strangely felt. It also tastes good.

Then look around and look around again. If not the afterlife, where would this be?

“This is where I was born. This is the spirit world in your soul.”

“My?”

“It’s in your soul, but this is my mental world. Originally, it would have disappeared here as I erased the memories of my previous life, but it doesn’t disappear easily, and it can reappear due to various shocks.”

“I deleted it, but is that okay?”

“Hmm…That’s what you mean, just because you delete data on a computer doesn’t mean it gets erased, right? If the capacity is large, it will take time to erase it, and even if it is deleted it can be restored by other means. I think that’s similar.”

“Huh? The metaphor is quite modern.”

“I am you and you are me. If you have knowledge, I have it”

“……I don’t know?”

“I set up a place like this to talk about it.”

“Ohh”

He didn’t know what it was about, but it didn’t seem like it would hurt him, so Hibiki decided to listen in silence.

“The situation is very bad right now. You have two options here. But I will present one of them to you.”

“Why only one?”

“Because the other one is something neither you nor I want.”

The five-horned man coolly drank from his glass. And he spoke again.

“If you awaken your memories of your previous life, it means that you will not only gain knowledge, but also gain my strength. But among them, you will also lose something.”

“…You mean my self?”

Just as Yong Hwa-jeong became Yong Ha-yeon and left the earth, there was a high probability that he would become the man in front of him, not the current self.

Just as Ha-yeon, the dragon of hundreds of years, took the initiative by defeating Hwa-jeong, the dragon of only several decades, thousands of years were too long for Hibiki, who had only decades of memory, to maintain his self.

“I’m pretty smart, right? It looks like I’m smarter in my next life… Well, compared to my previous life, my body is bad. Is it because I have to struggle with my brain?”

“Why are you fighting all of a sudden?!”

“Because it’s true”

It is different depending on the environment, race, and experience in which they have lived, but the inside of the two people is almost the same. Similar personalities come from there. Because the essence is the same.

“Anyway, I don’t want that either. That’s why I’m here to talk like this to hand over the initiative to you.”

“Why? Wouldn’t it be to your advantage if you took the initiative?”

“I told you I didn’t want that”

Yong Ha-yeon and his case were different. Yong Ha-yeon was obsessed with it to the extent that he vaguely had memories of his previous life, but he was rather the opposite. There was no regret left.

Of course, it would be a lie if I said there was none, but at least the lingering feelings he left behind were settled by Hibiki instead.

“I’ve lived a pretty turbulent life. I met friends, met enemies, met nice people and met crap, but at least I can say that I’ve lived without regrets.”

“Ohh”

“Actually, it’s not like I don’t have the desire to look around the wider world. It’s a natural instinct to be obsessed with life in the first place.”

“But you’re going to give it up?”

“Because you solved my last regret. You know roughly what it is, right?”

“……….Ah”

While thinking, Hibiki remembered something.

On the one hand, he knew. It was because there was one person he was instinctively drawn to even when he felt deja vu.

“I’ve lived my life making choices without regrets, but if there’s only one arrangement left, it’s that I couldn’t make the woman I loved happy. You made that happen.”

“You…….”

“And the man she loves is you, not me. Her past life is her past life, her afterlife is her afterlife. At least I think that’s right.”

“Mizuna… Is your lover reincarnated?”

“She’s not the girl I know, either. That’s why I’m handing over her initiative.”

“Right”

Hibiki understood him. No, it can only be taken for granted that the two are different in the end, but they are the same person. It’s rather strange that each other understands each other.

The five-horned man wants to meet his lover and make her happy, but it has already been done when Hibiki meets Mizuna. He has no regrets now, and rather means that he will hand over his initiative in return for fulfilling his long-cherished wish.

“Even if I just remember, it’s thousands of years long, so it’s going to be a bit tough… Well, that’s it, if it’s me, I’ll be able to survive somehow. Are you ready?”

“Of course. What if I look down on me?”

Even if he surrenders only his memories obediently without a fight for initiative, the danger still remains. Decades of memories were nothing more than straw to drive thousands of years of vast memories.

But now I have to try something like this. In this place, the spiritual world, he is fine, but in reality his body is in a state of disrepair and is on the verge of dying.

I’m going to die anyway, I’m going to collide with the judges!!!!

“Then hello. Me”

“It’s not goodbye. Are you together?”

“Bastard, how do you get a form with the words I heard somewhere?”

A man who had finished his last task and completely abandoned his lingering feelings… No, the ghost king, Shuten, looked up at the mountain with a faint smile on his face.

He took the last view of Mt. Oe (大江山), where he lived, and calmly accepted the end.

“I’m leaving without leaving any regrets or lingering regrets. It was a wonderful life.”

His mental world began to scatter as powder.

*        *    *

The base of the enemy species that appeared in Beijing collapsed, leaving only the remains of what used to be a temple and the corpses of the enemy species overflowing.

Most of the enemy species have been cleared, so there is no threat, but the cleanup of the building remains is still in full swing.

In fact, it is a more difficult task than dealing with antagonistic species. It was only necessary to kill the enemy species and remove the corpse, but the collapsed temple remnants were carried out at a relatively slow pace due to the risk of secondary collapse.

And underneath, in the depths of thousands and tens of thousands of tons of rubble, Hibiki’s battered body made a small movement.

Slowly but surelyhehears something shifting inside his body.

Awesome! Wood Deuk!!!!

No matter how much Gaia Force remained, Hibiki’s body was at a level close to being impossible to revive. It is all the more so because the last blow of Gar-Rekal’s avatar was gnawing away at his body with a thick magno-leton dwelling there.

A few days had passed since then… The body, which had been waiting to die without eating, drinking, or receiving treatment, began to slowly change.

If it is impossible with Gaia Force, you can accept other powers and evolve them.

Hibiki’s previous life, the demon king Shuten, is a monster, born from negative human emotions, so there was something in common with Magno Reton, who now eats away at his body.

Magnoleton, based on the concept of ‘denial’ and the demonic spirit of a youkai derived from negative power.

Different but similarly usable. Just like Yong Ha-yeon used Gaia Force as an internal air force and used similar powers.

“Keuk”

The process of the body twisting and regenerating into life is extremely painful. It feels like being stabbed with a needle directly from the nervous system.

While enduring it, his body realized that Hibiki’s body was no longer enough. And to make up for that, they brought in the bodies of enemy species and force users buried nearby.

On the one hand, it was like an act of giving up being human. But it doesn’t matter. After all, even if you survive as a human now, you won’t be able to survive.

What he needed now was a strong body that could survive and fight here and now. For that, I had to do something unethical.

Wooddeuk!!!

Eventually, the corpses around him merge with his body. If you look closely, it was a sight that had happened somewhere before.

It was similar to what the boss of the terrorists did as a last resort when the worst went to England to stop terrorism a long time ago, no, a long time ago, a few months ago. The case where Raph Energy and Gaia Force were fused to become a new race that was neither an enemy nor a Force user.

However, if there was anything else, the power that was now dwelling in Hibiki’s body was Magno Leton, not Raff energy. The power of Tiv civilization, which has an absolute advantage over enemy species even if it has only a small amount.

Soon, his body stabilized. Gaia Force and Magno Reton were harmoniously integrated into the perfected body, resulting in a new ability.

Poududeuk!

However, as a side effect, the symbol of being non-human sprouted from his body as he contained a non-human magno-reton in his body. Like the ghost king Shuten seen in the spirit world, five horns grow on its head.

“Whoa, whoa…”

He sighed and Hibiki opened his eyes. And he perceived himself stuck in the very narrow ground, unable to stand up.

If it wasn’t for that much, the claustrophobic patient would have been squeezed into a space narrower than the coffin in which he would have had a seizure.

“I’m sorry if there are people!”

Hibiki clenched his fist and swung it.

Thousands and tens of thousands of tons of rubble and soil on top of his head soared like a volcanic eruption.

Fortunately, there was no one above his head because he was away from the place where he was cleaning up.

Kwa Kwah Kwaaaaa!!!!!

And the light is visible through the dust. Hibiki climbed to the ground while enjoying the sunlight she hadn’t seen in a while.

He was no longer Hiei Hibiki, the master user [Shutendouji].

“Uuuuu?! What is it! Who is it!”

“Hey, do you have a walkie-talkie?”

“Who, who…… Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh! Hibiki-san!!!!”

A soldier standing guard nearby is startled and frightened. It is safe to say that there is no one who does not know the face of the master user unless he is very interested or has been away from the world in a remote area, so he recognized Hibiki at a glance.

“Let’s borrow a vehicle for a while. I’ll make sure to send that bastard from America to America.”

He returned as the demon king Hibiki.