Chapter 258 – Chapter 258- Secret of the Soul (5)

Soul abyss.

The place where Dayoon Chuck brought me to was full of questions.

First of all, I could tell that just by looking nearby.

A cave with soft white light and a translucent blue butterfly.

The grass, flowers, and even the bushes outside the cave were tinged with a mysterious light that was different from the usual appearance.

The lawn I saw yesterday evening, emitting a purple light in the dark.

It was a look that made me realize why the name of this place was ‘secret land’.

I still didn’t know why the ‘soul’ goes in front of this unexplored view.

A word that Chuck Da-yoon said meaningfully.

‘Butterflies are insects that guide the soul.’

Not only this, but seeing the shadow fiend that only appears in dungeons openly roaming around in the evening.

It was clear that this place held important secrets related to the spirits.

When I asked where this place was, Chuck Dayoon was silent.

Judging by the way he closed his eyes, which were a mix of scarlet and gold, he seemed to be wondering if he could tell me.

But maybe it’s because I turned a blind eye to the runaway I experienced yesterday.

Or maybe it was because he didn’t care if I said this much, Chuck Dayun slowly started talking to me.

“Hey, do you know how this world was created?”

“Yes, what.”

Chuck Da-yoon, who asked a simple question, answered right away.

“My father made it, by magic.”

“Yes, it is the product of a miracle created by your mother who transcended as a dragon and your father who possessed the magic of creation.”

Chuck Dayoon spat out these words and offered me another bowl of porridge.

“……”

Perhaps it was because he had been eating that bitter porridge since yesterday, but he expressed his intention not to eat much.

Dayoon Chuck, with his outstretched hand straight, expressed his intention not to say anything more if I didn’t want to eat it.

“Huruk.”

In the end, as Chuck Dayoon wanted, I gulp down the porridge.

Only then did Cheok Dayoon continue his speech with a strangely satisfied expression.

“By the way, have you ever had doubts about the plants and animals that exist in this world?”

“… Yes?”

Those words of Chuck Dayun were already mentioned before.

Beautiful.

A few months ago, Areumie and Merlin were entangled.

I had a conversation about this with Jihye Kim.

Kim Ji-hye had told me at that time that this world had repeated itself.

Because the animals and plants that exist in this world were created repeatedly from the beginning.

She must have grasped the truth that Ah-Reum, who died in the original world without accepting the dragon’s blood, was reborn as Are-Rei who accepted the dragon’s blood in this world.

The words thrown at me were quite familiar.

When I showed a knowing look, Chuck Dayoon nodded his head.

“Thanks to the case involving Areum Lee, I think I realized what he was talking about.”

“What is it?”

It was strange.

At that time, obviously, Dayoon Chuck didn’t even show off his nose.

Chuck Da-yoon was reading the situation naturally, as if he knew roughly what had happened to Ah-reum and me.

Is there any information book out there?

With the doubts running through my mind in a corner of my mind, I returned to my original subject.

“I know that this world has been repeated since the beginning. That animals and plants were born that way.”

As if the need for explanation had diminished, Dayoon Chuck didn’t bring up the topic any more.

It threw me another doubt.

“Then, don’t you wonder if youkai, sorcerers, and humans aren’t born the same?”

“No way.”

I got a general sense of why Chuck Dayoon brought up this story.

Why is the soul attached to the name of the mysterious soul?

When I questioned the reason, Chuck Dayoon told me the conclusion as if my hunch was correct.

“This is where their souls gather. Located on the other side of the world, the haven and resting place for created souls. That’s why this place was named the Secret Land of Souls.”

“Now… Wait a minute.”

I cut off the words once.

I needed time to organize my thoughts.

So, according to Chuck Dayoon’s words.

It was said that this place was created after the original world, and that the souls of the created humans and monsters were kept.

It’s so absurd, but it was as if it made no sense to create the world in the first place.

At some point, I was unknowingly accepting this fact.

“So, where are all those souls?”

“It’s spread all over the place. It entrusts its soul to the grass and flowers here, or it hides in the birds, and it roams freely.”

“…That too?”

I pointed to the fluttering butterfly.

Chuck Dayoon smiled bitterly and shook his head.

“I don’t know about that. Unless it’s out in the open, it’s hard for me to figure out either.”

“Huh.”

Do you have a place like this?

The more I knew about it, the more I was in awe of it.

The people around me and the monsters see my rapid growth and react with absurdity.

If they realize the truth of this world that they naturally accept.

I felt like I immediately understood why my growth was so fast.

It wasn’t for nothing that my parents were called transcendentalists.

As I was admiring the world once again, Chuck Da-yoon slightly raised his body.

“Then did you have a question?”

“Wait.”

I stopped Chuck Dayoon.

Chuck Dayoon didn’t look at me.

What I just said contained only a rudimentary explanation of where this place was.

Grabbing Chuck Dayoon, who seemed to deliberately not say anything more, I asked one more question.

“So why is the Shadow Fiend coming out here?”

A shadow fiend that only pops up in dungeons.

When asked why it came out here, Chuck Dayoon was silent.

Back.

Chuck Dayun clenched his fists, and he replied slowly.

“It’s simple, because I made a big mistake before.”

“……”

Noticing that Chuck Da-yoon’s words, speaking in a meaningful way, have subsided.

I stopped inquiring, wondering if I might have touched the yoke.

But Chuck Da-yoon looked back at me with a half-exposed face, as if he was rather curious.

“Aren’t you curious?”

Chuck Da-yoon’s eyes, which were half-red and half-gold, were fluctuating with various emotions.

It would be dangerous to go one step further here.

Noticing that fact, I just stared at Cheok Da-yoon in silence.

Then Chuck Da-yoon said to me with a strange smile.

“Thank you.”

Dayoon Chuck walked out of the cave and looked back at me again as if he had made up his mind.

“Still, to speak of the conclusion, the dungeons and shadow fiends that appeared in this world. And true blood were all caused by my mistakes.”

To the completely unexpected words, I couldn’t say anything.

“What is that?”

Watching me stammering in my answer, Chuck Da-yoon put a wedge into it once again.

“It’s true, my mistake twisted the souls here. This world was perfect, but that’s what created the stain of true blood.”

Chuck Da-yoon looked at me with a half-exposed face.

“So.”

The eyes that were filled with various emotions became empty in an instant.

“So, don’t be nice to me.”

Chuck Dayoon grabbed my wrist as it was about to reach the handle of the sword, and whispered to me.

“Even if I’m nice to you, you’ll have to hate me.”

As if telling me to keep in mind, Chuck Dayun spat out advice and walked out of the cave.

“Get some rest.”

I stared blankly at Dayoon’s back, pretending to be in danger, and raised his body.

“Ugh.”

My body, which was still not healed, was causing trouble.

It felt like I had to follow Chuck Dayoon now.

However, the porridge I was forced to feed earlier had a similar effect to sleeping pills.

A warm feeling spread throughout my body, and my eyes slowly closed.

“Shit.”

Eventually, I slowly fell asleep without being able to organize the information I had suddenly heard.

* *

Again I had a dream.

Through the perspective of staring blankly at the sky in midair, I realized that it was a dream.

That’s when I realized that it was a dream.

I was moving to a certain space.

Big floor.

Two people sitting there.

One was Hana Lee, whom I had seen before, and the person sitting next to him.

‘Father?’

He was the father he had only seen in pictures.

My father, who has black eyes and black hair like me, was pulling a cigarette from his bosom.

“It’s one.”

“Yes, Master.”

Ihaha smiled broadly at his father, who, seeing that smile, put the cigarette he had bitten on his lips back into his bosom.

“Good job.”

“… Just looking at your smile, what’s wrong with young piggy?”

My father smiled shyly and scratched his head.

Hearing his father’s voice for the first time was very warm and soft.

Let’s stare at my father without even realizing it.

Father gently stroked Lee Ha-na’s hair.

“When I leave, take good care of my son.”

“How long did you say you had left?”

“One or three days? I think that’s enough.”

At the words of her father who answered casually, Ha-na Lee had water in her eyes.

“Wait a minute, why are you crying?”

“Why, why, because I’m sad.”

“… Should I say I’m sorry?”

“Yes, of course you should.”

Below, I stared up at her father.

Father smiled and replied.

“I’m sorry.

“What is Hosang?”

Below is a whining.

So the two had a lot of small talk.

The conversation between the two of them, who usually talked about the newborn me, was interrupted by someone’s voice coming from afar.

“Honey~.”

“I have to go.”

As soon asheheard that voice, his father jumped up from his seat and greeted Hana Lee.

Ihaha also waved her hand to her father, as if telling her to go quickly, without any regrets.

Last minute.

The father, who had moved her steps towards the voice of her presumed mother, looked back at me.

“Hanaya, when I leave, you must keep the things I said before.”

“Yes, Master.”

“……”

The father took a cigarette from his bosom, took a bite, and hesitated for a moment.

“I’ve said it a lot, but it’s still important, so I’ll say it again. Never.”

My father’s dark eyes narrowed seriously.

Crackle.

His voice faltered.

“Never play it.”

Her voice was cut off in the middle, but I could hear her below.

Lee Ha-na answered enthusiastically.

“Yes, Master.”