Absolute Regression

Episode 94: Because we know, we fight.

Before going to meet the Extreme Evil Demon, I stopped by the Blood Heaven Demon’s residence. I had something to check with him.

Hyeolcheondoma was sitting by the window, reading a book in the warm sunlight.

“You really read books on a regular basis.”

“You’re bluffing. “When I hear your footsteps from afar, I run to the bookshelf.”

he asked, putting down the book.

“What brings you here?”

Instead of going inside, I stood outside the window and spoke to him.

“I came to ask you about a person.”

“who?”

“Do you know about Extreme Soma?”

At that moment, I felt the Hyeolcheon Doma startle.

“Why are you asking him?”

“I was wondering if they would draw him to our side.”

Hyeolcheondoma’s expression frowned slightly.

“shit. “It’s like a woman with a dirty mouth.”

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t act like a fool.”

Hyeolcheondoma was so perceptive that he noticed that Ilhwageomjon had mentioned that fact. Since he wasn’t the type of person to go around talking about this anyway, I spoke comfortably.

“It was Geomzon who told me that it was not he who persuaded me in the first place, but the elder. “For the elderly.”

“It’s not for me. “It’s because I have moral insularity.”

“If you know each other so well, why are you fighting so much?”

“Where were strangers fighting? So, let’s fight.”

I couldn’t refute this, so I burst out laughing.

“So what do you want to ask?”

“How did you convince Extreme Soma?”

The reason I met Hyeolcheon Doma today was to ask that question.

Then a surprising fact was revealed.

“He came to me first.”

“Extreme Soma came first?”

“okay. “Do you think I would have gone to that unpleasant guy and asked him for a favor?”

“Senior Geomzon is wrong.”

“What did you say?”

“I said persuasion would have worked because they were the same villain.”

“what? Are you uniting me with that guy?”

Hyecheondoma was upset and jumped up.

It may seem like I’m telling you for nothing, but this is also part of my effort to reconcile the two.

We have to keep mentioning each other like this. We are not forgetting each other. They still hate me. This way, when the opportunity comes, all these pieces will be able to come together and make peace. There is no reconciliation that happens suddenly one day.

“What conditions did you put on?”

“He said he would give me a blue line and ask him to help me later when I ask for help.”

“Did you accept it knowing what you would ask for later?”

“I’m going to ask for something for me. “If you ask me to do something ridiculous, just don’t listen.”

“Why don’t you at least show me some condescension? Because of you, I have a debt to pay off. What should I do? “Why were you just there?”

“What condescension!”

When I first saw him, Hyeolcheondoma was a very calculating and meticulous person. A person who seems like he will pay all kinds of condescension and accept it all.

However, when I opened the door of my heart and entered, there was another blood vessel. A man who enjoys reading a book in the sunlight, throwing away anything condescending.

“You have to show respect for the elderly so that the other person knows.”

“You don’t have to know. And it didn’t feel like he was helping me with this to ask me for anything in particular. “Do you really need Extreme Soma for me?”

Hyeolcheon Doma looked at me with an expression that said, “That’s not true even if you look at it.”

If that hunch is right, why did he help us?

“Anyway, thank you. I will go see Extreme Soma.”

As I said goodbye, Hyeolcheondoma reopened the book he had closed as if he had been waiting.

“Aren’t you worried that I’m going to meet Extreme Soma?”

“who? you? Or Extreme Soma?”

I smiled and turned around.

After leaving the abode of Hyeolcheondoma, I headed to Akingok (惡人谷), located in the northeast of Naewon.

Akingok, as its name suggests, was a valley.

It was not a natural valley, but an artificially created valley, and along the stream there were large and small shelters lined up on either side of the stream.

Although it appears to have been erected irregularly in a random place, it was a type of fortress built with thorough planning in response to external invasions, in line with the skills and status of the insurgents.

At the entrance to the Wicked Valley, I was informed that I had come to visit the extremely evil Soma, and a masked visitor wearing a white mask guided me.

The underlings of Extreme Soma are called the Faceless. They all wore masks, which were white masks with only eye holes.

The eye sockets were shaped like a smiling crescent moon lying down. The eye sockets were smiling, but the real eyes inside were not smiling, so looking at the mismatched mask gave me an eerie feeling.

In the deepest part of the valley was the abode of Extreme Evil Soma. The building was modeled after a white mask. There was a single window where the eyes were, and it appears that this may be the abode of the extremely evil Soma.

Feeling like I was being swallowed by a diabolical soma, I walked into the mouth that was not on the mask.

As I went up the stairs that went round and round, I found Extreme Soma’s room.

The moment I entered his room, the feeling I felt was eerie.

The walls on all sides and even the floor were painted white, but there was nothing in the room. There was no table, no cabinet, not even a chair or cushion.

In a space where there was absolutely nothing, there was only Extreme Soma standing there.

He was looking at the wall, wearing a white robe, and if it weren’t for the black hair that was visible on the back of his head, he was so absorbed in the space that you wouldn’t even know he was standing there.

Even after I came in, he was still looking at the wall, so I walked slowly and stood next to him.

“What are you looking at?”

Extreme Soma turned his head towards me. He was wearing a white mask like a masked stranger, and his eyes were clear and cold inside his smiling eye sockets.

The specially made mask of Extreme Evil Soma was made so that his eyes could not be seen from the outside, but my divine eye technique allowed me to see his eyes clearly through the darkness.

Finally, Extreme Soma answered.

“I wasn’t seeing anything.”

His deep, deep voice was pleasant to listen to, and his tall stature and long limbs gave the impression that he was tall. And he was polite, not befitting the name Extreme Soma.

He was so polite yet creepy that he gave off this kind of feeling.

“long time no see. “Elderly.”

In fact, you could say that this is my first time in this life. This is my first time meeting you in person, other than seeing you from afar at an official event.

“You mean you are an old man? “I am still young, so please treat me comfortably as a friend.”

“How many people have been deceived by those words and left this world?”

Extreme Soma laughed. As his name suggests, he was a person who laughed a lot.

“What about Lee Gongja? Are you usually deceived? Or do you tend to cheat?”

“If I had to be honest, I tend to pretend to be deceived.”

Extreme Soma laughed out of habit.

“Isn’t it difficult to always smile like that?”

At that moment, something came out of his eyes from the gaping hole.

“Why is it hard to smile?”

“I thought it might be harder to laugh than to cry. “It’s easy to live crying, but it’s difficult to live smiling, isn’t it?”

“Finally, someone who understands my hardships has appeared.”

Still, he laughed again. This time he laughed loudly and exaggeratedly, like a street actor.

I don’t believe in his laughter.

That smile is like a tentacle attached to the head of a fish living in the deep sea. If you get distracted by the colorful tentacles gently waving, you will soon find yourself being sucked into a large mouth.

It must never be forgotten. I’m not smiling because I like you.

“Why did you come to see me, Gongja Lee?”

I couldn’t reveal that Ilhwa Geomzone broke the rules and told me the details of the vote.

“You’ve never had a conversation like this with an elderly person before, right? So, I came to see you to learn what kind of person you are. To be honest, I came here with the hope that you would support me, not my brother.”

“Shall we walk for a while?”

Extreme Soma slowly walked along the white wall.

“When I organize my thoughts, I walk like this.”

I also walked after him. The string that held the mask swung loudly on the back of my head. No one in Moorim could untie that knot, which could be undone even if a child pulled on it.

He said as he walked.

“If you answer one question, I will think positively about supporting a scientist.”

“Please speak.”

“How did you kill the Subsoul Mazon?”

He asked this important question casually, and I followed him and answered calmly.

“I didn’t kill the Soul Mazon.”

“no. Obviously you killed it. What I’m curious about is not whether he was killed or not. “How did you kill him?”

He was convinced that I had killed him.

“I will keep this a secret from anyone else. Just tell me. “I’ll give you another vote like I did for Cheongseon.”

“I’ll say it again, I didn’t kill him.”

Then, Extreme Soma suddenly stopped, turned back, and walked towards me with long strides. He came up to me and held out his hand.

“Let’s be friends.”

I know very well that he is a person who behaves unexpectedly like this.

And this is the second time I hear this from him.

When I returned to our school to look for materials for the Great Recurrence Method, I came into contact with Extreme Soma. He said the same thing to me back then.

“I don’t like it.”

“Why don’t you like it?”

Because everyone who became friends with him is dead. Except for one person.

“There are three reasons why we can’t be friends.”

“Oh, are there three reasons?”

He actively showed his curiosity.

“What is the first reason?”

“If we stay as friends, someday I will make a mistake. A comfortable mind will eventually lead to rudeness. Respect will prevent me from making mistakes.”

“What if I make a little mistake?”

“That’s right, as long as the opponent isn’t an extremely evil Soma, it’ll be fine.”

Extreme Soma laughed loudly.

“He’s a more interesting person than the rumors about our scientist. “Then what is the second reason?”

“Because Nether Footnotes and Extreme Soma do not go well together.”

“It is said that evil and good are like two sides of a coin. “Learning evil from me will help you preserve good.”

“That word was probably made up by the evil side.”

“What does it mean?”

“How can good and evil be as close together as the two sides of a coin? Evil would be at the bottom of the bottomless pit, and goodness would be at the top of that high mountain. “It is probably just a word made up by evil people to justify themselves.”

Of course, what he said earlier is a metaphor used to mean that good and evil can coexist within a person. But I deliberately kept them at a distance, talking only about good and evil.

“Then you will think that I am a hypocrite.”

“It can’t be. “How can a person who proudly attaches evil to his nickname be a hypocrite?”

“So you think I’m cool?”

“Evil can never be cool under any circumstances. “The only time evil is cool is when it overpowers other evils.”

he laughed. He laughed, but his eyes were cold in the eye sockets. If it weren’t for Shinansul, I wouldn’t have known.

It’s amazing that someone can smile so excitedly and have such sunken eyes.

“The rumors were true.”

“What rumor are you talking about?”

“The rumor is that Lee Gongja has become a stubborn and stuffy political slut.”

“If you feel that way, it’s probably because of this. At some point, we became worse than those stubborn and stuffy political faction brats. So, I think I’ll try to correct it now.”

Extreme Soma, who was laughing softly, asked.

“Is this the new magic that Gongja Lee dreams of?”

“You could say so.”

“Then you can never coexist with me. “I will continue to support the Archduke.”

“I guess it can’t be helped. “Then I’ll just head back.”

I bowed politely and turned around.

Then he asked from behind.

“What is the third reason?”

I stopped walking toward the door and turned to him.

“I am not friends with people wearing masks.”

It was a moment when he should have laughed, but he didn’t.

I saw.

Although he didn’t laugh out loud, his eyes were smiling in their sockets. It means he’s really angry.

Until now, he has never taken off his mask in front of anyone. Therefore, of course, no one has seen his face under that mask. No one knew what he looked like or how old he was. Taking off your mask is a taboo and disgusting.

But even he showed his face to others only once in his life.

To me before my return, who came to get Dafa materials. To me, the only one who survived even after becoming friends with him.

I saw the face behind that mask.