Heavenly Demon controls the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult again.
No, strictly speaking, she never lost control. Since Gu Seongyong’s final struggle failed.
Though the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult is still Heavenly Demon’s, she’s not holding Jeonyang’s funeral.
Strictly speaking, it seems they’re preserving the corpse wrapped in bandages until a good time for the funeral comes. Whether funeral cultures are the same everywhere, Heavenly Demon nodded without particular comment when they said to do it at an auspicious time since it’s the deceased’s final journey.
Additionally, from Heavenly Demon’s view, the place in charge of this is called the Moon Emperor Hall. One of the ten halls with names meaning Ten Symbols of Longevity that had no presence.
That’s where people who handle sorcery and rituals in the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult gather.
It’s also my target.
But I’m not expecting much. Because looking at the previous and current Heavenly Demon’s memories, the summoning method is too complicated.
If Yasle’s method is just offering people as sacrifices to summon, here you need to thoroughly manage and raise sacrifices for summoning.
Meaning it’s not a method that someone who gained special abilities despite having no power can do.
Of course, that’s just from memories seen from outside, and it might be different if actually checking the technique, but.
Yasle’s method, which is just tricky in finding vessels that can contain me, seems better for harvesters to use.
But if there’s a special group like the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult that can use lots of manpower and time, the second world’s method might be worth using too…
I shouldn’t settle for one method, and must remember to approach from multiple angles.
You never know where an opportunity to break through walls might come from.
I know if I only pursue comfortable methods, I might get stuck someday.
Anyway, today is a week since Heavenly Demon became a woman.
Soo-oh and I are living well in the small house.
When morning comes, I get up and prepare meals, wake up the child and feed her breakfast. Then I sort through memories appropriately and teach Soo-oh information about this world.
Of course there might be bias in the information since it’s based on Gu Seongyong’s memories, but it can’t be helped.
Because even combining all the external experience other people have doesn’t match Gu Seongyong’s.
Surprisingly, even Heavenly Demon has little experience going far.
We finish with that in the morning, and simple exercise in the afternoon.
I’m having her follow techniques I know that had high potential. The unfortunate point is that such techniques can only be properly used with unknown powers like magical power or qi.
Soo-oh will figure out that part herself.
I send direct memories besides just showing anyway. People with strong egos can’t receive memories I send.
Or won’t receive them.
Having strange memories enter your head is, in a way, trampling on personality. So maybe they’re instinctively blocking it.
Moreover, with advertisements mixed in, many people would try to cut it off if they could out of annoyance.
Haah.
Somehow I’ve gained many techniques, and looking at them separately they’re clearly good techniques but.
There are flaws somewhere, and it makes me sigh that there are no connection points linking them organically.
When I make someone who’s fallen to rock bottom in deep despair into a harvester, wouldn’t it be nice if they raised their technique level themselves and summoned me after?
But what can I do.
I chose power that doesn’t force my concept.
There’s no immediate benefit. Rather, it would be much more profitable to brainwash people into going crazy and program them to summon me.
But I need to look to the future.
When I enter a world that can expose my identity completely, or when such technology is invented.
I can be proud.
I don’t think no world can figure me out.
That would be arrogance.
They’ll fight on their own even without that if given power.
I believe humanity is like that.
So I give power and take warmth at the end. Of course, there might be people who never kill anyone until the end.
Most are selfish, but it’s not strange for one or two odd people to appear occasionally, right?
So even if I take a big loss looking at just that person, from a broader view I profit. Because such people are extremely rare.
How many people who’ve truly lost beloved family and lovers could lower their sword when revenge is before them?
Rather, losses occur when there are many who lack interest in others and reject others. If most of society becomes like that, the warmth contained in light itself decreases and there’s a higher chance they won’t move due to low motivation even after becoming harvesters.
I saw this directly in the second world.
Human-shaped materials raised from the start to become elixirs.
Even becoming harvesters, far from getting stronger physically, they gained the ability to die faster. Their light was small even before I made them harvesters, and warmth was even less than the light’s size.
Truly humans that are nothing but loss.
Rather, a world like George Orwell’s 1984 would be better. Because oppressed people will start shining the moment they hold hope of escaping resignation and despair.
A world like Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We isn’t good. Humans with little emotion will have little warmth. Even if they reach me through despair, it would be hard to gain the will to move forward.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is the worst. That would become a world where I can’t get harvesters.
Meaning the entrance for getting in is blocked. There’s desire there too, but it’s hard to fall into despair because pleasure is oversupplied.
A world stained with desire and greed from deprivation is better.
In such a world, people who fall to rock bottom will appear, and if they gain power, they’ll try to climb up no matter what they have to sacrifice.
Of course, if they can’t climb to other worlds, they’ll end up losing even their principal while making a fuss!
But I learned from seeing the second world.
That someday I can go to other worlds again with techniques that are neither Yasle’s nor this world’s.
If there’s a second, there must be a third.
So even if I take losses now, I invest for the future.
Someday.
When my harvesters roam all worlds and send me warmth, I’ll happily sink to the bottom!
Hehe.
Surely I won’t be cold then.
“Choseol, what are you thinking? You’re smiling with a strange expression.”
Soo-oh, who was exercising hard, suddenly came over and asked in short words while looking at my face.
“I was briefly thinking of a future full of warmth. I like warmth.”
Soo-oh tilted her head then pointed to the kitchen. Pointing at the unextinguishable flame in the kitchen. This thing.
“It’s warm there.”
“It’s a bit hot during midday.”
If it just produced flames I wouldn’t know, but it’s definitely radiating heat, that thing.
Even when I stare at it wondering if it’s strange, it looks like an ordinary flame.
However, it can’t be moved.
If you stick a branch in, the branch catches fire, but you can’t move the fire itself. And branches that catch fire go out when taken outside.
Only that space stays unextinguished.
The term “ground coordinate system” flashes in my mind but I ignore it.
I’ve thought about trying to pour water on it before, but if the fire goes out we’d have to bring firewood and light it again.
Even if I don’t know the structure well, I’ll just use it without knowing the principles since it’s convenient to use, like using a phone.
Anyway, I looked at Soo-oh standing in front.
Soo-oh is holding a branch in one hand.
Martial arts. What should I do?
She’ll need martial arts to live on, but I can’t teach martial arts.
Sending memories?
That’s just like throwing her a book and telling her to study on her own.
Moreover, what if it cuts off before sending everything? Or should I create situations where she could be exhausted and have her practice martial arts?
No. Why am I worrying about this?
She should just grow up on her own. On her own.
Whether she lives or dies, I just need to receive warmth.
Then the faded man’s memory flashes.
A weak trainer.
What?
No, certainly.
It’s irritating if my harvester is weak. Even when raising a dog, you want it to dominate others outside, right?
Just when there’s content prepared for raising a child, if she’s weak it’s like being told “you can’t do it.”
Hmm.
Think about the reasons.
Getting experience raising someone here will help when raising harvesters in the future. I learned in the first world that blindly increasing numbers causes the world to collapse.
So small numbers.
But to kill many people, elitization is needed.
“What are you thinking about?”
“I’m wondering what to do with Soo-oh.”
How should I raise her to get a reputation for raising her well?
But for me to become a professional educator is a bit…
Bothersome.
But suddenly Soo-oh dropped the sword. Wondering why she dropped it, I looked at Soo-oh’s face, and she ran to me with a face like she was about to cry.
“I want to stay with Choseol!”
I hugged her for now, but what does that mean?
Did she hear that I would abandon her?
“Soo-oh. I won’t abandon you.”
Rather, there’s a possibility that Soo-oh might leave later saying “I hate you!” when she grows up.
Puberty comes to everyone, right?
The faded man’s memory flashes of him intensively raising one character in an RPG game, then despairing when they suddenly left and he had to raise another.
Since he didn’t have children, he’s illuminating such things as memories. Haah.
I patted Soo-oh.
“Just be at ease, Soo-oh can do what Soo-oh wants to do.”
After saying that, I shifted my gaze to look at the fence that only left traces at the house.
There, a woman with blue skin is looking at me with an expression mixed with various emotions. When our eyes meet, she crosses the fence and approaches me.
“You’re just like a person.”
That’s what she said last time.
“This body is, yes.”
“Your actions too.”
If she knew my inner thoughts, she’d feel disillusionment. If she’s human, that would be proper.
Anyway, I know why Heavenly Demon came. So I just stared silently meaning she should say it quickly, and Heavenly Demon sighed softly and opened her mouth.
“We’re holding Jeonyang’s funeral. Tomorrow. Wear the clothes provided and attend.”
There’s a saying that even if you can’t attend weddings, attend funerals. I nodded. Then, I pointed at Soo-oh who was holding onto me tightly.
“Prepare clothes for her too.”
“Alright. I’ll do that.”
Heavenly Demon nodded, then having nothing more to say, immediately turned and returned to the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult main hall.
A funeral…
“Tomorrow will be busy.”
I told Soo-oh.
“Funeral?”
Soo-oh hesitantly raises her head and asks me, seeming unfamiliar with the word.
“It’s a ritual for living people to let go of dead people from their hearts.”
“I don’t really understand.”
It’s not time to understand yet.
Watching Heavenly Demon’s back where I could vaguely see what she was thinking, I grabbed Soo-oh who was hugging me and threw her into the yard.
“Eek!”
“Finish your exercise.”
Don’t stop in the middle. Even if you look at me with a face about to cry, it won’t work, Soo-oh.
In short, it’s that. That.
Member, just one more set.