The Returner
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Pain is strange.
Humans think they know about pain, but only a few truly experienced it.
That's why people don't know.
How much pain can make a human being miserable.
Humans do not die from suffering, they choose suicide to escape suffering. The most frightening situation for man is the agony of choosing death itself.
And now, Michael was deeply moved by it.
Wood Duck!
The stubborn tooth breaks out. The rope falls to the ground, but Michael doesn't even know it.
He was overcome by pain that I had never imagined.
I want to let go of my neck and scream and cry and hang, but even the pain that was so great would not allow me to move his body.
All the bloodlines of the eyes burst and the world turns red.
The fingernails of his clenched fist were breaking apart as he couldn't tear the flesh.
Michael had never imagined that humans could feel so much pain.
And I found out.
Lee Hyuk hasn't been pushing himself.
He was really giving it as much as he could.
“Shhhhh... ”
I couldn't tell if it was screaming or if the body that couldn't endure the pain was screaming.
One thing was certain... that if this pain persists, there was a high chance that he would die of shock.
I can't do that.
I never wanted to die like this.
You try to brace yourself to resist, but not a muscle.
The viscera is dislodged and blood bubbles are pushed from the neck.
My body is ruined enough to die, but I don't die constantly restoring my body.
I can't die, I can't survive.
I could just feel and feel the pain constantly inflicted on my body that was out of control.
Is this what hell would do?
Michael was going through hell alive and in clear consciousness.
Pain drives pain and endlessly torments him.
‘Ahh... ’
I have no thoughts in my head.
I don't know if it's the pain or the shock that destroyed my brain. I'm just dazed.
At that moment, I heard a vivid voice in his ear.
“Don't be an idiot. ”
“Ugh…. ”
It's Lee Hyuk's voice.
Stupid?
What do you want me to do?
I'm not doing anything.
It was then.
There is a vivid feeling of the trunk of Mana flowing through the pores of the body. I feel a rush.
I feel it.
The Mana that flowed outside...
Mana is staying around his body....
And…….
I can feel Mana filling the world.
Like air, Mana was full of the world.
Joy.
Michael can be found in pain. No matter how hard you try to catch him, Mana feels alive in his senses now.
Feelings of emotion that even dilute pain.
Okay, okay, okay! ’
When I thought I had endured the pain so far for this moment, my tears seemed to be killing me.
I did it!
The pain was still overwhelming, but the pain was pleasant to me when I felt that I had learned about Mana through it.
You will now have a new power.
But…….
Why won't you stop? ’
The amount of Mana rushing into your head is not diminishing at all. He already feels Mana vividly, but why does it continue?
"Ah!"
At that moment, Michael remembered.
What Lee Hyuk said, what he meant.
As long as he feels Mana, Lee Hyuk doesn't know. Feelings are not something you can convey to others, and they're not something you can see through observation.
That's why Lee Hyuk won't stop.
Even if he finds out in the middle, he will have to continue in the predetermined way.
It was better not to know.
Michael's mind began to collapse rapidly, knowing that the pain did not end, and not knowing how long this pain would last.
What you don't know can last.
But what we already know is that it is more vivid.
When I don't know how much more pain I'm going through, everything falls apart.
“Shhhhh... ”
I'd like to call it quits.
I know now, so I want you to stop.
But there are no voices. The twisted muscles and vocal chords only shed screams like groaning.
Hard times have passed.
And there was a flash of light.
Fluffy.
Michael rolls the ground as if it were pouring down on the ground, exhaling only a faint breath.
“Is he alive? ”
Lee Hyuk asked, touching Michael.
At that moment.
“Aaaaahhhh!”
Michael got up from the ground and rushed toward Lee Hyuk, bursting into a frenzy.
“I'll kill you! ”
Michael's act of running to Lee Hyuk with tears in his eyes was powerful enough to enlighten his own skin. Even the alpha who was watching was a little nervous.
But that's it.
Bang!
Michael rushed towards Lee Hyuk and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
“Tsk, tsk.”
Lee Hyuk kicked his tongue.
“You're alive. That's fine.”
“Son of a bitch! ”
“Oops.”
I slightly raised my hands as if Lee Hyuk was surprised. A spark rose from Michael's eyes as he watched the scene.
“Come on, calm your nerves. I warned you you could die. And you're the one who said you'd try. Don't hold anyone responsible for your choices. ”
“This……. ”
Michael can't calm the zombie excitement.
“More than that, did you feel Mana? ”
Michael nods slowly, staring at Lee Hyuk for a long time.
“Then it's more important not to lose that sense than to kill me. If you ever forget that, you're gonna have to do this again, and that's okay, right? ”
“ ……. ”
Lee Hyuk wedged his teeth, looking at Michael who was confused.
“If you want to kill me, you can freshen up later. If you kill me now, those behind you won't even have a chance to feel Mana. Well, now that I look at it, I think it's a blessing. ”
The intensity of Michael's pain was communicated vividly to the watchers.
I don't know how much pain I feel, but I couldn't help but get bored by the horror of people who watched me closely with their eyes repeating the body breaking to almost slime level and then recovering again.
No one wants to be like that.
“Come on, meditate. That's a good boy, right? ”
Michael turns away as he makes his way through the gap and sits down in one of the voids. Then I closed my eyes quietly.
‘I feel it.'
It felt so vivid.
Not at the level of 'I feel well’, I wondered why I had not felt things so full of the world until now.
Just by realizing that the air was filling up the empty space, the world looked completely different to Michael when he felt Mana's presence.
‘So this is it.’
I was filled with pride deep in my heart.
I did it! I did it!
We finally made it through the damn pain.
I felt like I was going to cry. He seemed to have kept his determination that he would become stronger on his word. The indescribable satisfaction was erasing the pain engraved on my body like drugs.
“Well, I think we got one. ”
Alpha bites fat.
“But isn't that different from the way you did it to me? ”
“The same.”
“If you were, you would have done it in the first place. ”
“Do you think it's normal to use this much Mana one person at a time? There's 2,000 of them here. ”
“… I see. ”
Alpha nods, convincing.
Mana, whom Lee Hyuk poured out on Michael, seemed to be too much for him. I wonder if spending that much Mana on one person is really efficient.
But it was inevitable.
‘My hands are shaking. ’
Alpha did not miss the slight tremor in Lee Hyuk's hands. While continuously supplying Mana that the human body cannot sustain, it uses Mana on the other side to cast Hill to restore the body.
We have to keep going back and forth between those narrow boundaries.
Multiplication? No, dozens of times harder.
‘I told you to be prepared for sacrifice and find a way to kill half of it……. ’
You seem determined, but haven't let go of your sense of humankind yet.
It's strange.
Lee Hyuk's meeting with humans will be hundreds of times that of alpha. And the human value that Lee Hyuk judged would be unimaginably small as an alpha.
Of course.
He's seen humans for as long as he has.
As long as humans are born and live and die, they must have watched millions of people. Maybe a few billion people.
Irritation tends to be dull.
After experiencing the everlasting death of man, we have no choice but to modify the value of man. No matter what you do, you will end up with the same end. It is inefficient to invest to make such a human process different.
Lee Hyuk probably knows more than alpha.
‘Then why don't you let go? ’
It is convenient to let go. Immediately upon release, the number of cases Lee Hyuk can choose will be multiplied and the effort to enter will be multiplied.
Even if it is terrible to save a human life like a worm, it is enough to save only those who beat Mana and survive without having to have fine manna control.
Seeing Yi Hyuk, who knows that better than anyone, trying to save Michael, felt strange.
‘It's hard to buy. ’
Alpha shakes his head slowly.
Perhaps he won't be able to understand Lee Hyuk for the rest of his life. Just as Lee Hyuk couldn't understand him.
It seems that Lee Ji-hyuk and Lee are communicating with each other because they talk to each other. If there were two things that didn't fit best in the world, they were both similar and different enough to regard Lee Hyuk and Alpha.
“Well, that's a good thing. ”
“Huh?"
“No, it's not. ”
Alpha shakes his head and pulls back. Now was not the time to waste time thinking about this. How quickly can we let any one of our powers learn mana? It is a direct result of the world's destruction.
Lee Hyuk took his eyes off the Alpha and looked at those who were plotting in the Royal Marine Corps.
Yikes.
Lee Hyuk, who had a fresh smile, whispered badly like a excited villain.
“Who's next? ”
The atmosphere cooled down.